Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1898-03-09

petuate and fx the locus thereof.
 One of our contemporaries ID com
 menting upon this says: Those
 desiring to patent a group of claims
 can no longer do all the development
 work on one claim, but are required
 to make an expenditure of not less
 than $500 for work or labor or nm
 provement on each lode Of a group
 of claims. The regulations of the
 general land office of the United
 States, which were approved Decem-
 Der I5, 1897, now require that not
 less than $500 worth of work or la
 bor shall bs expended on improve
 ments made upon each lode of
 group of claims before entitled %
 patent" The paragraph itself will be seen does not bear the construc-
 ton that this work must be done ~on
 each lode," but it says that "an
 amount equal to S5G0 for each claim
 in the group has been expended"
 l.. II. Britton, a mining man of
 Denver, Colorado, who has recently visited the Castle creek country IS quite enthusiastic over the outlook for that district. In speaking of 1t he says: "The surface indications in the Castle creek district would make the average Colorado mining man crazy. 1 found float that banned just as nice string Of gold as you eyer saw. In the shalt of the Moonlight mine l picked up a copper boulder and 1t banned gold. Tue presence of copper glance did not cut any figure. The gold came out in the pan ip string that would fill the soul of a Klondike gold hun ter with delight. It is surely a re- maTkable camp, and l cannot under stand wiy 1t has lain idle so long. If that district were lifted up and placed in Colorado it would set the miners up there in fits. This IS the way the country strikes me, coming from Colorado. If 1 had come here years ago l would be better of to- day than I am. My opinion is that
 any camp that contains these kind
 of surface indications, with the re-
 markable gold values which go with
 copper, is worth developing. They call them gold mines up there, but
 the copper is worth more than the
 gold. They have run 15O tons of ore from the Moonlight which
 averaged S20 in gold. All the cop
 per values are m the tailings dump, and they average 22 per cent cop
 per. l would call this a copper
 mine instead of a gold mine. Up in
 Colorado We have gr, at gold mines,
 but We do not have copper and gold together like you have here. Here is another example of the kind of properties there are Tn the Castle creek district. Tho Swallow mine is down to water level, which is 20 feet. The ore values run from 20 to p per cent copper and from $50 to $40 in guld. The assay made while
 1 was at this mine returned 22 per cent copper and S4l in gold. AL though 1 did not see them, l have it from good mining men that this district has many such mines as this. l don't know where you can go to ! ind better prospects, of making big mines. l claim that all the district . needs is money, and 1 believe invest ments in Castle creek mines will . give the best kind of returns. ! have been in Idaho, Utah, Nevada, ! and Colorado and 1 have never seen ! such surface indications as there are . in this district. I base my opinion . simply on what I have seen at the . head of Castle creek, and having seen what 1 have described I cannot doubt the truth of the reports that come to me from other parts of the district. There are 500 feet of drifts and shaft down 200 feet in the Swallow mine," continued Mir. Brit ton. "They have done nothing but to demonstrate that 1t Is anime. On the Moonlight there has been no work to speak of still th re is every indication that it will become good mine 1 thInk if they will just keep at 1t they will strike some bonanZas up there. It Is pre- d copper camp, of the same character as the United Verde, l. and it has indications of being as good as that big camp. The United Verde is producing $5O0,O00 month. this is the kind of mines you have in Arizona. Colorado will have to look to her laurels. The Castle creek district is a fork of the United Verde and Copper Queen. A straightedge placed on the map will convince you of this, and a visit to the district will settle any doubt in your mind, if you only investigate the top indications"