Arizona republican., 1906-08-26
CLIFTON AND VICINITY.

The Clifton Copper Era in it's latest issue says:-
 The Era is informed that a bond has been taken on the Tipton and Phillips properties and the Frank Morris prop critics in the Mayfower district for sixty days. after having been carefully examined by Vfdler Viderton. a we'll known expert of Silver City. The bond calls for cash at the expiration of the time specified. If this deal goes through, and it seems most probable that it will the Mayfiower district will at once be upt in a position to attract other capital, as MT. VidertOn is back ed by ample means, and has been largely responsible for the revival of mining in the Burro mountains of Grant county. There is no more prom ising district anywhere than the May flower and the wonder is that it has so long been neglected by mining men. Ambrose Burke, who is perhaps more largely interested in property in the Copper mountain district than any other individual in the district, was down from his camp this week. and brings some enCOura ging reports from that section of the camp. He is kept busy the entire year with a small force of men on assessment work on his own claims, or on claims in which he is i largely interested. He reports that section of the camp as livening up materially since the advent of the Gold Belt Development company into the district.
 Three shifts are now employed on the Chase Creek company's property. The big tunnel has now been driven 1.4O0 feet and is being pushed at the rate of 50 feet per month. Superin- tendent Stevens reports that the whole | face of the tunnel is in sulphur iron and copper. and he realizes that he is on the verge of important discoveries. The property is looking better now ! than it ever did in it's past history. ! The ground is now so hard that it does
 not require timbering which is quite
 saving to the company. The com pany has a sufficient amount of work | done to secure patents on more than | half it's holdings. The claims were | surveyed during the present summer, ! and will be patented during the coming Hyear.
 F. U. Beauchamp and E. H. Waldo
 were in town this week from the Gold 1 Belt Development cOmpany's property
 on Bonanza eulch near Morenci. and | from all reports their property is mak- | ing a most remarkable showing as de- 1 velOpment work progresses. In grad | ing for wagon road they recently cut
 a streak several feet wide of free mill l ing gold ore which goes from $40 to | $90 per ton. on this same lead al | some distance to the east they have a | shaft down forty feet and the ore ir 1 the bottom of it averages two ounces gold. But the strike which attracts l the greatest attention of mining men : is a large body of manganese cooper | ore which is now being exploited, and | which seems to give a general average
 of about 30 per cent. Several tons oi
 this ore is now being taken out daily | in development work, but as yet the | extent of the ore body is not known l though there seems to be no doubt O1
 it's permanency. The existence of thi:
 body of ore has long been known tc prospectors. who however, were under
 the impression that the manganese diC not carry copper in paying quantities
 and as they did not go to the trouble
 to have assays made, they missed al opportunity to locate a copper mine
 which will pay from the grass roots
 It is the intention of the management
 as soon as the road can be put in shap'
 to commence shipping this ore to thu
 Shannon shelter. The company's nev
 hoisting plant is now in commission
 and the work of sinking the maiI shaft is progressing.