Arizona weekly citizen., 1889-04-20
MINING NEWS.
The Noon nCamp--Some Very Rich Ore from the Great Eastern
 Other Items.

Mr. l.. D. Chillson returned yesterday from Nogales, where he spent two or three days attending to business connect ed with some mining engineering in that part of the county. He met Capt. Noon, who had just returned from the Noon District. The mines in that camp are looking exceedingly well, and they con tinue to improve as the work goes down. The work is now down in two or three of the mines over 150 feet. MT. Chillson has been all through the mines in the Noon Camp and thinks that it will be- come a wonderful rich district The San Francisco mine is shipping ore con stantly. All the ore from this camp has to be packed on burros to Nogales or Cal obasas, there being no wagon road at all.
 ALMOST PURE SILVER
 The wonderful wealth that exists in the mountain ranges of Arizona is evidenced almost every day by the discovery of marvelously rich ore. Mir. Chillson was at Casa Grande two weeks ago. he brought from his mine in that district the Great Eastern-a small sample of ore, which was pronounced by all to be TeQldThdDlN oO IL BlONCo assayed. MT. Babcock made an assay of half pound of ore which produced a bar of bullion weighting 515 ounces of 992 fine silver. This at 94 cents an ounce is worth s5.17. A ton of this kind of ore would be worth S20.06S. Of course such ore as this is only encountered in small quantities, but it don't take much of this kind to satisfy reasonable person. MT. Chillson is carrying on work at this mine all the time and expects to develop it in to veritable bonanza
 LOWER CALIFORNIA.
 In letter from Lower California dat ed April to friend in Tombstone the writer says himself and partner spent a week in the new camp and prospected the region for both placers and quartz, but could find nothing that would pay and advises everyone to stay away. The International company is trying to get up land boom. There are mountains of quartz there, but it is destitute of mineral Those owning placer claims are all trying to sell for anything they can get in order to get away. The highest price asked for any placer claim is S1OO.
 It is reported that the company which has bonded the claims on the big ledge at Dos Cabezas assert that they will spend half million dollars on the prop critics before they stop. The erection of 60 stamp mill will depend upon the outlook when they get through the big dyke which they are at present running a tunnel into.
 An Exchange truthfully remarks: A squib is going the rounds of the press that the only mine in Arizona paying a dividend during the past year was the Copper Queen. This is misleading and is very far from the truth. A large num- Der of the best mines in Arizona are own ed by private parties, the stock is not listed and no publicity is given to the dividends that go into the owners pockets. The best paying mines in Ari zona today are those which are not stocked and the names of which are fam iliar to those only who live in the vicin ity in which they are located.
 MT. Mendenhall, one of the gentle men who recently bonded the Casey mines at Don Cabezas, was in town sev- eral days this week. Mir. Mendenhall is having some development work on the Juniper mine, and is well pleased with the outlook. We hope to be able soon to chronicle extensive developments and operations in the Don Cabezas camp.