Show AN ARIZONA BONANZA clifton copper era I 1 R bradley superintendent of dick Lake nans gold gulch property was in clifton last week and brought most encouraging reports from that section he informed the era that mr lakenan had just made a shipment to el paso six tons of which would average not less than 2000 ounces silver per ton and from 10 to 12 ounces in gold the second class ore averages about ounces silver and from 5 to 7 ounces gold per ton when mr lakenan commenced work on his property a few months ago he was broke and has therefore been working in a small way but this shipment will put him on his feet in good shape and he will increase his force of miners and proceed to develop the property more rapidly than heretofore mr bradley says that the mine has steadily improved with development work and now promises to be one of the best as well as one of the richest mines in arizona some of the ore is so permeated with wire silver that it is almost impossible to break it apart but the greater portion of the rich ore Js is either a horn silver or a black sulphide while a good many thousand dollars have been taken out in the past few months the strike so far seems to have attracted but very little attention from mining men had this strike been made in nevada or colorado it would have created a furor of excitement but for many years this section has been chiefly known as a copper producer and apparently patently ly nothing else is expected from it however it is apt to surprise the mining world one of these days as it has large numbers of veins which cary both gold and silver for the last twenty years the precious metals of the camp have been neglected though previous to that time much gold was produced prospectors would do well to pay more attention to gold and not so much to copper gold is the metal for a poor man A copper claim worth I 1 much after it is developed and it takes lots of money to put it in a state of productiveness |