Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1895-11-27
MINING INTELLIGENCE.
Some Interesting DOinSS in the Various
 Districts Surrounding This City.
What Old Producers are Doing and RGtsS
 From New Discoveries.

The Cripple creek mines claim an i output of Sl ,O000O0 gold per month. i
 The Virginia Gold Nj. & NJ. Co. l has received patent for the Comet mine.
 Deeds for the transfer of the Waters mine were filed for record to-day, the party to whom it was deeded being c. D. Clark.
 The sale of the Silver Flake mine, on Groom creek, owned by Wickler X Morse, is reported. The pur- chasers are eastern parties and the price paid $60,000 The mine has been a producer in past times.
 Another very important strike was made yesterday on the Last Chance mine. A large body of high grade sulphuret ore was encountered in the south drift of the 200-foot level about forty feet from the shaft. The ore body heretofore struck in this level was in the north drift, so that they now have ore in both ends of this drift.
 The parties who recently took a lease and bond on the Rapid Transit mine, in the Bradshaw mountains, are pushing work on the property, aud are obtaining good results. They have secured 6 lease on the Gro Bella mill, which was started up few days since on ore from the Rapid Transit mine. The ore is quite rich and a very high grade of concentrates are produced, besides what is caught on the plates.
 A telegram from Denver has the following concerning a new discov cry in Colorado: Mayor W. s. Pea body has arrived from Archuleta county, southern Colorado, bring ing specimens of ore taken from the largest vein ever discovered The vein is 1000 feet across and the ore averages on the surface S per ton. If reports are true new gold bearing region has been found which will eclipse anything known in the world.
 As an instance of the tendency to increased demand, and the incllna- tion to substitute copper for other methods wherever practicable, the Engineering and Mining Journal cites the fact that the Western Union Telegraph Company added over 10000 miles of copper wire to it's lines during the year ending with June last, which does not represent more than an average years renew als and additions to its system. The amount of copper which this repre- sents is about 670 long tons. The report of the company states, more over, that they have adopted the policy of replacing all defective iron wires on its lines with copper, the intention being to use that metal exclusively ou all the principal lines hereafter. The advantage of sav- ing in weight, increased capacity for electrical transmission and dimin- ished liability of interruption from atmospheric conditions are sufficient to make the copper wires more eco- nomical in the end, notwithstanding their greater first cost.
 The town of Williams is having quite a little mining excitement at present. The Williams News says: "For fully a month past five or six of our we'll known citizens have been quietly working on mineral bear ing ledge, about six miles south of town, in Ithe Bill Williams noun tains, and for the past ten days no little excitement hss been caused by the reports of the wonderful rich ness of the find. The vein is pro- nounced true Assure and is 30 feet in width and lays between granite and lime, and can be traced for miles. Already about dozen claims have been staked of and the work so far done is sufficient to convince the owners that they have a 1 good thing. The find is located l on the south side of the | mountain, near Miller's ranch. | The ore is said to be free milling, | and any number of tests have been made in this city, all of which have ] disclosed the yellow metal in fair | proportions. Samples of the ore shipped to Denver and Chicago l have given equally fair results. That a new mining district has been dis covered, which bids fair to take standing with the best in the terri tory, is admitted by all who visited | the claims and are sufficiently con- versant with formations and condi- tions to express themselves. While | it is rather earl y to predict the bene- fits to be derived by our town from a successful issue of these discov- cries, it will be a pleasure to know that the prospects are more than bright for a regular mining boom the coming summer
 BIa BUa, Nov. 2l.-L Special cor respondence. Situated on the di- vide between Lynx creek aud Big Bug, is located what is commonly called the Belle mine. This property really consists of the Belle, Chalce- dony, Hamilton and Poland claims. This wonderful property is being developed by a company of eastern capitalists, with the ever progress i've Frank Murphy in the lead. The veln runs north and south with a western dip, and can be traced the full length of all four claims on the surface. On the south end of the Belle tunnel is being run in on the lead. The ore is continuous as far as the drift has been run, and varies from twenty inches to ten feet. The tunnel is now in nlne hundred feet, and is being pushed as fast as two shifts of first class miners can break the ground. On the north end of the Hamilton, two tunnels are being run at different levels and connected by winzes, aud showing a wonderful body of ore. At the top of a shaft on the Poland is a large pile of free milling ore that works seventy-eight