Arizona republican., 1896-03-18
Very Rich Ore in the
 Black Hills.
The Lulu Claim Showing Fine
 Results.
Excitement Caused Over the Find- ing of Some High Grade
 Gold Ore.

rome during the past week by some assays from rock taken from claims now being worked four or five miles south of here. Some of those assays would in the mining states, have caused "a rush of humanity into the hills which has never yet been seen in any mining district in the world, but in Arizona little assay of ten, fifteen or twenty ounces per ton in gold does not seem to cause more than passing remark During the past week, how ever, when it was reported that assays running as high as ninety ounces in gold had been taken from rock found in this district, ripple of excitement was discernablle. Of course, rock car rying such immense amounts of gold
 was not found in large quantities, but it was, the Jerome News is informed,
 taken from a small streak of mineral bearing quartz which is being fol- lowed to what is hoped will be @ larger body of ore from which this streak or feeder has blown out. A proposition like this, where an ore body is being followed continuously, seldom fails to prove otherwise than a pay one for any
 man who has the persistencN to shove along his work and turn a deaf ear to the skeptic who never sees anything
 good or encouraging in other than his own works, no matter in what line they may run.
 The Strahan Bros. side of the con-
 troversy now going on over the jump ing of the group of claims below Squaw Peak by Miller & Wentworth, as stated to The News by one of the brothers is vastly different ito that made by the other side. MT. Strahan states that he and his brother hold one-half of the prospects under a sheriff's deed, hav- ing bought a half interest in them in 1 1880 when it was sold under the ham, mer in that year. The other half is he'd by them under a deed given by 1 the original locator, both of which deeds are now on record in the county
 recorders office in Prescott. He also 1 denies that they ever offered to com promise the matter in any manner with Miller & Wentworth and that they now own the claims because they
 conformed strictly to the law regard ing the assessment work and have
 proof to that effect. There has been
 some wonderfully rich silver ore taken
 from these claims, which is the same
 character of ore as that taken from the
 group of prospects under Sguaw Peak,
 owned by H. J. Allen, the financial
 agent of the U. V. c. Co.
 In the Jerome mining district near
 where it lines up against the Cherry
 Creek district, John s. Jones of the 1 Verde valley, an old mining man, is
 at work on a. group of claims which, so
 far as they have been developed, give
 promise of great mines In the Lula 1 there is a 140-foot tunnel which was
 run through 9 nice ledge of some four
 feet in width which contains an av-
 craze of fourteen inches of quartz
 which carries free gold. On this ledge
 MT. Jones will sink an incline shaft
 following down what looks like an i'm
 mense ore shute. Ol the J. s. J.. an
 other calm in th s group. through
 which a ledge aVerag ng egdty tiya l feet in width runs, there is 8 thirty | i've foot shaft and tunnel run in 1 thirty-five feet. MT Jones thinks that here will here be developed an
 immense body of ore. On the Eva.
 another one of the seven claims in ahe
 group, there has been 150 feet of de-
 Yeloment work done. Within one
 quarter of 8 nile of this group Of
 claims and from which wagon roads
 are now built, there are two springs
 owned by MT. Jones, which furnish
 enough water throughout the year to
 run steadily a ten-stamp mill.
 Near the Jones group Messrs Loy & Kenyon are working on prospect
 called the Whipperwell, in which they 1 have great hopes.