Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1888-07-25
OUR MINES.
What is being Done in the various Mining Camps in this Section

What is being Done in the various Mining Camps in this Section Hon. E. l.. Gobin is running the Tuscumbia mill again on goo ore. Six men are engaged dry-washing at
 Maloney's camp, making good wages. A iive-stamp mill with pans and set
 tiers has been purchased for the Hill ! side mine.
 A five-stamp mill and concentrators
 are being run on Lynx creek, by Car l michael brOthers.s
 Brann & Mitchell continue to run
 the Wonder mill, on Turkey creek, on ore from the Veteran mine
 J. w. McGOwan is getting the Sena-
 tor machinery in place, and will have
 his saw-mill running in a few days. Two fourteen-mule teams pulled out
 to-day for Minnehaha, loaded with
 machinery for the Boaz mining con- pany.
 Byron J. Charles is shipping ore from a claim owned and being worked |
 loads arrived to-day at the sampling
 works from his mine.
 Two furnaces are in full blast at Je-
 rome Over 200 animals are engaged
 in freighting there, and upwards of 1000 tons of freight will pass between l that place and Witherellville this month
 Chas. A. Girdler Is now running the Etta mill. The mine has been closed down temporarily, as difficulty has been experienced in saving the gold. The mine Is said to look better at present than ever before, there being five feet of good ore at the lowest workings. Two men are making good wages out
 on Lynx creek, by packing water on four burrOs, for distance of two miles, with which to wash out gold. They
 pack ten gallons to each animal at a trip, making from two to three trips per day. There is no better evidence of the richness of the gravel tha.l the fact that by this crude method they are able to make excellent Wages. Louis Johnson was up from Tip Top
 yesterday with a shipment of ore to the sampling works, from the Fourth of
 July mine, owned by him and Thomas
 Wade. This mine has produced thou
 sands of dollars already, having been formerly worked by B. c. Williams. The ore runs some $6OO or $7OO in silver.
 Tip Top miners are shipping their ore now to the Prescott sampling
 works. While they are not able to
 realize quite as high price for the ore, owing to the mountainous roads be tween the two points, they have the advantage of getting spot cash for it here, while in shipping via Phenix they are compelled to wait from thirty to sixty days to get returns.
 w. B. Long, superintendent of the Gro Bella company, Is Tn town to-day, and says both properties which his company are working, the Oro Bella and Orc Bonito mines, are developing very satisfactory. He ha, a large amount of ore now on the dumps, and the properties show up q sufficient quantity Oi ore now to warrant the erection of mill, which the company will probably do shortly.
 , Sam. F. Powell has recently discOv- cred a new district south of the Walnut Grove dam, which he has named the Black Dog district, anal which promises to come into prominence at once, If the surface croppings are any guide One claim, named the Thomp son, located by Sam. F. Powell, w. w. Vanderbilt and Chas Thompson, has a ledge eighteen inches wide, which sam pied across its entire width $5q. It is rich in horn silver, and picked speci- mems from 1t runs away up into the thousands. While prospecting in the same vicinity, Powell also run across some very high-grade lead croppings sticking away up out of the ground, and made twelve locations. On one, called the Lead Chief, he can walk on the croppings for distance of 300 feet, the ledge being feet in width,
 and the ore being a beautiful fine grain galena, assaying 7l per cent. load, and Si6 in silver. A number of the other claims located show lodges varying in width from six to ten feet, amt the ore assaying from F to IS per c"Et. lead, and running we'll in silver. He also located two claims which are very rich in copper ore. The district Is close to the proposed route of the railroad and the discovery has created a great excitement in that section Mr. Van der bilt, who Is partner with Powell in these claims, has forwarded load of
 tools and supplies to the camp and will commence at once to prospect the claims, being sanguine of obtaining good shipping ore from the very surface The samples brought in are all fine
 smelting ore, and there is abundance of both, water and timber, in the imme-
 diate vicinity. Powell thinks he has found the nucleus for second Lead vile, and the specimens brought in are
 certainly sufficient to warrant such
 belief