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Show NEW MINIM CAMP HAS BEEN STARTED IN NEVADA Phonollte, Nev., Feb. 15. A new district, situated about six miles northwesterly from here and about si miles northerly from Lod4 Tanks and " which, In all probability, will be nam-1 ed "Aspen," is coming into prominence promin-ence as development proceeds. Mining operators from Rawhide and Montana are bonding property iiv this district. This summer will seo an excitement ex-citement equal to that of Rawhide. The region is capped with a basalt which covers the underlying porphyry and this is the reason that surface prospecting failed to find values. But persistent development work and consistent prospecting developed tho fact that tore was quite an area containing free gold aud as a result of an investigation of the possibilities, mining operators have taken hold. A town to be named Aspen will bo surveyed and plotted and every encouragement en-couragement will be given business men and legitimate mining operators to enter this new field. Already, men are coming in and as soon a3 the present stormy weather weath-er is over, many miners will rush to the new district. |