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Show TUSCAROBA MINES. Activity And Interesting Finds Are-the Order of "Business. Special to The Tribune. TUSCAEOKA, Nov., Julv 25. A contract for a JJoO-foot tunno'l hns just been let bv the Novada Hydraulic company. This will do away -with a long nnd expensive flume, expensive to build and expensive to keep in repair. Modern hydraulic machinery has been purchased, and tho plant is being rapidly rapid-ly put in shape for work. Tho company com-pany has just purchased tho four adjoining claims of N. L. Johns. Tho purchase price is reported ns $15,000. Mr. Johns is an old-time prospector, and has gone back East to visit his son and see the sights. There is considerable con-siderable stir about the offices of the Nevada Tusparora mines the past, few days. Rumor has it that the officers and some of the prominent members of the company av2 on their way from New York on a Visit of inspection to the Tuscarora mines. It is rumored that Patsoi' Clnrk of Spokane has purchased pur-chased tho Sierra Novada property. From Cornucopia comes tho news of tho oponing up of a largo borax deposit valued at $1-10 per ton. It is reported from Aura on good authority that the men on the Cubo havo opened a sixty-foot diko thnt carries high values in gold: in fact a free milling proposition. This claim is on the mountain moun-tain side, just above the north lino of the town. The Big Four has opened up a second ore body in their long tunnel that is much richer than anything any-thing proviouslv uncovered in tins bonanza mine. The new find is twenty inches wide and carries values of $S00. |