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Show PROSPECTOR EDDY ! BACK JNRHYOLITE ledge Discovered ,in Panamints That Assays J 0,000 Onuces of Silver to the Ton. POINTED OUT BY INDIANS, WHO DID NOT KNOW VALUE Believed in Nevada That An other Comstock Ledge Has Been Discovered. Special to The. Trlhun- mnoi.lTK. Nev., July 3 Poei Prospector Eddy arrived in Rbyolite to da on a burro He had ridden from Mu Panamints, a distance of eighty miles. He was desert stained aud pic j turesque with a Back of ore samples that give solid evidence of the disc.ov ery of another Comstock ledge. T. is twenty feet wide and aeeavs ten thou Band ounces of silver to the ton The ledge was entirely overlooked until a few da$E ago, Indians went, to Green-witer Green-witer ;in,l brought white friends ami pointed out a ledge which was hidden by surface ; o( k. .Solid chunks of silver he upon the ground of which the Indians did not know the value. Eddv and other par-tiea par-tiea overlooked the ledge until the"Tn-dians the"Tn-dians had pointed it oat to the Green (vator part v. It was located mthin 100 feet of Eddy's holdings. Chagrined at over looking the ledge he began eramtnjng and found that the ledge run throuo-h , a portion of his property and alio through the property of the Rbyolite Newspaper Men, distinct from other leilges located. The or brought in bv Eddv looks Incredulous, bo lull is it of silver. The Indians hod melted it in rude furnaces and the rock subjected to heat gives a white stream of silver. Conservative as Eddj is, he declares it cannot be short of another Comstock it values continue down. If conserva live estimate is correct, Eddy and as BOCiates and the Rbyolite newspaper men all are rich. He' also brought rock showing gold, silver, copper, lead and zinc. It is belmved that. Ihe Panamints are ! at last yielding up value -which will eclipse all other portions of the mining I section. Eddy heretofore has been reti cent, and repeatedly refused to give in-terviewB in-terviewB to newspapers, fully indorsing indors-ing the camp for rear he mieht not link.- go, id, his reputation being at staae in the fact that all Former cam pi discovered by him were successes. |