Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-12-24
Mining Melsnge.

Mining Melsnge.
 Tiptop stock IS quoted in San Francis co at Sl.15.
 Tne Old Dominion are opening then black copper group with hRttering re suits.
 Work on the Pioneer South mill hai been delayed some by the slow delivery of lumber.
 The Minnebaha make; the best show ing of free gold of any mine in the Tomb stone district.
 The placers which are being worked by the Mexicans in the vicinity of Tomb stone are paying we'll
 Wagons were loading Saturday al MaricOpa with boilers and machinery for the Vulture mine.
 The Tuscumbia mill, which has been resting for some time past, will soon be | set running.
 The Copper Grant and Copper Mint ! properties, on Castle Greek, worked oy ] Messrs. Evans and Wilcox show up well.
 The Mack Morris company shipped three bars of bullion on the l4th- value S5,626.46. Total to date S6il,- 97222.
 Governor Tritle has secured a group of ten mines on the eastern slope of the Black Hills, in the Verde district, about 27 miles from Prescott.
 A ten stamp gold mill on Tonto Basin, at Inst accounts, was about com l pleted, and it IS expected that 1t would be set in motion about the 10th.
 Tho contract has been let to haul the Trench hOisting works to the Ingersoll nine, and Jimmi6 Carr, the boss freight CT, will commence hauling next week. We understand that there has been a fine body of ore opened upon the second level of the La Plata mine and will be milled at the Mack Morris mill
 Two carloads of COrnishmen passed through the city yesterday, bound for California, where they intend to settle down and cultivate wasted and deIerted land.
 The pump for the Vizina mine, Tomb atone, has arrived and been put in place and work has commenced to drain the shaft in the west drift on the 400 foot level
 Col. c. c. Bean, of Prescott, has bonded a group of copper mines, to an English company, Prof. Geo. A. Tread well, agent. for the snug little sum of s3,5OO,OOO.
 Drill: The Bruser, belonging to M. '. ThOrsing, improves in quantity as the work progresses. It IS evidently big mine. It is on tho now famous Cont mental ledge.
 Drill: The Truckee Is the northern ex- tension Of the Bebse. It has 4O-foOt shaft; same class of mineral as Beoee; vein and ledge similar. Charles Wall, Dun Vaughn and Ed. Mallory are the owners.
 The directors ot the Head Center Con- Eolidsted mining company are: E. A. Benjamin, T. E. Jewell, A. W. Foster, William Kohl, F. W. Lillenthal, J. M Mitchell and J W. Pen.
 Richard DeKuhn WAS in Prescott from Cherry Creek Wednesday. He says the camp out there is on the top crest of the tidal wave of mining pros perity, which is at present sweeping over this Territory.
 James Dilsbaw IS sinking a shaft on the north croppings of the Alice mine Rt Mineral Hill, and every blast knocks out chloride ore of good grade. The Alice deserves all the good words that have been written about 1t.
 Drill: They are down 600 feet in the Mowrie, in very hard rock. We are as sured that the company intends to sink until they reach 1000 feet. The shots in the bottom fthe shaft are discharged by electricity from above.
 PheDix Gazette: Our mines are looking well, and all that is needed to make this country lively Is the erection of q large custom mill on or near the Grand Canal There IS fortune awaiting the com pany who will engage Tn tnls enterprise.
 Three furnaces of the Old Dominion copper company will most probably be in full blast on Monday next. If the hitherto product of one iurnncs Is any criterion we can safely say the result from the three furnaces will give at least twenty-fOur tons of pig copper per day.
 The talk IS that Mir. c. c. Bean of Prescott, bas bonded his copper farms l for several million dollars and that rivers of copper will soon be run out of | Beans basin, which IS almost as large
 
 the East.
 Work on the Bebee mining ground will be started soon after the lst of Jan uary, 1883. The tunnel on the mine IS 70 feet long pointing towards the shaft, calculated to strike it at a depth of 2jO feet. The ore is galena-beRring silver. The ledge is l4i feet wide. F. 4. Sar- rick is the sole owner.
 Drill: The Martinez, has improved with every days work. The vein IS nine feet in mineral and they have not yet as certained how much wider, as the other | wall IS not yet reached. They are ! working on the foot wall, going forward, a width of nine feet. When they cros- cut they will ascertain the width of the vein.
 Drill: T. E. Fish, under whose charge the work is conducted on the Specie Paying, in Mineral Hill, reports big ! strike Of ores containing petanquI metal. | He showed us specimen of almost pure silver, and Essays run over S2,OOO per ton. He has started work on lively scale, ten men went with him on last Monday morning to Cottonwoods, the nearest camp.
 Drill: We are glad to announce that ! the Windsor Company is now buying and paying cash for all classes Ot ore on sample. So We have at last a home | market for our ores. Now pack your burros from all the mountains, and bring m your ores from one ton upward, and you will get your cash, all that 1t ls worth on sampling. Don't be looking at your specimens but bring ID your ore.
 Drill: Work on the Hollis mine shows R great improvement. The vein Is 4is feet wide between good walls of syenite and porphyry. Assays run from s204 to $500 per ton. It IS free milling ore with horn silver. The shaft is now B feet in depth. The mine belongs to M. Jennings and J. Sturgeon The Hollis is the southern extension of the Bebee mine, seven miles sOutherly from PInal.
 Mir. c. W. Sharp has been doing some work on one of his mines, located near Picacbo station, with gratifying results. Col. Richard Spencer. of New York, Is interested with him and 1t is probable that 6 company will take hold of the property soon. It has real merit and be- ing situsted within few miles of the railroad, is a very desirable property. From all we can learn of 1t, 1t would be. come a fine bullion producer with proper development and machinery.
 Apropos of the item published few days since ID the Tums Sentinel. in regard to the discovery of ancient mines in that vicinity, there is unmist.kable evidence of the mines of the Verde dis tri.t. northeast of Prescott, having been extensively worked by the ancients Several thousand tous of debris are lying on the hill sides, which parties have recently discovered partial remains of instruments used in working them also vestiges of pottery and other |, articles. There is no doubt but a great abundance of rich mineral deposits wal taken from the mines of Arizona by .hal racn nY cirilirafinr uhirh arte