The border vidette., 1913-04-05
SANTA CRUZ COUTY.
intere sting Mining News from the
 Sa:.ta Cruz Patagonian.

the Royal Blue. the lease Of Fra~cr and Mcdonald. is ex- pected during the coming week
 Several sacks of ore. the be- ginning of a shipment, are now on tine depot platform here from the property of J. M. Hackett, in tHc SalerO district.
 Work has been started on the Arizona European group, near high grade copper ore have been taken out. and test shipment will soon be made.
 Some fine-looking orc was brought in from the Bland Min ing Company'S property this week by Dr. A. H. Hardtmayer. There is said to be an immense body of ore, which Mir. Wm. Powers says looks to him like brittle silver.
 Work of unwatering the old Trench mine is progressing rap idly. The water in the old shaft was lowered a distance of % feet in period of little over 3S hours this week. Already. as the water is being taken out, good looking ore is being eX posed.
 Les Ewing and A. w. Critten- den. who are working on the Old Harrison group, near the Three F. are still in the same class of good ore which they have been in for several days. The tunnel is now in about 275 feet. Wm. F'eSSler, the barber,
 M. K Meade. mining man from Tombstone, has been in the district several days this week Mr. Meade was formerly Marshal of Arizona, during the Cleveland administration, and is well known throughout the State. While here he visited at the Hardshell and other mines in that vicinity.
 Ed Bohlinger was in from the Coronation group Sunday. Ed
  some of his claims after the cele- brities on the diamond. For in stance. he has the Connie Mack" Hap Hogan" Ping Bodie, 2 ''Ty Cobb," and is wait ing to see if Hal Chase comes back" this season to name a claim after him.
 Paul Crawford returned Mon day from Fl Paso, where he has been looking after a shipment of ore from the Blue Lead, the claim of Kellogg and Crawford, a few miles from town. The Blue Lead is a silver-lead pro- position and this is the initial shipment from the claim. The returns from the first car sent to the El PasO Smelter were very satisfactory.
 The incest specimens exhibit ed in Patagonia for some time were brought to town Tuesday from Happy Jack mine. The ore is gray copper and chalco- pyrite, with big silver value. No assays have yet been made of the ore, but it is evident the values are extremely high. The ore was encountered in the lower tunnel, after about 90 feet had been run in barren ground.
 Good news continues to come from the Santa NinO, near Du- quesne. the property which Mil lionaire James Murray, of Butte recently acquired. No effort is being made to ship any of the ore at present, but there is said to be several hundred tons of good ore out on the dump. The shaft continues in ore all the way. From the present indica- tions. this property may develop into one of the biggest mines in the county.
 The tunnel of the Copper Queen company, on the claims being worked near the Worlds Fair, in the Harshaw district, is reported to have a full face of ore. The ore was run into the latter part of last week and has been getting better with every additional shot. Just what the ore will assay is not known. but that it is of good character can not be doubted. Specimens from the strike resemble the good ore from the Three R