Show ARIZONA clifton copper era the chase creek copper company is in receipt of a gasoline engine which will soon be in place at the mines the tunnel is now going ahead at the rate of two feet per day and is continually cutting stringers of good ore jerome mining news at the north verde superintendent continues to sink the shaft through iron and lime preparations are being made to place the blower and power drills at work as soon as they arrive superintendent has received a telegram that they were shipped several days ago kingman miner A L mckesson has opened up a big body of ore in his mining claim one mile east of hancock water tank he has been at work on the property the past month and believes he has a good thing the ore shows much free gold A number of locations have been made in the vicinity of the find the past few days and considerable work has been mapped out clifton copper era john K erskine president of the standard consolidated mines arrived tuesday night and is now at the mines it is likely that while he is here a considerable amount of development work of importance will be mapped out for the future the era is informed that the standard properties have been doing very well during the past few months clifton copper era wm jinkins manager of the home copper company of morenci spent yesterday in clifton the company recently agreed to bond its claims for but mr jinkins who is the largest shareholder in the company is greatly in hopes that the bond will not be taken for the reason that he has other people in view who are anxious to take hold of the property kingman mineral wealth last saturday scotts lucky boy consolidated mines company was organized in kingman the incorporators are tom brail henry lovin and fred stoll the claim is located in the chloride district and is considered a fine piece of mining property the company intends to develop the property immediately and no doubt she will be a dividend payer before long kingman miner den ben shaver has taken the contract to sink two shafts on the victor tor and virgin mines to a depth of feet each he is working three shifts on the properties and making good headway the mines are looking good and it is expected that the present work will open up great ore bodies mr shaver also has contracts to crosscut the veins at the bottom of the shafts and drift 20 0 feet each way col thomas ewing has charge of the work for the company owning the property in which he is largely interested kingman miner charles metcalfe has purchased the interest of thomas tyrrell in the great eastern mining claim in walla pai mountain it is his intention to develop this property and put it on a producing basis at once the mine carries good values in lead gold and silver and the vein is of great width and extent jerome mining news at the black hills they have gone through seventeen feet of the copper sulphides sulp hides and iron mentioned elsewhere in the news and the end is not yet the fact that this ore has been struck at a depth of nearly feet makes it of great significance to the jerome district in sinking this shaft several hundred feet of formation was gone through that carried no values at all proving as it did in the bisbee district as well as at butte montana that deep mining will uncover large and pay bodies of ore the black hills group will be watched with much interest clifton copper era arthur murphy jr manager of the ash peak mining company spent a few days in clifton this week clos lug ing arrangements with the shannon company for treating the ores of the company ore bins will at once be erected on the A N N R R and the wagon road from the mine put in first class condition mr mur phy expects to commence shipping ore in about three weeks the company now has more than tons of ore on its dumps and ready for shipment and besides that it can knock down in the mine almost any amount desired the rich ore recently uncovered in the mine which was reported in the era some weeks ago is being developed as rapidly as possible and is holding its own as to size and quality A rich strike was also recently made in the fraction claim which is looking remarkably well the shipping of ore from ash peak means a new factor in the mineral output of graham county |