Arizona republican., 1902-12-08
FINAL COUNTY, MINES
Progress of the Exploration for Devel-
 opment of Oil.

Of the Pinal ParifTine oil company | the Florence Blade says: The work Of sinking their prospect we'll is progress ing steadily but slowly. The drill is penetrating a very hard, stratified con- glomerate. full of flint pebbles and boulders. The strata has been tilted almost to vertical, and this, togethe- with the hardness of the formation. makes drilling exceedingly difficult. A man less skilled than Mir. Parker could not keep the well straight under these conditions. A depth of 797 feet has been reached. At 400 feet down small flow of water was struck, out the inflow is not sufficient to meet the re- quirements of the drill. Mir Parker expects to strike oil at 950 feet, bur should he be disa ppointed the well will be continued down to the full length ot the cable, which is over 1000 feet long.
 J. F. Schwartz, in company with Henry Reynolds, William Coates and CEal g McGrath is engaged in deve op- ing some lead-silver prospects,. situated between Mineral Hill and the Cotton wood canyon, Pinal county. The ore also carries gold. They are talking about installing one of the McGrath smelters.
 George F. Eaton and George Sarrick are engaged in performing their an nual assessment work on a group or copper-gold prospects. which adJoIn the Zellewager mine in the Ripsy district. They are striking good ore and expect to become bonanza kings soon after the Phoenix and Eastern road reaches their ground.
 Messrs. J. I. Coleman, J. LanorG, Ed. Fisk and F. Ingraham are developing four good copper prospects situated a ] short distance east of the Manhattan mines, at Troy. They are now cown fifty feet in a shaft following the in clination of the vein. The vein Is strong, and the vein filling of a charac- ter favorable 10 the deposition of min eral This being true and the adjacent country being well mineralized, the boys may reasona bly expect to encoun- | ter pay ore chutes. along their vein where the natural conditions invite con- | centration.
 The Gila-Pinal Mines Company ad- vcrtises in this issue of the Blade for ] bids on laying pipe line about 4,O0C ! feet long. also for 2,500 cords of wood i to be delivered at their mill. on Mineral 1 Creek, four miles above Kelvin. The l Gila-Pinal Mines company has taken
 over the properties of the old BoDtai
 Mines company and will resume opera
 tions at these properties at once on 2 ] large scale. They expect to put force of about twenty-five miners at the Bob | tail mine as soon as they can install l new Leyner air compressor and Leynel
 machine drills, all of which has beer
 ordered through Gardner, Worthen S I Goss. of Tucson, but their arrival hal
 been delayed owing to the fact tha
 the manufacturers are behind witt
 their orders.
 F. A. Adams and William Blcy lef
 on Thursday for Riverside to resum
 work on their gold property situated Oi
 the south side of the river. about tw,
 miles above the Riverside station
 They are running a crosscut tunnc
 which will tap Jne vein nearly 100 fec
 below the surface. The ore in the sur
 face openings prospects we'll in gold
 and as the veins in that district usuall,
 improve in value with depth. Messrs
 Adams and Bley will probably strik
 good ore when they reach the vein wit
 this tunnel.