Mohave County miner., 1901-02-16
General Whining Rews.

place has just returned from Los An
geIes, California, where he succeeded
in selling the Bright Angel group of
copper claims, located in the Grand
Canyon mining district, for the sum
of OOOOS-Flagstatf Gem.
At the Greene Consolidated Mining
Works in the Cananea mountains, the
reduction works are handling 500 tons
of ore daily and are turning out fifty
tons of copper bullion daily. Around
the works and at the mines there has
accumulated a population of $500
Range News.
Fred Williams is in from his Cora
Belle group of mines, located this side
Of the Storm Cloud group, and about
10 miles south of Prescott in Hasa
pampa district. lie has a shaft upon
one of the claims which is 60 feet deep
The vein in this shaft shows ii inches
Of ore which gives an assay of over
sixty dollars per ton gold.-Prescott
Courier.
Fred Wald came in today from the
Turquoise where he is engaged in the
work of erecting the new smelter of
the Copper Belle Co. Mr.. Wald is one
of the best machinists in the west and
has installed many mining plants
throughout the territory. MIR. Wald
reports the new smelter to be a mod.
ern, up to date plant and will soon be
turning out copper bullion-Tomb-
stone Prospector.
Work on the Ophir is going steadily
on, and we understand sinking in the
main shaft was resumed during the
week. Already it is estimated that
there is 20)O00s worth of ore from this
mine, ready for the mill which the
Ophir people contemplate building
The plan for 100 ton mill has already
been prepared by the Salt Lake Hard
ware Company, and it is only matter
Of very short time now before active
work on the mill will be commenced
Phoebe Record.
A new 5,OO0s hoist has been pur.
chased by the Pride of Arizona Copper
Company for its Rebel mine in the
Big Bug district. 1t has also recently
put in an eighty horse power boiler tc
operate the hoist pumps aud com
pressed air drills which will be shortly
installed. There is an enormous
amount of tailings on the dump of the
McCabe mine, ranging los to POS to th'
ton, that will be utilized as soon a. the
smelter and concentrating plant of the
Standard Smelling and Refining Com
pany is in observation-disclosures News.
The Hawthorne New Bulletir
says: Late reports from Tonapah, tn,
new camp in the southeastern part o
this county. continue to be most en-
couraging, Arthur George, an exper
fenced miner, who spent week at tn
mines, says he never saw such pros
pect. He says there are seven separate
parallel ledges on the surface, 30 fee
apart. They run northeast and south
west. The deepest shaft is IA feet, anC
the ledge at that depth is as strong nc
rich as on the surface. The average
value of the ore is about 70s gold anC
3O1 ounces of silver. About 30 miner
are at work; nearly all on leases, ant
all are sanguine of great results"
The Arizona Copper Mountain Com
pany, Minnesota corporation, ha
commenced extensive operations il
the Harqua Hala district. The CON
pauy owns 1000 acres of ground an
have staked off fifty-nine claims. Sey
eral diamond drills are on the groun
and 10 operation. The groupings ca
be traced over several ranges of noun
tains aud down through the Tont
Basin country. The company is CON
posed of very wealthy men, ana If tn
developments prove satisfactory it
their intention to begin work on yer
extensive scale.-Tucson Star.
A letter from Boulder county, Colo
says that negotiations are going on fo
a deal in the famous Slide mine, q
Gold hill. The mine is said and con
monty understood to have produce
something like l,500,O00S. Colorad
Springs parties are negotiating to pu
chase the mine at figures in the neigi
borhood of 2Oo,000s. They buy belo
the S00-foot level. Above that the min