Show ANOTHER COPPER DISTRICT Excitement at Croydea Over Some Recent Strikes J H Shillings and Alma Eldredge are Just in from the New Year group of claims in the Morgan mining district the former gentleman arriving yesterday yester-day morning with specimens of copper ore which are very fine In talking of the proposition yesterday yester-day M Eldredge said the New Year group consisted of three claims held by Jiimself Mr Stallings J T Hodson and others and the development work consisted con-sisted of a shaft some seventy feet deep and a tunnel which is now in eighty feet on the ledge In the face of the tunnel is exposed about four and a half feet of ore which has streaks running through it that show as much a 60 percent per-cent copper The tunnel is being run on the ledge and Mr Eldredge believes depth will disclose a splendid paying property lropert The ledge on which the New Year property is located runs practically north and south with a dip to the vest and cuts across the Weber canyon a few hundred yards below Croyden on the Union Pacific railroad The ledge I Mr Eldredge says can be traced for four or five miles and innumerable locations are now being made upon It by Ogden Evanston and Coal vII pee pie Last Sunday fifty locations were made and the record for the week will easily exceed 100 The New Year group is on the north side of the canyon and during the past few days Mr Stallings Grant Bullock Frank Croft and others have located several claims on the south side of the canyon on which a 50foot shaft is to be sunk a once The ledge is a very strong one and lies apparently between lime and geiss All is excitement in the vicinity vicin-ity of Croyden and those who were fortunate for-tunate enough t get in on the ground floor are in high spirits |