Mohave County miner., 1900-11-03

terial on the dumps of the big mines,
work it over. One day in walking i
about over the country, accom- panied |
by man in his employ, he stopped to
examine few pieces of rock at mine,
and glancing up the mountain at the
base of which the mine was situated,
he saw another large dump. But the
climb was bad one, aud feeling in no
mood to undertake it, Mr.. Walsh asked
his man to GO up and get specimen
of the rock He carried a field glass,
with which he made measurement of
the distance to the upper mine, then
sighed wearily, saying: Jim, go up
and get some of that stuff; I'll wait for
you" and with that he sat down aud
dozed for near two hours, when Jim
returned. The specimens brought
back looked promising, and Mr.. Walsh
carried them away and had an assay
made. He has never told just what
WAS the return, but few nights after
ward he made a trip to the dump him
self, bringing back more of the rock.
He began to inquire who were the
owners, and finding them, made an of.
fer for the niue, but this was refused.
The owners then set a price, giving him
an option on the property, which they
would place in escrow ia the Ouray
bank, for 35,0OO3. He was to pay 3,OOOS
of the purchase price. But after the
second assay Mr.. Walsh hurried to the
bank, where he gave a check for the
full amount, 35.000S, aud received the
deed to the Camp Bird mine.
A correspondent of the Los Angeles
Mining Review, writing from Tucson
says: Col. W. r. Wemple, of Tucson,
who has charge of the Old Liberty
mine, 40 miles south of Tucson, reports
a recent strike at the II level which
shows 600 ounces silver, 30 per cent
lead, and per cent copper. Col. Wen
pie says that he expects to clean up
about 40,0OOS for his company out of
this body of 40 feet of ore in sight.
The mine changed hands few months
ago, Widow Clark diSposing of her iu-
terest through Bent and Sampson.
Ex-sherif X. y. LeatherwUOd who has
the Apache claim in the Old Hat dis.
trict, Catalina mountains, reports that
Geo. Metz, agent for Condor, New
York, has located the hosting plant
on the Condor properties. There are
twenty men working under Metz. Chas.
Z. Udall of this city, who has charge of
, the McGorris Copper Mining camp
near Mammoth, on the San Pedro, say :
that the ores will show 20 per cent.
copper, aud 80 ounces in silver. A re-
cent shipment was made through Z.
r. Wores' sampler here 10 Silver City
for treatment. The work Is down 600
feet on Que of the McGorris claims.
Mr.. Udall is employing twenty five
men. Water is being taken out of the
Sierra Colorado, Arivics district, with
a view of opening the ground deeper.
This Is the old silver property once
owned by Colt of firearms fame. Den
yer capital is invested in the property.
Preparations of very elaborate pro-
portions are being made for the reopen
ing of the Ray mines on or about the
18th of this month. which will give EN-.
ployment to over l75 men. The mill is
a pronounced success and is handling
over 10 tons of ore every twenty-four
hours. Every ton of this ore, am re-
liably informed, is good for 80 10 gold,
besides an average of from to per
cent copper. So 1t can readily be seen
that the Ray Copper company have a
big, fat thing of it, beyond preadven.
ture. Mr.. J. r. Mclean, of the Kelvin
and Agassiz copper companies, of Bos-
ton, Mass, has let contracts for extern
sive working, not only near Kelvin, but
also at Dagger Well and other places
on their valuable and extensive hold
iDgs. Tom Hall and Jim Shoemaker
have the contracts, aud have force at
work on the main tunnel nearly oppo-
site the Ray Copper company's big
mill. This tunnel will cut across from
seven to ten large ledges and dykes
showing up rich copper on the surface,
and will penetrate vast bodies of sui.
phide ores, as seen now from the lower
workings of years ago, when sulphide
ores we're not understood as at present.
Mr.. Mclean has secured the best in
the field with the greatest privileges i'm