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Show II copper eai HIS mwm Plans on Foot jo Get Out j Greatly Increased Tonnage of Gold-Silver Ore. !.!"I.'G, Nev., !"..-. U1.--A week of hU-.n(y proxrr-.-s, wtlli good but not en-sationn! en-sationn! vf-suli h, woiiM briefly tell tlic fitory contained In the. reports oi tne mine) mi' :he f. lining copper holt for the D3'-:f. veven days. The lrianasoroent' of the I; R, Tnrli company ift completing pian-'i for getuntr nut ;l greatly Increased innn.ir,!', (jT idlver-tfuld ores from that, proper I v to be urn pood to thn I Tnited States HniMMng Refining company's pLmt at JOmiett, (.'fil., undue the special -ont ra -'t recently s ecu red through Mr. Prumbla y. Th last shipment of these ores was made to tho Belmont company's plant nt Millers find, while the values i-ere very Ku.t is factory, tho not rot urns ro i he Todd company will be much better under the now contract Willi tho United. Stoics company. Ttih Luniru; Ma ho company has not yet. received returns from the flint shipment of copper ore which was sent to the r n it-id States company under the nw arrangement, hut t he rate Ls favora ble and MiilptiniiitH will be regular In the future. An unusual find, for the Liming district, dis-trict, has been made on the "Laura HiKKlnn rlaiin of tho Pilot Copper company. com-pany. Aa Is the case of mo-t of the properties In this Ruction, the ore values of the Lrtura Hlggms arc nearly all In copper, but in running a crosscut tunnel to facilitate handling the product from a ni toot, of copper ore, a body of lead carbonate "was opened up which assays 47 per cent lead and twent-one ounces Hllver. Tt wnx a bite surprise to the management, man-agement, as they had noticed no surface or other indications to cause tliora to pnspoct the existence of this ore. The further development of this showing- will ho watched with interest. Charles Klrchen, manager of the Klrch-fiti Klrch-fiti Mines corporation, is spending practically practi-cally all of hifl time at the company's frt. Patrick mine, as he wishes to take full advantage of the splendid showings revoaled an the, lower tunnel advances into the mountain. Ever since the ore was first struck in this tunnel there has been a strong flhowing, but It has grown steadily belter the farther it has penetrated pene-trated the downward extension of the K'O ore shoot, which was previously the nisi showing in the mine. The St. Patrick I one of the few mines that paid for its development, or nearly eo, aJmost from the start. E. H. Wedeklnd. the engineer and metallurgist, lias completed his examination examina-tion of the Wedge, and is now compiling ! ' his report. Tie hints that It will contain conclusions and observa ttons of interest and importance to the whole district. |