Weekly journal-miner., 1910-02-02
OPERATIONS ARE
 LIVELY ABOUT SWANSEA

| WlChENBURG, Arlz., Jan. 29. -
 H. L. Brown, superintendent of th'
 Clara Consolidated Mines company
 came in from Swansea, Thursday, and
 reports everything moving very sat
 isfactorily at the big camp.
 George Mitchell has commenced
 work on his Copper Hill group con
 sisting of seventeen claims that lie
 to the west and adjoining the Clara
 Consolidated property. This group
 comprises some very valuable prop. erty. The ore being opened up is showing fine and the work is ex' peeted to be continuous or until a large body has been opened up.
 Still to the west of the Copper Hill group there is a group of twenty claims belonging to a party of the Clara employees. Plans are being made to start work on these and consider able development is expected These two groups cover a distance of two miles due west of the Clara Consoli- dated lines, and make another two miles of development going on in that section.
 Col. Ed. F. Brown, father of Sup erintendent H. L. Brown, has charge of the work at the Clara and Moro, developing the geological features of the groups, with the very best re- suits. In the last week several bod ies of very high grade ore have been opened up.
 E. D. Elson, secretary and treasurer of the company, accompanied by Mrs. Elson, Is making a visit to the camp, and will remain for another ten days. Harry Mitchell has sufficiently recov- cred from his injuries to return to rthe mine, and has been on the ground for two weeks. Monday he was join ed by Mrs. Mitchell and their son, who will remain for short visit, before returning to Los Angeles.
 c. W. Mckee returned Monday from his trip through the A. & c. country, and speaks very enthusiast ieally of the outlook. He visited Par ker, Bouse, the Planet, Swansea and the Western Mines Development com pany, a property in which he is in- tcrested to some extent. MT. Mckee says that in the new shaft that was recently started on the Western Mines property they are now taking out some very rich copper ore, literally sprinkled with gold. A large and very rich ore body was recently dis covered and the new shaft at once started to follow the large, well de- fined vein, with the result mentioned Those who have seen the ore report 1T very rich in copper, with good values in gold.
 At Swansea, Mr. Mckee also reports seeing some large ore bodies and ex ceedingly rich ones. In fact, the whole section looks good, and Mir. Mckee believes it is the best min ing country in the whole Southwest
 4 Party of surveyors in eha;E- If Horace A. Cook of Phoenix passed through here Monday, bound for Par ker. They have been engaged to make a survey of 110 claims belong ing to the Consolidation Copper Mines company. They expect to be on the ground for at least a month. This company was incorporated some three months ago, and work was commenced at once and has been kept up stead fly. There are about seventy-fve men on the ground located at the differ ent camps. The property formerly be- longed to E. s. Osborne, who is a heavy stockholder and one of the di- rectors. T. J. Carrigan, the presi dent, will be remembered as one of the promoters of the Clara Consoli dated property, and Frank Robbins, vice president and general manager, is a mining man well known through out the west.