Mohave County miner. [volume] (Mineral Park, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1882-1918, 1901-05-04
aro,her Mining Deal Closed at Clifton.


oonsummated in FL Paso. This time
tho property in question is located in
the rich copper belt of Clifton and Mo-
rapci Arizona. A short time ago the
Herald referred to he fact that a party
If wealthy Engli>hmen had passed
through FL Paso on their way to Cliff
ton with the object of looking into the
conditions there. The deal just closed
is the sequel to that story. The prime
mover in the affair is d. A. Durham,
one OF the best known mining men of
Denver He is practical mining man
aud knows good mineral when he sees
It. The other parties ia the deal are
.yndicate composed of English and
French capitalists. The deal involves
the transfer of 40 full claims, each the
equation size of 1900 by 600 feet, right
che heart of the rich copper belt
Over 5OJ,0O0S is the price paid by the
syndicate for this property and there
i, unlimited money back of it for de-
velopment purposes. The name of the
new company that will develop this
property and probably make it one of
the biggest copper producing mines in
the country is the Clifton-Arizona Cop
per Com pauy, Limited. Comparatively
speaking but little development work
has been done on the property so far,
but it has been sufficient to demon
strate the presence of copper ore bod
les in large bodies running through the
entire property bought by the syndi
cate, A general assay of many sam
piles give values from per cent up to
36 per cent copper. l.. A. Durham
who sold the property to the syndicate
has retained his interest, and has been
appointed by the CON pany as its gen.
eral manager and superintendent
With plenty of money back of him Mr..
Durham expects to open up the prop.
erty to its fullest capacity. A smelteT
of large capacity will be erected as
soon as possible and all necessary ma.
chinery for the proper development
of the property will be installed. II
the ex pectations of these who are in.
terested are realized, it will become
one of the greatest copper mines OF
that vicinity. Two of the most noted
experts ia the world passed on the
proposition and gave most favorable
report. These experts are G.. S. Pit,
cairn and William Parrish, two OF the
highest authorities in the mining
world of the day. The syndicate was
represented here by Mr.. Hecksher OF
Lon don, England, who came over from
the other side for the express purpose
of looking into the matter and acting
for his principals. Mr.. Pitcairn, who
is the mining expert of the great Tas
SOS copperof mine of Spain, came ovel
with Mr.. Hecksher and examined the
property in connection with Mr.. Far,
IRISH.
There is an interesting story con
nected with Mr.. Pitcairn and the Cliff
ton Morenci copper belt He was called
upon over 20 years ago to report on the
property now owned by the Arizonf
Copper company of Clifton. This com
pany is composed of English and
Scotch stockholders and Mr.. Pitcairn
was employed by them to examine into
the property and report. He reported
favorably and the property was pur
chased. For over 20 years his opinion
has been verified by the great produc
ton of copper ore that has come from
that mine, and it is still a great pro
ducer.
In addition to the Arizona Copper
company there is now the copper mine
of the Phel Dodge company and an
other big property owned by Butte
Montana, company. To these will b,
added this new company-the Clifton
Arizona Copper company, Limited.
Those people who are thoroughly &C
quainted with the conditions surround
ing Clifton do not hesitate to say that
this section will become one of the
great copper camps in the world
Herald.