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Show Drcm District i- a new discovery, and tios about lorty miles south of Tintio. Mr. Hooper, who discovered tho district on tho 5:h inst., gives us tho following particulars in regard to it: He found a large Icdfic regularly outcropping for about a mile, which carried a lar?;e and rich lode of copper org. Samples of this ore, which Mr. Hooper candidly acknowledges were selected, have been assayed sineo his return to town, andyicMel as lu.ch as sixty per cent, of copper, and forty dollars in silver per ton. Nevertheless, Neverthe-less, from tests made the oro is of a high avcrago quality, and the quantity of it is represented as enormous. The district is less than sisty miles from the U. 3. R. K.. and scrub timber and water aro stated to be abundant for steam purposes. |