The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1910-06-17
Arizona Mining News.
(Mining Science.)
CoChise County.

(dining scienee.)
Cochise County.
The unwisdom of small mating
shelters again has been demonstrated.
This time it is at Johnson camp,
where the 125-ton furnace of the
Arizona United Mines company has
been cooled off, and where all oper-
ations of the company have been sus-
pended till such time as expert ex-
animation of the property and condi-
tions can be made and reported upon.
| From present indications it would ap-
pear that this seeming important
| precautton had not been taken before
the building of the smelter, ard of
the short line of railroad that con-
meets the camp with the Southern
Pacific at Dragon. The property is
to be kept pumped out and sinking is
to be continued on the Republic
shaft, but nothing else will be done
for months to come.
Mohave County.
The case against the Tom Reed
Mines company, in which Walter
Fellows was contesting for some of
the most valuable ground in the Tom
Reed group of claims, was decided
in favor of the company. Plaintiff
was contending for parts of the
Rising Star and Ola Oatman claims.
The company had applied for patents
on these claims and the basis of the
plaintiffs contention was that the
company had meyer properly located
the claims, and that the original
! location of the Ola Oatman claims
did not cover the ground claimed by
the company. The court instructed
Oatman claim, and the controversy
as to the Rising Star was submitted
to the jury on four special issues, and
the general verdict resulting in
unanimous verdict in favor of the
defendant. A motion for a new trial
was overruled and notice of appeal
given.
Maricopa County.
The Golden Ridge mining tunnel of
| the Weaver district is now in some
thing over 700 feet and has encoun-
| tered a heavy flow of water and at
| the same time has also encountered
an increased size in the ore body.
The long tunnel which has followed a
vein of rich ore from the beginning
is also given depth underground. 1t
will be continued until it taps the ex-
tension of the Devenshire vein,
which will be about 1000 feet below
new, and about f. 800 feet west. This
will necessltate another 1000 feet in
! the tunnel. The Clara Consolidated
Copper company's smelter at Swan
sea is about to begin the production
Of copper bullion at rate of about
thirty tons per day. The capacity of
the smelter is 700 tons of rock per
day, but within two or three months
it will be doubled, after which the
company will begin to handle custom
ores.
Yavapai County.
Machinery for the Arkansas and
Arizona Copper company will be on
che property and installed and active
development begun within the next
thirty days. The work will be pushed
with three shifts. The Arizona
Power company will have electric
wires strung by the time the other
machinery is installed. AT the Hayes
the work of unwatering the work.
ngs still continues and another week
will find them ready to resume drift
ng. Two shifts continue at the Hull.
rhe principal work now being done
at the 3,600-foot level. The Cleo
patra property still continues to
yield good ore from the upraise,
while at 1000 level, in a tunnel on
the same property, where a winze has
been sunk, a rich ore body is in cyl
dence. The United Verde Extension
is still making good with fine ore in
the workings recently opened, while
in the other workings the exploration
of known ore is being continued. |
Much ore is being hoisted.
Wilcox Range News: A sensa-
tional strike of native copper was
made little below the hundred foot !
level of the new three compartment
air shaft last week on the property |
Of the Mascot Copper company. The
strike is considered of unusual signifi-
canoe as it proves a secondary de-
position of the mineral on this end
of the property.
Kingman Miner; A. NJ. and A. H.
Smith, who are getting things in
shape for the starting up of work on
t lie old Mexican mines, were in King
man last week on business. They
dave completed a road from the
main wagon road to the mine and
ave everything in shape for the
carrying out of plans that mean the
employment of many men and large
developments on the property. In