Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-11-04
MINING INTELLIGENCE.
Soma Interesting DOllgS in the Various
 DiStflcS Surrounding This City.
EhatOld Producers ns Doing and Notes
 From AsE Discoveries.

I
 D. B. Gillette has shipped a bi,
 hoist out to his Gold Note min,
 near Rumble Bee. He is pushing
 development work as rapidly as pos
 sible on his properties there.
 The Gladiator mill will be starteC
 up again next week. IL has beel
 idle for some time on account O
 scarcity of water.
 \. FAlco has fifteen men employe,
 Tn the Peck mine and the propert,
 continues 10 look most encouraging
 He expects to increase his force mex
 week Co twenty men.
 There are about a half dozeE
 mining deals under negotiation il
 Arizona, which are hanging fire un
 til after election, and the result O
 the election will have considerable
 influence in the negotiations.
 Thomas F. Gillespie, superin
 tendent of the Sterling mine in Van
 derbilt district, San BernardinC
 county, California, was shot from
 ambush and instantly killed last
 week while driving along the road
 near MADvel.
 The recent rains, with the cool
 weather which is prevailing, has
 furnished water for placer miners to
 work, and the regular supply of the precious metal Is again commencing to find it's way into Prescott.
 W. C. Bashford has fifteen men at work iu the Jersey Lily mine. He IS working three eight hour shifts in sinking the shaft, which Is now down 2l3 feet. The mine is looking in fine condition. there being 6ne bodies of ore exposed in All the openings.
 The shaft of the Crowned King mine IS about completed to the 800 foot level aud the work of establish iug a station st this level will be | finished in a short time and drifting commenced at this depth. The mill will be started up again next Tuesday for the winters run.
 Sheriff RufneT has a sample of very rich ore from a new strike re gently made m Blackberry wash by B. (. Williams. The ore Is high grade silver and will go away up in the hundreds of dollars per ton. Nr. Williams has not done much work on the claim, but he has exposed uiteAeonsiderable body of this ore.
 Robert Williams and others. who are engaged in placer mining in Cook canyon, just a short distance on this side of Palace station, have opened up some very rich ground that IS paying them very hand somely. They expect to clean up about S2,0O from . strip of ground about eighty feet long.
 Frank Kirkland, the mining man. who returned two days ago from a tEip up north, reports the finding of a rich prospect two miles east of Nulture. Three Me1icans whe were prospecting in the neighborhood found some float that gave indica- uous of carrying considerable gold. There was no indication of a ledge around, but they concluded to sink a few feet for luck. They dug down two feet and struck . blind lead which showed up well. They got out two tons of the ore with an sras- tFa which netted about $6O a ton. It gives promise of being even richer. The ore is free milling and the lead is about two feet wide- PheniI Republican.
 A permanent badge for the Cali iornia Miners Association has been been agreed upon by the officers and will be submitted for adoption 10 the convention which is to meet in San Francisco the week after election. Instead of the crossed pick and shovel, which has been in use thus far, the new badge repre- sents Marshall at the moment of his discovery of gold in California. His right hand IS outstretched, and in the hand IS held a golden nugget. The other hand rests on the piok that has brought to light the little piece of golden rock. Tbe body of the badge is in white metal, while the nugget is of the golden hue Below the figure of Marshall are the letters M. A." indicative of the California Miners Associations title.
 A telegram from Chicago says: 1T Mckinley is elected the Trin- chers gold mine in Fl Dorado conn ty, Cal, will next week become the property of a London syndicate. The purchase price is Sl,OO0OOO Henry NJ. Cohen, representing inc owners ot the mine, has made out all papers for the sale, and they have been placed in the bank at San Francisco, The men who will ba buyers of the mine gre members of the banking syndicate sf LondonsrS. at the head of which are T. w Parker and Julius Solomon. Tba latter was m Chicago a short time ago, and spent six weeks in arrang- ing Tor the completion of the large deal. The only condition upon the purchase IS the election of McKiulev the Epglishmen declaring that in he event of Bryan's election, they io not wish to invest any more cap- tai in American mining property. The Trinchera mine is situated about 70 miles northeast of San Francisco, and its yield is large, the nine covering 500 acres. It has bean n the hands of company of Amer. can speculators, at the head of 1 which is a Chicago capitalist. These | nen refuse to permit their names to , 'e made public because they are not , 'nown as speculAtors and their 1 redit might become affected. 1 Two experts from London have eI- . mined the resources of the mine. i nd the price of $l,OOO,OOO was de, f lded upon. The deal is com c ieted practically" said Cohen to- c ay. "lf Mckinley is elected inc f rlnchera mine win be the property | T I.aA H.. |