The copper era., 1901-06-06

put ID and m two or three ud4 . tuc ue"
 hoist will be running. At this point
 on the Irish Mag the ore crops out at
 the surface and this shaft promises to
 open up into a large ore body. The
 company have recently added another
 boiler and will now have plenty of
 steam for all purposes. This ere many months will figure cOnspicuously in
 the copper output of Cochise county, and will materially aid in bringing
 Arizona to the first place in the pro-
 duction Of the red metal.
 Mention was made last week of the ! tunnel from the 100-foot level on the
 Black Copper mine having encountered eleven feet of good ore at the bottom of the old incline shaft. The drift has
 since penetrated the ore, and shows it
 to be large body, undoubtedly the
 main lead. Ore is being taken out
 very fast, and Dr.. A. |. Campbell,
 superintendent, infor4f-e&us. that four
 or five cars would be hrfest. by June
 l. The Black Copper d li2e of the
 mines of the Pinal Cop77}ommC,c 1,.y.- Globe Belt. ction,
 The first Of August wilrtpraat',.bly see
 trains running on the Searchlight & Quartette railroad. Tho grade has
 been completed and the arrival of ties
 and steel are awaited i.npatiently by
 the management. All materials will
 be hauled up the river ana as the stage of water is now great enough to allow of deep draught vessels i; will be but very short time before the necessary materials are on the ground. This rail- road will enable the company to put in milling plant on the river with ca pacity adequate to the production of the mine. There is no mine in the state of Nevada that gives greater promise of wonderful future than the mines of chlight.-Kingman Miner.
 Attorney John w. Wright returned yesterday from business trip to the mines of the Arizona Copper Hill com pany, near Oracle, Pinal county. Speaking of the mines Mir. Wright said that the company which is Den- yer one has q very fine property. A large amount of development work has been done, with the result that enough ore has been blocked out to run plant of POO tons capacity four years. The ore will average six to eight per cent copper. The company has had p men at work on the mines but have laid of half that number temporarily. Large ore bins are being erected. The com pany has everything that is necessary to make a success, mines, water and fuel.-Tucson Star.
 Mr. L. D. Cartari iof New, York, who has for some tad Sbeen Investigating the mineral F oiurces of Yuma county, will next ve6&rgive his new dry con- centratora trial on the gold bearing grave at Potholes. The machine is a very recent invention and is designed for the purpose of extracting gold from gravel or pulp, by the dry process. It is claimed that ninety five per cent of the gold values of ordinary gravel can be saved by this process. One very important feature of the machine is it's capacity to handle large quantities of gravel at small cost per cubic yard. The test will be watched with d great deal of interest, for if the invention is a success the field for it's operation in Yuma county is almost anlimited.- Yuma Sun.
 Manager Cutting of the Troy Cop | per company was treated, last week, to one of those unexpected but agreeable | surprises which attend mining. De- | string to increase his camp water SUD- ply, he went over the hill, about }, 100 | feet from the Climax works, but in line | with the Climax ore zone, and located | a claim which showed water indica | of the presence of ore in this ground | and Mr. Cutting thought he would be | able to obtain good water by sinking | on it. He started a force of miners to | sinking a shaft and at a depth of ten | feet this shaft entered well defined | vein of iron and copper sulphurets, go- ing down at an angle of about 45 de- grees. The shaft was extended through | the vein to determine its width, which proved to be eight feet. A sample as say of the vein gave "a return of ten per cent copper.-Arizona Blade.
 The report that the Val Verde reduc- tion works, which are located near Huron. are to be operated, is creating a good deal of interest in mining cir cles of that section, and the statement is made that if such is to be realized, the thousands of tons of ore laying on the dumps of mines in that immediate locality will find ready market, and that the starting up of the plant will stimulate mining materially all round that section. The Val Verde is a com plete work so far a' it goes, and with <: so much activit! prevailing in its ! as Is noticeable today, {. and the great amolnt of ore laying on the surface of hundreds of claims that cannot be handled under present con- ditions, the operation of this shelter would be the meaIs Of disbursing inn mediately thousanls of dollars among miners, and whih money would go back into claims again. We trust this plant will assumea real existence, and that its periodica. .spasm of starting up is passed.-Jcurna Miner.