Mohave County miner., 1902-03-15
General Whining Rews,


mine arrived in Yuma yesterday, hav
ing in their care the months net pro
duct.of the king-a gold bar of the
value of o.. 0os, which they brought il
for shipment-Yuma Sentinel.
The Yuma Sun says f. B. Blanchard
is working big force of men on hi,
copper properties on the Lower Bill
Williams and is showing mp good cop.
per values. Recently he shipped in by
boat large amount of machinery and
supplies. +. S. Osborne made a strike
of very rich gold-copper ore in his
mines on Bill Williams Fork last week.
He says the showing is one of the best
In the whole country. Samples of the
ore gave good results. The vein is a
large one and work is being rushed on
it.
recent dispatch from Denver says
John G.. Montgomery received by
telegraph an order to buy for former
United States Senator Stephen II. Dor
sey, 3 800 0S worth of mining machin
cry in Denver to equip the gold mining
property at Yuma, Arizona. The or.
der will be placed with John W. Mes.
nith of the Colorado Iron Works, aud
will include complete quartz mill
reduction plant and mine and tramway
outfit entirely up-to date 1t is for
the King Gold Mining company, re-
Gently incorporated, of which Dorsey
is director The property consists of
one hundred and twenty one acres of
very rich ground near Yuma quartz
mining proposition, and has well de-
veloped lode. 1t has been worked a
great many years by Mexicans.
The Arizona Com nercial com pany is
developing the Copper Hill group,
which adjoins the United Globe on the
northeast. Their 45) foot shaft is
1900 feet from the Gray shaft aud on
the same belt. They have about 100
feet OF drifting on the second, third
aud fourth levels From the surface
down To near the 80 level the ores were
carbonates aud oxides; but from the
30 down to present depth the work
has developed good grade of chal.
copyrite ore. The shaft will be sunk
to 600 feet depth. The character aud
extent of the sulphide ores struck here
is considered important to the entire
district. In go about eighty cars of
oxidized ores we're shipped from the
Copper Hill, which are said to have
netted abIut Ions per car. The sui
phide ore body opened here is stated
to be eight to fifteen feet wide.-Globe
Times.
Messrs. Alvord and Gill, directors of
the Shannon Copper company, who
have been spending some time in Cliff.
ton looking over the Shannon proper
ties were in the city last Friday and
went west. Both were greatly pleased
at the condition in which they found
the property, but they had a few hard
words TO say regarding some of the
people who have been building ma.
chinery for the shannon company. The
machinery was all promised long ago,
aud some time since perintendent
Wiseman was notified it had all been
shipped, but as matter of fact por.
tions of it al yet "a the factory. When
the machinery arrives ii will not take
long TO put in position, aud then start
the smelter. The date of the arrival of
this delayed material is matter of
guess work, but judging by other bro
ken promises, and striking an average
on the lies that have been told they
think the smelter will be running in
pril.-Lords burg Liberal.
A strike in rich copper ore occurred
this week in the Ell Captain that is
likely TO create considerable excite.
ment in the Agna Fria mining district.
The shaft, which is now down forty
feet, has been from the start in STRAIT.
flied formation, but is now in solid ore
that assays twenty one and a half per
cent copper. This property was few
months ago acquired by Captain Phil
ips for Douglas. Lacey & Co. and con
sists Of four claims, each 1870 by go
feet in area, and lays one aud one. half
miles west from Cherry station on the
line of the p. & E. railroad. 1t seems
that Douglas, Lacey g. Co. are decid.
edly in the swim as far As mine making
in this section Is concerned. The shaft
on their U. S. mine, which is now down