Arizona republican., 1905-09-08
MINES AND INNING
Things Going on Under Ground In
Various Localities.
cocHIsE COUNTY.

| bee IS building two new furnaces to
! be known as Nos. Z and 3. The first
/ is a large one. and considerable troG-
I BILE was at first experienced before 1t
could be made to perform its work in
a proper manner. 1t was started the
! past week and ran for Height hours
when it was found necessary to close
it down. An additional amount of skill
I ed labor, however. started it anew and
since then it has been giving good sa-
tisfaction. The second furnace to be
known as No. 8, has but recently been
commenced, but work upon it will keep
steadily forward until completed.
The Copper Queen company is also
having much trouble in the drilling OF
a We'll At depth OF 430 feet there
were = crack and snap and the drill
was broken into two pieces. There was
no known means how to extract the
broken bit from the drill hole other
than by shooting the rock. and this was
finally resOrted to. Fifty pounds Of
powder was put down and fired off
without result. This charge and shot
of giant powder was followed by 100
pounds being put in and when that
proved futile the derrick was moved
and is being set up about 300 feet from
the abandoned we'll and its broken bit.
The smelter people have been trying
for some time to develop a well SINH
lar TO that belonging to the Calumet
& Arizona smelter, but they have not
been able to do so. and as a conse-
quence water is at a premium at the
Copper Queen smelter. To this end
and extent the company mas gone to
the expense of building a reservoir in
the ground which holds 100000 gall
Ions of water. and this reserve is kept
up by saving every gallon of water
possible.
GRAHAM COUNTY.
Adequately large freight teams are
busy hauling boarding house supplies
and equipment for the Polaris mine
above Clifton. This is the second step
towards active operations that has
been made on that immense property.
since it was financed by a Leadville
Colorado company a short time ago.
The first step was made prior to this
in the grading of grounds for new
buildings and in the sinking of the old
shaft. with a new backing of $75O.00O
in cash that was made by the Leadville
people, this group of twenty-six claims
is bound to make a big showing in the
mining industry OF Clifton and ada
cent territory.
F. G. Alsdorf superintendent of the
Cuprite Copper company's property
eight miles south of Clifton and in the
canyon above the Metcalf mine reports
strike of much Importance to his
company which was made on the Cup
rite claim, one of the twenty-t two
claims in the group The strike was
a vein averaging from eighteen inches
TO two feet of ore that will assay from
forty weight to fifty per cent copper.
The depth of the discovery was forty
feet from the surface and was made
on a drift from the main shaft 1t is
a vertical vein and bears every evil
dence of being permanent. 1t is the in
tentiOn of the company to crosscut
from the bottom of the main shaft
which IS down something more than
100 feet when it is expected that the
vein will be struck and prove the value
and further extent of the new ore body.
The company Is now being financed by
Columbus, Ohio capitalists, who have
ample means at their hands to develop
the property in a systematic way. The
company which is now about one year
old has been working con tinuouslv |
with the exception of a few months. A |
new sixnorse power Fairbanks Morse !
gasoline hoist is now at the freight de- |
pot waiting for the freight wagons TO !
haul 1t to the mine and put in COM |
mission.
A strong company has taken hold OF
the oil fields about Stafford and has
boring operations. Peter |
Anderson will have the supervision OF |
the development work. The company !
has been organized for $1,000. 900.
MOHAVE COUNTY.
A nice and fairly RIGA ledge Of ore
has been opened up in the shaft of the
Hot Tom mine at Chloride. belonging
to T. B. Scott and the work Of sinking
the shaft is progressing quite speedily. |
The shaft is down fifty feet, but be-
fore this progresses much deeper a
gasoline hosting engine will be in
stalled to facilitate hosting which so
far. mas been done by rope and wind
lass.
After a long siege of difficult work
in breaking through the very hardest of |
dOlomite and feldsar rock. the Connor-
mine at Chloride, has en-
tered a five foot vein of high grade sill |
yer ore, although the ledge mates car
ry some values in gold and copper. The |
mine was equipped with a 200 ton con-
centrating plant about six years ago a |
large and magnificent boarding and |
lodging house and a fine office for the |
force Of clerks and officials Of the COM
pany, all Of which. excepting the bunk |
house which was burned soon after be-
ing built, are standing yet and are in |
active service.
Edward Clark of Spokane. Wash. |
has taken a bond and lease on the yell |
low Ned group of mines in Ell Dorado |
district of James Bohne The locator |
and first owner of the property |
treated the ore by the cyanide process
in forty gallon barrels and succeeded |
in making quite a considerable amount /
of money in this way
James Crawford. a miner well known |
in the mines of the county was brought
in from Gold Basin a few days ago
with pneumonia and placed
In the county hospital where he died
the same night.
An Atchison girl was gay and happy
three years ago. Lately she is morose
and sour. Iris is the trouble: She is