Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-06-03
MINING INTELLIGENCE
Some Interesting DOllsS in tho Various
 Districts Surrounding This City.
Hhal Old Producers are Deils and h6;sS
 From hsE Discoveries.

A big boiler and smoke stack ar rived this morning for the Crowned King mine. It will be taken 10 the above camp by J. P. Bruce.
 The Crowned King mine and mill are both running to their fullest capacity and the property never looked better than 1t does at pres ent.
 4 car load of pipe, consigned to Miller, Schloss < Scott, arrived on this mornings train. It Is for the Merriwether brothers. who are oper- ating in Black Canyon.
 MeSsrs. Gilmore and Bradbury have resumed work on their Zero mine again. The Zero has bseu a wonderful producer of silver in the past and gives promise of equalhng its record in the future.
 Virgil Esrp has been working a claim near Thumb Butte, from which he has been taking ore which assays sixty ounces in lsilver and thirty per cent lead. He has also a promising gold claim, which he Is working.
 A new 6O-stAmp mill. it Is said will shortly be erected on the Etta mine in Cherry ersek district. The mine is we'll developed and has large bodies of high grade ore m sight. Awaiting the arrival of the machin- cry for the mill and the construction ot the building work on the prop erty has been stopped.
 The Last Chance mill is running steadily night and day and the man agement state that the plant IS proving a sue cess Financially. The mine continues Co improve in devel- opment and has a vein of ore that is strong and permanent, more ore and of a richer grade being taken out than ever before.
 Boyle & Mcdonald to-day shipped a large stock of mining supplies to their Bald Butte mine n Mint val ley district, on which they arc Co commence operations. This is the mine over which there was some ex- citement by the discovery oi very rich ore recently and further pros pecting justifes the belief that their bonanza will hold out They will also erect a steam arAstra and later put up a quartz mill. This mine IS but nine miles from town.
 One of the prominent mining deals to take place in this vicinity of late IS that of tue transfer to-day of the property of Georgc Zika Co D. R. Gillette. ihe we'll SnDwu Ps- ciie coast operator. The miues sf- fected in this transier Jay or the Lower AguA Fria aud are somewhat extensively developed. MT. Zika ce- voting macy years of bis time and labor toward them with the result of hattering indgcrment for cNpi- tai to further work on. The neW management hay 7ircSdy sent uut supplies aud established camp znd ID a few days will siai, active de velopment work
 If Waddell < McNuity are not prospective millionairrs. or bona hde gold bugs with silver teuden- cies, then their newly discovered bonanza near ihe HAsssyampa slil have to soon peter out. la less than two weeks they have discovered a mine, run 8 tunnel in twenty feet, and milled forty tons with twenty more on the dump, that yielded profit ol more than SiO per Ion clear The new discovery oi this firm is pronounced a beauty and Is cFsat- ing some interest in mining annals, it being distinctly gold and running parallel to the Sunny south. a sil- yer claim. and but a few fec, distant Mir. Waddell feels very enthusiastic over hts property and will open it up extensively.
 T. c. Barlow Massicks has just ad manufactured. at Milwaukee. a steam shovel of his own invention and patent for handling the rich gold bearing gravel on LynI creek. He says it is made on entirely dii tersnt principles from the one for merly ID use there and he is satisfied that ii will do tho work required of Under the contract with the manu lecturers. the machine waste have beeH completed today. but he esti- mates that It will tase about a Wvek yet to complete it, and then 1t will require about ten more days to get it landed in Prescott, go that it will be fully thirty days before it can be set up ready for operation at the gravel beds of the company. If this machine should prove successful. it wIil mark new era in placer min ing. as it can be run with . very small amount of water, as it is pumped back into the machine and used over indefinitely, the loss or waste ping comparatively light.
 A correspondent of tho Jerome Mining News says: The Etta mine and mill are being worked steadily, and at the mill they are making big clean ups every few days This mining proposition has had the same experience as the Jessie R. Four teen years ago ten-stamp mill was built to work ore from this mine They could not make it pay for the same old reason -tenderfset were placed at the head of every depart meut. They let it stand idle until the mill had almost fallen Co pieces and the mine workings had cav -d in, when, last February, J. l.. GirouI, whose good judgment has made him rich, and the men who employ hun millions, took lease and bond on the mine and mill, and started iu money at once, and every four or five days clean up of from fl 800 to &2,5O0 IS made. This is done with a force of three men at the mill and six at the mine. Still, this mine was idle for thirteen years. Mir. GirouI has no magic wand, but be has lots of good horse sense. and made 1t pay because he hired men yTho kuayr how to talsa pttt orp and