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Show HI6H-6MDE ORE IN NEPHNUGUS "President A. J. Ortm of the Nova da -Douglas Copper companv snyv that late reports from the mines may be Mim-marized Mim-marized as follows: Our u.uat shipments aro'belng kept up. Development work Is being pushed In the Cu.itlng Copper section, sec-tion, and we are opening up considerable consid-erable tonnage of low-grade ore. running run-ning about :i per cent In copper, thn higu-grade running between 6 and 7 per cent in copper. We are running a raie from t ic I'Oa level to con-i con-i nect with '.be ore body that Te stitick wit li the ma mond d rill seventy -five feet soul hea.fi 1. of I Im main M npe. We will ooiuplete the raie In about t'.vo weeks, iind should then bo able to increase our tonrme quite, ma -Krlally. In the main stopo at the ('astiiig Copper we have developed a nit opened up throe more lirta. about f.lly fe.-t wide and seventy-five feet long, between Ihe 100 and L'n) levels. In' t hn 1 .ud wig we a r n developing ore be I ween tb- fi'iO and 700 levels a nd ha.vH succeed( d In opening up a pood grade of ore running from S pi !t per cent. In copper. A'o have n vein of ore about right feet In width and se.entv-five feet in length, with nbmit thirtv-five feet back, and con-I con-I Inning in a southerly direction in the end of our present workings. W Ore mIfo blocking out a great rc;,l of low-grade, sulphide. On the ''-foot ''-foot level we arc sloping a gra.le of ore running about lu per runt In copper. I evrb.pmrnt. work In the 7 id north ra isc ha h (shown a good grade of second -cla sa 01m running from tlie 700 level up toward the KM) for about Rixiv feet. On the foriy-foot. foriy-foot. lpvel we are mining some streaks of high-grade ore avclaglng about J i per cent, copper. |