Show ARIZONA jerome mining news the excitement over the wonderful strike in the eureka property continues the striking of a mine that pays from the grass roots is not an everyday every day occurrence in the mining world and is naturally an interesting event the eureka is one of the few poor mans mines discovered in a copper district kingman miner T L ayres and J M day visited the tub mine located in union basin a few days ago mr ayres is the owner of the property and mr day is a mining man of wide experience the tub is best known as the union and is one of the best mines in the district it has an immense vein carrying values in gold silver and lead kingman miner louis kimmerly and J C potts have struck a big body of lead ore in their mining claim in IXL basin the vein is more than eighty feet in width and shows great bodies of lead and iron in the streak the lead body is very rich running as high as sixty per cent potts and kimmerly have two locations on the vein no nogales noales ales vidette john henderson general manager of the porvenir Por venir de sonora mining company left this morning for the companas comp anys gold mines down in the ures district fourteen miles east of the town of poza on sonora railroad he will return from el oro about the after which he will go to the copper properties owned by the company in the altar district six miles southwest of caborca Ca borca clifton copper era charles E stevens superintendent of the stevens mines of metcalf was in clifton saturday last and reports that the companes company comp anys ps new steam plant is working perfectly and that sinking in the is now progressing rapidly mr stevens had so much trouble with his gasoline plant that he was compelled to substitute steam in its place and now that he has it he is very glad that he made the change kingman miner J F mcbride in the interest of chicago parties was in the city this week to close the deal for the purchase of the well known altata group of mines at chloride these mines are very rich in copper even the water in them runs 11 per cent copper they have only been worked on the surface yet they have produced about the new owners will place machinery on the property at once and work them in a businesslike manner and the returns will surely be very large clifton copper era william climo superintendent perin of the shannon mine was down town this week for the first time in almost a year mr climo says that he is now employing about miners in the various mines under his supervision the mines are now producing an average of tons of ore per day which is certainly a splendid showing during the past month about 1000 feet of development work has been done in the mines and new ore bodies are continually being opened up the old shannon mine is now producing a considerable amount of high grade ore and mr climo thinks it will hold its own with the best of them in the territory he has one eighty feet wide of low grade ore he has also recently opened up a fine body of high grade ore on the sands group which is owned by the shannon company and from which mr calimbo expects great results in the future everything around the mine is now running like clock work and there is no trouble to get plenty of miners mr climo is one of the hardest working and most conscientious mining men in the territory and the success of the shannon mine is largely due to his intelligent management |