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Show BIG FOUR MINE SALE. Aura, Nov., Greatly Excitod Over Recent Re-cent Important Sale. Spocial to The Tribune. A lU A. Nov.. July 29. Aura is greatly excited over the sale of the Big Four mine to Denver and Salt Lake capitalists for SlJO.000.000. This Is the first good proposition propo-sition to change hands, ami It has caused even the old-tlmors to go wild. Discovered Discov-ered last April by a party of four young prospectors out on a llshlng trip, it has steadily held tho boards as the most sensational sen-sational find known. For forty foot the ledge Is opened along tho bank of Columbia Co-lumbia creek, showing a ledge averaging over three foot In width. Four tunnels have been driven along tho lodge and ultimately turned and crosscuttcd It. in the first tunnel after eropscuttlng. tho tunnel was driven until It cut through a second oro body twenty Inches wide and much richer than tho original discovery- This ore body Is reported to bo a rich ruby silver carrying values of 1S00 ounces of silver nnd 510 In gold. Tho now owners of the property promise to make things hum In the noxt month. It Is reported that a valuablo deposit of sylvanlto hns been discovered upon a claim on Porter's peak near the Dick Bland. The Dick Bland Is lied up to Oregon parties for 550,000, and some Interesting In-teresting developments arc promised In the next three weeks. |