Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1894-05-30
OUR MINERAL WEALTH
Mining NsES From the Various Camps
 Of YaVapd County.

Quarry. or Ane O HiteN Nettic Netti'tt Company, has been filed for record.
 A deed has been filed for record from Harvey Burson to Dan Hatz for the Gro Grande aud Ora Flame mines, Hassayampa district.
 The Jerome tramway has gotten another kiuk in it, and teams have been ordered to go through to Jerome again.
 The first carload of machinery for the Red Buck niue has been freight ed from the railroad to Walnut Grove.
 Smith X Hanson have jus. sold six tons of ore from the Wren mine, on Slate creek, to the Sampling works. They realized about SlO0 per ton for the lot.
 H. Brookes has sold three tons of concentrates from a mine owned by him near Antelope on the Black canyon road, to the sampler.
 It is stated on good authority that the affairs of the Henrietta Mining Company will soon be solved satisfactorily to everybody, and the mine put on thorough and new working basis.
 The mill to be erected at the Red Buck mine will be of ninety stamps capacity. The owners of the mine are talking of putting up another mill in the district for the work ing of custom ore.
 H. D. Derwin reports the receipt of about a carload of ore at the sampling worl s, made up of small shipments of from one-haf to three tons each, and being worth all the way from Sl00 to $500 per ton,
 Ira Moore ct al. have deeded the Dublin mining claim at Walnut Grove to the Colorado and Arizona Mining company, the consideration named being S500.
 An agreement and bond between J. l. Gardner ct al. and Frank Everett has been filed for record It pertains to certain mines near Prescott, and provides for the work tug of the property with an option for their purchase.
 About eight or ten men are en- gagged in placer mining with rockers along Granite creek. about two or three miles south of town. They are making good wages, even with this crude and slow process of work ing the dirt.
 The machinery of the Rich Hill Placer Company at Stanton has been repaired and will be shipped from Prescott to day by a freight team. Engineer Henri will also leave today and superintend the experimental run to be given this improved steam shovel.
 Dennis Burke. accompanied by Messrs. McGlesh and Mckay, oI Denver, left this morning for Pay son to look at some property belong ing to the former near that town The party will be absent several days, and intend to make thorough examination of the mine, with 6 view of purchasing.
 The Tombstone ProspectOr an nounces that ". F. StauntOn has been appointed superintendent of the Congress mine, and will soon take charge of that property under General Manager E. B. Gage. Mir Staunton's management of the Tombstone Mill and Mining ccm- pany's property for several years past has been such as to place him among the foremost mining men of the west.
 The Congress camp has resumed it's old time activity again. There are now 10 men on the pay roll, Prior to Thursday, May 2f, only twenty stamps were running, but on the above date the mill was started up to its full capacity of forty stamps and twenty concentIators, The concentrates and the rich ore from the mine are freighted by wagons to Skull valley station on the $. F., F. & P. Railroad, whence it is shipped to the smelteFs,
 Considerable excitement has been created in the Santa Maria country, over the recent discovery, by a young prcspector named Burns, oi a large ledge of very rich gold ore The new discovery is about SIX miles west of D. C. Thorne's Good enough mine, and is in the vicinity where the traditional Nigger Ben has always been supposed to be located. Mir. Burns Is in town and reports that the ledge of his new discovery is three feet wide, and careful samples taken clear.across it, gave assay returns of S45 per ton. He proposes to return and go to work at once developing the claim
 Harqua Hala Gold Mining Com pany, Limite i.-The superintendent reports as follows. The mill started on March lst again on a producing basis and worked steadily until March 3lst, when 1t was shut down ! for the clean up. The following figures represent the months opera tions: Ore crushed. 2,92f ms; amalgam cleaned up (estimated), S37.000; working expenses, revenue account, Sl0.400; estimated profit for the month, S26.600. To this is added Sl,472, the net yield from amalgam and coarse gold from bar No. f, November account, and $3,000 from profits from general store for six months euding March 3lst. The average loss in tailings was S2.69 per ton.
 Berram Hunt, a Denver mining man, is in the city, and leaves to. morrow with force of men to work on the mine owned by Messrs. Hale, Gillespie and Bashford, at Congress. This mine runs parallel with the above and is spoken of very highly by several miners. It Is said that Mir. Hunt has secured a bond on the property. A nine sack sample of ore was recently taken from the 220-foot shaft of the above mine, ! | IA