The copper era., 1902-12-18
Vv TERRITORIAL MINING NEWS.

h A new mill is being installed at in ' Cro Plata niue, J. w. Gerritt hayiu z charge of the work
 The Copper Glance mines in in Warren district, COchise county. Ariz
 Is no" down 900 feet, station has bee
 built and sinking resumed.
 Large bodies of aluminium clay bay,
 been struck in the old water seekine
 shaft just west of Glance station. co
 cnlse county, that assays 36 per cent In the white metal; l;,r,countv- Arizona. ! a pf0Ject is on foot for the consolida- tion of all the properties in the dis trict, which if consummated will make that camp lively one as the | properties will then be opened up on a ! large scale.
 The Calumet and Pittsburg company | is now down 950 feet on its property and has reached the water level | Pumps are expected. when the work will be resumed. The water is so strongly impregnated with copper that | it is said to plate iron and steel.
 Count Sergel Mentschikoff, Russian prince and relative of the czar, one of | the Rapid Transit Mining company, l HUN uCNCiOpluB IIC IdISl | mine in the Bradshaw mountains, which mine has already a local reputa- tion for rich and extensive ere bodies, was in town yesterday with Mir. Beech, arranging to send out men and sup plies.-Courier.
 Charles Born, owner of the Copper Blossom group at Constellation, Ari- zOna, accidently discovered few days a a ttualVn fnnt arnnnip,r of OnlA ar his property that he claims horns S30 to $i0 per ton. He is working on a tunnel that will tap the vein at about POO feet in depth, besides some other lodges. Some of the lodges also run high grade copper.
 The White mine. about ten miles above Wickcnburg, Arizona, is d most promising property. The company is working quite force of men running two tunnels into Dark Horse mOuntain and both are in about POO feet on the veins. One is to be run through the mountain and will give vertical depth Of about 700 feet. The ore is said to carry good gold values.
 R. V. Daniels, Of the San Jose Min ing company, operating in the San Jose mountains in Sonora, eight miles south of NacO, AriZ., claims that the com pany has mountain of ore thatfunsl urtf m,ne nc ciairns 5o,ooo Uons ir elsN-N as a result of 500 feet of development work. and running 5 per ton, princi- palIy in gold. The property consists of no pertenencias. Water sufficient for twenty stamp mill is on the prop erty and two miles thercfrom Is suih- cient water for loo stamps. A twenty stamp mill is to be put in at once, and George Kirsch is in San Francisco buy inc the machinery and selling stock. A Halliday gravity tramway Is to be put in from the mine to the mill.
 F. J. Hams, manager of the Tomb stone Telephone company who has been in the city for several days re- turned to his home at Stafford this morning. Mr. Hams is interested in the development of promising cop per claim near the Apache Indian res ervation. He had with him piece or ore that was taken from d drift being run to cross the ledge. The piece Is about four inches thick and is nearly pure copper, being one ot the pest specimens of that nature that has been seen here for sometime. The specl- men was taken from stringer leadl 2 to the ledge. He and his partner l
 tunnel to run before reaching the ledge. If the present conditions hold out, he will soon have sufficient copper on hand to make into wire for the ex- tension of his telephone line.-Pros- pector.
 An organization was perfected in Tombstone yesterday which will be known as the Mexican Hydraulic Min ing Co. The company is composed oi d number of wei! known Cochlse coun
 " citizens. The company has secured
 d concession of 10000 pertinenclaS IT
 the Altar. Sonora placer district, O what is known as the Cienega and Bo
 nanza placers. The district in whici
 the company will begin their opera
 tions is one of the richest in the stat of Sonora. From a report filed witt the Mexican government it shows tha from the years lS03-lSlo, the distric fpafd royalty of S35, 900 900. Frou assays recently made of the grave
 they show that 1t is very valuable. Q
 four pounds of gravel taken as sam
 ple. a return of five cents per poun was made, while the tailing assayed sl !, per cubic yard The company Is IF . corporated for slO,000,000, with LOGO
 GOO shares at a par value of SlO De
 share. .-Prosp spector.
 A. A. Ireland, general manager d the Canyon City and Florence Miuln e company, left Thursday for Canyo l, City, Cole. at the invitation oi h d company, to spend Christmas and u s- holidays. Mir. Ireland's company :. developing the Gold Nugget and Ca I. yon City claim near Nulture Pea s; At a depth of thirty feet on the Go D. Nugget they have a sixteen-inch ve " which gives values of nearly S2OO n- several mill run tests which have be, n- made lately. About the first Of t
 year, Mir. Ireland will go to Mexi