Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-06-17
MINING INTELLIGENCE
SOmt Interesting DOlngS in the Various
 Districts Surrounding This City.
Ehat0ld Producers arc Doing ana k6tsS
 From NsE Discoveries.


 The Rapid Transit mine has 250 tons of ore at the old Tiger mill, ready to work and the mill will be started ap m a day or two working it.
 The one hundred stamp mill of the Phenix mine, near Phenlx, was sold at Sheriffs sale few days since the purchaser being Thomas Bennett.
 II. M. Thurman has leased the Fortuna mill at Minnshahs, purchased by him last summer, tod
 '. Shorpshire, who expects to start it up soon.
 J. r. Dillon has deeded three sixteenths of the Third North Ex- tension of the War Eagle lode to the Gladiator Gold Mining and
 Milling Co. for Si50
 R. T. Tustiu and James Shirley
 have had force of men at work in the Howard mine for about sixty days and during Mir. TustiB,s visit east he arranged for the erection Of
 a ten stamp mill on the property. 1 They will commence grading for the foundation of the mill next week, and will push work as rapidly as possible until its completion.
 John Clarke, the Lynx creek miner and Ianeher. has discovered a ledge of ore near his Lynx creek
 ranch, which puzzles the local as savers. It Is found in . lime lorna ! ton, and the ore Is very dark in color. By some it is thought the find Is tin ore. The ledge is about four feet wide.
 Captain Anderson was in town to- day from his sleepy Hollow home
 and says that while there is 10
 water for pl1csE mining, the gulches in his vicinity are fairly swarmlng
 with men working dry washers. Two
 men went up few days ago into
 side gulch with their dry washer
 and took out $40 in gold iu two
 days. He says that all the dry wash. CTS aredoing.
 Friends of the JOURNAL MINER are
 requested to send iu all news of ] interest pertaining to mining from their respective localities. Send ! brief statement of facts and IL will
 be put in shape for publication. | Every man interested in mining
 should take sufficient interest in the
 matter to send the news to this
 paper, which makes a speciality of | giving the fullest news pertaining
 to this industry ohtainable.
 R. c. Brown. whose business IS [ travelling exclusively over the terri ! tory in the interests of newspaper, and who from the nature of his bus mess IS not only close observer,
 but who seeks all the information obtainsble, says that the mining in-
 terests of this territory to-day are fully fifty per cent in advance of what they were a year ago. During the past year two 0r three quite ex- ! tensive mines have been added to
 the list of bullion producers while the development made in the old
 properties has also been very | marked.
 ! News from Globe announces that the mines owned and operated by the Old Dominion Mining X Smelt- [ ing Company, ith home offices at
 Boston, have been clcsed down. This throws 250 men out of employ meut without warning. The result of the trouble was between the miners and superintendent, who re- duced the wages of the car men from S2.50 to S2.2 per day. Miners took up the grievance of the men affected. The superintendent was waited on by 300 men, who informed him that fl he did not sccede to their demands, he would be marched out of town. Under these threats. he acceded, and upon the matter being reported to the Boston office, orders were returned to shut down.
 The Western Mining World has the following to say in regard to the bonding of mines: The man who will not give q contract, who says, first come, first served who dlctatorially orders you 10 bring along your man with money. cash down, IS sure to be left Tn a state of lonely blessedness as far as the sale of property IS concerned. Of course, it will be urged that options have been given without number and nothing accomplished by SO doing. To this We reply that in such cases the bond was either given to worth less parties, or the properties them selves had no value. A mine of first rate excellence, that can stand close inspection, that IS held at a fair price, based on developments, can always be sold
 The Iron Springs mining com ! pany have decided to add ten mora l stamps to their mill at the Last 1 Chance mine right away. By the l acquisition of some other properties | near their Last Chance they have | an abundance of ore to keep twenty | five stamps in operation. They wilri oacO e4uh NutiI Lualu sQalt ln the q Last Change D0 feet deeper taking 1t down to a depth of nearly SOO feet, the shaft now being 275 feet. They will do this work without es- tablishing any levels and without doing any drifting untilIt is done. It is unnecessary to add that the mine to look we'll, as otherwise the company would not feel encour- aged to make this extensive explora. ton of it.
 The Crowned King continues to tmn out between S40,0OO and $50 OOO per month. They have an abundant supply of water vet and the indications are that it will con tinue the entire year. They expect to close down soon though, tempo rarily, to put in new boiler which they have recently purchased. h addition to the introduction of me- a anaaaf s. A A !