The copper era., 1901-10-31
TERRITORIAL MINING NEWS.

A shipment of ore was made by tho South Bi7bee Copper company last week to Fl Paso. Another shipment will be ready soon. The South BisbeC company is satisfied they have valuable copper property and do not seem in any great hurry to close deal with the French yndicate.-Rcview.
 The Cananea Copper company's rail way building from Naco has reached q poInt fifteen miles from the big cop per camp. The grading force is work in. within one mile of the town oi Cananca, and before the first the big freight teams 5etween Naco and Cananea will be a thing of the past.
 Late advices from the Fl Paso smelt- CT are that, on account of the strikes of the workmcn, the plant at Fl Paso, which was to be finished by November, will not be completed until February, 1902, and tEat they will not be able after November to accept any ship ment Of lead and silver ores until they are running again.
 O. B. Steen, who is operating the Copper Glance and Eureka properties in the Huachucas under bond, is a Tombstone visitor today. Mr. Stcen is much encouraged by the development of the mines and is opening up large deposits of rich copper ore. It is ex- peCtcd the bond will be taken up much before the expiration of the time limit -Prospcctor.
 ]. II. IIisc has let contract to sink 200 feet on his Massachusetts mine, Placcritas. There is over thousand feet of development work on the prop orty which is said Co have a free mill ing ore body 10 feet wide which carries S7 per ton gold. Mir. Hise is also pre- pairing to start work upon another property in the same nei2hborhood.- - Prescott Courier.
 Mrs. May Clark, who some time since sold the Libcrty-Clark silver mine, has just received word of a very rich gold strike in her Esperanza mine, located about ten miles from Arivaca. The ore sent in for assay shows rich in free gold. The voin is said to be from five 10 moro than forty feet wide. The strike has caused much interest in the district. Mrs. Clark is feeling quite happy over her new bonanza.- Tucson Star.
 The second payment was made on the Treadwell group of mines on the first of this month. The people who have the mines under bond are preparing to work them on a large scale and, there fore. concluded to await the cool weather to get in their machinery. Several Kingman people are interested in the mines and VIC are pleased to note the fact that they are receiving payments on the property regularity kingman Miner.
 The Nogales Vidette has news from the rich strike in the Buena Vista mine in the Patagonia district. The Nidette says: It appears that the new strike was made on the fifty level, and that the showing is copper-silver glance, running 45 per cent copper, and also rich in gold. The pay streak is eighteen inches wide, and not only gives evidence of widening, but indi- cations of attaining depth that should certainly be encouraging to the com pany.
 The discoveries now reported all over Nevada would seem to indicate that the Comstock is not the only bonanza ledge in the Silver State. There is no doubt that its immensity has done much to detract the attention of the wealthier mining class from other sections of the state, where for twenty years past the news has been coming in the field of rich strikes, says the News Letter. No one paid attention to these rumors, however, and the discoverers had pot the means to either work the mines or