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Show i BEAVER COPPER CUTS PROMISING CHUTES A highly encouraging report of conditions con-ditions at the property of the Beaver Copper companv was brought to Salt Lake vesterdav' by Manager A. J. Mc-Mullen. Mc-Mullen. Mr. ' McMullen also brought with him some promising samples from ore shoots recently encountered in the winze from the 2()0-foot level. An assay of sample No. 1 yielded values of 12.74 per cent copper, 4.2 ounces silver and 60 cents gold; sample No. 2 assayed 3.8 per cent copper, 94.(5 ounces silver anil a trace of gold. The high-grade shoot, from which sample No. 2 was taken, is about nine inches wide, and Xo. 1 sample was taken from a shoot more than a foot in width. Besides Be-sides the higher grade shoots, Mr. McMullen Mc-Mullen reports that the winze carries about four feet of ore which yields general values of 2 to 3 per cent copper, cop-per, with some values in gold and silver. sil-ver. . , . The ore encountered is sulphide in character, and from the present indications indi-cations Mr. McMullen predicts that he will disclose a good sized body of shipping ship-ping ore before the winze has been put down 100 feet. |