Arizona republican., 1904-03-03
THE MINING INDUSTRY
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other companies and properties in the
 district arrived from the east last
 week. They will remain some time.
 Mir. Hagen has not been in the camp for a year and a half, and he vas greatly surprised at the many changes since that time
 Duke Await, who with Ben M. Craw- ford, has bond on some very valuable gold claims in the new Gold Hill dis trict reports that he has now all of the claims surveyed and is ready to commence development work. Duke is an old time miner and when he says | that the new district is about as en-
 couraging as anything he ever ran across, it means something. All os the veins so far as prospected run well in gold and all who have claims in the district are expecting a lively season. Joseph Tanner, president and gen eral manager of the Santa Rosa Mi T. | ing company. this week bonded 339,
 200 shares of the capital stock of the company to J. E. Thompson of Clifton,
 for the sum of $25,OOO. The company is stocked for 500.000 shares, and as Mir. Thompson has control of the com 1 pany, he will at once proceed with the development of the property on d more l claims adjoin holdings of the A C. company on the coronado mountains and have number of excellent ledges running through them. Some of the richest c-a in the district has been taken from these claims but their .rl eatest wealth is Tn the lower grade ores. nf which the property has won- cerful showing. MT. Tanner has oWneI thece o!aiJns about fifteen years, and during the past few years he has done more than 1000 feet of work on them. No man in the district is better de- serving of a stake than Joe Tanner
 and his friends will be glad to know that he is now on Easy street. He will re- main with the new mana cement.
 The strike of sulphidas in the tunnel O. the Chase Creek company has Teen tie general subject of conversauCn among m 'rins men during the past week The great LOngfelloH Ieal which rIns through the claims of the company was cut by the tunnel at I%but FOG f. ct, and the entire face O. tie tunnel IS now in ere estimated a. from |" Ter cent. Fl. face of the tunnel is at a depth of mora than :.CO feet from iha surface which will be increased foot for foot as the tuunei proceeds hence it will not take long to block out an immense tonnage of the Cle. The full importance of the strike will be determined as the work progresses, but I. N. Stevens, the SUD erintendent of the property, under worse Judgment the tunnel was located and the work done, is of the opinion that he is just breaking into an im- mense body of high grade sulphides for which the Longfellow mine on the left side of the gulch is justly famous With the exception of the tunnel re- gently started by the A. c. company to open the Longfellow at great depth. the tunnel on the Chase creek property is tn edeepest workings in the camp. be- ing now 1,200 feet lower than the shaft on the old Copper King mine of the New England company. This demon- strates beyond question that the sul- phides of this camp go down and it also demonstrates that the great value of the property between Chase creek and the holdings of the New England company, nearly two miles distant. As stated in the Era two weeks ago. the Chase Creek company is ideally situ- ated for economical working The. mouth of the tunnel is only few hun- feet from the track of the Coronado railroad to which the ore can be tram med into bins. and then conveyed by train to Clifton, q distance of less that four miles, for treatment. It is now contidentially expected that. the Chase Creek company will soon be in smelt- ing ore, after which arrangements wilt be made to convey the ore to markeJ. and another producer added to the dis trict