Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1888-01-25
Mining items.
The melting snows will cause rich harvest for placer miners.

The melting SHOWS will cause rich
 harvest for placer miners.
 Articles of incorporation of the
 Crowned King mining company have
 been filed for record.
 F. M Murphy went out to the Con
 gress mine, yesterday, to put force oi
 miners at work on that property. J. r. Score has seli half interest i'll the Ready Cash mine, Walker district for $500, to Dr. R. K Robinson. Chas. k. and Louisa Wallace have sold the "Kee Hole" mine, Hassayampa district, to John s. Jones, for $l 900. G. Q. Roberts has sold the Side Line mining claim. Castle creek, to the Gas tie Creek Mining company, for $500. Col H. A. Bigelow is in town. ant gives good reports of the various mine; being worked at the head of Slate creek There are several hundreds of tons O ore on the various dumps in this count! awaiting shipment to the Sampling works.
 James M Vandeburg, who is ur from Antelope, says the recent cold spell has almost put stop to placer
 mining ill that vicinity.
 A party, just in from the Clarence Ruby mine, states that on a twenty-fOu
 hours run of the mill, they cleaned uI over $40O from the plates, besides the concentrations.
 Thomas Reese, foreman of the Etts
 mine, at Cherry Creek. Is in town, but 1 refuses to be interviewed in regard tt
 that property, except to say that i
 opens betterapd larger with every foo l of development.
 X decd from J. NJ. Ellis, administrator of the estate of J. $. Merrill, deceased to w. F. South and M. Lenhart, for g 1 thirty-ton smelter at Castle creek, Ina,
 been filed for record, the cosideratiOr
 being $1,2oO
 Frank Dolph, manager of the Gro Fint company, says that the water in the
 Hassayampa has commenced to rise from tine melting of the snow ln tho mountains, and he started work yester day on the Gro i'iaO placers. Tine county recorder is busily en- gagged in making abstracts of the prop
 erty recently owned by the Colorado
 and Trinidad company at Castle creek ! a .ale of the entire property having 1 been made to an English company The new company will add to tine plant
 and startup work in j. few months on an extensive scale.
 Judge Sumner Howard, A. E. Foott and Cbas. Thompson, owners of the Mayilower nine, ill Castle creek dis trict, will put force of men at work very soon on their property and de velop 1t more extensively. The mine Il already well opened and shows very high grade gold ore, there being severa! hundred tons ou the dump. A force of men are engaged running tunnels and drifts and sinking shafts on the Silver Trail mine, and are get ting it opened up in excellent shape X mining man who visited this proper l ty recently says that, from present de
 velopments. there are from forty to sixty | thousand dollars worth Of ore in sight M Murphy and w. w. Wander.
 bil,, accompanied w Smith, of Geneva New York, to the Howard mine yest.r
 day. They found three men at work The shaft Is now down thirty-two feet l and there is an 18-inch vein of very
 high grade gold ore at the bottom of it
 The owners are preparing to arastra the l ore, by water power, as soon as the snow
 melts sufficiently to give them supply l+of water
 Mir. Harrington, one of the owners o the Howard mine, was in town yester day, and reported that at g depth O
 thirty-three feet, pocket richer thau Il any yet discovered had been struck He said that on Friday, Saturday and Sunday they had taken out fully $S,- GOO worth of gold rock. This is double the amount taken out of the first pocket
 The vein at that depth was twelve inches wide.
 T. J. Dunkle, of Turkey creek, wal also in town, and reported to his part
 ner, J. L.. Fisher, that at depth of 1O4 feet he had struck quite body of ort 1 in the Scotch Lsssie mine, which gave
 an assay value of l,2O0 ounces. Thi'
 claim shows good ore the entire dis tance of the shaft from the grass root.
 down to its present depth, the average ore being about 400 ounces. There ars six men at work on it at present eink ing deeper and running drifts. On and after January lst, meal hour. at the Bellevue hotel will be changed and will be e tollows: breakfa6t, 6:3( ] to II a. m lunch, IF m. to 2 P. m.
 dinner. 4 to 8 ?. n. If