Show development OF BELLEVUE miner vernon nev the may group in wild horse canyon property of the bellevue nevada mining company of bellevue ohio through B E townsend formerly in charge of the work at the tomboy tunnel is conducting extensive development operations as a result of the recent visit of officers of the company to this district although the mining force has been in actual operation less than three weeks a tunnel has been made that threatens to beat the famous record mr townsend made at the tomboy which at that time broke all records in the district in less than three weeks of actual tunnel work mr townsend has driven the tunnel almost two hundred feet at the present rate of advance mr townsend will have entirely crosscut the ahe claim before the end of the year the work is among the most important operations yet launched in wild horse canyon famous for its rich ore bodies the tunnel begins at a point near the west side line of the claim and it will be driven until the east side line is reached through as promising mineral field as can be found anywhere before the tunnel is completed two dike systems wil have been crossed and if the practically universal conditions of I 1 wild horse canyon are present this means that four veins will be encountered as practically all dikes in the region of wild horse canyon have veins on both sides bannings Pann ings have already been found near one of the dikes showing the presence of a gold bear ing vein in the contact the tunnel workings will undercut this line of enrichment at a depth of more than one hundred feet the may ground is close to the annie claim on which the sensational strike was recently made |