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Show B USE AUTO TRUCK FDR HAULING ORE Victoria Copper Mines in Dolly Varden District Prepares to Ship. Spei-tal to The Trihune. 01 RRIK. Nav.. Sept. The VlctoYU Qe4tk .Mines aflnlOl company, leremly MgantVtd by OapttallStl from Seattle. Wash., ami QoHftaht, Ne . has a double fori-e of men at work al the present lime - one at the mine., and Ihe other composed com-posed of a to roe of ai men who are QOO,-tructiRfl QOO,-tructiRfl a rxnid from the holsttnR wotka ai the mine to the lollv Varden a.1inn. on the Xeta.la Northern railroad. Ihe road i hehiK widen. ,1 nd graded if at -DOmmodate an auto truek trelslu OAT and trail, haMnti , capacity of fifteen tons 10 the loud. With Ihla power car a round trip from the mines tan he made In l hours, iluia making h poaatble to riellvei thiri tons of ore per Jay. The ore heing extracted la parily of as-extra as-extra high grade. omponed of native, cuprite, malachite and aaurlte copper, It Is tlepoMteti In e potpMty roimaiton, as-acxMSted as-acxMSted With lime. QUSUrta and an extra large deposit of Iron. A drift ftom the haft was started from the water level sone ten das ago, in a nortneriv direction, direc-tion, cutting a five-foot vein and at a hort distance beyond the workmen have encountered a still larger deposit, the dl-menalons dl-menalons of which will take time to determine. de-termine. With t V. UeynoMs as general manager man-ager and K. A. Itrehlkr. noth from tjold-field, tjold-field, work does not lag for n moment. Th loading platform Is now filled to Its full capacity and until the freight road U completed the miners will he employed In drift works Messrs. Ai rlckaon ami Ames, two of the Seattle members of the company, were visitors to the district a few- days afio. both of whom were highlv pleased with their property. C, T. Stevenson of Reno, a widely-known widely-known mining engineer, whs also a visitor vis-itor to the district. While here he examined ex-amined several properties with a lew of returning In a few days. Among ot her .Properties scrutinised the Henrv group so attracted his attention that he requested re-quested a map of the property be made and forwarded to him. At no time In arte btatory of the DtfUy Varden mining district has Us future looked as bright as now. |