Show ARIZONA clifton copper era A lafave this week shipped a car of lead silver t gold ore from his mine near clifton to the el paso smelter it if the returns are satisfactory regular shipments will follow in the future kingman miner col H G heffron visited the union pass section this week and made an examination of mining property the mines of that country are looking well and it is a question of but a short time until they are in the hands of capital prescott herald J H mcneill owner of the elkhart mines and mill is looking after the property and may conclude to start up work on it within a short time the property can be put on a paying basis by the investment of a small amount of money and systematic work on the property kingman miner the lucky boy mine Is being and it is probable that soon a milling plant will be installed on the property for the purpose of handling the low grade ores the big vein in this mine has big bodies of milling ore opened up and if properly handled will return thousands of dollars to the owner fred stull one of the best mining men in the country is in charge of the mine kingman miner E M carson who is at the head of the projected smelter at this place returned from san francisco last tuesday morning it is understood that the company which he represents will soon begin work on a number of mining claims in this district and get them well along in the matter of production while the smelter is in course of erection it is understood that the smelter is an assured fact prescott herald charles gracey came in from eldorado canyon tuesday last mr gracey is superintendent of the wall wail street and mines for joseph wharton and he reports the properties looking well the fhe shaft on the mine has reached a perpendicular depth of feet and the crosscut cross cut at that point shows a body of ore averaging about 80 to the ton in gold levels are being run and will soon be opened according to advices advises from jerome the united verde property since operations in the mines were begun in 1884 has produced more ore than W worth of ore and A clarks engineers assert that there is worth blocked out in the veins clark ark bought the controlling interest for in 1888 and owns 98 per cent of the stock the income from the property to clark is a month and the out put of copper last year aggregated pounds which at 15 cents per pound was worth th kingman miner R G eskis superintendent of the pinkham and midnight mines was in kingman yesterday in con with a miner reporter he stated that it was the intention of his company to equip the mines with machine drills and sink the pinkham shaft several hundred feet deeper at present cross cuts are being run from the level of the pinkham mine to prove up the ground at that point by the time this work is done the power drills will have been installed and the new work gotten under way the mines are showing up nicely and it is expected that great bodies of good grade ore will be opened up in all the veins prescott herald F H griffith general manager of the minnesota connor mines was in kingman yesterday on business connected with that property lie he reports the opening up of splendid ore bodies on me ble and levels of the mines and believes that with a little more development he will be able to keep the big mill continually in operation the ore bodies recently opened up are very rich some of them carrying values high in gold and silver about fifty men are now at work in the mine and mill and fifteen or twenty more will be put to work at once mr griffith proposes to open up the mine in a systematic manner and is making good progress in that direction morenci leader the detroit copper company has just bought a number of claims in the district adjoining the santa rosa mine near metcalf and will commence developing ve loping them at once the work done on the santa rosa during the past year has done much to develop the claims and it is thought by mining men familiar with the district that these claims will some day prove to be of great value the fact that there is considerable activity in the vicinity of the metcalf district makes it more than likely that the coming year will prove to be the most prosperous ever known in the district both the detroit a and n d arizona companies after the completion of their new concentrators will have to greatly increase their output of crude ore in order to keep their plants in operation and undoubtedly good territory will be in demand besides the fact that it will mean a large increase in the force of miners prescott herald the monica monic t proper property southwest of kirkland which is under bond to cecil C fennell is turning out as well as the owners have always predicted that it would shaft work is being continued and the ore bodies are found to be large and the character there are twelve or ore of good the owners of the fifteen men employed earnhart F I 1 E howe and mine are tom others the bond held by mr fennell was for eighteen months and the first payment is to be made in the middle of april next all of which is to the bond is for months of the dat be paid within eighteen ing of the lease and bond the former owners of the property are now treating the tailings that were left after aate r running their ore the mill is being run at intervals by the pennell fennell people in order to test the real value of the ore mr fennell had rather see a test run of several tons than to have the report of any assayer it if the ore is treated and the gold extracted it is the best proof in the world that it is in the rock clifton copper era C C burger consulting engineer of the new england and clifton copper company who arrived in camp last week announces that the company will commence shipping ore about the first of december A contract will soon be made either with the shannon company or the A C company for treating the ore it is the intention of the management to ship from to 1000 tons per month this ore will be brought from the mines to north clifton where it will be stored in bins to be drawn upon as needed by the smelter the company expects to be able to ship at a profit ore of as low grade as 10 per cent the general average of the ore on the dump is much higher than that it is also the intention of the management to at once commence development work on the antietam and ohio and sharpshooter mines situated near metcalf ore will also be shipped from these mines which are so situated that they have an outlet via three avenues either through the shannon tunnel the king incline or by wagon road these mines have made a remarkable showing for the amount of work done and they will soon be heavy producers mr burger also states that the probabilities are that the company will soon commence the construction of a concentrating plant the company will put quite a number of men to work on their various properties which with those engaged in hauling and handling the ore will make a perceptible difference 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