Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1894-01-24
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claim to G. W. Wicker ct. al. foi
 SI,000.
 C. A. Randall et. al. have filed
 for record the location notice of the
 Rookery mill site and water right
 Parties arc here looking at Dan
 O'Boyles mines.
 Supervisor Roach says that the
 Cumberland mine still continues to
 hold out as depth Is made. The
 bottom of the shaft is now in rich
 sulphunet ore.
 Chas. B. Genung has bonded one
 of his mining claims to New York
 parties for a quarter of a million
 dollars and it is said has received a
 nice little sum in cash to hold the
 deal.
 Jim Cameron, the we'll known
 Walnut Grove stockman, is in town,
 after a general running tour of the
 western part of the county. He
 brings in some good looking quartz
 for assay.
 The Henrietta mill was started
 up last Saturday. They have be-
 tween 9O0 and 1000 tons of ore in
 reserve and have fourteen men em- ployed m the mine. There are thirty men employed in all at mill and mine.
 J. r. Bruce's teams. consisting of twenty-eight animals and six wag- ons, left this morning for the Glad iator mine, with lot of machinery for the mill. which the purchasers intend to erect on the property. Three more car loads of machinery are expected next week for this mine.
 C. B. Edwards, who went out with the party to explore the old mine on Salt River last week.re- turned on Wednesday. He states that a ledge, very rich in silver and gold. had been discovered on an ad- joining claim. The fnd Is consider ed an important one. The party were prospecting the old mine when Mir. Edwards left there, but had found nothing of much value Silver Belt.
 F. A. Healy received sdvices to- day from his brother that the Healy Monster Mining claim is getting richer and the vein widens as they go down in the shaft which is now being sunk. The assays run about SlOOOO gold to the ton in free mill ing ore The ledge is now eight feet wide. Mir. C. NJ. Clark is now at the mines making a careful ex for San Francisco capi- talists.
 A mining man of Denver Is said to have perfected and patented a process for the treating of low grade gold ores, and particularly gold from placer dirt. which promises to revolutionize this class of mining in the west. The principle of his patent is based upon the laws of gravity and re- quires DO running water. It does away with the expensive hydraulic system, and any ground carrying over p cents worth of gold to the yard can be worked at a profit. He claims that with his process Tn op- eration throughout the world the of gold will be increased to S5OO,0OO,0OO per annum within five years.
 The Bullard Bros. have five arastras in steady operation now on their mine in the Harqua Hua On account of Che isola. ton of the property, nothing is heard from 1t. Prospectors who recently passed through that sec ton inform us, however, that it is unquestionably the biggest gold mine m Arizona, the ore running in free gold from S25 to $50 a ton, and the ledge being from , feet to fifteen feet Tn width. Water is the prin- cipal obstacle to contend against. the present supply being obtained Tor the arastras from sur.ace drain age with no guarantee of permanent cy. Ten men are al present em- ployed, and the arastras each crush l 800 pounds of rock a day. This mine lies on the southwest slope of the range and it is about three miles from the Yuma Copper camp.
 A letter received yesterday from Globe brings the intelligence that the old Doc. Thorn mine has at last been discovered by party from Globe. The locators are Charles son of Judge Edwards. Sheriff J. H. Thompson, William Beard, a we'll known miner. and William Scott. The property was first seen by Cattleman Cresswell last summer, and was found by the party above named with but little trouble. The propert, they found all that the ancient leg end chronicled; 4 broad ledge l rich in free gold and bearing the evidence of extensive workings. The ledge has been opened in a | manner that indicates that some | skilled miner had at some time | worked the vein, and thousands of | dollars worth of effective work has been done. The party slipped back | nto Globe and then quietly back. | cling few of their find. and they nave no doubt that wonderful bo- lanza has been struck. The mine | ies north of McMillen, on Cibucu 'reek. The Doe. Thorn mine" has or many years been a favorite heme with miners, and a score of outfits have been fitted out for no 'ther purpose than its discovey. It vas found early in the sixties by )r. Thorn, a captive among the Ipaches, who had been saved from orture and death by reason of his kill with wounds and knowledge f healing herbs. Escaping from he Apaohes he headed a party of bout loo men from New Mexico. eading it back of the White noun aims and nearly to Cibucu creek, 'hen scared out by the Apaches. horn to the day of his death pro- ested that the greatest gold mine the world lay concealed in the ills to the north of Salt river, but Ill now none have found anything nat approaches his description -azette.