The copper era., 1901-12-12
TERRITORIAL MINING NEWS.
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to arrive at Casa Grande soon and that the plant will be completed in February.
 The Naragansett mine in the Santa Ritas. owned by J. K. Brown and bond ~'' rJ the Darius Green mining com pany is showing up well. large quantity Of ore has been developed and work will be continued with vigor. Mr. Brown worked this mine for some time and took out about s20, ,O0O. O.-Tuc- son Post.
 The Calumet & Arizona company has q force of men working at Donglas bor- ing wells and testing the water supply al that place. This company will soon be ready to commence the erection of a reduction plant. The work being carried on at Douglas is to ascertain the extent of the water supply at that point. -Bisbec Review.
 The eastern group Of mines, in the Gold Camp district, two miles east of the Stockton ranch, owned by Messrs. Cox, Scrayzer X Ryder, is gold prop osition on which about 5000 feet of de- yelopment work has been done. The assays run from & to sl5 per ton. A 2O-stamp mill will be placed there as soon as possible.-Prospector.
 Manager ThOs, Lawry, of the Fur quoise Copper Co. at Glecson, has just made contract for the shipment to Cochisc station of about loco tons of sulphide copper orc and he has about 200 tons more on the side of the moun- tain from another mine of the group, which will be shipped later on.-Pros- pcctor.
 Henry B. Clifford, an extensive min ing operator, has bought from r. San doval X Co.,, the well known Mexican Cananea. paying, it is reported, the sum of s350, ,000 in gold. This property completely surrounds the Greene prop critics in the Puertocitas, and it is con sidered the richest property in that country not owned by the Greene Con- solidated people.
 Among the recent purchasers of the stock of the Greene Consolidated Cop per company were w. D. Wickersham and AdOlph Solomon, of the firm of Solomon x Wickcrsham, wholesale merchants located at Stafford, and Bowie station. Mir Wickcrsham |. ~+ght the stock while he was in Los Angeles last week. Solomon X In, nized as conservative business men who knew good thing when he saw it. -Prospector.
 Mir. Hobson, of Tempe, who was at Troy last week, says that camp is com ing right to the front. Only last week fine ledge of copper was struck in the Manhattan shaft at POO feet. There are now twenty-five families and more than 100 miners hard at work under ground and above. Tho sum of $l ,500,- l 600 have been set aside tO develop the | mine, and all of that is being put in the l ground and no expensive machinery, l as yet, so that the full amount will be | used for development work.-Blade.
 Two well founded plans are on foot for the building of smelters either at Phoenix or Wicksburg. Two compan- | ies, one of Georgia capitalists and the other of New York, are cndeavoring to | locate at either place. For several days they have bccn in conference with l railway officials. At present, and all ! ways heretofore ore from this section must be shipped to Pueblo or Fl Paso, | as well as from southern Arizona and ! southern Mexico. The railroads hesi- | tate to make rates which will break in |. on the long haul.-News Herald. Ex-Scnator stephen w. Dorsey ar rived from New York and was in | Phoenix Tuesday. Mir. Dorsey is one of | the most energetic friends of Arizona, ! for he knows full well the resources of i this Territory and not only talks Ari- ! zona but does all he can in the way of developing the country. He is just ! now engaged with others in building a railroad from the Pichacho mines to ] the Colorado river to facilitate mineral production in that locality and incl | dcutally to make some money himself. l But that is what builds up q country. 1 When one man carries out successful ! enterprise all those around him reap q l large measure of henetit.-Republicau
 An important mining deal was trans acted this week in which many of the i citizens of Bisbee are interested. The ] Huachuca Consolidated company has acquired by purchase the famous Wickersham mines, located in the Hauchuca mountains The purchase price paid for the property is not known, but we are led to believe the property brought a neat sum to its owners. Mir. Wickersham has worked these mines for several years, and they have every indication Of making good dividend paying mines. By the acqui- sition Of the Wickersham mines the Huachuca Consolidated Development company has one of the best groups of gold mines in Arizona. They now own twenty-two full claims, located in the richest section of the Huachuca mountains and easy of access The Hua- chuca Consolidated Development com pany has Tor its officers some of the most prominent mining men in the ter
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