Arizona republican., 1905-08-18
HINES AND MINING
Things Going on Under Ground ir
 Various Localities.
CHA COUNTY.

 ly in September on the Iron Cap mine in Globe district. This is mining prop i, erty belonging to Mr. A. C. Sheldon, of Phoenix. who has succeeded in enlist ing the necessary capital for develop ment, in salem and Beverly. Aass and in the carrying out of the com pany's plan for putting the mine on a paying basis. His interests in Ari- zona are large and varied. and for 15 years he has been active in securing the cooperation of eastern capitalists in developing the resources of the territory. His intere st in the Iron Cap property will be productive of much good tO the corporation now in con- , trol.
 A wonderfully rich discovery of gold ofe kas been made in the Chirieahua mountains. near Das Cabezas, by Jeek l Garden. He described the discovery to ! friends in Globe, one day this week, i being the biggest strike made in that ! district for hong time. The ledge Is about five feet wide, and has native i gold and silver glittering all over it. i The discovery has created quite an ex- 1 Citement in the camp and people are i visiting the property daily. There is ] a streak about a foot wide on the i hanging wall that will probably run over s1,OO0 per ton.
 | MOHAVE COUNTY. Two new strikes have recently been made in the Black Hawk mine in i 8earchlight district. Another gold dis covery of equal importance has been made in the Wedge mine, which is the most extensive of the lower vein of i the Quaker City mine. from which thousands of tons of high grade ore were shipped in former years. Two
 ,e ] encountered, 20 feet below the surface, on the hanging wall. In addition to ! this there are five feet of good milling ore.
 The footwan of the Silver Legion mine. in Fl Dorado canyon. was brok- en into a few days ago and found to be ; quartz porPhry of a highly mineral ized character. instead of the expect ! ed country rock. An average sample for the two feet exposed. assayed 60 , ounces of silver and S1o in gold. The width of the new ore body is not yet 1 known.
 ! Much work is in progress at the New Era mine m Fourth July rnoUntain. The shaft, which is 200 feet deep, will be sunk immediately to tke 356-foot level. whence drifts will be i run east and west A heavy flow of water has been struck in the bottom of the shaft at a depth of about geo feet. It raised. during A hours, 70 feet in the shaft. driving the miners from their work and necessitated the clos ing down of the mine until the Ginch pump, now ordered, arrives and is i'm i stalled.
 FINAL COUNTY.
 Shipments of copper ore from the Imperial Copper cosnpany's mines. in Silver Belt district. run as high 1e5 tons daily. A large trailer plant is being installed at one of the shafts to operate the machinery. I YUMA COUNTY.
 The Arizona Copper and Gold com pany has FEn a tunnel On the east portion ef it's claim distance Of 5s feet and tapped good, strong five foot vein of shipping copper and gold ores. At the main working a shaft goes down z20 feet, continues in ore, and to a ledge that appears to be about 20 or 30 feet wide. The mine is located in the Harcuvar mountains. in tte northeastern corner Of the county. GRAHAM COUNTY.
 Parties representing a Colorado com pany are at the Polaris mine, at Cliff ton, for the purpose of opening up and giving that property very thorough working. Manager SmeetinS will re- main and direct affairs in the develop meat of the mine, and will have charge ef the property. The contract with the Colorado people calls for the eKFeDd ituFe of s750,6
 By the first of the new year the SEannon company WiIl have a plant in operation that will treat gold and sll- , yer oTes as well as copper.
 PIMA COUNTY. , Prosecuting on the 2G0-foot Level of the Gould mine, Is miles vest Tucson. has shown that the copper bearing ore was con tinuoNs, and indicating better with depth The ore is ss feet wide 2 250 feet depth on the dip, and it has been proven by development that it is true Assure vein, a fact which Sec fetaFy Will D2ly. of the Gould co4m pany. said was official. s. Fl. Gould was l in Tucson the past week with q big l specimen of ore from the erossc4t at
 { he 209 level and it looked good to all
 N'io examined it.