Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-03-18
MINING INTELLIGENCE.
SOmt Interesting DOlass ln the Various
 Districts Surrounding This City.
XhalOId Producers usDOins and kGtss
 From ksE Discoveries.

The old Mockingbird mill. on Cherry creek, is being removed to Big Bug, where it will be rebuilt and operated.
 4 ton of ore is being taken out ot the Jersey Lily mine for shipment to London to be tested with view of determining the nature of the plant necessary to be erected to successfully treat the ore.
 Arizona ought to have a govern ment assay establishment, and as Prescott Is the center of the greatest mining activity in Arizona, such an institution ought to be established there. Tucson Star.
 The Pherix Gazette says: Nal colin McLe.sh and j. F. Johnson, of Nulture, have gone 10 Mexico to examine some mining property with a view oi operating the same should it prove advisable.
 The mili at the Last Chance mine has been closed down for a few days while the company is engaged m sinking their shaft They have three shifts st work in the shaft and have 1t down now to a depth of 245 feet As soon as It reac hes 2j0 feet a station will be started at this point and drifting will be commenced again and this mill started.
 sam Hubbard, Jr., tae enterpsis- ing aud rustling young mining man, who has been engaged lu working a mine in Spruce canyon, and who recently succeeded ID organizing the Queen Mining Company, sent out a force of men today to work on the property. The company orgar ized by Mir Hubbard Is a strong one, and work will be pushed on this property by it.
 IL Is said that the deal for the Music mountain mines will be closed in few days, and that q large re- duction plant will be put iu. The water supply has been increased 10 an extent that warrants ths erection of a plant capable of reducing loo tons per day. Music mountain has many good mines and We are glad to note that mining men are begin ming to recognize this fact.-Mo- havo Miner.
 The report of the Colorado smell I.h shipped more ore during 1895 than any three counties m Arizona, and vet the other counties are getting capital invested ID their mines at a rapid rate. They are better rustler's than we Mohave Miner. With reduction works m Prescott large amount of the above ore would come here for treatment.
 Judge H. Brooks informs the JOURNAL MINER that he has received a letter from a friend of his al Harqua Hala confirming the news of a new strike m that district as published in this paper several days ago. He says that the parties own ing the claim have attempted to keep their discovery very quiet. They sank 3O0 feet through barren ground before striking any ore, but when they did strike 1t they struck 1t very rich.
 J. D. Moore, who returned yes terday from his visit to Cherry creek brought m with him some fine specimens of ore from the Hopper mine, of which Thomas Brown is superintendent. The ore was taken from the bottom of the 50-foOt shaft and goes Sl,OOO per ton in gold. It is sulphide in character and he says at that depth the ore body is eighteen inches wide. Mir. Brown is working three shifts of eight hours each on the property.
 4 special to the Denver News from Saw Pit, Colorado, says that a strike was made in the Commercial which eclipses anything yet discovered in the district. A shot put in the croSs-cut opened up an enormous body of high grade lead which. according to sur vey, is torty-fiye feet wide and three feet thick. An average value of the ore is in the neighborhood of $500 to the ton. James Blake is the principal owner of the property.
 The exhibition test of the Colo rado Dry Washer, manufactured by Geo. r. Pitkin, of Kingman, made made on Saturday was an un- qualified success, the machine saving all the gold. The dirt was run through the second time and not a color was found. A large number of citizens and placer miners wit messed the test, and all joined in saying that the 'Colorado' was su- perior to any dry washer they had ever seen. Brown Bros. will handle this machine.
 One of PIescott's prominent capi- talists last evening announced that be would take $20,0O0 worth of stock in a company to establish reduction works in Prescott, and added that he knew of other money ed men here who would add several thousand dollars more to such an enterprise. With a spirit of this kind manifested by our capitalists, there is no reason why reduction works should not be established at once. There IS a perfect unanimity ,f feeling on this subject among our people.
 Miners along the Hassayampa are ] ubilant over the prospects of start | ng reduction works m Prescott l There is an immense ledge there | which extends from the Hassayampa,