The largest figure in the collection, and it is an assay of a narrow streak rather than a measure of the vein.
The loudest headline in the set, set across the front page: RICH STRIKE AT JASPER. ORE ASSAYING TO THE VALUE OF $32,618 A TON UNCOVERED BY LEASERS IN PROPERTY OWNED BY ALVA ADAMS AT JASPER.
The body reports that the ore assays $32,618 a ton in gold and $86.72 in Silver. The strike was made by lessees, among them Vivan Moody, Earl Kennedy and Ora Chandler, all Monte Vista boys. The ore is described as sylvanite in character, from a vein fifteen feet wide, and the strike was made in old workings.
Read the figure carefully. It is a value per ton, which is a grade, not a quantity of gold. At the statutory price of $20.67 an ounce it implies roughly 1,578 troy ounces to the ton, which would be extraordinarily rich ore. The paper itself supplies the qualification in the next sentence: the rich ore comes from a comparatively narrow streak in the vein, and only it is said that the entire vein or a greater part of it is pay.
For that reason this clipping is listed in the ledger with no ounces against it. A figure per ton cannot be totalled without knowing how many tons there were, and no tonnage was ever published.