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Show DRAGON HAS FULL M FSCE GQOD OSES" Lr Copper Ore Struck During r Week by Working' From ) ;fl Black Jack. Jj: (k MAMMOTH DOES WELll is Opohongo Company lo Post! Dividend a I Directors' ? Meeting Tuesday. kW The Eureka Heportcr ays th? t" it there Is considerable activity jn thil old Star section of the Black Jack prop-& erty and In addition to the work vhlch& is beliiff done for this company drifts arr xi also bclilg driven for the development ocl; the Jron Blossom and Dragon Kround'iP l"or the Black Jack company a drift ml i being driven In a northwesterly direction-on direction-on the .'500 level, tho objective point ofi Ci this drift being tho largo Iron cropping!' o in the central part of tho property. U'-" " Tho drift for the Iron Blossom is beingk handled under contract by C. XI. Drew' and Joseph Birch. 3" Fred Otl. who is now in charjc of thfojfc' work, states that a full face of coppet -ore has Just been encountered in their D drift which has been driven over Into'b'. the Dragon ground from the 300 level off 6 the Black J.i'-k. There U some llmtii-mixed llmtii-mixed with tho ore today, but from all! indications another round of holes wlllir . place tho entire face of the drift in tha. P shipping Rradr of ore. This ore can bi' handled to very good advantage through;? the Black Jack and shipments will nil doubt 1e In order in the near future, ijfi. " Opohong-o Dividend. jh' F The Opohongo Is mining the usual uaii4B-" titv or ore and tho underground showing 'H s quite satisfactory according to Suppr intondrnt Samuel Cox. The initios out-? l put amounts to about four carloads cacll ' w-ok, the oro running from 7 to 10 por. cm copper, S to 10 ounces in silver an(KflrBl Ht.ool In gold, according lo Eureka Rc2? io P-i ter. Some of the oro goes as I1I5I1 a'ipi.,,, ?. to the ton in gold, but takinig thij;ou car average the yellow metal does not ex'-.l'pos cced $2 to the ton. About the most In'ijb. x terestlng and promising pk-ce of develop" a ni"nt work at tho Opohongo is the drift(roi which Is being seut out toward the ?outh-f , A cant on tli t!00. This drift is following BDQ a splendid fissure and ore ran be expect cd.i life almost any time. There 13 a very iilcaj5. t bunch of ore In the raise from the S00 amji -the ore bodies on the upper levels of thtvf06 mine are all holding out In good shape. jiClc The directors of the Opohongo mlnkcpo are scheduled to meet for dividend actloujrnjj on October 15 nxt Tuesday and in'l,fln1 amount to be ordered paid will no doubter be 3 cents per sharo or 530,000. j ' jSCt Mammoth Shipments. llL ji Manasrcr Samuel Mclntyre Is doing oodjfctbe work over at the Mammoth mine, wheraftfor heavy shipments have been in order fOKi'obs several weeks. The new body of C0Pnlsl'pr ore. which has been opened from the 600, Etf 700 and S0O levels, Is largely rcsponsibU UDc for the rejuvenation of this old time pro-ftha ducer. which has but recently been rein-T-ras stated in the dlvidond paying class afteiiIefl, an absencc of several years. The ori ., body h33 been followed to a point aoini11 distance ahovc the 600 and the wor f 06V which has already been done above thU T M level Indicates that the deposit will rnak on throuch to the upper levels of tni'l mine. For this reason Mr. Mclntyre li pushing work In a drift on the 400 W which he hopes to tap tho same ore "itn-jjgjj In the next two months, something Hkq Kjj-300 Kjj-300 feet of drifting being necessary tq rearh the ore bearing country. J w$ About 5000 tons of dump ore has been, fe,' shipped from the Mammoth mine during; CT the past few months, and from present Efo indications this is but a very small part Mf of the low grado ore which is availably mkt at this property. Tho dump oro camel H values of about $13 per ton. j 1 Lease on Eureka Hill. j Phil Clark and William Christophersonj H who arc operating a lease in tho Eureka H Hill mine, have let a contract for 3q n feet of drifting to John E. Holmes. TM H object in driving this drift is to reach H ore which haa already been oponed fronj the Centennial Eureka workings. .1 H About the most important piece of do mm velopmcnt work at the Colorado property IH is the tunnel which Is now cutting tn WW western end of the company's holdings,, mji This tunnel is now in some little distancf K and It has already cut through somo vers Mr favorable looking lime. This piece ol work mav result in opening the southern ff extension of the Humbug ore chute, fronj M FA which tho Beck Tunnel Is. now shipping! and if continued a sufficient distance mf,-will mf,-will also cut the big fissure which w &J Utah Consolidated people have been det mm vcloplng and which gives splendid prom mm jse of containing ore. , WM A force of about thirty men Is at worn in In the old workings of the Colorado! 1 most of them being kept busy in taking HH out the mine's present tonnage. j mk Beck Tunnel-Utah Con. j UE Much of the ore which is now belnl Hi mined from the Humbug ore chute of tni H Beck Tunnel Is now rtndlng its way to tlt MM surface through the new connection wjucg mm taps the shaft at a depth of 175 feet. SuH IKK pcrlntendent Perry Fuller statos that mm drift Is being driven to the south on thlg M body of ore and that a crosscut Is am headed out in a westerly direction, boma w: very good ore is being mined from tnia 55 part of the Beck Tunnel ground and at. one place there Is a face of ore , whld f V carries from 30 to 0 ounces silver anc -.Ji about 25 per cent. lead. The present daiW , St of this mine Is tl'lrty tons whlclj g Is good for anywhere from 51S to $30 P g Arrangements have been by certain portions of the L tali Co f0 dated properly In this d's'r Vns ISt thrown open to less f Thr "eSjfll number of places In both the old ana neJ3? corned. rn'm- Ore Shipments. !iif mi- 1'i ih Ore Sampling companv 0'l3A and Xcvada camps. Si Wm |