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Show It, of?:' , ;: Bringing Samples , Here for Assay ' i , Manager Brooks oi Empire Gold-Cop-. j ! j , poi Mining Company on his "Way -j , j: to Salt Lake With Ore. 'j ' ! Spcclnl to Tho Tribune, i , i CALIENTE, Nov.. Oct. So.-J. V. ,li I ' ltrooks.of Salt Lake, general mrvnngcr , : I !' ' of tho Empire Gold-Copper Miffing ciyn-I'l.-i puny, whose properties nro located at i Freiberg, Lincoln county, Nevada; puascd -,. ! through' camp today on route to Salt I 'I ' ., Lake, with samples of gold, gold-copper ' ' ' i j and silver-lead ores taken from the prcs-I prcs-I ent workings of tho company's numerous ' ! -j claims, . !''!ri There are thirty-two -claims In the 1 ,, j j Group, tho. copper running In hlgh-grado i i'1!!! I carbonate ore" going from SO to W per '''fy l ?cnt, carrying but llttlo silver and from 1 1 ,.r ' SI to ?5 In gold. Tho ore on tho copper 'l claims runs three and one-half feel wldo , " tl4 hi contact veins between walls of quartz-. quartz-. ' iji Ito and .porphyry. ' i i The silver-lead claims of tho group ( j comprise fifteen properties averaging ?75 Lm In all values In ledges varying from three ijt; to eight foot In width, the contact be-! be-! Ing qttartzlto and Hmc. i t i Of the free gold claims there Is nrac-, nrac-, , KlJ tlcally no limit to tho lmmcrise body of tft low-grade ore which has been opened up. i '11 " Thcro Is a. vcrltablo mountain of ore go-Ik go-Ik , lng- from S1.C0 to $12 per ton In free mlll- I' t Ing ore. In a rotten, decomposed brown J ' I fi quartz, heavily oxidized and filled with i J; black hematite of Iron, the free gold , being sprinkled throughout the ore. , 5 Tho deepest "workings so far projected" ' on this group are 120 feet, although a t At number of tunnels have been run on hlgh-, hlgh-, j , grade oro and attained a greater depth i ) j 'f from tho surface. Thousands of dollars' ,'& worth of work has already been com-' com-' ' 1 pleted, and as tho group lies fifly-olght 1 ',' miles froni Callento, tho nearest railroad I i shipping pobil, tho company wllrbulld Its : own reduction works and mills at an ' early date. It has, moro than 7050 tons U ' of oro on the various dumps ready for i 'J ' treatment and tlrousands of tons blocked (J out. Mr. Brooks goes to Salt Lake to J consult his associates as to development ? t work and to lay in supplies for tho wln-; wln-; ' tcr months. |