Arizona silver belt., 1901-02-28
ARIZONA MINES.
Items About the Mines and Mineral Developments of the Territory,
 CuIled From Exchanges.

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 Ali the mining men in Yavapai county predict one of the greatest booms this summer the world has ever known; let her come. e.-J ournal- Miner.
 Henry Lovin and Jose Jerez of Tombstone. received their second pay ment of Sl0, GOO each. Feb. 1st, on the Gold Road mines, Mohave county, Arizona. -El Paso Times.
 Supv. G. H. Clark of the Copper Bullion company was Tombstone visitor yesterday. Mir. Clark reports that extensive work is contemplated by the company on their Dragoon mountain property and expect to crowd development work with vigor. Citizen.
 Owners of valid mining locations made and held in good faith may fell and remove therefrom any timber growing thereon for actual mining ! purposes in connection with the par ticular claim from which such timber is felled or removed Mining & Scien- titic Press.
 One of the biggest nuggets of gold or record was exhibited today by Ed. Block of Arizona, The nugget weighs B ounces and is therefore worth $500. Mr. Block has also in his possession sample of ledge rock worth $500, 900 Der ton. He ia en route to New York, where he expects to place some of his mineral lands Denver Mining Rec ord
 i \ big strike is reported in the bot. tom of the shaft of the Red Boy mine, McGee camp, In the Sierrita noun tains. A two and half foot vein of 40 per cent lead ore carry ing gold and silver was opened up last week The mill site has been selected and is being levele0 oil Teams have gone for the mill machinery and new road is to he opened ID via the Sopori to Tue 1 son. Citizen
 ] Push your mine to patent. What is l the use of practically paying taxes of i slOO per year on it, m the form of the | regular annual assessment. when, by patenling, the yearly costs will be only ! few dollars As soon as five assessments have been properly per i formed al affidavit Of Sj0O improve l ment can be honestly made, and then patent Is obtainable. Then yon have property with positive title, and can give d warranty deed for it if nee. essary. Mining Reporter.
 ! A big gold strike is reported from 1 Eureka district of northern Arizona. | rls reported four inch streak of the vein yields $500 to the ton, and this in coarse gold. This vein is supposed to supply the gold of the gulch from 1 which many thousands of dollars have been taken. To find an illustration of what will occur many times. as the country is carefully prospected. There are thousands of such finds waiting | for the careful proSpector to find and stake them out. Not five per cent of the mineral territory of Arizona has Yet been prospected.
 P. H. Cornell of the Eagle Tail mining district, mentioned in recent issue of the Star, has received returns on samples of bsmuth-bearing ore he 1 discovered in the district. The assay showed = per cent of bismuth. A sample shown us yesterday MT Con n"ll thought would go 9U per cent. Blsmuth bears the same relation to pc metal that tungsten does to steel il, hardening metals. It's commercial value IS S2 10 per pound. Mr. Connell and his partner have certainly found a bonanzt in their claims of copper aud bearing ores in the Eagle Tai! Star
 q. W Hull has returned from the coast and IS active at work in placing his ltierent properties under develop menI, not only in and around Jerome, | but in other parts of Yavapai county, h. having gone south to make arrange ments for further development in his mnes n ar ( ,ngress and Huron. On l hts Columbia group, on the May Queen claim, some very rich ore is being taken out, and with develop nent work along the vein the ore bodies increase in size and still hold their values, There seems to be no doubt but that the Columbia is a most valuable group of claims. This prop erty is located west of the Brookshire and Decatur groups, and south of the Black Hills group. Journal Miner.
 telegram from New York says that it appears that the insiders in both Amalgamated Copper and Ameri- can Smelling companies have been putting the price of these securities down, simply for the purpose of fore