Show ARIZONA chloride arrow the samoa shipped a car of rich gold ore this week and have another ready as soon as it can be packed off the mountain the hoffman boys fell on their feet when they bought this property and know how to handle it too clifton copper era the era is informed that a strike of native copper and rich oxide ore was made in a crosscut cross cut towards the hanging wall in the antietam nine mine at metcalf this week the ore is fabulously rich the extent of the strike has not yet been fully determined kingman miner fred and J C hess of bloomsburg pa arrived in kingman sunday morning last on their way to the san francisco mine in which they are interested mr is a wealthy manufacturer and mr hess a business man who are interested in mining in this territory prescott prospect J ross has been absent from prescott during the past week en cn a visit to his ben claim down the agua fria two and a half miles below bumblebee ross has about two hundred and fifty tons of ore blocked out and has ore on the dump that assays essays to the ton he says there is more water running down black canyon than has been seen for fifteen years clifton copper era the shannon com banys new concentrator consisting of eighteen frue banners van ners was started up monday last and has been in successful operation ever since everything about the plant is moving like clockwork clock work and reflects much credit upon mr carkeek Cor keek who drew the plans and superintended super intended the construction of the plant the shannon company will soon again be outputting copper on an extensive scale prescott journal miner C S gage one of the well known mining men of arizona is visiting prescott for a few days mr gage 19 is superintendent of the planet copper mining company operating extensive properties A at planet arizona he is also postmaster at that place this camp is about abolt eighty miles from kingman and twelve miles east of the colorado river in the bill williams fork country and is where the rich strike was made a few days ys ago which nearly de populated the city of kingman jerome mining news john harman I 1 demist he the young man who smoothened smoot hered the e fire in the united verde mine has gone to 10 bisbee where he will open a laboratory ye he was offered a good and permanent post with the U V company but concluded that he would go into business for himself himself As stated in a previous issue of the news mr harman has made application for a patent for his process of extinguishing fires in mines and with the full approval of the head officials of the united verde copper company in jerome kingman miner ben blanchard has let contracts on his mining claims near aubrey jack barnes and william curry have taken a contract to sink a shaft to a depth of feet anticeto An niceto martinez and manuel bios rios have taken a contract to crosscut cross cut sixty feet from the bottom of a foot shaft other smaller contracts have also been let it is understood that within twenty days mr blanchard will have a big force of men at work on all the mines of the group in which he is interested the mines are considered among the best properties in the bill williams fork country prescott herald the braganza people have again excited the curiosity curlo sity of the public and swelled their bank account by producing the largest gold brick we have ever seen in prescott the brick of solid gold weighing forty pounds was seen at the bank of arizona this morning by the herald man in dimensions the brick is seven inches long four inches wide and three inches thick a nice watch charm the gold is as pure or br purer than the ordinary gold as it is retorted therefore the value of the brick runs up into the thousands rf cf dollars the braganza people are bringing gold goldbricks bricks to town with great regularity and each one is larger than the preceding one the last ol 01 one was brought in about three weeks ago and weighed thirty seven pounds such shipments of gold boosts yavapai county in the eyes of investors |