Show THE MINES AND SMELTERS OLD DETROIT NIXES MINES TO BE OPERATES I 1 Lea leavington leamington smelter furnis furnishes bleg a for ores galena caso argued 9 aed and submitted arom a hollow and a wilderness wIlder ress in which was left F overal yeara yeam neo ago top to rot and me die in a minin mining speculation Is 15 about to bloom some new grass and perhaps ft a flower ot of gold that will be cleasant to behold such la 13 the report from the detroit district chero a company now known as tho the alto lining company several years ago expended about to tl 1000 in developing some building a smelter and having the pleasure of 0 seeing the latter go eo up lu ia smoke and the whole venture fall stimulated by the prospects of a market tor for ores offered by tho the ne new leamington leavington Lea emelder the owners of the property have returned and tire are preparing to reopen re open and set into full operation the abandoned mines on oil december I 1 hut ith the company held its annual meeting in ills city and elected charles TV howard president james joy of 0 detroit vice president henry B D joy of 0 detroit secretary and treasurer and john dorn dern and richard P joy addi on oil yesterday sir mr henry U B joy the secretary and treasurer returned from a trip to detroit and announced that he was ready to negotiate for contracts for developing several ot or the claims at once the company has thirteen locations of copper and ga irold id bearing ore adjoining the ibex mines owned by the promoters ot of the leamington leavington Lea fm smelter elter three ot of them have been opened and operated in the past in one where the firs t shaft will be sunk ore Is 19 in eight that runs runa as high as 10 40 in sold gold with 20 29 per cent copper in the others where shafts have been sunk ISO to feet an all average run of 40 per cent copper has been obtained ta in ed it Is expected now that some rome twenty to thirty tons per der day can be taken out cut hitherto it has hag been unprofitable if not impossible tor for the tha alto people to handle their ore because of the largo large amount of silica contal contained ned in it the difficulty Is done away with by the new leamington leavington Lea smelter which employs a process that Is not hindered by the presence of silica i the e alto people are very sanguine over the outlook |