Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-01-08
MINING INTELLIGENCE.
S0mt Interesting DOllsS in the Various
 Districts Surrounding Tbs Ciy.
Hhal0ld Producers arc Doing and SG,sS
 From hsK Discoveries.

CAsrLE CREEK. Dec. -. .-i Special
 correspondence The Ar.zona Min ing Company oWu aut operate, some
 of the best claims Iu this district. ! Their Swallow mlue is estimated Co
 have produced over SnOOOO. On
 this mine a cross cut Is run iu A0
 feet to the ledge. On tue ledge a
 drift Is run 36l feet. A shaft Is sunk
 from the level of the duft 2lO feet,
 making a total depth on the ledge
 from the surface of S0 feet. The : ore body Is from Is inches to four | feet. Many hundreds of tons were
 worked from the ledge that went ] Ss0 ou the plates, and ore can be picked from the ledge that plates ! S6O.
 The Moonlight claim has 55-foot shaft with a 50-loot drift iu ,he bot tom. The ora streak Is three feet. There has been ore milled from this claim that went S}O ou the plates, On the Pocahontas claim l0fOot shalt shows a very large ledge oi $6 rock.
 The Robert Emmett has a lO-inch ledge that s1mples very high iu cop per and plates S5 iu gold.
 The Golden Wonder IS the north extension of the Swallow. The ore body Is about four feet. A recent mill test of l2 tons ot ora from this claim went SS on the plates
 For years the ArAstra claim has been producing in 8 small way. It was first located fifteen years ago. The ore streak Is only two to five inches, but the ore body is about S70 This company has l0-s;amp mill on the property that will be started very soon.
 The San Francisco IS owned by W. F. Roberts. On this claim IS a 25-toot shaft that shows up an ore body of three feet. h a 35-ioot drift an eight-inch streak of ore in the ledge worked S25 on the plaJes In the bottom of the shaft the whole asssyed SlS.
 The Cactus claim Is owned by Pawley X Cox. The ore streak Is small on the surface, but very high grade. The only work done IS sur face gouging
 The Belle of the West and Eclipse are owned by :. W. Haynes and are good prospects. The Belle of the West has a JO-foot shaft in ore that plates S9 per ton. On the Eclipse Is a 35-foot shaft. The lead IS three feet. Picked ore from this claim works SIS.
 The Belle of ,he South Is one of the best prospects in the district. IL is owned by several parties in Trin- idsd, Colorado. The deepest work ings on the claim Is a sixty foot shrft, with drifts both ways at the bottom. The lead Is twelve feet wide with punches of rich ore all through 1t. This ore works seventy dollars on the plates. There is also a itty foot shaft in good ore. This property has paid two dollars for every one put into 1t.
 W. F. Roberts and John Lord own two good copper claims m this district. The Copper Crevice has down a one hundred foot shaft and open cut faced on the ledge to a depth of twelve feet. The ledge IS fourteen feet wide and carries good quantities of copper and gold. The ore runs from l5 to 0 per cent cop per and two to eight dollars m gold This claim joins the CoPperopolis mine on the north end.
 The Copper Monarch is a loo foot lead with punches of good copper and lead ore through it. These properties are bonded for a good sum.
 The Mayfower group are owned by a New York company. The | Mayhower claim has a shaft one 1 hundred and sixty feet. at the eigh- | ty-foot level drift is run each way on the ledge iu a northerly direction 90 feet. and southerly 30 feet. The | ledge Is four feet, and the ore very | high grade On the dump are SO | tons of first class ore that will work | $50 to so per ton, besides many | tons of second grade ore. There | were many tons of ore arastraed | from this claim that went SlSO per | ton. The tSilinSS were afterwards worked aud S230 per ton obtained. On the dump IS sufficient ore to pay for machinery to work the mIne. This company also owns the Copper Lion, a parallel ledge to the May flower. On this clam Is a 25-foot | shaft. showing up a fine body of copper ore. A tunnel on the ledge shows up a SO-iuch pay streak of ora that runs 70 per cent. copper. A cross ledge 30 inches wide carries gold ore which runs in value from SI0O to Sl50. B. R.