The copper era., 1901-08-01
ARIZONA WEEK BY WEEK.


 3 Matters believes the Greene Company {: is or will be ono of the largest copper , producing properties in the United States. The railroad from Naco to the mines is expected to be completed l within this year and trains running by January first. Some ten miles of the road is already built and work is being crowded ahead. It is expected the $. P. company will connect at Naco and continue the line via Tombstone to Cochise.
 The Vulture mine has not been
 worked since 1891, but during it's his
 tory it is estimated that it has pro- duced over 5000, 900 and yet it has
 been developed only to depth of few
 hundred feet. The company will also
 cyanide the tailings, which have ac-
 cumulated from the past workings of
 this mile and which are worth about
 s425 per ton, and it is estimated that
 there are 4OO,O 900 tons on the old tail
 ing dumps.
 s. E. Bretherton, the inventor of the
 Bretherton pyretic smelling furnace and who for many years successfully operated this kind of shelter at Sil- yer City will be the shelter man at Val Verde when it blows in. Mir. | Brethertons reputation is guarantee that the Val Verde will be a success as
 far as competency is concerned. The McCabe ore we understand will be smelted at the Val Verde. Certainly the miners Of the county are to be con- atulated.-Prospect.
 The Bogy Investment company of | Denver, through their attorney Wm. O'Brien, made final payment under a contract entered into with Judge l.. O. Cowan Of this city on his gold proper ties about 9 miles from Magdalena. The judge made trip to Magdalena recently in order to arrange details | looking to a final settlement. The fig ures are not stated, but is understood that the Judge has been handsomely repaid for the three years or more he has given his attention to mining mat ters in Sonora, to include more or less camp life, Mrs. Cowan participating therein.-Star.
 Jim McCloskey, Jack Maledy and Jack Jones, three prospcctors, came in to Tucson this morning and created no little excitement by the display of rich gold rock. The specimens exhib ited were permeated with free gold and were pronounced beauties by all who viewed them. The exact location of the new find was not made known fur ther than it was fortyfve miles from Tucson. These specimens are from tho surface and it is claimed that the ledge will average from three to nine feet in width. Tho owners are not de- sirous of booming their property, and only come to Tucson to purchase sup plies. They will return to their camp, perfect their surveys, erect monuments and do some development work when they will return and let the public know through the Citizen where this promising gold field is situated.- Citizen.
 w. H. Ferguson and Charles Wallace have returned from trip of two or three weeks on mining business in the southwestern part of this county and tho northeastern part Of Yuma county says the journal Miner. When asked what discoveries they had made, Mir. Furgeson replied incidentally that they had run across a big streak of the hot test weather he had ever experienced. At Tysou's wells he said a thermome- ter located in the coolest place they could find registered from 124 to 126 in the shade. In spite of the heat, though, he said that there was marked activity in mining in every section they had visited. The only place where the hot weather had been taken into consider ation and mining operations suspended was at Mir. Hubbards Harqua Hala mine. He says that Mir. Hubbard has been working very rich mine about a mile north of the famous property from which the place derived it's name. Just as soon as the weather moderates he will continue -worlon 1t. Besides this property, two others are being worked there with good success. They extended their trip almost to the King of Arizona mine, which is still running full blast, yielding a large amount of rich ore. Mir. Ferguson says the des- ert country is coming to the front as much as the mountains in the gen. eral mining prosperity of the territory. Republican.
 w. H. Case, for two years in the em- ploy of the Fortuna mining company, near Yuma, is in Tucson today. Mir. Case says the Fortuna has attained a depth of 1900 feet. On the 9O0-foot level 12-foot body of free milling gold rock is being mined, and from the bot tom ofir4se working shaft drill is be- ing run to cut the ore body 300 feet lower. Mir. Case exhibited some spec linens from the 900-foot level that are thoroughly permeated with gold, and he says they are fair samples of the ore body. The Fortuna is the property Of c. D. Lane of California, and has pro- duced during the last five years, an average Of S75,0O0 per month with 0-stamp mill and while the ore body at the 900 foot level is not as extansivs