Show ARIZONA clifton copper era wm keeting this week made a shipment of ten tons of fine glance ore from his group of mines on coronado mountain kingman miner W E sauls paid a visit to his newly acquired mining interests in the union pass country last wednesday he reports that the showing of ore is one of the mines is excellent and that he believes it will he be a good producer he brought back with him some rich specimens of ore from the outcrop kingman miner 0 D M gaddis is in los angeles this week on mining business it is understood that a corporation horation coi po ration will be organized right away for the purpose of handling several gold properties south of kingman A milling plant is to be installed in kingman for the purpose of handling the ores from the mines clifton copper era frank weaver is now preparing a shipment of ore for the el paso smelter which he expects to run at least 75 per ton in gold silver and copper the exceedingly low rate of 4 per ton will allow owners of mines producing precious metals to put their ore on the market two years ago the rate on ore from clifton to lordsburg Lords burg was 8 per ton kingman miner report has it that an immense dredger is being built in san francisco to be installed on the colorado river near eldorado canyon the river bed and bars for miles up and down the colorado from the canyon are said to be rich in gold and if a dredger can be made that will save the gold it would look as though there was millions in it another dredger will probably be installed on the barnes placers below the mouth of the virgin river tombstone prospector E A stafford has returned from a trip to canyon creek about thirty miles north of globe where he examined an old mine supposed to have been worked by the spaniards in very early days or by a people antedating them as all the implements found are of stone the ground is supposed to have been mined for silver though considerable turquoise in small pieces is scattered through the dump the development of this old mine was extensive and to duplicate which today mr 1 stafford says would cost more than the old workings have the appearance of having been filled in purposely with waste I 1 and there is only one opening a tunnel 5 which it is possible to enter this mr 5 stafford explored and found to be about forty feet in length he found upwards 0 of fifty stone hammers of various sizes in this tunnel the old mine is quite interesting and its exploration might possibly develop something of value but being on the san carlos indian reservation no prospecting of consequence has been attempted |