Arizona daily citizen., 1901-04-29
Daily GriSt Of
Arizona News.


State of Utah. Some of the new finds
are as far north as Kane county. while
the greater number are. in Mohave. A
railroad into that country, says the Mo-
have Miner, would cause stampede OF
investors to those copper fields. The
ore is phenomenally rich and the extent
OF the field is virtually unlimited.
President Joseph A. Tanner, Of the
Santa Rosa Copper Company, was In
Clifton from the mines last week and
reports the work, progressing favorably.
Two shifts have been put to work on
the tunnel which is being driven to
crosscut the lead. The tunnel is all in
second-elass ore. Some very high grade
GRE is being taken out from other por'
tions OF the group. The Copper Era says
that Mr.. Tanner is we'll pleased with the
development work 80 far.
The first copper produced in Arizona
was smelted in an adobe smelter on
Chase creek, in the early seventies, says
the Clifton Copper Era. The first rail-
road built and operated in Arizona was
LAID in 1879 from the present works OF
the Arizona Copper company to the foot
of the inclire at Longfellow, distance
of about four miles. The engine which,
by the way, was the first twenty-inch
gauge engine eyer construct in America
was hauled in wagons from La Junta,
Colorado, distance of 600 miles.
A large amount OF work is being done
by the Arizona Copper company at the
foot of.the Longfellow incline, says the
Copper Era. Several large ore bins are
being bailt, and pumping plant will
be installed tospump water to the new
concentrator at the Longfellow. where
the low-grade ores OF the company's
mines near Metcali will beconcentrated.
The regular narrow gauge railroad will
be extended from Clifton to Longfellow,
to bring down the ores stored there from
Metcalf mines, which will betransported
over the "baby gauge" in addition to
those brought down the Longiellow in
cline.
Ire broad gauge railroad will soon be
completed into Clifton, which will mark
q new era in the general development
and progress of the district, and the
Copper Era says it is but fitting and
proper that celebration should be held
to commemorate the event. With the
completion of the broad gauge road Cliff.
ton will have passed the camp" stage,
and developed into mining metropolis.
Let us celebrate by driving a copper
! spike, emblematic of the product OF the
district. and by speeches and music.
invite the people of the entire county to
be present, then 60 to work and make it
the grandest success ever given in Ariz-
ona. What do you say, boys7
The ,Winslow Mail says: "The new
game law 10 cursed from one end OF Ari-
zona to the other. And with good rea-
son. There is no provision made for the
protection of doves, and the result will
be that thousands OF the beautiful crea-
lures will be shot ON their nests by boys
and pot hunters. The section relating
to black bass fishing is another obiec-
tionable feature of the new law. The
fact OF the matter is that the board of
supervisors Of each county should be al
lowed to make their own game laws. A
close season that is all right for south
ern Arizona 10 all wrong for northern
Arizona"
w. J. Lester & Co., Of Fredonia, New
York, recently purchased eight placer
claims from George III. Swartz, in Big
Bug district, Yavapai county, according
to the Prescott Journal Miner, and by
location and otherwise have secured
thirty others. The property is located
on the mesa northeast of Big Bug
smelsen Mr.. Swartz, who is one of the
most practical placer miners in that Sec
ton, has worked the claims owned by
him for eight years by plowing up the
gravel and hauling it by wagon to Big
Bug creek and there sluising it out. In
this way he has made excellent wages,
as the gravel has run all the way from
sevety-fve cents 10 81 per load. 1t is
the purpose of the purchasers to install
a steam shovel with an amalgamator at
tached, on the ground. and then by
means of water power placed on Big Bug
creek pump the water upon the mesa to
q reservoir to be built there for use in
washing the gravel. The water will be
nsed over and over again, so it is esti-
mated that not TO exceed dtwenty miners
inches will be required to keep the
machine in operation. The machinery
for this steam shovel has already been
shipped. From his eight years ex-
perience in working these placer claims,
Mr.. Swartz expresses the opinion that
it will prove one Of the largest mining
enterprises in Yavapai county, depend
ent upon the success, OF course, with
which the machinery handles the gra-
vel. The ground is there, and the gold is
in the gravel, and all that Is required is
the successful working of it to obtain
good results. In prospecting the ground
throughly before the purchase was made
by MIR. Lester, holes were sunk at in
tervals all over it and the gravel carefully
sampled, resulting In obtaining an ave-