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Show COPPER GH IS HEAVYPRQDUCER Willow Creek and Box Canyon Can-yon Discoveries Also Have Merit. "William Meager from Battlo Mountain, Moun-tain, and ono .of tho largest owners of placor ground at tho head of Coppor canyon, is in Winnomucca today attending at-tending to somo legal matters in connection con-nection with tho sale of placor gTound at tho head of Coppor canyon to tho "Olo" Elliott syndicate, now operating operat-ing on a largo scalo in tho district, says tho Humboldt Star. Tho sum to be realized by Mr. Men-gor Men-gor for this working privilogo by Elliott and others reaches into the thousands of dollars. Speaking of tho rich placer doposits on tho Copper canyon and Galena slopoa, Mr. Meager said: All the gravels on benches and bottoms of draws declining north and south prospect pay gold. The more prospecting done tho more extensive ex-tensive tho pay area becomes. As a fact all tho gulches as woll as some of tho mountain sides respond liberally lib-erally with tho placer metal. Willow creek nnd Box canyon aro proving, from recent discoveries, a merit only socond to Copper canyon. can-yon. Tho latter cauyon is exceedingly exceed-ingly rich and prospects in placos as much as .$20 to the running foot, and -whorovor bedrock has boou reached tho gold is found in such quantity as to assuro continuous pay from tho mouth to the summit to which tho canyon extends. Tho richer channel is from twonty-fivo to thirty-fivo feot wido. This strip will pay enormously, and from competent placer miners tho estimate esti-mate is that moro than $1,000,000 will bo taken from tho proven rich channol. Otitsido of this channol tho gravel prospects good gold values and will in timo, when machinery ma-chinery is installed, bo worked extensively ex-tensively and will pay big. At present only tho hand rocker is bo- ing workod. Tho dirt for this is hoisted from forty to fifty foot, and of course tho quantity handled in this way is limitod, yot tho workers work-ers clear irom $20 to $100 per day to lho man. A check upon the onlargcd mining min-ing is duo to litigation, it is con-' con-' fidently nnticipatod that this will bo s.ettled this weok, and rightly BettVod, and if ho thoro will bo a humming activity and production of gold from Coppor ennvon that will givo that soction a Iflondike aspoct. Tho now discoveries aro so important im-portant as to attract now blood and capital to the district, and it will bo but a mattor of time whon mnchin-ory, mnchin-ory, with an adequate supply of water, will handlo tho gravol and oxtract tho millions oi? placer gold from the wido area over which tho gold is distributed. In quartz and placer opportunities opportuni-ties thoro is no district that surpasses sur-passes tho Battlo Mountain section. |