The copper era., 1907-05-09
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latter was given his liberty and los
no time in getting back to his train
whereupon the train continued on 1t
journey to the border cities. In the
meantime the willy Judge telegrapheC
to the officers in Nogales, Sonora, tt
arrest the brakeman on the arriva
of the train. A short distance out OF
town the brakeman made his way
over the top of the coaches and con
cealed himself in the front end ol
the train. AS soon as the trair
slowed up within the town limits the
Nogales officers climbed aboard and
began search through the coaches
for their man. The train reached
the station and came to a stop with
the engine and tender close to the
line. The brakeman emerged from
his hiding place and slid off on the
safe side.
The chief forester of the Govern.
ment makes some explanations con
cerning the 100000 acres of forest
reserves recently set apart by the
Presidents proclamation, which may
be of interest to some of our readers
He says efforts will be made to induce
settlers to take up this land as rapidly
as possible, and explains that they in.
tended to classify as soon as possible
small tracts of agricultural land with
in reserves that they may be thrown
open to homesteads. Miners are not
restricted from prospecting in the
forests. All timber will be sold to any
who want to buy without regard tc
station. No interference with grazing
in the reserves is contemplated and
no fee will be charged. Land within
reserves is open to use as sites for ho-
tells, stores, residences and other legiti.
mate purposes. Improvements OF
all kinds are welcomed.
Santos Balves, an employe OF the
Burro Mountain Copper company at
Leopold, was accidently killed in a
cave-in last week. Balves
was working in the ST. Louis mine
when a large boulder fell upon him,
killing him instantly. The stone was
of such weight as to require the
combined effort of eight men to lift
it from the body. When the remains
we're recovered it was found that the
skull was fractured in several places,
both legs broken, hip broken and
other injuries sustained. Death was
undoubtedly instantaneous. The ac-
cident was due to the miners own
Carelessness.. He had been warned
to keep away from the place where
the boulder fell, but had disregarded
instructions. A coroner's jury was
impanelled by Justice of the Peace
Derr and returned a verdict in ac-
cordance with the facts, the company
being found blameless. Balves was
man about thirty-eight years of
age. He is survived by a wife and
two children. He was a recent ar
rival in Grant county and had been
in the employ of the Burro Mountain
Copper company only short while.
Silver City Independent.
L. R. Boyd, president, and Warren
Craig, secretary of Monte Rico min
ing and milling company, who have
been. here for some weeks, returned
to Washington, Pennsylvania, the
home of the company, last Sunday.
While here they put in their ii me at
the company's mines at Lees Peak,
and we're greatly elated at the pros
pect they have. The company now
owns ten claims at the peak, which are
developed by ten shafts from ten to
seventy feet in depth, besides numer-
GUS cuts. On the Don Carlos claim,
on the southwest slope of the peak,
is ledge fifteen feet wide: of copper
carbonates, from which assays have
been made running III to II per
cent in copper and Is to q ounces in
silver. On the Lunes claim is a shaft
thirty feet deep, from which has bee n
taken, in sinking these thirty feet,
ten tons of galena which will run 40
per cent in lead. While here Messrs.
Boyd and Craig had blast pat in Oh
the side of the peak, near the top,
just to see what was there, and to
their surprise uncovered an ore body,
samples of which assayed ten to 40
per cent copper. 1t was the original
intention of the company to run
tunnel under the peak, and thus de-
velop the ore bodies, but it is now
thought best to sink deep shaft, at
least 500 feet, and develop the vein in
this manner. Craig and Boyd are en-
as well as they may be at
the showing they have, and they ex-
pect to return about the first of July,
when work will be commenced Oh the
shaft. The gentle nen expect to have
a very interesting story to tell the
stockholders of the company al
Washington, this week. Liberal.