Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1895-06-26
MINES AND MINING
Soma Interesting DOiRss in the Various
 Districts Surrounding This City.
What Old Producers arc Doing and NGtSS
 From New Discoveries.

Sl0,000 per ton and there IS said to be quite large streak of 1t.
 John :. Jones the energetic Little Jessie owner, is actively engaged in adding ten stamps to his mill in Chaparral, expecting to have them dropping next week. When com pleted his plant will have twenty stamps in operation, an abundance of water being guaranteed. The mine continues to look we'll, and has thousands of tons of rich ore in the stopes, besides a big dump of second class rock. Truly. the Jessie is wonderful mine.
 The Crowned King mill is running day and night, moving the riches of that mine. Fifty men are at work, while on the road between the mine and mill, quite a settle ment has sprung into existance.
 At the Cougar mine ten men are at work, Geo. r. Harrington, hay ing bond and lease on same. Rich ore is being taken out, as depth is reached. The above property is owned by E. s. Junior.
 The old Rapid Transit near Crowned King, owned by Henkle < Mitchell, has lost its old time silence, and is now being worked. Several thousand pounds of mining supplies and material are on the ground, and a force of fifteen miners are to be put to work on the mine at once. The ore samples $50 in gold and 50 ounces m silver.
 Charley Capello is busily at work with two shifts driving a crosscut to tap the vein of his Elk mine at 8 considerable depth, below present workings, with about soft. to run to complete the task.
 There are upwards of fifty men placer mining within a distance of fifteen miles on the upper Hassay- ampa, some working new ground, many handling ground that has been worked before, and a part at least are making big wages from their work. More than this the number of operators could be doubled if there was more water.
 James Chambers, one of the most faithful old timers of the Hassayam- pa, has 90 tons of ore on the dump at his Good Hope mine which he will soon begin packing up to the Senator mill for treatment. As the average of numerous shipments by former Iessees show, this ore carries steady value of $75 to $l00 per ton, and the ore body varies from two to three feet in width. The Good Hope is a north extension of the Kirkland mine, during many years famous for its rich ore, and bids fair to equal the mother lOca- ton.
 The Henley boys are driving a tunnel on a claim opposite the mouth of Copper creek that shows nicely in gold. The vein is two feet wide, and evidentaly the min eral IS hlSh graue.
 "Scotty" Thompson, who is per sistently pushing development on his Mascot group, in Burro gulch, is taking out some excellent mineral m which free gold can be seen gen. erally distributed.
 The Zero, noted as a producer of some of the richest silver ore ever taken out in this section. never looked better than at present, and the owners, Gilmore & Go, will soon begin shipments to the Pueblo smelters.
 Mir. Sladd,..who has been driving IO0-foot crosscut on the Mint, for an interest of J. Chambers, has just cut into thirty inches of excellent ore that pans at a rate of $50 per ton, and IS elated accordingly. The Mint is on the upper ridge between the Hassayampa and Copper creek.
 From reports received it is appar- ent that more prospecting is being done on the mineral belt drained by Lynx creek and the Hassayampa than for any like period for many years past. And, what is most i'm portant, finds are numerous, some of the new openings below the Mescal Co.'S. mill showing good bodies of free milling ore aud some fine samples of quartz sprinkled with free gold.
 The Nellie mine, near Crook Canyon, has been sold to E. E. Remedy, of Denver, the price paid being S2,0O0. It Is a free gold property worked years ago.
 The Venezia mill in Crook Can yon, is one of the best and most complete plants in the county, and when given a test run, some few weeks ago worked perfectly. At present the mine of that name has a force of l2 men at work developing.
 The Cleveland mine in Chaparral is exciting several people nowadays ani while, but 50 feet down, pro duces a grade of concentrating ore that will plate Sl5 per ton and run into the hundreds in concentrates. It is being worked under lease and bond by Mir. Roberts.
 The Pratt mill on Big Bug has been sold to Mir. Banks, and is being run to its fullest capacity on custom ore.
 Mark Murphy, superintendent of the Peck, is preparing to place Q pumping plant on that property to drain the mine. In the mean tune the old workings are being drilled into near the surface, with the most astonishing results, pure nuggets of horn silver being taken out. Mir. Murphy says the footwalls in the upper level were never reached in the early workings, and the result is thousands of dollars in horn | silver ore has been found, Considerable interest is attached | to the operation of this mine nova days, and when gazed upon, the ore 1