Arizona republican., 1912-12-29
Recorded From Pima County

Transactions were filed Monday in
 the office of the county recorder.
 James P Gaskin has a bond on
 Thomas Childs, Jr.. to buy an undi- vided half interest in the Copper King patented mines by Feb. 1, 1915. for SPA, ,O00: another with sam Clark to buy half interest in three mines, unnamed. by Dec 19, 1914. for $750; third with w. A. Knox to buy Dodge No. 3 mine in the Ajo district by Jan. 2, 1914. for $1250; with W. ] A. Knox to buy six mines in the Ajo district for $21,790 by Dec. 10. 1914, These are followed by articles of | agreement in, which Gaskill agrees to 1 sell 37 mines in the Ajo district to the Ajo Copper company for an un- named consideration, and a deed to two other mines in the same district 1 by Gaskill to the same company. Louis Hind, ore buyer for the Swansea smelter, is in town trying 1 to make contracts for ore. He has just returned from the Ray Copper Co.'S property, seeing the class of sulphide ore recently developed. As regards this property. very high grade copper ore has been recently en- countered Four feet of the ore body I is a solid yellow sulphide averaging | 193-10 per cent copper to the ton. Another portion of the vein averages l F per cent, the remainder is of lower | grade but shippable ore. This prop 1 erty is surely developing and keeping up with all expectations and to all present appearances we will have a large producing copper mine within sixty miles of Phoenix.
 James Douglas and associates have 1 bonded the United Verde extension and also the Jerome Verde known as | the Verde Queen) property. In as
 sociation with MT. Douglas is Chester 1 A. CongdOn, George F. Tenor and
 James Hoatson, directors of the Cal
 1 umet and Arizona; John D. Ryan.
 president of the Amalgamated Copper
 | Co: Henry Hoveland, former presi-
 dent of the Live Oak Development
 Co: George Kingdom. general super
 intendent of the Old Dominion at
 Globe; and Arthur James, a director
 of Phelps Dodge X Co. By the
 above it will be observed it is q great
 array of capital and practical knowl
 edge in copper mining. Mir. Doug
 las stated during his visit in Phoenix
 last week, that the properties will be
 exploited for all there is in them.
 If there is any making of a copper
 mine it will surely be made by these
 people.
 4 bond on the "Pinkham'. Mojave county, has been given to Charles Dudley and L. A. DOckery.
 O. B. Stanton has taken over the ora Plata in the same county. The bond calls for him to provide all cap itaI for development of the property. All the boys were sitting around the camp fire on New Years eve and had about exhausted their stories and experiences of finding prospects. AS the lull in the conversation arrived Jim drew his old clay pipe from his mouth. sputtered into the embers and | remarked that he had listened to all their stories, but none appeared to compare with a find that he had made twelve years previously. He | had been wandering around some time, without any success. but one day he struck something terrible good, he knocked off pieces of the l cropping for quite awhile and then l determined to return to camp to get a bite of something to eat and when he arrived there he found his mule with leg through the frying pan He stopped to take the pan off when l the heavy end of the mule elevated into space but bumped against some l thing. When 1 came too, continued Jim. I decided mot to bother about eating and returned to monument my claim, but I seemed to go everyway but couldn't find the cropping again Through the kick of the mule I had evidently lost the bump of location And do you know boys that claim was pure gold on top, and I believe it would have got better as it went down.