The border vidette., 1919-04-26
PATAGONIA.
Interesting News Items Clipped From
 the Patagonian.

 breaking of cylinder head in the engine.
 The first car of ore from the new Mowry strike has been l shipped and others will follow c. E. Wilson has one eight horse | team and one truck on the hanl,
 which equipment will be incl cas-
 ed as the facilities for getting l out the ore are improved.
 The copper silver ore recently l brought in by J. c. Longstreet | l from the Silver Pick claim, men
 ton of which was made in a | recent issue of the Patagonian, assaYed T per cent copper and | g ounces in silver to the ton. | Since this ore was uncovered a. | cave-in has destroyed 50 feet of shaft and much labor will be | necessary before the work of | development can proceed on this | property. f J. and Neil Mcdonald have been informed that the Eastern gentlemen who are prospective | purchasers of the Augusta mine | | will arrive in the district about May 1. The Augusta, also call ed the Hosey, is located about a mile northwest of the American Boy, and in former years ship ped many carloads of high grade 1 copper ore, especially in 1909 and 1910, at which time the property was under bond to William Kemp of Tucson and | ri pany.
 H. H. McCutchan recently fin.
 ished hauling the gallows frame and machinery to the Copper | Ledge property of Shannon and Dowd. This material is now in l place. The raise has been con- I pleted aud sinking will proceed
 at once. This property, which | joins the Exposed Reef on the
 southeast, gives promise of de-
 veloping into a real producer with the completion of the work
 now under way. Mir. Dowd was
 in Patagonia Monday, on busi
 ness in connection with his prop | erty.
 F. B. Hathaway of Los Ange-
 les, interested with August Bro- dine in the Golden Rose group,
 spent a few days in Patagonia
 during the week looking after
 his mining interests. The Golden
 Rose is a copper-S silver property
 located at the old Weiland camp,
 one mile northeast of the Worlds
 Fair, which is being developed
 under the direction of August
 Brodine. Mir. Hatha way return
 ed to his California home We'd
 nesday morning and made the
 statement that he was pleased
 Rose.
 The Pierce, Gardner lease on
 the Black Eagle mining claim is
 producing it's two cars of high
 grade silver ore each week with
 almost monotonous regularity.
 The ore body on this property is
 fully measuring up to expecta-
 tions. It is reported that the mine at present is looking better ] than ever, and an II foot face of high grade ore has been opened up from the 50 foot level, The mine at this date has practically no dump, which speaks for itself ] with regard to the size and rich ] ness of the ore shoot.
 Frank Reichert brought en- } couraging news from the Alto E district last Monday and reports 5 mining conditions as rapidly i'm s proving. Among recent devel- } opments in this section MT. S Reichert mentioned the fact that
 the Trudy now has a four-fOot
 face of milling ore in the lower
 tunnel, still being 65 feet from = the winze in the upper tunnel, a which, when reached, will give a the Trudy back of from B tc q 40 feet of high grade silver ore N Mir. Reichert says operations q on the Bland have been resum i3 ed, a contract having been lei 0 for a 100 foot cross cut, which, s when completed, will give 6 ,, depth of 27O feet. McGinley E and Smith are the lessees of this <: copper silver property and are G expecting good results from pre- x sent operations, owing to the | showing so far made.
 2! A. A. Holland, who recently i took a bond and lease on th'
 Mammoth mine, has already pu