Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-08-09
THE CLIFTON MINES.
What is Going on at the Various Camps New Strikes--An Interesting Letter
 From Live Camp.
SoIomouyille Bulletin

h more damaging than the first, occurred last week, at the same place.
 A brother of Jacob Grant, who died q week or so ago, got married to a step daughter of Walter Beale last Sunday at this place. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Mir. Furneau.
 J. H. Hovey has sold half interest in the Coronado saloon to Mir. John Hop kins, late of Lordsburg, N. M. Patent fans operated by hydraulic power are now fixtures in that establishment, which with out doubt is now one of the most pleas ant resorts in the territory: :notwithstand- ing the extranous "depressity'' brought to bear on this town, the pluck, energy and true American enterprise Is asserting itself. and Clifton will he itself again. The surrounding hills are full of mineral and as fast as development Is being done the fact is becoming more apparent. Jim Randall ill proof of this, shipped recent ly nearly car load of ore, and q most un- accountable statement can be made per taining thereto. The ore sampled $l10, and the returns went above 1t. Jim Is happy and feels proud of his prospects. He will go to work and get out another shipment.
 Ike Haun and Tom Fitzgerald are working the Manzanita, which Is close to the Metcalf, and are shooting out nothing but good copper ore. This week they move up to the Highlander group to clo their assessment work They have held on to this group for years, having an ahid- ing faith in the merits of the property.
 A rich strike has been made in the Greenlee District, on one of Nose Green lees claims A pay streak of two feet was struck last week on claim, the ledge on which is about seven feet wide in the Colorado gulch, that runs SlO0 to the ton The streak is about two feet wide Greenlee has owned the claim about F years and 1t does seem that dame 1 fortune Is about to smile on him. May the smile develop into broad grin. He who laughs last laughs the loudest.
 A Mr Hollenbeck, late of South Ameri | ca, is here developing mining claims sitU ated in what Is known as the Silver | Camp This should not be confoundeo with Silver Basin, as the two places arf 1 about miles apart, ill porthaasterly anC 1 southwesterly direction. The first silver ! discovered in this locality was found d 1 the old Silver Camp, years ago, agd that old-t New Mexico prospeetor, Jin
 Winter, made the discovery.
 The Arizona Copper Company's smel
 ters have shut down for want Of coke. By
 the time this Is in print the cheery glow
 of the escaping slag will be seen and the furnaces can be located by the constan din and lurid glare of colors caused b. oxidization. The old ra.,isle1fts nere miss the fiasl
 and brilliancy of the slag pot whel emptied at the dump. No more can b | Tt f
 exploding slag: the cause is a new orde
 of things has been instituted; the slag DO
 Is thing of the past and several Mexican
 have lost job. Any one who wants t
 see how a slag pot is disposed of, let hiI
 come here and look. But, he should nc
 do Ike the party who lately took "a loo at Clifton and give one of those cursor
 glances that are calculated to mislea the reader of "a look at Clifton
 Clifton ill manner absorbs as a con mercial centre, owing to railroad facilitie an expanse of country that covers th
 three grand industries of commercial lift 3, viz mining farming and stock raisin: and E. $. G." failed to recognize 1t. H had nothing to say except that the Ar ' zona Copper Company had parfecte wonders in the way of railway enginee ing skill. That is true; nobody does, can deny it. But what has the Detro Copper Company done? Starting in. n' with millions, but with small beginnir in capital and will in the present yei 5 reach bullion output that will make u Arizona Republicans correspondent WIS : : that he had noted that there was such U place as Morenci.
 T The people of this camp are newspap t readers and are liberal subscribers, al
 this fact should be noted and kept II reference by the organ; judging fro Il what was said the eve pertaining to wh ;, seems to be the principal editorial col 19 ment in the Arizona Republican dail u Why not have a commission come o T here to see what our resources d C What the hell do we care whether t C Herald's subscription is smaller than u Republicans. Here is key note.