Arizona republican., 1904-02-24
ITEMS OF A WEEK.
Mining News From the Mining Dis
 tricts Of Pinal County.


 
 The following items of mining news from Pinal county districts are taken from the Florence Blade of Saturday:
 James McSherry was down from his Kelvin mining properties, Tuesday. laying in supplies. He is expecting a party of stockholders in his prop critics to arrive here from Omaha, the latter part of this month and there will probably be something doing at the McSherry mines shortly after the arrival of the capitalists.
 Frank Marion and Louis Gilson have obtained a lease on the upper level of the Ray mine, and are now engaged in taking out shipping ore which they will store at the mine till the arrival of the Phoenix and Eastern at Kelvin.
 Contractor Wilson, who was opening a seventy five foot tunnel on the Ari- zora King mine, in Box Canyon, for C. G. Werner has completed his con- tract. The tunnel cut the vein at a depth of seventy feet and shows vein width at that point of three feet and all ore. He also opened thirty foot tun- mel on the Arizona Blade claim which also belongs to Mir Werner and is an extension of the Arizona King. The eA showing.
 C. D. Reppy has let a contract for Q forty-foot shaft on the Calumet min ing claim, for the owner, Territorial Auditor W. F. Nichols. The shaft has attained a depth of fifteen feet and shows pay streak four feet wide Samples taken across this four feet of ore, returned by assay 15 per cent copper. and twelve ounces silver and $S gold per ton. This claim is situated about one mile south of the headgate of the Florence canal and about eleven miles east of Florence.
 We learned from Deputy Sheriff Mel lin, of Kelvin. Saturday. that James Elder and l.. Citadlni have made a new gold discovery in the vicinity of Kelvin that promises to develop into a very valuable property. The vein is eight feet wide and the ore shows free gold and horns gold in large quanti- ties.
 Hi Sears team passed through here Monday enroute to Superior with the mammoth new Snow pump to be in- stalled at the Superior double -compart- ment shaft. This ponderOus pumping machine attracted a great deal of atten- tion as 1t passed through here. It las six inch suction and six inch dis charge and will throw 100000 gallons in twenty-four hours.
 Hon. Tom Parish and A. l.. Hensf aw, pioneer and prominent citizens of Phce- nix, were pleasant visitors at the B.ade sanctum Saturday. They had been to the Kelvin and Riverside districts to examine some mining properties.
 F. H. Berry and Tom Davis, two pros pectors from Phoenix are at work on an iron lead. situated about one and one half miles south of the south butte on the east side of the large wash which comes into the Gila twelve miles east of Florence. The lead is twenty feet wide and they claim they can horn gold in quantity from any part of it.
 Judge L. c. Herr has completed the annual assessment work for the year 1904 on his gold claims in Haystack valley and in dcirg so uncovered a four foot vein of quartz in one of the claims that shows splendid values in geld, copper and silver. He cut this vein at a depth of thirty feet
 J. R. E,mmons and J. T. Martin brought to the Blade sanctum Tuesday three ore samples from prospects re- gently located by them in the Mineral district, this county. One of the sam ples represents gold ore from a three foot vein crossing the head of Box canyon. This ore showed free gold in abundance that was plainly visible to the eye without the aid of glass. An other of the samples was copper Crc from a four foot vein crossing Cctton- wood canyon. This ore shows copper sulphurets, oxides and glance, and is beyond question a very high grade cop per ore. The boys claim this ore to be representative of a two foot pay streak. Another of the samples exhibited was high grade lead ore from a six foot vein located near by and running paral- Tel with the copper vein. The boys had just completed their location work On these claims and came down to have their location notices recorded. They had been prospecting over in the Tonto country before they came here locating some good prospects there, but state that they have found more ore in sight oH the surface in the Mineral Hill dis trict. within the radius of a few milss than they saw in the entire Tonto re- zion.