Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1904-11-16
IN THE EUREKA DISTRICT.
Activity is Resumed on an Old and
 Well Known Property.

b. w. Moody, a mining man of this city and an officer of the American Gold Mining company has just return ed from the Eureka district, Arizona, where the company has property. The Eureka district is in Yavapai county, about eighty miles west of Prescott.
 "Before the hot weather set in there was considerable mining activity throughout that section of Arizona, " said MT. Moody, in a recent issue of the Los Angeles Express. ''l am look ing for resumption of 1t, of course, now that cooler weatber has come. The whole Eureka district is heavily mineralized, and with capital and development there IS no doubt a num- Der of big mines will be opened in the future in addition to those already there.
 ''Our property is known as the Blacksmith group of claims and is sit uated about a mile and half from Copper creek. It originally was To- cated by an old mining man, who was thoroughly familiar with that section of the country. He sunk a number of prospect holes on the property, suffi- cient to prove up the ore body, but very little beyond that in the way of development. He was unablesto go on with the work in proper manner and it was purchased by the American Gold Mining company.
 ''l went down to look the property ovre and am more than satisfied with the prospects. There are five distinct lodges running through it and after a careful survey we decided that all of them could be cut by driving tunnel at point 15O yards from the camp.
 The men were set to work on this mad had gone only few feet into the mountain when we discovered a num- Der of small lodges averaging from two to six in Ines wide, and a little further on opened up what is known as the Boulder ledge. We expect to cut the Blacksmith ledge which is the main ore body, within sixty days.
 "There are n number of good mines In our vicinity. One of them is the Ajax, which is just north of the Boulder claim. Considerable devel- opment las been done on that proper ty, but it has not been with down to date methods. Nevertheless, 1 under stand the owners have taken out more i than s140,0 in gold by means of the i arrastra process.
 Undoubtedly the largest and best | mine in that section, however, is the Hillside mine, which belongs to Jack Lawler. That also is to the north of | us. The property has been tied up in litigation for some time, but recently the suit resulted in favor of LawIer, and active operations have been re- sumed. Lawler has taken considerably | more than Sl,000, 900 from the proper ty, and mining experts who have visited | It say it is one of the great mines of | the country. About 4,000 feet of development work has been done in the property and the ore bodies are said to be immense.
 Copper creek practically is a mass of copper from one end of it to the other. You can see it in the outcrop- ings in every direction, and the effects are evident in many ether ways. For instance, threw horseshoe nail into the waters of the creek one day, and IS hours later took it from the water and found it covered with a fine de- posit of copper. MT. LawIer has taken a great deal of copper out of Copper creek, and made handsome thing out | of it. The district is beginning to attract considerable attention, and new properties are being located and opened up all the time"