Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-04-01
MINING INTELLIGENCE.
SOmt Interesting DOllsS in the Various
 Districts Surrounding This City.
WhatOld Producers aI5Dlll5 ali Noes
 From ReE Discoveries.

J. l.. Giroux. has men at work de veloping a very promising copper property near Wickenburg.
 \ deed has been filed for record from Chas. O'Neill to A. C. Dake for the Gold Bug and American Eagle mining claims.
 With every foot of development work done m Cherry creek district that section improves in it's prospect as the work being done shows the richness of the district.
 J. W. Yocum IS getting the ma chiuery in for the erection of ten stamp mill in Humbug district. ! This district IS keeping pace with others in the county.
 Messrs. Scammell and Bardshear commenced shipping ore yesterday from their '96 mine, m Walnut Grove. They have seven men at work on the claim.
 Three men, recently from Mon- tana, are reported to be working a dry washer with great success in a narrow little gulch near Peoples valley. They took out Sl50 in q single day recently.
 The sale of the Venezia, group of mines, in Crook cauyon, formerly ! known as the Scopel property IS re- ported sold. The property has been worked recently by Messrs Tim nous and Alkire.
 Since taking charge of the Etta mine Joseph l.. Giroux has doubled | the capacity uf the mill. it being ! formerly five stamps aud now ten Six men can keep these ten stamps supplied with ore.
 IL Is reported that Richard De 1 Kuhn, of Cherry creek, Is about to | make another deal for some proper ] ties owned by him in that district Eastern mining men have been eX- amining them with view of pur ] chasing
 ". W. Vanderbilt and Fred Sattcs have commenced work on their ] Golden Eagle mining claim which is an extension of the Blue Dick. ! There Is a tunnel lSO feet long Tn on 1 the vein, the ore in the breast of which is nine feet wide. The ore at this point is low grade.
 k. C. McNary and :. c. Wynkoop are at work developing the Highland ! Chief, Boston, Cross and Gold Hit claims in Copper Basin, and are talk ing out good shipping ore from them. In the breast of a drift on the Cross the ore body is five feet wide.
 The Commercial Mining Company has force of men at work develop ing their Iron Queen mine, which is an extension of the Boggs, in Big
 Bug. They have the shaft down SJ feet, and have a fine body of oxide of iron ore, carrying gold, and have l struck quite a volume of water, rais- iug about 400 gallons per day. General Manager V. F.. Frost, ol the Leland Stanford mine on Groom creek, has abandoned work in the old shaft on account of not finding anything to justify further develop ment tn that direction, and he has a force of men at work now sinking a new shaft in ground which Is more promising.
 1 lt is reported that work will shortly be commenced on the Ca ! toctin mine on scale greater than ever before. This IS one of the old time producers of this section, and is like the Blue Dick Tn this respect, that whenever its owners wanted a stake, all they had to do was tO draw on the property, and it was sure to respond.
 Sam Hubbard, Jr., who is iu charge of the Queen mIne, in Spruce ! Canyon, has commenced to run a tunnel in on the ledge, which will give him a depth of 100 feet benS ath | tn. surface. He has an ore body twelve feet in width at present. I he ] Queen gives promise now of proving true to her name, by developing into a Queen of mines.
 T. F.. Peery continues to push de ] velopment work on his Antelope | group ot mines at Stanton, and runs the mill a portion of the time and l: making a good success of 1t. He has an abundance of ore to keep the ten stamps in operation all the time but water Is rather scarce. Andrew ] Peterson has charge of the mill and succeeds in extracting all the value from the ore.
 l Messrs C. A. McBriarty and An drew Peterson, of Stanton, who were callers at this office to-day report that there are a great many dry washers at work in the above district and they are all meeting with good success and are making money l They state also that there is consid- erable prospecting m progress in the hills in every direction, and the mining outlook was never so good | as at present.
 Connection has been made. by a drift, between the two shafts of tho | Planet Saturn company's mine at Fools gulch and the main shaft is now being sunk deeper. The drift connects the shafts at a depth of 2S0 feet. This property is looking well and the indications now are that it will develop into one of the best in the territory. The company proposes to develop it thoroughly before erecting a mill on it. l The Jerome News says that e1- perts estimates the amount of orJ in sight in the United Verde mines at the fabulous sum of S750 100000 ! If it is one tenth of this its owner, W. A. Clark, Is the richest man in l the world. The same paper gives