Show COPPER ACRES IN STARTLING VALUES I Five Feet of 40 Per Cent Cop Copper Copper Copper per Ore Indicated By Assay Returns Assay Asay returns received yesterday by James T Hammond from what is t pre presumed pr to be an average sample of the ent re bottom of the in the Copper Acres s property in h Humboldt county Nevada Neada show values of per cent copper and ard ounces in silver The has been sunk about feet below the tunnel which was druen drien to cut the ledge the vertical dc from the surface being something more than feet Both Buth in a short drift sent in near the surface and in the crosscut tunnel have been bec be n exposed in the ledge a streak of o five and six feet of ore generally running around 20 O per pert perl t l nt copper Recently the foreman who is i in charge harge of assessment work wrote that sulphides were coming into the theY Vinze Y inze which is being sunk on the I ore and that the ore was wasI I 1 ng particularly good He was asked to send in an average sample of the face of ore are He took a sample quartered it on the ground and sent in one of the quarters from which the as assay assay assay say was taken He did not give details c If the taking of the sample but it Is taken for granted that he complied with witha a U Assuming that it is a fair sample of the th five tive t ve feet of ore and considering that It was taken where is taking place the change hange from oxidized ore to sulphide hi h li the sample plainly showed the shoeing show Ing is a remarkable one While Whiles s results have from the surface down attended the meager development cl 01 c th property which has been r listed this is by b far the most surprising surprisIng surprisIng ing result of all Aside side from the five and six feet of ore the great ledge carries H teen feet and twenty feet of ore which as far as 03 a explored shows average alues around S 8 per cent copper and ten tenard tenard ard and fifteen ounces in silver On account of its unusual surface sh the property attracted not a little attention att when the present own owners frs ers rs began working it more than two years ago Plans had been made to start shipping along with more exten extensive extensive sive SiYI development when the plans were spoiled Broiled by b the panic and the accompanying accompanying slump in the price of copper Since that time only assessment work has been done |