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Show RICH COPPEB AT ELY. AH Ely is celebrating the discovery the ores recently encountered in the .Veteran tunnel of the Cumberland-Ely Cumberland-Ely mine carry 50 per cent copper. It is regarded as the pinnacle of triumph for the advocates of the theory that Ely - net -only has millions of tons of ordinary copper ore to mine and treat which will be exceedingly profitable, but that there are many hundreds of tons of the highest grade copper ever mined anvwhere in tbe world. Mining men arriving in Salt Lake last week from Ely declared that as a result of the disclosure mentioned in the Cumberland-Ely all classes of property prop-erty have .-jumped 100 per cent, and that mining claims especially were soaring even higher. The district is also reported report-ed to be filling with representatives of capital, large and small, and that prosperity pros-perity reigns everywhere. And these conditions attach not only to Ely itself, but also to the contiguous districts. Rich lead strikes in the vicinity of Duck Creek have attracted numerous prospecting parties to that locality. The district is swarming with fortune hunters. hunt-ers. All of the big Duck Creek mines are now ready to ship ore, and that district dis-trict will be a busy one during the winter. At the Success mine, where the first big strike was made, a great deal of work is now being done. Xwo 150-foot shafts have been sunk upon the property, prop-erty, and at that depth air connections have been made between the shafts. A continuous ore body has been found to a depth of 175 feet, which is as far as development work has gone. The ore vein is from eight to twenty-five feet in width, . widening as the "miners go down, and the ore carries rich values in lead, silver and gold. Two eightv-five-horse-power boilers have been set up on the Success property, and a compressor com-pressor plant is being installed. A sawmill, saw-mill, to be used in cutting timber for the mine, ia also being put in. Four thousand feet of pipe has been laid to carrv water from a spring to where it is needed at the mine. Carpenters are now at work putting up the boarding-house boarding-house and . other buildings required by the twenty-two men now employed at the mine. D. C. McDonald said yesterday, yester-day, that before the end of ' the month things would probably be in shape for the crew of miners to produce ore for shipment. - -. At the Ely-Homestake No. 1 mine, owned by H. O. Hall of the Southern Club ana others, a vein twenty feet wide of heavy galena was encountered at a depth' of twenty feet. The mine promises to be a good producer of shipping ship-ping ores. Among those who have made strikes are Guy Gallagher, son of Senator Gallagher, Gal-lagher, who" has opened up' a promising claim at the mouth of Duck Creek; Sam Truckee and others, who have found rich ore on Berry creek, and the Brim brothers, who are producing shipping ship-ping ore from their mine near McGill's. A shaft forty feet deep has been sunk upon the property of the El Gibraltar property, and a splendid mineral show-iig show-iig has been made by the development work, |