The copper era., 1906-01-04
NEWS OF THE TERRITORY.

Gold Road mill last week. These bars are now coming in weekly
 The ore is worked up to a high per
 centage by the new grinding process
 in the mill.-Kingman Miner.
 A cave on No. l level, of the Sa-
 moan mine, owned by the Chloride Gold Mining company, opened up a body of ore carrying big values
 in native silver. This ore was quite
 unexpected and has caused consider | able excitement at the mine. Or the lower level north the ore body
 continues in width and richness as ii is driven ahead. At the present time the property never looked better an6
 the low shelter rates and freight
 tolls gives it advantages never be-
 fore enjoyed.-Kingman Miner.
 On the 600 level of the Gold Road
 mine the ore body is showing up won- derful proportions. Below a point where little if any ore was found on the 500 level the ore shows width of eight feet and averages more than Sl00 to the ton in gold. Drifts are being carried east and west from the shaft and good ore is found in each. On the 800 level the biggest bodies of ore are found, being far and away richer than on the level above and longer by more than 100 feet. It is considered the greatest gold mine in the United States by mining men conversant with conditions at the roperty.-Kingman Miner.
 The board of supervisors of Coco nino county, Arizona, has asked the government to and it in the payment tof bonded indebtedness amounting to S159,000. This indebtedness was incurred by Yavapai county before Coconino county was formed and was at one time declared by the courts to be invalid, but the government af- rewards said that the bonds should stand. Following this the govern ment has taken over a million and a half dollars of assessable property from the county and placed it within the several forest reservations.
 Some days ago the habitually false and invariably inaccurate Arizona Star delivered one of its long preach ments about the benefits to be de- rived for Arizona by the passage of the joint state bill. The Star stated that the bill now pending in congress appropriates S5,OOO,OOO to Arizona the Great" for school purposes. We have carefully scrutinized the Hamil- ton bill and it contains no such pro- vision. The Mathematician terri tory bill provides for an appropria- tion of 5000, ,000 for that proposed state in lieu of certain swamp lands. But there is no such appropriation as that stated by the Star in the Ari- zona-New Mexico bill. This is but an incident, however. Joint Statehood would be just as obnoxious to Arizona If the enabling act offered S25, 5,OO0,000 or $5O,OOO,O0O. The liberty and autonomy of Arizona are not for sale.-Citizen.
 Last week William Sweeney, for fifteen years a mining man in Mohave county, left his home in Kingman, saying to his wife, "I am doing my self or no one else any good" He walked the distance of block and was seen to pull a revolver from his pocket. He immediately thrust the weapon against his head and fired. The wound was a mortal one, death ensuing within two hours. Sweeney was we'll to do and the only trouble that might have influenced the deed was a slight attack of sickness.
 Public Examiner Foster, who has just returned to Phoenix from Pres colt, seems to have stirred up the county officials of Yavapai county almost as much as he did recently when he found several of their bonds defective. Foster spent several days in Prescott, as the result of which he has formulated a report for Governor Kibbey, containing all that he found out of joint, and recommending SliSlIlS ILelC :" III put AhOIN III conformity of the law. Perhaps, the biggest bombshell exploded in the camp of the Yavapai supervisors was an order from Foster that they must forthwith put all the money-paying slot machines on the same level with gambling games, and charge a gam bling license for them. Foster is said to have found twenty-three slot machines running in Prescott on which no license is being paid. He will recommend that these not only pay a license, but that the machines paying money instead of cigars or checks, be closed down by the super visors, unless they pay the gambling icense.-GaZette.
 Last week a party of well known men, of Williams, departed overland for the desert region of Lower Cali fornia on a general prospecting trip. The party, which is composed of F. R. Nellis and son, John, Rube Adams and Tom Barney, goes fully prepared for an extended stay, and though they may not be able to locate the lost HPe0 Leo Smithn hills of UOld