Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1888-12-12

day night.
 Thomas Parish has gone e Dsuye
 to confer with Professor Powell in n gard to .etting . portion of the ari
 land appropriation, expended in thi1
 territory.
 Wlntn9 0ntol0lgonOo.
 1 Biglow and Smith are doing assesa
 ment work on claim in Maple Gulch
 New buildings, to be used e lodein,
 rooms and boarding house, at the Storn
 Cloud, are nearly completed. N. Johnson, . placer miner on thG
 Hassayampa, brought in several dollar.
 worth of gold dust yesterday. Lyman Elln,sre has gone to Sau
 Fran cisco. for ten days business trip,
 in connection with his mining enter. prises in this section.
 Shull < Austin have six-horse team regularly employed in transpertinR
 supplies to the Congress mine, making
 round trip every six days.
 J.M.W Moore has been appointed zen. eral manager of tine sanpling works sf the Arizona Ore company. MT. Moore has been acting manager for some time.
 Reports from the Centennial district say that Harry Walton has made wonderful rich strike about four miles from Centennial camp. It is said to bs Q large ledge of free geld.
 Dan Hatz has nearly . car load of ore ready for shipment from the Ruby and Buena Vista mines on Slate Greek, The ore contains gold, silver and cop. per. and runs from $SO to $leO per ton.
 Six CT eight teams, of from six ts twelve animals each, pulled out to-day loaded with mining machinery. Among the number were several bound for the Gro Bella company's camp in the Brad shsws.
 Ed. Wager has recently struck some horn silver on his EldOradO mine at Tip Top. The Ell Dorado has been worked for number of years, and is aow paying better than at any time be- ore.
 w. A. Rowe has a pack train engaged | packing ore from the Original Davis" nine, on Slate creek, to Prescott for 'hipMent to Colorado smelters. Ore works from $8O to $1OO per ton, and he ,as twenty tone out ready for shipment.
 John McDermid has taken Q con. ract for running tunnel 100 feet in he Storm Cloud mine, and Thsmas Williams and J. Brown have taken . ontract for sinking 70 feet shaft on he same property. Fred Little is fore nan of the mine.
 Fred Sattes was in from the Alligator nine yesterday, for supplies. This nine is opening up into veritabls be- anza. It has already produced seve- al thousand dellsrs in gold, and there } as much in sight now as has besn aken from it.
 Twelve men are now employed on ne Storm Cloud, and the work of de- elOping this and other properties ad- lcent, owned by the same company, i III he pushed rapidly, and 1t is the in- .ntion to erect mill for the reduction the ores in the spring.
 A superstition exists among many liners that . year ending with "nine" successful and prosperous ono for lat industry. Whether the omen is . . 'od one or not, the mining outlook fer lis section never looked Q favarable
 it docs at the present time for the ,ar 1889.
 F. c. Christie, one of the earliest | 4 corder the ;' county ffys'aiaet aaeeat and the r.t
 Prescott few days since, after an '" ,sence of about sixteen years. Du. ng his former residence here, Ar. n hristie was engaged in mining, and h IS devoted himself exclusively to that ,siness ever since he left here, having ., ,erated both in Mexico and New exico. In conversation with tue man, MT. Christie says q at he has never seen any country E hich contains the same amount of G precious metals as can he found thin radius of forty miles of Pres tt. With his experience in mining nee 1864, he bases the prediction at this section has bright future. hiie the past has witnessed nunerOUs lures, the experience gained and the ,owledge obtained in regard to the quirements of the ore for saccessfu! ,atment will enable others tO come in.