Arizona silver belt., 1901-09-19

that It is very rich. He is having an assay made and is positive it will go hundreds of dollars to the ton. The ore carries small per cent of copper. Harry stumbled on to the ledge while exporting some properties for San Francisco mining syndicate. The find is located twenty-five miles up the Colorado river, on the Arizona side, and about mile from the old sheep camp. Five claims covering the dis cOvery have been made by Harry Morse and Il. II. McPhaul, whose h. tention is to shortly begin work to as certain the extent of the ledge and value of the property. The ledge shows fully six feet in width and has already been traced distance of Sev- eral hundred feet,
 Some remarkably rich strikes have beeu made in mines adjacent to Pres colt within the last week or to put it properly, practical and earnest devel- opment work is having its reward. The Gladstone hit it near McCabe, the Henrietta, instead of being played out, comes to the front with the prettieSt body of ore yet in its history, while McCabe Extension people are enthusi- astic over striking it in the deepest workings. The above mines are in q row and lie in Big Bug district. On Groom Creek we are informed that on the Monte Christo, the Home Run and the Midnight Test the past few days of work have been rewarded by the biggest showing yet made on each, and there is in consequence deep re- gard and keen interest manifested for the future prominence of its min ing affairs, both by the miner and the capitalist. On each of the above claims it is gratifying to know that from fair surface indications, depth is demon strating that the mines everywhere around us go down and they go better Groom Creek, in other claims, is very aC tive, and il is now referred to as the Cripple Creek of Arizona. Journal. Miner.
 In May last the South Bisbee Cop per Mining and TOwnSite Improve ment company gave bond on ali its copper properties near Bisbee, Cochise county, to the TharSiS Sulphur and Copper company. The price stated iu the bond was s2 225, 900, equivalent to fOrty-fve cents share, the bond tC run to September l, 1901. During last month August, the TharSiS company l suggested to the South Bisbee com. pany certain modification of terms in the bond, but the South BiSbee officials 1 declined JU make the suggested modi | iCations, and at noon on Tuesday last 1 the period prescribed in the bond ex | pired, leaving the property in tue pos session Of the South BisOee company l During this interval, work al the mlne. has been going along without inter ruptiun. From Dr. c. 5. Jones. Of Lo, Angeles, secretary of the South Bisbet company. who returned few days agC i from the mines, it is learned that re cent work has developed some agree able surprises, and that an effort vii now De made to develop water on tht property, which, when found, will en able the company tO erect d smelte
 for the treatment of it's ore Los A n geleS Mining Review.
 One of the most promising showingi that IS being made III the county, is tn. result of what has 50 far been done oI the Bnckhorn group of claims, between Congress and Kirkland, which was re gently incorporated by the Rome Colo Mining and Development company An incline shaft was commenced on tho main ledge of the Buckhorn on July | 21th. In eight days 1t was down twenty | feet. It is all in ore, and two fool 1 streak on the hanging wall goes S89 SG 1 Tn gold. Another shaft was sunk per pendicularly and started seventy feet distant from the croppings. This shaf, cut the vein and passed through four. teen feet of ore at thirty five feet deep. The two foot sti eak of sulphides on the hanging wall carried values oi $50 50 ton, and the oxydized ore in the vein goes S77 ,94 in gold The showing IS certainly very hattering and Is topical subject of comment - Prescott Prospect.
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