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Show EQUIPMENT FOR THE BRITANNIA COPPER MINES Actlvo work on plans for the equipment of tlio Britannia of Vancouver will begin the urescnt week, said Capt, Henry Stern, who has, with Georgo II. Robinson, returned re-turned from that northern bonanza. The first unit ln this equipment will consist of a concentrator of 300 tons' dally capacity, with work on Iho second to follow at once, whllo a wmeUer will ultimately be erected. Meanwhile a tramway between the big copper-bearing proposition and the alto for the mill has been decided on, this to span a dl.-ttance of over throe miles, while the construction of a wnarC upon which to land the material haa already begun. Mr. Robinson, tho genoral icanagcr of I tho Tlntlc Mining and Developmont:ora-pany, Developmont:ora-pany, left for tho Yampa cmellor and mines operated by It at Bingham yesterday yester-day morning, aud upon his return will probably have something to say on cn-lurgemc'nuj cn-lurgemc'nuj ut the plant. Meantime- his ores aro coming down over the Copper Belt railway as desired, and -within tho next few months the output of tho smelter will havo been materially increased. |