Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1895-11-06
MINING INTELLIGENCE.
Some Interesting DOinsS in the Various
 Districts Surrounding This City.
WhatOld Producers are Doing and NotsS
 From New Discoveries.

W. h. harlan. expects to nave ms new mill, on Groom creek, ready to start up within two weeks.
 Placer miners will hail with joy the present storm as it has been . long time since they have had water in sufficient quantities to wash with. There are hundreds of piles of gravel in the various guiches of this county awaiting water for sJuiciEg.
 Reports come from the Last Chance mine that a body of good ore five feet in width has been en- countered in that property. The mill is almost completed and they expect to start it up in few days now,
 Good reports continue to come from the various mines in Chaparral district. A miner from there yes terday said that ''the deeper they go in the Little Jessie the richer the ore they get"
 The Arizona & Illinois Construc- tion company has the most Of its machinery for a ten stamp mill on the ground at Placeritas, and ex- poets to have it up ready for opera tion within thirty days. The Isa- bella Mining company is also putting in a Huntington mill of ten tons capacity near the same place and expects to have 1t in operation about the same time. Both companies have good claims there although they are not as yet developed to any very great extent.
 Alexandra bids fair to resume its old time activity as a mining camp. Pat Donlan, who has remained by it through Its dullest times and ia fact when he was about the only resident of the camp, is reported to have made a rich strike recently in a claim owned by him there. It IS said that the ore encountered is as rich if not richer than any ever struck in the old Peck mine in its most palmy days. Mr.. Falco has also large force at work on the Peck mine so that the outlook of the camp Is exceedingly bright at present. ...-.:..s.
 The JoURNAL-MlNER man made a very brief visit yesterday to the Last Chance mine six miles west of Prescott and found everything activity and life there. Fl. N. Pal mer and his assistants were engaged in putting the finishing touches on the mill and were about ready to give it trial run when the scribe left. The mill has five stamps with power and room for the addition of five or ten more when needed and is very complete in all of it's arrangements. Double shifts are working in the mine, a drift being run each way on the ledge from the 1S0 foot level to cut the ore ehutes at that depth. At the 115-foot level a body of sulphuret five feet in width and which goes $50 in gold has been struck. It holds out we'll and they expect to strike this same body of ore at the 1S0-foot level. They expected to start up the ma chinery yesterday to turn the pull leys, pump water &cEand expect to have all connections made ready to start tomorrow.
 The following item concerning a rich mining camp of this section of Arizona is quoted from the Phenix Herald: About twenty-one years ago Mir. R. H. Farley, In travelling through Arizona found a rich min ing country about a mile and a half north of what is now known as Columbia, in the Humbug mining district. The prospects were so fattering that Mir. Farley located there and has remained there ever since. He has opened up several of his mining propositions, making a splendid living from the results of his labors. Other miners have also settled there, located claims and de- veloped their mines until today there is lively mining camp at FaTley's station. Recently Messrs. Farley & Kay disposed of twenty seven claims to the Reymert Mining company, and MT. T. P. Carson, manager for that company, is now at work with large force of men doing development work. He will expend at least S50,0O0 in such work, having already spent $10,O00 placing different claims in good working condition.
 A special from Washington says R. E. Preston, director of the mint, makes the following statements: "I am satisfied the gold product of the world will not be less than S200,000,000 for the year 1895, an In- crease of S20,000,000 over 1894. Of the increase the United States will contribute not less than S7,500.O00. Colorado will furnish from S4,5OO, 900 to Sf,OO0,OO0; California, S2,OO0,- 900 and Arizona, New Mexico, Idaho, and Montana will make handsome showings. In Colorado the prin- cipal increase will come from the Cripple creek district. This dis trict, altogether, will produce Sl5,- 100000 this year. It required some time to convince capitalists that this was a wonderfully rich district, but the shipments of rich ore made last year have removed all doubt about the future of the Cripple creek country. Leadville will also show an increase this year in the output of gold. Some mines of this region are very productive. In the Lead vile region there are found gold, silver, copper, lead and iron. There is a general revival of gold mining throuphOut this region" /"