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Show iilelL ii TUSCARORA DISTRICT Driving Drainage Tunnel to Permit Working of Old Mines. Important work is now under way at the old camp of Tuscarora, situated about llfty miles northwesterly from Elko, Nev., Hays the Mining Rcvhew. This is one of the famous ramps of t he early days of mining in the state, and produced Us millions from very shallow depths. Deep mining whs not attempted at that time, owing to the water level being near the surface. The New Tuscarora Mining company, made up ot Salt Lake interests, with W .1. Craig, president. J. It. Austin, vice president, and XV. J. Wolatenholme, secretary secre-tary and treasurer, is now engaged in driving a deep transportation and drainage drain-age tunnel under one of the well-known groups there. The bore ia in a dlsLance of 23u feet, and according to surveys should cut the first fissure at 300 feet, from the portal find the second at 650 feet. These arc the veins which were so productive In the early days. A sample from one of the old dumps on the property recently gave returns of 12S ounces silver and 146 ounces gold to the ton, and it is Eta ted that five feet of ore has been found at a depth of twenty-rive feet in one of the old shafts which averaged 46 ounces silver and 45 ounces gold a ton. Mr. Craig, who la one of the best known mining men in this section, returned from the property recently and states that great things are expected from the work now under way there. |