Show WAGON BREAKS INTO OLD TUNNEL AND DISCLOSES VALUABLE MINE leslie garcia and associates are calling themselves lucky nien men these days especially after receiving a letter from the U S smelter at salt lake giving them returns on a shipment of ore and offering to buy all they could ship says the elko nevada free press thebert the best grade brings at the smelter and the other 90 I 1 there is quite a story connected with this mine and its lecent f discovery last spring while the boys were driving a wagon across the country down in jersey valley forty five miles southwest of battle mountain the wheels of the wagon sunk to the axle it took quite a while to get the wagon out and on close examination they found they had bad broken through into an old tunnel there were no indications on the surface anywhere that a mine was in that vicinity and the boys curiosity being aroused they stopped camped and vigorously went to work to see what they had found and uncovered a long abandoned tunnel which ran into the hillside nearly feet they found ore in place and in one spot was a can which coni contained letters and papers from which it was learned that the mine mine was the old raven but there was nothing to indicate who iwho the original locators might have been the boys found they had uncovered a regular bonanza there are two veins in the tunnel each fourteen inches wide ide and running parallel the ore carrying ounces in in silver j and sixty nine per cent lead A third vein nearby is nearly thirty six inches wide and carries sixty three thre e ounces in silver three p per r cent lead |