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Show AT DEEP CREEK. Fine Copper Ore Uncovered Few Feet Below the Surface. Since tho 1st of January a large number num-ber of relocations have been made by the non-rcsldent owners. Those who havo pinned their faith to the country are still patient, and many of them con-tlnuo con-tlnuo to mako valuable discoveries, among this class Edward Simons, Wells Simons. J. H. Snell and Cyrus P. Snell are tho most prominent In the "new find"-list. find"-list. They aro the owners of four clalmj In Clifton district, their property being located lo-cated at ho foot of Gold hill and immediately imme-diately east of Dutch mountain. In tho beginning of tholr work last fall, nothing of value wans revealed upon tho surf ice except the largo iron cropplngs. The point first selected to do their first annual assessment as-sessment work did not give any promise, so fnr as protruding ore was concerned-nothing concerned-nothing but small pebbles of float dotted the surface, but before a foot In depth had been attained a line showing of ore wns revealed, then only a few Inchcp wide. As work wns continued tho vein enlarged; at a depth of twenty feel over four feet of splendid catbonatcd ore was thoro as a reward for their labor. At four feet from tho surfaco assay certificates wore roturned to them showing f?.F0 In gold, 23 per cent copper and 2 ounces silver. sil-ver. At the present depth the gold values havo Increased until from any combination combina-tion of samples taken from tho bottom of the shaft no troublo Is necessary to show a large number of colors from horning, ounco after ounce. The values at this depth, while not yet ascertained by sis-say, sis-say, are very much greater than the figures quoted. Other openings along the strike have been made, all .-howlng a llko encouragement. A tunnel of 115 feet has been run. with a cross-cut of twenty-flvo twenty-flvo foot, at the end of which tho oro was tapped on tho day your correspondent was shown a sack of samples from which to base this letter (Thursday last). Largo upheavals of iron, many foet In width lay a few feet above the ore vein. It is thought by the owners that this immense im-mense dyke of Iron Is tho actual cropping, crop-ping, and that with width tholr present working will become merged Into the Iron, which Is now considered ns being only a capping to the vein. Should this supposition supposi-tion be correct, the gentlemen nameo will have an enormous mlno. with but little expense In attaining it. Recont valuable gold discoveries have been mado upon tho J P. Gardner group, three miles northeast from Clifton. |