Show I MINEs MINE AND MINING INING f DI av 1 r m i f NINETY NINE COPPER BECOMES PRODUCER a- a i Produces Oracle Grade of Ore Ole Tha That Pays at Low Lo Price i J I of Metal TO DEVELOP BIG STRIKE I t Has Eight Feet of Ore are Thai That Runs 18 Per Cent Copper CopperAs As Broken The Ninety Nino Copper com com- operating at Good Springs Nev Ne lins 1108 just marl marketed eted a carload or of ore that was settled settle for by tho the smelter smeller on the basis asla of at contents of ot 19 per cent W copper an and 22 vcr per cent Iron Another carload of or ore or that will run 25 5 per percent percent percent cent copper is to be shipped at nt once anti and two carloads of somewhat lower grail grade o are arc ready to be sent out Active mining will be ho resumed In Ia the property prop prop- crt erty orty by y May a 1 A new hew hoist and compressor com coni- ressor plant arc are to be Installed and then th the company will be bo In position to make maize regular shipments J. J B. B Jensen Jenson manager manage of or the NinetyNine NIne NIne- ty Nine while conservative In his statements Is plainly of the opinion that lila his company has the making of ot a l great mine It has been heen In good ore virtually from the surface down own to the tho foot Coot level Just before work was suspended last fall on account of the financial depression and the low price of or metal an ore bod body was encountered encounter encounter- ed ell on the foot Coot level which is little lIttle littie lit lIt- tle tie short of a wonder There Is nine feet feel of solid ore an and in the center Is Isn Isn n I. I streak of or I 1 S inches of gray copper that goes about as high In the tho red metal as anything ever taken out of the Iho ground while the entire body bod as asit asit as it Jt Is broken down own will average about IS 18 per pet cent copper i Solid Seth nt Depth There is evel every indication Sir Mr h Johnson JolLa John son says that lint the extremely high high- grade ore oro has simply been less subjected sub sub- subjected to the leaching process than has lIas the tho rock on either side o of It It which leads to the belief elle that at somewhat greater depth when original conditions condi condl- ions arc are encountered the entire 1 00 body of or ore oro will be high It Is necessary to run a drift only to CO feet eastward to get set under the fhe hl higher high high- h- h er cr grade rock with GO O feet of or sloping ground g and the manager does oes not there will be oe marked mm- mm Improvement Im Im- provement In the general g grade e of the hod body even at that additional depth But flut t e even n with copper at 12 and IS 12 I cents a 3 pound ore that runs 18 IS per cent copper coppel as Jt It Is broken down Is Isa a 11 good shipping product and the Ninety Nine people purpose taking of or the |