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Show Ku'Il lhsi'OVKltY. A centloiuan vosteiday had some very vieh speci mens of oro ill town, taken from an old niiiio which w-as moss-covered when discovered and ancient looking, vet still healing chisel-marks and showing other evidences of having been worked in by gone ages. He had Mumbled into a small shaft, acei dentally, an I when in concluded to do oiuo prospecting, which resulted in tho specimens brought into town I'hey are very rich, iin.l though no: assayed competent judges place lliem it over Sfi.OiX) to the ton. Tho mine s within ten miles of Eureka hill, I' ut io, though tho discoverer is verj reticent as to its exact location. 1U says tho ledge is four feet wide. Hi ilso found horn silver Boat oro up to ;ho summit of tho mountain when .ho old shaft is. lhat tho Mexicans formerly worked mines in this region is beyond a doubt, everal of their shafts having been already al-ready discovered; and as low gradi ires would have been of no value to .hem, aud they probably were unacquainted unac-quainted with chlorides, bromides, iulphurets, horn-silver, or other formations for-mations in which the precious nietal.-are nietal.-are found, they doubtless sought foi aativo silver. At any rate, as far a 1 seoveries have gone, those old shaft.-still shaft.-still contain rich oro that pays well foi A'Oiking. |