Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1891-11-18
Mining Intelligence.

King mine to J. l.. Giroux, for $225.
 Ben Block will leave for Castle Creek about Tuesday to arrange for the erection of a stamp mill on the Esperanza mine of which he is half owner.
 Geo. H. Curry has some fine samples of ore in his store from a claim owned by him. It is gold sul- phurettes and runs about $500 in gold He will prospect the mine further.
 Five men are engaged in develop ing claims owned by F. E. Murray and others in the Black Hills, which are under bond to Phelps, Dodge x Go. They are showing up very rich copper ore and in a large body.
 Ben Block, who has the wood con tract for the Catoctin company, says that the mill is running right along successfully. His teams brought in a load of concentrates and high grade ore from the property for ship ment.
 A gentleman who returned on Saturday from the Bradshaw mount aims says that Col. Speare, superin- tendent of the Gro Bella mine had made an important strike of high grade ore in that property while running crosscut in the lower workings of the mine at the end of the 200-foot tunnel. The crosscut will be continued.
 T. G. Barlow -Massicks, superin- tendent of the Lynx creek hydraulic works, has made considerable i'm proyemeuts to the ditches and fumes connected with this property pre- pairing for the winter floods. He says that next year he will have from fifty to sixty men employed in re- building the dam and providing for water storage. This property has long since passed the experimental point so far as its merits are con cerned and the amount that can be taken from it annually depends solely upon the amount of water that is stored for running it.
 A force of men has just been put to work cleaning out the Yuma Cop per workings and making ready for the directors visit which is expected daily. X heavy shower last August sent twenty feet of water roaring down Harcuvar tulch. It filled the Why Not shaft plumb full of sand and boulders, clear to the collar. Twenty feet of rainwater accumu- lated in the Una shaft. The reser- voir dam at the shelter was cut as though by a buzz saw. Otherwise the works are in good shape for min ing and milling in unlimited quan- titles of copper which will compete with the Lake article in any market.
 The New Orleans Picayune saysi 'Late last Sunday night the watch man of the Jacksonville, H., round- house saw a locomotive run out of the house, glide across the turn table and start down the track with no one, that he could see, aboard of 1t. Away sped the engine, and the watch man ran and reported the fact to the agent, who wired the next station, Psgah, to look out for . wild en- zine. The track at Flsgah was hardly cleared when the engine came in sight, and running to within 100 feet of the station, stopped. Nobody was seen to get of, and when it was boarded nobody was found. The throttle was closed and the ma chinery in perfect working srder, Superstitious railroaders shake their heads aad say that they have known of engines being run by supernatural agencies before"
 G.K. w. McNary had some very rich specimens of cinpabar in town today from the claims owned by him and his son, R. c. McNary, in Copper basin. They are now en- gagged ia doing assessment work on their claims and are doing tue work with a view of obtaining the best possible results in opening up their properties. The ledge of one of the claims has been crosscutted for twenty-five feet in good ore all the way, without striking either wall. Assays of ore from the claims have been obtained as high as seventy per cent in quicksilver, while the lowest average has not been: less than six per cent. A sample ett the rock, which was considered worthless, was assayed and gave return of one and three-quarters per cent. MT. McNary had also in town a small vial of quicksilver, which he had secured by retort made of gas pipe of the frudest kind. He says he obtained nineteen ounces of pure quicksilver from eighteen pounds of rock and thinks that he lost fully nine=tenths of 1t,
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