Show KM MASON VALLEY HAS HS BIG STRIKE Great Body of ol 9 S Per Cent Cop Copper Copper Copper per Ore Is Tapped in New Ground The information is released by Llew Liew Humphries consulting engineer for the and the Mason Valley Copper companies that a whaling big strike has been made In the latter property during the past few days day After penetrating the first great body of ot fine ore in the No 3 tunnel work workIngs workIngs workIngs Ings a crosscut was started for the opposite side of the great lode For forty or fifty feet teet the values encountered encountered encountered were very velY small and at times the ground would hardly assay at all allA allA allA A few days ago while Mr Humphries was at the property the ore commenced to come In again and when he left home the crosscut had gone twenty feet into a solid mass of ore that aver averaged averaged averaged aged better than 9 per cent copper with nothing to indicate when its lim limits limIts limits its would be reached Bodies of ore from to feet thick are common in the Ma Mason Mason Mason son Valley mine and there is every reason to expect that the disclosures In new ground are going to prove equally as important as anything here heretofore heretofore heretofore encountered This latest disclosure ure shows how important the No 4 tunnel is going to be to the company It has been started at an elevation that will give feet teet vertical depth from the No 3 tunnel and once the ore I bodies have been opened through it will add millions of ot tons to the re reserves reserves reserves serves in the mine mineE E G Kidder is now over at camp hurrying work on the n nc townsite located across the Walker river from Yerington and within a mile or two of all the th principal mines on that side of the range Streets are being graded and other work being done in preparation preparation preparation tion for the building boom that Is Just ready to break loose Mr Kidder will wUl likely be there several weeks yet |