Arizona republican., 1896-12-27
MINES AND MINING.
News of Interest Concerning Many
 Rich Properties.

F. J. Mclean has received encOurag- ing returns on assays from ore taken from the Buena Vista mine near Yuma,
 The Rockefeller iron syndicate has sold $500, 900 worth of Minnesota ore to be delivered next season. This will enable thousands of miners on the Mesaba range to resume work at once.
 M R. Ritchie, the big mining ma chinery manufacturer of Los Angeles, was at Yuma last week to straighten out the trouble with the hansporta tion company concerning the ten stamp mill for the Golden Dream Min ing company.
 Substantial progress has marked the development and operation of mines in Globe district the past few months. Surface work and transportation have been favored by splendid weather and the winter promises to pc short and open. Clone is attracting more and more attention as the center of rich mineral field, offering strong induce ments to the investment of capital, and there is no other district in Ari zona having better prospects of growth and prosperity.
 In a recent interview with Editor Winehart, of the Alaska Mining Rec ord, who visited the Sound country, he spoke most encouragingly of the Alaskan mining fields, both quartz and placer. His estimate of the gold out put for 1896 is $1,500,000 in excess of that for 1895. The total from quartz mines he says will foot up $2,355, ,0OO, and that from placers, s4,67O, ,OOO. Dur ing the past season fully 11,000 peo- pie went to Alaska, nearly all of whom were interested in mining. Of this number 5000 went by way of Juneau to the Yukon and 1000 to Cooks Inlet.
 This week the placer property of the Monitor Mining company, known as the Buck Kelly property, at Gila City, was sold to Sanderson & Co.,, of Mo berly, Missouri, the consideration, as near as can be ascertained, being $25.000. The purchasers will begin work at once on tolerably extensive scale, which will be increased in ratio proportionate to the success of the
 
 water. close at hand, and the dirt is said to contain sufficient gold to make the working of it, especially on a large scale, a paying proposition. MT. Kelly who was the principal owner of the property, is editor and proprietor of the Moberly (Mo) Monitor.-Yuma Sun
 There seems to be a decidedly CT roneOus opinion prevalent concerning the opening of the Deer Creek coal fields ana the mineral district cut from the San Carlos reservation under the terms of an act passed at the last session of congress. There is an i'm pression that the district cut off vii be open to settlement within a few weeks, whereas the fact is it will not probably be so in less than three ol four months, possibly longer. The survey of the line has been made and sent to the surveyor-general's office here. An inspection of the survey must hereafter be made by an officer sent to the ground from Washington If his report confirms the correctness of the survey the Washington author ities will order the land office here tC announce the opening of the district by advertisement for thirty days. Al these proceedings take time, and per. sons of small means should not crowd into the coveted district in the belie1 that in a short time they would be able to make legal ocations-Tucson Star