Arizona republican., 1899-04-20
Mines and MininQ


me edltOr Of the Pick and Drill last week visited the camp of t1le Co-OI Mining company for the express pur- pose of making a personal itnspectlon Of the company's prCperties-/ lie iouhu that over 1000 feet of development work had been done, ins the nature oI drifts, shafts and winEzes, and Wnlcn' with buildings, roads, etc, etc, inol- cate an outlay of pGearly twenty thou- sand dollars. BeKng no expert cur re- porter could not estimate value of ore now on the several dumps, and had to depend uOoR the statement of miners, who said Jsshat mot less than ten thou sand dollars worth of high grade con- ceptIating ores were then on the z dumps. and the stopes-ore bodies al ready blocked out-would yield fully Sle0,O00 when worked up."
 The Coop mines are seven miles front Kirkland station on the line or the Santa Fe. Prescott and Phoenix railroad, with natural wagon road from mines to railway station. There is plenty of timber and water within easy reach of the comDany's mines, and with railway transportation so near and with a group of s.endid mines there is no valid reason why the Co., Op Mining co cCmpany should not prove ere of the most successful mining ven- lures in Yavapai county.
 1be superintendent uniformed our re- porter that in the near future a hoist, with other necessary machinery, would be put up, and that fin the meantime development work would be prosecuted as rapidly as possible. His idea was that the mere ore blocked out and ready for stoping, the better for the company when they shall have raeir +y-o44 4r,1r v111 ready for business. Our reporter, ul- though bit rusty in mining phrase ology. and thus failed to catch on to the drift" of many matters, he is nevertheless of the opinion that the Wicker group of mines are first-class paying properties, and if not, ther3 are ncne such in this county, and he has personally examined many mines both in Yavapai county and elsewhere
 COLI EXCITEMENT AT BISBEE.
 Considerable excitement has Teen caused ill Bisbee during the past few days owing to the discovery of several ledges of gold-bearing quartz about seven miles below here in the main canyon. One group of claims has been located by Joe Huber, the blacksmith, and who has begun development work on tie claims. The quartz is more or less decomposed and iron stained and has free gold sprinhled ehrorgb it Quite number of excellent specimens showing considerable free gold were brought up yesterday
 Jess Robinson is also another lucky man who has succeeded in finding a ledge o. the yelioiw metal. His claims are situated little to the side of the Huber group, but on the same lead, 6o hoE Thc whole country adjacent to the new prospects has been located and pros pectors can be seen striking off over all the hills in that direction.
 frank Dubacher and partners arc sti1l al work developing their gold prospects below Solomon springs and tho ledge is increasing in width as the depth Of the shaft increases. The ore at present will run $15 or $20 in gold and continues to improve. From pres ens indications it begins to look as though we were going to have a gold producing district as we'll as the ban ner copper district.
 Since the above was written an Orb reporter was shown a specimen of gold quartz which came from the Reilly group. about a mile and half below town. The ore. seems to be of the same character as that found on the Robin son and Huber, only being little more deccmpose Orb.
 MINING NOTES.
 Development and prospecting work is progressing in Arizona with less ad- vertising and better results .2an ever before in thei history of the territory. h copper, gold, silver and in some of the rarer metals Arizona will in tj.e near future take rank well to the front as producer of mineral wealth.-Den- yer Mining Reporter.
 Superintendent James Douglass is n froIu the Senator mine. where he is putting in a station 500 feet from the surface, 2 400 feet from the mouth of the tunnel, for the purpose of sinking | 200 feet deeper.-Prescott Courier
 The deed has finally passed which 1 transfers the Cobrige copper mine to | Messrs. Huntington and Weillbye, and | Alex Spencer has in exchange received l $S 00I. So moves on the business of 1 mining ransfers.-Tucson Star.
 Reports from both sides of the line | be tween Arizona and Utah continue to ! come in, which seem to prove that | there is a mineral area of no small di- | CIensions in that bordIarland. The lat | est comes from the Buckskins. Trum- blc Mountain and Grand Gulch dis tricts. The latter is about seventy-nve | miles from St. George in Mohavc | AriZCna-Mining Reno ter