Show I COPPER IN O SAMSON I Important Disclosure on the Lower Level i CONTRACT SYSTEM AT TINTIC j First Squad of Minor Begin on the Centcnninl Lower Mammoth OrC j New Hoists at tho Park Tonnage t nage From tho Cocur DAlenes Day on tho Mining Exchange Down From tho Century Tho Ca riaas OutputMining Notes and Personals 11 II The copper gold and silverbearing I channel for which the management of tit Samson compaily has been driving I routh on 1t6 Blnglmni properties has I jj been finally tapped the samples with jj I which Superintendent Levy came In t from camp last night revealing n quality II I qual-ity of ore which compares favorably i with the best of which the locality is il capable while of the class over throo i l feet had been exposed with the walls rl rapidly diverging when the train for r homo was flagged by him When It r was decided to prospect the southern I country it was to clomonetratc that the I I Samson In which lead had previously preponderated was traversed as was Ii Its neighbors by the copperbearing 1 v lodges This has now been accom is 1 1 pllBhed assays from the llrst hot Into j the channel showing 105 per cent cop JI > cr twentysix ounces silver and 120 i gold per ton I3arh volley has Improved Im-proved the condition however said Superintendent f Su-perintendent Levy the samples brought In by him indicating at least 20 percent per-cent copper Again Breaking Ore As foretold by The Tribune the contract con-tract system was inaugurated at tho properties of the old Centennial Rurc Itu Tintic yesterday morning when the first squad of right miners began the breaking of ore with its active anov < > nient to the bins oC the United Stales smelter to follow In the next tcn days or as oon as the big bins are loaded At the same time the tramway i tram-way which has been idle for many moons and which operates between the jnlnoR and the loading station af the depof was started up Tellurides in the North Yesterdays arrivals In Zion from Huntington on the tracka of the OreGon Ore-Gon Short Line report the presence of tha tolhiridus on Willow creek thirty miles southeast of that station fully verified wimples that were exhibited iy the representative of a prominent Salt Lake crowd comparing favorably I with thos that occur at Cripple Creek The presence of the highgrade stuff van detected by a corps of railway en I i mers who were prosecuting their obI ob-I I rvatlons in the locality One of them familiarised himself with the appear incc of the mineral while at Cripple Crock and when returns vcrc made in > samples they were found to contain con-tain 4200 per ton This was during the middle of August A few days ator Col Dewey of Thunder Mount I Moun-t In had a repivscntatlvo on the ground and from the discoverers who had located quite a group he obtained a ViOO000 option of which sum 10 percent per-cent was forked over to them Since that time he has been sinking on the I ledge and has It is said opened up four feet of ore which shows an average C I 2600 per ton Lower Mammoth Sales ii The wires between the properties of r the Lower Mammoth at TinUc and the I 1 local offices In town were not Idle for I any great period luring the day and 4 while Superintendent Ball had nothing senfatlortkl to report he has made conncelloiNvith the west fissure on the 1100foot level and at once begun drifting I drift-ing northward to lap the main channel chan-nel opened up above At the same time yc Is driving to lap the latest chute on the 300foot level the stoplng and loading or < > re continues steadily On the market Cashier Bean had two more I earn of ore from the new channel which was sold on controls showing lOG ounces silver 51 per cent copper and SO cents gold or 5853 per ton |