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Show f CHLORIDE UNITHI IS ACQUIRING GROUND Much Activity in Rich District Dis-trict of Arizona, According Accord-ing to Report. The C hlorido United .Mines company, formed recently by a number ut Los Ar.gidi's finruif -ial jiion, has f,u ri-hasd the Little .),hi;n':i: group from John H. Hughe:-:. Tin? ground consists of six jt-1 ii i m m and is lo-.-iti'd in what is known the gold belt in tin; Chloride rlistrict. AlVut 2'JiiO feet of development work has i'Cf-n done on tho property; there are three ;:5i) foot tunnel.-, and a?says taken near thvi burfaeo have ranged in value roni $ to JoO. F. W. Jaques of Los ngeles has lfcon made superintendent tho Arizona Chloride property, and aehinery will bo put on tho ground ' once ai.yl active development work. Miiiiienred, u'-eording to advices re- Jed here, tie-re has bevn a recent strike on the !v Burns g,vup, this property being 'ned in a itrect line between the stone and tlm Holmen Midnight. A id is already .in about 'MO feet, and r, v asiiays as high as .$li)0 have hern taken i' in several places; the average is said to run f.'HI. , The jew Tennessee, a property under development and endlining the'fainous property of tkit name, are extracting ore that is at lon.st one-half pure galena, ga-lena, the property being operated through a douliVi-comjiartnient shaft. A chunk of ore was' recently taken out that weighed at loast, onu p0lln,i3 anj waJ, nearly pure lead. The Westinghouse Klectrical Manufacturing Manufac-turing company lien.nl so much about Chloride that ir seoit representatives in to look the dislrict over. The pnrty con-Bisted con-Bisted of K. K. Van Kuran, district manager, man-ager, Los Angeles; K. G. Berlc, manager man-ager industrial and power department of the Los Angeles office; G. P. .Rosenblatt, .Rosen-blatt, special mining representative from tho Salt Lake City offico, and .1. A. Knost, salesman from the Kl Paso office. of-fice. These said that their visit had been prompted by the completion of the Desert Tower k' Water company's line into Chloride. The Hughes Arizona ore body continues con-tinues much the same as the work in the tunnel progresses. The high-grade vein averages from eightoen inches to three feet. Ore is now being extracted for treatment in the first custom mill to bo completed. |