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Show Deal for the Ohio iff . Still in Progress t t Men Behind-the Option Drop in for I Interview, and to Bo Followed rjfc Q by Hammond. r ju 5 After a Jay In town, during which they !'''! wero closeted with tho local rcpresenta-1 rcpresenta-1 Sj tlvo of tho Ohio Copper company. Daniel Stjjj I. A. Freeman and Col. John C. Mont-fjljj Mont-fjljj & gomery, by whom tho options on tho hold-jjll hold-jjll I ings of tho company at Bingham Is being Bffi j exploited, aro on their way west again. If j Whllo tho visitors themselves aro dlsln-E dlsln-E I cllned to discuss tho transaction or tho il I elation that has been reached In Its evo-E evo-E K I lutlon, It was said yesterday that a bid 1 had been made, and that it had been roll ro-ll R H Jccted by tho gontlcmon In control of tho ;U proposition, notwithstanding tho hand-. hand-. H U somo profits that It would enable them to w'H pocket. Howovcr, they havo until Slay iS ft to submit tho ultimatum, with a long In-m In-m B torval In which to contlnuo tho sparring. B it Tho purchasing crowd. It is said, has niH naked that it bo permitted to extend tho MM work In tho porphyries, of wlich tho Ohio fljfl company has not a. small acreage, and J, this will probably bo granted. Mcanwhllo the company continues to add 10 tho at- tractlvcness of tho territory, nnd whllo it W has not yet begun the relmburscmont of ipn those who have expended approximately MR WOO.000 In tho acquisition nnd dcvelop-j dcvelop-j ment of its domain, tho hour when It will Mfl begin to do so Is, perhaps, not remote. ; Scheduled to arrive In tho city again 'Ml next week Is John Hays Hammond, tho ( general manngor of the Guggenheim 13x-J 13x-J ploratlon company, for the purposo, It la Q said, of Inquiring further Into tho prop-Vl prop-Vl ortles of tho company, but of this nptn- Ing deflnlto has been permitted to leak j out. It Is known that the preliminary ox-Lj ox-Lj nmlnatlon by S. W. Mudd was In the Jn-n Jn-n torcst of tho Exploration company. |