The copper era., 1905-12-07
NEWS OF THE TERRITORY.

W. F. Nichols, territorial secre
 tary, has received from the inter
 national jury of awards of tn
 Louisiana Exposition diplom;
 granted to the territory by that body
 which certifes that Arizona has beer
 awarded the gold medal for the bes
 display of minerals at the exposition
 A rich strike in the Tiger Colo
 company's mine in Yavapai count.
 has just been officially announced
 On the HOO level a two-foot vein o1 sulphide ore was struck October I5 which carries values of $50 per tor in gold and silver. Since that date the ore seam has widened to three feet with no sign of pinching.
 The Montezuma Copper company ot Sonora last week shipped across the lines twenty-six cars of copper con- centrates for the Copper Queen. The shipment of copper concentrates is the largest that has been made for some time. It weighed a total of 1,3OO,OOO pounds, and was valued at nearly S3O,OOO. These concentrates now go to the Old Dominion shelter at Globe.
 The Chloride Gold mining company is working quite a force of men on the Samoan mine in Mohave county and getting rich ore. At present 100 tons of ore is piled up at the Chloride depot awaiting transporta- tion to the Needles shelter. The company has a fine plant of machin- cry on the mine and the introduction of air drills has aided materially in the economical handling of the property.
 Work on the San Francisco mine in Mohave county has been suspended pending the installation of the big plant of machinery. Superintendent Pickering returned a few days az o from San Francisco, where he pur- chased an eighty horse-power-engine and compressor and five big drills. Hereafter the work in the mines will be done with machines and a great saving over hand work is anticipated. It will be about six weeks before the machines are in working order.
 Development work continues on the group of molybdenite mines in Cedar Valley mining district. The veins are the largest in the world, carrying this character of ore, and it is ex- pected that big shipments will be made from them in the near future. So far the development shows the veins to be fully twenty feet in width and the rock to be we'll impregnated with the metal. A streak fourteen inches in width runs through the middle of the vein and carries values of over forty per cent. molybdenite.
 On the 600 level of the Gold Road mine the crosscut is in the biggest and richest body of ore ever found in that wonderful property. It is said that eight feet of ore averages more than $1O0 to the ton and the drift has not yet cut through the vein. Drifts are being run off in this ore and station cut out. It is expected that the ore on the 600 will exceed in rich ness that on the 800, as at the shaft above the ore was not nearly so rich. Everywhere in the mine improve ments in the ore value is noted and the bodies are immense. On the | 500 the ore still continues to the west.-Kingman Miner.
 Another company has begun opera tions in the Tombstone district and will doubtless be numbered among the early producers of the camp. The Cochise Gold and Silver company has a valuable group of mines near the | State of Maine and in the heart of a richly mineralized section upon which work has been ordered started | and will soon be well under headwaY. | This company is a recent organiza- tion composed of Pittsburg and east ern stockholders of which MT. J. M. Montgomery, of Pittsburg, is presi- dent. MT. Montgomery was formerly | heavily interested in the Vizna and Sterling Silver company in this dis trict while J. s. Brooks, of the Ma rine National Bank of Pittsburg, | who is treasurer, is also interested in mines in Arizona. H. T. Fisher, who | is one of the pioneer mining superin- tendents of this district and an acknowledged authority on the ores and formations of Tombstone, is m charge as manager and will person. ally look after the local operations of the company. A large supply of lumber and mining material was sent to the mines last week. Preliminary steps have already been taken to start work.-Tombstone Prospector.