This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Pence Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5d.2ADI/1970 Message Board Post: Payette Independent Payette, Idaho Thursday, December 13, 1900 A Good Gold Prospect The Hon. Peter Pence states that, together with three others, he is developing a quartz prospect on upper Squaw Creek in the vicinity of Walker's mill. The ledge was discovered last spring and men are now at work sinking a tunnel. Mr. Pence says that they have had several assays made that are better than the ordinary and that they expect the property to be a valuable one.