Show ARIZONA wilcox range news word has been received from cananea cananda that two more furnaces were blown in last at the greene cananea cananda smelter this makes the full battery of eight furnaces in operation i 1 and for the first time in over a year and a half the smelter is running full blast kingman miner A bond has been made for the ruth and rattan mines on silver creek J L pierce was the promoter and J D leedy the purchaser considerable work has already been done on the property and a ten stamp mill erected the new parties propose to do most of the development on the ruth claim wilcox range news reliable informs tion from jerome is to the effect that the strike recently made in the grand island is the most important made in the verde district for many months the ore was struck at a depth of eighty feet in the shaft the sulphide pay streak shows a of four feet samples of which assay 22 per cent in copper and 90 in gold to the ton the sinking of the shaft is being pushed williams news dr returned sunday from the scene of the recent rich strike near salome bringing back with him some fine specimens of gold ore taken from one of the group of four claims in which he is interested his partners are david shear one of the first men to reach the ground after the original discovery was made G T cline a banker and oil producer of mancos colorado and george mardis of phoenix kingman miner mention was made last week of the rich ore which was being encountered in the expansion mine at union pass chas J hutchinson the manager 0 of this property was in kingman this week and gave the miner more information concerning the strike As sinking goes on the values increase and the whole bottom of the shaft which is feet deep is entirely in ore without either wall showing out of some thirty five assays essays made the ore showed values of from 10 to per ton while a grab sample from the dump gave in gold prescott courier J C cain the mill man is in from the signal where he is putting up the smelter for the clara consolidated soli dated people he reports the smelter well under way and says that it is a lively section the clara people have men at work and teams are on the road hauling lumber and supplies from bouse to signal th the e company will build a narrow gauge railroad for three and one half miles from the clara and moro groups to the smelter at signal where the ore will be delivered the ore of the signal group carries lime iron and copper and is just right to flux the dry gold ores of the clara and moro groups mr cain is here to visit his family and has been working at signal for the past three months |