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Show COPPER QUEEN FILES 115 ARTICLES HERE For the purpose of developing property prop-erty located in the Mineral Hill mining district of Blnine county, Ida., the Copper Cop-per Queen Mining & Milling company, controlled by local mining mou, htxk filed its articles of incorporation with the secretary of stute. It has been fiuanced to carry on the preliminary work of developing de-veloping the silver ore showing and the work is to bo Started in the near future. The company is capitalized for 1,000,-00U 1,000,-00U sHarcs, par value 10 cents, and there j are 500, 00U shares in the treasury and 500,000 shares outstanding. (J. K. Greeno is president and general manager, man-ager, J. W. Brewer is vice president, L. (j. McLease is secretary and treasurer, who, with Lucy Brewer and A. W. Keller, Kel-ler, form the directorate. The formation of the company is the culmination of a search that has been carried on lor a number of years to locate the ein to be responsible for the ore that was to be found scattered over the surface of the property. The original owners shipped considerable ore from the property that ran iiigh in silver sil-ver values during the years when silver I waa selling around $1 per ounce. This j ore was gathered up on the surface of the property, the principal portion being1 be-ing1 found in huge boulders. Though a diligent search was carried on for the ore-bearing vein for some unknown reason the owners were unable to locate it. This is believed to be due to tho fact that it lay right before their eyes all the time. The holdings of the company consist of four claims located about six miles west of Bellvieu, a station on the Wood river branch of the Oregon ShoH Line railroad. The formation is limestone, which is cut by dikes of igneous rock. On the property is a large quartz dike fifteen feet in width which, being considerably con-siderably harder than the surrounding1 limestonet stands up and can be readijy followed in its course across the claims. The engineer sent to look over the property, after making a critical examination exami-nation of the surface and of the other dikes, came to the conclusion that the quartz dike was responsible for the boulders boul-ders that contained the ore. It did not take much development work to prove that he was correct. Picked Bamples from the quartz dike gave returns of 142 ounces of silver to the ton and an average-sample ran 30 ounces. The company com-pany will sink a shaft on the dike and crosscut it to determine its depth, and later on will build a mill to treat the low-grade ore. j |