The copper era., 1903-08-13

U foOtpad who appropriated s42 50 ir n cash and q gold watch. That same 2 night Harry Cody of that town dislo. ,- cated the face of Mexican he caught 7 in the act Of rolling a country-man ' Saturday night Ned Brovich. a miner. n disappeared from his lodgings and has D not since been found. He was under a ' physicians treatment for an injured T eye. The theory is that he became | insane and wandered away, possibly , perishing on the desert. He left his ] room without hat or coa:
 In four months time the California King mines at Picacho, according to the Yuma Sun, have yielded over s9O,-
 GOO gold actually cleaned up.
 D. Homer Jennings, of Bridgeport,
 Conn.,, has concluded fo- an eastern : syndicate composed of J. T. Quinlan,
 F.. D. Foster and F. NJ. Bishop and
 others, arrangements for the purchase
 of the Ragnarok group Of mines in
 the Orc Blanco district, seventy-five
 miles south of Tucson, Ariz., in the
 Santa Cruz country, for s1jO, 900. The
 mines were owned by J. M. Kirkland
 and !. 5. Andrews, of Gro Blanco
 Operations are to commence at once.
 An officer Of the Minnesota and Ari- ] zona Gold Mining company says that
 company has determined to harness ! falls in the Colorado river twenty-five
 miles below the Grand canyon for the
 estimated development Of 23.0OO-hOrse
 power. c. T. English, an engineer of St. Paul, has made q favorable report on the scheme which, he estimates,
 will involve an outlay of Sl, 7j0, 900. . The purpose is to furnish cheap power
 for the operation of several groups of . mines located in the desert on the . Arizona side of the Colorado river.
 The mines are fairly we'll developed and equipped with small stamp mills
 According to the Jerome corre- spondent of the Mining and Scientific Press, the fire in the United Verde mine that was supposed to have been eXtinguished several months ago by means of carbonic acid gas, Is still burning and making increasing head , way. It is the sulphide ore that is burning and the fire is said to be on ; ing to the 70O-foot level, the bottom of the mine. According to this corre- 7 spondent, there is only one chance of putting out the fire, and that is to flood the mine, and water is not availa- ble It looks as though the fire will { have to be left to burn itself out. ;
 Fred Felker returned on Friday from Magdalena, Sonora. where he has z been GcnOuncing the placer property ( belonging to the company which he C represents which was recently incOr- porated at Phoenix with Col. M. II. [ McCord as President. The cOmpany's [ is located 60 miles west of a It has been worked for I many years in small way by the ! Mcxicans of that section. The new and construct dams for ' water storage. They have an sbund | ance Of water in both the spring and | fall and will arrange to store it for use : the year around.-Tucson Post. /.
 Ore averaging well up in the hun - lreds of dollars in gold has been struck in the Orc Plata mine this week. The ore body is eighteen inches wide and appears to be new d chute. to the north of the big dyke. f, The owner, of the property are jubi- n ant over the strike and have no hesi- s ancv in saying that it is one of the s best the property has ever known. \ machine drill has been at work driy I ng the drift on the 2S0 level west and i; t is in this drift that the big ore was s encountered. This ore is so rich that z t will not have to be treated at the ,, mill. In the upper levels are thous- n inds of tons of fine milling ore that h Is being taken out and treated.- T Niugman Miner.
 F.. A. Riggs, who with party of n prominent mining men Of Bisbee are Q developing the Riggs Consolidated a mines, consisting of twenty claims, [ vas in town a couple of days last week. d Mr. Riggs reports the Riggs COnsoli- s' lated as looking very promising. b development work is be- N ng done ou these claims and a fine q showing is made. The deepest work c1 ngs is forty feet, showing rich car W 'ouate ore. The claims are located in e he Rincons about twenty-two miles il rom Benson. and are about four miles c rom the survey Of the Phoenix X c, Eastern. The ledge is about eighty u i've feet in width on the surface, and is highly mineralized, consisting of b yreen carbonate and oxide of iron DOT. Il ,hyry. A 20Ofoot tunnel will be il lriven, cutting the ledge nearly loo O eet in depth. The company contem- u plates very extensive development sC york in the near future. The com h ,any has bond on seven adjoining zC aims which are considerably develop h d with fine showing of rich ore.- u Seusou Press. ol
 d. A youthful mining expert, by the ri Iame of A. A. Steel, was here this W week. examining mining properties for o' he American Engineering company. n, nd because the out-crop of the veins tt