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Show jNEW PROCESS j TESTED SOON iPope-Shenon Volatilization Mill Almost Complete for Test Run. Satisfactory progress Is being made at the property of the Pope-t'henon Mining company in the Salmon river district, Idaho, Ida-ho, according to C. K. Erac.foM, general manager of the company. The new boarding board-ing house, with accommodations suffi-! suffi-! cient for thirty men, with electric lights, hot-water heat and separate rooms for two men, has been completed. Iu addition to these modern featured, accommodations accommoda-tions for the superintendent, an office, and a cement basement, in which mine and boarding-house supplies can be stored, have been provided. The Bradford volatilization plant, which will treat the copper ores of the mine by the process invented by Dr. Robert H. Bradford of the University of Utah, is 00 per cent completed. All of the material and machinery is either in transit or upon the property. Delay has been caused by the difficulty In securing prompt delivery de-livery of material and machinery. It is expected that tho new plant will "00 operating oper-ating by the first of the year. During the months of October and November No-vember five cars of ore, which averaged from 10 to 15 per cent copner, were shipped to local smelters. Only the ore that had to be moved in doing development develop-ment work has been shipped while awaiting await-ing the completion of the volatilization development work has consisted mainly of making upraises, building chutes and bins so that breaking and handling of ore may be done as expeditiously as possible when the plant is constructed. Six adits have been driven into the hill by the company in the development of the great copper ore zone upon the prop- , erty. An upraise has been driven upon 1 a shoot of rich ore 675 feet from the por- ; tal of No. 5 tunnel. In this working , never less than from four to eight feet of high-grade copper have been encountered. At a point 600 -feet from the portal of the same level another upraise, mainly for working and ventilation purposes, is being driven. Here there has never been les than two and a halt feet Of very high-grade high-grade ore. Upon the same rich shoot of ore struck at a distance of 675 feet from the portal of No. 5 ievel a winze has been sunk. This shoot consists of a porphyry heavily impregnated with copper, mainly sulphides. sul-phides. A most gratifying showing has been opened up. In the whole distance sunk from two and a half to eight feet of high-grade ore have been developed, samples from which assay from 10 to 70 per cent copper. The mineral deposition at the Pope-Shenou Pope-Shenou is said to bo quite remarkable, as the porphyry formation contains almost every kind of copper ore. In addition to the high-grade shoots already- opened, great bodies of ore which contain a greater percentage of ore than that so successfully treated by several of the successful suc-cessful porphyry companies havo been opened up. |