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Show mining news RUSH TO SILVER DIGGINGS IS ON Denver, Colo., Feb. 18 silver rush that rivals the famous gold rush to Leadvllle in 1887 Is on to the new lj discovered deposits at Eagle. Bagle county, where the ore assays as high as 1000 ounces to the ton W hat was a cow pasture yesterday is tonight a bustling mining camp of several bun dred silver-mad prospectors Hundreds more are on their way, having secured underground information of the strike Thomas R Henehan, state commie-sioner commie-sioner of mines, Just returned from Eagle, said tonight. "It is another ('rede If the pace Is kept up this camp will take its place at the top of the list of camps that lead the world Assays that 1 have made on my return to Denver show that the strike runs as high as 1000 ounces of silver to the ton It is the greatest strike in Colorado In twentj years " The state commissioner took two grab samples from a pile at the moutll of one tunnel and these assayed 500 ounces and 950 ounces. Conservative estimates promise thai the new camp will have a pop-ualtlon pop-ualtlon of 5000 In sixty days Commissioner Henehan said tonight that one prospector he talked to had refused 165,000 for a 80-day option on bis claim. |