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Show (MIDWAY'S RICH ORE. Recent Strike Ono of the Most Sensa- I tional in Camp. "Walter "W Byrne, dynamic representative represen-tative of one of the big giant-powder houses of the Pacific coast, camo In from Tonopah, Nov., during the day, with a collection of samples from the latest disclosure In the Midway that afford evidence evi-dence of the most sensational values. These specimens. In which Is revealed much silver, withoutreference to their auriferous contents, wore, ho said, taken by him from a ledge no less than twelve feet between walls, and which has maintained main-tained an average of hundreds of dollars, per ton, while picked samples of the rock under assay show as much aa $150 gold, with from S1S00 to $2250 In silver. It Is the opinion of the Midway's management that It has encountered the Macdonald ledge of the Montana company on Its extension, and while there is some contention over this, there Is none whatever about the Importance of the development. Mr. Byrne savs that In the congestion on thn railway at Reno there Is now tied up as many ns -tf.0 carloads of freight, with the camps of Tonopah, Goldllcld and neighboring ones as Its destination. It is said by those professing to have been correctly advised that the railroad will bo Into Goldfleld within tho next four months, while the broad-gauging of tho sstem Is progressing as rapidly i.s possible. pos-sible. Mr. Byrne reports the boom in tho camps of that region growing hourly, with an average of 150 going In dally. |