Bisbee daily review., 1906-08-23
THE CLIFTON MINES,
Cooper Era

The Era is informed that a bond has been taken on the Tipton & Phil lips properties and the Frank Morris properties in the Mayflower district for sixty days, after having been carefully examined by Vidler Wider ton, a well 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 May flower district will at once be put in a position to attract other capital, as Mir. Viderton is backed by ample means, and has been largely re- sponsible for the revival of mining in the Burro mountains of Grant county There is no more promising district anywhere than the Mayflower, 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 encouraging reports from that section of the camp. He is kept busy the entire year with a small force of men on assessment work on hls own claims. or on claims in which he | is largely interested. He reports that section of the camp as livening up ma terially 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 14C0 feet, and is being pushed at the rate of 50 feet per month. Superin- tendent Stevens reports that the whole | face of the tunnel in sulphur, iron and copper and he realizes that he is oq the verge of imuortant discoveries. | The property is looking better now i than it ever did in it's past history. i The ground is now so hard that it
 does not requir etimbering, which is quite saving to the company. The company 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 year.
 Shipments were commenced last
 week from the Ash Peak mines to the
 Shannon smelter. It is expected that between four and five hundred tons
 monthly will be shipped to the Shan non The value of the ore is in the silver it contains, though it's principal
 value to the smelter is for the silica
 it carries, being crushed and used for converter lining. The company is now
 in a position to produce much larger tonnage than that taken by the Shan non, hence it is likely that shipment
 will be made to Douglas, where silva is also in demand, being shipped in from Globe The Ash Peak company is now in a position to develop its property from the income derived from ore shipments. It is also likely that the company will soon commence the erection of a cyanide plant, whereby it will be able to treat all of it's low grade ores without the expense of shipping The company has been op-
 erating several years and has a well
 developed property, and is pushing
 exploration work as fast as possible.
 In addition to it's low grade ores it also
 has mine which is producing ore that
 will average from $40 to s400 per ton
 in silver.
 E. U. Beauchamp and E. H. Waldo were in town this week from the Gold Belt Development company's property on Bonanza gulch near Morenci, and
 from all reports their property is mak
 ing most remarkable showing as de velonment work progresses. In grad ing for wagon road they recently cui a streak several feet wide of free mill ing gold ore which goes from $40 tc s90 per ton. On this same lead al some distance to the east they have z ? shaft down forty feet and the ore il t the bottom of it averages two ounce. I gold. Rnt the strike which attract!
 the greatest attention of mining mel