Tombstone epitaph., 1888-12-22

be under way within two months.
 A boat load of prospectors have left here for the new discovered placers in Lower California. MARIcoPA. Arizonian:
 The Union mine, Winferd district can supply from fifteen to twenty tons of ore to reduction works, were such established in Phenix.
 The Tip Top county ships through Phenix every month about two carloads of ore, running in value from S2oo to $3oo per ton.
 The old Vulture will be running to its full capacity by the first of the year. It has So stamps.
 The four stamp mill on the south side of the river will be running on rock from the Climax mine in few days.
 Al Richardson returned from his min. ing claims, on the Verde river, and brought back with him several good specimens of silver ore. He also had fifteen pound chunck of silver, smelted in . common forge. Six men arc now at work developing the property.
 Herald:
 The Wratten strike, in Centennial dis. trict, is sad to be the biggest thing in the mining business ever discovered in the Territory. Three men took out S36,ooo in seven days.
 MoHAyA.
 Miner:
 Considerable work is being done at the mines in Lost Basin.
 Some of the claims in the Wallapai mountains are showing up well under assessment work.
 The Flores Mining Company are sink. ing their we'll twenty feet deeper and ex. pect to get an abundant supply of water.
 Messrs Murray and Church, of Pres colt, have taken bond on some copper claims, twelve miles south of Yucca.
 The Finch & Logan Mining Co. of Cedar district are preparing to thorough ly prospect their properties.
 Belt.
 The last shipment of copper from Will. COX, by the Old Dominion Copper Com. panY was 66,Soo. GRAHAM.
 Clarion:
 The Gold Mountain Mining & Reduc- tion Co. of Clifton has been organized in St. Louis with capital ofS5oo,ooo to work the group of Friend mines near Clifton. A 7o-stamp mill will be erected The ore averages Sao per ton gold.
 w. C. Tonkin, representing St. Louis parties has put up forfeit of S6ooo for the erection of stock company to work the well-known Carrie C. group of mines.
 On the Silver Basin group of mines one shaft is now down about fifty feet and an incline shaft has been started further up the hull for the purpose of further prospecting the ledge. Chloriders on the Twig mine are talk ing out 300 OF. ore. It is reported that the well.known Carrasco group of Copper mines near Morenci have been sold for SIoooo cash and that payment will be made within the next ten days. The purchasers are New York parties.
 There is, it is said, one mining deal in course of Consumation in the district, which if it goes through, will involve the expenditure of SIoo,ooo in and about the neighbor hood of Clifton. GENERAL NOTES. Seven wagon loads of machinery az gregating 4S tons in weight, fer . five stamp mill, left Tucson one day last week for Fl Rosario, Sonora.
 Gallup coal companies advertise for ] one hundred laborers.
 At Central City, Colorado, q retort containing S4o,ooo in gold was placed in bank for safe-keeping. The gold was all produced in single day by one mine.
 The Arizonan says that more mining men are in Phenm than ever before, which indicates that the mines of Mar icopa county are likely te be developed. It is said that the gold field of Grant Parish La. furnish ore that assays all the way from $2o to SIo,ooo . ton. Thus far no systematic working has been made iL them.
 A recent meeting in New York, of stockholders in the Silver King mine, spfin~ o0o .b....