Show ARIZONA florence blade the final payment of 75 due clark S from the calumet arizona copper company for their copper creek mines was made last week and title passed to the purchasing company at the same time the company made a final payment of on a group of claims adjoining I 1 the dark clark t roup in which a controlling interest was held by superintendent cooper under whose direction the development work on the latter group has been prosecuted kingman miner aliner T R garnier gamier and lew went out to mr garniers Gar mines south ok of wheeler wash in the northeast part of the Wall apai mountains last tuesday and returned the following day mr garnier gamier reports that the shaft on one of the mines is being sunk at the rate of about two feet daily and that the same rich ore found on the surface shows in the bottom of the shaft the work promises to show up a splendid vein of ore A contract has been bea let to sink the shaft to a depth of feet kingman miner J W johnson camo came up from planet the fir first st of the week he reports that a railroad line has been surveyed into the old copper prince mines now owned by the clara consolidated company As soon as this road is completed it will open up the bill williams fork section as nothing else could the mines of that section are amon among the best in yuma county and will improve with every foot of development that is done on them he reports sam butler working a force of men on his corona properties and that he has a strong company back of him safford guardian the new machinery including a big air compressor and station pump has been installed at the fumarole raine mine and is now in operation and sinking has been resumed in the double compartment shaft the pump is at work on the foot level and is capable of handling a great deal more water than they have at present in fact it is capable of handling the water to a depth of fully one thousand feet et in order that the new machinery will 11 be capable of doing its work successfully as the shaft goes down it will be necessary to install another big boiler which will make three wilcox range news M R birdwell was in 1 I from the Te viston district yesterday he is developing a group of four gold bear ing g claims in that district known as the birdwell group he has one shaft down forty nine feet and at this depth has a vein five ve feet wide assays essays from this shaft show values in gold running from 5 to this vein has gradually widened from twenty inches at the surface to its present width another shaft is down twenty two feet on a vein varying from one foot to fifteen inches in width the values from this shaft run 24 in gold and silver only one general assay having been made thus far work on this shaft haft has had to be temporarily abandoned on account of water |