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Show WILL SHIP ORE FROM THE COPPER URANIUM Company Will Also Drive Lower Tunnel to Cut Shoot at Depth. Ore shipments are to be resumed from thft Copper Uranium Mining: company's property, located in the Hamilton mining min-ing district in Blaine county, about thirty-eight thirty-eight miles nortii and west of Arco, Idaho, according to the management. The lower tunnel is now being driven ahead to tap the downward extension of the ore shoot opened in the upper workings and from which several carloads of high-grade ore have been shipped. The hoklingB of the company consist of eleven unpatented claims. The property prop-erty has been developed by a shaft sunk on the fissure to a depth of 200 feet and by an upper tunnel that connects with the shaft. The shaft Is an incline and, due to the necessity of mining the ore with greater economy, the lower tunnel tun-nel was started. It is now in more than 700 feet and there Is about seventy-five feet to drive to cut the ore-bearing fissure. fis-sure. The formation is quartzite, overlaid with limestone, and the ore occurs in the limestone where it has been crushed, due to considerable faulting. The ore makes in the crushed limestone zone that Is in contact with the quartzite. In the upper workings the ore is going down strong and the lower tunnel will open the body at a depth of about 500 feet below the upper workings. The breast of the lower tunnel is now showing stringers of carbonate ore. with the values in copper and silver. The company Is capitalized for 1,000,000 shares, par value SI, and there are about 600,000 shares issued. Willard Hansen is president, John Matson is vice president, A. Ij. Cole of Ixgan is secretary, treasurer treas-urer and general manager. These, with Robert Murdock of Logan and Henry ; Flamm of Rex burg, Idaho, form the directorate. |