Mohave County miner. [volume] (Mineral Park, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1882-1918, 1901-04-27

vein is Is feet wide. The ores on these !
two levels average ~ per cent copper.
The shaft has been sunk at place
which develops the ore body above the |
shaft for height of POO feet, thus de. !
veloping the ore body from apex to
bottom of shaft for more than 400 feet.
Work has been temporarily suspended
owing to the fact that the dumps are
overcrowded with ore. But six men
will be retained to do pumping while
ore bins are being erected, which will
be done at once. Mr.. Copeland is now
east arranging for teaching plant,
which it Is expected will be in opera
ton in 80 days. This plant will treat
! from 100 to $50 tons of ore daily. The
Copper Hill mines are very promising.
Tucson Star.
Dick Baxter, of Wickenburg, one of
/ the old timers in that town and one of
its most substantial citizens, was in
Phenix yesterday. Mr.. Baxter WAS the
owner of the famous Hatfield mine,
which has created such Juror in min
ing circles. Mr. Baxter sunk 20 foot
shaft on the property and its showing
did not satisfy him. Hatfield and par
ties located the property, but it was
not such location as would have
stood the test of the courts as it had
never been abandoned by Baxter, but
a lawsuit was imminent, and Hatfield,
Upton & Company offered Mr.. Baxter
zoos for his mine and he accepted it.,
and the new owners sunk the shaft ten
feet and struck probably the richest
mine in the southwest. Such is the
luck of mining men. Mr.. Baxter was
present last week when 350,OOOS was of.
fered for the mine he sold six months
: ago for zoos, and as he thought of what
might have been he probably uttered
words not found in the Sunday school
books. But such is fate.-Phenix Ga
: Zette.
A gentleman just up from the Mode
: camp, in the Weaver mountains, in
forms us that j. +. Cramer, who has {
contract for 300 feet of development
work on the mine, has reached deptf
!. of 80 feet in the vertical shaft he ha;
V been sinking At this point he founC
5 by cutting into the west wall that b
;. was three feet from the vein. He mad,
y a station for prospecting purposes
: aud at the time our informant left tn
Q mine had drifted fifteen feet each wa.
o on the vein He found that the or
9 was changing from dark iron oxid
to bright sulphide. Having reached
n a depth of forty feet below the waite
& line, which is commonly considered L
d be within the leached or barren zon
n in most of the mines of this section
s he was curious to know the values o
q the ores In the drifts. Two sample
k sent to this city showed gold values Q
f. 28.S0s and 15l50S respectively. So
y appears that the Model, jealous of be
IS reputation for high grade ores, refuse
q to yield to the barren zone. The or
e body ia the drifts varies in width frot
e eight inches to two feet.-Prospect.
1t w. ID. Piles, who lives at New Rive
!. station, was in the city recently an
Ie brought with him lot of fine lookin
II ore from claim he has located an
& named the Apache. Re says he has
'e six foot ledge and the ore, while 1t hs
d. not been assayed by him, is reporte
by Others TO be rich in gold, and it ce
10 tainly has that appearance, as man
y, little specks of the precious metal ca
m be seen without the use of a glas
at His property lies north of the city net
N New River and close to wood an
(. water. Thomas Elder of Phenix an
Iy Jerome. also returned to the city an
10 REPORTS the boom in the Venture Hi
DR. property as still unabating. 1t has r
x Gently been exported by Mr.. A. Greavt
L. of Denver, who was so well please
re with it that he took the pay for b
or work i'm stock. Mr.. Elder says tn
in $1,000 shares we're sold in Jerome
w Thursday and Friday. The compar
be has adopted new plan for the han
is ling of stock. 1t sells buyer whs
he ever he wants on the monthly instaI
as ment plan, and should he fail to pay
o. anv time when due the company Civ
him tho number of paid up shares VI
er amount paid in will cover and return
80 the rest to the treasury.-Mining New