Arizona silver belt., 1901-05-16
United Verde property. - Journal

United Verde property, - Journal Miner.
 The Prescott Prospect says that there is great excitement on upper Big Bug since the new railroad is an assured fact. Prospectors are quite numerous in that section. Not day passes without several location cer- tificates are filed for record in the county recorders office from Big Bug district. New and important dIscov- cries are being made almost daily. Re- DOT 8 have just been received to the effect that the ore struck in the l65- foot level of the shaft of the First Home mine has widened from one and half to two and half feet This ore IS massive galena and iron. carrying gold, silver and lead worth $50 per ton. It is being sacked for shipmenJ as 1t is taken out of the mine. There has been one foot of black copper carbonate of high grade just opened up in the Beth Block mine, This property belongs to the First Hume group of mines. The camp in general has an air of activity.
 Superlative richness would be faint words to describe the gold ore speci- mems which the Goldberg brothers display from their Mexican mine, iD che board of trade rooms. A small glass show case is used to display the specimens and the sight of the con- tents would make even a casual ob' server to express interest. The ort displayed is in manner the historical development of the property which Is situated in the Wickenburg district, three miles from the Orc Grande. There are the nuggets from the dry placering, the ore from the grars roots on the lode, and finally the mineral- ized rock which has been taken from the shaft. Every specimen of rock is impregnated with pure gold, and assays tell of fabulous richness. The gold taken from e'shovelful of ore which is exhibited in two small trays in the case is valued at Sl 400, and there are more shovelfuls yet to come. MT. Goldberg is very modest about the property, rich as it is. He knows that it is good thing, and although he calls it only a prospect, the ore that has come from it is evidence that it is phenomenally rich prospect.- Enterprise.
 Tom Hamilton is in town from the Ray and Kelvin mining districts. He says there is no question but that the Ray will be reopened and become a producer on much larger scale than ever before. There is great deal of work being done by individual owners of claims in that part of Arizona. Jake Thomas, who is Dunham's su- perrin ntendent, has number of men at work surveying for patent, and Tom Haley, who recently regained posses sion of his lead mines, has developed a rich body of ore. Pete Shilling, w.. Wicks and Jake Bates have developed some copper prospects adjoining the Ray. They have fifteen claims and a good showing of ore. Charles Lucas is developing the Zellewager mine below Kelvin. There is shaft down 100 feet, two crosscuts extending 125 feet each way, and an eighty-foot winze. A body of sulphide ore has been opened up. Jim Elder at Kelvin is working upon big gold proposi- tion. He has spent s3J, eco and has a fine showing. The people of Globe have subscribed s1, ,000 to shorten the wagon road from Ray to Globe. This r ad will take the travel away from Florence, but it will make the route a shorter one, and that is the aim of the Globe people. Mir. Hamilton owns a group of ten claims which he has de- veloped and which have produced eX- cellent ore bodies es-Iucson Citizen.
 Mir. Upton, one of the owners of the famous Gro Grande mines at Wicken- burg, says they are pushing develop ment on their property as rapidly as it can be done. At present they have seventeen men employed. A gasoline hoist has recently been installed on