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Show WASHINGTON MINE IS SCENE OF RICH STRIKE Copper ore that is running 80 per cent has been taken out of the Loon Lake Copper company's mine near Chewelah, according to W. L. Ziegler, superintendent, says the Spokesman Spokes-man Review. "We have about a foot of chalcocite, struck where the ore bends under the fault on the 20Ofoot level according to Mr. Ziegler. ' ' About two tons of it has been removed. re-moved. " Mr. Ziecler did not state the exact content of tlie chalcocite, but in manv mines, particularly in Arizona, it is ) per cent copper and more. "The operations in the mine and the mill are proceeding on a two-shift .basis,' said Mr. Ziegler. 4 The number of employees em-ployees is forty, it having been increased in-creased by the arrival of several men since the declaration of a strike in the Coeur d 'Alone region.'' The first fall session of the Northwest North-west Mining association will be held at the club rooms in the Hotel Spokane at noon September -i. . A program will t be- prepared for the occasion, and prob- j ably at this meeting the association will discuss the proposed change of the department de-partment of the interior at -VTashin2;on to a department of public works. This was presented to engineers of Spokane rccentlv, whon Mr. Moore, of the war minerals relief commission was in the j city and seemed to meet with general' favor. |