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Show i POPE-SHENON MINE LOADS CAR OF ORE Intend to Learn Value of Metal in New Stopo With Least Delay; Report3 Encouraging. To determine as ea rly as possible the value of the new strike in t he lowest tunnel tun-nel of the Pope-Shcnon mine, in the Salmon Sal-mon River district, the management la loading a car of ore from the new workings work-ings for shipment to the smelter. Reports Re-ports from the property indicate that the ore body Is eighteen feet wide and that It contains a shoot of high grade about , eighteen Inches in width, A sample of the hi,'h-Krade streak has ! been received at the local offices of the j company which carries nearly 50 per cent copper. However, the management as-I as-I serts that the specimen is a picked sample sam-ple and carries values considerably above I the av era pre of the hUh-jrrade shoot. I Eight men aro now enaed in devclop-I devclop-I inar the ore in the new workings and re- ports Indicate that t Ho work is progressing progress-ing at tiie rate of about a foot a day to j the man. j The ore shipped by the company during j the past few months was taken from tun-I tun-I nel No. 3, which Is about 5D0 feet above ! the new workings. There are five tun-' tun-' nels on the property and all are in ore. |