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Show WILL BE SECOND BUTTE Furnace Creek, Nevada, to Be a Big Copper Camp. Pat Clark of Spokane, one of the old-timers old-timers In the mining Industry of the Northwest, was a visitor In Salt Lake Wednesday. Mr. Clark gained considerable consider-able fame and fortuno In the celebrated Coeur d'Alene district, being ono of tho original developers of that district Mr. Clark left last evening for Eureka Creek. Layo county. California, one of the new camps just opening up In that section. sec-tion. Mr. Clark and his associates, about a year ago, discovered a wonderfully rich lodge of copper-bearing ore at Furnace creek, and did enough development work to satisfy themselves that thev had made a discovery that was really worth while. Owing to the distance from any railroad tho work was dropped until about a month ago, when active operations were started, and a large forco of men Is now engaged in sinking two shafts, which aro down to a depth of seventy-five feet. The railroad that Is being built from Ludlow, on the Santa Fe, to Bullfrog Nov., will bo within eight miles of the" camp, and as the road will be In operation opera-tion in a very short time It Js the Intention Inten-tion to get out a largo quantity of ore ready for shipment. Mr. Clark, in speaking of the property, said. "If surfaco indications amount to ore all runs ovor 5 per cent copper, and a gerat deal of it runs us high as 50 per cent. It is certainly one of the best surface sur-face showings I have ever seen." Mr. Clark also ha extensive interests In Tonopah, Nov , and will visit that camp beforo returning to Spokane. |