Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1891-06-10
Mining Intelligence.

tionslly good quality oi mbca, k said to have been discovered recently ln Apache county.
 W. II. Ferguson and son have about two tons of ore ready for shipment from their Silver Leaf mine on the Hassayampa.
 \. o. Elliott has dessls~l the Me Ginty and the McGillicuddy min ing claims to the Commercial Min ing Company, for S'su.
 Judge Griffin, of Lynx creek, brought in 2 bar of gold bullion to- dss from the Dixie mill. He says the mill is running regularly.
 Bidinger X Rcif. proprictors of the Palace barber shop. own claim called the Big Chief. about three or four miles west of town. which they ara developing and asc obtaining good ore.
 The Copper Basin plant, owned by the Commercial Mining Com pany, was started up to-day. The plant is q very extensive one. The company has l2a men in their em- pioy at present.
 General W. q. O'Neil recently rc- ceived an order from New York far two car loads of onyx from his Big Bug mines. The faci k just be- coming generally known that Ari, zona can produce the finest quality of onyx in the world.
 X piece of Onyx weighing about t0 tous was cut oni ot the Big Bug onyx claims recently l, k 5l feet | long by 6 feet wide, aud five feet thick. This i> without doub. the largest piece ot onyx ever taken oIIi of any mine in tho world. Then' seems Ia be scarcely any limit la the size of the blocks that the Big Bug mines are capable oi welding. Our correspondent at Prescott Junction writes that the article which recently appeared iu the ! JOURNAL MINER relative to the new | discovery of mineral tn National ! canyon. tributary to the Grand ! Canyon. has resulted ia the receipt [ of numerous letters of inquiry m regard to il. The original di~cov erers will shortly make another trip into the canyon. for the purpose of | doing some work on their claims, Other prospecting patti-s have also gone to the scene of the new nline- rsl field
 Geo. W. SineS and John Ross. on ! their return trip from the Bradshaw mountains recently, picked up a piece of hoa, in Maple Gulch which will 20 away up into the thousands m silver. |, is water worn antii perfectly smooth. and l. what pros pectors csll the traveller. as IL has the appearance ol having travelled hundreds and probably thousands oI miles. How IL came to the place where it was found is of course a mystery. as it was found near the summit of the Hassayampa divide, at an altitude of about 1.un feet, where there has never been any ore resembling It in any respect what ever discovered within miles of the place.
 About two months ago COW boy. while riding the mountainous range north of Jerome discovered a ledge, cropping out of the hillside. | containing greenish looking ore. He dismounted from hi, horse and broke of piece of the ore which he afterwards had assayed. and 1. which gave q value of several thou sand dollars per ton. He has been looking ever since for the ledge, but at present has not been able Ia find 1t. The ore, to an inexperienced eve, would be taken for rich copper ore, hut its principal value is in silver \ small specimen of the above ore can be seen at the Sazerac saloon. ig the possession of John Ross.
 Superintendent ]. R. Liston has the shaft of the Old Reliable mine near Del PaSco. sunk to depth of 200 feet, while he has il opened mp ilN 1 Sot tttNt1utt ot ottt d0O feet. Both openings are in good ore, the ledge being of an average width of three feet. He also has a tunnel run in on the Wildaower claim for a distance of about 450 feet, which shows good ore. He says thep is enough ore in sight now in these two claims to run :O- stamp mill for year. \ rather re- markable feature of the former property Is that free milling ore is found at the bottom al the D0-foot shaft. something heretofore un- known in that section. The proper ties, together with eleven other good claims in near proximity to them, are owned by Messrs. Bashford X Burmister and Mir. Liston. They have four stamp mill with which they have made test runs of the ore which proved highly satisfactory, but prefer to open up their proper ties and see what they have before putting in larger plant.
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