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Show ACTIVE WORK IS RESUMED IN MINES WEST OF OCDEN Thomas Cunningham, manager of the Otden-Lucln Copper company, a valuable mining property in the Newfoundland New-foundland district of Boxelder county, coun-ty, reports promising progress in tho operation of the mines since tho resumption re-sumption of active work. The property prop-erty is situated about 75 miles wept of Ofiden, and seven miles from the Lu-cin Lu-cin Cut-Off, and the stock Is owned principally by business men of this city At present, the principal work Is being done in the upper tunnel of No. .'! of the Cunningham group of mines, drifting on ore vein, in an attempt to intercept an incline shaft and to cn-couter cn-couter tho large deposit of ore that usually comes down the Incline. The tunnef is 400. feet long with a drift 200 feet long, making the point at which tho present work !a being done, about 200 vertical feet from tnc surface. sur-face. A quartz vein, running from 3 to 5 feet in width has been encountered. The vein, which carries black oxide of copper, malachite, chloride and bromide of silver, is cut by a porphyry porphy-ry dyke, 30 feet acrosr., carrying good values in copper is the well defined walls. Tho copper values of tho vein ranpe from 2 1-2 to 75 per cent, with 30 ounces of silver and $12 in gold. Tho working force, consisting of four men, expect soon to be shipping. The mines have been a working property prop-erty for the past five years and the opinion of experts is that they-"arc mines of no mean importance, with the prospects for the future quite flattering. William Mojes is president of tho company, and E. A Stratford secretary. |