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Show BIO COPPEE STRIKE. (Special to The Telegram I GREE.VWATER. Cal.. Feb. 1. -A strike of rich copper ore, which experienced mining mi-ning men say proves up the .amp be- rond a peradventure. has been made In he Copper Queen mine No 2. belonging lo the Greenwater-Death Valley Mining and Smelting company. The big ore body was uncovered at a depth of eighty feet In what Is known as the Injunction shaft. The ore is malachite mala-chite ajirt red oxide. There is twenty feet of ore. three feet of which. It Is said, will run better than 0 per ent In the red metal. As a consequence of the new strike the company has put at work twenty more men and s'ill more will be added within a short time. On Copper Queen No 3. owned by the same company, the shaft Is now down Kver 100 feet, and the shaft Is In ore all the way to the bottom. On Copper Glance NT). ?. the shaft Is (own about eighty-five feet. There Is a vejn of high grade on this claim twelve feet thick which averages 12 to 14 per rent copper. Crosscuttlng will be commenced com-menced as soon as a depth of 200 feet has been ettaJned. The strike In Copper Queen No. 2 Is ronaldered one of the most Important yet made as It exemplifies to the fullest the predictions made by the prominent engineer engi-neer who InvestlgafM the Greenwater-Death Greenwater-Death Valley properties and advised their purchase last year. Three hoists are now kmstantly at work day and night, and hi a abort time four more will be running tall blast, making seven In all. |