Show MINES Of THE SOUTH Hon Robert C Lund Reports t Much Activity There COPPER CLOSE TO THE IRON Iron Mountain Will Probably bea Famous Producer of Copper as Well I I as of Iron Silver Reef Showing j I Signs of Activity Again Statcline Developing Well Transfer of the j I Argncs and DianaPark City Report Re-port for tho Week Mining Boom iu I Wayne MiningNotes Hon Robert C Lund came In from the south yesterday after an absence I of scvoral weeks and reports the season sea-son In Dixie opening under most favor J nKn ornriifirnM Over the Iron fields on Iron mountain a great dcul oC interest In-terest has arisen and recent develop irienls on the copper zone lying alongside along-side the ferruginous masses promise to bring that Into equal prominence Disclosures Dis-closures made by Daniel J Frue and I his associates are almost astonIshing The ores uncovered by them are not J I only of fine quality but occur in good I body and already shipments arc being I projected The Page boys who acquired ac-quired a nice piece of money from the sale of Iron locations are also devel I oping properties on the copperbearing I Ipdc with encouraging results and while of course iron Is I In the ascendant I ascend-ant at this lime copper promises tot to-t become of equal Importance as a product pro-duct of the camp At the Dixie group where a new body of ore recently appeared In thc shaft a whim Is now being Installed and the opening up of the body will I fallow at once Mr Lund says that during the life of a lease on the Dixie he took out copper ore of the value ot over 100000 when the red metal Ltls i F I nortn bUt 7 cents a pouiiu anu iuuu I It from a single chamber In the meantime mean-time the little smelter Is running steadily stead-ily on a good quality of oie and turning I turn-ing l out a very nice grade of bullion which is at present going to the Chicago Chica-go copper refinery Concerning the extension of the option op-tion on the Homostake group at Deer Lodge in favor of Hon A W McCune and of which the extension was told exclusively in The Tribune Mr Lund I says he has no Information other than r that It Is correct The growth of Deer I Lodge he adcja has been VerY rapid and very substantial since the arrival I of Mr McCune upon the ground and the camp promises to attract much attention I at-tention this season Mr Lund is in excellent ex-cellent health and Is much pleased with I the outlook throughout the south I |