Mohave County miner., 1900-12-22

ductiOn works, and will give an i'm !
petus to Nogales which will make it
one of the chief towns in Arizona. The
enterprise will treble the wealth and |
population of Santa Cruz county,
Nogales Oasis.
The Reporter says that many mat.
ters of Importance were laid before
Senator Clark on his last visit to Jer.
ONE. 1t is understood that another
shaft is to be sunk on the United
| Verde mine, work to commence imme
diately. The shaft is to be three
! compartment one and to take the
place of the one now used. 1t will be
near the railroad, about 100 yards
northeast of the old shaft.
A Chicago dispatch says: A num-
ber of Chicago capitalists have secured
an option on the Leonara copper niue
in the Mount Sicker district of Van
couver island in British Columbia
Word reached Chicago last night that
the mine had been bonded for 5000, OOs
aud if he deal goes through it will be
one of the largest that has ever been
carried ont in British Columbia. The
Leonara mining property has but re.
Gently come into prominence, and Is
the largest in the province outside of
lie Roy and the surrounding mines of
Rosslaud. About year ago FIVE
feet ledge of clear copper ore worth
, more than 1908 to the ton was found
at the bottom Of an eighty foot shaft.
, The mine has been worked ever since
and there appears TO be no limit to
, the supply Of ore aud many hundreds
of tons have been blocked out. An
, cured by number of Chicago and
| New York capitalists, who are repre-
senied by James II. Adams and DR.
lie Feber, now in British Colum bia
| oking after the interest of Americans
There Is within rixty miles Of Butte
mining district that, in the old days
! when silver sold for dollar an ounce
and upwards, contained many mines
which produced great quantities oi
: silverlead ores aud AS a producer OF
3 such ores certain mine obtained
!. quite reputation. The day came when
silver dropped to fifty-five cents at
e ounce and lead also deprecated il
: value and, most opportunely, the shaft
7 in this mine encountered body OF
gold bearing ore and the amended
t prospectus issued by the officers OF
D the company, informed the stockhold
: ers and general public that the com
I pany possessed gold mine. Gold
I mines we're then in great favor. The
sinking of the main shaft was contin
: ued and the gold recovered sometime:
4 kept up the operating expenses and
. often failed to do so. Meanwhile cop
. per rose in value; the Butte district
t became famous and copper stocks
3 were prime favorites. Sinking the
, main shaft continued, the hidden story
a of the earth's crust was further re-
: vealed, and, just in the nick of time
: the copper zoEe was reached and now
3 to the delectation of the stock ckholder4,
3 they we're informed that the company
e had developed copper mine of un
S told value.
S From lead.silver to a gold mine
/, from gold mine to a copper mine, all
, in one shaft, is not star cry" for ma
g ture is wonderful in her capacity for
}. change. Evolution is her pet law and
! why should this law not be as effective
D ia the mineral world as in the crea.
:, only curious feature involved in the
: proposition is that the evolution OF
this mine kept pace with the changing
fashion controlling investment in min.
: ing stocks. Wondrous are the works
of nature; in fact only equaled by the
3 fecund imagination of some promot.
ers of mining companies.-Western
:, Mining World.
A Butte, Mont. dispatch says great
} gold strike has just been made at Vir,
ginia City, Madison county, by G. A,
Damours, a young chemist and min.
eralogist from Canada, who has had a
. lease and bond on an old quartz mine
! known as the Kearsage, which is 10
, Gated at the head of the gulch, In
years past more than 10000 05 in
gold has been taken out of the placers
of the gulch, and most of the ground
had hpen worked ont Younp DamOurs