The oasis., 1895-12-14
MINING NIB ~vs.


 Tombstone. It would not be surpris-
 ing if tue big deal be consumated be.
 fore New Year
 X report from Holbrook is to the
 effect that very valuable discovery
 of large deposit of cement was made
 within three miles of that town re-
 gently. The cement is said to be equal
 to the Portland cement and, moreover,
 1t covers several thousand acres. A
 wealthy Los Angeles man is now in-
 vestigating.
 A press telegram from Ironwood,
 Michigan says: Captain Knight who went to south Africa year ago with party of miners has returned home. The party were all educated and ex- perienced miners and expected to earn 5000 a year. Those who got work are competing with Kafrs at 30 cents per day and will return If possible.
 Geo. White has two miners at work on his gold claim who are taking out a ton of milling ore day and the net profit of operating the mine is BIO a man or S2O a day. This claim Is near the Agua Fria ranch, in Yayapai county, and was discovered by acci- dent by MT. White. The showing of the ledge on the surface was very small.
 1t is reported that sl0,00O payment has been made on the purchase of the Silver Flake mine, on Groom creek, Yayapai county, mention of the sale of which has been previously made in t4 Wicker x Morse and the purchase price agreed on Is S32, GOO. J. R. Mur- phy, the well known mining man, is now in the east to purchase machinery to put on the property.
 In Yayapai county. party of Amer ican and Mexican placer miners have commenced work upon gold bearing gravel beds near D. c. Thornes Santa Maria mines and are said tO be doing we'll. MT. Thorne donated them lum- Der for their first sluice box This may prove an important industry as the Santa Maria flows sufficient water for extensive placer mining operations at all seasons of the year.
 c. F. Chapie. whose postonice ad
  that neighborhood gold mine which 1 will pay from the grass roots down. ! with mill, says the Courier, There | are 1000 tons of $50 gold ore blocked | out. fifty per cent of which is free [ milling Thirty-tiye tons of ore | shipped from this mine, yielded from Sg0 to 5l70 per ton, shelter service, aud 250 tons milled in custom mill and by arastra process, averaged over Sl5 per ton free. All this ore was extracted during development work. This is q which certainly needs mil ling facilities.
 The water has been pumped out of the Peck mine, in Yavapai county, and force of fifteen to twenty miners are at work there. Between Sl2,000 and $l5, GOO have been expended in put ting the pumping plant in repair and the works of water. A. Ealco. the well known mining man, is oper ating the mine under bond aud lease, and Mark Murphy, thorough miner, is superintendent. They now have a streak of ore exposed for 200 feet that shows from three to five inches thick which runs from S3, O00 to Ri, 900 per ton in silver About S6,O00 worth of ore has lately been shipped.
 The Cedar Valley Gold and Silver Mining company, operating in Mohave about eighty miles from King man near the Big Sandy river, are dO- ng much to develop the mining re- sources of that county. In their mines . fl Cedar they have ninety men at work, and with q force of l00men they Ire building good road over the to connect with the county oad to Yucca, station on the & Pacific railroad, which ,lace will be their railroad headquar- I CTS. The mine is now and has been or some time producing rich gold md silver ore from a well defined. con inuous vein. The ore is being | punched at the mine toawait the erec- ion of a large mill by the. company r which will be brought in just as soon