The copper era., 1901-04-25
MINE AND MINING NEWS.

Another 2OO-fo contract will be let
on the Yelled Prophet group, upon
which considerable work has been done
during the past few months. The
mines re said to be looking very we'll.
President Joseph a. Tanner, OF the
Santa Rosa Copper Company. was in
| from the mines this week and reports
the work progressing favorably. Two
shifts have been put to work on the
tunnel which is being driven to cross
cut the lead. The tunnel is all in sec
ond-class ore. Some very high grade
glance ore is being taken out from
other portions of the group Mr.. Tan
ner is well pleased with the develop
ment work so far.
A large amount of work is being done
by the Arizona Copper company at the
foot OF the Lougfellow incline. Sew
eral large ore bins are being built. and
a pumping plan, will be installed to
pump water to the new concentration
dI Tue utEC 1IC INV hdC
ores OF the companv's mines near Met
calf will be concen trated. The regu-
lar narrow gauge railroad will be ex
tended from Clifton to Longfellow, to
bring down the ores stored there from
the Metcalf mines, which will be trans
ported over the baby gauge" in addi-
ton to those brought down the Long
fellow incline.
George Stevens came in few days
since from Mrs. Bakers mine on Bo-
nanZa Gulch and reports it looking fine
with increased width of ledge as work
progresses. On the way he stopped at
the famous old Peacock mine now being
operated by Messrs. MOlder and Jen-
kins. They are working two shifts,
have run tunnel So feet and made an
upraise to connect with shaft at 65 feet
from the surface. They are now sink
ing and are down altogether 95 feet
from the surface, and purpose going so
or go feet deeper. In running the tun-
mel they struck rich ore at 20 feet, con-
sisting of copper glance and red oxide,
which has continued to show in all the
workings since. The copper is in
seams of the hard rock, and the forma-
tion is going down unchanged, except
ledge on the surface nor in the tunnel;
it looks to be large ore-shoot going
down. The ore is high grade, running
as high as 60 and 20 per cent copper
and as high as $50 in gold and some
silver. The ore comes from knife
blade seams up to four inches in width,
scattered through The rock. There is
ore in the face of the tunnel where they
quit to sink. T.ey said they only in
tended to run the tunnel 81 feet and
make an upraise tC the shaft, but after
striking all that rich ore in the lotion
of the tunnel they decided to sink rs
feet below the tunnel, which will be
no feet from the surface, and then
cross-cut 80 feet in four different ways.
Mr.. Stevens said there were mo flies
on those fellows" They have been
mining for long time. He asked Mr..
Molder what he would do if he went
"busted." He studied a few seconds
and said: Il guess there is plenty of
time to bid the devil good morning
when You meet him." Messrs. Molder
and Jenkins intend to work on until
September or October. They do not
know what the result will be but are
not nervous. They have fifteen claims
south of Gold gulch about one and one
half miles from Eagle river. There
are about twenty other claims owned
by other parties in this part of the
Copper Mountain district, all OF which
look well, showing extensive mineral
ization throughout. Mr.. Stevens To-
Gated four claims adjoining after look
ing at the excellent showing on the
Peacock group.