Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-11-03

down to a depth of 155 feet. Another
 shipment of 100 tons of ore will be com
 menced the lst of the month. The
 ore is holding is own in character and
 grade.
 | Prompter.- An assessment Of 10 cents
 per share has been levIed, the money to
 be used for the erection of hOlstlng
 works, it being impossible to proceed
 much further without them. This mine IS in bonanza.
 Mamie. Considerable work in the up-
 Der levels of this mines Is being done. 1 The lessees have just cOmpleted ship ment of nine tons of ore to the Water
 vale mill, which samples S61 to the ton.
 ContentIon.-Ra progress in the erection of the pumping machinery k made; the walking beam, one of the | heaviest pieces of casting that ever came to this camp, IS Tn place; the | cylinders are just being put up. Some delay is caused by the missing of some miner articles, which lay at Fairbanks, | the freighters having overlooked them when loading the machinery. Work m the stopes is going on as usual. IL Is reported that new body of ore has | been struck while prospecting in a | nOrtheasterly direction. Nothing definite | can be learned as yet.
 T. M and NJ. CO.-Work on the 6OO- | foot level of the West Side has been 1 commenced this week. \ new hOisting engine has been ordered, which will be erected OF shaft No. l, to hoist from the | fifth and sixth levels. The most work done at present is in the fourth and fifth levels. $ Superintendent Church IS ex- pected home from the east in a few days, when, in ell probability, more extensive work VII. be done on the Lucky Cuss mine.
 Empire-The new shaft started G few days ago 5s down to a depth of lj feet; this shaft is calculate to t.p .he ore body winch extends from .as Good enough and Way Up mines. The rock has changed from lime into porphyry, heavily stained with iron, indicating the presence of mineral not far OiL In the old workings the tImbering has been completed, and brisk prospecting from the POO and 400-fOOt levels is going on \ cross-cut east from the 4OO-fOOt level IS running. The same IS at present m a very hard limestone, with good lndlca- tions of soon encOuntering an ore body.
 Colder Rule-This gold mine, situ- ated in the north end of the DragOOns, near the railroad. is one of the solid bull lion producers Of COchise county. Dur ing the past three weeks the drift from the west to the west shaft has advanced twenty feet, and all the way m ore that surpasses anything in richness yetfOun in the mine, the average assay taken from parts of the vein beIng Sj6 gold. The face of this drift is from the west shaft lS3 feet, and at this point IS TO feet from the surface. Three shifts are at work in this drift as in all other parts If the mine. ThE ore reserves are increasing at great rate, for every foot advanced in this west drift being ID new grounds, opens mp tons and tons of ore. -Epitaph.
 Notes.-The attachment on the Stone wall mine has been raised, and active work will soon be resumed.
 The Ray copper mIne Is working about 6D men. The mIne IS looking bet ter every day.
 Work will soon be resumed on the South King and Butte.
 The Drill understands the Mowry Company intends to sink the Blk shaft to a depth of 2,SO0 feet.
 Mir. Schoeneberg has bonded the POorman mine at Mineral creek to the Ray Copper Company for Sl5,OO0, re- ceivinE a cash forfeit of $50.
 The suit of ]. D. Walker against the Jesse Benton Mining Company is in course of settlement, and the attach n5ent will soon be removed.