Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-07-08
MINING INTELLIGENCE
Some Interesting DOlnSS in the Various
 Districts Surrounding This City,
What0ld Producers are Doing and k6ttS
 From NsE Discoveries.

Work has been commenced grad ing for a mill st Fools Gulch by the Planet-Saturn company.
 Articles of incorporation of the Sterling placer company are being published in this paper.
 J. Park has deeded one-hSlf of the James G. Blaine mine, HasSay- ampa district, to Fred Smith et al
 A deed has been filed for record from :. J. Wright to the Agua Fria, Rio Gold. NJ. & NJ. Co, for the Gold Bug mine.
 Superintendent James Shirley mas let q contract for the erection of a mill, boarding house and residence at the Howard mine.
 Al Vroome's big teams pulled out this morning loaded with lumber for the Zika mines, which are being worked by D. B. Gillette under bond.
 A deed has been filed for record from John .. Ross to Fred Smith ct al, for one sixth of the Ross mine, Hassayampa district, for nominal consideration.
 Colin Timmons reports that he IS meeting with encouraging results in the development ol some copper properties fifteen miles southwest of the Vulture mine.
 Deeds hay. been filed for record whereby the title 70 the Silver TraIl mine in Hassayampa district passes to the Sundance mining company, the consideration being Sl0,0OO.
 The new electric light plant of the | Crowned King mining company las been completed and both mine and mill are now illuminated with cleo tricity. The plant is of the very latest improvement. The mill con tinues to run.
 D. B. Gillette has impartsd con- siderable life and vigor into the mining industry in the southern part of the county. In addition to properties which he is working un- der bond. mentioned in a recent Is sue ot this paper, he has purchased for cash the Hercules claim for merly owned by George Zika. neal ! Tiptop, and on Thursday sent out ten tons of miscellaneous supplie: for the camp. The property is l, very promising one and Mir. Gillett, | will push work on 1t as he is vigor- ously doing on the other claims.
 William Bright, who is openin g up the Cad and Hammer miue nea Turkey creek, IS in town. This Is ; silver property and notwithstanding the gold bug rate on the whit, metal nowadays, Mir. Bright says h, will shortly make a good shipmeu of ore and devote the proceeds tC further developing the mine. Thi claim is we'll opened and with sllve at the old water mark, it would b, rated among the bonanzas of th' territory.
 D. B. Gillette and Lester Jackson returned to town yesterday from-al inspection of the Zika mining prop srtles on the Agua Fria. which ar under bond to Mir. Gillette, and il speaking of the progress being made on them in development worI and how they show up as depth reached give these properties a yer,
 lattering outlook. On the Surpris which lays on the east side of tn Agua Fria, the shaft has reached depth of 65 feet. At the commencs ment of work by MT. Gillette tn lead on this property measure' three feet, but at the bottom of th present shaft the ore body has wid eued to more than the capacity O the present shaft, which IS four b seven feet in the clear. From tn shalt l50 sacks of shipping ore thS will run S2O0 to the ton are ready {, be transported, while on the dunn there are about 70 tons more O milling ore that will run so to th ton. On the Gold Note. O. the west side of the same stream and distant about one half a mil from the above, the shaft has bee sunk to a depth of 50 feet, with
 crosscut at the bottom twelve Tee nine inches all in ore. Samples take ! from this claim run from SIP to Sl per ton free. Other holes on thi property show up well also. A pc culiar feature of these two claim which is causing some little com ment in mining annals since thei richness seems to be established, l that the Agua Fria cuts them i , two, or in other words the tw , claims are virtually on the sam lead and carry the same chAracts of ore. These mines lay about I miles southeast ot Prescott and fou miles east of Bumblebee station.