Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-11-05
AMONG THE MINES. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS FROM VARIOUS PROPERTIES IN VARIOUS DISTRICTS. Merchants Mining Compsnj's Property Still Keeps in the Front
 Rank.

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 various camps were in town today
 from whom the Journal-Miucr gleaned
 a fairly gool cropof mining news. J.
 $. Smith of the Jerome Canyon Cop
 per company reports that in the
 cross-cut from the north drift of that
 property, at the l00-foot level, they
 have encountered the ore body which
 they struck in the 50-foot level. They
 have cut into it four feet and 1t still
 continues, and moi estimate can be
 made yet of its width. The ore body
 on the 50-foot level was seven feet
 wide, and the indications are that it
 has mt narrowed any at the greater
 depth. The ore Is also equally rich
 as at the 50 foot level, if not richer,
 going twenty-five per cent copper,
 and carrying gooI Values i4 sod also.
 He reports that the dam on Mint
 Creek has bee completed and is now
 full of water. The dam is six and
 half feet high and backs the water up the creek for distance of quarter of a mile, and in some places the
 stream is fifty feet wide, making a
 fine body of water for dry country.
 The water is intended for use in min ing.
 From Poland it is reported that Su- perintendent John Gray has struck the Poland vein in the Poland Exten- sion company's property, and has en- countered good body of ore. This property is located in what is now one of the most promising dis tricts in the county, being near the celebrated Poland, and the equally famous property of the Merchants Mining company. With the devel- opment of the Poland Extension and the Bordeaux claims, owned by Fred Rief, in the same district, and which is also showing up splendidly, there promises in the near future to be a quartette of as good mining proper ties as can be found in the territory.
 Another very promising property in this same district is the Postmaster mine owned by the Oriental people, and of which MT Kentls superinten- dent. The new mill recently erected is running day and night on ore from the Postmaster mine with most satis- factory results. The Postmaster | mine adjoins the Merchants Mining company's property, being on the same lead as the Town View.
 The Merchants Mining com pany has recently added two very valuable claims to its hold i ings, being the Frankie and Ivanhoe, seven claims in the group 1 owned by it. Both of them have con- work done on them and aIe showing up most satisfactory. This property is coming to the front more and more each day, and it has more than come up to the expec tations of its owners when the con- pany commenced operations about year ago. The amount of develop ment work during that period has been quite remarkable, while the | amount of ore opened up as well as the quality has been phenomenal. Large bodies of good grade ore have been blockedout, while in few in stances exceptionally rich ore has been encountered, the exact size of which have not yet been demonstrated, but from indications promises to be quite large. Ore from this streak runs away up into the the thousands of dollars per ton, but without taking this into the showing is most as far as depth has been attained while the indications are all favorable for this condition to con tinue to indefinite depth.
 All who visit this property come away with the same opinion of it, which is that of surprise on account of its being better than represer ted or expected. Michigan parties wish ing to invest in the stock rec .atlv wrote to their friend here, c. W. Kop- to visit the property aaI make an examination Of 1t for them. He did so ald immediately wired hjs friends to make the investment and followed up his advice by taking a block of the stock himself. Mir. Kop- pelman is from the mining regions oi hence is familiar with the business. Here is what he says of the Merchants Mining cornpanv'5 in letter to the pretident of the company, being the same as de wrote to his friends in Michigan:
 'I have just completed a hurried of the Merchants Min ing Company's properties in Big Bug which I did at the request of some of my friends in Calumet, Michigan who are contemplating investing in your treasury stock. Now, while did not make thorough examination, being able to devote only one day 10 the work, 1 have seen enough to convince me that you have an extremely .iue and one which is going to make a mine of great importance. Being pressed for time 1 confined my examination to tine First Home Mine, which I was told was the claim you had done your principal development work on. In the first place, I ind you have a very large, weIl-defined fiissure vein, between two as perfect
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