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Show NATiV COPPER IS UNCOVERED LI RAY MINE IS ARIZONA Native' topper ku beea found 1b the Ray Consolidated properties ia Arizona. Ari-zona. The value arc widely diffused through the porphyries, but mining engineers en-gineers have alwavs contended that there ia ao reason whr it should not exist ex-ist there. Small seams of nstive eopper have been found before in This property, prop-erty, but nothing which indicates de-pocit de-pocit of any extent until this find of recent date. Another high grade strike hes been made ia a drift out front the bottom of the double compartment shaft of the Bnltana property Bear Kelvin. This is also native copper, and while the extent of the deposit has sot yet been determined, deter-mined, it proves the correctness of the theory that this character of ore exists in that section. The entire fsce of this drift, which is 7x7 feet, is ia ore. and it has been demoostrsted that there is more of it. Development wit t -the. &v is being be-ing hurried along. A force of 100 men is extracting and blocking out aew sup-i sup-i plies. One hundred new steel ore esrs. with a capacity of aixtv-two tons each, have been delivered at the mine. Tbey cost 11400 each, making the total outlay out-lay ia cash $140,000. These cars are being put into us .at oace freightiag ore from the miss st Rav to the eon cent rating plant at Harden. At present thirty carloads, or almost 2000 toas are being shipped dsily. Ship mants are to be increased greatly, as tne Havden smelter will be blown ia next fait and it is desired to begin operations opera-tions with a vast ore supply on ths dump. Tha two wings of the concen-trstor concen-trstor that are now in commission use 1000 tons a day and a third wing will be readv shortly. A thousand mea are employed clearing tha smelter site and laving foundations. t Tha Rav Central eonrnanv has seven claims entirely surrounded by tha Rsy Consolidated. Fart of the towa of Ray is built oa Rav Ceatral ground, which is now being- thoroughly explored with a chore drill. One 300-foot bole has beea sunk in a principal street and another an-other has been started bark of tha post-office. post-office. A report ia ia circulation that the second hole has penetrated a body of native copper. |