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Show I BISMUTH DISCOVERIES. Find in Nevada Tied TJp Quickly by Talent Prom Salt Lake. A letter from Alex; Bettles, who has 'been most energetic In demonstrating that the bonanza was to be found without with-out the boundaries of Tonopah, reports n discovery of ores containing bismuth, silver and gold twenty-five miles distant from Sodavllle In most sensational percentages. per-centages. Indeed a picked sample from the find reveals as much as 48 per cent iblsmuth, with 74 ounces silver and S3 gold, or a valuation of 51250 per ton while an average of the rock exposed In two shafts afforded 10 per cent bismuth UUnZl3 s,lver and 80 cents sold Per ton. The group across which the ledge strikes for 300 feet has been tied up by Mr. Bettles. who holds It, according accord-ing to his letter, at 5100,000. He , 2niewmthm?lasUc over th discovery, and with Tnomas Nlland will proceed at once with most vigorous develop- |