Arizona republican., 1899-12-03
JEROME DISTRICT.
The Great Amalgamated Copper Com-
 pany Interested.


 The latest issue of the Jerome News has the following to say concerning the weeks transactions in mining circles:
 The past week has been busy one -~in the mining world of Jerome' Wlth the changing of property and encour- aging development work. The confi- dence of Messrs. owen and Van Zandt of the News mine was further eseab- ifshed by their purchase Of the Lulu mine south of Equator Hill. This property was purchased through Lyons S, Knoblock For the past three CT four years MT. Lyons has at different times worked this claim under bond, and from it some very rich gold, silver and copper ore has been taken, but the bodies discovered have never been large enough to create a dividend, but the work so far done has been really surface work, and it is the opinion of those who are well acquainted with the property that with proper development work the mine will become a producer. Work is now being done on this prop erty.
 Good reports continue to come in from the property of the Black Hills company, where in two incline shafts work is being pushed night and day The new machinery for this company has been shipped.
 The Jerome Copper company is now working in three different places in Mescal gulch with a good showing of ore in each place. MT. Stevens, one of the capitalists interested in this prop erty, was in Jerome last week in com pany with Expert Collin Timmons.
 Al De Kuhn was in Jerome Friday last on his way to Prescott to ship an- other bar of gold to the mint at San Francisco. This gold is being taken from the Eclipse group as regular as time comes. He reports much activity all along the Black Hills.
 The Jerome Copper company is talk ing out values in ores to more than pay for development, Mir Dillon informs the News. This undoubtedly makes Mescal gulch the best prospect yet opened in this district.
 In the gulch just west of the Hog Back, near the old cemetery, Charles Rutledge struck water at a depth of about 100 feet. The flow is not at pres ent very heavy. but with development may give an amount that will be of great value. The formation taken from this claim has shown some values in gold and silver all the way down. and it was fo- the purpose of testing the val ues of the ground when found in place that he has been developing. The pres ence of water would indicate that the shaft is now in ground which is in place. He will continue the work.
 It has been learned from a reli- able source that the company which has purchased the Cliff group and a large number of other claims in this district during the past three weeks is the famous Amalgamated Copper com pany which has purchased almost all of the large mines in and near Butte, Mont. This company is headed by Walter s. Logan of New York city one of the most prominent mining men in the world, and who is at the head of the great law firm of Logan. Demond & Harby of New York city. It was at first thought in Jerome that the parties who had acquired this property had only done so for the purpose of holding it for speculative purposes. without the l intention of development, but it is now certainty that the property will be | thoroughly explored. They now have l