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Show the excellent prospect may be more r.ipld. in the doing of assessment work two years ago a fine quality of copper-silver ore was opened on the Wild Cat near the crest of one of the hills. It was not explore,! until lately, when the company threw Its property open to leasers for the first I line. An iron blowout appears on the top of the hill, and the ore opened I 1 bought to lie a stringer from the iii a In ledge. Hush and associates are working in a shallow tunnel to get under the blowout and unexpectedl f found the high grade ore :n the bottom bot-tom after running about 20 feet. It I has averaged more than a foot In thickness and Is found in "short" black lime. It has been followed for about five feet an I tho tunnel will be continued as planned, while keep- ! lng the ore lu sight, as it Is probably a stringer from tho main deposit. Only a short time ago another set of leaders on the Kly Calumet opened n large body of ore similar to that found In the Wild Cat claim, and it is understood that arrangements for j shipping on a relatively large scalo I ore under way. ELY-CALUMET That another lease on the estate of the Kly Calumet Copper company I4 in high-grade lead silver-copper ore of an extent which promises to make "J mine, s weird which comc-s trom 1-ly The lease is on the Wild Cat f'aim of the company, where W D. lUiuh, K A. Ross and associates began be-gan work only three weeks ago. With only 0nc man working, more than five tons of ore havo. been taken out, end average assays of the product five values of Uil.5 ounces of silver. r per cent copper and 4o per cent lead. More men have been placed 'pou tho work, that dovtlopment i |