Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1895-06-05
What Old Producers are Doing and ECteS
 From NeE Discoveries.


 cho and are actively preparing to mine there on a large scale. The sale of eight of the best gold mines at Picacho, outside of the Dr. Jayne groupe, to New York and Denver mining capitalists open new era in mining on the Colorado river. Par ties are negotiating for the Jayne mines, upon which they propose to put a 100-stamp mill to be run by electricity. San Francisco parties have an option upon the White Gold group. upon which they will put a 25-ton Huntington quartz mill. Messrs. O'Connor, Cummings and Anderson are on trip of examina- tion of the mining interests from Yuma to Ehrenberg, on the Colo rado.-Yuma Times.
 Nearly one hundred men are at work now in and around the Crown ed King mine and mill and the camp never was so active as at present. A pipe line is being laid from the mill up to the mine to pipe the water down, and they hope by utilizing this, to secure a sufficient supply to enable them to run the mill all sum mer. The permanency of the Crowned King camp for years to come has been established long since, but a new rival is appearing for it in the properties recently owned by E. s. Junior and sold to Geo. P. liar rington, of the Crowned King Com pany. Mir. Harrington has a num- Der of men at work developing these claims. Heretofore they have been considered as silver properties, but with development the character of the ore is changing, and the gold values in them are increasing. The properties are located only about two'miles from the Crowned King. and present indications are that with greater development, the gold in the ore will become its principal value.
 The time was, about fifteen years ago, when Alexandra was the liveliest mining camp in Arizona. It was when the Peck mine was in its glory, producing silver. The amount pro- duced by this mine during these days, runs away up over million, but inst how much, no one seems to know. Various accidents happened to the mine, and a depth was reached where it took expensive ma ehinery to work it, and through a combination of circumstances, it was finally closed down, and for some years it laid idle, and the camp was entirely deserted, with the exception of one or two old stand-bys of the place. Miners who had worked in the mine insisted that there was plenty of good ore left there, and that the time would come again when the camp would resume its old time activity. These predictions seem about to be realized now at no very distant day. A few months ago, 4. Falco, a mining man, possessed of a practical knowledge of mining, combined with the nerve to put in hls money where there is a reason able prospect of success, took a lease on the property, and has had force of men at work ever since. It is his intention to take out all the water and explore it to its low est depths but there has been such a volume of water in the mine and it hss been running in, in such 8 quantity that slow progress has been made in this direction, but within a month work will be pushed in that direction and during the dry months of summer the accumulated water can be gotten out and then the task of keeping it clear will be comparatively y easy. In the mean time explorations have been made in the mine above the water level and the old workings have been cleared out. In doing this, ore as Iich as ever produced by the Peck in its palmiest days has been en- countered and a shipment will be made soon. An average sample, picked from a lot of several tons, re- gently is said to have given an assay value of 4,0OO ounces in silver
 Secretary of the Interior Hoke Smith, in a recent interview. with the Athens, Ga., Banner, has spoken of the great benefit which the Southern states will derive from the geological and mineralogical survey soon to be completed. North Geor- gia, North and South Carolina, the Virginias and the mineral lands of the southern Appalachian range have been thoroughly surveyed and a full description of this section of the Union will be published. The store of wealth that lies buried in the hillsides and mountains of the southern states will be a revelation to the northern and western miners and capitalists, and will surprise even the best informed men of the south. The work is under the direc- ton of the secretary of the Interior, and Mir. Smith intends to have placed at the Cotton States and h. ternstional Exposition a complete exhibit of the various minerals found in the south.
 The director of the mint. R. E. Preston, estimates the production of gold by the mines of the United States, approximately, during the calendar year 1894 to have been l,9l0,S00 fine ounces, of the coming value of $39, 100000, an increase over 1893 of $3,5O0,OOO which is the largest amount produced in any year since 1878. The production of 1 silver from the mines of the United | States is estimated to have approxi- mated in 1894 49,5O0,OOO ounces, of of the coming value of $64,OOOOOO | showing a decrease as compared | with 1893 of 10,5OO,OO0 ounces. In the production of gold, California leads with an output of $l3,570OOO; Colorado coming second, with S9,- i9l 900; Montana third, with s. 15l GOO and South Dakota, $3,299.- DO. In regard to the worlds gold | md silver for lS94.the returns are incomplete, but so far as received hour an inaraeaa ;n kLo