Arizona republican., 1899-06-16


 lending to her a distinctiveness en- joyed by no other section Of the south west Every day new finlis are being reported, the development of mines III the adjacent vicinity is attracting cap ital hither, and the end is not ccntem- plated in the near future.
 New districts are springing up daily, among the most promising of which Is the Copper Mountain group of claims situated eight miles south of Vail station 'on the Southern Pacific rail- road, and five miles northeast of Hell vetia in the Santa Catalina mountains, owned by Charles T. Cornell and Alex Mckay.
 These mines are iccate1 in lime and quartzite on the same belt with the Helvetia and Rcsemount groups, and shCw large deposits of sulphuret ores at from ten to twenty feet. The ledge is without dimensions, so far, sixteen feet having been driven with out coming in contact with the hang ing or foot wall.
 In the scme district and near the Copper Mountain group of mines, Henry Beuhman has just let a con- tract for 100 foot tunnel on one of his claims which will tap the main ledge several hundred feet below the apex Of the mountain, and it is thought good results will be obtained through this development.
 Fitzgerald, connected with the Fl Paso smelter, has a promising claim which at depth of twenty-five feet he has uncovered a five-foot ledge of sul- phuret ere.
 Although this district is but twenty two miles from Tucson, little has been known of the promising section.
 Messrs CCnnell and Mckay are making preparations to develop their properties with a view to ascertaining the true merit of the district, and be fore ycu know it another bonanza is likely to be in operation at our very door, The properties last mentioned are not on the market, the gentlemen preferring to operate them to a final conclusion lose or win.-Tucson Star
 IA NEW FIND.
 New strikes in mining circles calm the attention Of the public daily, and when the Citizen fails to learn of sleepy bonanza having been awakened by the scarifying prick Of the pick there is something wrong along the range. The latest to record is the finding of one of these mythical mines so to speak-the uncovering of which occurred Inst week.
 Harry Turner is regarded as one of the most untiring .crospectors in Ari- Zona, and having received ''tips" as to the existence of a good thing" in the near vicinity of Tucson, one of those mysterious mines that keep the pros Pector ever Cn the move-he hied him. self to the field of promise with the result that in all probability Pima hoe hat the mining world. A ledge avera ging eighteen feet in width ard cropping out for the full length of three claims is considered a very good find, whe1 an average assay across the ledge at intervals gives a result of: Gold, S27.50; copper, 111a per cent and silver nine ounces.
 In the immediate vicinity of the find are several old Mexican furnaces, ar rastras, an abundance of Slag, a well, long since filled in by the semi-occa- sional torrents caused by cloud bursts and oaprices of the clements
 There is every indication that at some remote period mining was car ried on in that vicinity to some eX- tent, but from what source the ore supply came has net as yet been ascer- tained. But it is fair to presume that the prehistoric workings are not far from the late find, and no doubt are located on the same ledge.
 There are several gentlemen inter ested with Turner in the late discov cry and development work, to be in- augurated immediately, will soon de termine whether this mammoth de- | pcsit is genuine bonanza CT an allur- l ing fake.-Tucson Citizen.
 MINING NOTES.
 All miners were laid off at Fools | Gulch Saturday, waiting for the mill | ta start up. Everything is full of good | ere. In the drift west of the bottom | of the 1,000-foot shaft workings are in | five feet of $22 per ton gold ore. Some i of the foot wall has been struck but | the hanging wall has not been reached. l Courier.
 G. H. Hooper, who recently pur | cha 5ed the Buster group of mines, in | the Crowned King neighborhocd, has | from a machinery purchasing | trip east. He has now on the way t. Prescott a ten-stamp mill which las twenty-five stamps capacity, which | will be placed on the property as soon i as possible MT. Hooper is accOmpa- 1 nied by T. c. Williams, one of the Bus ter staf.-Prescott Courier.
 Ed Gillespie, working on top of the mountain north Of Yarneu mine, on some of old man Partridge's claims, known as the Devonshire group, 250 feet down, has struck body of very high grade gold and lead ore-$69 gold, 40 per cent lead. Gillespie IS working the mines under bond and Courier
 The Copper Queen people continue 1pi n0 in ! bee properties, as appears from the rollo ing excerpt from the Engineer ng an6 Mining Journal: '@The smelt- sr's capaci*Y at Bisbee is about to be increased frC.ru 500 to 800 tons daily, md several imp c~oYements are planned, including a new fCrnace, complete system of matte receivers and sag