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COPPER IN IowA.-It would seem from an ar
ticle in the Gaena, III. Advertiser, that caution
should be exercised in believing the reports re-
ccaly circulated of great copper beds having been
discovered in Iowa That paper states that
man named Jonas was the reputed discoverer-
tha, he was said to have sent specimens OF the ora
TO Cincinnati and this city, where it was pro
nounced rich. and tha, by these means ne sue
ceeded in selling the land for a round sum to some
>peculators, who soon discovered that their ere
was iron, containing not q particle OF copper 1t
had been the practice of Jonas to scatter real cop
per ore in various parts of the land, and at other
tunes to throw by some sleght-oihand portions OF
it into the crucible. This villanou. alchymist Is
now on tour through The country armed with
naps and certificates, endeavorng to sell his cop
per mines IN Iowa