The copper era., 1901-05-09
MINE AND MINING NEWS.

ing, and then the reputation of the
 district will have again been estab-
 lished. About three years ago O. J.
 Cotey, c. Barkley and Cal Weaver, all
 Clifton boys, found their way into the
 district and near the head of Apache
 creek they found one of those immense
 leads, which they p-ospected carefully,
 and upon which they located five
 claims. which includes a mill-site on
 Apache creek. which has an abundance
 of flowing water ths year round. Upon this ledge a vast arount of work, cost ing perhaps s25,00, had been done in early days, but st-ange to say almost
 entirely without esults. One tunnel
 which cut the lead at its mouth was driven into the country rock for 50 -lfeet hut there was no work done on the lead except wh're the tunnel cross ed it, where some, good ore was taken out. At another place a tunnel was run for 16O feet towards the lead, but work abandoned before the lead was struck. A number of shafts were sunk in the porphyry near the lead, but in no instance was cross-cut made to the vein. It was while working on this lead that Victoria made an unex- pected visit to the camp. The boys were at work aud-twhen they saw the Indians they starped for their stone houses in the canyon to get their guns, al fn ciu hn A1A chief proper, reception, but none of them ever reached it as their bodies were Afterwards found be- tween the mines and their cabin. One old man who had been laid up with rheumatism for many months, had been brought over from Carlisle, and on that particular morning had man. aged to hobble out to the mine. He saw that retreat was cut off to the cabin, and took the opposite direction, and ran to York's flat, distance of eight miles, and it is said that he was never afterwards troubled with rheu- matism.
 Some few months ago the Mayfower Mining company was formed, which took over these properties, the origi- nal owners retaining large interests in the property. Money was put up for development work and active opera tions commenced. In the old shaft nearest Apache creek a cross-cut was made for the vein, and when a repre- to nf thnra n st week the new shaft was entirely in good ore, rich in both sulphides and oxides. It is most remarkable show ing for the amount of work done, and the boys are naturally in high feather. Not particle of ore was showing in the lead on the surface. The ore is rich enough to stand shipping to the smelters. All indications point to a permanent ore body. A double shift will soon be put on and development work rushed. On an adjoining claim on the same lead there is an immense mineral blow out, upon which much work was done in early days. This the new owners have not as yet been able to develop, but they have prospected it sufficiently to show that the mineral is there, and in immense quantities. Had it not been for the Indian raid, there seems no reasonable doubt that one of the big mines of the territory would have been uncovered there al- most twenty years ago.
 Steve Corley, of Silver City, and F. NJ. Morris, well known and energetic prospector, have six claims on the same lead further to the eastward, up on which they have done some work and have more ore showing for the work done than in any other part of the district. Their copper ore is most- ly of manganese blue, and is also rich enough to stand transportation to any point. They also have vein of lead ore which is said to assay well in silver and gold. Their mineral show ing would justify the expenditure of a considerable amount of money in the development of the property.
 On Bitter creek the Clear Lake Min ing company has done considerable amount of work on property purchased from the Heavenly Twins," Hinkley and Horseman, in which J. T. Harlan also owned an interest. A shaft has been sunk to depth of 100 feet, and two drifts 100 feet each have been run along the vein. The ledge is Il feet wide and mills S16 per ton in gold. The company recently erected a 10-stamp mill, which was run for short time, but was shut dowi until additional con- tables could b. put in. Only one table was put in and it was found that it would net, handle more than one-ifth of the ore crushed in the bat tery. The company has eleven claims in the group. A. W. Tennant, an ex- perienced mining man, is in charge of the property. If his company will fur nish sufficient means to properly open up the property, he will make big success of the enterprise.
 B. s. Tipton and partner of Duncan have four very promising claims at Cottonwood, upon which they have done a considerable amount of devel- opment work. Their smelter returns on high grade ore gave them 26 per cent copper, 35 oz. silver and g gold per ton. Their second class went 15t per cent copper, 19i oz. silver and E gold per ton, while their third class