Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-08-12

leSS III HIS ONu Idllle. MT. OClOd HstS q great many friends in this county who will read this news with pleasure and will be glad to see him prosper He is de-, serving man in the fullest sense of the word, fact that no one is more fully aware of than is the editor of the ENTER PRISE, who had business relations with him, extending throug eighteen months. He shall always have our best wishes
 Professor Flames went up to Riverside again this week to note the progress of developments on his copper properties. If the mines show as we'll at depth of one hundred feet as they do in the pres ent workings the owners will erect, under the superintendence of Prof Flames, large and complete reduction works, on the river. The ore will be hauled from the mines to the river and so certain are men familiar with the mines, that the reduc- tion works will be put up, they are al ready moving to secure the ore contract. MT. Wm. Tweed, of Dripping Springs came here this week expressly to see Professor Flames iu reference to that mat ter but the latter had left for the mines before his arrival.
 Mir. Joh Chambers, discovered, recent ly, about one half mile from the main shaft in the coal fields, copper lead, which, in the judgment of experts, is a very valuable find. The lead is in this county and will add another group to Pi- nals splendid array of copper mines. Four locations have been made on the lead by Messrs. John c. Chambers, Tom. Glenn, James Lilly, George Scullerd and the Anderson Bros. The ledge is said tc be very strong and at one poin shows a width of forty feet. We have received from Mr. Anderson, through the kind ness of Judge Goodwin, a very handsome ore specimen from this new discovery fol the ENTERPRIsE cabinet. If they have 8 good body of the kind of ore sent us they need not prospect for another mine.
 MT. Loss and others who have visited the Sharp copper discovery, located about eight miles from Butte, assure us that il is the most extensive copper deposit il the Territory so far as can be determined by the surface showing. At one point or the Copper Bell, one of the Sharp group there Is a solid body of ore about fou hundred feet square and according to tn, assays of the exhibit sent to the Denve exhibit, it carries 2S per cent of copper When we remember that copper ore run ming above twenty per cent is high grad the Copper Bell has the look of verti ble bonanza The claims have enougl ore in sight, on the surface, to run tw, thirty ton smelters for several years The only question is the per cent. of cop per It carries and all of the numerous as says made show the latter to be high The claims are favorably situated, lyin but three miles from the Gila river, wit good wagon road leading almost to thei
 
 and will Aux itself There certainly cal be no question as to the value of thi property. Every competent man wh
 has examined it has. passed favorabl judgment on 1t.
 Mr. W. N. Tweed and son left in ou sanctum, Thursday, three specimens 0 copper, either one of which will weig
 100 pounds and assay twenty eight pc cent. They are from the three claim immediately surrounding the Drippin Springs, this county, and are given as a
 average of the ore. We shall keep thei on exhibition at this office and all pei sons interested in copper are invited call and see them. The mines from whic , they came are the property of Tweed
 Bush and Tweed and insure those gentle
 men a snug fortune. The ore does nc | lie in small strata but in mammoth bodiC and can be mined at very small expens
 A half dozen men could take 1t out fa l enough to keep a furnace of average G pacity running regularly. The ore woul smelt easily as 1t contains sufficient ire to fiux it. The property is also favorab located, lying near the river, and with /, easy reach of the coal fields, from which u superior quality of coke could be obtaine
 Wood is also abundant and timber sui l. able for lumber lies near by. In fact u -- district possesses every natural advanta. n that could be desired No section with |; our knowledge offers greater opportur ,f ties to practical copper men. Taking u O country from the Sharp discoveries up s the above mentioned locations and it VI destined to become the greatest copp
 producing region of the west, and u T. capitalists who are first to enter this fe IS will make their millions.
 The Board of Supervisors will meet t i- day to complete the equalization of taxe h They have raised the assessments in ,e great many cases and some fault has be- W found with them for so doing. But aft S. the sober second thought most of o a property owners will concede that | i Board have not acted unwisely in raisi a assessments. A high valuation and a lc Il rate of taxation is much better for E. country than the reverse would be, a IL at the same time does not cost the pro
 erty owner any more. This may set
 like queer logic to the minimizing, | IL when you stop to consider. it is as simple C. the rule of three. To illustrate: certs P amount of money to meet the expense iS running the county must be raised taxation. If the valuation is low tn y the per cent. of taxation must be incre