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Show EXW COPPER ORE STRIKE! 101 Officials Report It Better Than Their Most Hopeful Expectations That the ore development n the Palo ma Gold . S lver Mining company s property located In the Star d strict of Beaver county is beyond his most san guine expectations was the s a ement made yesterday by Andrew P Maj berry superintendent of the Centenn al Eureka property and a directo in the Paloma company after he had seen samp es of the ore and had heard the repo t of John Endlund Stockholders in Eureka who are heavily interested in the property sent Mr Endlund a foreman in the Centen niaJ Eureka mane to examine the ore de velopment in the Paloma property He arrived at the property Friday n ght and returned to Eureka Sunday forenoon Mr Endlund made a ery careful exam inatlon and sampled the ore body tho oughly He took the samples to Eureka and they will be assayed today Fore casts relative to the r copper content, J? n ade by conservative nun ngr men fa m 1 ar vith copper ere values in monzo nite are that the ore at a po nt fifteen feet in the monzonlte will run between S and 6 per cent copper to the ton and will carry si er and lead values While snkns the shaft on the contact between the monzonite and the lime stone the miners broke into a copper ore body at about the 3 4 foot point. Th s copper body varied from three to six inches in width. Near the 400 foot po nt the ore body widened suddenly until the entire bottom of the shaft was in ore The shaft passed through this ore body which is d pp ng to the northeast and pitching to the south-Test A few feet further down a few days before the miners suspended work for the holidays the bottom of the shaft broke into another ore bod the values of which are princ pally n copper It was at that point that the work of dr ing through the monzonite foot all was started with the result that the monzo nite is apparently the source of the o e On the north s de of the shaft in a fissure n the monzonite there is a nice showing of galena ore The copper ore passed through by the shaft and that por Von of which lies alongside the monzo n te runs as high as 40 per cent copper to the ton. Samples of it have been as a ed recently The body of copper ore now showing n the bo torn of the shaft and which po t on es along the contact s also a h gh grade product The mine s wi resume vo k a the property toda w con t nue snkng the shaft, continue driving the rosscut nto the monzon te and w 11 also cont nue raising on the copper lead sil er ore pitching to the southwest This -will be broken and a shipment sent out as oon as pos ble |