Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1895-09-18
MINING INTELLIGENCE.
Some Interesting DOlnSs in the Various
 Districts Surrounding This City.

JUSTICES SaffOundlnS HIS Cly.
 What Old Producers ara Doing and hGisS
 From New Discoveries.
 Machinery has been ordered for the new mill shortly to be erected at Placeritas, and its arrival IS ex- pected soon at Kirkland Valley sta ton. The company is also building a road into their mines and are going to work in earnest on their proper ties.
 John Ross has some samples of ore at the Sazerac saloon, taken from the Lucky Boy mine, owned by him and Lute Wilson, near the Senator, which goes sixty per cent in lead and is also quite rich in gold and silver. They have eight feet of ore in the breast of the drift which they are working.
 A sample of ore was brought in re- gently from the Little Annie mlne,in Chapparral district near McCabe mine which goes twenty nine ounces in gold. The mine is being worked under lease by Henry Johnson and partner. It is stated that they have a sixteen inch streak of the above ore. The claim was formerly worked under lease by J. R. Slack, and this rich orc was found within about four feet of where he quit work.
 A S30 nugget was brought into town on Sunday by man whose name was not learned. He said that he got it out near Frank Spence's place near the Last Chance mine. Considerable placer gold has been found heretofore in the gulches in that vicinity. It was Tn a gulch in that section that Contractor Hughes men made good wages during the summer of 1893 when work on the railroad was temporarily closed down.
 The Old Dominion Copper com pany of the Globe will increase their facilities for handling ore. The smelters will start up about Septem- Der l5. Three large bins are full of ore at the smelters, as we'll as large reserves in the mine. The company will mix Cerrillos coal with coke. The company has entered into a contract with Wm. Garland, presi- dent of the Gila Valley, Globe & Northern railway, for the delivery of coke and other supplies, and for the transportation of copper, at very satisfactory rates, and has re- ceived assurances that the construc- tion of the railroad will be resumed and the road completed into Globe by January l, 1896.
 Wm. Theising has been at work about two years in the Agua Fria district developing a mining claim. which he located there. He has sunk a shaft 50 feet on the claim and has run cross cut 40 feet in length across the ledge without finding the walls, but has found an abundance of ore which goes about To per cent in copper and $l00 in gold. He has good ore the entire length of this cross cut. The prop erty is located near the claims owned by George Zika and Berry & Helm. Not having the requisite funds to cortinne the development of his property, MT. Theising has succeeded in getting his brother. Frank Theising, an experienced miner formerly from Idaho, inter- ested in the proposition, and the latter arrived yesterday with his family to take up bis residence in this section. He proposes to put up a small stamp mill with concentra- tors on the above property, and will thoroughly develop it. The claim is named the Homestake.
 The question of reduction works in Prescott is being again agitated, gentleman named Brown being here to investigate the feasibility of starting such an enterprise. Men who are thoroughly acquainted with the mining resources of the county are strongly of the opinion that such an institution would pay hand somely here. There is certainly large amount of ore on dumps and in mines of the county which will not pay for shipment and treatment abroad and allow profit to the owners. Parties who cry down any proposition to start a shelter here take the ore shipments as ba- sis of their estimates. While the amount of ore shipped at present is probably not sufficient to keep a plant in operation, this represents only a small amount of what could be produced for treatment here. With reduction works in Prescott there is no reason why our sister county of Mohave should not fur nish a very large amount of ore to it also. Ore shipments from that county probably equal, if they do not excel the shipments from here, as the products of the mines are shipped almost exclusively in the ore, the bullion product being small. while from this county much of the product of the mines is reduced to bullion. The erection of reduction works in Prescott would certainly give the mining interests of this sec tion such boom as has never been | Eperieuced.
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 A very remarkable proceeding de-