Arizona republican., 1902-05-06
MINING NOTES.

The Manhattan Oil company sue
ceeded in getting the stem of its drill
welded at the railroad shops and sent
it out again yesterday and resumed
drilling again today. Had it not been
for the railroad company agreeing to
have the work done in their shops the
ell company would have been COM
PEELED to send the stem to Los An
Observation-Disclosures.
While wandering around over the
mountains in the vicinity of Govern
ment Springs some time since w. S.
Conner came across some very good
| locking float. He located the spot in
his memory and a few days ago went
out and following it and prospecting
the ground discovered the ledge from
which it came, secured some samples
CT very good looking quartz from it
+ and made lccat ton of the ground
Journal
James H. Lamar, a prominent mer-
chant of Chicago. is visiting MI. and
Mrs. Robert Z. Morrison. old-time Chi
cago friends OF his, says the Journal
Miner Mr.. Lamar is a large stock
holder in the Baumann Copper com
pany. Yesterday he accompanied Jules
Baumann to the celebrated copper
properties of the company. He ex-
presses great satisfaction at the work
being done and is pleased with his
investment. In speaking of our city.
after having entered our great mercan-
tile establishments, Mr.. Lamar said
that in all his travels he had never seen
such evidences of prosperity and bust
ness success. Being 4 wholesale mer-
chant himself he knows what he is
talking about.
Mrs. r. f. Morrison and Tim Fell
have a shaft down twenty feet on their
Lizzie mine. Aqua Fria district, and
have struck an Gre body three feet
wide which is said to carry 500 per
ton silver and lead.
superintendent Mansfield of the
| Groom Greek Milling and Mining COM
pany will leave today for Yuma county
to be gone about ten days. He goes to
examine silver-lead proposition To-
Gated about forty miles south of Yuma.
! Courier.
superintendent Harry Simington will
leave today for the properties of the
Grand View Mining and Milling COM
! pany on Cherry creek. He laid in his
supplies in Prescott and will have his
freight hauled from here.-Courier.
l. OF Ille past three years James 1tuS-
sell has owned the Fisher and Noble
/ quartz claims in Copper Basin district,
! located three miles from Dixons place,
and about two miles from the OLD L.
S. mine. says the Courier. Prospectors
and mining men who have seen these
claims unite in saying that they are
most promising prospects. having many
! Of the earmarks o. future bonanzas.
! The ledge which runs through these
/ two claims ranges from six to % feet
! in width. The ore carries copper. gold
and silver. Tests OF the orc have given
values as follows, per ton: From one
ounce to 30 ounces silver; from a trace
/ to 1913 gold. ard 10 per cent copper
Courier.
J. ". Cope. an Illinois capitalist. ac-
companied by Recorder McFaH OF
M&ricOpa county. and w H. Ream of
Phoenix. spent Wednesday and Thurs
day Of this week At Mineral Hill, exam
lining the old Specie Pay and othel
mining claims, with view to deter
mining the adVisability of installing Il
smelling plant there. They returned
! to Phoenix by way of Florence. Mr.
cope will go back to Illinois about the
middle Of this month to organize a de-
velopment company to operate at Min
er&l Hill.-Florence Blade.