Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-03-04
MINING INTELLIGENCE.
Some Interesting DOllsS la lhe Various
 Districts Surrounding This City.
HhatOld Producers ara DOin5 aud 6J;tS
 From N6E Discoveries.

null and NIT. Schsar's mill both be- inE in successful operation and the mines are being opened up.
 Wilson brothers, of Valencia, Kansas, have recently purchased the Rainbow mine three miles from Placeritas and have number of men at work on it. They expect to pu. up a mill shortly on the prop er,y.
 J. C. Bradbury, W. \. Long and A. C. Gilmore have bonded their Golden Belt and Happy Thought mines, In Walker district, for SlO,- OO0 The parties to whom they were bonded will commence devvl- opment work at once.
 Malcolm McLeish Is said to be making a net clean up Oi SlOO per day on his cyanide plant, near Wick enburg. He Is working fifty tons per day of tsilings at a net profit of S2 per ton, He has a sufficient qusn- tity ot tai.iugs to keep his plant in ! operation Tor several months.
 The copper output for 1895 in Arizona was 100000 pounds. This does not include Globe-but it Is es- tlmated that the output for lSg6 will reach S5,OOO,OOO pounds easily, This al ten and on,-half cents a pound represents a large sum of money, aud mining and milling the same means large expenditure of money in the territory.-Ex.
 Geo. P. Pitkin, the inventor and manufacturer oi a dry washer, IS in Prescott attending United States court As a trial juror. He proposes however to combine his own busl- ness with that of the government and expects one of his machines here this evening when he will put it ou exhibition and explain i,s good qualities to all who desire. His dIy washer has proven a great success wherever It has been used.
 The Hillside mill is running day and night crushing ore, and quite large force of men are employed in the mine. The owners have i've car loads of first class ore stored away that will go Sl5O per ton, while the ore that Is being milied goes S5O per | ton. Of this they secure about S2J per ton ou the plates, while the ! balance is saved m concentrates. ! They are lUw saviLE a higher Der | centage of the values than ever | before in the history of the mine. As vet they have not shipped any of the product, but are storing Il all. Ashburn and Hanson have had a ! three and half ton lot of ore from l their Silver Star mIEe, on Ash creek, ! three miles from the Senator mine l sampled at the sampilny works, aud 1t gave a value of 1000 ounces in | silver. This mine IS one of the old | properties of this section. being for merly known as ths Dunkirk mine, and was workei by Biglow X Smith.
 The owners state that they have a streak of black sulphide o.e enc foot in width at a depth of loo feet, and state that they have at least forty tons more of this high grade ore in sight, which tley will take out at 1 once.
 A correspondent of the Phnnix 1 Republican. writing from Micken. burg, says: 4 Chicago and Cleve- land syndicate will in the course of a few days, accept or reject several big copper pTOpert es near Wicken- burg. It acceoted, a4d lt is stated stated positively the mines are bet ter than reported, aud they doubt less will accept, a shelter having a capacity of l0O tons daily will be erected ss soon as the deal Is closed, which will be as soon as an expert reports favorably. They show up better al the present writing than either the United Verde or the Bisbee copper mines did at the same depth.
 The Senator people are not mak- ing any fuss about 1t, but well authenticated rumors from that property arc to the effect that they have struck some very rich ore bodies in that mine. Ono thing is certain. that. while a snort time since the company was TuGr;u: it's mill on custom ore, they a5e now, and have fov some time, been run. ming it exclusively ou ore from their own properties. Ed Hoagland has two four-horse teams employed in freightng ore from the mines to the mill, and has two teams of the same number of animals freightiug from Prescott to that camp. Indications now are that this camp will meet all the expectations Its most saDguiue friends ever pictured Tor it. !. IS located only twelve miles from Pres colt.
 4 contributor to the Phenix Re publican furnishes that paper with the following in regard to mines in this section: "Messrs. E. B. Gage, r II. Murphy aud N K. Fairbanks, owner, u' he Congress gold miue, have Ice. .ily refused S2OOO,000 cash offered by an English syndicate fer their property. Over S3,OO0OOJ worth of ore Is in sight in this mlLe and IL is tbe richest gold mine m Arizona. Preparations are being made to supplement the present 4O- stamp mill w,;h another Co stamp outfit. A cyanide rlaut will also be added to have a capacity of 200 tons daily 10 haadle the total output of both mll.s 1 A cyanide plant has been in opera: ton for many months at the above mine. - EDITOR JoURNAL-MNER.I "W A. Clark, of Butte, Montana, principal owner of the United Verde Copper Company, whose copper mines are located at Jerome, is now on a visit to Paris to complete a deal whereby the Paris syndicate will soon own the mine anu proper ties of the United Verde Copper Company. MT. Clark has recently, on the part of the company, refused Sj0.0OO,0O0 for this property. This same syndicate has recently bought