The daily tribune., 1907-09-28

CAMP IS NOW
ON BIC BOOM

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Events of great Importance are hap
pening fast and furious in tho new
Copperfeld district close to Cotopaxi
and so many changes are taking place
that it is difficult to keep up with
them. Three new companies formed
within as many days is record
breaker, but there are probabilities OF
many more being formed and put in
active operations within very short
while.
The Acme Mining and Milling com
pany is the first to get to work.
Under the supervision of Mr.. Clark
the shaft is being sunk on the claim
adjoining the Queen Princess aud has
already attained depth of about 30
feet. This company is composed of
Indiana capitalists and it is their in
tention to go 500 feet before beginning
the next shaft.
The Copperfeld Mining company,
composed of Colorado Springs capi-
tai, is making preparations to begin
work next week. They have let the
contract for a i50-foot shaft and are
putting material on the ground for
buildings and shaft houses. The
machinery for this company has been
ordered and the first shipment from
Denver is expected to arrive within
about ten days.
The Queen Princess shaft is now
about 80 feet deep and sufficient
quantity of ore of the same grade AS
the last was shipped to the smelter,
showing 30 per cent in copper and IL
OF. in silver is on the dumps and so
much in the way of working that
Superintendent Cabeeu is preparing
to ship it to the smelter. 1t is esti- :
mated that there is about fifty tons
of ore that will grade like the other.
This mine is generally conceded by
all authorities to be the best propo-
sitiou in the district and some day
in the near future will prove itself to
be the greatest copper mine in the
United States or Canada
The recent products of the Copper
Prince and the Queen Princess have
been so surprising in grade and
quantity that the department at
Washington sent one of their ablest
and most accomplished geologists,
Waldemar Lindgren, to the camp on
n tour of most rigid investigation.
A most thorougn and complete sur.
face survey was made and many rar,
and interesting specimens were gath
cred by Lindgren and while it is moi
within his province to speak au
thoritatiyely about these matters
he was free to admit that his visi
was most interesting one and thai
it would be of great value to the de
partment at Washington as we'll as e
the United States geological survey
who sent him to the camp. Hi
official report will be furnished b,
the department after it has been prop
erly bulletincd and will be eagerl,
sought by the thousands of prospec
tive investors who have recently ha,
their attention directed to Copper
field.
Commodore Halter is expected hom'
next week with party of twelv'
prominent citizens of Duluth. NJ linn.
who are being personally conducted
to the district for tho purpose o
buying some Of the good propcrtic
up. The fame Of CoppeIficld ha
,, became so generally spread over til,
whole country that prospectors am
investment seekers are going thcr
from tie north, oast. south and ever
from the adjoining states.
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gethcr with Senator John b. Stephen
of Colorado City. 4. ]. Bclymcr, tn
representative of the rich syndicnt
which Is constructing electric line
and power plants In the Arkansas val
ley from Cotopaxi TO Holly, an
Judge Hopkins Of tho Coppcrhcl
company. Mt Coppcrdcld have in