The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1910-05-27
ARIZONA MINING NEWS


Tucson Star: Charles Bent, super
intendent of the Gold Bullion mines,
reports that good ore is showing in
all five workings of the Last Chance
aud Tellurium mines. Ia the main
shaft of Last Chance at 245 feet
depth bottom of shaft is all ore. A
drift run west from this level is in
sulphides. The west drift of the
shaft, the face is in sulphides At
seventy feet from the shaft a cross
cut is in thirty feet, all in snlphides
In the east drift on the 200-foot level
at 100 feet from the shaft, crosscu'
south from the drifts, entire face in
live quartz carrying sulphides. In
the crosscut running north fine sui
phides were struck recently. All OF
the present workings in the Las'
Chance are in good ore of gold and
silver values, on the POI and 245
levels.
As a result of diIligent work on his
Nippers property for the last few
weeks, Otto Dudner has been re-
warded. Good showiugs in copper
have been reached by following d
striuger from near the top of the
50 foot incline, some distance west oi
the camp, but by far the best results
have been attained from doing some
work in th.. q llrtz close to the house.
Here. in a. pen ,ut 2Oxl5 feet in
size, there was encountered a good
vein of silver, lead and copper ore
Some of the specimens shown appear
to carry little but silver, Will others
are rich in copper sulphides, as well
as carrying nice-looking galena. Of
course there must be some gold, but
NJ estimate of this content can be
made now. The gangue is an excel
lent quartz.
Nogales Oasis: The Gringo Mining
company held its annual meeting
last week and the following named
gentlemen are now the officers of the
corporation: w. Wright, president;
S. L. Parke, vice-president; F. II.
eral manager. The company owns
and operates the Gringo mine in the
Temporal gulcb, on the south side of
the Santa Cruz mountains, about ten
miles from Patagonia. 1t is a hand
some gold property in which exten-
sive development has exposed ore
bodies that carry good values. A
five-stamp mill which the company
had in operation has been increased
to twenty stamps, ard arrangements IS
are in hand to extend development of
the ore body and start the mill again.
This has been demo strated to be a
h. al mine, and it Is destined to a long
and permanent production, which
will make it a valuable resource of
Santa Cruz county.
Tucson Citizen: II. E. leighton
and T. NJ. Smith, both of this city,
were present at a meeting of the
Tombstone Gold, Silver & Copper
company held in Tombstone for the
purpose of electing officers for the
coming year and hearing reports of
the company's work. The officers
elected were J. w. Shelor, of Dallas,
Texas, president: H. e. leighton,
Tucson, treasurer; Z. NJ Smith, Tue
son, secretary: A. NJ. Schuster,
! Tom bstone. managing director. The
company owns twenty-three claims
in the Tom bstone district and on
these claims development work
amounting to $5,ll2 has been done in
the past year, according TO the re-
ports read. The main work OF the
company is being done on the Anaa
claim, which is now down to a deptt
of 1876 feet, making the purchase o.
hosting machinery obligatory. The
properties adjoin the Tombston,
Consolidated workings, owned by til,
Development company of America
Courtland Arizouan; With the cop
per shipped from Courtland during
the last year returning Sl1l,3S4 ant
this from dumps that had been takel
out during the development of tn,
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the ore, is d showing that the cam
may be proud of, then on top of thi
comes the statement in the BOsto
Commercial to the effect that tn
shipments of ore from the Calume
and Arizona workings at COurtlan
had returned 25O,OO0 pounds of COP
per for one months shipments, dul
ing this year, amounting to one lift
of the average monthly productio
for last year as given by the sam
company for other points in thi
r county. In addition to this shOul
be added the production of th
Great Western company, which ha
been making shipments of equ5
gross tonnage with the G. u A an
' the ore is approximately the sam
2 grade. Shipping of the ore as stope
out from the mines was begun tn
year and has been continuous at tn
rate of four cars OF fifty tons eac
per dav As the work progresses,
! is found that the ore bodies open oI
? to a greater extent than had bee
, anticipated aud the values increas
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