Show I RICH COPPER ORE AT IT DEPTH Alpha Shaft of Nevada Con Gets Six Per Cent Rock on 1600 1 Foot F ot Level ELY EL Y EXCITED OVER STRIKE SETTLES FUTURE PERMANENCY OF THE DISTRICT Walter TV w Byrne secretary and treas treasurer treasurer treasurer of the Salt Lake Ely Copper com corn company comPany pany Is back from a several days trip to camp He reports a strike in the Al Alpha Alpha Alpha pha shaft of the Nevada Consolidated that bas has caused all kinds of or excitement at camp At a depth of f 1600 1030 feet a great body of ot 6 per vcr cent copper ore has been encountered This Is the deepest point at which ore has been encountered In the district and in the judgment of or every body clinches the question of the camps endurance Fine ore had previously been cut In the Giroux at a depth of or 1100 feet f t where assays assas running around the 16 per percent percent percent cent mark were obtained The management of the Salt SaIt Lake com corn company company pany has decided to do some sam deep pros prospecting prospecting prospecting in its territory with a churn drill drillA drillA A Keystone rig capable of operating to toa toa toa a depth of ot 1200 feet has been ordered and andS Secretary S Byrne Brne expects It to reach camp in time to go into commission about the first of the coming month This method of prospecting Is becoming bornIng bp more and more fashionable In the district all ull the time The formation Is Ideal and the results at attained attained tamed are so 80 uniformly good and sails satis satisfactory factory that much if not all of the Ule risk attendant on sinking regulation shafts is eliminated Good ore has been encountered at different places on the Salt Lake ground and the management figures that with the use of the churn drill conditions at depth con be quickly ana and cheaply as ascertained ascertained Air Mr Ir Byrne states that the camp is boom booming boomIng ing log now About people a day are go going goIng going ing in over the new railroad and advices from the east are to the effect that with the opening of spring and the return ol or good weather the district will be called upon to entertain hundreds of big Invest Investors ors orB and operators Buildings are going up on every hand han and the town is growing at such a pace that as compared to its appearance a few months ago it could hardly be b recognized as the same place Residence rentals are going up at such a pace Mr Byrne Brne says that men employed in the mines are grad gradually gradually gravitating to Lane City which Is much closer to the mines and where spec spa special sp C lal ial attention to their requirements is be being beIng being ing given Lane City he says Is going to be a big town itself The property Mr Ir Byrne says as Is counted at camp as one of the richest in hl the entire district and he de declares declares clares dares that It is destined to the world While Its acreage is not as UI large as some of the companies companes are able to boast of camp experts and miners are a unit In the belief that it contains more ore of a fine grade than any other simi similar lar Jar acreage In the district |