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Show LEADVILLE FINDS NEW SOURCE OF MINERAL WEALTH Claims More Ore Now In Sight Than All Previous Production. I.cadvlllo, Colo., Jan. 2. i-eauvilie, historic as a mining camp, today celebrated cele-brated Its coming back as ono of tho great oro producers .Nominally, the colobratlon was in honor of tho Bobby Burns' birthday, given by tho Scottish society of I.eadvlllo, but in roallty it was to mark tho discovery of millions of tons of what, slnco the days when gold and silver brought wealth to tho camp, has boen regarded as waste, but Is In reality carbonato of zinc of high grade. It Is estimated that enough of this oro Is now In Bight In tho big privately owned mines to produco more in money mon-ey than tho district has hitherto elvon , forth slnco 1897, and that amounts to 1378,000,000. Ono feature of tho celebration was a luncheon 1200 feet underground in a hall, the walls, floor and roof of which wero of Bolid zinc carbonate. The celebration will conclude with a banquet this evening. |