Mohave County miner., 1901-02-09

Labor Is not eXacting, water and tim
Der is available, while the coal beds
are, after the native product is roasted,
being made to supply half the fuel
used at the smelter now in operation
there. Mr.. johnson reports everything
at the Dixie in most satisfactory con.
dition, with ores for the next run at
the smelter being rapidly piled up by
Superintendent Grant Snyder.-Salt
Lake Tribune.
The Jerome Reporter tells an inter
esting story of an eastern investor to
the tune of 70,O005 as follows The
schemer who got the best of eastern
investors to the tune of l00,0OOS on
neighboring mine, recalls an incident
connected with the floating of stock
that shows how penny wise and proud
( foolish some are. A textile manufac.
turer in Connecticut wrote to the Re.
porter for report on this mine
wanted to know size of the vein,
+ amount of work on property, copper
| produced, conditions of title and other
/ questions characteristic of the Yankee.
| We told him this was out of our line,
but advised him to employ one of the
three miners whose names we sent
him to look over the property, that it
would not cost him over los a day.
possibly for week. OF course this
was the last of the Connecticut invest
or and we had about forgotten the in
cident, but recalled it when we saw
our correspondent listed as 70,0OOS
victim. Seventy thousand dollars ex
pended to save sixty does not look
well on the ledger. Some people will
quarrel with their washerwoman over
ten cents, and then dump their money
into some we'll advertised mining prop
osition without thought as to investi-
CATION either of the property or the
character and standing of the men who
manipulate the scheme. Ii is due to
their inordinate greed for gain. They
think they have an opportunity to get
something good for little or nothing,
and they generally want it all for fear
some one else will get a little of it.
The bigger the proposition the deeper
they bite. As general proposition
they deserve little sympathy.
"Old Vaughan prospector of CON
siderable note throughout southern
Arizona, and who was the locator Of
some of her best mines, was in Clifton
last week, and reports that he has
again "struck it big rich" He has
been pros pecting at Red mountain.
about forty.fve miles from Clifton for
the past year, and struck lead 300
feet wide, containing a metal with
which he was not familiar. lie had
numerous assays made, and found that
some of it went as high as 30S in silver,
/ but still he was not satisfied with it,,
and had it assayed and analyzed for
about every kind of metal he could
think Of On one claim he'has a noun
tain of alum, and that put him to
thinking, with the result that he had
tests made for aluminium, and was
not surprised to find that it averaged
from ten to twenty per cent in that
metal. He is now satisfied that he has
the largest body of aluminium ore
ever discovered in the world, and all
assays show that it also runs well in
silver. He brought in a number of
specimens, and presented the Era with
several. They are Opaque, with a
heavy dull earthly lustre, with an
earthly fracture, and adhere to the
tongue like potters clay. II Mr..
Vaughan is not mistaken as to the
width of the vein and the general
average of the ore, he undou btedly has
one of the largest bodies of that class
of ore ever discovered, and If operated
rightly, it will have tendency to in.
crease the supply of a metal for which
there is large and increasing demand.
But little of this class of ore has ever
been found in America before, and
that not in paying quantities. Harper
& Depee have Lecome associated with
Mr. Vaughan, and will proceed to de-
velop the property.-Copper Era.
The present price of copper, togeth-
er with the magnificent output now
being made by the companies here,
is attracting the attention of mining
men everywhere to Clifton. Many
operators and mining men have visited