Arizona silver belt., 1904-01-21

sunk to depth of nearly 100 feet and
 the vein crosscut at different points.
 The owners are keepiug steadily al
 work, believing that they have big
 fortune in store for them.
 L. A scowden, a Los Angeles min.
 ing expert, representing Salt Lake
 mining capitalists, was here this week
 making an examination of the Hall
 and Lane mining properties with q
 view to purchasing the latter The
 group embraces both gold and copper
 claims and lies along the line of the f Phoenix X Eastern railroad, about
 twenty miles east of Florence. Messrs.
 Hall and Lane have done a large
 amount of work on the various claims
 and they make a fine showing of values
 in gold, copper and silver, and they
 are large enough to make a good prop.
 osition for strong company.-Flor
 ence Blade.
 Count Mentsohikotf, who came in
 from the Bradshaw mountains, reports
 a rich strike in the New Jersey mining
 claim, owned by A. 0. Gilmore and
 Charles Bradbury, and which is being
 worked under lease and bond by Count
 Men tschikotf. The ore body or rich
 streak is said to be from four to eleven
 inches wide and assays of grab sam
 pie gave value of $6,743 per ton.
 Samples have been picked which run as high as Sl0,000. The mine has pro duced extraordinary rich ore in the
 past, ore being found in small pockets or kidneys. The claim is located in the Bradshaw mountains near the Crowned King mine and in proximity to number of other good claims which have been producers in the past. Journal Miner.
 Five years ago ChaS. H. Echelberger was a prospector in Arizona. He owned pair of overals, shirt, two burros and couple of hobnailed shoes. One day he climed hill that raises it's sun.ScOrched back between the Cobra do and Gila rivers, and the nails in his shoes scratched the formation. When he looked down at the nail marks he nearly went crazy. The rock was spotted and scanned with gold. He had discovered the King Of Arizona mine which is daily adding thouSands of dollars to the gold output of the territory. He sold his interest for S250, 900, and since then has been in- dulging in the luXurieS of life in San Francisco, and has now invested in business that pays him less, but gives him more leisure.
 George Hamlin has returned to Phoenix from Los Angeles in the in- terests of the Relief mine, twenty-two miles noi invest of Phoenix. He placed an order for a com plete r2duc- tion plant. The machinery will be on the ground as soon as possible. The plant is to be roller process aud will have a capacity of 30 tons per day. The plant is large enough for practical work. The Relief management be- | lieveS it will return results that will | make feasible the construction of just | as large mill as they may desire. The | mine has been explored to depth of 300 feet and there are available for | stOping on the upper levels ore bodies | of unusual richness and in various | openings, while there is already on | the dump su tiicient ore to keep the mill busy.
 A representative of the Era last week | had the pleasure of visiting the prop. erty of the Polaris company, and found | the work progressing nicely. The or, in the south half of the Golden Eagle | vein has been uncovered for several l hundred feet, which will average from IS inches to ? feet in width and assays | about $50 in gold and silver end about 10 per cent copper. On the north | workings of the same lead the ore av- erages much higher, running from Sl00 to $50 in gold and about 75 ounces silver, besides some copper. Manager is naturally we'll pleased with the Golden Eagle, but he appre hends that the company 's big mines will be developed on the Black Prince lead, which shows ore values for 70 feet in width This is copper prop osltion but also runs in gold. The has splendid showing for gold producers. Copper Era.
 We are reliably informed, says the County Miner, that the rich strike, referred to in these columns some weeks ago, upon claim said to have been abandoned by the Gold Creek Mining company, is likely to prove vertable bonanza, and that | the statement of the find having been | a1a np a ho ,r,uoI uyop