The copper era., 1901-03-14
TERRITORIAL MINING NEWS.

II. b. Clifford is arranging TO spend
/ $4,000 on surface equipment on the
Rebel mine alone. He is now putting
up one of the best miners boarding
houses in Arizona. He proposes to
feed his men right.-Prescott Courier.
Radium, the new metal, is an illumi-
nant OF great power, Half Il pound Of
il will make an ordinary sized room as
light as day for "a million years. At
present the price of the metal is too
high for general use. II is worth $1,000
per ounce.
George and John Westfall and Harry
Lane shipped fifteen tons of copper ore
to the FL Paso Smelter. 1t was from
their claims about twelve miles east
of Florence, and sampled from nine
teen to twenty-tree per cent. copper
Florence Blade.
Aikinite. which has recently been
discovered near Prescott by Col. Dan
MCGOWAN, is sulphide of copper, lead
and bismuth. Its composition being
sulphur, 16.1 per cent; copper. Ill
per cent; lead, 36 per cent, and bis
mutt, 36.2 per cent.-EX.
The SILVER Queen, fifty miles south
of Tucson, which is credited with Il
production of 5000. 900. most of which
was mined in the sixties, when naces-
sity compelled the mining OF only high
grade ore. has been sold to Colorado
and Wyoming men, after long term
OF idlenesS.
The mining men are going aggres-
sively to work all over Gila county, the
abundance of water is giving them
greater facilities for operation, and
many new mines and properties will
be developed this year. 1t is antici-
pated here that this will be a prosper
Gus year for Ola ella.
Charles Metcalf recently submitted
some of the tufa which is on his land
west of town to Il Denver chemist fa-
maliar with this class of building stone.
He says that it is the closest grain and
the best material of its kind lie has
ever seen, being far superior TO the
Denver rock which is largely used
Kingman Miner.
Mining is quite active in the country
about the head of Pinto creek and con-
siderable high grade copper ore is be-
ing taken out Tor shipment. Ed Fon-
dren, who recently bought out his part
ner. +. l.. Toombs. will have carload
of 2S per cent ore ready for shipment
within ten days. McAffee has six to
eight tons; Fitzgerald, five or six tens;
L. Welch. ten tons. and party of Ital-
iaus, fifteen to twenty tons.-tilobe Sill
yer Belt.
Prof. w. =. Blake, of the territorial
school of mines, has recently written
up the mines of the Santa Cruz valley.
and an effort is being made to have
him write up the mines north and west
of Tucson. An effort should also be
made to have Prof. Blake write sketch
of the mines around Globe, as such an
article would do much towards causing
mining men and capitalists to investi-
gate this section aud convince them
selves of the values and extent of our
vast mineral resources.-Silver Belt.
Clarence Barnhart returned yesier-
day from the Ajo district. Mr.. Barn
hart made the round trip of ls3 miles
on his bicycle, following the railroad
down to Gila bend and then taking
the stage road out to Colonel Beans
mine, where he spent several days.
The Colonel had recently returned from
New York, where he has made arrange
ments for the shipment of smelling
and concentrating plant, which will be
put up at the Ajo mines. The rains