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Show CON. COPPER MAKES SPLENDID REPORT J. A. IT ogle & Co. yesterday received the following over their private wire: Our Dulnth correspondent wires: Thomas A. Merritt, vice president of the Consolidated Copper Mines company, says t tie report s received from the general manager at Kimberly. New. are to the rfTer-t that developments on the 12(0-foot level of the Ainha mine continue to be very satisfactory, both as to grade and extension. On the sill floor, 1 -1 il crosscut was silled out ten feet in advance, making mak-ing the total distance seventy feet developed devel-oped to date. The ore is still of the same, character and maintaining Its high grade, 135 tons averaging In. 7 per cent copper. The 121 erosscut was advanced twenty-two leet during the week of November 1-1. One hundred and ninetv tons mined to date have averaged S.li per cent copper. There is considerable sulphide ore being devel-.med devel-.med on the twelfth level. The direct smelting ore bodies are much larger and riehcr than shown on the tenth and eleventh elev-enth levels; lUnl crosscut on the thirteenth thir-teenth level was advanced twenty-rive lVn in light colored limestone, showing slight oxidation. The face is now 323 feet from Alpha. No. 2 shaft. |