The weekly Arizona miner., 1881-05-13
MINING MATTERS.

s.4-A-4 '4 ID ' Di- otstEIC-s A4ip 9ttscS t-L4t s,5re aHI s.ael5lng furnace are being erect d on what is called the Montreal claim. Abe Kiewe Is having the store built; the Stokes Mining Co. are putting up the fur l- ace. The camp was excited over a new dis s5ve.y, which Was yielding very rich silver rock.
 Mir Randall Cof Randall & Cline) has been visiting districts south of Prescott. Matters are quiet in Tiger and Pine Grove district.
 h Peek district, work is progressing on a few mines
 Turkey creek district IS the Hveliest. A mil IS being erected to work ores from the Tuscumbia and other mines. 4 great many miners are sinking on their lodges.
 NIT. Jennings Is in from Hassayampa dis trict. Reports good
 Jackson McCrackin has gone to Walker district, where furnace IS in process of con- struction. Very rich silver float was re- | gently brought to town from this district.
 Hon. c. C. Bean left, to-day, with wag on load of supplies for one of his mining camps.
 Hon. J. G. Campb,i to-day informed us that mining engineer and expert, J. H. Larwill, from Philadelphia, IS coming here | shortly to examine properties Ill HumbUg and other districts.
 l Mir. Butum gives us permission to state that the Crook mill is crushing good ore. l Work on the Model mine, near Peoples valley, is going right along. The mill Is run ming
 ' MT. Morton, who has been running the Bradshaw Basin mill, is in Prescott. He, recently, made several successful runs on ores from the Prince and Black Warrior mines, Peck district.
 ] While 1t Is cheerful fact that this sec ] ton of Arizona Is grid-ironed with mines of gold, silver and copper, 1t Is a lamentable one that bad management, CT some other ] drawback, has kept them from beng worked as good ni"es should be. l. Is not our pur- ! p.se to revert to old time errors or mis- takes We are now in a new era. Indians !. not trouble Us any norc; labor Is not ] high. nor are provisions and other supplies. Bat. 1t seems to us. that these thi"gs are c1uuter-balanced by chicanery or misman- agement on the par; of men connected with some of our best mines.
 Not long since, fellow in Los Angeles county, California, got his finger into Model mine pie and came very near taking 1t from it's rightful owner, ex-Governor Powers.
 There IS. too, some trouble between those who mine and mill Black Warrior and Sll- yer Prince ores. Still worse, good miners say that some oi our best mines are be- ing swamped by men whose knowledge of mines and mining was acquired by reading more than by actual experience The lit g.tion business has. of course, been fear .ul draw back to our E.ining interests IL Is not pleasant for the MINER to be compelled ,o speak of such matters, and we hope that duy vi.l not again force us.to do so.
 Messrs. Lcruig and 1, gan, the Philadel- phia gentlemen who came here recently and examined the Eureka copper mine, Black H,ls district. are. hy this time, at their homes in the Quaker City. making plans and pr,plra,ions for working their property here. While they were in Prescott, the writer of this had several conversations with yacm. the tenor of which was that they were vel pleased v!th their property and intend cd t5 work 1t in business like way T. this end. contracts will shortly be iot fo. taking out more ore. opening a road from the mine to the A. & F. Railroad, 8 distance O. i5 miles north of the mine, burning char cal, erecting furnaces, and for doing other necessary work.
 IL IS a fortunate circumstance for us all thattwo such men have become interested !n the development of our mines Men of ample means, they gre not without knowl- edge of mines and mining siace they, for many years past, have owned and operated rich si.ver property in Mexico.
 In saying god word for those who take deep interest in opening and working mines here, II affords U, pleasure to note the manly efforts of C. r. Dake, L. :. Marshal of the Territory, to whose indomitable energy, many enterprises have been set on foot. He now has men employed taking out ores and building a furnace on Lynx Creek, in Wal ker district. some 10 miles south of Prescott and those who krow. tell us that Mir. Dake's prospects for success are very hatteriug. Hope so. He emiuently deserves success.