Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1889-01-16

vicinity is such as to enable the ore
 be worked at very small cost,
 The Yavapai Mining and Irrigatio
 company are, We learn, preparing to e'
 gage in hydraulic mining on sem
 what extensive scale on Humbug creel
 A dam will probably be constructed fs
 water storage purposes. The c n pany is incorporated under the laws (
 Maine, And D. K Keating is the sgen in Arizona.
 The owners of the Lynx creek placer
 are looking forward to big and pro
 ductive run this year. The snow fal
 near the head of Lynx creek will n' doubt furnish an abundsnce of wate for an unusually long season this year
 These diggings have already yielded
 thousands of dollars in gold. while
 hundreds of thousands more are n
 sight.
 The mines belonging to Shirley and
 Sattes, located in Crook Canyon, have
 lately been examined by two different
 mining experts. Their reports being favorable, the properties have been
 bonded to eastern capitalists. Consid- erable work has been done on the Ali gator and Washington mines during the past three months, and it is reported that there is sufficient pay ore in sight to justify the erection of a l0-stsmp mill. The ore carrying a great deal of sulphurets, concentrators will have to be used.
 The Tombstone Prospector says that the rich discoveries oi he past week in Tombstone district n,.d vicinity have been the means of inducing many miners to go to work; and never before ni the history of the recent years has sc much work been going on in this district as at the present time. It does Ises as though an era of prosperity had t last settled down on the old camp, aud that those who have stood by the ship when she was on the verge Of were to receive their reward cor their faith in the tickle goddess.
 The Boggs, Blackberry anu Best sowergroup of mines, Big Bug district, ecently incorporated under the lame of the Big Bug Reduction Com amy, with John L. Thompson as gen ral manager, Frederick E. Murray, ecretary, and J D. Boyd as foreman, ave commenced work in the way of | utting on a force of some eight or ten liners, and development work will be igorously pushe ahead. Early in the bring it is expected that 5O-son nelter will be put up. These mines re favorsbly known by all mining len of this vicinity In the Last year rge shipments of ore have been made ) Colorado for treatment, the ore being n oxydized sulphurets of copper. silni- r to the Jerome mines, carrying ,sides copper from f30 to $50 gold sr ton. and some 20 ounces of silver. T. Boyd, wno is an experienced and tactical miner, will first thoroughly zen up the Boggs, by extending the fits north and south upon the ore 'dy at a depth of 100 feet, so as to ake necessary connections for good '. At an early date hoisting ma inery will be erected, and pumps put
 to,drain the lower levels, We look rward, from all reports, to Big Bug wing lively camp within the next { rec months. The JoURNAL-MINER interview wed Geo. . Curry yesterday, who had just re- rned from visit to the Weaver and artinez districts, in regard to the min E outlook there. Mir. Curry said: 'At Stanton l found everything and erypody active. Mir. Kerr is running c mill night and day on ore from the { ey Devil mine. They are down on t 3 mine l30 feet, showing at the bot. d n 35 feet of ore, the quality oi which h !. Kerr Is determining by 100 ton e t m his mill. The Revenue and ., Ter properties have plenty of ore ., ldy to be treated in the mill. H At the Marcus, our friend Fuller is tt ming two drifts from the bottom of
 l7O.foot shaft, and getting consider e high grade sulphuret ore, besides F quantities of second grade ore. |, tons of which he has contracted h MT. Kerr to mill. "u But the Congress property is the oi IS, with its deep shaft coo c {, with drifts running off every hun ! P; d feet east and west. They have. ce ides what they have already shipped, c tons of $2Oo sulphnret ore, sacked. " tlng Tor freighters to haul it out. ID second grade ore dump shows WI ut 6,oOo tons of ore that will mill pr
 s ton. hen it Is remembered ch the ere they have shipped is the Ia, iit et only prospecting in ti,e shaft
 drifts, with no stoping to speak Of. p' le idea can be formed of Is vastness and great wealth contained Pa hin the limits of this property. At cc depth of 200 feet in the big shaft l ". have run drift to the C,mgr,ss. ', king shaft on that vein at 25O feet sn epth, showing 1s-foot body of ore tn will mill $i0.a ton. At the depth ob OO feet they are running another qu to strike the Congress. At the di, om of the shaft water is coming in .. ly, and they have hopes, in sinking -. 'er. to strike plenty of water to run es' mill. Much is due to Frank Mur. no , to whose energy and good iudc. an It has developed in this the most bu able property in Yavapai county.r sc,