Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-01-01
MINES AND MINING.

A grub stake case is about to bt
 in the courts of Lincoln county, Ne
 vada. The contest is to be over the
 mines now being operated at Search.
 light by Frank Perew. Perew bond
 ed the mines from the locators fol
 S25, 900, part of which purchase price
 he paid. It appears that there was
 a prospecting agreement between the
 locators of the mines and some other
 parties, but that the locators kept
 them in ignorance of the value of the
 mines, and purchased the interests
 for few hundred dollars. The
 death of the locator brought out the
 fact in the prCbating of his will that he was disposing of his mine for a
 large sum and the grubstakers at
 once brought suit for the recovery of
 their interest. The suit is of inter
 terest to people in this county, as
 some of the litigants are known to our people, while at the same time the issue is an interesting one.-Mo-
 have Miner.
 Work continues at the Tombstone Mines company's combination shaft. Levels are being run, during the course of which ore bodies are met, but none of the mineral is being hoisted, this work merely being pre- paratory. The company machine shop is a scene of activity, where old machinery is being overhauled and made as good as new, notwithstand- ing the fact that modern and more powerful apparatus has been specially constructed and is due to arrive soon. The company offices on Fifth street have undergone a thorough renova- tion and the furniture is now arriving, the richness of which is guarantee that this will be the handsomest suite of offices in the territory, com mensurate only with the great mines, the business of which will be trans acted here.-Prospector.
 Notwithstanding the holiday week and the fact that several of its em- ployes are taking a vacation, the Cop per Basin Gold and Copper Mining company has made a substantial showing during the week. Treasurer Beach of the company sent in sam pie of ore last evening taken from the bottom of the shaft, which is now down about sixty feet, in nearly solid Mr. Munds. who has been spending the holidays with his fam fly in Prescott, was highly pleased | with the sample, as was Secretary c. l E. Snider. At the same rate of i'm provement for the hext two weeks | that has been experienced in the past | two weeks, the company will make showing that will surprise some of the old tune prospectors who have oper- ated in Copper Basin. The ore sent in yesterday was taken from the | water level, which they have just reached with the shaft. No work has been done on the new shaft, mention of which was made few days ago, but an assay of a fair sample of the ore gives a value of from S31 to S52 per ton. Of course they have some ore which will run much higher, some 1f it going as high as thirty per cent n copper, but that selected for assay ng was of an average sample of all of it. The company has ordered a vhim, which will be placed on the shaft upon its arrival and it was due oday. With this they will be able to link from 150 to 200 feet, depending lpon the amount of water encounter d, and when unable to sink further he vein will be crosscut to.determine he extent of the ore body. The lyke upon which the shaft is located s fully 100 feet wide, and should it De demonstrated that the. ore body ,xtends this entire distance, even with the ore a very much lower grade han has been encountered, the com oany has a bonanza. The showing made during the past few days has )een such that at a meeting of the 'fficers today it was decided to ad- 'ance the price to five cents, and ,nly small amount of it will be ,ffered at this price.