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

section this week on business. Mr..
Young is thoroughly acquainted with
the mining sections of Arizona and
is of the opinion that the Clifton
Morenci district can hold its own
with any of them when it comes to
merit. He predicts this district
much activity in the near future.
L. F. Sweeting, who has been con-
nected with the Polaris Mining COM
pany several years and who has re-
Gently been away on an extended
visit east, returned to Clifton this
week. He reports that prospects
are bright for the Polaris property
in the very near future. The Polaris
mines are located in one of the best
districts of the camp and will most
likely advance to profitable stage
with the expenditure of sufficient
money to develop them.
B. W. Randall, of Lordsburg, and
T. r. Barry, of Dallas, Texas, arrived
in Clifton the first part of the week
on business connected with the
Polaris mines, located above Clifton
in the Greenlee district. Mr. Ran
dali is an old time resident of the
southwest, having resided at Lords
burg many years, and is well ac-
quainted with the Clifton Morenci
district. Mr.. Barry is prominent
and business man of Dali
las, being a member of the Sanger
Bros. firm of Dallas, who conduct
number of large business houses in
Texas. He is interested in mining
in other sections and is visiting Cliff
ton for the purpose of becoming in
terested here. There is little doubt
but that he will be pleased with what
he can see in this district.
Geo. E. Stevens, one of the old
time prospectors and mining men of
this section, returned last week from
an extensive trip to California and
Nevada. He has been absent from
this section some time, having Wis
tied Rena and Goldfeld, and also the
mining sections of California. He
made a thorough inspection of Ne
yada and found it to be lively in
mining way. He spent a short time
in the Kern district of California,
where he succeeded in making a deal
of considerable extent in which
Sharles M. Shannon was interested.
He left Clifton for the benefit of his
health, but came home not very much
He was eager to state
that in all his travels be failed to
find any section better than the Cliff
mining district and an
nounces that home is good enough
for him.
The work of development at the
Ash Peak mines, which has been go
ing on for over four years, continues
to meet with remarkable success, and
everything points to a large and
camp at Ash Peak in the
near future. Since the installation
Of the new hoist at the Commerce
mine the east workings have been
in preparation for STOPPING
and show an average STOPPING width
Of more than twelve feet. The
Shamrock mine which has been
opened up during the past year is
now about It's feet deep. The entire
output of this mine has been shipped
and the entire dump could be moved
in a wheel-barrow. During the past
year the company has shipped sew
eral thousand tons of ore to the
smelters. Preliminary mill
tests, however, indicate that an I'M
usually high percentage of extraction
can be obtained by milling this ore,
and a shipment of several cars was
recently made to Denver for a mill
run. If the results of this run are
c comparable with those obtained from
testing smaller lots, it is probable
that mill specifications will at once
be issued and plant erected to treat
the ore at the mine
w. E. Crookson, extensively in
terested in the Angora goat business
and whose ranch is located in the
Steeple Rock section, visited Clifton
this week. He was accompanied by
E. L. Smith, a miner and prospector
of the Globe district, but who is at
present operating in the Ash Peak
district. They are associated to-
gether in working a lease on Hill
brothers claims in the Ash Peak
country. They made carload ship
ment of ore last week to the Shannon
Company, which will be treated this
week. The ore was. excellent, con-
sisting of high grade copper glance
and going high in silver values. They
have been working the property only
a short time and state that values
have been increasing rapidly. At
present they have confined them
selves to surface work, the shaft being
down less than 100 feet. The pay ore
averages from 6inches to foot wide,
with occasional large deposits of
copper glance. 1t is their intention
to continue the shaft to loo feet depth,
after which they will crosscut and
work the property by the tunnel sys-
TEN, this being the cheapest method
of working the, property. They are
wall 11laaSed with the ShOwinu SO far