Arizona republican., 1903-05-20
COPPER CLAIMS SOLD
La Gloria Go. Buys Ford Group in the
 White Tanks.

The Ford group of copper mines has been sold to the La Gloria Mining Co. for $45.000. There was a small cash payment. the remainder to be paid at the end of year The buyers have in reality been making small payments since they first secured a bond on the property about six months ago.
 The group consists of five claims that were discovered many years ago by Bert Ford and kept by him till yester- day. when they passed out of his pos session. The property is situated in the north end of the White Tank noun tains. about thirty-five miles northwest of Phoenix and thirty miles southeast Of the Vulture mine. It is eight miles from Beardsley on the s. F., P. & P. rail road and near the Agua Fria river. The principal development work is in an eighty-foot shaft at the bottom of which there is a twenty-five foot drift and about forty feet of other workings nearby. On another claim there is about fifty feet of work done. In the deeper shaft the pay streak was fifteen inches wide at the surface and is two feet wide at the bottom. The ore is
  gold values from S10 up. It is shipping ore, MT. Ford having shipped nearly all the ore he has taken out in the course of development. On another claim is a four foot ledge. at least that is what Mir. Ford calls it, though others say it is twenty feet wide. This ledge has been but little developed.
 La Gloria Mining company is an or ganization of Philadelphia capitalists, the president being Henry A. Bomberg- CT and the Secretary A. R. White Jr. Both gentlemen are here now and only a day or two ago returned from the mines. They are greatly pleased with the appearance of the property and say it looks better even than they had sup posed from the samples sent them here tofore. MT. Bomberger will leave on this mornings train for his home in Philadelphia. Mir. White has already purchased some camp supplies and will leave for the mine tomorrow to make arrangements for active development work. He expects to employ force of about ten men within the next ten days and later increase it as rapidly as con- sistent with economy.
 The porperty at thlS time IS or course hardly developed beyond the prospect stage, but its appearance is flattering. The new owners are confident of it's value and announce that there will probably be very little if any stock in the company for sale. While the install lation of reduction works is yet some distance in the future one plan under considera tion is the erection of a smelter at the Agua Fria river near Beardsley. It is only eight miles dis tant. over a good road, and an abund- ant water supply can be had by pump ing. while it is probable there would be an opportunity for considerable custom smelting.
 The Republican only a few days ago published an article regarding a new strike and older prospects under de velor gent in the south end of the White Tanks. also referring to the construction of a mill at Buckeye to work these ores. It is pleased also to note this improved situation in the north end of the range. With mill at one end of the range and a smelter at the other the White Tanks district ought to become a lively one.