Show ARIZONA clifton copper era dick lakeman who qa ns as a group of rich gold and silver mines gold gulch near morenci spent a few g s in a clifton this week dick has shipped i from his claims that went as high as 00 per ton kingman miner J W prout of tucson k ived in kangman last evening and ana will go it j to the union pass section where he will ike ke an examination of the tyro mining perty the tyro is one the best big gold berties oper ties in the union pass section and s been quite extensively opened up I 1 clifton clifton copper era for some past the ew w england and clofton company have ade de regular daily shipments of from 22 to 5 tons their tramway is now graded to ie e dam above town but it will probably e six weeks or two months before it is in pe era ration tion after which the shipments will rage two cars per day kingman miner supt bupt J W guinn who iras s in kinman a few days ago reported that i the upraise in the enterprise mine the sad d ore streak has widened out to eighteen inches hes of solid metal and that in the drift mense bodies of ore were showing up rhe he mine never looked better than at pres int t sinking will soon be resumed on the iro perty and the mine thoroughly exploited 0 the level t kingman miner J H knight ani and fred larter arter have been operating the champion mine ine near vivian and are getting good results its the vein is about eighteen inches in width all pay ore the average of which is bout about three ounces gold several sacks were taken aken from the vein last week that ran 2093 2090 to 0 the ton mr harter has been prospecting the he vein for the past several months and found und several places on it that carried bi big values alues jerome news the hon reese AT ling of f prescott was a jerome visitor yesterday in coin company Vany with lee faau and a number of capitalists Pita lists from the eastern states mr ling says ays that there is much activity on the other side of the mountains in the mining way I 1 4 actuated by the building of the new custom si smelter sinester at humboldt he says that C harles charles P finney general manager of the smelter informed him the other day that there is now DOW ill in operation in that p part art of yavapai county different properties an increase inc of over during the past year safford guardian mr and mrs jas boggs came down from the ash peak minea last wednesday mr boggs reports that tha is working a good force of oc men man and that splendid development work is ben being done under the direct direction lof of bf superintendent atom tom lar larkin kin the main shaft is kownover down dow nover over feet with considerable drifting and crosscutting cut ting in the drift and the fine sulphide ore has recently been struck in large bodies not a great deal of work had been done in these mines since the disaster that occurred there about four years ago until recently all work that has been done however under the direction of mr larkin has been of sucha such a character as to develop the ore bodies to the best advantage and with the recent discovery of ore the future of the d district is practically assured clifton copper era S S campbell manager of the chase creek copper company accompanied by his cousin C L campbell of Camp bridge ohio arrived in clifton last week and will spend some little time here for many weeks past CL Campbell has been extensively engaged in the manufacture of tin plate but has recently arranged arrange J his business so that he is not so closely tied down as heretofore and will now join his cousin in opening up the properties of the the chase creek companies as an engine and a blower have been ordered for the mine and will soon be in place on the property the mines will also at once be surveyed and properly mon umen ted the work of development will be pushed more rapidly in future than in the past and the indications now are that the company will soon be numbered among the shippers of the camp after which the further development of the property will be a matter of mere details |