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Show $6000 RUBY-SILVER ORE BROUGHT HERE High Grade Shoot Said to Vary From One to Four Inches in Width. Some remarkable specimens of ruby-silver ruby-silver ore carrying values estimated around $6000 a ton were brought down from the Rosebud mining district in Box-elder Box-elder county yesterday by M. H. Brady, owner of the Clipper group of claims. Mr. Brady reported tiiat a high-grade shoot of ore, varying from one to four inches In width, had been encountered in the face of a 100-foot drift on the s'.rtty-iive-foot level of the Clipper mine. The vein in which the high grade was encountered is from four and one-half to ' five feet wide. Mr. Brady reports. Above the high-grade shoot there is a foot to a foot and a half of lead-silver ore which Mr. Brady estimates will vle!d about $70 a ton. and near the footwall is another shoot of copper-silver ore. varying In width from .eighteen inches to two feet, which he believes will yield about 5T)0 a ton. "The drift has been in ore for the last sixty-five feet," said Mr. Brady. "First T encountered a qray copper in small shoots and this finally ga e way to a narrow streamer of ruby silver. All the ore Is In quartz on shale contact. The indications are very favorable to the making mak-ing of a mine." The Clipper group of claims is situated about nine miles from Pipeline, a station on the. Southern Pacific, and about twon-ty-five miles north of Luein. The property prop-erty is near the workings of the I'tah : Tungsten company. |