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Show WEDEKIND MINE IS AGAIN SHOWING LIFE Reno. Xev , Feb 12 TwelTfl fears ago Al Price and Edwin Arkell sunk, a shaft to a depth of 190 feet in the Wedekiod district without finding a trace of pay ore Last Saturday Steve Currle, an old time prospector and miner, fired one round of shots in the same shafe and uncovered a vein of i ore which runs nearly $40 a ton sua which is thought to be the main vein i of the famous Wedeklnd district which BOme years ago turned out ore valued val-ued at $1000 a ton. Later the vein was lost and former Governor Joha Sparks sunk a fortune in the mine without securing and returns Steve Currle. two years ago, discovered dis-covered the oro body in the Arkel1 mine near Reno. Saturday he added j to his luck by uncovering the hidden ledge in the Wedekind district. Carrie Car-rie is working In the Interests of Sun Francisco capitalists at the head of whom is Peter P Flood of San Francisco Fran-cisco T C Morrlssey of Santa Crur. is also interested In the project The discovery made by Currie in the Wedekind district Is considered all the more remarkable because for tho past two years prospectors, miners min-ers and leasers have been tunnelmp and drifting In the Wedekind district to find the lost ledge Currle believed believ-ed that he could penetrate the ore bod if he went to depth so he selected sel-ected the abandoned shaft to start operations. After cleaning out and retlmbering the shaft a round of shots wero fired and wtion the smoke clea-w ed awa the ledge was revealed u)d Pric- and ikeil 12 ors bofor'jj had rem i.ed iho In n -1 n - ill of thej( ore body without know ing It and had (ir given up In dlsgusL Another roundly' ol -ihot - would have r'v rn .d the ore .jf body Ore I" V".-- ,ik n from thei shaft and sacked for shipment. |