Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-07-01
MINING INTELLIGENCE.
Some Interesting DOlnsS in the Various
 Districts Surrounding This City.
EhalOld Producers are Doing and Notes
 From HsE Discoveries.
Joseph Mayer reports water get-

Joseph Mayer reports water get ting scare at the Henrietta mine.
 The Little Jessie mine and mill are Tn full operation, giving satis- factory results.
 The Pine Mountain company, of Lynx creek, offers to lease a portion of its mine on good terms.
 Donaldson < Watson have their mill on Cherry creek nearly com pleted and will start it up soon.
 John Mckenzie has deeded all of bis interest in the Bear mine to he Crowned King Mining company.
 w :. Adams and Merrill brothers of Jerome have taken a lease on the Rocky Pass mine, in Cherry creek district, owned by Sines X Smith and have commenced work on It.
 The Commercial Mining com pSny's shelter st Big Bug has been Tn operation for some time success fully and 1t is said there are about thirty tons of high grade matte ready for shipment.
 A telegram from Mohave, Cal ifOrnia. says: Thomas Jaggers came in this morning from the camp at Red Rock with a S590 nugget. All MOhava Is stampeded iu that direc- ton now.
 Sines X Smith are doubling the capacity of their mill on Cherry creek and have enough ore con tracted for now to keep even double the increased capacity of their mill in operation for several months.
 John Bryant sent in ton and half of ore recently from a mine iu Thumb Butte district, from which he got returns of between S24 and S25 in gold.
 Hill and Hill sent in 2S sacks of ore from the old Adams claim in Thumb Butte district and got re- turns of a little over Sl9 in gold from 1t. The ore streak is eighteen inches wide.
 Bryant < Co. have a shaft down ten feet on their Hettie miue, in Thumb Butte district, and 1t shows up well, giving an assay of from B to l47 ounces in silver. with a good percentage of lead.
 Superintendent James Shirley has a force of men at work grading Q mill site at the Howard mine, on the HASsayampa. The machinery for the mill has been ordered and is now en route here. Mr. Shirley will send an additional force out to-mor- row to work in the mine.
 John Ross is meeting with good success, thus far, in working the Me Nary property in Copper Basin. on which he has a bond aud lease. He took out thirty tons Of shipping ore within twenty days after getting the workings cleaned out. The ore con tains 8 good percentage of free gold and the ore body IS six feet wide.
 John Berris, justice of the peace of Pine Tree precinct, says that mining Is looking more promising every day in Lynx creek district. A strike of good ore was made on Tuesday in the Pine mountain prop erty, and that mine never looked as promising as it does at the present time, and the entire district has never been as prosperous as at pres ent, although a scarcity of water ex- ists.
 The JOURNAL-MINER was mistaken in its announcement a few days since that eastern parties had taken bond on Burton < Hughes claim on Groom creek. pr. Butler and Carl HoltZSchue, of Prescott, are the parties who have the bond. They have sent out a steam hoist and are working the mine, MT. Holtzschue being m charge of it. The claim is m a very promising condition at present.
 The owners of the Zero mine recently strtfck another body of high grade ore in that property. The ore body is not large, but what 1t lacks in size is made up iu the quality of the ore which goes 600 ounces in silver, besides a good per- centage in lead. The outlook for the mine at the present time is very promising.
 A. B. Boyle aud Thomas McDon e aid are still at work on their Bald Butte mine, in Mint valley district. The ore body is six feet wide and varies in value from $l4 10 SIOO in gold. While no average sample has been taken clear across the entire width of the ore body it is thought that 1t will average over $50 per ton, the average assays of fair samples taken being away above that. The proposition is a splendid one for capital to take hold of to develop.
 Hill and Lowry, have been at work on the Occidental mine. in Thumb Butte district. On the sur face the vein was very small being -only ten inches wide and the ore asssyed S42 in gold and S9.50 in sil- yer. At five feet depth the ore as sayed S52 in gold and 90 cents in silver. At depth of ten feet the vein wideued to twenty inches, and the ore in the pay streak assayed SJO4 in gold and S2.5O in silver. The waste or country rock in the bottom of the shaft gave an assay of trace in gold and S25O in silver, while a party not interested in the claim took a piece of white tale from the shaft and secured some small speci- mems of native copper.