The copper era., 1908-05-07
Tn Every Department of Banking the First Natl Bank Clifton is Prepared Serve You n a Manner.

The 1eeS COlleCCeu Oy the terri
 torial auditor during the month ot
 April for the incorporation of new
 companies amounted to S3,579. This
 Is slightly less than was collected
 during the proceeding month, though
 above the average for all the months
 of this year.
 It was announced that E. H. T.
 Hansen had been appointed superin- tendent of the capitol grounds, and the statement was true when made, 1 but another readjustment has taken place since then that leaves the mat ter right where it was before G. H. Smith resigned. MT. Hansen decided that he did not care to accept the appointment and when the matter was mentioned to MT. Smith he with drew his resignation and was left in the same position as before, except that he said he would apply shortly for good long vacation, agreeing to , leave a competent man in charge during his absence.
 
 copper ore on the Little Johnny group at Patagonia. The ore was i first encountered in a 75-foot shaft, sunk on the hill on which the claims are located The copper-lead was traceable from the surface and area depth of 45 feet the copper ore was encountered, gradually widening through the next B feet, until at the 75-foot depth the bottom of the shaft is all in ore. Mir. Costello then went to a point in the guIch below, HOO feet from the shaft, and there tuu- neled in under the iron capping, which at that point crops out strong ly. There, close to the surface, only about ten feet under the capDing, but several hundred feet lower than the shaft on the hill he cut into two and a half feet of sulphide copper ore.
 H. L. Haynes, travelling passenger agent for the Fl Paso SS Southwest ern railroad, has returned to Fl Paso after a brief visit to Douglas. While at Bisbee MT. Haynes was approach ed on the base ball question, the pro- posed southwestern leagne being the subject of conversation. Mir. Haynes stated that the possibilities for prosperous season are very bright at agement of the Pass City orgauiza- tion is having little or no difficulty in financing and otherwise equipping the club for a professional season. | He stated that the railroad company had been interested in the propo- l sition and will use it's influence in | promoting base bali in the cities pro- posed to compose the circuit. The | railroad company has agreed to grant a concession to the base ball | teams of the circuit, charging but one fare for the round trip to travel ing clubs.-American.
 More gold excitement was caused | last week when it became known that d rich strike had been made in an old | abandoned mine on Spring Creek, seventy-five miles north of Globe, and that there was a rush of men in- to the country from Roosevelt and other nearby points as soon as the rumors leaked out. Samples of the ore brought to Globe by a prospector named Shoemaker, who made the find, S554 to the ton. They run PIT Oz. gold and 8.9 Oz. silver. Shoemaker was very much excited and left yes terday morning for the camp, taking with him ten men to put to work in the mine. The discovery was made in ln abandoned mine on the Spring Creek ranch, a mile and d half from the creek. The vein starts in near he top of a fiity-five foot shaft and ; 1t the bottom it is a good eighteen nches across. Shoemaker says the nine has been abandoned for over other prOspector named Irbev were [ i've weeks ago. They went into the f Spring Creek country, where there | Ire a number of abandoned mines, md began prospecting. Last week ( shoemaker returned and showed i Mayer the ore samples which run S554 o the ton. The prospector says the country is fast filling with men and hat several eastern mining syndi- .ates are getting hold of consider Ible property and are bringing in from Roosevelt. Mayer nd the pruspeCtors have a lease on he property. If Arizona had a few of the biz in-1