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Show INSPECTED THE OHIO. Visiting Interest Astonished at Size of the Ore Bodies. From the plant and properties of I he Ohio Copper company of Bingham, Hon. M. J. Cat row of Mlamlsburg, O.. lias returned, re-turned, not a Utile ciilhiislaHtic over changes that have been wrought and results re-sults achieved since tho territory was acquired ac-quired by his organization. Condition on the SOO-Xoot level, where, between walls, is an ore body mcuaurlng twenty-ilvc feet, astonished him . WIip'i last ho dropped down into the led go ita width was confined to six feet. He found cause for enthusiasm in the change, uml with the reaull of his observations will depart for the Kast on Friday. ' A. F. Bottles, metallurgist on tho Ncw-house Ncw-house staff, who accompanied Mr. Callow Ca-llow through the mines, and who conducted con-ducted an examination of them on the ive of their transfer lo the present company, was particularly gratified over tho .evel-ouuients, .evel-ouuients, as such changes, with, depth, had been foretold by hhn. For t!;o presence pres-ence of twenty-live f?et of ore at so aiiy a dav in the campaign of development, however, ho was not prepared. Discussing Discuss-ing conditions underground yesterday Mr. Bottles said he had no hesitation In saying say-ing that the resources of the mines have been doablcd since the transfer was made lo the present company, and that exposed at this time are ores of a value exceeding ?l,WiO,C00. Whllf a high-grade copper concentrate is coining from the mill, ores of fine quality qual-ity aro coming to the smelters nnd operations op-erations will continue as in tho past; exploratory ex-ploratory work to bo kept well In advance, ad-vance, of extraction. |