Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-12-04
MINES AND MINING.

| Last Chance mlne ln the OIdIlu Sah
 yon this week. The mine is develop ing wonderfully and shipments of ore will be regularly made each week. At present sixty pack animals are used to pack the ore from the mine to the rim. and next week the number ot hack animals will be doubled, and that number will not be able to keep the dump from piling up with high grade copper ore. Messrs. Barbour and Page have bonded the Hance-
 Ashurst claim in the canyon, four miles west of the Last Chance, and will next week put force of men at work developing it. Mir. Barbour, who has been in Fl Paso looking after shipment of ore, returned yes terday-Coconino Sun.
 E. D. Treadwell is experimenting the sinking of shaft on the south extension of the old BOggs mine. The mine was worked several years ago for the iron ore it contained which
 was used for Aux at the Big Bug shelter. At depth of l50 feet, how ever, Mir. Treadwell run into a small
 body of native copper ore, some of the finest samples one ever sees being obtained from it. MT. Treadwell had
 some of the metal ;n town which IS
 nearly pure copper. The claim IS
 called the Iron Queen.
 ! Ore running from 5000 to S6,OOO per ton is said to have been encoun- tered in tEe Midnight Test mine on
 Groom Creek at depth of 300 feet.
 There is body of high grade ore three feet in width at this depth,
 though of course it does not all give the above values. The ore is rich in both gold and silver.
 From a special to the Journal Miner. published in this issue, 1t will
 be seen that H. B. Clifford has made , an important purchase ot mnlng property in Mexico. MT. Clifford Tn his purchases in this section has ex- ercised rare judgment and has not ] made single mistake. It IS pre- sumed that the same good judgment has been exercised in the recent pur- 5 chase and it means fortune for him. } Mir. Clifford does not buy properties 5 to permit them to lie idle, and 1t IS safe to say that even as lively camp as the Cananea will experience new [ impetus through Mr. Ciford's opera l tions.
 One of the most promising pros poets in this country is the property of the Golden Rule Mining company
 This property consists of four claims, located on the east side of Lynx l creek, and only about seven miles 2 from the Val Verde shelter, with an excellent wagon road all the way T The vein, which is called true ts, i sure. is from three to four feet and carries gold and silver. The lowest : assays on the surface were about
 $500. while at depth of thirty live
 feet the assays run as high as Sl52 II
 gold and silver and is improving witt l. every foot of work. A Journal-Mlnel e lman was shown some of the ore takeI If from the shaft which is down thirtI r. five feet and it certainly looks splen ,f did. The members of the company '. are J. Swartz, the well known palnte j. of Prescott. Sam Common, $. kimbal
 and F. J. Mitchell, and they are al r. very enthusiastic over the prospects 2 of the mines. Like many other prop f. critics in this section, they need casl Is to develop them and these gentlemel S. hope to soon interest sufficient capl i- tai to open up the mines when 1t n thought they will be made big pro g ducers. 70 If Wickenburg boasts of soap mine 'i The Republican says that the "stutt,
 in absence of any other name for |
 is of about the consistency of yer
 thin putty and it is about the sam , color as putty in its natural state, IT. has a faint but not unpleasant odo It is death on dirt of all kinds an o' grease. It is said that by means of e grease spots may be removed trol o- the finest fabrics without injury an
 for this purpose it is superior to an oy monia, benZine or any of the mol
 popular grease eradicators. As |" comes out of the mine it has a sllgl ne grit and for that reason it cannot lu applied to painted or vanished art
 cles without destroying or dimlnlsl 0s. ing their lustre. It is suppose
 though that some way can be devise
 for the removal of the grit. There
 good deal of speculation as ve whether it will pay to do anythir H with the mine and also how the pr ad duct could be handled. It would 'or necessary to get it into the shape nv bars, but how that can be done h m not been studied out yet. A ma raI who claims to have tried it says tn di- the soap will cure corns as he kno' 'ce by personal experience. Many oth we persons living in the neighborhood m, the mines have been similarly relic md ed. It is supposed that there are enough soap there to supply Arlzo niv and all the surrounding states al
 territories. It rises out of a hC
 about fifteen feet in diameter and
 unknown depth.
 in Mir. and Mrs. Con OKeefe arriv ,in- yesterday from the Sonora Mill f and Mining company's camp, in ali
 district, Sonora. They left last eve
 ing for Los Angeles where Preside
 OKeefe of the company, has sen rug quantity of the ore for experlmen 1tel treatment. and to test the new Nulc , smelter in the treatment of the O
 of the mines of the company, althou
 he is satisfied the Vulcan Is all rig
 He will order the smelter durl iani ,iii his visit to Los Angeles, and 1t V " mat nt be shipped to the mines sand set E "' as fast as it can be accomplish !" The ore shipped for the test was
 average from all the ore bodies ot
 developed mines, an assay oI wh
 gives Sl5 per ton invalues. The U of mining and reducing the ores "' be less than 50 percent of the val
 which will leave a fine profit.
 soon as conditions will warrant, end, ond shelter will be put up, as the con bodies are seemingly inexhausti ther ard the grade good. Forty-fve osed are extracting ore and on deveI the ment work. As depth is made, The richness of the ore in copper, pro and silver increases. President OK to is very much pleased with the Thus markably fine showing the en ribu group of mines of the company ,pies making under development.-Stal buy -
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