Show copper mountain developments st george advocate T A helm manager of the copper mountain mine was in town last tuesday looking up supplies and att attending endino to other matters of business connected with that very promising property mr helm has unbounded faith in the copper mountain and states that development work is progressing as rapidly as ROSSI poss I 1 ble by means of four tunnels which have ave been driven from the face of the mountain to crosscut cross cut the veins the first vein which is 14 feet thick has been passed and the second which is 30 feet thick on the surface was reached only the day before mr helm left camp the ore averages about 60 per cent copper while a few picked samples have assayed as high as 82 percent in the red metal we were shown a small sample of copper glance which appeared to be almost the pure metal besides the tunnel work a drift feet long has been run on the 14 foot vein no 0 cr has been done and the ore bein being marketed has all been removed in the actual work of developing the mine the copper mountain is situated about 80 miles south of this city |