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Show MINING NEWS Provo, Feb. 23. Good reports have I been brought from tho Big Nebo Mining Min-ing company's property in the Nebo district by President Rawson, who' bos Jut returned from a tour of In-1 fcpcctlon. The company, which Is a 1'tah county combination, with headquarters head-quarters In Pmvo, is developing elcht claims In the Nebo district. Tb property has !in eighty foot vein ex-lending ex-lending for Adf)i) feet on the surface. It Is Idcutlcal with a part of the Eva vein P.uOO fot south, which has been opened at a depth of 350 feet, and has a fifteen-foot vein of ore carrying 700 ounces silver and 5G per cent lead. The tunnel on the big Nebo will tap this vein at a depth of 3G0 feet, and make the mine accessible by wagon. The fare of tJie tunnel Is now in low grade ore, with scatterings of galena, ami It Is believed that about thirty feet additional work will open the vein. It Is now in 310 feet Tho vein has been opened In six dlffereut places by Incline, shafts and open cuts, and in each Instance the vein has improved with depth, both 1 quantity quan-tity an. I quality o ore. |