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Show BUTLER IS TO SHIP. Copper Ores From Upper Workings to Come on Trial. The management of the Butler-Liberal of Bingham will, the present week, come forward with two lots of ore from that exposed in the upper tunnel on the properties', and which Uie lessees, les-sees, by whom It was uncovered, found It unproilltable to mine, because of the heavy flow of water and tho absence of equipment with which to control it. Since the lower tunnel was punched Into the group, however, the A'olume of water has been reduced and the' oros ure now quite accessible. According to camp assays, said Manager A. L. Jacobs Ja-cobs yesterday, this ore, of which four feet is exposed, will maintain an average av-erage of 4 per cent coppor, 10 ounces silver and SI In gold, with the lion showing an excess of 37 per cent. With a favorable working charge at the furnaces, he will nut out not a little of this class of ore while prosecuting the more Important development through the lower tunnel, and nmke It perhaps, afford means with which to meet the requirements of the payroll. |