Show ARIZONA oasis in the whetstone mountains west from fairbanks eugene and joe larrien have a very promising lead silver mine from which 0 great results are anticipated among the ores they find vanadium an oxide of lead very useful and valuable in the arts it sells at sixty five fave cents per pound kingman miner the price off offered ered for tungsten of seventy per cent delivered at kingman is 5 per unit of long ton the same purchasers offer 10 per unit for ore per ion long ton for fifty per cent ore or better A number of reputable mining papers have made the assertion that these ml minerals gerals brin bring but little in the market the figures given above are from actual sales of these minerals jerome mining news J F derrick who is at present doing a great deal of mining in the cherry creek district was in jerome this week purchasing ng a lot of supplies he brings good reports of what development work is doing for that district the most interesting news was that the pfau company have now a diamond drill one of the best to be bought on the way to its mine with which to explore tasir property not only for the richest gold deposits but for the copper ores which e experts believe will be found with depth n that district kingman miner at a depth of seventy five feet the bonanza mine in the sheep trail section has been crosscut to the foo t a distance of twelve feet and a splendid body of rich ore found on the wall tha th ore is of good milling value across the entire vein but that founton found on the will W P y to ship the mines are owned by george hughes and miller the owners have been at work on the development of the property since its discovery last spring some drifting will be done on the vein at the present level prescott prospector the most important mining transaction that has taken place in m this country for some time was the initial payment last wednesday of cash by eastern people for the davis mine this property is situated on slate creek about fifteen miles from prescott by wagon road and some three miles southwest of the senator mill the property is most favorably known having been worked for its rich surce face gold ores in early years when the ore had to be packed on animals it is said to where it could be milled a distance of several hundred miles clifton copper era I 1 N stevens who recently returned from a trip to bisbee re ports that section as very lively in a mining way he says the way they spend money in that district in the development of property is a surprise even to mining in men en the first thing in development work in that section is an eapen expensive sive hoisting plant and when that is in place it is necessary to sink 1000 feet before they even have a prospect for ore many of the hoisting plants cost more money than some of the new companies have spent in this section prescott herald ben bell silverman who wha is well known in prescott has one of the finest little mining prospects in this country today for the work done it shows up in great shape the shaft is down feet and assays essays taken from the entire width ot the shaft show values of 25 per ton in gold other ledges run as high as 50 per ton mr silverman has owned the property for the past two or three years and his has always kept keilt up his assessment work faithfully he certainly stands a fine show to make a good raise out of the mine F C friedman is now trying to place the property dens bens many friends would be greatly pleased to see him realize a tidy sum from the sale of the property clifton copper era the era learns from froll parties who have visited the standard mines during the past week that the body of sec ond class ore averaging fifteen per cent has widened to ten feet there is good ore in all the lower workings of the mine high grade ere cre averaging better than forty per cent is being developed in many places the aerial tramway has been kept busy for some time past in handling the output which will be largely increase 1 during the present month in fact it now looks as though the standard had passed through its most critical period and from now on it may bs be considered as a mine unless all signs fail it will make big money from now on and will soon resume its old place as a regular dividend payer |