The copper era., 1905-05-25
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The townsite of Williams, Arizona turns out to be placer ground, and everyone is digging for gold in his back yard. It is found from the grass roots down to 106 feet. In many places the gravel averages 60 cents per square yard. Vacant lots are at a premium.
 The Cochise Consolidated at Para disc, Arizona, has ordered a concen- trator which will be installed at once. The company expects to be shipping concentrates before the end of the summer. They are erecting substantial buildings and putting everything in readiness for perma- nent work.
 Rumor has it that there is to be a new railroad built by private capital in Cochise county, which will connect the mining camp of Paradise with the Ei Paso & Southwestern. The survey for this road was made by J. J. Johnson, the county surveyor, some time ago. He ran two lines, one on the E. P. & s. w. and one to the Southern Pacific. The latter line will be built
 O. L. Jones, of Oklahoma City, chief owner of the San Jose mine near Naco, is said to have bought bismuth mine of Bert Peterson, which is situated in the Rosario dis ff-iE nf ic ~l1 Hho% Peterson at one time shipped the ore from this property to Germany at profit of $500 per ton. A new strike is now reported in the mine. The ore also carries gold and copper values.
 The Greene Consolidated Gold com pany, exploiting the Santo Domingo placers on the Santo Domingo river, at Brisca, Sonora, is such magnifi cent success that its operation has attracted the attention of mining men everywhere. The company's I Ipiant, which is one Of the largest and best equipped of the kind in-+JhR-e, southwest, is pushing work night and day on its placer ground. As bed rock is approached, which on present work is about fifty feet from the surface, gravel to the value of 40 cents per yard,. containing much coarse gold, is mined, the bedrock being expected to be very rich. The plant is capable of handling 5000 yards each twenty-four hours, with ] two Lidgerwood hoists. Machinery valued at S5OO,OOO gold; consisting of battery of four boilers, Corliss en- zines, duplex pump of immense pow CT, several thousand feet of Hume, besides office buildings, hospital, stores and workmen's houses, all of brick and lumber, the entire works and surroundings being lit up at night by electricity, make La Brisca quite town. Monthly clean-ups are shipped by express to the New Or leans mint, and in value far exceed the expectations of the company Budget.
 As development progresses the wonderful riches of the gold belt that extends along the east side of the Colorado river in Mohave county is becoming better understood. The Gold Road vein is now being crotscut at depth of 600 feet. At this writ tug the crosscut is in six or seven feet and the rock glistens with gold. No doubt the vein is fully as large and the ore just as good as on the 800. Enough has been seen on the 600 to make sure of that, and the in dications are that the ore body con- tinues to widen from the 800 to the 600 as it did from the 400 to the 300. When an ore shoot is developed to depth of 600 feet and the ore con- tinues to show an increase in value as we'll as size, it is an encouraging sign for the district. Not all gold mines do that and usually timid capi- tai hold back until some one mine in a new district is developed to suf- ficient depth to determine whether the ore and values go down. Many prospective investor in the river gold belt has been watching the results of the crosscut at the bottom of the 600- foot shaft on the Gold Road mine. These conservatives can now get to work and open their gold mine as the values go down.-Mineral Wealth.