The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1907-05-02

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giving a value through the seven
feet, without sorting, of S47 per ton,
and these values will probably in
crease with depth. The Importance
of this strike is indicated by the
fact that no copper had been found
in the Last Chance vein, and none in
that portion of the camp, except in
, one level of the Viola, where ore
running three per cent. in copper
was found. Some distance from this
strike, in another portion of the
camp, rich copper values are found
in the Nelly BLY, and the r. Z. Lee.
Mr.. Fitz left the first of the week for
Elgin, Illinois, the company's head
quarters, to consult with the other
owners of the property regarding the
work to be done on it. He expects to
return in about ten days, and he is
not the. man to let this ore stay in
the ground. The Last Chance has
been idle for many years, although it
has been worked at times, and if some
of the former owners and workers
could see the strike they we're within
sixteen inches of, they would mourn
because they did not go those sixteen
inches.-Liberal
A sensational strike was made in
the main shaft of the San Juan mine.
north of Stafford, last week. At the
l30-foot level the force, engaged in
running crosscut, drifted into a
body of glance copper ore of a grade
that will average between and 10
per cent. The ledge has been pene-
trated for fifteen feet, but has not
as yet been crossed. The indications
are that the vein is fully twenty feet
wide at the point of discovery and
that it will materially widen out and
become vastly richer with depth.
The ledge encountered is in d quartz
porphyry formation and is a counter
part of the great producing veins
opened in the Clifton-Morenci dis
trict. The concentrator, with
daily capacity of fifty tons, is now
grinding away on the ores from this
new discovery. A smelter will proba-
bly, be the next step in the line of
equipment. The strike has been
carefully examined by a number of
disinterested mining men and is pro-
nounced one of the biggest ever
made i'm eastern Arizona. 1t is the
opinion of many that the vein has a
depth of at least 250O feet and that
with greater depth than the present
workings, rich sulphides will be en-
countered, making of the San Juan,
perhaps, one of the richest and great
est producing copper mines of the
country. Even though the vein does
not become richer with depth the
present grade of ore-high grade |
concentrating place the stock
holders of this company in the mil
lionaire class and give to Stafford one
of the biggest and best mines in the
territory. Thirty-fve men are now
at the mine and in the
course of few weeks the. force will |
be materially increased. This dis
covery will greatly stimulate mining
on the north side of the river and
will undoubtedly unloosen thousands
Of dollars for development purposes.
Big forces of men are being worked
on the Lone Star and Horse Shoe
mines with good prospects of uncov-
ering high grade ore at no distant
day, and the belief generally pre-
walls that the Stafford mining district
is on the eve of great boom.-Saf-
ford Journal.
Notwithstanding the local labor
situation, local mines for the greater
part seem to be holding to their
average in the way of output and the
gross tonnage of ore to be sent to the
;melters for April bids fair to very
nearly equal that of March. The
Copper Queen company is shipping
approximately 80 tons per day from
he Stag dump and the southwest
lump just south OF the Copper Queen
store. The Shattuck and Denn mines,
which were SO badly crippled at the
of the strike, are working
1 larger number of men than at any
lime since the strike was called, and
he gain at these properties seems to
De greater than at any of the other
mines where the loss of men was not
10 great. The entire district has felt
he effect of the strike, many men
iaving left the Warren district as
oon as the labor difficulty arose.
But local merchants complain of lit
lie dropping off IN business. A few
accounts have been Host because of
he departure of those who were
;alled out. at the beginning of the
rouble, but the loss is nominal and
business is progressing in its usual
way. At the smaller mines on the
outskirts of the district work is pro-
Iressing with yigor, none of the little
ellows west of the divide being at
Ill affected. by the strike of the
Western ederation.-Review.
Sore Nipples.
AnV mother who has had experience