The herald., 1896-08-21
MINES AND MINERS

From the Johnson-Fitts mine on Tom
linson hill at Pearce. says the Tomb
stone Prospector. most encouraging
news continues to come, showing that
this excellent prospect is rapidly fulfill
ing all prophecies, and the fondest
hopes of its owners are in fair way 10
be realized Among the first claims on
the Tomlinson hill, adjacent to the big
Pearce bonanza, to be worked, was this
property, located by Justice Johnson
To it the judge pinned his faith. labored
industriously and as work progressed,
the mine developing into promising
prospect, we'll coud he f!atter himself on
his good judgment The shaft is fifty
five feet deep, and cross-cut here re-
vealed the ledge to be twelve feet wide.
From this point drift was run some 100
feet on a ledge, occasionally cutting
through a rich "stringer" which assayed
as high as 5000 to $500 per ton. The
ledge is all good milling ore or low
grade, but Of sufficient quantity TO war
rant the erection of machinery to treat
it. were company of means to OBTAIN
possession. That the chute is one well
defined cannot be questioned. as exam
nations on the surface have shown that
at this point the same ore and assays
are to be found below.
AS everyone. both at Pearce and at
Tombstone are interested in thls pud-
ding bonanza, which should company
procure and open up, means mucn LOT
the prosperity of the new camp, we
hone to see at no distant day some cap
italists secure it and give to the world
the wealth which lies hidden beneath
| its rugged surface.
| X. C. Marshall, president of the Ma
tional Mine Developing and Brokerage
company of Portland. Maine, writes
| from that city to Jules Bauman In Pres
| colt that he hopes to get things IN shape
| to start up work on the Alice mine or the
| Rauman group early next month. He
| saws: "The political situation is very
| disauieting to the gold dollar people III
| our section of the country. thlhh Ivy
| are getting to see the writing on inc
| wall as the characters thereon written
| are very plain to all who are not COM
nletely blinded with prejudice ana an
| ger" This, coming from life-lone re
| nublican. sounds rather encouraslns.-
! Prescott Courier.
| THE Pioneer Oil company OF this clty
will begin operation on it's claim NJ, Moii =
| day morning. They have secureu a
we'll boring pslnt from Los Angeies, a,t''
it will be the first attempt On the ieoeN'
! ly prospected oil regions. .ho
The position for sinking the wei on tla
land in San Timoteo canyon was selec'1u
Nv experienced operators in OH ianu.
is renorted that all the available govern.
| want land in that section has peeh tahen
nm and many companies formed whici'
VIII 90 to work Immediately II tnls Ven ,...
| ture Is successful.-San berhai uiii'
Times-Index.
pvron Collins is in Kingman from tne
p1.ckfoot mine with carload shlpmeh'
~ rich d-copper ore. He and Wllllanl
Rohne have been working on the MN.
| for MANY months past, and nave opeheu
nm q nice body of ore in the lower ievei
| Thev have run the main tunnel INTO 'he
b;ll a distance of 500 feet, ana are no"
900 feet below the surface outcrop.
Kit Fisher brought in twenty-five tons
of ore from ~ ORC Plata mine and hao
~ worked at the Arizona sampling works
iast Wednesday. He and Mr.. Dundor
are working ten men on the mine ano
are taking out something over carload
of ore per week. splendid stope of ore
has been opened up, with sufficient back
tn produce about 300 tons The ore runs
ave ounces gold and forty-six ounces
silver per ton.-Mohave County Miner
Some very striking statistics are given
to show how rapidly the production OF
aluminium has increased in the United
States since 1883, in which year 1t did not
exceed SO pounds. In 1885 the production
had increased to 5000 pounds in 1889 tc
Al. .468 pounds, in 1891 to 100000 pounds
!, and in 1893 to 339, ,629 pounds, while In
1884 the total was $4,000 pounds. The