Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-05-10 | Page 6 | Copper Strike in the Caris A

COPPER STRIKE IN THE GARiSA Arrivals from Tlntjc last night report disclosures In the property of the Carisa Ca-risa Mining company that compare favorably with any In the chronology of that proposition, the more important, ono made by lessees on the 100-foot level. According to tho story the lessees have broken Into ore on the west arc of a mineral-bearing loop whlcJi hae afforded a pomewhat singular condition, condi-tion, as it relates to ore occurrence In the Carisa, and for a week or more have been working In a body of unusual un-usual proportions without a wall to denote de-note its extent. Samples from the mass indicate as muph as 25 per cent copper, while some of tho rock shows a silver-chloride silver-chloride similar to that which characterized charac-terized the output of former days. It is tho first time, according to the report, that ore has been encountered in this portion of the loop, and It looks now as If it was to be made as productive pro-ductive as was the section on the east A second strike is reported on tho 200-'foot level, where high-grade copper-bearing copper-bearing ore Is also reported, with the lessees again the beneficiaries. A miner employed in the property says that on the 00-foot level the ore body already shows a width of nearly twenty feet, while it has been opened up on the strike for forty feet or more.