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Show MIS LOOK GOOD IN MOJOUNTY Aura King Gold Mining Company Com-pany Making Excellent Showing. SENSATIONAL REPORTS COME FROM PROPERTY Section Is Apparently One of the Richest in the State. Special to The Tribune, OGDEN", Aug. 27. The fact that northern north-ern Nevada contains Just as good and as expensive gold values ns do tho south- j western fields seems about to bo demonstrated demon-strated by an Ogden concern that has been operating in the northern part of Elko county for the paBt two years, the properties being located on tho Snako river watershed, where there is an abundance, abun-dance, of water and considerable timber. R. P. Uunter, president of the Aura i King Gold Mining company. Is In receipt re-ceipt of samples that demonstrate that there are as rich gold and silver values lit the district In which thiB Ogden company com-pany Is operating as there are In the southwest, counties of the same Stato. Rcceut samples sent into him and assayed In Utah showed values of 13 GO ounces of gold per ton, and from another claim, the Tecuinseh, owned by the same company, values of over til ounces of silver per ton wore obtained. The company com-pany has patents and ownership on over 300 acres of mineral claims In this vicinity, vi-cinity, which is north and east of Tub-carora. Tub-carora. Reports Sonnational. Some of tho reports from the section arc almost sensational. Bentlcy and Blewctt, who are operating the Jnckpot, near the holdings of tho Aura King, have rccentlj' oponcd into a large body of ore, which assays from 300 to $8000 In gold per ton and which shows an Important body of ores of these values. The Information In-formation from J. J. Garmlchael, vice-president vice-president and manager of the Aura King, is to the effect that the strike Is not only rich, but big, and ho adds that an Influx of miners, capitalists and prospectors pros-pectors has resulted, many of them coming com-ing from the Goldflcld and Bullfrog districts. dis-tricts. What -was particularly pleasing to Mr. Carmlchael, however, was tho fact that tho Bentley & Blowett holdings arc ad-Joining ad-Joining and apparently the continuation of the holdings of the Aura King, where there is a continuation for 4600 feet on the same ledge. ThlB same proporty Is fully developed and the values arc ox-posed ox-posed for the entire distance, but not with the samo high values, though values val-ues as high as thirteen or more ounces have been obtained. The nvorage values of a three-foot vein seem to run about ?0 per ton, and Is nearly free milling. Mill in Operation. Tho company has but recently overhauled over-hauled an old stamp mill that was on the ground years ago, and now has five stamps In operation, with tables for the i sulphurets. The entlro plant is oper-! oper-! alcd with water power and there Is I enough water and timber In tho region for the successful operation of the mines. Mr. Hunter Btates that tho region nf-fords nf-fords bettor facilities for prospecting and development than any part of tho southwestern south-western sections ot the State, for these reasons. The stock of the Aura King Is held principally In Ogden and vicinity, but the stock books show that" considerable blocks aro held In nearly every State In iho Union. ? |