Show ARIZONA the phelps dodge and calumet arizona mining companies are making especial inducements du to employees for home building money for homes is loaned for gradual repayment within months at 6 per cent A strike was recently made on the level of the superior and boston mine when the crosscut south struck the rigby vein two to four feet in width some of the assays essays show about 13 per cent copper and 55 ounces of silver the san carlos indian reservation is to be opened at once for prospecting the western section is known to be especially rich in asbestos generally found in localities so rough that aeroplanes aero planes or dirigibles have been suggested as means of bringing out the ore it is reported that arizona will produce this year as much asbestos as the total output of the united states last year the work of cutting a station at the foot level of no 5 shaft of the miami copper company is well under way preparatory to installing a hoist at that level for the purpose of sinking the shaft to greater depth it is assumed that the decision of the company to sink no 5 shaft several hundred feet deeper was made with the expectation of encountering an ore body at greater depth with a force of fifty men about feet of development work is performed each month at the property of the candelaria mines company in mineral county according to E E carpenter who is in charge of active operations it is confined largely to the lucy hill a new mine which gives promise of proving as good as the mt aft diablo and argentum the older mines of the company with a production variously estimated at between and T H fitzgerald of los angeles one of the principal owners in the keystone mine has been in kingman arizona accompanied by a mining engineer for the purpose of having the mine pumped out and an examination made of the property the keystone is situated at mineral park and is one of the first discoveries in that basin for many years it was a heavy producer of gold silver ore much of which was shipped to swansea wales for treatment there being no smelter les ies on the coast at that time |