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Show MINING FOR BULLETS ON CAMP LEWIS RANGE frACOMA. Wash., Sept. 18. Mining Min-ing lor bullets, with the consent Of; the government, Is now under way at .'amp Ivowis. a complete jig, as used In lead mining fields, has been in-Stalled, in-Stalled, and 12un pounds of lead. COD-1 per and nlckle are being ' mined" ; dally. l- M. Lam ley, of Seattle, decided that there was on abundance of metal j back of the camp target ranges, where million of rounds of ammunition of all kinds were fired while troops w en-In en-In training during the war. He obtained a concession from the government on a percentage basis. Lamley estimated that before the work Is finished about November I, a hundred tonj Of metal, worth $200 a ton, will be reclaimed. Rifle and machine gun bullets, hitting hit-ting embankments behind, the camp target, often do not penetrate more than an inch, it Is found. Some of them go as" deep a.i one foot. Sixty, per cent of the bullets are pulverized by contact with the dirt and with other bullets, but the Jig soon separates the metal particles from lighter material |