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Show H TOHGE OF NHDOUGUS General Manager Orem Returns Re-turns With Great News for the Shareholders. ORES, WIDE AND RICH Group Far More Valuable Than Original Estimates Ever Made It Bringing news of a splendid naturn from the Nevada Douglas Copper company's com-pany's operations at Yerington, General Manager Walter C. Orem returned on Thursday from a visit of Inspection to the property. This company Is averaging averag-ing ovor 310 tons of copper oro dally to the nearby custom smelter, and tho ore Is averaging 5J per cent red metal. The beauty of the proposition, therefore, lies not only In the largo amount of resources actually developed and which are being Increased daily all out of proportion to tho present rate of extraction, but In tho fact that such ore runs into copper' mighty fast. Larger Than Ever. "The Nevada. Douglas hi opening Into a. far greater copper proposition than our most sanguine hopes Indicated earlier in tho history of mine operations," said Mr. Orem to The Tribune yesterday from he-hind he-hind a large pile of accumulated mall. "One section of the propertv, the Douglas Doug-las rilll, looks like It will be a verltablo quarry of ore. We have stripped a great deal of ore on the surface and It Is found that this ore is much more regular, while the extent of the 5 per cent rock is far more generous than wc have over hoped. This oro will be mined economically by tho glory-hole method and 11 will materially ma-terially Increase our marketed tonnage. "By for one of tho most gratifying developments de-velopments n several years on tho property prop-erty is the result of work lately on tho 700-foot level of tho Ludwig mine. This Is the deepest level of the Ludwig and last month the company sent, a crosscut for forty feet in solid chalcocite and chal-copyritc chal-copyritc ores, the value of the total dis-tunco dis-tunco being between 0 and 8 per cent copper. At the south end of Iho 600-foot level, which is 700 feet south of this strike on the 700, ore hits been crosscut for 1G0 feet from the foot wall and tho hanging wall has not been encountered yet. This same ore has beon opened along the trend on the 000 for between 700 and S00 feet. Casting- Copper Mine. "Recent developments on the Casting Copper portion of tho group have been splendid also, the management stoplng as It goes ahead in twenty feet of line ore. ranging In value from 5 to 7 pet' cent copper. In so many ways our tonnage Is so much larger than we anticipated to find It that tho Nevada Douglas of old would hardly bo recognized by tho visitor vis-itor today." Mr. Orem says that tho Nevada Douglas Doug-las company has 200 men employed at the mine, sixteen new cottages are being erected, a large new storehouse is under way, ndditioual boarding house space is being provided and the oro bin capacity is being Increased. The railroad of the company, the Nevada Copper Belt, is hauling all the ore tonnage and agricultural agricul-tural products of that section, being in itself a decidedly comfortable investment. |