Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1895-11-13
MINING INTELLIGENCE.
Soma Interesting DOIngS in the Various
 Districts Surrounding This City.
What Old Producers ara Doing and NGisS
 From EsW Discoveries.

l.. J. Webber has deedsd one eighth of the Waters mlne to J, F. Wilson.
 A deed for mine has been filed for record from J. II. Leiors to Miss Ida Lefors.
 The Last Chance mill was started up yesterday. Supt. James Shirley brought in chunk of fine ore to- day from the mine which can be seen at Sam Hills store.
 The shaft in the model has been sunk thirty feet since work was com meneed on it recently, giving lt a depth now of loo feet. lt is looking we'll and opens up sufficiently in the amount of ore to keep up it's name of Model.
 Geo. C. Waddell and partner are working double shifts on their cop per properties south of town. They are simply developing the claims Co ascertain what they have in them. They are showing up very rich in copper ore as far as opened.
 Judge Richard De Kuhn was in town to-day with some fine samples of ore from the Mockingbird mine in Cherry creek district. The orc was taken from a drift which is be- ing run at depth of l97 feet and is exceedingly rich. While no as says have been made ot 1t good judges of ore place the value at not less than SlO,000 per ton.
 Last weeks storm made quite a perceptible difference in the receipt of placer gold in Prescott, slight as was the amount of rainfall. One of Prescott's merchants in speaking of the effect of the dry weather on placer mining said that prior to this storm his receipts of pla ger gold had dropped to between $500 and $iOO per month and when water is abund- ant for placer mining he takes in from $l, 500 to S2,000 per month.
 W. II. Ferguson has made a rich strike out in the Slate creek country in a claim located by him two or three months ago. He has been do- ing some development work on 1t and struck body of ore three feet in width, some of which runs as high ss sixty per cent in copper be- sides being quite rich m gold aud silver. The surface indications equal if they do not excel anything that has ever been discovered in this sec ton and wll of course justify sink ing on it. The claim Is on the same lead as the Wren mine, one of the old mines Of that section. Several new discoveries have been made ID the same vicinity during the past few years, ali of which have shown up we'll as far as developed. The country surrounding it has not been prospected very extensively even yet.
 Quite a respectable sized mining camp has alreaGy sprung up in Fools gulch since the Planet Saturn company commenced work on their claims there There ace now from fifteen to twenty houses in the camp and more are being built. The Planet-Saturn company are making good progress in the development of their claims. At the bottom of their ninety-foot winze they have five feet ol solid quartz which is rch iu sulphIde ore. These sul- phurets when freed from tho quartz go as high as S20O0 per ton, and the quartz, just as 1t IS taken out, with out any sorting whatever, runs very high in gold. There gre about 5000 gallons of water per day run ming into the mine at present, which gives assurance of ample supply to run the mill as greater depth is ob- tained. A new hoist has been shipped from Chicago for the mine winch will be put up just as soon ss it arrives.
 Since:A. Falco has taken a lease on the old Peck mine Alexandra has commenced to take on it's old time air of activity. While the minc has produced a fabulous sum, through various complications and circumstances, itIhas been permitted to he idle for several years It was filled with water and many of the old timbers had decayed and the old workings were more or less caved. Even with the prestige 1t had as a silver producer it took man of great nerve to undertake Co put it in working order again as it meant an outlay of small fortune before there could be any hope of realizing from it, but just such person put in an appearance m the person of A. Falco. He Is an old silver miner and after thoroughly investigating the history of the mine and exploring itas far as the water limit would permit he decided to take lease and bond on it, al though 1t meant a cash outlay of S30,0O0 to start with. He com menced work last summer and long before he got the water ont of the mine, m exploiting the old drifts and winzes. he encountered orc which went HOO ounces III silver. With this isencouragement work was pushed until all the water was cleared out and the mine put in thorough con dition for wors. He has now force of about twenty-five miners at work and they are reported to be taking out l000-ounce silver ore. Mir. Falco always maintains a reticence in re- gard to the business of the prop erty, but parties who claim to know something of what the mine has produced estimates that be has taken out between S75, 900 and Sl0O,- 900 since taking hold of tho prop erty. Handling the water to keep the mine free from it is one of the heaviest expenses attached to it at present.