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Show uu 111 ill EDGE OF OLD CAMP CONTAINS SURPRISES The wild scramble for mining property in the outlying portions of the Butto district, following the discovery dis-covery of the enormous zinc ore deposits de-posits of the famous red metal camp illustrates to what extent tho greatest great-est camps known offer opportunity for the outsider or the Insider who Is capable of seeing farther away than the end of his nose. And the discovery of the zinc ore possibilities I of Butte coming ns it does at a time 'When the metal is soaring to magnl-'ficent magnl-'ficent market ranges on account of the exhaustion of the old sources of tonnage supplj and nece3flltv for new fields toing discovered leads others to suspect that many of the well established es-tablished districts elsewhere mar hold opportunities of great merit in sections now untouched and considered consid-ered not worth the trouble of location loca-tion It may be that Bingham rests just in such a position, and that there Is good territory not embraced within the maps published, and it is not unlikely that many of the outlying portions of the district will be looked into more thoroughly from now' on, not especially for zinc, but for msir-eral msir-eral surprises of sonic sort not now banked upon or thought possible It is Ilkelv also that seme of ihe copper fields uow considered well enough investigated to permit engineers engi-neers saying the limits of the rields are determined will show a further expansion of mineralization which will build up an even greater Industry Indus-try Tor the future than that enjoved In the past One thing is sure, Butte Is now pulling and tugging right and left to acquire long neglected propositions, propo-sitions, some selling for marvelous prices when their past value is taken Into consideration, and the same thing may happen elsewhere. |