Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1909-07-04
MINING DEAL.
At KELVIN
Gold Bell Group Has Been
Taken Over
BY A NEW YORK MAN
On the Eve of the Fourth
Both Camps Have Done
All That Can Be Done
Toward the Celebration
at Ray Tomorrow.

Kelvin, July Especial Core
spondence of The Republican will
lam p. Staffel today closed a big
deal with John b. Lebian, an old
pioneer and well known miner the
quit claim deed papers were all drawn
up and filled out in the orthodox
way, being witnessed and sworn to
before Justice Of the Peace Hartman.
with the official seal attached. Thus
has been transferred the half interest
OF the mines known as Gold Bell
group from John B. Sebian to Will
lam Z. Staffei. The consideration
is not known. The former has been
in partnership with II. H. Barton
for some time.
The Gold Bell mines are numbered
l, ,, 3, I, >, 6, Z, and s, situated in
Riverside mining district, adjoining
the Woody mines three miles from
Kelvin. Just before the panic these
mines We're bonded for $4,000. but
since only assessment work, tunneling
and sinking shafts has been done in
deSultory way, owing to a lack of
funds with which to push the work.
Assays have been made and have
fully come up to expectations. the
copper running all the way from ten
to seventeen and half per cent. and
II is estimated that it carries enough
gold and silver to pay for the milling
and smelling
Before purchasing, Mr.. Stoffel has
been out in the mines for the past
two weeks with Il bunch of mining
experts investigating for himself, get
ting facts and figures and conse-
quently feels that he has not bought
a gold brick, but good copper mines
carrying high grade ore, and with the
necessary funds can be worked and
made a good paying proposition. Mr.
Stoffel is leaving today for New
York, where he is going to interest
capital and will be back in the fall
with the ready money to begin opera
tons
While away everything will be in
the hands of his partner. H.H. Bar
ton, deputy sheriff, in whom he has
great deal Of confidence, and who
he lAughingly says ought to be able
to keep off the claim jumpers.
Mr.. Staffel is a young business man
from New York, and while here only
a short while has made many staunch
friends. who wish him all kinds of
success in his new undertaking and
wish him speedy return.
The large seven ton Nottingham
steam hammer purchased SOM" time
ago by the Ray Consolidated has
just been installed in the black
smith shop today and is working
nicely. The old twelve horse power
engine in the machine shops has just
been replaced by a sixty horse power
engine.
Peter L. Kent, an expert ore
sampler, who is employed by the
Ray company in the mill here. had
a miraculous escape from meeting a
horrible death a few days since while
making his regular rounds of the
automatic samplers. He attended a
show given here last week, in fact
box party was given in his honor
where he saw quite a bit of ladder
climbing and tight rope walking
which seemed 20 arouse a desire in
him to do something along these lines
himself
In his round he walked on a very
narrow board, about twenty feet
across under which, fifty feet below
was a red hot sizzling engine, but
nothing daunted, he started across
the board, much to the surprise of all
who saw him. He got along splendid
ly, balancing himself in good shape
until he happened to see a black cat
and it looked as if it was all. over
for him, but only for a second. As
he fell he caught the board with his
right hand and was dangling in mid
air for a few seconds, but quickly
pulled himself up and was much
more composed than the onlookers.
He blamed the black cat for the
whole thing. 1t is needless to say he
has since abandoned the idea of train
ing for an equilibrist. Speaking Of