Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-07-29
MINING INTELLIGENCE.
Some Interesting DOllsS ln the Various
 DiStrieS Surrounding This City.
Ehat0ld Producers ars Doing and EGtsS
 From AsE Discoveries.

J. F. Clark, foreman of the Jersey Lily mine, was ID town to-day. se- curing some miners to work on the above property.
 A steam hoist was forwarded to Groom creek yesterday to be placed on the Empire mine recently pnr- chased by pr, Butler.
 Congressman Fowler, of New ter sey, arrived here this morning and was driven out to the Big Bug onyx mines this afternoon by W. O. O'Neill.
 4 deed has been filed for record from F. M. Murphy to J. A. Good hue for the Ora Plata and Mark Twain mines, the consideration being $500.
 A deed has been filed for record from N. Gales to J. E. Fitzpatrick for one-half:of the Valley Tan and Belle of the South mines, Eureka mining district.
 Jean Allison, of Jerome, filed 6 location notice for record this morn ing of . mine which he has named "l6 to l." The claim is located near the above camp, and is said to em- brace 8 portion of the town itself.
 Fred Lyons, an employee of the Prescott Electric company, brought in some very rich rock yesterday from S new find which he made within three miles of Prescott. He says there are three fee. of the ore on the surface. It is lead and silver ore.
 A new strike of ore is reported to have been made last week in Min eral Point district in the Black hills, northeast of Prescott. The ore is gold bearing quartz, and the | find Is within faw miles of Davis siding on the |. Y. < Prescott rail way.
 The Sundance mining company which is operating the Silver Trail and ThoTne mines on the Hassa- yamps, shipped car load of ore re gently which went $66.S3 per ton. The company is preparing for the erection of mill on this property.
 Pheni1 papers announce that Arti- 1 cles of incorporation of the Gold field Milling and Mining Company have been filed there. The capital stock is Sl,0OO.OO0 in shares of SlOO each. The incorporstors are O. D. Merrill, Orlando Merrill, Louis E. Lamb, C. R. Flakes and J. R. Morse.
 The Morning Glory mill on Fur key creek continues to pound away on ore from the mine of the same name. It is said to be giving entire satisfaction in the results obtained. With systematic and economical management this property promises to become one of the permanent bullion producers.
 T. :. Bullock has four men at work doing some development work on the Mammoth mine in the Brad shaw country. The vein is said to be l50 feet wide, carrying ore clear across it, but the ore is very low [ grSdekpMr. Bullock thinks however that iS an be made to pay owing to the imnense quantity of 1t.
 We understand that another st- tempt will be made by a French syndicate to work the placer beds in the Colorado river It is thought they will put in power plant that will melt the cement strata through the gravel like so much drift sand. The banks are rich and we hope the company will find a way of working them.-Mohsve Miner.
 Five large bars of silver copper bullion, valued at about S2,5O0 was brought in yesterday from the Ti- ger mill and was shipped to-day to San Francisco. The ore from which 1t was obtained was taken from the Rapid Transit mine. This mine can now be placed on the list of reg ulsr,bullion producers if it is worked Mcdonald & Boyle have obtained ore from the bottom of the shaft of their Bald Butte mine which goes Sl0O per ton ID gold. They have about fifty tons of good milling ore on the dump of their mine. This claim, while but little developed as vet, shows up we'll and gives promise of developing into a big mine. It is located only a few miles from Pres colt.
 Another important mining sale was made to-day whereby title to the Little Wonder, Bonanza King and Gold Gem mining claims was transferred to Prof. T. B. Comstoek. The properties are located in the HaSssyampa district, just west of and close to the famous Jersey Lily mines. The deed for the transfer of the property was filed to-day, the consideration named being $50,OOO. Prof. Comstock took bond on the properties last fall, and has been working them ever since, and they are said to be showing up fine.
 Since his advent to this territory about a year ago Hon. Nicholas Gales has placed no less than three mining enterprises on foot in this county, all of which are progressing fsvorablY. Not only has he divert ed considerable capital ID this di- rection but he has proven himself quite a successful commissioner of immigration, as will be seen from the following from the Sierra County Advocate, published at Hills boro, New Mexico: Quite a large delegation of Hillsboro miners left this week to go to work for Senator ! Gales in his Congress, A. T., mines. They were L. Tressell, Geo. Maeea, Harry Vance, Ed. D. Smith, Pres colt Benson, c. A. Feast, Oscar Scott, J. NJ. Lewis, Ed. Thompson, Irwin Schultz, George Brown and Peter Gales. MT. TreSsell will have ! charge of mining operations, and there is certainly no more compe- tent mining foreman in the West. NIT. Feast took his freight teams ! along and will haul the ora to tha