Weekly journal-miner., 1910-07-06
Brief Mineral Items From the Arizona
 Districts
Considerable Activity Is Manifest Throughout
 The Territory
(From Saturdays Daily)

The c. O. D. Leaehing company.
 Thos. A. Lister, president, owners of
 the Seven Ledge group of mines, To-
 eated eight miles south of Lords
 burg, N. M., says the Western Lib
 eral, has completed timbering the shaft and erecting gallows frame on the Silver Ledge mine. Sinking will be done by contract. The result of a test shipment to the Fl Paso shelter gave net returns of s1O5 and $2S6 per ton in silver, lead and copper, the silver value predomin- ating. The company has also ae- quired by location the Gold King mine, which corners on the Robert E. Lee mine, for the purchase of which negotiations are in progress. It has produced 5000 in silver and copper, its ores running to IS per cent copper and 4 to 16O ounces sil- yer a ton.
 Oil tank ears are now running daily in Mexico on the Tampico and San Luis PotOsi railroad, which uses native oil for locomotives The Ebano oil field is owned by the Mex iean Petroleum company and the Dohepy company. The former pro- duees 4,OOO barrels daily, which goes to the Mexican National railways, while the latter company produces hundreds of barrels daily, sending part to Mexico City to the National Gas company and part to the Waters Pierce Oil company, The total pro- duetion of the ElbaDo field is not less than 100000 barrels per an- nun.
 The Superior 6 Boston Copper company is continuing its copper shipments of ninety tons of ore av- eraging 10 per cent copper, to the Old Dominion shelter, daily. This ore is being stopped on the 800 foot level of the MeGraw shaft. The sinking of the MeGraw shaft to the 500 foot level is being carried rapidly on. The results of the dia-. mond drill hole that is being sunk to. open up the Great Eastern vein at depth have been encouraging. A cross fault containing carbonate and. sulphide of copper was encountered. in the hole at a depth of 47O feet. below the 500 foot level At the. Gardner workings the west winze, being sunk from the 400 foot level continues in ore assaying per cent copper, indicating a greater extent of the ore body as the winze in, ereases in depth.
 Manager James Bent of the Ana eOnda-Arizona Mining company, re- ports operations progressing in very satisfactory manner The com pany has unlimited finances and is managed by one of the most eompe- tent mine managers in the South west.
 DT. H. E. Kelly of Altar says the Altar district is hveiier than ever before. The placer digging in that country is the cause of it. Many strangers are there and more are coming. The doctor has large hold ings of the rich ground and expects to start a Quinner machine to work at an early date.
 N. J. Purcell, manager of the Buena Fortuna Gold Mining com pany, operating the Buena Fortuna gold mines on the east side of the Pinto Mountains, in Sonora, about thirty-fve miles south of the Amer iean line, writes from the eompany's office in Baltimore Md, that affairs at that end of the line are in fine shape, and he hopes soon to again be with his many Nogales friends, to install a big plant at Buena Fortuna, from which the Prince of Nuggets, weighing more than nine pounds, was taken about a year ago.
 Manager James Johnson of the Ivanhoe mine, near Patagonia, ar rived in the city Thursday night with J. E. Hopkins, maeninist at the mines, who was badly burned Thurs day by an explosion of carbide. For 9 time it was thought that MT. Hop kins would lose his eyes, but later reports are to the effect that his eyesight will be saved