Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1908-07-08
FIRST PAYMENT OF s6,O0o
 ON GROUP OF CLAIMS
rrom Tuesday's DsiiyD

First payment of s6,0O0 on the pur. chase price of sJo,00O was made hero yesterday to M F. Josephi. of Cunning ham Pass, for'a group of four claims recently taken over under bond by the Cunningham Pas Copper Company. Considering the amouDt of the pur. chase price and that tbe deepest shaft on the ground is only II5 feet, the sur. face showing in gold and copper ores must bc very promising as the pur- chasing company took over the ground and made the first paymeb, only after thorough examinations were made by competent mining engineers.
 A new working shaft vii he started at once on the great Iedge which can he traced the entire length of the claims, some of the outerop carrying values high enough to Dc considered in the shipping class. Hosting maehin- cry will be instslled later and develop ment rushed with an possible speed. The company now has j2 men at work on the Boone claims, a short distance from the Josephi purchase and has that property developed so that regu-
 lar ore shipments can bc made from it in future. The Boone property was for merly known as the "Oll Bullard" mine, among the oldest locations in the district, next 10 the Josephi claims.
 Josephi entered the district from Mohave county many years ago, when none but the most daring and hardy prospectors ventured into what is known now as the new copper country tributary to the Arizona and California railroad. Overcoming all obstacles and oftcn,imes facing death for want of water he continued his explorations un- tii he discovered several rien and pro missing Iedges, the locations covering the one which he disposed of in the recent sale.
 J. F. warlop, who entered the dis trict In 1901, arrived here Sunday morning with Josephi. Claims located by hinr then, abandoned by Josephi be- fore, are now proving among the most promising in the district. He recently incorporated his interests into the Gas
 tie Copper Company, corporation
 composed of Prescott capitalists, and now has three carloads of ore on the
 dump, sampling s7o to the ton, ready for shipment. He will return in a
 short time to commence the construc
 ton of wagon road to the property
 over which will he hauled an air com pressor and other machinery to be In.
 stalled at the site of tbe tunnel which it is the company's iDteniion 10 start
 soon. There are ssves claims in tae
 group, with paystreahs opened in va , rious places from one to seven feet in , thickness. The croppines of one of
 the lodges to be tapped by the new [, tunnel are twelve feet above the , ground in places, sbosirg good values . in copper and gold wherever opehed :, In one place he has large tonnage sx posed on the surface that samples ( pei n cent in copper and ssN;u gold to the a ton. AN The Hareuver Coppef Company Ii . working small force ofminers and in l. s,slling an air eompressor, plant at tho
 tunnel. sam Butler Is wotking twelve V miners on his claims twelve mile |. northeast of Cunningham Pass and talk |, ing out shipping ore. MT and Mrs ,. Frank Graham and William Wilkinson ,. are among several other visitors her if from the Wenden district.