The copper era., 1907-04-25

OH SOnc mining CldlHlS IN the duncan
country belonging to the Hill broth
ers, this week made a Shipment of
gold ore to the Shannon. The ore
arrived in Clifton yesterday and will
be treated this week. 1t was good
looking rock and will probably net
handsome returns to the shipper.
The Detroit Copper company at
Morenci is making a number of val
liable Improvements around its plant.
The foundations are about completed
for a new foundry building and a
large machine shop. The company
will, upon the completion of the two
new buildings do all of its own casting
and building of cars for the Morenci
Southern, and will have one of the
best machine shops in the southwest.
A new converter stand will also be
added to the smelter and the plant i'm
proved to some extent.
F. H. Perry, one of the bosses at
the New England and Clifton mines,
is working a lease on the Laura D
mine in the Greenlee district. He
has several men employed at the
mines and quite lot of ore has al
ready been extracted. The Laura D
is gold proposition and it is said
improving nicely. A carload of gold
ore arrived this week from the mine
and will be treated at the Shannon
smelter. 1t was brought down over
the New England tram and loaded
into the car in North Clifton.
Franklin W. Smith, a mining eX-
pert well known drought the east
and west in mining circles, whose
headquarters are at Bisbee, spent a
few days of this week in the Clifton
Morencidistrict. Mr.. Smith was chief
engineer for the G. & A. at Bisbee for
several years and is considered au-
thority on mining. He is about as
well known as John Hays Hammond.
The exact object of his visit to this
district is not known, but it is quite
likely he is representing some eastern
capitalists. He went into the mining
section of the district and after max
ing examinations, departed for his
home. He did not state what he
thought of the mineral resources of
the Clifton Morenci district, but it is
surmised that he is of the same opin-
ion as many other experts who have
recently visited this section-as good
as anything in Arizona.
Work on the VIM. Heating group
of mines, which were recently bond
ed for 100000 by foreign capitalists,
is progressing rapidly and ore ship
ments are now being made to the
Shannon smelter. Quite a force of
men are now at work and everything
is progressing as well as could be de-
sired. Mr.. Bowman, who is repre-
senting the company, arrived this
week and is now looking over the
properties. The first payment has
already been made on the properties
and it now seems that the company
/
means business. The mines, which
are located in the neighborhood of
Coronado, give promise of becoming
excellent properties with develop
ment work. 1t is the intention of
the management to ship ore as it is
extracted and utilize the returns in
development work. The second pay
ment on the mines, which is a heavy
one, will be due some time in May.
Edmund NJ. Bristol, M. p, vice
president of the New England and
Clifton Copper company of Arizona,
whose home is in Toronto, Canada,
spent a few days of last week in Cliff
ton looking over the camp and max
ing thorough inspection of the min
ing properties of the New England com
| pany. He spent the most of his time
at the mines and upon his departure
announced that he was more than well
pleased with the condition in which l. e
found everything.
The mines are all being developed
and heavy ore shipments are being
made. The New England is low on a
better footing than any time during
its existence and is destined to be one
OF the big companies of the district.
Negotiations are now pending between
the New England and the Shannon CON-
panies for a smelter site on the
river below the Shannon smelter.
There is ample room below the Shan
non plant for several smelling plants.
Ali of the ground in the neighbor-
hood of the Shannon plant is owned
by the Shannon company and is val
liable piece of property.
! The New York-Arizona Gold and
Copper company this week added
seven men to its force of miners
and will put on day aud night shift
at once. Another shipment of lum-
Der for construction of bunk houses
and improvements at the mines was
taken out to the camp this week by
the Cansler teams. 1t is the inten-
tion of the company to make things
move at the mines from now on.
Houses will be rushed to completion
and shafts will be timbered and