Arizona republican., 1901-06-19

said to be of sufficient magnitude and value to cause one of the owners of ] the claims to leave for Washington Camp at once Frank Olsen. formerly one of she owners q: the Pride of the West mine at Washington Camp, will | leave shortly for New York on mining | business He will visit the Pan-Ameri- can exposition before returning to Ard- | zona.
 The Gold Road property, in Mohavc county. Arizona, Is developing into a nice little mine. The main shaft is down 135 feet, with levels extended at the depth of 100 feet The workings are entirely in quartz of good milling grade. The outlook for this property is very favorable, and with sufficient devel- 0pment may be made a good mine Los Angeles Mining Review.
 A late report from Wilcox, Cochise county, Arizona, announces another atrike of copper ore at the Dos Cabezas mines. in which a number of promi- nent Los Angeles capitalists are in l terested. Major J. w. A. of, of the State Bank and Trust company, Los Angeles, who fs president of the Dos Cabezas company, when asked by n representative of the Los Angeles Min ing Review if the report was correct. answered, ''yes." He added that the secretary of the company was going to the mines next week and that on his return he would have further particu- | lars about It.
 The amount of ore taken out of the United Verde was never as large as u is now. ThoTe who have paid any at ! tention to ore being taken out of the mine 10 the roast must have noticed this. A few months ago motois run ming out of the mine pulled ten to six teen cars. the latter number being the | limit; now it is no uncommon thing to | see trains of thirty to Jhirty-six cars coming out Of tha five hundred. In the mine new ground has been opened up ! and the force of miners increased | eigE:y per cent The increase in the number of men employed by fall. it is claimed. will reach the grand total of ! sixteen hundred mcn.-erome Reporter
 Work is steadily progressing at the Great Belcher. says the prospect. The large shaft is now down about $50 feet and it is reported that 1t will be driven 10 the 1000 foot levei as soon as money and men can do it. When that level is reached it is proposed to crosscut and then drift until the property is thoroughly exploited. The vein mat ter of the Great Belaher is a matrix of pyritio porphyry or fesite from | twenty to two hundred feet wide lying in between granite on the east and porphyry on the west. To secure the values of the Great Belcher ore concen- tration is rscescary If the works as mapped out is carefully carried through few people in this country have little doubt but that the expecta- tions of the company will be realized.
 Speaking of the Cienaquieta mines in the Sierra Madres. the Star says: Judge William H. Barnes and Dr. J. M. Ford of Phoenix, left for Hermo- sillo. sonora, Mexico. yesterday, for the purpose of closing the purchase of the fmous Cienaquieta mines To- cated in the Sierra Madres These mines are famous for the great wealth which have been produced by them There are immense bodies of ore re- covered of rich grade and the enor1 nous dump which can be worked over { wiih profit. Wood and water are abundant. The altitude of the mines is 6,50O feet above sea level. Several million dollars of profitable working ore is in sight. Those who have visited these mines say they are fabuolus in l quantity and richness of ore The pur- 1 chasers are Judge Barnes. Dr. Ford and Colonel William Christy. Judge Barnes, it is said, has put an even $l00,0O0 cold cash into the purchase"
 The rumOr is current this week that the Tennessee has changed hands and that the Needles shelter will be moved | to Chloride. The Tennessee is the greatest producing silver-lead mine in Arizona and if it is sold it io for a large 1 sum. A shelter is what Chloride wants to save ruinOus transportation rates. No mining district can afford ! to work their big low grade mines with