Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-12-23
Mining Intelligence.

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 During his visit east Nick Gales bought a new mill for the Chicago Gold Mining and Milling eompany's property on Cherry creek.
 W. r. Dorsey located an onyx claim m 1885 on the lower Gila, near the Real ranch, which may prove of great value. The vein crops out for a distance of 1000 feet and varies in thickness from one to forty feet. Mir Dorsey recently sent some samples of the onyx to Tiffany & Company, and was advis- ed that if 1t could be mined in large blocks 1t would be worth 8 dollar a pound. Gazette.
 Robert Car,mell and his partner continue development work on their Paragon miue south of town. They have the shaft down now to depth of fifty feet. aud it shows up rich ore all the way. The shaft IS being sunk at a point whore two lodges cruss each other. One apparently bears silver and the other gold as the ore taken from the shaft Is not only rich iu gold but has consider able black sulphide of silver m 1t. They think they have the making of blg m.ne and expect to erect a mill on lg in the spIiug.
 A gentleman just in from Jerome says that ever lively camp IS having a yeritable boom these days. The United Verde Copper company, which nearly doubled the capacity of lts plant during the past summer Is still engaged in enlargiEg its plant and increasing its capacity. Parties who are in position 10 know of the output of that mine estimate that its daily product now averages between Sl5,0OO and S2O,0O0. By a recent discovery made by Superin- tendent J. L. GIrouI in regard to working the ore a very large amount of ore which has heretofore not been worked can now be smelted at big profit. W. 4. Clark Is taking bonds on all tie claims be can secure that are the least bit promising and is putting men q work developing them. The parties who recently bonded the Equator mine have if teen men at work on that property while nearly every claim in the dis trlct IS being worked. Ire great draw back of the camp is lack of suitable ground for building pur- poses, the camp being located on mountain side which approaches very nearly to perpendicular. It IS stated that the increase to the com pauy's plant will require all the water for smelting purposes and that in the spring the company will cut of it's water supply to the town, which will necessitate their looking elsewhere for water
 Hardly had the interest quieted down over the rich ore found in the Little Frank shaft on the Noonday mine last week, when on "Wednesday last the richest ore ever found on the Colorado, was struck in the Alfonso shaft on the Monday about 75 feet north of the Little Frank tunnel. The pay streak fills one side of the shaft, is inches in width of which will run up into the thou sands of dollars per ton. Emerson Gee the well known mining engineer and expert who happened to be at the mine the day the strike was made says that he took ore from the vein that would go S50,0O0 per ton. There was more gold than ore in the sample, one could stand six feet away and see the lines of gold gl,sten Tn the sun. The vein at this point Is l56 feet wide with neither wall in sight, all of which carries good pay rock. IL IS only 500 feet from the mill site where the mill will be built. An average sample taken from the 56 feet Crosscut at 3O feet in depth on the Golden Dream mine assayed a. the Phila delpnia mInt Sl5 per ton in gold, An average sample taken from the I, foot tunnel ou the Alcyon mine assayed S2IS0 n gold. \ carefully taken average sample from the Little Frank tunnel on the Noon day mine yielded SI5476 in gold. Another sample taken from the six feet pay streak in the same tunnel gave S4.75 in gold and S3.25 in sil- yer. The prospects never were bet ter at Picacho than at the present time. The experts examining the Dr. Jayne mines last week found very rich ore in the Mars mine. Mining Experts W. A. Parrish, Emerson Gee of Denver. and W. NJ. Bell, of London are at Picacho busIly at work.-Yuma Sentinel.
 One of the largest nuggets of pure gold of which record has been made that was ever found iu either North or South America IS now in the office of Carter, Hawley x Co, in the Wall street district. It was found m a placer mine in Dutch Guiana, on the north coast of South America. m November. It is an ir- regular honey combed triangular plate about ten inches long on the base line by six and one-half inches thick. lt weighs i5.64 pounds troy aud seems to be pure enough to sell for so an ounce, or S3,753 for the whole mass. It will be put on exhi- ton within day or two. The orig iual owner was II. F. de Fieilas, a citizen. oI Paramaribo, who has for some years worked sand bar placers found in the creeks tributary to Sur imam and Saramacca, the two largest rivers of the country. Ouiy crude, old fashioned wooden sluices were used, but some of the @ operators have made tens of thousands of dol lars. Detreitas year ago staked claim on saud bar in in the Come wine river. ! branch nf fha Sam