Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-05-07
Letter From Hillside.

Miner. )EEureka District is fast com ing to the front and inside of eigh- teen monthsiwill be one of the biggest | producers in the territory regardless of the knockers and would-be mine experts, who, because they can't get the lions share for making a deal, turn it down. On the Santa Maria, the mine owners, so the writer was told by one of them, had organized and appointed a committee to hang 1 the first man coming to the district who had NJ. D. on his card.
 Colin Timmons is pushing work on
 the Copper King, the ore continuing
 in quantity and quality as depth IS | attained. The new hoist is now on
 the ground and will be put Tn posi- ton as soon as possible. Besides | putting in the hoist Mir. Timmons Is building a first class road to Copper
 creek, at which place a shelter will
 be erected for the reduction Ot their
 ores, of which they have several thou
 sand tons of high grade ore in sight.
 The Copper Creek Consolidated Copper company is building a road to the shaft on the Roberts claim, Iwhere a hoist is to be placed in the
 near future, they having gone nearly as far as they can on account of . water. The extent of mineral on Copper creek is not known. The
 country rock thirty feet from the ledge and three feet below water gO-
 ing 15-100 per cent copperand SZ gold. This company has five claims
 where copper in solution in quantity proves an immense body of copper. lWhile treasury stock is now selling
 at ten cents, S1 will be the price be-
 fore the first day of next January. Adjoining this company's properties I is the Copper Glance of T. J. Nel--
 man. the Palestine and Omega of D Messrs. Voge & Bauder of Prescott,
 which have great showings, the for, , mer having shipped several tons ol $ ore with good results, and has several n tons more for shipment.
 g Messrs. Lawler and Wells shipped [ several hundred sacks recently with t good results. The Eureka, owned ], by these gentlemen, has fine show
 ing that would warrant the erection o ', a shelter if transportation was not SC I high.
 .. Messrs. Ferris S Godsmark Of Lo' e Angeles, under the supervision ot B I F. Ferris, is pushing work on thu
 Newman and Mccullough proper s ties at the foot of Gray Back noun d tain. McNerney and Merton V have two promising claims in th' !. mammoth and Gro Grande near Fla l. cear's. Sorensen and Edwards hav n. bonded their claims to w. c. Barne n of Washington, D. C.. the former run
 hing his horse power dry washer wit ,t good results. Owens and William d have bonded two claims to COlorad Io company who are going right to wor is developing. Rudkins and Savage ar
 working their rich copper claim O
 Boulder creek.
 Robt. Miller and partner have
 fine copper and gold showing sout
 of Mt. Springs Glass is sinking o
 rich silver and lead near Coppt
 Creek a thousand pound sample g( o ing 27 per cent copper and away u ef e in silver. Uncle Rob Sanders has m o, fine showing on his Jumbo clail VII VII near Hawks Nest. The Cowboy iL lI mine owned by J. D. Shipp and par ch ner his B inches of silver ore at u b. bottom of 75-foot shaft that go' s;- away up.
 SI c. K. Crosby is full Hedge l9 rancher, he with w. c. Atkinson ha pc ing taken out ditch on 16O acres P- fine land on Burro creek, this distrlc 'e' This is Charles home in his declll ~ ing years.
 lst Robt. Shultz, We are glad to say, in improving, having been very slC VII with pneumonia.
 io- Mrs. John Roberts, who has be- hs knocked out with rheumatism, is II ioe proving.
 id Shipp & Miller are branding calv nal of which there is a good crop th he year. Rain and coal oil are very bad rs needed in this district.
 in Come R. R..