Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-03-19
MINES AND MINING.


 Robert De Large has bonded hi f Omega group of mines in the As
 Creek country to Chicago parties, wh
 will commence the work of develop
 ing them next month. E. Frankie
 one of the prospective purchaser: left for the east few days since t. arrange for active work on them. Tn
 property is near the Baumann Coppe
 Mining company's group.
 F. E. Twitchell, who is workin,
 the Waddell-McNulty mine on Cop
 per creek, has returned from visit t
 Pittsburg. He has force of abou twenty men at work on the abov
 property.
 R. F. Harris of Chloride, miner O experience, seeing the great need of smelter for Mohave county, has fo some time been urging, through cor respondence, the Vulcan Smelling and Refining company of San Fran cisco to put in one of their furnaces either at Kingman, Chloride, or Min eral Station. The result of MT. liar ris' work has been the sending of NJ Armstrong, an expert, by the Vulcan company, to look over the field. Af ter ten days of continuous investiga tion MT. Armstrong pronounced tht mineral outlook the best he has seer during many years of mining. The shelter is assured but just where tC locate it is not so easy to decide unti further investigation. Each one ol the points named offer their particu lar inducements.-Mineral Wealth.
 Thomas Roach, who is in town from the Bradshaw and Turkey creek sec tions says that mining there is un- usually active this year. He says it is regular bee hive of industry at present and he has not seen anything like it since he has been in the coun- try. The parties who have taken a bond on his Mohawk group are work ing ten men and are opening up fine bodies of ore. Work will also be commenced soon on his Cumberland mine on Turkey creek, and all the old time properties are being worked.
 Another rich strike was made in the Gro Grande mine near Wicken- burg a few days since. It was made in the drift of the 200-foot level and the ore is richer than any previously taken out. The extent of the ore body has not yet been determined as they only struck it a couple of days ago and have been cutting into it since. No assays of the ore has been made as its richness is self evident without assaying.
 Just at the present time Thunder Mountain district in Central Idaho seems to be attracting considerable attention and is all the talk now in mining circles. The Oregon Short Line recently sent some representa- tives to that district for the purpose of Investigating the feasibility of building a railroad to it. Just as we have been reading about the richness of this district prospectus of the Thunder Mountain Investment and Development company has been re- ceived at this office, which gives more explicit information about the dis trict than is obtained from the ordi nary newspaper accounts. Accord ding to this authority what is called Thunder Mountain district embraces territory of nearly twenty square miles. Properties which at the be- ginning of the excitment sold for Sl 900 have since changed hands for S25,000 and in some instances at much larger figures. The Thunder Mountain Investment and Develop ment company is organized for the purpose of aiding in the development of the great mineral resources of cen tral Idaho. It starts in business the absolute owner of five claims, known as the Queen Ann group, and situated upon one of the main lodges of DOT phyry dykes in the Thunder noun tain district near the property of the Dewey Consolidated Mining company which has been incorporated for S5,0O0,000 and whose stock is being sold at par. The company has also tied up forty one other claims in that new Fl Dorado, and have placed S500,000 shares of its capital stock in the treasury to be sold at par, which is Sl.00 per share. The company will also investigate, bond, purchase, lease, develop or report upon mines for any one outside of the district. It will also have an Information Bureau" and will answer all questions pertaining to the resources of central idaho. Prospectuses of the com pany will be sent on application by addressing the company at Boise, Idaho.
 Speaking of the San Francisco mining district in Mohave county, the Mohave Miner has the following to say: "The mines of that section are giving such evidences of future great ness that not only will telephone line be built in there in a short time, but that electric power will be in- stalled to operate the mines and mills of the district. The writer twenty years ago called the attention of the people to the great possibilities of that country and today the same ar ticles would cover the situation. In those days the people had no concep- ton of the vast wealth stored away in the hills of the Blue Ridge, but to- day the dawn has broken and the people are rushing in to get whatever they can. Twenty years ago they could have made their own selection from hundreds of claims; today they will have to take what they can get. There are big veins there that pros pect well and every foot of work done on them is but proving them better than on the surface. Every man in Mohave county who can should get piece of property in that country. The day is near at hand when the mines will rival the great gold fields of Africa.
 A miner who came down from the | c. o. D. mine this week stated that there had been opened up in that property the greatest ore bodies he has ever seen in Arizona. On the 100 level, where no ore was found when the property was extensively worked some years ago, an immence ore body was recently cut in a crosscut. On the 200, 300 and 400 levels there is enough ore exposed to keep the pres ent mill pounding away for years. The ore being worked through the mill comes altogether from wiDzes and drifts, no stOping being done. Mill products are being shipped to NaN