The copper era., 1910-01-13
Not Even One Claim Worked Out.

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The Clifton-Morenci mining dist
riot has been producing copper for
more than thirty years, during which
time there has been an enormous
amount of ore extracted from the
mines and hundreds of million tons
of copper produced, and yet it is a
fact that not enough ore has been
extracted to exhaust one claim to a
depth of 400 feet. This statement at
fist glance seems like a wild one,
but when it is considered that a full
claim is 600xl500 feet and then figure
cubic yards at 400 feet depth it will
be discovered that it will take a
great many millions of tons of ore to
make a hole this SIZE In summing
up the permanency of the Clifton
Morenci district the above state
ment will conyince the mining inter
ests at glance that this district is
practically untouched and as long as
copper sells at a reasonably. high
figure copper will continue to come
from the Clifton Morenci district in
unlimited quantity. There are humid
reds of mining claims here which
will eventually be producers. and it
will yet take us several moons to
complete the hole referred to above.
While prospecting in the noun
tains in ella county, near Globe, A.
Lafave recently discovered a piece
of meteorite which WEIGHS fully fifty
pounds. He is deeply interested in
his find as judging from the forma-
tion of the country where he found
it, he is Of the opinion that it came
from below. He brought it home
with him and took it to the indie
pendent Assay Office where it was as
sayed and returned value of SO per
cent. iron. Mr.. Lafave was also of
the opinion that it carried gold
values and had an assay run to de-
terTine it, which showed trace of
gold and copper. He will in all
proba bility return in the near future
and do some prospect work.
Geo. w. Williams and Willis
James, two of the old time miners
and prospectors of the Greenlee
mining district, and who are inter-
ested in number of valuable mining
claims in that section, spent Monday
last in Clifton. They report that
there was not a single jumper in
their section on the first of January
and that everything went off quietly.
They report that to their knowledge
there was not single claim owner
in their district who failed to do the
required amount of assessment work
for 1909 and in many cases an excess
was the case. Messrs. Williams and
James are the class of claim owners
who start out on the first of the
year to do their assessment work
ahead of time, and as usual, they
commenced their 1910 work on the
first of January. They do the most
of the work themselves and by so
doing are certain that the full
amount of labor is performed. In
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pressed their opinion that there is
sufficient free milling gold ore al
ready developed to supply a 20-stamp
mill for several years. AS far as a
location for a gold mill is concerned
there is no better in any country, as
there is ample room for the storage
of tailings for many and water sup
| ply from the San Francisco river is
inexhaustible. A gold mill for the
Greenlee district has been common
talk for years, just the same as it
was at the Gold Belt, where it was
up to local enterprise to put up the
money and demonstrate. If capital
was invested in mill for the Green,
lee district there is little doubt of
the same success that the Gold Belt
is now making, and it is quite certain
that any private syndicate or cor.
poration that would guarantee tC
erect a mill and run it in that dis
trict could secure most favorable
terms. Old timers remember the
time when this district was a sub
stantial gold producer and many
prospectors have made beans and
bacon by panning.
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