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Show CONTACT 18 A PRIISH CASlPj Contact today holds out ns flattering flatter-ing Inducements lor capital to get In or the ground lloor as any coming big copper camp In the stale of Nevada, Ne-vada, according to George R. Sheldon, i. mining engineer who returned from there yesterday, alter having spnt thirteen months In the camp representing repre-senting the interests of the Unlied Slates company. "Owners of good properties in there are anxious to see the camp brought to the front, and would W willing to make favorable concessions to men with monev. Judging from the re-maiknble re-maiknble xurface indications, some day In the near luture Contact will be teard from by the copper world." said Mr Shebleu. "The deposits are big. You can walk across 2"'.' foot veins and sl-p (n copper at every s'ep. It Is low grade, of course, but all such dcis sits are low prade. "The work Is practically contined to surface prospecting, with few holes over .' feet deep. '1 here Is one old abandoned shatt down about Hi feel. It is now pretty well full of water. It Is reported to bave shown good ore and was put down twelve or lit-1 lit-1 1-1 11 vear ago. In' Contact, there are four classes class-es of ore dM.slts. First, the ilssure or ore. surrounded by lime. This Is dii-l.miiv (raced about ihe district In the lorm 01 a great l.orsehoe; This Is verv piomising ground Second, the uli cot .ontact deposits actually n Ihe contact between granite and lime. Two properties. Mammoth aud Hon-aiiJii, Hon-aiiJii, are excellent representative ot thU class of oie deposit. Third, de-posits de-posits of more or less tilth grade coe per circulates and oldi-s In lnm. a short dl-taiue from the conta. ts. l ourih. the low giale sulphides und ( ah op.. rite ores In lime up to l,2in f.-et from the great contact. Twin Fa 1 1 people have Just started start-ed work In camp with Mr. Mclntyre In charge, liny have q property on the Contact, and have begun fading the ;oad to the property. They are prepared pre-pared to continue work all winter. "The Uuuanza shut down In August. It has a fine chow lag. Its prospec t holes are not more than fifty or sixty six-ty fc-t deep. It has a tunnel v.-veral hundred loet. The main Ilea I to find Commercial Ud!e of smelting 01 es. f'ontnct'M present mot available railroad i-dnl Is al Rol.eiSon. Idaho, the terminus of the new branch from Twin Falls. Thi Is 4U miles distant. Wells, on the Southern Pacllb. ts aK-Ut .r.' mllen south. Jarbldge Is T.U n.l!e dip ctly l of Contact A Ftace Due opera'ci between RoUrson and Jarbldge." Mr. Sheldon would not commit hlm- felf nn the situation, but It Is UDdiT- j Urs.d that the Unlfd Suites company 1 which bad a lr.d on i of the roo-t : r,.-om!fin Contvt properties, hat. by . withdrawing Mm. lt- rep'esentittlve. from Con'scT. pUli-d out of ir.e camp for the r ? nt. 1 |