Show DEAL IN HUMBOLDT COUNTY copper as the great utility metal of modern commerce is fast displacing king iron in the many enterprises and services upon which progress and the success of business depends the red metal is found in abundance but undeveloped throughout humboldt county says the humboldt star winnemucca nev one 0 of f the extensive copper deposits is in the red butte section of humboldt county recently owing to the great demand for copper the red butte section has become the objective of the copper miner and the copper producer after examination by experts james chipman a prominent banker and owner of other large enterprises with associates from salt lake acquired ten full claims in the red butte section and thereon organized the red butte copper mining company with chapman as president these claims according to richard newton who is doing business in winnemucca today possess the wealth in copper which under the avarice of man would make the same objective of the forty thieves of arabian lore in discussing the property mr newton said these claims are a rich depository of wealth and an entrance for larger and more extensive work in that neglected section of humboldt county the claims are fifteen miles north from the western pacific railroad at antelope station and thus advantageously situated the work so far has been of the prospecting sort in a distinctive and workable sense this preliminary work exposes large quantities of ore mainly of the carbonate variety but liberally speckled with copper glance this ore is of shipping grade the vein is large proven for over 2000 feet in continuity and by open cuts and shallow shafts proven as over seventy feet wide seven feet of the vein breaking ore that samples from 7 per cent to 12 per cent copper with product byproduct by values of gold and silver varying from two to three ounces silver and from 50 cents to 1 per ton in gold the associate conditions such as structure and diorite formation with fine physical position for cheap development and production make the red butte copper company holdings most valuable and advantageous for profitable operation under nick Coomb coombes ss management development work will be pushed it is work that will return buttered bread as it were for the crosscut tunnel will intersect the mammoth vein at a depth of feet and to do this will require a horizontal bore into the mountain only feet long |