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COPPER IN PRESIDIO COUNTY.
This has been noticed under the head of silver and lead ores of that region. I saw at three different places in the silver region of the Chinati mountains veins of copper associated with iron of a width of from ten to twenty feet. This was at one place visited in company with Colonel Anderson. Here there are several fissure veins of widths as above named. The deposits of iron and copper are immense; an analysis of this surface ore is given elsewhere under silver. Another outcrop of similar copper ore at the
