The copper era., 1901-12-26
TERRITORIAL MIhIhG hEHS.

\ one-half interest in the Homestal1e group of mines, iE the Gold Road cOrntry, was sold this week to R- J. Holmes, Of Phoenix for Slj.OOJ The group comprises three claims on the celebrated Hardy lode.-kingman Miner.
 This week, the Gem Mining com pany. by Henry ;. Mackay, paid to |. L.. Ayres the second payment on the purchase price Of the Gem mine The balance of the money for the prop erty will be paid within the next six months. The mine k one of the best gold properties in the cOunty.-Mohaye Miner.
 Tim Fell, the prospector. came in from the Black Canyon section yester- day. He says about 50 men are work ing with dry-washers, on the Black Canyon, about five miles from Bumble- bee, and are making from $2 to $3 q day each. The gold Is course. The larger nuggets range is value from g. 60 to g. each There is scarcity of water in that sectiOn.-Prescott Courier.
 The recent statement of C. 5. Hun ter, metallurgist for the Dominion government at Vancouver. that among the millions Of dollars in gold dust he buys from the Yukon miners, he finds quantities of small nuggets of platinum. aud that the miners are undoubtedly throwing away thousands Of dollars worth Of this rare metal, contains food for thought for our own miners. says the Prescott Prospect.
 At Cananea the mining tOwn of the Greene Consolidated company in SO- nora, has grown to be quite q little city. Fully 1000 are on the payrolls Of the camp. Three big smelterS with combined capacity of 90O tons day are in operation, while q fourth smclter or 400 tons capacity is nearly completed. The railroad is now within nine Tiles of the camp. It is in every sense an American town, although located forty five miles below the international line in Sonora a.-Enterprise.
 About six months ago Mir. J. J. Pearcc bought from Mr l.. ID. Redheld gold claim about fifteen miles down the san Pedro from Benson, upon which Mir. Rodfield had done assess ment work many years, carrying shalt to & depth oi about sixty feet. Mir. Pearce has now sunk the shaft to N depth of l25 feet, and has opened fine body of free milling gold ore for the reduction of which he will shortly erect mill. The gentleman values the property at SlO0, 0OO or more.
 Chloride Jack, who has done so much toward clothing the pro>pector's pro- feSslou with poetry and romance, came down from Mohave county on Thursdays train. He has been sO- inur"inS at "GOld Rpad" camp, and as he Was never a possimist, ho has nuth- ing but good news to bring from that section. lt will be remembered that tho Gold Road" mine was sold to eastern parties d few months ago by Henry l.cvinS. sheriff ot MohaVe, for SiO, ,OOO. Tho purchasers have rSc1nt- lN disposed ot the property for $9,S, ,0OO, and Jack says everything is on the boom.-prospecI
 Tho Leonora Miotug company with headQ uarters at Hariyvillc, k grading oOt fora twenty-five stamp mill, The COmpauy has just completed a test run on ores from the Rattan mino and oh- taincd such satisfactory results that they have come tO the conclusion that a larger mill is necessary to handle the ores from tho mine, The ores plated about thirty, i've dollars per ton in the two stamp mill, Tho Rattan is opened up by shaft to a depth ot about S0O toet an6 at that depth towels have been r0O of, Gro is exposed all the way down in tho shaft and the drifts show up tho same hlgh grade,--Kingman Miner,
 The san Xavier mines, near Tucson, under the mauagmcut ot SUpcrjutcu- dent ForbS, have been extensively de velOped, More than 1000 Ceet ot open iugS have been made, including main shaft 55l feet deep. Moro ,han l50,O00 toas of orc is now blocked out. The ledge at tho lowest workings is over fortytive feet wide of solid ore, contain ing lead, copper, silver and gold. Three fine hoists are on this property, aud l0, 00o tons of orc on the dumps, This company is now known as the American Zinc company. Mr. Meyer president of the American Shelter company, is the principle owner.-Re- view.
 The American Copper company is opening up their copper, gold and sil- yer property. They are working night and day shifts; are about 215 feet under ore croppings; have cross cut at lower works for forty feet east and drilted north thirty feet; have d showing of twenty feet of high grade sulphidc ore, and in the different mines there is fully 5000 tons Of ore in sight, with