Show THE CAMP OF AURA independent elko nev the weather is very warm warm and pleasant for this time of the year work is going on steadily on the golden queen the roan horse and the nightingale it is reported that a large force of men will be put at work in the jack pot in a few days there is great activity at this busy little place the sound of the miner and prospector is heard everywhere and every in e is doing their an annual nual assessment work at the gold crown frick fric k guinon are taping shaping up their mine for a winters work the hoys boys a are re bringing down dow n some fine gold specimens and the ore is very rich this is the only mine in camp with wire gold mr hunter is greatly pleased by the new developments of the camp and especially ally with the new mill built for his company there seems to be no lull in the excitement cit ement or work new houses and cabins are going up in the hills supplies are being laid inand in and the work will be pushed on a great number of properties this winter A force of men are at work on the humboldt and the rodger another at aura king no 2 and another has been started on the delmonte this company will work a large force on these mines all winter at aura buildings are going up as fast as material can be procured A large livery stable that will accommodate fifty head of stock stoc lk is in course of construction by our enterprising merchants winter horn charlie and rutledge woodward who are leasing property from irland kimberley burlei on van duzer creek passed through aura sunday with a rich shipment of their ore cre which will be expressed to the salt lake smelter there is no diminution in the strikes J D oshea has made a very rich gold strike northwest of aura he is sacking the rich part of the vein an assay taken near the surface on the four inch pay streak gave returns of closely following this anis strike which was made last week comes the rich tellurium strike of frank winter the vein is fully three feet wide and pans gold the entire width of the vein while a two inch streak of white quartz carrying tellurium is the richest ore ever found in this camp about the time winter made his ric rich h discovery F E wright and R S carmichael discovered a contact between the silver schist and quartzite carrying free gold A trench was cut across this contact on the surface for a distance of seven feet and all the rock pans for this distance for three years mr hunter and mr carmichael have advertised northern elko county in the eastern papers and advised their friends to invest their money in this district their faith in this camp is being rewarded not only by the strikes made by their friends but also by some rich finds made by themselves recently mr R P hunter of O ogden oden den utah president of the aur king gold mining company is here at the mine in consultation with general manager carmichael A vigorous campaign has been agreed upon for the winter A new boarding house has been built at the mill and new houses are being built at the outlying mines the one at the humboldt has just been completed and work has just been started on one at the delmonte |