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Show STRIKE REPORTED OK BERTHA DUGWAY Samples From Five-foot Body of Ore Assay 42 Cent Copper. , strike oT a five-foot body of ore, samples of which assayed 4'J per cent copper. Is reported on the Bug way Bertha property in the Dug way mining tli strict, by Manager C. S. tloddard. The high-grade high-grade ore. Mr. Goddard announces, was encountered in the tunnel now about 130 TcPt in. ! Oe eiopmcnt on the tuigw ay Bertha 1 was besun about eighteen years ago, i when a shaft was sunk to a depth of 125 I feet. The shaft was in ore for approximately approxi-mately inn feet, hut because of the long I wagon haul of 120 miles at that time the property was not operated. Afterward it was tied up in litigation until about two ! years ago, when the new company was j organized. I The new owners started a Tunnel on j the vein to cut the shaft near the bottom bot-tom and when 13o fet In tlie high-grade ' ore was encountered. The tunnel has : followed tho vein, which showed a width o f from th ree to h" ve fee t , Mr. Goddard reports, arid has ibeen in ore pra.e.Ueally i the entire distance. No ore has been taken out except that I which it was necessary to move in de- velopmenU out Mr. Goddard estimates ;that there is now about JfO tons of shlp-; shlp-; ping ore on the dutnp. About I went j--five i feet from tlie copper vein is a lead-line i vein, samples from which showed assay lvalues of 25 per cent lead and IS per cent zinc. Mr. Goddard is of the opinion that the two veins will converge on the prop-. prop-. crty. J Arrangements are being made to send la car of the ore to tlie smelter, but the movement Is being delayed for lack of i team p. Tho management contemplates the purcbas of a truck, inasmuch as the ore is believed to give Indications of per-i per-i mauency. , |