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Show ! SEVEN TROUGHS I RICHEST IN NEVADA, C D. RAY THINKS j Wonders never cease at Seven ; Troughs. Stories of immenselv rieh strikes are almost of daily oerurrenre, , at.i men are rushing into tbe district j j and camps by the hundreds. The latest story of rieh strikes was brought here j today by Clinton D. Ray of this eitv, I part owner and manager of Fine Gold I mine. Seven Troughs district. Kav arrived ar-rived in this city late last night direct from the district, and relates a storv aliuo-t unbelievable in its astonishing details. "What I have to say I rea I ire will be taken with a grain of salt by most men. but what I have to say is absolutely absolute-ly true." said ho. '-Ore has been found on property of the Seven Troughs Therien company which averages flOi'.-"' flOi'.-"' I to the ton. The rock is almost half gold. ''Therien adjoins Fine (told, as dos the Ivor ela'in. In a continuation of wh.at we consider the lor vein on our , K i ndergarten property we have found the breakover and gouge of the Ivor lead. Inside of eight or ten feet the vein ought to show the Inghist results on the ground. 'Wo made our strike in a twenty j fie foot tunnel, 'iit tee: troni the i working shaft on Ivor bad. F.erv ! toot ot the tunnel walls hon good I val.ies in gold, ranging from 7..U to ! V Rut here's the best part of the -'tx. On the Until of t'nis month we j stru.-k forty five feet in the tinnel. a ein more than two ant) one half feet wide. and assaying ori an average ' 17o7.ol in gold and silver. We found M ounces ot gold and 41' ounces of Mixer Mi-xer in the stuff. "'This, we believe, is part of the enormously rieh streak found on Thrr : n, as development work shows that ; ! the streak is headed dirertlv over Fine Gold ground, and in fact shows it. If , at the surface at several points. Therien is represented bv Howard & Hill of t'nis city. Now ot the great strike traveit-.i remarkably- tat to a, I parts o the State. ati'I in a shor' time the bi Srf' operators from (-.oldfiold and othr Ci trips were on the spot. '"Inside of ninetv d.ivs a ten "atrp Til' will be running. and thir. is enough water on t h jr.Mi, to ;n i;r. ,t perrraneney. On o-ir own proj .- r! v. he r i ne (io'd. we ha e unc.-.v re.) ttiot-e : than eijht feet of fin.- n'.illme, o-, :tn,i I .is oon as the mi 'I is ,,ii 'r; e -hall send ci ; r ore o he p'.int. j "'The townsite of Seven Tro:,e;K h ' been surveyed and plai'ed. Hr. :n a 1 snort time )o will be (,! -r-d or ' -r I market. There i- H 'erriric ru-h ;.. 'ne 1 camp, and I'Vi miners ar,. working da' ir.d night We expect shortly t , h.ive a spur from 'he rui -oad ; n c n v f e;r milfs sua'., at l.ovelock. runnirff to the 1 1 1 p . i ' " i rn-'D the hmsiest spot j n .rei di-'ricf Several g"od. i list a n ; .- 1 Viuiidine- are going up at an average i coki of flu.fitio each. More than .: ..i miners are at wor i ijr of the het i s'riKes in that district ..f remarkable I s-rikes is tnat made bv representatives 1 of tn. rirm r.f Williams A i offoe ,.f ' lio'.lfield on their Eliza elaini. which , adioins the famous Hadg'-r propertii "'I saw a teaspoon fu! r.f gold d i-t I from tui- c!a;m which will run fa- in j to the thousands in vaJ ,-. There are I no-.v n-.ore than ten prospects in and ' around Vernon averaging more than '"'" t,. til" ton m goid. And they are : -a king it. too. There are manv oh er- who are uncovering niarvrlo'i!y 1 iic'i gro md. ""It mav seem like an exaggeration, b , I really believe tha Sever, Troughs 1 di-tric i- the riciie-- ; u .ada, if n,.' in the world . ' ' 1 Rav has specimens of ore op exhibi 'ion in the offices ot the company in ne Atlas block, which he .(v will go 1..h.'"i00 to the ton. and he Hlso has several bits from his own pro;ertv which will go $2''fi to the ton. Represen'atives of seyera1 of .'e .argest operators in t'nis section are on he ground in and around S. yen Troughs, ad in a short ime it ; ex I p.ctcd tha thousands of d'-'lars nil' ! be expended on d e ve op.r e n work and ' tor machinery for claims showing tie I ore. ' j |