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Show LATE DEVELOPMENT II BAHNOGK COUNTY Omaha-Nevada Shipment Shows Gold Values of $500 to the Ton. The tunnol being rnn by tho Nevada-Omaha Nevada-Omaha Mining & Milling company, in Bannock Camp, to roach tho high grade shaft, is in 225 foot and sixty feet more will roach tho objective- point, according to the Battlo Monntnin ncr-ald. ncr-ald. This distance is bciug run under a now contract lot to P. G. Eeagan. When tho tunnol is under tho shaft tho compan-- will havo 50 feet of stoping ground, as tho shaft is now 53 foot deep and the richness of gold ore found at tho top has not diminished. Goorgo Kailoy, Alexander Walker and tho May-or-Bober company anxiously await tho completion ot tho tunnel contract, for thon they will put mon in to drift on their ledges which havo already been cut. Tho bullion shippod out by tho Nevada-Omaha compan v last week weighed a value of $1500 and was extracted ex-tracted from 5,500 pounds of rock, none of which showed free gold. This givos an average value of $500 gold lo tho ton. Other Operations. F. E. Smith and Ilnrry Cole havo purchased a half intorost in tho lease on block 8, and havo put a forco regularly regu-larly to work. Soveral assays wcro taken tak-en lately of the ledgo recently opened and tho avcrago was $31 gofd to the ton. It carries considerable iron. Tho big boro known as tho Parker tunnel, under contract to P. C. Eoagan, to bo run 600 feet by tho Nevada-Omaha Leasing company, is now in 210 feet and through tho mulapi into tho porphyry. por-phyry. Mon omploycd by the Nevada-Central "Exploration company havo found a now lodge on block 11 which they havo j leased from tho main company. It runs castorly nnd westerly, carries a nice quartz in tho porphyry with a quartzito hanging wall, dips to tho south and by panning gives coarso colors. |