The copper era., 1902-11-27
TERRITORIAL MINING NEWS.

TERRITORIAL MlNlNG NEWS. Preparations are being made for the putting in of the new smelter at the Iron King mine, about six miles from Jerome. A new townsite is to be laid out.
 The Gold Creek Mining company last week uncovered d rich body of ore on the west side of the mountain on the old Hardy mine. The ore is very rich, and force Of men has been put to work sinking shaft.-Miner.
 Prospectors by the hundreds are get ting into the mountains of this county and before spring opeEs up it is ex- pected that several new camps will be located and big mines brought to light. , Mohave county has been but scratched over and rich mines await the pros- pector Miner.
 There appears to be little doubt that the Leland people will build railroad from the Santa Fe to the mines. It is odlu IndI dATtduN luLIOcE lOT IIlt DlD mill is on the ground at Mellen and that work will soon be commenced on it. The mill will be of forty stamps capacity. The road will be about thirty-fve miles in length along easy grades. Miner.
 At Chloride the mines are working good forces of men and this winter bids fair to see these forces consider ably augmented. The Tennessee is getting very rich lead ores on the 800 level and the ground on the 400 is still outputting good grade orc. If re- port is to be relied on the Schuylkill and DistafT are soon to work force of miners. The Lucky Boy is still out putting good ore and the shaft of the Minnesota below the 400 is in fine grade of ore.-Min CT.
 Of late few carloads Of slag were pulled away from the Old Copper | Queen dump and used for ballast. Ma ture investigation along with care ful assays, developed the surprising fact that the whole dump, embracing thousands of tons, ran over 10 per cent. in copper. Go along the foot of tho dump and you can sort out tons of matte that will run over 40 per cent. in copper. The company have fin ally awakened to the fact that they have scattered thousands Of tons of valuable material along their grade betw cen l Die hen no, I ,i- Late Jerome advices are to the effect that the United Verde is about to re- sume smelting. After the late shut down four of the 200-ton furnaces were taken out and replaced with 500t ton | furnaces. The increase in capacity will permit the handling of 2,500 tons of raw ore every twenty-four hours, which is more than double the amount previously handled. The run of the mine is about s per cent. copper, which l brings the output Of copper from Jerome to POO tons every twenty-four hours. Two 150 hors epower engines have been replaced by engines de- veloping one thousand.
 The long looked for drainage of the Tom bstone mineral district, which has been one of the draw backs of the camp since the early eighties, is about to be fact, aud the big pumps have already had steam turned into them, and within week they will begin pumping water from the 600-foot level 1 ( .l, f. I. has recently been sunk by the Consoli- dated Mines company. The large triple expansion Prescott pump has | been firmly set on the station on the 600-foot level, and when the steam was | turned on few days ago the parts worked like clockwork. The pump has capacity of LOO gallons per minute, and it is estimated to lift l4- | inch column of water to the surface from the 6O0-foot level.
 The United States grand jury, at Kansas City, last Monday indicted Theodore Stenger, mining promoter, on charge of promoting a mining 1 fraud. Stenger organized a company known as the Pittsburg Copper Min ing and Reduction company and adver- tised its stock extensively in the east cru papers. He represented that the ! company was the owner of four min ing claims in Mohave and Yuma coun- ties, but the grand jury found that only one of these claims was the prop erty of the company. The company was capitalized for s2, 800, ,0OO and great deal of the shares had been dis posed Of. The company had a few men at work the past year on mining