Show STRIKE IS IHPOHTAIfT Ehe New Development in Bingham Copper and Gold Cot Henry G Hoffron who with Su KTlnlcndent McRea has Just complct d the sampling of the new chute of re In the properties of the BIngham Copper and Gold Mining company at BIngham says that every shot has emphasized em-phasized the importance of the strike and that everything indicates ore bodies fully as large as those that have been blocked out In No l On the strike of the vein tho management has now driven in ore a distance of over thirty feet while the drift by which it u being crosscut has been put In a dig tanco of twentythree feet and yet there Is no suspicion of a hanging Avail It Is of this body that the sampling has Just been made the result showing an average for the whole of 116 per cent copper and 120 In gold with L fractional values Jn silver or a gross I valuation of 532 per ton in reaching the second chute the management cet1cd east on the ISOfoot level through pro sixtyfour feet of mineralized rock and L it looks now as if the tonnage would be doubled before the smelter which work Is to commence Immediate upon I ly on the return of Mr been Nutting has I completed In the new chute the work Is going on at a vertical depth of 200 I feet from the surface and the management Is relying on a continuous body of ore from the point at which the Mtrlkc was made to where the oxidized t ores occur above There the values in the gold original ora chute have predominated and the same condition is relied on In the No 2 chute |