The copper era., 1904-03-10
MAYFL0WER DISTRICT.
Mines Opening Up-ReductiOn Works
 Needed, Also Postal Route.

The rich gold strikes are still bein. . made, the Rogers boys having fOun
 the ledge that carries the free gold o g their property and are at work lik
 beavers. Their property lies south
 east Of where the first discovery O o gold was made. Finding the hoa rock lousy with gold, the ledge ha
 been traced into Henry Thom D. on.
 claims still southeast, in which be has
 found fine gold. Geo. W. Phillips has
 two locations still southeast and has
 found the same character Of rock
 which he thinks is the same ledge
 This makes about four miles this ledge
 has been traced and gold having been
 found the entire length. What seems
 strange tO everyone is that its the
 same character Of rock all the way.
 carrying the same iron and tale. the
 surface indications being yellow
 formation resembling a yellow po--
 phyry, but after foot or so. it shows
 10 be quartz. Phillips and Morris
 have found gold on their Copper Hill
 property which goes To show that the district Is rich in gold, only being d
 matter Of very short time, when il
 w,ll be second Cripple Creek
 Mr. Cotey Of Clifton, in company
 with mining man by the name Of
 Mason were out few days ago looking over some copper property owned by Mr. COtey and others. They were well pleased with the prospects, which they couldn't help from being, for the MayfiOwer district is rich in copper. and we claim that fl fourth of the money spent here in the proper way d. has been spent in the Clifton mines, this would be the richest district in the territory. It is rich in gold and silver as well as copper. so if sen1c -eeHaPafsvw would get hold of property here, put in smelter and treat eds som ore, i, would be tt.b9.i,dnr tb9.ei, dnrehi"6t pros pects having 12, Ij and 20 per cent. ! ore that the prOspectOr could wOrkln ! case they could have their ore treated l close at home, but as it is at present they could do nothing as the expense Of freighting, etc. eats up the profits, and its not so that every prOspectOr can take out car load Of ore in order 10 get reduced rates. II there was a GUS tom mill in reach they could get out ton or so, and have it treated which would enable them to get out few more tons, and show up their prop erty at the same time. There are, as we say, hundreds of prospects that would pay their way if the ore could
 
 ore that is from fifteen 10 twenty miles long and from five to eight miles wide. and outside of the Carlisle mines, there is not d shalt sunk oyer lOO-fOot deep, as the prOspectOr Is not able to go deeper and very few of them able to go that deep, when We all know that to make mines Is necessary tO 90 dOwn-the deeper the better. Capital is what they need and that they haven't got. The mines are here if they could only be developed.
 Mr. Steve Corley, Of Silver City, is the owner of some fine copper prop erty here on which he is doing cOnsid- erable development work. He thinks he has 3O-foOt ledge of solid ore at depth of 80 feet. He ;s cross-cutting his ledge now in order to find both walls
 The Duncan people have outlined a road from Duncan to the new camp which will be great telp to the peo- pie that are at work here, being so much nearer than Clifton, and much better route.
 The gold strikers here are trying to lease or get hold of the ten-stamp mill at Clear Lake in order 10 treat their ores. This would be the very thing if it cOald be done, as i: is only four miles 10 Clear Lake, the mill standing there doing no one any good or the country either, when, if some one would st2rt it up and treat the ores of the district it W auld be q great help to the prospcctors and (, untry general ly, though there could be oGGPut up on \ pache creek, where there is trrG,,,s- ands of wood and water and would be in the center Ot the district with the prospects already shown up and those that would be in case there was q mill close at hand. There could be fifty or more tons of ore gotten out daily, so it does look as though some one with the money would look into the matter. It surely would be q paying invest ment. There Is most any kind of ore through the district, free milling, smelting, concentrating and teaching. and you hear oi mining men that are anxious to get hold of q prOOO- sition of this kind, but so far they have failed to show up. They seem to think that there is nothing outside Of 1 Clifton or Morenci when if they woIld venture out into this country they would see that they were mistaken. 1 Some of them are looking for gold and silver, some want copper, but they | have the three all combined in the ] MdNiOWcT dS tue copper OTtS carry gold and silver enough to pay all the | expense of mining, transportation and ! treating of the same, so the copper is a clear profit. Nearly all the copper | ores of this district will do this at any rate, and if there was a shelter in i the district the prospector could make good wages taking out s and 10 per cent. ore, which would pay him from 8 to s per day in case they didn't have so far to. haul the ore. Consid- ering that copper was worth 10c that would be SIS per ton at $ per cent. if I am not mistaken, and we know Of hundreds of prospects in the district that one man could get out a ton every i two or three days if not more putting it at the worst, not saying anything about the high grade ore. Now if this Is no inducement to anyone in put ting in a plant here, we don't see why. KNOCKER. The entertainment at the Academy Opera house Tuesday and Wednesday