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Show Salt Laker Returns Enthusiastic Enthusias-tic Over First Glimpse of Arizona Mine. MODERN WAY OF DEVELOPMENT SEEN Twenty-Five Million Tons of Ore Exposed in the Property. George N. Lawrence, tho attorney, has returned from an Inspection of several Arizona copper properties, tho Inspiration Inspira-tion especially, thoroughly convinced for the first tlmo that tlio modorn method of counting copper tonnages by the millions mil-lions Is well founded. Mr. Lawrenco spent ten days on tho Inspiration property, prop-erty, having boon given every possible opportunity to sec conditions for himself. him-self. Ho stated on Saturday tliat his opinions wcro absolutely unbiased by any personal interosts, he not being a stockholder, stock-holder, and tho property and the methods employed In Its development were In tho nature of a revelation to him. "I never saw a better or moro economical eco-nomical piece of development work in my life." said Mr. Lawrence to The Tribune. "It certainly Is a wonder the way the management Is going after Its resources, preparing the mine for a generation of economical production. Tho management Is thorough and it has splendidly organized organ-ized the mlno forces to such an extent that from tho book3 in the office to the mucker In ho drifts, one is Impressed with no moro than by a superficial examination ex-amination of the thoroughness with which the work is being done. "At tho present time and I believe the figures are conservative there must be 25.000,000 tons of from 2 to 2.25 per cent copper ore exposed In the Inspiration, and the major portion of work, so far. has been centered on the opposite end of the properly, where exist the finest surface sur-face showings, surface indications that justified the purchaso of the mine by the uresent owners. Tho eastern part of the Inspiration ndjoins the Miami, and there the mineral deposit was shown by means of churn drill holes located on blocks of ground 400 feet square. Now these drills are being sent Into blocks 200 feet square to still further clinch the tonnage. In this eastern section development work Is being carried forward on the first, second sec-ond and third levels of the Joe Bush shaft, the workings being driven and named Just as the streets of Salt Lake City aro. Blocking tho ore Is being done underground In areas 75x150 feet In size, the ore ranging In thickness from seventy sev-enty to 375 or 400 feet. There are no definite limits to the mineralized area yot determined, and 1 believe that the only limits will bo the boundary lines of the big group. The demonstrated area at this tlmo only covers about one-third of the total surfaco area. and. as I said, tho western end. whore thcro 13 every reason to expect the best results, Is not being opened to the extent that the eastern east-ern portion Is. "Tho management Is now driving a tunnel to connect with the lower levels. The caving system Is to bo employed In mining, and the ore will bo transported via this tunnel, which is now about 1S00 feet long. The tunnel Is to be equipped with electricity throughout, and tho railroad rail-road tracks will bo continued to the mouth. The experiment mill, which win no compieicci m tnrce montns. win have a daily capacity of from seventy-five seventy-five to 100 tons of ore, which plant will demonstrate exactly the process required In concentrating tho Inspiration ores In the large plant soon to bo constructed. Outside of Bingham, I never saw anything any-thing to equal this system of development develop-ment and future mining, while the Inspiration In-spiration company will not have to handle tho extensive overburden now necessary In Bingham. "1 should say that after deducting the cost of production, the Inspiration mine today shows three times tho present selling value of tho stock." , San Francisco Mining Stocks. SAN I-'RANCISCO, Aug. G. The official offi-cial closing quotations for mining stocks today were as follows: Alta ,$ .OS Justice io Alpha Con ... .08 Kontuck Con . .10 Andes 17 Mexican 1.52J Best & Belcher .45 Occidental Con .41 Bullion 11 Ophlr 1.35 Challengo Con. .16 Overman 9o Chollar 25 Savage n, C C & Va ,...1.071 Scorpion ios3 Con Imperial., .05 Sierra Nevada. .14 Crown Point . .55 Union Con 47 Exchequer ... .19 Utah Con OS Gould & Currio .22 Yellow Jacket. .64 II & Norcroivs. .40 NEW YORK MINING STOCKS. Alice $1.75 Leadvllle Con . .06 Brunswick Con .07 Little Chief .. 06 Com Tun Stock .23 Mexican .. .. 1.50 do bonds 16 Ontario 1 '50 C C & Va .... 1.10 Ophlr 3.2(1 Horn Silver ... .40 Standard .. .. 3.00 Iron Silver ... 1.G5 Yellow Jacket. .55 BOSTON MINING STOCKS. Allouoz .. ..$30.00 Mohawk . .. 46 50 Amal Cop .. 63.25 Nov Con ... 20 00 Am Zinc ... 21,00 Nlpissing . . is!50 Ariz Cora .. 15.871 North Butte. 26.00 Atlantic . .. G.25 North Lake. S.75 Bos & Corb. 13.75 Old Dom 35.00 Butte Coallt. IS. 75 Osceola . ...125.00 Cal & Ariz. 53.00 Parrot 12 00 Cal & Hccla. 525. 00 Quinev . ... 70.00 Centennial .. 16.00 Shannon ... 9 75 Cop Range . 62.50 Superior . .. 4K50 East Butto . 7.00 Sup fe Bos.. 8.25 Franklin . 10.;0 Sup & Pitts. 12.00 Giroux Con . fi.37 Tamarack .. 53.00 Granby Con. 32.00 U S C & O., 33.50 Greene Can . 0 S7J u S Smet ., 33.374 Isle Royale . 18.00 do- pfd ... 46 S7S Kerr Lake . 6,874 Utah Con ... 23.50 Lake Cop .. 38.75 Utah Cop ., 43 50 La Sallo ... 10,25 Winona ... 7 5 Miami Cop . 21.00 Wolverine ..UO.'oo ' |