Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1899-04-17
THE COPPER BELL GROUP.


Of the great number IF claims in
Hawk canyon, about thirteen miles
from San Carlos in a souther,y direc-
ton, favorable mention has been made
several times of the Copper Bell group.
The owners, B. Jones and J. n. Porter,
have mcde an effort ever since the
opening of this part of the reservation,
which occurred last November, to keep
this property in the background on
account of a threatened law suit to set
tie title to tie property. Now, Tor a
large consideration, quit claim DEED
has been made in favor of the above
named gentlemen who will either sell
CIR work the mines at an early day
With a good wagon road within three
miles of the property connecting IL
with the railroad at San Carlos, ia
vcrable route for the railroad wood
and water convenient, surface indica-
lions of great magnitude, formation
similar to those of the large copper
camps cf this territory, good ore on
the surface and inoE easing i'll size and
values as depth is reached and the Gre
of the character that indicates con-
tinuation of the ore bodies, there is
no doubt but that this property will
prove Itself, by development, to be
wonderful producer.
lime lying in stratas at { dip of about
As degrees. the contact walls, pocphyry
and quartzite, being about / 900 feet
apart and continuous the full length
of the claims. The ore, principally sui
phides, are heavily impregnated with
iron.
At the bottom of the deepest shaft a
large excavation was made to ascer-
tain the extent of ore bodies at that
depths olomonville Bulletin.
COAL CLAIMS IN LITIGATION.
The cases Drought by Attorney Ed
wards of Globe for his clients, to quiet
tits to several mining claims in the
Coal Fields strip, are attracting con-
siderable attention because of the num-
Der of p53ple interested in them d.
rectly and indirectly The suits are
against w ]. Parks, jos Bull and Billy
Surrell. Mr.. Parks has employed all
tie lawyers in sight to defend in these
suits, the list now including Judge
Rouse Norman & Mcfarland, Wiley
E. Jones, Charles /. Rawlins, p. I.
Robertson and Frank Laine Mr.
Parks says if any more lawyers appear
before the trial day he will retain hem
These mines are claimed tc' be of much
value.-Solomonville Bulletin
THE TIGER DISTRICT.
Word comes from Tiger mining dis
trict that a rich strike of ore has been
made in the Rapid Transit mine. which
is about three miles south of the
Crowned King The Rapid Transit
mine is one of the eldest mines in the
Bradshaw mountains, and has pro-
duced great deal of high grade ore.
besides ore worked at nelghbcring
mills The claim is being worked ~
Jake Henkle and c. ]. Lindstrand. The
newly discovered pay sti-eak is from
twenty to thirty inches wide, and is
already exposed in a level fer a dis
lance of sixty feet, the streak still |
showing in the breast, where it is iarg-
est. Two hundred sacks are ready for |
shipment The owners expect to ship !
a carload in the course of three 3r four
weeks.-Prescott Courier.
HOW MINES ARE SOLD.
The Pr ide of the West mine has been
sold to Denver parties for $50, 900 and |
1t will be extensively worked by the |
new owners
l.. a. Snyder has just returned from |
a visit to Washington camp, where the |
Pride of the West is located. Speaking
OF that mine tC Citizen reporter he I
said that there was an illustration in /
the sails of the mine of the ralue of de-
veloping mines and shipping the Jres.
THE Pride cf the West" said he. was
sod by the certificates received from
shipments made to the Silver CiCy re-
duct1on company. 1t was the fact that
Mr. Chaplin shipped his ere and in
creased those shipments with gradual
regularity that attracted attention to |
his mine From a mine which was
rated at $4,000 it was sold a short time
after shipping was begun for $3.50 900.
l bs41eve there is a great deal in this
Tor mining men to think about. \
mine will sell quicker which has
shlpplng record than one which has
produced nothing but a dump CT ore
whose value is ascertained only BY as
say In the returns received from
the smelter the mine owner has d COM
pIete record CT his success or failure
ana the man who comes to buy the
mine finds substantial evidence of the
mines worth in these returns.
believe" he continued that the
Fr1oe OF the W esc Will become great /
htoducFr The ehf D~o o1+s at tina start
VIII be increased to 1 900 a month. The
pres run well in copper and carry gold
ana silver values also. The mine was
the property of N. H Chaplin, who now
retains the extension of the property
wnlch ne sold to the Denver capitalists.
This property he calls the SmuggIer
and in it. he has a mine which is as
promising as the Pride of the West
was when it had no more work done
than mas the Smuggler I think that
the output of this mine will equal the
Pride of the West when It is devel-
ored. "-Tucscn Citizen
THE SPENAZUMA.
The Citizen recently published an
EDITORIAL from the Engineering and
Mining Journal bearing en- the Spena-
Luma Mining and Milling company's
business methods The high stading
ot the journal together with other re-
ports of seemingly reliable character
tie impression that the min
ng scheme in question was not of a
:haracter worthy of being classed with
ne most legitimate and that in the in
crest of the honest investor further
writ IL;