Show ANCIENT MINES IN an interesting te discovery disco iery of f ancient mines ila has been made in nebraska about seven miles from wyoming they are the most extensive I 1 operations of f ancient miners ever discovered co vered upon the continent for miles in extent the whole country is literally torn ip p arid and thrown into the most fantastic slid and p promiscuous t gutters glitters trench ca shafts ac there are remains of chimneys furnaces stone walls and earth houses fragments of jugs glass bottles and many other things to torn to mention tion rocks haie been drilled arid and blasted evidently vi with some explosive material stone dressed with the hammer and every ev evidence of die operations having been carried on by civilized men old california miners mho ho have visited these mines say that it would probably cost millions of dollars to do the work that has been done there and the ap cearan e of the surface is similar to the placers tit of california where the miners have been at work what the mineral was A as has not yet been fully ascertained but this is soon goon to be tested by parties skilled in metallurgy t a ll 11 t ir gy it is generally thought that the m metal e t a agy was gold or silver the milnee are so ancient that there are large ok oak trees grow grov ing upon them when wa asa to this der dene e a aahl I 1 by |