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Show oo LUCKY DEPOSIT HAS 18 FEET COPPER Every Indication is that the Lucky Deposit Mining company is opening j up a big body of commercial copper oro at the property in the Aurum district north of Ely. Yesterday L. G. Hardy, general manager of the company, returned from Nevada with most encouraging word of recent do veiopments in the copper end of the ground. A winze has been sunk 23 feet on the vein, and 18 feet of this body is tulphldes, which will average 8 per cent copper and 5 ounces silver. The winze was started at a point 55 feet i com the portal of the tunnel The tunnel was sent In on the vein which was all oxidized This leached ma terlal gave an average of about 4 per cent copper. However, depth on th ore where It 16 In the permauent sulphide zone proves that tho values are Increasing. Mr. Hardy said yesterday that the intention Is to carry the winze down until It strikes the quartzlte footwall. It is estimated that this will be reached In the next JO feet. The hanging wall of the vein Is limestone. lime-stone. The developments to date on this vein Indicate that It Is of big dimensions and should prove a large and profitable yielder During the past summer the Lucky DeKsit company com-pany shipped five carloads of ore from Its lead-silver ground. It Is reported that L. E. Despaine and associates from Bingham are no gotlatlng for control of the old Raf-fet Raf-fet property at Muncey, a few miles from Aurum. Herald. r 1 1 . |