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Show NEW TUNGSTEN FIND IN WHITE PINE Tungsten ore worth ?375 a ton scooped off tho surface which runs from fifty to sixty por sent in that pieclous metal, with hero and there streaks of bismuth carrying as high as thirty-two per cent, or $1,200 a ton, makes up an attractive eight-claim eight-claim proposition picked up in White Pine county, Nov., seventy miles nearly near-ly east from Ely, and not over seven miles from the Utah line. It has caused the organization of the American Amer-ican Rare Metals company which filed its incorporation papers in this city last Saturday. The company has 1,000,000 shares, with $480,000 still In the treasury. The offlcors are Jeremiah Jere-miah Nolan, president; J. T. BurnB, vice president; C. L. Olson, secretary-treasurer, who with James Nolan No-lan and Edward Nolan mako up tho directorate. Six of the claims were taken over under a $20,000 bond. J. T. Bui-ns. who is a guest at the Hotel Utah, was out to tho property recently. He said yesterday that the country rock Is granite. This is fls-Bured fls-Bured by eight main parallel north-south north-south veins and several cross fissures fis-sures which can bo distinctly traced through the property for a distance of 1,000 to 2,000 feet. Outside of a number of prospect holes and shallow pits and open cuts, none of which aro more than twenty-five twenty-five feet deep, lltlo work has so far been accomplished on this property. Mr. Burns says he thinks they will have no trouble in taking several carloads car-loads right off the surface, which has been heavily eroded, exposing the ore. Slabs as large as a man's hand of almost pure tungsten have been pried off. Tho rich streaks are about ten inches wide, but in places the voins widen out to eight feet near the surface. The management expects to have a small mill on tho ground in the spring. The Intention is to put n force of men to work within two weeks, provided the weather is favorable. |