Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1895-11-20
MINING INTELLIGENCE.
Some Interesting DOlnGS in the Various
 Districts Surrounding This City.
What Old Producers are Doing and ECtsS
 From New Discoveries.

 right for record.
 X deed from w. w. Snyder to Ida J. Snyder. for . mining claim, has been filed for record.
 A rich strike has been made in the Crowned King mine recently in entirely new ground. The ore goes S200 per ton m gold.
 The Reymert company, which re- gently took a bond and lease on mines in the southern part of this county, has thirty men employed iu opening them up.
 The old Silver King mine in Pinal county gives promise of becoming greater silver producer than in days of yore when it made millionaiTes out of several people.
 Three of the boys employed on the Buens Vista mine at the Miner camp, above the Potholes, cleaned up Sl40 last week for . two days run in an srastra on ore from a small vein recently discovered by them Yuma Sentinel.
 Charles Behm has gone out to Groom creek to do hIs assessment work on the Uncle Joe mine, prop erty he has owned since 1875. The claim is pretty we'll opened up and Mir Behm pins great faith to 1t. The ledge is eight feet wide between walls and the ore is quite rich.
 D. c. Thorne, who is in from the Santa Maria mining district, reports having struck body of ore seven feet wide in the PocohontaS mine while doing assessment work on the property. The ore is high grade and Mir. Thorne says it is the best showing yet made in that district.
 The Yuma Sentinel very truth fully remarks that "one of the sad dest sights known of in connection with mining IS to see a good mine handled by a man who never worked in one. 4 man who has not the practical experience, with little en- gineering skill combined, will ruin the best mine in the territory.
 The collector of customs at Sitka. Alaska, expresses the opinion that the amount of gold dust and nuggets taken from the Birch district in that territory this year will amount to S400,000. The land, he says, flows with whisky and as many claim owners and the most laborers arc aliens, he thinks Q company of United States troops should be stationed at Circle City.
 A. A. Abbott. mining man of Sacramento, Cal, passed through here Tuesday with car load of gold ore worth $20,0O0 from Sonora. The ore was taken from the Santa Rosalia mine in the Arizpe district, sup posed to have been worked by Spaniards two hundred years ago. The mine is owned by Abbott and San Francisco parties. The Mexi- can export duty on the car was Sl ,500.-Yuma Sentinel.
 A very erroneous idea seems to prevail in mining camps in regard to he provisions of the new mining law in reference to recording affi- daVits of assessment. The JOURNAL MINER has been informed repeatedly that the law is construed to mean miners are compelled to record their affidavit of assessment. A perusal of the law itself should settle this question. It says that within three months after the expiration of the period of time fixed for the perform ance of annual labor" such an affi- 1 davit MAY be made and recorded aud l the advantages offered to the claim | ant by doing this is set forth in the | next section of the law. No place | does it say this MUST be done, how ever, but the whole matter is left | open for the claimant to decide, | whether he wants to go to the ex- pense and realize the advantages or whether he is willing to take chances without recording.
 The London Financial Journal has the following in regard to a mining deal recently consummated 1 in London: "A company has been formed called the Leland Stanford | Gold Mining company, limited, with a capital of f60.000. to acquire and work the Leland Stanford and Snipe claims on Groom creek, six miles south of Prescott, Ariz. The vendor, MT. A. G. Plumer, of Philadelphia, takes f45,0O0, of which f2,0OO is cash, and he pays all the promotion expenses. The three lodes are said to be 4 feet 6 inches, 3 feet 6 inches, and 8 feet in width respectively, and rich in refractory gold ores. The properties have been independently examined by Mir. D. E. Heating. On the face of it the scheme is an excel lent one, and the prospectus is drawn up in very straightforward 
 The Crowned King mine con tinues to grow with development. At a depth of POO feet below the lower tunnel a solid body of ore five feet eight inches wide has been struck and the ore widens very from the top of the drift to the bottom showing that it is in creasing as depth IS made. Drifts are being run each way from the bottom of the shaft and both of them are in good ore. The mill is day and night and in fact has been in operation constantly iince last December, except for such occasions as they have ,een compelled to close down for light repairs. The ore plates from , 'l5 to $50 per ton, while the value , 'f the concentrates obtained is from | i290 to $260 per ton. The mill works | bout thirty tons of ore per day. , rhirty-hve men are employed in the nine and eight men in the mill. A ' cry important feature of this prop c rty is the fact that during the dry Tt part of the past dry season they ave had an abundance of water to v perate the mill. The water is ob- 7 aimed from the mine, being piped [ own to the mill. N. c, Shekels de- 2