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Show SECTION IS REJUVENATED. A. J. Bruneau, manager of the Cop- fer Quartz Mining coinptn operating it the Silver Island districOof western Utah, announces that the entire region pf that property is biog rejuvenated by the advent there of the Western Pacific Pa-cific railroad. Of the Copper Quartz company lie nays: ."Samples had beer, secured from the property at shallow depths which gave as high as 38 per cent copper and 84.6 ounces silver. - - 'Work was starts I upon a tunnel, which wss driven quite a distance last year before work was discontinued. It is the purpose to drive this tunnel for a distance of 100 feet to gain a vertical depth of 150 feet upon the crossing of s system or net work of mineralized JPins, one of which the tnnel is now following. "This vein has been averaging ten inches in width, all of which gives nh -form, values of copper- and silvec The average assay values secured all the Cistance gained upon it-are -10.1 per cent copper and 12.4 ounces silver per ton. - r. v "When the aforesaid crossing" has been gained in this working the management, man-agement, from all. the surface indications, indica-tions, has every reasonable expectation of opening up an enormous deposit of rich ore, and from that time on will begin in earnest the campaign of development de-velopment work. "Future results shouM demonstrate this merits of this Salt Lake property," an the- - Western- Pacific - railroad wrtll bring the mine within seven miles of rapid, economical transportation. ''Adjoining the Copper Quartz property prop-erty is the Carrie Mack, a Salt Lake organization, that is doing some exceedingly ex-ceedingly telling work and discovering some very satisfactory ore while driving driv-ing for the main resources of the property. prop-erty. "The Miners' DeligLt company is getting down to hard work, and equally geood results are' expected from this company's efforts as seem certain to reward re-ward the surrounding organizations. On Crater mountain, six mUcs north of the CoppecQuaxtz, the eompanv has opened., up a splendid resource tully eight feet wide, and it closely resembles that being be-ing encountered in the Ohio Copper ground at Bingham. "On -Leppv mountain, three miles 1 south, the group knowu as the, Swedish property is bejj; developed quite vigor-ouslv. vigor-ouslv. "be Copper Mountain company is abiding its time waiting for the completion com-pletion of the siding and ore bins at Tecoma. Then will begin from this' magnificent proposition a steady stream of rich copper-bearing ores. The Copper Cop-per Mountain company hs been blessed with abundant funds for. development, . and no need has been demanding that the great dumps of ores extracted be shipped until the time wss ripe." |