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Show CREOLE MINE STRIKES HIGH-GRADE COPPER . j Two high-grade ore strikes of an im-' portant rharacter, coupled with two shipments ship-ments of ore just leaving the mine, constitute con-stitute the gist of news that reached Salt Lake from the Creole property of southern Utah yesterday from Manager Homer McCarty of the Creole Mining company. The first of these strikes occurred above the main tunnel, and the ore body ls of such substantial character that, at . the time tlie report was sent to Salt t Uake. fifteen mine cars of the product had already been s toped. That there will be an important production of first-class first-class ore from this stope. the management manage-ment has not the slightest doubt. The other gratifying disclosure was in the vertical winze below the tunnel level-I level-I Here ore is said to have been exposed that will average 8 per cent copper. This strike is so recent that the extent of the ore body has not yet been determined. The uncovering in the Creole of ore of this grade is an epoch In the history of the property, which heretofore has made its steady record of profits out of ore that ran around $16 per ton. For some time there have been strong indications at the Creole that substantial shipping bodies of high-grade copper ore were developing. Last week a high-grade shipment of copper ore was marketed. The development of these latest bodies of high-grade, it Is thought, may be the prelude to the development of a con tinuous regular high-grade shipper, and the first signs of tlie transformation of what has been a substantial low-grade shipper Into one of the big high-grade producers of the state. Tlie Creole is east of Milford In what Is known as the Mineral range of mountains. moun-tains. The big contact lode that runs northerly and southerly along this range has already disclosed evidences of great mineral wealth. The Cave mine, on the same lode, has produced millions. |