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Show kSETTLE FOR ORE f FROM DAVIS LEASE First Shipment From For tuna District Averages $65 to the Ton V The f rst car of ore that has been mar keted fron the new camp of Fortuna in Beaver co ntv was sod yesterday to the linlted States famelting Refining & Mln tag company from the Davis lease It consisted oi twenty one tons taken out In the course of sinkinK a sixty foot shaft and runn ng a forty foot dr ft. Of th s EMpment fourteen tons was sacked with a view of making a high grade ship ment but the work of deve opment ad to be stopped for two or tl ee weeks n order to timber the shaft preparatory to putting on a wh m, and o nstead of waiting until wo k could be resumed to Hnisn the car of high grade It was de etaed to make up the car oad with sec ond class ore which was done by add ng seven tons of second class o o to the fourteen already sacked, p The results of the two ores comb ned and sampled as one lot gave a return jes j! Jerday from the samp er of 3 28 ounces i. in go d and 2 ounces In silver per ton, or a a valuation of J6a per ton. A mill test of 5 twenty seven tons of the second claBs ore ; was recently made at the Sheep Rock ! taiilj which brought i s owners $803 for .the gold sponge and $40 for the concen rtratea. f Thus of the ore taken from the Da Is i lease n an aggregate of 100 feet of sink r lng and drifting the owners have mar keted 5 'OS worth of ore, golJ sponge and concentrates and thev still ha e on the dump about 100 tons of second class I that will at least net $1000 more As the total expense to which the leas lng company has gone In deve oping tbeir property and making a road down the can on to haul their ore out has only been about $1500 t can truly be said that this s one of the few mining properties that has paid from the grass roots, touch ore as hs been sh pped and mi led by the leasing company was struck in th& shaft at a depth of twenty five feet and has continued with more or less regu larity to the bo torn of the shaft and for forty feet along the course of the vein. This gives them an ore body of thirty f e by forty feet, exposed on two sides, with the ore still continuing at the bot m tnm of the shaft and at the end of the HpRtt, wh ch, with the new whim Just 5cstaEe6V they are prepared to commence yapping on at once. It is not known as Bret fcoqr Tjde the vein. Is as tt has never Hnert Svply crosscut. On the forty foot Reie! was crosscut for twelve feet Sjtienv the. footwall. but not the hanging BfSis web encountered. Eg Boston Copper Quotations. ptSsKngjin s, Bryan, members of the New BMbSttafid Boston stock exchanges and Sf&fglk -Heard of trade 163 South Main HHfeef rewire 3 the following over their HHOraNrret yesterday HKsKSsosion copper close. lit Sane 7H 71 ferfJonSnrsIal 7J 7 7m JSoperior 70i 1H rafe it Hecla SW 5 S3 Arizona 71U j 71fe i?aie " 61 SWtta IS 16 gmanea. " II4 HJ4 Coiner , ll 4 1H (VASer 4 HttosetU ITMifnr 11 13 'aKrth&tttte 32 32$ Rorth lake I 2 2 HU Colony IVi 3 POM Dominion 69 My, f Osceola 89 90 fond Creek 16 1CU CuSxxy S 90 Bar Consolidated 2o 25 State. Fe ZVz 3 flhamum 7 TW Shattock 3B14 35 U Superior Copper 27 27 Superior & Boston 214 t Tamarack 49 4V JErlrnty lli 11 TOotanrae 38 38 : V S Smelting com 50 60! So pfd 49 50 t tab Apex 3 3Vi Utah Consolidated 13 14 Tictoria. 2 3 jWlnona 3 4 TtWrerine 61 f 61 Wyandotte 1 1 rVrtith Lake 6 8 BOSTON CURB COPPER CLOSE I- Bid Asked isar State Gas 24 26 Hfohemla 2 f Butte & London 38 40 uCalaveras Copper 3 A 3 A p5feilef Consolidated IV. 1!4 .consolidated Copper Mines. 1 2 Jtervm Daly 2i 24, 'first National 7 7 Soldfleld Consolidated 1 1 IS 1 Goldflod Merger 14 18 Atlanta 28 2 Hoton Copper 2 Z Tnmbr r anelon 1 1'4 La Rose 80 65 ti 14 li 20 22 a M nlng 614 7 at Belnjon 4 A 4 a Extension 4 I Verde 5 5 Xfa la Douglsg I 70 73 dbco 1 1 ,i Han Mtal 10 10C tw Com la ) 9 Ball 3 3 war 80 66 "ton rol I "i 3 1 |