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Show AMAZING RICHNESS or mmim Rock Worth Nino Dollars a Pound in Ledge Near Main Street of Town. MINING CAMP HAS GONE WILD WITH EXCITEMENT Developments in the Kindergarten Kindergar-ten and Reagan Lease Add to the Wonder. Special lo The Tribune. VERNON, Nov., March 0. A surface sur-face discovery of rock worth $0 a pound iu n mammoth lodge on ground of the Seven Troughs Thericn, and within fiftv foot of tho main street of the town "of Seven Troughs, coupled with startling developments in tho Kindergarten mine and Reagan lease on Mnzuma hill, has caused a perfect; furore of excitement throughout this district. The strike on tho Thericn is accounted ac-counted one of tho richest surface discovories ever made in the district. Tho uncovering of a twelve-foot vein, disclosing two feet of quartz literally alive with free gold, drew several hundred people to Lhc scene within an hour. Crowds scrambled all day for casual pieeos of specimen rock thrown out with waste, and carried hundreds of these awny. A ton of incredibly rich ore was sacked within si" hours from a tliToe-foot hole. Important Question Settled. Tho strike sottles a longstanding finest ion b" carrrying the great Ma-r.mua' Ma-r.mua' Hills Bonanza lode across the gulch to iho south. Four leasing companies com-panies are operating on the trend of ill is fnmous ore as soon as it crosses Tlicrion ground, running south and propariug to take ndavntage of the discovery. An assay from tho high-grade high-grade streak showed a value of $17,320 111 gold, and nearly 00 ouuecs in silver. On the 22i foot level in the Kindergarten Kinder-garten mine the first big body of picture pic-ture rock lias been encountered, much of it being worth $100,000 a ton, and a two-foot streak in the five-foot vein will average well into the thousands. A shipment of the richest ore will be sent lo Lovelock in a few days.' In the winze in tho lieagan lease, on the eighty-fivo-foot level, oro is being sacked with great rapidity that averages aver-ages $M45 per ton. A shipment of this will be ready in 11 few da vs. The Mnzuma Hills and Seven Troughs mines are each sending out about twenty tons of excessively rich ore today. |