The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1906-08-23
NEWS OF THE TERRITORY.

in the Salt River valley. 1t weighs
eleven pounds and three ounces, and
is without blemish. Taylor raised
the beet on his ranch in the Wilson
district, and states that he has sew
eral more as large.-Enterprise.
The Prescott Mining Review is in
formed that the Iron King company
at Blanchard has contracted for the
delivery of 1000 tons of ore per
month to the Arizona Smelling COM
pany at Humboldt, and that an aerial
tramway connecting the mine with
the smelter will be built The dis
tance between the two points is about
one and one-half miles.
j. K Mccarthy went to- Phoenix
1ast week to receive his portion of
The first payment on the Bryan
group. We congratulate him and
we also congratulate Mrs. Kinney.
They have earned and deserve the
neat little fortune they are to re-
ceive for the Bryan The total will
be S95, 900 or S47, 800 each. That will
keep the wo,f from their door for
some time.-Blade.
Yavapai county citizens have made
the discovery that they have been
behind other mining counties and
have failed to contribute any ores to
the mineral collection of the Univer-
sity of Arizona. Inasmuch as Yava-
pal county claims to have two-ffths
of the patented mining claims in the
territory, it is likely that ore samples
from that county will be in the col
lection at the University before fall.
Severiano Castro and D. G. Stevens
have prospect in the Box Canyon,
eighteen miles northeast of Florence
which, if it proves to be anything
easy street. A fair sample of the
ore assayed brought a return of
$l6.5O in gold per ton, S46.50 in silver
and Is ITO copper, a total of S91 per
ton. They have a four foot vein at
the surface, but as yet have done no
work on the claim and do not know
what will be the result as they go
down, but there is no reason to ex-
pect but that it will continue as
good as the sample already assayed.
!, They are preparing to sink on the
N~ein and will ship as soon as they get
carload to the Humboldt smelter.-
Prescott Miner.
The Arizona Commercial Copper
company is prosecuting development
work on the Copper Hill and Black
Hawk mines with the usual forces,
and with very satisfactory results.
The several levels of the Copper Hill
are looking exceedingly well, and es-
pecially the east drift on the third
level, which is in fine body of car
Donate ore. The work of opening
the seventh and eighth levels has be-
gun. The development of the east
drift on the 5O0-foot level of the
Black Hawk mine for the past two
weeks has been very interesting, and
the Improvement steady, and Pat
Rose, mine superintendent, informs
us that this drift looks better than
at any time since it was started,
showing seam of high grade car
Donate and glance ore a foot wide
and with other ore of a fair grade in
the face. Samples of carbonate and
glance ore brought to the Office dur
ing the past week will assay % to 30
per cent. copper.-Globe Belt.
Governor Kibbey has appointed the
following named delegates to the
national irrigation congress to be
held at Boise, Idaho, from Septem-
Der to 8: DR.. L. H. Thayer, Buck
eye; o. II. Christy, Phoenix; Charles
Peterson, Mesa; G. L. Steward, Mesa;
Andrew Kimball, Stafford; Epes Ran
dolph, Tucson; E. F. Sanguinette,
Yuma; DIR. E. B. Perrin, Williams;
j. w. Woolf, Tempe; Geo. N. Crosby,
st. Johns; Bishop Merrill, st. David;
VIM. P. Stead, Camp Verde; Charles
Balance, Yuma; Andres Rebel, Tue
son; J. j. Pool, Pool. This session of
the congress, as others have been.
will be one of great Importance. 1t
affords an organized means of the
expression of the sentiment of the
people on the subject of irrigation,
and while its declarations of policy
are not official, they are nevertheless
of great weight, and influential with
the national reclamation service.
The Imperial Copper company have
about $50 men at work shipping to
Douglas smelter from 100 to 16O tons
of ore every day.. So far this is the
largest copper property in Pima
county and the average grade of ore
all through runs over 10 per cent.
From the time the Imperial people
purchased the mines composing this
company, some four years ago, right
up to the present the property has
paid, in shipping ore, all develop
ment and d handsome profit besides.
There are many thousands of feet
of work done and the wealth of ore
in sight runs up into millions of dol
lars. There are some 45 locations
most all of which carry ore and
many of them yet undeveloped. This
property will, in the near future