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Show IOWA COPPER FINDS BETTER GRADE ORE Sixty-ton Lot Being Marketed This Week From Winze; Conditions at Ontario Promising. Word from the Iowa-Copper this week is to the effect that a better grade of ore has come in the winze and that small pockets of lead-silver ore are becoming more numerous in the shaft, which is now down nearly 150 feet, but still in quartz-lte quartz-lte formation. A sixty-ton lot is being marketed this week from the winze. General Manager Ernest Bamberger was in the Park on Tuesday of this week and visited the Ontario workings. He reported re-ported conditions as very gratifying, with much more ore in sight on the lower levels and much good ore being extracted by the leasers on the upper levels. He had nothing to report regarding other properties of which he is the head, further fur-ther than to say that the Keystone suit would come up for hearing within the next month, and that when a decision was reached work would be resumed. Under the capable supervision of Paul Hunt, work is progressing very satisfactorily satisfac-torily at the Park-Utah property. Drifting Drift-ing is being vigorously prosecuted In both the north and south crosscuts from the big Ontario drain tunnel, and everything now is in shape to continuously push development. de-velopment. It is going to take some time to get to the ore bodies, hut keep in mind the Park-Utah, for It is going to do big things for Park City. The effects of the big fire at thp Judge smelter last week have practically been eliminated. Construction Foreman Eric Neilson has the damaged portion of the roaster building practically rebuilt, and Thursday of this weekthe big roaster was iired up and again everything is running with the characteristic smoothness so i-cmmon with the big plants of the Judge Mining & Smelting company. Park Pec- ! ord. j |