Arizona silver belt., 1904-02-18

feet of drifting from the 400-foot level
 of the property The work is to be
 directed westerly from the main shaft
 and it is thought the company will let
 other equally important contract ts and
 develop several promising properties
 of the ground. The fact that intitia-
 tory work looking to the reopening of
 this property has begun is regarded as
 a most encouraging sign among the
 residents of Pearce, who are hopeful
 of the early resumption of work on
 the scale heretofore operated by the
 Commonwealth Range News.
 E. $. Osborne from Bill Williams
 Fork has just made deal by which
 he takes over number of valuable
 mines near the Billy Mack properties
 on the Colorado river, near Parker.
 The mines are said to be the richest
 in that section and MT. Osborne be-
 lieves he has made a big hit in getting
 them under his control. He has been
 working a force of men on the various
 groups of copper and gold mines on
 Bill Williams Fork owned by himself
 and other parties and is getting big
 results. MT. Osborne shipped piece
 of ore from his new mines to Kingman,
 and it will go into the Arizona exhibit
 at St. Louis. The ore is an oxide and
 carbonate of copper, carrying values
 in gold and sllver.-Mohave Miner.
 Mir. Alfred S. Donau, who is very
 well known throughout Arizona, hav- ing at one time represented Pima county in the territorial legislature,
 was Nogales visitor yesterday in the interest of the American Industrial
 Developmentcompany which has been lately formed to work the famous Old Mowry lead'silver mine, and other properties in the Salero district, on d large scale. MT. Donau purchased couple of pumps for pumping out the water from the Mowry, and stated that | before long large number of men would be employed on that property, | which is reported to have furnished | large quan ti ties of lead to the Confed- crate army for use in making bullets | during the war of the rebellon.- Nogales Oasis.
 H. c. MoCreery, who is operating on the Copper Chief group of claims in the Johnson district, recently bonded from A. H. Wien, was In town Tues day, says the Wilcox Range News. In an interview with Mr. McCreery we learned that he had recently en- countered large body of sulphide ore of good value. In fact MT. McCreery left fair sample of the ore at this of. flee. The development work now per formed consists of shaft which is down some 200 feet and is all in ore. Two drifts have been run, one east and the other west. These are in about 30 feet and 40 feet respectively and all in ore. Mr. McCreery has met with success beyond the most sanguine ex- pectations and will develop something more extensive in the future. Should the ore hold out and main tain present values, his people will probably install a mill.
 Count MentschikoiT came in from the New Jersey mine last night with some ore in sacks which he will ship to the refinery through the Bank of Arizona. A sample of the ore was mad by A. D. Barnhart this afternoon and the values reached s71 ,Ol9 per ton. There is a streak of this ore running along the hanging wall in the proper ty, and While the values are not this high in all of it yet it is a fabulously rich streak of ore and being in d well defined vein these values are liable to be quite extensive or at least come in frequently. The streak is only a few inches wide but it does not take many tons of this kind of ore to run into money. Samples of the ore were seen by the Journal-Miner reporter and they were enough to cure person of sore eyes, the ore see ming to be nearly one-third gold This ore was struck some two three weeks ago.-Prescott Journal-Miner.
 J. F.. Pawley, who, in company with J. A. Aagard, recently returned to Prescott from their mining claims in the Harcouvar mountains, says the Courier, brought back with him some ore from the claims which carries $l25 per ton gold and copper. He says the veins are strong and that that section of the country will be heard from as bullion producer when the railroad gets close enough as to transportation facilities. Most of the ore carries a good deal of iron. The general average value of the ore ranges from $16 to S20 a ton. Mir. Pawley says he located the only gold carrying white quartz I l. .-l T..