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Show I DEVELOPMENT IN I MJMTTE CAMP H .! District Has Responded in Good : j Shape to Work of H , Prospectors. I SILVER-LEAD AS WELL AS COPPER jj New Year Will Sec Increased j Activity Among Claim !.j Owners. !. especial to The Tribune. ;J PED BUTTE, Nov., Nov. 20. Tho J ndvent of 1910 will mark, tho com- mcnccnieiit of the third year since tho ; discovery of ore in the Red Butte min- H injr district, Although very little out- 'j sido cnpital has hecu furnished to fur- i thcr development in tho district, the j elnim . owners have done considerable I pormnnont work, and, t lie necessary an- ( nual operations havo been carried on in as thorough a manner as possible by ."j tho prospectors, whoso means have been i.1 nioro or less limited. A number of good j showings of ore havo been uncovered in ' the year's work, and operations have V demonstrated in tho district tho pres- ! enco of deposits of silver and lead ore, ji besides the big bodies of copper which Ji characterize the sections' inineraliza- i i tion. Ill Bchm, wheeler and Clark in the . ; north end of the district, on tho Hen- Ijj rietta groui), havo crosscut their vein ; & by a tunnel and now havo two feet of ' gray copper, ore. At the point of dis- t -i covery on the surface, the streak was .. six inches wide, and at a vertical depth :l of twenty-five feet, which has been at- 't Inincd in the tunnel, the oro has wid- jfl cned to two feet. Ji; Pyritc Copper. 'C Locknian, Cushing and Kronenwcath- h or, owning ground adjoining tho above 'It claims, through which runs a cont.inu.i- l tion of tho samo vein, aro crosscutting 5 for the main lead, and expect to cut C it within tho next twenty or twenty- five feet. Stringers have already been .' cut, which are from two to six inches 1 in width and which givo good pannings i of gold. ' ij Fred Muscott, who has charge of the work for Frank Clark of Berkeley, 3 whose property adjoins the above group, 3 is sinking an incline shaft on a strong 1 0 body of frco-milling gold oro. Tho ig main strcnk is now two feet wido and r ft averages $30 per ton in gold. J. If. i Lockman, who has spent tho greater 5 . part of his life in tho copper mines of j the Lako Superior country, states that J the work so far done in the Clark I ground, indicates a very encouraging '. j future. This propertv lies to the south , $ and west of t he DeVoc and Currcy I' a Kickapoo group, which on the surface fi shows oxten&ively in copper pvrite ore. i A tunnel has been run on tho Kickapoo, j i which has crosscut a body of copper f I pyrlte, twenty-six feet wide, at a depth t 8 .of forty-fivo feet. This product aver- ' i nges better than 5 per cent copper, and X shows also some values in gold and sil- Sfi Tho Jlorida Group. Langdon, Wells. Muscott and ITollnnd I havo a tunnel in lOo foot on their Floral Flor-al ida group, in tho southern part of the r 8 district. Small stringers of copper ore and some cinnabar were cut in driving I the tunnel, but the main vein as it ap- m pears on the surfiico will probably not 5 1 bo encountered for another forty-five 1 1 or fiftv feet. Ij On the Excelsior group, lying between ,: 1 the Florida group and tho Nevada-Ana- ! conda, and owned by George A. Ohild- : S ers. n big deposit of low-grade chalco- D pyritc is showing over an area, it is 1 snid, 300 feet wide and 800 feet long. 3 Tho ore occurs in porphyry with diorite S walls. b A. D. Jtamcl has driven a tunnel to 1 crosscut the vein on the Gold claim. Stringers have been gone through. I which panned well in coarse gold, and ijf some high-grade copper ore was also 1 1 extracted during tho course of the work, "Work has been resumed on tho Mnv-; Mnv-; j flower tunnel, tho property of Otto Dnhl j and .Too Gant of Pioneer The May- j flower company owns a group of nine claims. ' William Brcokenridgc and Frank Ash, I both of Borkeley, rial., arrived today lo look over the annual work on tho property prop-erty of the Red Butio Consolidated Mining company, which owns a promis- i' ing group of six claims adjoining the I Nevada-Anaconda on the southeast. J Three or four men will be kept em- I ploj-ed on this property for the romain- I I dcr of the yea.r. j I A. D. Ramel has relumed to camp R after spending two months in Salt Lake -I City, and IT. Ramsev, a California min ing man, has been in the district looking look-ing the situation over. Mr Ramso.v will nrobobl3" become interested in some of I the promising properties of tho section. S Twenty gToups of claims of more than ! rdinarv merit arc on record in Rod ; Butte district, and a prosperous future 9 ht looked for. |