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Show mnmi copper SHOOTjSJEPORTED; Pope-Shenon Stockholders Are Notified of Strike in Tunnel No. 5. Stockholders in th Pope-Shenon property, prop-erty, situated in the Salmon Elver country, coun-try, were elated yesterday over the report re-port that a 2-foot shoot of high-grade copper ore had been encountered in tunnel tun-nel Xo. o, the lowest working in i he mine. The Information came in a report from the mine superintendent. Five tunnels have been run into the property and good ore has been encountered encoun-tered in each. What Is believed to be the same high-grade ehoot recently disclosed in tunnel No. n was opened up in tunnel No. i, about 200 feet above, .some time ago. The lowest tunnel is now in a distance dis-tance of '357 feet.-and a big body of low-grade low-grade ore was cut about a month ago. proving the continuance of the ore body for a depth of about 1300 feet. The company already has shipped several sev-eral cars of ore. varying in copper values from 7 to 12 per cent. During the last few weeks road conditions have bten unfavorable un-favorable for hauling and efforts have been concentrated on proving up the ore body in tunnel No. o. With the report of the newest strike came the information that the miners were collecting a car of copper glance and chalco-pyrite for shipment. ship-ment. The ore is being taken from the high-grade shoot and is estimated to carry average values of between 15 and 20 per cent copper. |