Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-09-19
Mining Matters.


 There ure several stacks of ore await ing transportation at the railroad depot
 Large quantities of freight is being shipped to the Silver Queen mine, at Los Bronces.
 Several car loads of ore have passed through Nognles. for Fl Pa>o. Texas, and Denver smelters.
 Two car loads of ore from Sonora, be- longing to Messrs. Leese d Serrano, parsed through this place tO Pueblo and Denver Tuesday morning.
 Prescott CouIier.)
 The Aztlsn mill is working up tgIlin2s, which pay we'll
 As was recently stated, the Sterling mill is being run a portion of each day.
 The Morgan and Mitchell companies are sacking ore that Is sail 10 be worth S7 pound.
 Hopes are entertained that the United Verde Copper Company will, pretty soon, start their furnace.
 Down near Walnut Grove companies are making large preparations for wash ing aurIferous gravel, which is in vast piles down there.
 The Peck mill is still at work on tail ings, so, also. IS the TnscumbIa mill. Robbins & Co.,, Gre running the Del Pas co mill on gold rock, which pays very well.
 lFlorense Enterprise.)
 The King company shipped their first bar of bullion from the new mill Saturday.
 The Silver King mlne, of thIs county, is the only one on the Pacific coast that has been worked from the day of its discovery without levying an assessment, and it has paid dividends regularly.
 J. D. Reymert left for San Francisco Saturday, for the purpose of either sell. ing or incorporating his mines. We un- derstsnd that large portion of the stock has already been subscribed for. MT. D. T. Fillmore, of the Owl Head=, accompanied him, and will assist m the sale or incorporation.
 The Vekol mill is now running on full time, the water supply at the We'll hay ing been largely increased. The mill Is now turning out $l,0OO per day. and the expenses per month at the mIll and mine are only S5,0O0 This vIll give some idea of the profits of the Yekol The Walker brothers are rich plel, and if the mine holds out-and tnere IS every indication that 1t will-they will soon be recorded among the mln.ng mil lionaires of the coast. They deserve it all.
 About ten days ago MT. J. w. Key holds, familiarly known as sandy" Key holds, found and located lead near the Moreau property, Mineral Hill district. Shortly after locating he commeEced tO sink on the ledge, and now, Ht depth of four feet, has uncovered pay streak four feet wide. from which the assays run as high as Sl l,JOO, and the average assays show the ore to bs very high grade. Sandy took sack of the ore into PinAl few days sInce, and tbe mer- chants were so taken with it that they agreed to furnish him all the supplies he may need ID opening up the property. He obtained four horse load of prUv.s- ions, tools, etc, and returned tO the claim to prospect II Tn earnest.
 [PheniK Gazst;e John Luke returned yesterday from | the Bradshaw mountains, where he has been for sometime past engaged in the ] OcFelOpment OI mlulnS property. He ] brought with him some specimens of ore | which assay all the way from SlO0 to 1 $500 per ton. They came from a 20 inch l vein Tn a ledge over l5 feet Tn width, | and the present indications are that Mir. | Luke will reap large reward from his l summers recreation.
 J. A. Smithline arrived this morning from Mineral basiD, in the Tiptop cOun- try. He has lot of eleven tons of high | grade ore, which will average between i've and SIX hundred ounces of silver to he ton. It is now being shipped to Pueblo, Colorado, for reduction. This makes the secnDd shipment made by Mir. Smithline during the past six weeks, and shows that the Silver Museum Is of the most profitable mines in Arizona.
 [wilcox stockman.I
 Work on Fleming's Galena Chief gold nine at Dos Cabezas Is expected to be resumed to-day, the men to be employ sd on 1t having gone out during the week. The mill will probably be ready 10 commence pounding aSay on the ore ID ten days or two weeks.