Arizona republican., 1896-11-04
MINING IN ARIZONA.
What Is Going on in the Mountain
 Regions.


 What Is Going on in the Mountain
 Regions.
 Samples of ore running 1000 ounces to the ton have been taken out of Mike Maloney's mine in Hhe Harshaw dis trict
 Twenty or thirty stamps at the Old Glory are now dropping, and in very short time the remaining ten will be- gin work.
 The Jordan-Duke mining suit is at tracting large crowds alt the county court house at Tucson. A number of witnesses gave some amusing answers Attorney for the Plaintiff Corbett asked witness if his memory had not been trifle impaired ever since he had taken the Keeley cure, Ito which the witness replied that his memory was not so bad as to obliterate a large stone monument In another instance the witness informed Attorney Corbett that it was impossible to trace boun- dary line any farther than it extended.
 Great activity is reported alt Pi- cacho, on the Colorado river, where ex-United States Senator Stephen w. Dorsey and associates of Denver are in vesting heavily. They have already purchased mines to the value of over half million and the other day deed was filed whereby Col. D. K. Allen transfers to George w. Ireland for $60,OO0 the Golden Dream group of five A Blanco group and the Monday group, with four millsites.
 That portion of the San Carlos h. dian reservation which is now being segregated will add materially to the importance of southern Arizona as a mineral country. The existence of ex- tensive bodies of coal has been known since 1873 and several efforts have been made to get the lands segregated, but not until the last session of congress was the effort successful, the fear hay ing been heretofore entertained that it would precipitate an Indian outbreak. The quality of coal is excellent and the only question now ito be determined is the extent of the deposits. The i'm portance of these fields can be appre- ciated when it is understood that it is the only coal between New Mexico and the Pacific ocean.
 An event of considerable interest at Stafford was the starting of the first of the 100-ton furnaces recently re- ceived by the Old Dominion Copper Mining and Smelling company.
 G. w. Taylor has left Bisbee for San BernardinO, Cal, where he will re- main. MT. Taylor is an old miner and is suffering from paralysis in his hands and is unable to work. His friends at Bisbee raised good subscription for him and he will have plenty to keen him until he reaches his relatives in San Bernardino
 A heavy frost fell Wednesday night at Bisbee
 President James Colquohoun of the Arizona Copper company, and family have returned to Tucson from their trip to Scotland
 The famous mining suit from Yava pal county now on trial alt Tucson, is nearing an end, and the attorneys are preparing their summing uq of the case A chart, composed of pasteboard, out lines of the various mines surrounding and the mines under litigation was in. troduced yesterday.
 The Salvador Piganoria group ot mines, better known as the "F'rauita, , group, have recently been sold bJ George Wheatly to the Anglo-Califor mia Mining cOmnanV for Se0 0OO Thoe. mines lie in what is known as the Ar ivaca district and only the old mines are being worked
 The Isabella mill near Bisbee i closed down at present, awaiting somt internal arrangements among the own CTS, but the property is too good a on, to lie idle and the local talk is tha the difficulties will soon be adjusted and work pursued.