Show NEW TOWN OF COPPERFIELD District Nine Miles East of Mina En Enjoying Enjoying a Boom F 1 Saville Smith who returned this week from the new town of ot Copperfield which is located near the tho siding of ot Acme on Oh the Southern Pacific road about seven miles of Mina that his com corn company pany llan has decided to call the new townsite Copperfield instead of Anaconda as was waa the intention at first says sas the Tonopah Miner The town towi wilt will ill be located locate near the time Acme tanks which supply water to the railroad at work The Tho surveyors are now surveying ng the new townsite as well as aa other properties owned by b the company A petition i which contained signatures has been heen sent to the postmaster general asking for the establishment of oC a post postoffice office From fifteen to twenty prospectors prospectors tors arrive arr every ever day da but on account of poor accommodations they the are forced to togo togo togo go to Mina Mimia to get the time necessities of life liCe About fifteen tents now adorn the tIme new townsite I Among Antong those thoRe interested in the new enterprise en enterprise are R H S Percival of or Tonopah Otto Taubert of oC Denver and the Bow manSmith company com pan of ot Tonopah They The have twenty claims in close proximity to the scene Cene of ot the recent big strike The contact has been traced for five fie miles ml and is of ot granite and limestone The Th locators are ar at present preparing a shipment of copper ore that assays t 4 1 I in I per ler cent on the surface The places assay as as GO CO per pr cent It Itis ItIs Itis is the belief of oC those that have been on th thE the ground that most of the new locations location will nill pay from the grassroots Malcolm L I 1 Macdonald visited the new camp this week eek and inspected a number of the most promising prospects He lie states stats that the time surface showing Is i good but that not enough work has been done don donto to prove any of the thc properties the time deep deepest deepest est eat hole in the district l being heing down less lees than ten feet Claim owners are asking from to for their holdings prices which Mr Macdonald considers prohibitive at the present stage of oC devel development development The country has been staked for several miles in every ever direction from the tho original discovery discover and it is Impossible for forto newcomers to secure ground by b location |