The copper era., 1908-09-03
NEWS OF THE TERRITORY.

A big corps of engineers left Doug
las last week to begin the survey of
an extension of the Sierra Madre
railroad in Mexico.
In an interview at Tucson DIR. Rick
etts said there were now $500 men
employed in the mines of the Greene
Consolidated at Cananea and all con-
ditions were satisfactory to the man.
agement.
A weird tale is going the rounds on
the eastern press in which one Colonel
Lewis is lionized as an Arizona ranger
of the old-fashiond rough and ready
sort. Such a man is unknown in this
territory.
The King Trail development COM
pany has made good strike of silver
in the Globe & Pinto creek mining
company's mine. J. M. Mcpherson,
president of the company. informs us
that the strike was made in the cross
cut at the 1OO-foot level, eighty feet
from the shaft; that the ore is three
feet wide and apparently rich in
white metal. Directors of the King
Trail are jubilant over the strike and
development work will be vigorously
prosecuted Belt.
Isaac Barth, a prominent democrat
and district attorney of Apache
county, has the following to say d bout
Ralph Cameron: "Apache county is
ready to roll up republican major
ity this fall, no matter who is nomi-
mated for delegate to congress. 1t is
hoped, however, that some northern
man will be named. There is strong
feeling here that Ralph Cameron
would make the strongest candidate
and if he is selected he will carry
every county in the northern tier by
unheard of majorities."
Reports from Wickenburg are that
the famous Vulture mine, which has
produced millions and is considered
:one of the biggest mines in the west,
has been sold to Philadelphia and
Baltimore capitalists for S50O,OOO.
The new owners are expected to reach |
Wickenburg any day now. D. J. Cur
ry of Wickenburg, who represents the
present owners, has confirmed the re-
port of the sale, and states that he is
waiting for the new owners to arrive
and take charge.
Billy Wilson and Frank Miller, who |
returned after several weeks deyelop- |
ment of their coal claims near Win |
kelman, both stated that it is only a |
question of attracting capital before
the Winkelman fields cause widespread |
interest and excitement. Wilson
drove two forty-foot tunnels on his |
claims, and in each of them he fuond |
fiYe-toot ledges of coal, piling several |
carloads on the dump all of which will
burn in a blacksmith's forge. Wilson !
says that but little work is now being
done in the coal district, but that a |
large amount of territory has been
taken up and prospect holes sunk. In
most of them a good grade of surface
coal has been found.-Arizona Dem
ocrat.
y block of flesh colored quartz,
weighing about 800 pounds, containing
flour gold and with cubes of free gold /
all over it, taken from the bottom of |
the big central working shaft of the
Tombstone Consolidated Mines com
pany, at depth of between 800, and |
1000 feet, is now on exhibition at the
company's offices in Tombstone. This
is the kind of quartz commonly found
in the Tombstone district as gold !
bearing ore. Except the statement
that the big specimen of rich gold ore
came from the bottom of the main
working shaft, the company officers
are silent concerning the new strike,
but since it was made fifteen or
twenty more miners have been put to
work in the Emerald, one of the COM
pany's mines that is drained by the
pumping plant at the shaft from
which the block of gold ore was taken,
and Mr.. Thurman says it is under
stood that at least fifty additional
men will be employed in the different
mines of the L. G. NJ company on or
about the first of October.