The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1901-07-18

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have been at work for week putting
up a hoist. At the Empire Mr. Mans
field has about - men on his pay roll
and is putting in new sheaye tim bers
TO raise the hoist. on Monday next al
the Monte CristO mine big force OF
carpenters will start to work putting
up the new quartz mill. The Monte
Cristo is somewhat OF celebrity as a
ore producer, and its present showing
is very fine both as to extent OF ore
bodies and the values thereof. Mr..
Meader, the civil engineer, is survey
ing nine claims for patent. These
claims belong TO Price d Parks, of
British Columbia. Mr.. Moynahan has
a 80 days option on property belong
ing to Major Watts and Charles Benin.
Review.
+. c. Fenner came up from Bisbee
on Saturday, says the Tucson Star.
After Mr.. Fenner retired from the
] Copper Queen company service he
| interested while with the company. He
promoted the deal whereby the Lowell
Arizona corporation was formed and
operated next to the Copper Queen
properties. The company put up a
| fine hoist and opened ! 900 feet Of
ground. Mr.. Fenner managed for the
| Lowell Arizona company. There was
! deal on with Senator w. \. Clark
and when he asked for an extension it
was up to the Copper Queen company
whether they would take the dozen
claims or leave Clark to take them on
the extension. The Copper Queen
saw the advantage of securing abutting
claims, well opened up, and paid 800
900 for them. Thus Clark was left out.
This is as Mr.. Fenner expressed the
situation.
The plans of the Acme Smelling aud
! Refining company are rapidly being
completed for the erection of Il custom
smelter at EVicken burg. The com
pany expects to be at work putting
machinery into place at an early date.
The people of Wickenburg are to con-
gratulate themselves on the successful
outcome of the efforts of this company.
The erection OF "A custom smelter by
any company might be considered as a
gCdsend, but when a company with
known throughout the territory, is to
own and control custom smelter, we
may indeed congratulate ourselves.
Wickenburg stands ready to extend
every assistance in her power to assist
in the initial of this much-needed en-
terprise, and is pleased to know that
her mine owners are soon to have an
outlet for the vast piles Of ore which
has been accommodating for years.
Wickenburg Herald.
The new air compressor at the Mann
moth shaft has been placed in commits
sion and the work of extending the
large drift from the 700-foot level of
the Mammoth into the Collins ground,
with the machine drills, is progressing
rapidly. On the trial test one of the
new drills put in a siX-foOt hole in fif-
teen minutes. That is good work.
When this new drift reaches the OBJ
jective point under the Collins work
ings, the breast OF it will be about one
thousand feet beneath the surface out
crop of the Collins vein. a winze has
been started from the lowest level in
the Collins, to connect with the new
Mammoth-Collin drift. 1t is designed
to serve the double purpose of furnish
ing the mines with air, and the miners
with additional means of egress in case |
of an accident in the main working |
shaft. When this drift and winze /
shall be completed the Mammoth will /
be in better condition than it ever was,
both as to safety and in the matter of
furnishing the mill with steady sup
ply of profitable ore.-Arizona Blade. |
General A. B. Sampson and Charles |
Rent, than whom there are no more |
prominent and successful mining men |
in Arizona, took their departure this |
morning for the Davidson Canyon oil /
fields, where they have large hOldisgs |
OF prom ising petroleum lands, and |
where they purpose adding to their al
ready large acreage during the next
few days, or as soon as they can perfect
the necessary surveys of the new
ground to be acquired. Messrs. Samp-
son and Bent have been quietly pros
pecting this section of the Arizona oil
fields for some time, and after having
made various scientific tests are of
opinion that petroleum will be found
there in commercial quantities if only
the proper development work is done,
and this they propose to do Immediate
ly. They have ample capital, are en-
and sauguine Of success,
and will commence work as soon as a
few minor details can be perfected.
The tests thus far made show that they
have very fine grade of oil with
parafine base. The indications are
found in white sandstone and shale.
said by experts to give assurances Of a
higher grade of petroleum than the
dark sandstone and shale generally
found where inferior quality of oil is
Citizen.
White Man Turned Yellow.
Great CONSERVATION was felt by the
friends OF NJ. y. Hogarty of Lexington.
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