Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-12-25
MINES AND MINING.

Captain l.. D. Phillips returned
 recently from visit to the prosperity
 group of mines, which he is working
 in the vicinity of Copper Basin. He
 says the incline shaft is now down
 TO feet and at this depth they are in
 a fine body of ore. Captain Phillips
 brought some samples to town with
 him winch are nearly pure metal.
 With all the talk about the pros
 pective decline in copper, Senator
 Clark does not seem to-be alarmed at
 all Instead of reducing his output
 he is preparing to increase it. He
 will shortly put up a smelling plant
 at the Iron King mine located short
 distance from his United Verde mine.
 Ed Block has returned from San
 Francisco on business connected with
 the Merchants Mining company
 He was called there by a telegram
 from Mir. Stein, of the Steia- El3ch
 clothing manufacturing O., of New
 York, and succeeded in making ar
 engagements for placing large block
 of stock of the Merchants Mining
 cOmpany's stock. The mine is well enough developed now to justify the erection of a mill, which will be done
 at an early date.
 B. c. Redlon has not been deterred |
 from doing his assessment work on
 his mines in the Hassayampa district
 by the attempted relocation of them
 by other parties and by the warning
 notices posted thereon, forbidding all | persons from trespassing on the ground. He went there short time since with force of men to protect | his rights by performing the work re- quired for the present year and his men are now at work doing the as sessment on the claims. Mir. Red Ion feels anything but kindly in ref ernce to the attempt which has been made to jump his claims. Other parties who have visited them and ex amined the work done by him last year state that the work was done properly and to the full amount required by law.
 Captain L. D. Phillips, represent ing Douglas, Lacey & O., yesterday made another payment of S3,000 on the U. s. mine at Copper Basin. Since taking charge of the business of the above firm in Prescott last February, Captain Phillips has dis bursed over Sl00,00O in payment of properties purchased and the develop ment of mines in this section.
 After several years of persistent de- velopment of his Bordeaux claim on Big Bug, during which he has spent thousands of dollars, Fred Ref has just commenced to reap the fruits of his labor and money expended. He bonded his claim some time since for a good round sum, and the parties taking the bond on it had not done a great deal of work until they struck a fine body of ore. Mir. Rief had en- countered good ore during the de- velopment period of the mine by him, but the later strike is said to have been more important than any previously made, and it is said that the parties taking the mine from Mir. Ref on bond have placed the property at double the amount they are to pay for it. The first payment on the original bond fell due yesterday and the pay ment was promptly made.
 On December l2, highly satisfac- test run of ores from the Sonora Min ing company's property was made in Los Angeles by the Vulcan Smelling ! and Refining company at the Llewel- lyn Iron works. As a result of this test and after an exhaustive examina- tiOn of the company's mines by the expert metallurgist a contract was placed with the com pany for the immediate construction of fifty ton smelter to be placed on : the property. The contract calls for its completion and to be placed in l operation within sixty days. The smelter company's expert confirmed all the statements made in regard { to the value of the companys proper ties. Notwithstanding that the con tract for this smelter has been placed and remarkably rich ore has recently . been opened up in the mines, the !, has not yet advanced the price of stock and it is still to be had at 50 cents per share. Within sixty days from the starting of the smelter the company should be able to pay regular monthly dividends and the stock be above par. l
 F. G. Dodson, formerly of Will l Hams, lately acquired half interest in a mining location owned by H. K. Mcdonald. It is an exten- sion of the Great Republic and here tofore has not been developed except by title work. Mcdonald & Dodson set some men to work to find out what they had and day or two ago, at depth of twenty-three feet, they knocked out chunk of native copper about as broad as mans hand, four inches thick and ten inches long. At this depth crosscuts each way, to thirteen feet, have found no walls, and NIT. Mcdonald is of the opinion that this property will develop into a good mine.
 W. W. Munds and Mir. Kyle of the Copper Basin Gold & Copper Mining Company, were in town today. They state that they have recently made a rich discovery of ore on the dyke on which most of the claims of their property are located, at an entirely new place. They had several samples of ore with them which fully bore out their assertions. No assays had been made yet, but the richness of the ore was apparent to any one ex- amining it. They have sunk twelve feet on it and, like other openings they have made, the ore grows strong CT and richer with depth. Owing to the thick growth of brush which GOV CTS the claims the discovery of the cropping was more good luck than anything else, although they have been prospecting the surface very {