Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1895-08-21
Some Interesting DOinSS in the Various
 Districts Surrounding This City.
What Old Producers are Doing and EGteS
 From New Discoveries.

] lkuul A. I1s W aAttfS NO I. OOiAHtudlh ! for one third of the North Star min | ing claim, the consideration named being f2,OOO.
 The Mescal mill, south of town, has been experiencing a scarcity of water, but is running ten stamps on ore from the mines owned by the company.
 Joe Mayer has just taken out 250 sacks of ore from the Henrietta mine below the 300 foot level which he proposes to have smelted at the Boggs smelter, as an experiment. The ore is gold sulphurets.
 Sines x Smiths stamp mill on Cherry creek IS pounding away on good ore from their mine. A recent arrival from Cherry creek says there is greater activity in that district at present than at any other time in its history.
 Superintendent James Shirley, of the Last Chance mine Is making preparations to commence active work on that property soon. He is negotiating now for lumber to re- build the mill and for machinery necessary for the mine.
 The cyanide process at the Con i gress mine is said to be working very successfully on the tailings from the mill. 1t is also given out that the stamp capacity of the mill will be doubled soon by the addition of forty more stamps. This camp, next to Jerome, Is the iiveiiest in the territory.
 l.. J. Banks, the owner of the old Pratt mill on upper Big Bug, is run ming his mill now exclusively on ore from his own mine the Lily B, lo- cated on Mt. Union. He made a very important strike of rich ore in the mine last week. They have a pack train of eighteen animals pack ing ore from the mine to the mill.
 Henry L. Scott, the locator of the Planet and Saturn mines, which were sold last week for S40,00O, has four men at work on the other two claims owned by him. adjoining the Planet and Saturn. He proposes To sink 300 feet on them, and is per fectly sanguine that he will open as rich, if not richer properties, than the ones recently sold.
 The company which owns and is working the Senator mine, and all in it's employ are very secretive In the matter of giving out news con- corning any enterprise in which they are interested. From outside par ties, however, 1t i, learned that very rich strike has been made in the Senator mine. The ore body is said to be fourteen inches wide and the ore runs as high as S400 per ton in gold the ore being sulphurets. There are eighteen or twenty men at work in the mine.
 W. A. Clark, superintendent of the Planet-Saturn Mining Company, has organized force for the devel- opment of the two mining claims recently purchased by the company, and has already ttwenty-four men at work. It is the desire of the company to have the development work pushed as rapidly as possible, aud MT. Clark will faithfully com ply with their desires. Dr. Peters, who is general manager of the com pany, has just received returns from a tsn-ton lot of ore taken promiscu- ly from the dump of the mine, and worked at the Yarnell mill The returns are more than satisfactory, as they exceeded expectations even.
 The erudite reporter of the Phe- nix Gazette says: "Sonora produces cinnabar, a metal found only in the Island of Ceylon until recently. In Ceylon it runs 40 per cent, but in Sonora the mineral is nearly in a pure state, running 90 per cent pure" Wonder where this reporter has lived that he has never heard of the famous New Almaden and other quicksilver mines of California. If he had perused the Prescott papers, he would long ago have learned that mines containing rich deposits of cinnabar are located within ten miles of this place, and that they are now being developed and ma chinery has been ordered for plant to reduce the ores, Samples from these properties sent by the writer of this to the state mineralogist of California gave a return of 50 per cent quicksilver.
 The last three or four weeks have seen an increased activity in mining matters here, so far as sales of prop critics are concerned. One $40000 | sale has been made for cash, and the cash paid. Two other sales, az gregating nearly $l,000,00O, are ex- pected to culminate on or before | September 1, as under the conditions of the bonds payment on each is | required within that time. The Last Chance deal has just been con- summated, involving several thous- | and dollars, the exact amount not | being stated, but the purchasers will put in Sl5,0O0 for development | work alone. In addition to those | which have been consummated, sev- eral others are under negotiation, with good prospects for being con summated, while score or more of | mining men are in this section look | ing over the ground very quietly, ready to pick up something that has merit in it, and which can be bought Np raaeOnahla far1OS
 The JoURNAL-MNER correspondent under date of Aug. 12, writing from the Reliable camp says: Messrs. c. J. Clark and J. W. Weldon, of Denver, the former being president of the Admiral Gold Mining Co.,, have spent the last ten days in the thoroughly examining the valuable property of the com pany. The Admiral shaft has been
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