Show ME PUR M I fl Big Copper Co p r Company Buys Massachusetts t VALL BLE ACQUISITION 1 t ON THE rB t Before leaving lor or camp Tat lait Ja t night Manager A B Lewis of ot Ute the Imperial topper tipper company released the th jon ion that the old Massachusetts I properly roper y in m Loeber and consist e ing ng of five patented claims has just justeen justeen een teen acquired acquire by the Imperial company compan though hough at what t price he was unwilling o osay say A The property becomes a a valuable ad litton to ta the Imperials holdings for two teases one that it Is i known to con tair air a n splendid bodies of ot rich re rt and the othe oth r that its ita lines run a few hundred fet feet t of the pres ent nt n t workings and permits Manager Lewis to obtain an additional depth on he the tb great ore one sone of feet teet with corn com J little work wort A tunnel for that purpose has already been een cen started and a shaft that will con t with it has been commenced above ind is now being bIng sunk t in good ore In the main mam Imperial workings most JE t progress a J i being made During turing the vast past D ft two months fifteen carloads of ot ore his has been marketed mark ted and experts who have hae recently re examined the mine have i lared that sufficient nt ore is 18 now in tight sight to warrant the erection of ot a 1000 1900 ion Lon smelter Something forty f men are now bv by the Imperial company sew new buildings and other conveniences ire I rt being provided and Mr Lewt Lew he be te ll Ihn es s that dividend will begin by the w 1 of nf f next year yr if I they do 10 not it iv wil i y be due d ue to determination termination Q the o to hold bOld h ld pending the theand and completion of bf reduction |