Tombstone epitaph., 1888-12-08

property since last week. A,ide iron the tact that the machinery was delayed n ,:ancien,, the rains have left the road almost impossible, 50 that the compile ion of the works are set back about 8 days.
 EMERALD
 The Rand drills are at present at worl n the south drift on the 300, bat one vii DC placed on the 400 in a few lays.
 HURsCHEL
 The drift is in 8i feet all in good ore The wirze is down I8 feet Stoping ha: been commenced and shipments will bs made regularly.
 GROUND HOG.
 II. T. Fisher, superintendent of the Ground Hog and V,,ina mines, returned from the East this week, where he pur- chased a diamond drill, and will star, prospecting the Vizina. Mir. Fisher also ompletrd arrangements tor the cree ton of a ten stamp mill, and work will be commenced in few days. The mill will be erected near Tombstone.
 YAyAPAI. B.
 Presco Courier:
 The gravel of the HassAyampa is yielding fair returns m gold.
 The Copper Basin Mining company are shipping in very fine machinery for works which they are now erecting.
 It is rumored that a large mill will shortly be erected at the Congress mine. The Catoctin m,ne, Hassayampa dis trict, is producing greal deal of rich ofe.
 The quartz mill at Big Bug is kept running on gold ore from the McCabe mine.
 Some very rich ore has recently been shipped in from Groom Creek.
 Soft roads may retard the shipment of roke and copper to and from United Verde. Yet the company will work lheir ores of gold and silver.
 Considerable work is being done in Tip Top district. The last shipment of ore from the Good as Any sampled goo ounces per ton silver.
 The Fl Dorado, Fourth of July and some other mines are producing ore that is almost as rich as that of the Good as Any.
 About to chloriders are developing ng other properties. Some of them make good wages others more.
 At Bradshaw Basin the Crowned King and Gro Bella are producing good ore. Three, perhaps four, large mills will be running in the district next sum. mer. Two w,ll be kept running this winter. Near these mills are the Tiger, he Gray Eagle, Lorena, Cougar. Rapid Transit and several other rich mines Of gold and silver.
 Mir. Kirkland's team arrived yesterday with ore from the Congress
 Schull & Austins teams are headed this way with good many tens of same ore.
 Wagon loads of ore frsm other mines are constantly arriving.
 Holaday & Ronald have just sent in five tons of Doseris concentrates.
 Journal Miner:
 Mir. o. F. Place, of the Crowned King, has returned from the east. A shipment of 7s,ooo pounds of ore nas just been made from the Congress mine. ...- -.,
 The creeks are full of water and gold from placer claims will soon begin to be received in Prescott.
 The recent rains rnay make the roads vsry muddy and thus render the ship ment of ore next to impossible.
 It is reported that Robert Stein, pres ent sheriff of Mohave county may, at the close of his present term, go to South America. to take charge of mine.
 An immense block of solid sulphxret ore, weighing nearly 5000 pounds, from the Congress mine, was brought in day before yesterday, by q team, and dumped out at the office of Murphy Bros. l, contains eight ounces of gold, and is a fine specimen. This block was taken 6ut at depth of about five hundred feet. The Congress shows upricher the deeper the shaft is sunk.
 ss PIMA.
 Tucson Citizen:
 The Indian Chef, in the Qaijotoa dis trict, is one of group which show well.
 The ledge on the Indian Chief aver ageslfrom } to 2 feet in width. Emmi h feet, Central 4 feet and the Orteg; about the same. These claims wer, formerly worked by Mexlcans, and the ruins of the old arastras. by which rock