Arizona silver belt., 1901-10-10

~ ~ "h uP'''' "N"'' some eighty f"et and small particles or tn'S ore sonud most of tho way aowa, s a,,, WSre the winze and the level n,eV '''s batanque was encountered i'o" nuch of it there is no one can .ei. There is, however, face of ten ..i~et hy three, and it appears to be spl- i'd at the bottom of the level An assay ot it shows that 1t goes 7S per cent silver, r,-LOrdsburg Liberal.
 At length Pima county is to have a thorough test for the purpose of deter mining whether petroleum exists here or not, Some two years since young son of Mir. Ford, of the Southern Pa citic shops, while in the Catalina noun tainJ, discovered a spring whose Wa. tsrs were coated with oil Since the excitement concerning petroleum has become prevalent he revisited the spring and found the same condition of affairs that he discovered two years before, The Ford ftmiiy, father aud sons, with Justice Wilson and one or two others have formed company un der the designation of Saoino Oil X Development company, located a large acreage iu the vicinity of the discov cry, have recorded the claims and have commenced boring. Star.
 Judge J. II. West, of Needles, was in kingman few days ago, having au abstract of title to the Leland and Mitchell mines made, as n result of a sale of these properties to Thomas Ewing, of Los Angeles. The price for which title to the mines passes is stated tp be S5O,000 J. II West aud Steve Bedel, of Needles, are tue owners of the mines a"d they nave been at work on them for the past two years. Re- gently they encountered large bodies of high grade ores and many mining men nave been looking at them with a view to purchase. but it remained for Tom Ewing co m Ike the most filtter ing offer aud tha owners accepted Five thousand dollars cash was paid down, the other pay ments to cover about one years time These mines are among the old properties of Che san Francisco district.
 Charles Wing, su experienced miu ing man, engaged in the development work ot the Lost Suauisn mine, W ts in town yesterday Mir Wing reported favordbly On the progress of the work, stating that one shaft recently cleaned out had exposed good s.zsd vein uf quartz The entire ledge, which runs to great length aud is very vide has proven to bs g'd 0,lring aud the general opiniou of Eh, ctnp Is that they have low grafa dspJ it of enor nous extent, one which yiil readily attract capital when 1t becomes known. As cyauid,ng proposition, they be- lisve iJ to be bonanza but prefer to siuk for the richer veIuS which reason shows exist beneath. Nr. Wing also reports that greE%, deal of interest has been aroused m <that section through the en Jsrprise os this compa ny ia organizing Cp work these au- cjent miuss, and at Mesa, the base of suppiie-, abundant capital can be as raised to COltinus development, judging from the nature Of tho InqU rles n 4de -Haz ,tte.
 We iearn thaJ negotiations for tue purchase of the SouJh Bls0se cDmpa. uy's copper properties at Bi bee, Ariz. ny the Tharsis sulphur k Cnpper com Dany, of Ga-gDw, Scotland have been resumed Although the period pro vided in the bond given by the rharsis company expired at tha beginning of Jhls month, that company renewed its offer to the south Bsbee company, subject to certain mod ticatiOns, aud IL IS these new conditions that the latter is considering. What gives color to the possibility of the prOperty changing ownership is that MT. Larmein, repre- sentative or the rharsis company, has returned to Los Angeles under instruc- lions from his company. What the new conditions proposed by the Thar SIS company are could not be definitely learned, it being deemed inadvisabe t to make them known. There is some talk about the rharsis company taking working bond for one year on the property, making large cash pay uent down, and agreeing to coufine its operations to development, not sell ing nor suelting any of the ore dur Ing development As thugs stand, iJ Is more than likely that the mater of sale or bonding will be concluded dur. ing the coming week Los Angeles Mining Review.
 Nr. C. R. WoreS, owner of the Oceanic gold mine, at Arivaca, re. ceived very favorable report last evening from his uperiutendent, MT II. R. Bacon. A couple of months ago.