Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1899-12-11
MINING NOTES.

]. W. Stevens is in from his Redemp-
ton copper claim on Ash creek, Cherry
creek district. At a depth of twelve
feet on this claim ore has been taken
out which carries 20 per cent copper
Prescott Courier.
John Hudgens has sold the Meador
Valley and Rainbow silver claims,
Black Hills district. to W. IT. Hall for
$1,000. These properties are recent
finds and carry silver lead ores ranging
in value from $3.50 to 1000 a ton The
pay streak ranges from six to eight
inches in width. There are twenty
tons of ore on the dump-Prescott
Courier
James Sutherland took a load of sup
plies to his mine in the Huachucas
yesterday. Mr.. Sutherland OWES some
promising gold claims and is preparing
for considerable development work
Tombstone Prospector.
The following from the Ell Paso
Times tells it's story of Arizona mining
progress THE Ell Paso smelter is re-
ceiving heavy shipments of copper ore
from several Arizona mining districts
The past month fifty more cars of ore
We're received than during the month
previous"
L. T. King of the Tucson Marble
company will leave in a few days for
Denver to purchase machinery for OPP
Grating the marble quarries of the
company. Mr.. George E. Reynolds, the
manager of the retail department, will
have charge during Mr.. Kings absence
The company is at present turning out
some good work-Tucson Star.
r. H. Macdonald, smelterman, c. w
Rice. bookkeeper and n. P. Wood,
chemist, came over from Helvetia to
meet j. r. Cooper Of Houghton, Mich,
and Frank Fellows of Chicago, says
the Tucson Star. The last two men
/ toned gentlemen are directors in the
Helvetia Copper Mining company and
their presence here at this time Is to
be present on the occasion of the blow
ing in of the IFS ton smelter in Pima
J county's biggest copper camp. MeSsrs.
I Wood, Rice and Macdonald returned
at once to Helvetia to advise General
| Manager Seager of the arrival of the
directors and of the fact that Mr..
| Cooper was too i'll to go out until Mon
day. He and Mr.. Fellows will take the
| train east to Wallis and from that point
will be driven to Helvetia camp. Mr..
Fellows said yesterday that there was
sufficient water to supply all needs at
the smelter and if it becomes necessary
the company would pipe a line from
I the Santa Cruz. The Helvetia COM
pany, he said, had $50 men on the pay
roll. There must be $50 people in the
camp.
! F. K. Custom, president, DR.. E. A.
! Cay, secretary of the Chicago and So
nora Mining company, and De Forest
Gustin, son of the president, and
! George Boylan, all of Chicago, were at
the Montezuma yesterday en- route to
the companys property near San An
/ tonic de la Huerta in the southwest
corner of Ures district They are ship
{ ring with them two Trenain mills of a
daily capacity of from twenty to thirty
tons. The property consists of five
claims on which true fissure veins have
/ Eeen opened showing high grade gold
rock The mine will be worked extens-
/ lively as soon as the mills are in oper-
atiOn.-Nogales Vidette.
/ The Lone Pine mine contains soma
of the richest smelling ore in Yavapai
cotnty, and it is from this mine that
the smelter of the Arizona Eastern &
Montana company obtains it's prinoi-
pal supply. Now a new class of ore
has been found on the foot wall, some
eighty feet from the large sulphide
bodies that are worked near the hang
ing wall. At a depth of 200 feet George
Rohpeter, the original owner of the
property and now it's superintendent,
started crosscut with the
result that over ten feet of magnificent
. concentrating ore has been cut, with
no end yet in sight. The mineral lays
in a white quartz and shows yellow
! suiphides with streaks of gray copper
/ This body of mineral averages 6 pei
cent copper and about $12 in gold and
silver. Concentrating tests show that
at is bonanza. The Arizona
Eastern & Montana company is pre-
pairing to increase their present larst
force on the property to 100 men.
P H. Clark of Los Angeles has TAX
er; bond on the Ryder, Swayzee ant
Cox group of mines in South Pass
Dragon mountains.-Range News.
The Old Dominion commenced using
new moulds for copper last Sunday
The old moulds turned out bars weigh
ing 800 pounds, too large to be conve
niently handIed.-Globe Times.
w. S. Wright has been showing hi:
friends a sample of rich ore which i:
something to engage attention. say!
the Star. II came from the Cuba min
in Pinnl county, few miles from the