Arizona republican., 1902-04-11

flying trip through mining districts near by. He says he thinks Walker has population of about 800. He says the great Poland tunnel is now in 200 feet on the Lynx creek side of the di- vide.-Courier.
 George O. Eaton was down from Kelvin Sunday but had nothing imror- tant to report on the subject of mining further than to say the prospectors are at work on their claims and patiently awaiting the advent of the railroad. in the hope that they may then obtain transporta ton rates that will ena ble them to ship ore at a profit-Florence Blade.
 Henry Measom of Piety Flat was q pleasant visitor at the Blade sanctum Saturday. He came down after load of supplies for his mining camp. Messrs. Measom. Harris and Cochran have located some very large copper leads on the south side of the Gila river about twenty miles east of Florence and are now engaged in prospecting their find.-Florence Blade.
 J. H. Brown came down from the Newbury camp Monday and informs the Florence Blade that the new gaso- line hoist has been started up and is now hoisting water from the Buffalo shaft He says the hoist is a perfect success in every respect. The naw skip for the shaft arrived this w2ek and sinking in the shaft will be re- stunned at once. The crosscut sta1 ed toward the hanging wall in the Mont Lander shaft. at a depth of one hun dred feet last week has progresse1 distance of twenty feet and the fac" of the crosscut is in good looking ore, showing good silver and copper values.
 T. Q. Stephens has returned from he Hillside section, where ne owns a promising gold claim. which has rein of free milling ore three feet wide that carries SIP per ton in gold says the Courier. This value is found in he surface ore. MT. Engle and son Ire driving a tunnel on this property wh ch | will tap the ledge at q depth of i3O [ feet. They expect to strike the le ge feet, and are working in a formation so hard that they can make only one fcot a day.
 ! P. D. Barnhart. who is at pres mt visiting his son. A. D. Barnhart, in ! Prescott, has five claims In the Sal 1 J uan country. in Colorado. in the very ] center of one of the greatest cluster or mines in the world-mines that are 2 paying dividends away up in the Til . lions every day. They are develC ed to q depth of from 5000 to 5000 feet and the ledge is regular and ore con-
 tinuous.
 ! George II. Hi;lger. a mining mar Of Duluth, Minn.. has just taken a b nd on a number of very promising cla ms | owned by A. C. Gilmore and others in the Bradshaw mountains.
 ! E. D. Treadwell is pushing work on 1 the Iron Queen mine, owned by he
 George 4. Treadwell Mining comp ny
 on Big Bug. The claim, says the Jour
 l3al-Miner. is the south extension of he
 old Boggs claim. There is shaft
 down on the claim 230 feet with crc ss-
 cuts and drifts run at several pla es, and the showing is such as to ind zee
 MT. Treadwen to arrange for the m mediate erection of d smelter wit a
 capacity of 100 tons daily. The smciter | will be provided with arrangemc nts
 for using oil for fuel. He expects to
 have it in operation within the next ! few months.
 Daniel Lee. for some time foreman of
 the Democrat mine at Cananea, avs 1 even those who own the big copper
 mines at Cananea do not know tlieir
 extent. MT. Lee believes that Cana laa | will some ody be the biggest indiviJ dll
 producer of copper in the world.