Arizona citizen., 1874-11-21
CLIFTON COPPER MINES.
The Known Wealth of a Small Spot
 ill Eastern Arizona.


 Mining Life, published at Silver City, N.
 M, of November 2, contains this account
 of the immense riches already developed in very small area of this Territory near
 the New Mexican liae on the north side of tue Gila river;
 FAEhe Longfellow copper mlne is situated
 near the Fresco river, Yavapai county,
 Arizona, about eighty-tiye miles directly
 west of Silver City, and is owned and
 worked by the Longtellow Copper Com
 pany, composed of citizens of Silver City
 and Las Cruces. This mine was discover
 ed some three years since by R. B. Met
 calf and sold to the Longfellow Copper
 Company about eighteen months ago,
 when active operations were commenced
 and have been carried on with great vigor
 since that time, with remarkable results,
 considering the difficulties to be over
 come and the great distance from rail-
 roads and all means of rapid communities
 ton. In the short time above mentioned,
 this company has expended over forty
 thousand dollars ill opening the mine,
 building roads from the mine to the re-
 duction works which are situated on the
 FrescO about six miles distant, where the company has built large water wheel and dug ditch capable of carrying water sufficient to furnish forty horsepower, it
 being three niles in length and required four months to build it. The company has, 80 far, used only the small Mexican furnaces built of adobes, with which they have smelted and sent to market thirty five thousand dollars worth of copper, and have lately built large rcverbatory fur mace of brick made from clay found in the mine, which on being heated, as a test, up to point beyond that required for smelling, gave way, the arch breaking down and leaving the majority of the brick intact. The mortar in which the arch was laid, being made of raw clay burned out letting the arch down. The company has sent to St. Louis for fire brick and all the necessary iron supports to construct two furnaces of a capacity of ten tons each per day, and a mule train has left Las Cruces for the end of the rail- road to bring out this material as soon as 1t arrives at that point. The supplies ordered will amount to some eighteen or twenty tons ill weight
 The company has engaged the services of Judge C. Bennett for term of years as superintendent, and will keep large force of men at work, the foundation for the new furnaces being already com menced and will be in readiness for the fire brick when they arrive. Work on the mine has been presented with great vigor lately, and an immense amount of ore is piled up on the dump and in the mine There are 1000 to 1900 tons in sight ready for the drill of the miner, showing a face of 250 feet of solid mineral, assay ing all the way from twenty-five to seventytiVe per cent. copper. There are r.. $50 feet, showing solid body of ore the | entire distance At the reducing works | at Clifton, on the FrescO, there are some | four or five hundred tons of ore ready | tor the furnace, having been put through | the Blake Crusher which is of a, capacity | of 40 tons per day, and is driven by the | 1veishot water wheel. When tue new furnaces are completed, this company, under the esuperintendence of so energetic | management as that of Judge Bennett, will without doubt turn out from six to | ten tons ot copper per day.
 The Coronado mines are located in Twin canon about ten miles west from Clifton and five miles from Eagle creek, md are all located on one vein, which old nlners who have seen and examined the Teins in the entire district, unite in pro- the mother ledge of that see ion. The mines, six in number, of tif cen hundred feet, covering an area nine thousand feet in length by six hundred n width, are located in succession as fol- ows:
 Boulder mine by Henry Lesinsky; Horseshoe by William Grant; Coronado 1y Wm. s. Reese Copper Grown by s. NJ. AshenfelteE; Crown Reef by E. s. Ioulding, and Matilda by Chas. Lesinsky.
 These mines were originally located as separate discoveries, but the lOcators irding they were all on one huge vein, lave made arrangements to work then in conjunction and have incorporated under he name of the Coronado Mining Con- )any. They have selected location for he houses of their workmen and have hristened it Copperton. It is located n Twin cannon where they have found supply of water for household purposes The initial monument on the outhwestern end of the vein, on the r Boulder mine, stands half way up the
 Hillside, which here slopes to the south vest, the course of the vein being north ast and distinctly marked by the crop 'ings. Eight hundred feet from this monument an adit has been cut in ore to tt
 width of thirteen feet, and at depth of en feet the ore assays sixty per cent. cop er. The croppings show very distinctly ', he entire length of the Boulder and also f the Horseshoe mine, and are of uni urm character and extent Midway of { he Horseshoe is another adit exposing ! welve feet ill width of vein, and at ten set in depth producing ore identical in T ppearance and value with that of the ( . wf,o (