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Show BISMUTH DISCOVERIES , CATCH UTAH TALENT "W.R. Smith, who shook the bronze of Bingham from his digging boots to enter the chase for bonanzas In Nevada, came In from his camp out of Sodaville yesterday, yes-terday, to depart for it again the present week. Mr. Smith Is now developing the Cofltact Copper group of mines, from which some very high-grade ore has come upon the local market, with results re-sults that are most assuring, and under an option Involving over $00,000 for the whole Is now driving to tap the ledge on Its dip. Until his arrival on" the ground the main channel through which the metals had risen to the surface was not reached. Into this he has now dropped a shaft, however, and at the bottom of this ores are exposed which show as much as $34 gold, S.5 per cent copper and 5 ounces sliver. Connecting through the tunnel with this ledge he expects to begin the active production of ore. Mr. Smith reports considerable excitement excite-ment over tho discovery of bismuth In the locality, and while Alex Bettles and his partner were tying up the original locations tho former applied himself to staking off extensions which he regards as equally morltorious. Samples of the new ore are now at the nssayer'a in this city, where an analysis is being made. David Tlchenor, formerly of Bingham has staked on? claims in the sa,me locality lo-cality and bismuth mining is promised a boom. A half mile distant from the Contact Copper group Mr. Smith has opened up a discovery ledge in which he has four feet of copper-gold ore of good quality exposed, and while the excitement over Goldfleld Is hourly increasing he has been contented to remain in his own diggings, believing them to be the nucleus of a most productive. If not a most populous, camp. |