Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-05-31
General and Leeal keies Frum sAe Fisis Si Mines and niains
 EsepwAere-
osselopnnsn, Nork, Reported Sales
 and Opinions By Aaising haen.

i but twenty-five miles from Prescott | thAt is creating considerable inter sst, principally from the fact of ii being positively known that the CT lstsnce of copper is there and that it is but . question of development work Co determine the extent of il below. We refer to the Bingham ton and Copper Mountain claims that are located within two miles Of each other, aud in both of which Hon. I. T. StoddaEd owns An inter est Oa the BinghAmton quite large force Ol men are Ht work to- day under the superinteBdsncV If Mir. Peter Hoaghton Already sufficient work has been done on this claim to show a chute of min eral ground from 70 to i00 feet wide and Hoo feet long, carrying tea per cent of copper ore. besides Valua- tons in geld aud silver. The forma- tiOn which the Binghanton lays in Is ehloritie slate with iron and lime adjoining. and as the wOIk progress from day to day and depth shows the existence of well defined ore chntes. the men be- hind the project naturally feel elAt- ed. Tbe Binghamion has a shaft over lO0 feet deep, besides other CT tensive oPsuiugs, and work is going on night and day. Ex-GovernoT Adams, of Colorado, with Messrs. Bayley and Posey, are associated with the property.
 On the same belt aud two miles Co the south, lies Copper Mountain. On thIs MT. StoddArd is personally directing work, having James Bres- In Tor his foreman. In years gone by this property had a crude smelt- CT tO reduce its ore. but with trans portation facilities high and the cop per market low, work vas necessarily suspended. In addition to this, old time methods Eere inadequate to successfully handle the product and aside from development work from time to time, the property has not experienced whst may be said Co be thorough and practical wosking until the present time. MF. Stod- daEd has, however. in years gone by opened up the mountain VsrT ex- tensively, aad as be hinself says has been working away from the min Q instead of 10 II, but has succeeded, nevertheless, in demonstrating one Tact, that the ore is there in un- occasionally large and permanent bodies, and the work nov inaugaFat- ed IS for the purpose of definitely proving it. In this connection be states that recent work has proven to him that the Copper Mountain vein dips to the southinstead of to the north, and thAs this is one reason why SO many mining projects have failed m the past in this pec- ton. A shaft I50 feet deep has been sunk in the Copper Mouasain, and from this depth the work of drifting into the mountain is the in- tent;on- When completed it will hit at a depth $50 feet below the sur face, and Mr. Stoddard along with others also, believes it will then be definitely known the extent of the ore bodies. The Copper mountain claims were worked nearly twenty years ago and in their geological features are identical to the United Verde. carrying ss they do the black sulphlde of copper, &nd in surface showing the ground has likewise a similarity. In connection with the work now going oD in thAt par tIculaT section, and outside of that on the above properties. there IS the belief also that the lead of which the United Verde is the mother. runs through thaG section in dis tinct and unbroken chain for many miles For instance, the Equator Is known As a valuable property, and lays six miles south of the United Verde. Then comes the Swiss girl, SIX miles further south with good copper croppings; then the Blng- hsmton further south three miles then Copper mountain two miles more to tbe south, the Last Stand one mile more and the Buster, re- gently cold, but four miles further south. This will give the expert chain to follow, and as each and all claims lay so close and vary hardly ths fraction of a degree, and have the same surface croppings ss the mother vein, the belief prevails and well founded, that the lode is iB place, and that the work now going on ID many claims certainly is very encouraging 10 face capital, and is meeting with the support of men rersed in minerslOgy. The only question that seems to be solved on these projects, as we'll ss on many others, is the proposition of depth and development.
 ). B Tomlinson is in town from the Mescal mill today and states tt a, the plant is dropping ten stamps CD ore from tbe Ora Flame mine, and owing to Q scarcity of water has hsd to hang up the other ten. He says also that the ore IS yielding we'll.
 ! Henry Dsrrsh, B capitalist and Oi l some prominence in mining eiIclss, has closed the sale of a group Of four 1 copper claims near Joe Mayors and taken hold of them. They were owned by John O'COnBell aud James Crothers, and the agreement calls ! for the payment of SI0.O0o- IL is said that Mr. Darrah will start Eith a good force to develop the ground
 and place a shelter ID operation.
 Big Bug and especially that section : Isying east of Joe Mayors seems to l be favored 10 copper mining more than any other section of the county Another mining transaction of
 special significance to this section
 was closed Up yesterday, and the naynsut Of the money, some SZO.Oo
 was made. lt was the transfer oi
 the White Spar, the Challenge, the
 Mountain Star and four other claims,
 fifteen miles from this city to the Arizona Development and Mining | Compauv. This association as
 ra.,entlv organized and incorporated
 in this city, Fith Messrs- DaTld Weikal. T. U. Boltz, A. H. Irua1- Frank M. Thomas and Geo. Wicker
 ss stockholders, and the transaction
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