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Show CENTRAL RESPONDING TO DEVELOPMENT Big Shaft on Clipper Claim Is Cutting Through Good Grade Ore. Assny returns on tho iron and copper content of the carload ol; ore recently shipped to tho local smelters from tho Ely Central proporty show that the shipment carried 25 per cent iron and 7 per cent coppor, according to a statement state-ment niado to tho Ely Expositor by Manager Ed Hoffman. Mr. Hoffman is also authority for tho statement that tho now shaft which was recently commenced com-menced on the Clipper claim, a tlirec-compnrtment tlirec-compnrtment hole, is now down a dis-tnnco dis-tnnco of thirty fce't, and for tho last five feet tho work has been carried on r.hrouch ore of good grade. The ore is said to bo of the character of that opened up in r.ho incline shaft, which was sunk for sixty-flvo feet, near tho present, location of the Clipper shaft, and which wns used to demonstrate the ground in a small way before tho big shaft was started. Make Good Progress. Tho values in tho Clippor shaft. Mr. Hoffman says, will range from 15 per cent to 40 per cent in' coppor with small values in gold and silver. Good progress is being made in the Eureka shaft adjoining the pit of tho Nevada Consolidated Coppor company. This shaft is now down to 230 feet, and is all in the pink rlryolito that lies immediately abovo tho porhyritic ore beds that aro being scooped up by steam shovels in the nearby pit. In tho pit, this pink rhyolite is from thirty to fifty feet in thickness. Manager Man-ager Hoffman believes that within tho next thirty or sixty days at tho latest,, tho Eureka shaft will all bo in ore. Progress is being made at tho rate of about throe foot a day. |