The copper era., 1901-09-12
ARIZONA WEEK BY WEEK.

, Of that much work done. The hang | ing wall is quartzite and the foot wall porphyry. Every surrounding hill has deep red cast The property Is situ- ated in the southwest corner Of Graham count, fifteen miles east of the San Pedro river. Garten, Sanford and Wormick located two claims on the
 main lead and two on the smaller one.
 Sanford and Warmick sold their inter- csts to Mir. Epes Randolph and MT.
 Francis E. Hartman, who are organiz-
 ing a company capitalized at 5000, 900.
 A road will have to be built to Wilcox.
 The half hundred mining engineers
 who have examined the United Verde
 mines concede that they contain the
 largest aud richest ore bodies yet dis
 covered, also that there is actually in
 sight in these marvellous properties,
 over E. ,5O0, ,OO0, GOO. Yet, at three hun
 drcd feet in depth, these same proper
 ties did not show a value Of so, 900.
 The object lesson presented by the
 United Verde should convince mining
 men that is is unwise to condemn an
 Arizona mine till it has been system
 atically explored to a depth of eight
 hundred or d thousand feet. Not only
 the United Verde, but every property
 in the territory, prospected to depth of a thousand feet, has been found to contain great ore bonanzas. Exper- fence is d safe guide to follow; in truth
 it Is worth more than all the thcOretic- al knowledge that could be piled up in side the confines of the territory. ri- zOna Blade.
 Mention was made in this column last week of an increase in stock Of the Green Consolidated Copper com pany of Sonora, Mexico. Since then il has been learned that the increase is | loo, GOO shares, of which 50,000 were | and which were promptly subscribed. l or the remainder, 5000 shares have | been taken by the public. The other 1 20, 900 will remain in the treasury as ItStI Nt IuiItl. All OllICILl Ol IllIS CULT ! pany, residin. in Boston, is quoted as saying that in the Neta Grandc, one Of the Greene claims, body Of sulphide ore has been lately encountered that will average 30 per cent copper. The same authority says the Capote mine is looking better every day, and that two samples of ore from it assaycd P md 3l per cent respectively. It is earned that the Supreme court of New York -State-has- -annninteh. ak M aIA..1 ,civer of the CObre Grande Copper company Los Angeles Mining Review.
 Tine Salt Lake Herald says: Within | very short time the Manhattan Min ng and Smelling company, with capital of no less than SIP 100000, will Dc formed, either under the laws of Colorado or New Jersey, to take over he 67 properties owned by the Pioche company in Lincoln cOun- Y, Nevada, ana enough others to run
 he total up to about 100 different ( groups of claims together with hoist TX "oIhS' oLHSl'Si0' P"ihPtHS Pi""U0 md tho electric light and water sys- ems of Pioche. The great undertake ng which calls for the payment Of ST. 100, ,000 within the next eighteen ( months, has been launched by A. B. lewis, the wcllknown Beaver county : operator, and with unlimited New r orll capital associated, the work Of the once famous camp which las in the past produced over S20O, 0OO,- 100 will begin within the next three weeks. In fact. work has already been started at several points and within a 'ear Mir. Lewis says the new company will be working from 1000 to l, 300 men.