Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1895-12-04
MINING INTELLIGENCE.
Some Interesting DOlnsS in the Various
 Districts Surrounding This City.
What0ld Producers are Doing and NGiSS
 From New Discoveries.

on the Emmett mine,was formerly a one-third owner of the Little Chief mine, at Leadville, and sold his in- terest for an amount up in the hun dreds of thousands.
 The Phenix Gazette says: There are more inquiries for gold proper ties in this locality than ever before, aud the best of 1t IS that those who are looking for them have the money necessary to carry forward mining enterprises on a large scale, with up to date appliances" If the Gazette will kindly refer inquirers for gold properties to Yavapai county they can find properties in abundance that can be purchased. In fact they can find here anything they might want from a Sl00-pros- pect to a $l,000,00O mine.
 The Phenix Express makes the following very sensible suggestion: The Express would say to it's es- teemed territorial exchanges that 1t
 believes it to be a good plan to men tion the mining district in report
 ing new discoveries. strikes and the
 progress made in developing mines.
 The reason is on account of the
 similarity of names of properties.
 It occurs frequently, also, that an
 item is clipped and no credit given,
 and a reprint follows with a credit,
 which utterly destroys the value of
 the news item because of its mis-
 leading nature
 United States Senator Stephen W.
 Dorsey and Wm. A. Parish, the eminent mining engineer and ex-
 pert of Denver, have been engaged
 for seventeen days with large force of men, testing the value of the ore
 bodies in the Nina Rica and Dull elena mines, and those adjoining in
 the Picacho basin. To their satis- faction they found that the rich strike in the Nina Rica and Dul- elena mines was more than 400 feet wide and l.2O0 feet in length, the result of which is that Senator Dor sey and associates have secured
 twelve of the best located claims adjoining those on which the rich strike is found.-Yuma correspond ent Phenix Herald.
 Geo. H. Freyda, who has a lease on the First Home inc, in Big Bug district, owned by F. R. Stees, has been taking out good ore. He has sunk the shaft seventy-fve feet and has fifteen tons of shipping ore without stoping pound. The claim opens up better with depth, which is a very gratifying sign. The ore contains gold, silver and lead, run ming as high as seventy-five dollars in gold and 70 per cent. lead. In all there are about 200 feet of devel- opment work done on the claim, and the showing is such as to inspire great faith in the owner and lessee of the mine. Mr. Freyda has taken a three years lease on the property.
 Bob Strauss of Yuma, and Lane the California millionaire, have the mine of the Century near Yuma. They have sunk on the claim 200 feet and drifted enough to demon strate that the mine is a marvellous one. Nowhere does the great ledge show less than $50 a ton. During the past decade many mines have been located in Arizona and not a few are bonanzas, but from all reports this is the most promising showing yet made in any mine in the Rocky mountain region. Yuma has long been noted as one of the great mining districts of the ter ritory, but this find is the greatest yet shown up, as the supply is inex- haustible.-Ex.
 4 correspondent of the JOURNAL MINNR, who has had considerable ex- perience in mining, visited the now somewhat celebrated Leland Stan ford and Snipe claims on Groom creek and writes as follows concern ing them: "The Leland Stanford aud Snipe claims are located on the north branch of Groom creek. The Leland Stanford claim was located in 1893 by Nick Slumberger and Alfred Nelson, Nelson wishing to leave soon after offered his interest to a prospector on the creek for s. The prospeotor laughed at him aud told him that he would not monu- meut the claim for it. He went of | and left it. The Snipe was located l in 1894. Your correspondent was unable to find notice in monument | to get name or names of Iocators, but from neighboring miners learned | that the sole owner was Nick Slum- berger. 4 year ago in July Nick | offered the two claims to John Harlan for a burro which | was worth about $2.50. Another time he offered the same party a halt interest If he would mill l5Q pound. of ore which went S15 per ton. Mr. Harlan milled the ore but did no care to take half interest as gilt. The Leland Stanford shows one inch of ore on the surface aud in the bottom of the shaft noth- ing, not even a seam. The Snipe shows a half inch of ore all the way down the shaft, about thirty five feet. Five miners could not take ton of ore from either claim in month."
 The foisting of two prospect holes on Groom creek upon the market as mines has received the condemna- .ion of the public generally. Ac to the very best informa- .ion obtainable the claims in ques- ion have absolutely nothing to snow Q investors and the only excuse hat can be reasonably given for any )ne to offer them as mines is the fact hat they are situated in mining district where there are some good ,lalms. Had they been placed on he market with such representa- ions as these and the purchasers in- ormed that so far as development ( lad proceeded they made no show ( ng but that judging from the na- ure of the district, by the expend- ( ture of certain sum of money they } N- I | |