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Show IUTAHNSTD WORK TUSGARORA MINE . Production to Be Renewed in Nevada District Once Prosperous. i , ! ReneweJ Interest is bei::gr taken in tlie I mineral deposits of Tuscarora, Nov.. ac-j ac-j cording io James O. White of Salt Lake, j who returned from tho old camp recent-I recent-I ly. New York interests are planning to begin operation of a mill for the working over of the dumps on the bommonwealtb aaid other properties. Considerable prospecting pros-pecting is being done and all who investigate investi-gate t.ie possibilities of the old camp are well impressed, according to Mr. White. The mines o: tno camp of Tuscarora have a production record oi millions oi doliars from workings that begun within j a few feet of tho surface and only e tended, in most cases, to a depth' of a few hundred feet. The deepest workings ! in the camp aie approximately 500 icct and shafts of Cbifl depth are few. Kor several years this camp flourished until the low price of silver made operation opera-tion of the mints unprofitable. Pumping was excessively expensive, as fuel had to be hauled a distance o.' nearly sixty miles, now cut to forty-seven miles from Elko by a new railroad. Mining men acquainted with the Tuscarora dlstrtc: point to the fact that it was the low price of silver and the high cost of mining that caused the mines to close down. J rather than the depletion oT te ore i bodies. As great ore bodies lie at depth teiow water level, these men say, as those which formerly produced rmlllon&. With the future of silver assured for years and the possibility of securing at a reasonable rea-sonable cost all the power needed for development de-velopment work from electric lines that traerse the country at no great distance from the camp, the obstacles of several decades can be Overcome and tho future Of the camp assured for many years. A number o: Salt Lake men have or-I or-I ganized a company to develop t:.e Tusca-I Tusca-I rora Chic; claims, which. He. In the heart of the main district. A fissure thirty 1 feet wide, upon which the Commonweal tn I and the Old Navajo, producers of several fortunes, are situated, traverses the prop-I prop-I erty. according to Mr. White. Avesage I samples taken from nine prospect ho'es, j none of which are deeper than three feet. show an assay report of twenty-four . ounces of sliver and $4. -10 in gold. Machinery Ma-chinery will be installed upou the property prop-erty In the spring, according to presem plans. Two shifts will bv worked all winter. Officers a:?d directors of the Tuscaror.x Chief Mining company are .is follows: H. C. Fenkell. president; H. C. Mctvmough. secretary: James O. White. Joseph . I. Patrick ar.d Wiilard Hansen, Jr.. directors. direc-tors. The Hose property, two and a half miles from t lie main district, is attracting a ! great deal of attention, avcnrd'.ng to Mr. j While. Reno interests hav taken over j control of this property, which bad several l good showing of ore opened up by the first owner, w o was killed twenty-five yean ago. Float carrying native snM kiiO silver Is easily found on these eUaV, Re-j Re-j cent development work by the coinrufto' I has diseVvsed a network of vefaa carrving ore of the m:ll!nv varfety ':, to picture I rock. Sam dies assaying as high as JCIO in value haw been found. At prant j I the com-pam la driv ing a tUiiecD which ! ! will crosscux five fissure rataa. U is, sal.:. Jajoea U. Austin of Salt Lake ia also Intested in .h- Tusrarora district, according ac-cording to Mr. White. Sir. Austin owns I several claims Wulch He Just north of the Hose property. An -Assay mad of ore ! received reateriay . w. Austit. rresg M. J. McKenna, who .. on liie propertv now, Khows a report of oancea of gold and 154.1 ounces of silver. |