The oasis., 1895-11-30
MINING NE w s.

county have there been so many capi- talists hunting gold mines as at the present time.
 The owners of the Elias mine in Olive camp, Pima county, Arizona
 recently shipped fifteen tons of ore which netted them s250 to the ton.
 Amalgam has commenced to come
 in to Prescott from the Last Chance mine and mill, located a few miles west of that city,
 Jesse R. Grant and associates have secured five fine groups of very prom. lsing mining claims in the White Gold Basin, Yuma county.
 Arizona ranks third in the United States in her production of copper There are good copper properties yet undeveloped, which if worked, would bring her up to first place.
 A New York company has secured twenty.one mines in the Picacho Basin and ten mines in the White Gold Basin, Yuma county, upon which they have large force of men at work.
 The mining enterprise backed by Capitalist Lane of California, near Yuma, promises to be an important one. The ore is free milling and is said Go run $50 ton. There is said to be s400,0OO worth in sight.
 Parties just in from the Bradshaw mountains report a very rich strike in the Gladiator mine in the lower tunnel which has been run to strike the ledge. The discovery Of ore al this depth adds very greatly to the value of this property
 In doing the assessment work CD the Pocahontas mine, on the santa Maria river in Nayapai county, last week, D. c. Th0rne uncovered vein of shipping gold ore seven feet in width. He says 1t is the biggest thing yet uncovered in that rich district.
 Another very important strike was made Thursday on the Last Chance mine near Prescott. A large body of high grade sulphuet ore was encOun- tered in the south drift Of the 200-f0Ot level about forty feet from the shaft. 1 The ore body heretofore struck in this level was in the north drift. so that they now have ore in both ends of this 1 drift.
 The latest reports from the mining i excitement at Williams says that the | entire population has gone to Bill l Williams mountain to stake of claims. | From the reports Of several practical | miners, all of whom have had eXper- | fence in all the mining regions of the | west, are of the opinion that the late | strike on Bill Williams mountain bids | fair to equal that of Tombstone in her | palmicst days.
 Pete Nipple, of the Jersey Lily | mine, has taken q lease on the old | Often mine, HasSayampa district, "a Thompson and Fred Rowe. This is the old Kirkland mine, which pro- duced S70, GOO in gold thirty years ago, the ore being arastraed in Kirkland valley when Indians were bad. Kirk land had his arastra ready to clean up the last run he made. .when some thief cleaned up for him during the night, getting away with over S4,00O.
 Stephen W. Dorsey and William A. Parish, tue eminent mining engi- neer and expert of Denver have been engaged for seventeen days. with large force of men, testing the value of tie ore bodies in the Nina Rica and Dulcinea mines. and those adjoining in the Picacho Basin. To their Satis- faction they found that the rich strike in the Nina Rica and Dulcinea mines were more than 100 feet wide and 200 feet in length, the result of which is that Senator Dorsey and associates have secured twelve of the best located claims adjoining those on which the rich strike is found. The rich strike aroused the attention of the best mining men all over the coun- try, and enlisted it in the Picacho mines. Senator Dorsey and associates will construct narrow gauge railroad J from the Colorado river to the mines lyer which the ores will be conveyed Do the mills at the river 1