Bisbee daily review., 1902-11-12
GRAHAM COUNTY MINES
Michigan Capital Buys Big Group of
 Claims

pleted at this place yesterday and the agreements were signed and returned this morning, in which the Kin-e-chy group of twenty mining claims was sold to parties in Detroit, Michigan. says the Pima Paragon. They will organize a company and commence work on the property within three months. A great amount of work has already been done on these claims, which are within twenty miles of this place. The indications are good for the opening of a bonanza when depth is reached, as there is plenty of low grade ore in sight in the workings. Negotiations have been pending on this deal since last April, and Captain McEniry, who has had the property in charge, feels much elated at the success that has crowned hIs efforts. The deal is a large one, and the prop erty involved one of recognized merit, and the company to take charge will undoubtedly reap rich returns from its investment
 Six new converters arrived last week for the Arizona Copper company and will soon be put in place. which will greatly facilitate the output of the company.
 J. F. Niccolls and Messrs. Porter and Perry returned last week from a prospecting trip i1 Apache county. where they were hunting the long lost and mythical Adams diggings. says the Copper Era. As they so far re- fused to flash up native gold. it is req sonable to suppose that their mission was a failure, still they are not dis courased, and will return and have another try for it. They are of the opinion that it is about the finest sec tion of Arizona to prospect in-plenty of good water and feed and a delight ful climate.
 L. A. Snyder, representing the Val Verde smelter of Yavapai county, spent a few days in Clifton recently. Mir. Snyder is the ore buyer for the Val Verde shelter, which is doing fourishing business in that section of the territory. The smelter is in need of selicious copper ores. and for that reason is offering top prices for that class of ore.
 P F. Crowley was in Clifton from his copper mines at Metcalf this week and incidentally told a representative of the Era now narrowly he escaped becoming a millionaire in 1893. He was then mining in the San Juan coun- try in Colorado and ~as making eX- penses on silver mine, but when the white metal was dethroned he was compelled to give it up, as it would not pay. He abandoned the mine, but intended to go back to it later. but failed to do so, and lost the property. A couple of tender feet located it a few years afterwards, and in their first work uncovered a body of rich ore from which they received several thousand dollars. They then com menced to develop the property more extensively. It soon changed into a gold mine, and at the present time is producing $50,000 a month. On sev- eral occasions he managed to keep out of the way of great wealth. He now has one of the big copper properties of the Metcalf country, and may yet be able to retire at an early age with a competency.
 Crude Oil Shelter of Arizona
 Under the auspices of the Oil Blast Furnace company, a crude oil burning smelter recently erected in Los An geles was given its first run on Octo- Der l. The test was made on a quar- ter of a ton of copper ore that had been taken from a mine in San Der nardino county, Cal. Several hundred pounds of iron slag were first run through the furnace for preliminary heating purposes, after which came the test, fully 60 pounds or about 13 per cent being the result. The smell ter is very crude affair, with ca- pacity of ten tons per day, it being the intention to construct first class apparatus as soon as all necessary ar engagements are perfected. A Con- nersville blower, an improvement upon the old Root process, was em- ployed upon the air by which the crude petroleum was sprayed in the furnace. It worked at the rate of three and one-half cubic feet per rev olution, although its utility in that re- spect is somewhat regulated by the size of the furnace, and it is capable of operating at different speeds. Its power in the test is derived from a miniature engine which was designed by F. P. Pettingill (who also design ed the smelter) which while operated by gasoline was built upon principles identical with those using steam. The mixture becomes heated to de- gree equivalent to four hundred Fahrenheit before reaching the furnace thus obviating any objection able features that might exist by req son of transmission of air in cold state. Much is claimed for the new process, especially upon the basis of cost. It is said that a saving of one fifth to one-quarter can be made upon the item of coke alone, and that ores of an exceedingly silicious character can be handled, provided a reasonable