The copper era., 1902-02-20

ttIE- 4 ne 14AE5 81 = ~ ~ IL = ftea
two ounces silver per ton. ard 4 to
per cent copper. It j., big low grad
proposition. With depth /; is expect
cd that richer ore aud sulphides vii
! be struck. The general formation il
the same as IS found around jerome.
The Bisbee West Copper company
/ has contracted in Los Angeles for d
pumping plant which will have q
capacity OF 100 gallons per minute
Superintendent Z. L. Dwight. whC
has returned to Bisbee, says that after
. the water supply demonstrated to De
permanent the water will be piped into
Bisbce and sold outright to the Copper
/ Queen company or used in Bisbee for
domestic purposes. So far as tes ed,
the water encountered in the Bisbee
West seems to be ample and permanent.
The cor panv inicnda Asin- oil ID. tbs
future for fuel. 70O-gallon-tank being
in course OF construction now at Don
LIis.-Jerom3 Reporter.
The -ale Of the Mammoth mine, By
the sheriff, took place in front of the
court house at noon, Monday. The
property was bid in by President
Fletcher, of the Farmers Loan &
Trust company, OF New York. At
torney I. G.. Morris, representing the
Trust Company, President Fletcher
and his private attorney, Mr.. Camp
bell, OF Detroit, Michigan, and Hon
Geo. =. Blair were present at the sale.
BY stipulation, the Old company has
nine months in which to redeem the
properly and until that time shall
have expired nothing wil! be done at
Mammoth outside Of perfectiu. plans
for erecting 4 new and larger plant
and getting matters in shape for the
resumption of operations on larger
scale. In the meantime General Man
agcr Geo. /. Blair will have charge Of
the property for Mr.. Fletcher and
formulate the plans to be carried out
in case the old company should fail to
redeem Blade.
The phenomenal strike in the Casey
group Of copper claims by =. j. Scanlau
x Co, OF Bisbee. who recently secured
a bond on those claims, seem to grow
larger and more wonderful rs develop
ment progr esses. They are now down
10 feet in solid ore and The dimensions
of the body has not been demonstra
when down 30 feet they will commence
to cross cut, in order to determine the
extent OF it in width. They will also
begin to ship ore regularly. Mr..
INLAND, one of the partners returned
from Lordsburg Tuesday with assays Of
five samples. One of the samples con
tanned 100 pounds. The average assays
of the five samples which were taken
in such a manner as to underestimate
the average value OF the orc-6ody in
place of ovcrestimating it give the fol-
lowing result: Gold ~ oz; silver S5.2
Oh; copper 10 per cent. Total value
per ton $50. This is figured on the
bases of the present price of copper
Range News.
The pump columns that are now ar
irving for the Tombstone Con Mines
Co, are - inches in diameter aud each
measures 22 feet iu length. The big
heavy pipes are being hauled to the
mine. There will be four triple ex-
pansiOn station pumps with the neccs-
sary sinking pnmps accompanying
same aud the work of draining the
lower levels will be accomplished by
Il capacity Oi 100 10 1900
gallons per minute. II is expected
that the pumps will be installed and in
complete working order by June 18th
Or July lst at the latest. a large new
steel gallows frame 90 feet high and
steel building frames will be erected
at the shaft while q place for the 500
horse power boilers is graded out, like
wise plans for the colossal hoistiug
.ngino itself, which is direct acting,
with fiat rope cable and capacity for
300 feet. When the pumps are in
stalled sinking will be resumed aud
Prospector.
Mr.. O. o. SaXhaug. secretary Of the
sonora Milling and Mining Co. who
from Tu butma, Wednesday.
yerifies the statement that in the low
,r levels of the Fortuna mine new
body OF ore running 500 ounces and
over to the ton was struck. He brought
in some OF the largest and finest spec
linens OF silver ore ever exhibited in
Nogales. The new copper property re-
,ently purchased by the company is
situated two and one half miles from
the smelter site and for fuXing pur-
poses can run the smelter for many
years Mr.. SaXhang Is greatly pleased
with the new purchase. not only as
line proposition, but IS a high grade !
copper prospect. The water question
which is always difficult and some- I
lines an expensive one in the Altar as
s other districts in Sonora aud Ari- /
iona, has been settled at the mine. fer
Ill time to come; 4 flow of no barrels I
, day having been struck 100 feet from |
he smelter site. This water Will BE- 1
stored in tn immense reservoir being |
,uilt under the direction of Joe Thump- /
on, OF this city. President O'Keefe |
md family are Al the mile, and Secre-
AIRY Saxhang will return in a few days.
-Spr6ar Nidettp