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Show I STRIKE IN TOMBOY. Discovery in Binghnni Property Extends Ex-tends the Mineral Belt. Advices received from Bingham yestor-day yestor-day by Manager H. L. Nelson of the Tomboy Gold and Copper Mining com-i com-i pany, were to tho effect that at a depth In tho tunnel of 00 feet the vein for which the company has .been driving was encountered, en-countered, and that it Is fully eighteen ! feet In width. The Initial assays In the new strike showed the presence of JS i ounces sliver. Jn gold and 3 per cent i copper per ton. I The properties of the Tomboy are lo cated on the northerly side of Dry fork In Bingham. Heretofore the area has i been regarded as outsldo tho mineral belt of Bingham. For a number of yours there has been desultory prospecting In- the 1 vicinity of the Tomboy, with phly indica tions of value. No effort by organized I capital has ever been mado until the Tom boy went Into the search. The result Is most gratifying, ns It demonstrates at I onco a larger mineralized area in IJing- I ham than was believed to exist. 1 Speaking of this strike yesterday, a Bingham mining man. who has been In the camp for thirty years, staled that ho could distinctly recall tho time when the mineralized area was supposed to be limited lim-ited to an area two miles furlhor up the canyon than tho disclosure of the Tomboy. Tom-boy. Tho discovery of the Julia Dfctn In Markham gulch of necessity oxlended the supposed existing area, but that was held to bo the limit. Succcsslvo strikes have been made In this supposedly non-mineral bolt, the latest being the Tomboy, and old Bingham miners aro now ready tp concede con-cede that good mineral values will yet be found in the foothills of tho range. |