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Show AT NEWHOUSE TUNNEL. Six Companies Now Sending Ore Through the. Avenue. Through tho long tunnel punched into tho mineral-bearing r.ono at Idaho Springs, Colo., through tho daring and enterprise en-terprise of Samuel Ncwhouse of this city no less than half a dozen mines are at present discharging their output, with two moro to follow jis soon n3 connections connec-tions for which thoy arc at presont heading head-ing shall have been effected. Tho output, out-put, which varies from 300 to 600 tons of ore dally, Is beginning to rcimburso tho originator of tho undertaking, whilo mak- Ing it possible io profitably mino the ores, and that the investment by Mr. Isowhouse and his associates will be mado equally as profitable when all of tho system of fissures shall have been tapped and the torrent of ore is appearing at tho surface is now well assured. Morris M. Johnson, mines manager on the staff of Mr New-house, New-house, who came in from the neighboring neighbor-ing State jestcrday morning, gays of tho enterprise that it is doing as much for a region as any ho knows of In the est, and commends it to others who may be confronted by conditions similar to those that inspired the driving of tho Newhouso tunnel three miles into a zone from which the mlno owner had been practically excluded ex-cluded by the waters. Mr. Johnson would not discuss tho properties examined by him In the Interest of Eastern clients nor those that will bo examined by him In the "West In a few days. |