Arizona miner., 1868-02-29
Mining News.

the Eugcnie lode was in l20 feet. at which dis tance the ledge was fully six feet wide. This tunnel is seven feet n height by six feet in width and is well timbered. lt Is being run by Geo Berry and R smith for Gray O., who own most Of the ledge.
 Bower. Bros and John A Rush are getting ready t1 start up the NoUleey five stamp mill. on "Diyidend' rock Mir Richardson. their engi- necr. returned Co town on Thursday evening. from a visit Co the mill. Co see what was wanted He and Mr. Rush will start over in day or two, and set things in motion. We are told that seyc- ra tons oi good rock are out, ready for milling. and from what we know in regard to this ledge, : it is almost certain to pay fl inc rock be prop. ! cry worked. Some time ago. Nr BOrgcr worked. in Gray k Cos mill sixty tons of Obi. rock, out ! of which hc said be got $ 200 in free gold and ! it was and k ihe opinion Of many pcr-ons who ! saw the rock and helped 70 work it that nearly | half of the free gold was washed into the creek | Mir BoTger concentrated ihe .uphurcls and made an assay of them, according Co which over sl .O0O ! remained in the concentration. This he promiscl | to take out and pay over to the company, but so i far as we can learn the company has never re- cciycd one cent of it.
 There are fCur companies of placer miners at work in Big Bug, and all. Ar. Berry assures u-. | are doing we'll Anderson 6 Co. -four mem. in 1 a recent cleau-up. got seven dollars day tO the | hand. Lewis x Thomas ttcn mem cleaned up 1 all of ten dollars a day Co the hand. Walters, ! Bichiell & Co get. We are told, good pay. Ano ! ther company k working in @ long gulch close Co the Eugcue lode but we have not been h. ] formed as to the amount of pay they are getting ! Water ,s plenty. with fair prospect of it. con tinuing so for several months to come.
 WALKgRs DfsrKcr-ycry little work has been
 done in Uni, district, the past month or six weeks
 owing to the snow and cold bat the miners are
 now taking out ore which they will work in their ! arastras, as soon as the weather modcraics sufi
 cicntly Co allow their waierwheels Co tutn. and
 admit Of amalgamati0n. Some few persons are
 working in the barr and bed Of tbe creek and
 We believe that Poland < Co. are running thei
 arastras by water power.
 HAssAYAArA DlsrRlcT.- Work upon the Chase
 lode is progressing and Moves d Curtiss ten
 stamp mill is now being hauled up from it- for
 mer location Co tbe Chase, where it will be
 erected and set to work. Michael McWiiliams.
 who has the contract for sinking one of tlc shafis
 a depth of one hundred feet told us the other
 day that h.s slist; wss down nearly seventy ft-,i
 -a! .Aa. ;Aas lode riz i,-i 'ir, uni OUkcr better than any other lode be had seen in tue
 country. Tho rock s undoubtedly rich.
 Operations upon the Chance lode Wil be re sumed, soon. by Messrs. Rodick x Fclaud. Jos.
 Young one of ihe owncr. will start in a short
 time, for his former home Philadelphia. ia which city be expects Go be able ,o raise means i5 work the ledge in proper manner. He has shipped
 one hundred pound, of ihe ore Co that city and will take with him the bullion extracted from 5 he three tons recently worked ai the Sterling mill which, it will be recollected. yielded we'll
 Work at the Sterling mine and mill ha. ceased
 for the present Except for inc inability of Mir
 Reed Co account for tbe loss Of the larger portion
 of the quicksilver used. bis mode Of treating Inc p ore would be entire success. The gold ].
 amalgamaicd by his process in thorough man F ner the rock has proven itself as rich as t va [ supposed tO be- from ihe various tests made of | . here and ID san Francisco but from some cause V more than two-thirds of the quicksilver goes of s and is lost tn grinding and anal gamatiag. and v of course. so large a quantity of quicksilver ,. cannot get away without taking great portion ' gf ihe gold with iL Cou'd the quicksilver Dc e retained, Reed and everybody else believes tha' IF the rock would yield at least SiOD tO thr ton :
 by working test, 1t is. not more than si0 C. the ton has been saved from it. Al the rcqucf e of JOhn \. Rush gentleman who has advanced n considerable money To defray the expense of
 working and testing this pinc Mr. Reed allow ed
 Nr RichaFd=,'ii. liit engineer. % take charge of
 and work the last batch of r0ck-siX tons. Rich r.. ard=on went Co work weighed every drop o l. quicksilver used by him lfty-four pounds i1
 ail-and on cleaning up. but hliecn pounds o y the silver could be found The run. however IS pad better than any previous run made, and q more free gold was saved in the battery and on
 the plates. Mr. Reed is now anXiOnsly awaiting e the arrival of ar. Knstel. who is expected berl Of shortly. in company with Mir. Gray in hopes tha d that gentleman may be able 10 explain the caus,
 of the l0ss of the quicksilver Some a~gne tha . tine silver goes of in vapor from the heated pull 70 in the grinder; others say that the quicksilver ,, from being ground with the rock under a heav,
 muller for six or seven hours, becomes granu lated and passes of in that way others agaii b. think that the chemicals used for purposes e ', amalgamainn mix and form an oily paste Hh h.el
 with the quicksilver. when the pulp is placed II it wafer, rises to the surface and floats away Thu F the matter rests waiting for science to explain ia the cause Of the difficulty.
 The placer miners on the Hassayampa ar, ' making fair wages. and those at work in th' gueh this side Of the Sterling are taking ou 10 lots of money. Most Of the companies wer
 ground-sluicing during the early part of thi h week
 Al LowER LYNX CREEE.-Nessrs Cornell and Big
 elow have been visiting the hydraulic digging
 of Little & Taylor, and report fayorably upoi l. them. Afler three days run three hands work r. ing g-the company made partial cleanup. whei n about ten dollars a day to the man was realized
 This is doing very well when it is consdere, | that they had just started in to work the digging Jr and did hot scrape or clean ID the bedrock r They are going t0 put in new string of sluicc
 boxes, larger than those now used by them yhei they will be able tO run of more dirt and large d rock. Mr. Bigelow says these diggings are be ,, ing worked by their present owners in bette m style than ever before, and confidently belicve them ,o be the richest and most extensive place m diggings in this vicinity
 d A party of MeKicans are working in some "a
 vines on the south sde of ibe creek, below th 'e claims of Little & Taylor.
 Were it not for the temporary failure of Mr
 Reed to master the situation" at the s,erln Irufr. !. .I U t.