Arizona republican., 1902-02-08

steady lick which is bound to win
 out, particularly when it is directed 1
 upon such a promising prospect as this | one. It is hardly probable that H
 smelter will be located at convenient |
 point on tho San Pedro when the rail- road is built and smelting will be done there for all of the copper mines on the east slope of these mountains.
 In the foothills of the Catalinas there | is T high grade copper mine which is
 being worked under bond by Soto and Hooker, the latter son of Colonel
 Hooker of the Sierra Bonita ranch in
 the Sulphur Springs valley. The mine
 is not far from the river and is close ! 10 the survey of the proposed railroad. | There is about one hundred feet of
 work done, and quantities of shipping
 ore have been taken out. Shipments are now being made to Willcox from which point they are shipped to F | Paso. The ore is packed upon burros l over the mountain to Wilcox. q dis | tance of sixty miles, a trip which only | rich ore can profitably stand. The
 shipping ore is being taken out as the
 mine is developed. and six men are now
 at work. This is a prospect which is
 + worth watching. and it looks to me as
 though it would soon become one of the II best known copper mines in these
 mountains. The mine is owned bv Cleland brothers oi the Californis. ranch. who have bonded it to Soto and Hooker.
 T. Ransdale. who sold the copper
 mines of the Catalina Copper company.
 has discovered a copper mine between Condon and the Apache Chief mines. He has completed sixty feet of devel- opment work, and has shipped some ore He. like n great many others, is waiting for a railroad to be built down the San Pedro, when he will work his mine extensively.
 J. Hall owns little gold mine in the foothills near the river and has a small gold mill on his mine. He has prom ising prospect. and one which with cheaper transportation, will become producer of no small importance in the mining world.
 The Gold Nugget and Southern Belle are both well known mines here. the latter having a mill. The Southern < Belle was owned by a man named Eel lows who died few years ago. leaving his mine to a relative who never worked it. It is regarded as an excel lent gold mine of high grade. The vein { is about four feet in width and over one thousand feet of development work has I been completed.
 T i4'-i v c2i 70 al Si-siA ill-lIE prospect s which one could not visit in q months i: time. These will receive their full 5 share of attention as soon as railroad z facilities will allow. At present the { haul from Tucson is over a rough S mountain trail Q distance of fifty or { sixty miles. and it is not strange that 2 there 's lacking q disposition to operate mines in these mountains. It is gen eraliy agreed that the east slope or the Catalinas will provide some iich copper, gold and silver camps when the 2 conNeniences of a railroad at hand are { given them.
 l spent a pleasant hour with J. l. Clark at his ranch in the valley. This is one of the most substantial ranches l have seen. MT. Clark owns a grea many head of cattle, which are kept track Cf from his Granite ranch in the | Catalinas. The sc ranch of Dick | Brady is near the Granite and the s stock of the two ranches run on the % same range. MT. Clark says that the 5 temporary shutting down of Mammoth Fl has hurt the ranchers some, the most q of them having some sort of contract q to provide tho camp. MII\ Clark says q that he sold &. GOO worth ofNNood to tn. & camp last year. All down the valleJ q the ranchers are interested in thi. 5 camp, and are anxious for the litigat tioI 2 which shut down the mine to cease At the Clark ranch hay, grain, corr S and other farm stuff is raised M.. H Clark says that thousands of head oi stock have been shipped out of the San Pedro valley during the past two
 years for which the ranchers realized good returns.
 if At Mammoth learned that the camI n was not idle because the mine wa. n closed down. There are about twenty. a five men employed. The Mammott
 Cyanide company has fifteen men a n work on it's cyanide plant and is work r. ing over the tailings of the Mammotl , mill. They are realizing handsome re. - turns from this work. Charles Udul f has introduced a new branch of minins 70 which is just now interesting minin: T men. He discovered some time asC IF that the old worked-out dumps of tn.
 Mammoth contained a quantity of lea. IT which he is now recovering for th, ;+ tungsten values. The tungsten i: k shipped to the eastern markets anC .s finds a ready sale. The dumps whici ii have been worked over several time. # for gold values, are now being made |, s give up their lead. and Mir. Udall has a hit upon profitable investment in tn: a dump.
 @ The sale of the Mammoth mine a ,. mortgage sale takes place at F'lorenc, n on February 10 and the result of thi,