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Show A VISIT TO THE COPPER MOUNTAIN The writer this week visited the Copper Mountain mine. Al- hert McLease has charge of this old property and has made a real mine of it. Entering the ! big iron bucket Engineer Mc- Mullen lowered away slowiy ( 150 feet, where we struck the incline and were lowered an- other 150 feet. Our lights showed ore from the surface to j the bottom of the shaft. Climb- ing from the bucket we entered a six-foot tunnel which we fol- lowed for 500 feet, through granite and overhanging walls of lime. At intervals along this tunnel, which is well construct- ed and timbered, the mouths of ! ore shoots appear at proper height to empty into the ore ! cars which run the length of tunnel. Some of these chutes were well filled with high ! grade, copper oxide ore ready for shipment. Near the far- ther end of the big tunnel a branch tunnel of equal size is being opened and an ore body that has reached a width of 27 feet has thus been blocked out. A particularly interesting feature of this mine is the several large caves through which the workings are made. Invariably the roofs of these caves mark the hanging wall of large ore bodies of copper. The glistening rocks show plainly the action of water in ages past. It is possible to crawl through opening after opening from one cave to another until you have explored a very large area of the innards of old Copper Mountain. The work being done at Cop- per Mountain mine is of a very substantial nature and the ays- tematic manner in which the ore is being blocked out and convenient ore chutes con- structed, will make the mine easy to work, while the quanti- ty of ore seems to be inexhaust- ible. The mine shipped four cars last month. Seven men are working. This Spring the mine will doubtless take its place as one of the leading shippers of this district. The Copper Moun- tain mine is twelve miles north- west of Milford. Adjacent prop- erties that are now being work- ed are Beaver Copper, Beaver Lake Metals, Copper Ranch and others. . |