Show ARIZONA tombstone epitaph notice has been given to the miners employed by the copper queen company that in the event the copper market does not improve in the course of the next sixty days that the company will begin the curtailment of production which will necessitate the laying off of several hundred men in the mines at that place clifton copper era the gold belt D and R company is going along n nicely icely with its development work A crosscut is being run above the foot level on the gold claim and the vein ought to be encountered within the next week the hoist is in place at the copper claim and timbering the shaft has been completed sinking will be commenced at once enough first class ore is being shipped over the wagon road to pay operating expenses kingman miner report coming from the crow canyon mines is to the eff effect act that a fine body of ore has been struck at a depth of thirty two feet in the shaft although it was not thought that ore would be reached until a crosscut was run at the level handsome specimens of native copper have been taken from the shaft and much good copper ore is showing in the porphyry filling of the vein work is being pushed on tile the shaft and it is thought a depth of feet will be reached early in october water was struck at a depth of thirty feet but does not interfere with the work kingman miner W H gushing cushing and W H ruff were in from stockton hill sunday last they report the mill of the stockton hill mining company working perfectly and making a splendid zinc and lead product in the upraise from the drift at the level in the de la fountaine mine there are fourteen inches of clean lead ore while the vein shows a width of about twelve feet of milling ore the whole ore body will give better than twenty per cent lead A number of miners are at work in the mine and teams are hauling ore to the mill the first carload shipment of ore from the property will be made next week teams now hauling the product to kingman the lead will run over sixty per cent lead |