Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-07-22
Some Interesting DOinsS in the Various
 DiStrICS Surrounding This City.
What0ld Producers arc Doing and kGteS
 From keE Discoveries.

ports generally are to the effect that they are meeting with good success.
 Alex. Thompson has just moved the old boiler of the Bully Bueno mill, which was brought to this country twenty years ago to Groom creek, to be placed on a mine there recently purchased by Dr. Butler.
 James Shirley has gone out to Big Bug to take charge of the Yum Yum and Annie mines. He started a force of miners to-day at work in the further development of the property Machinery has already been ordered for a mill to be placed on these mines.
 R. H. Row has just completed contract on the Monte ChTisto mine, on Groom creek, owned by Nolan
 k Hutchins The shaft is down 50
 feet and there is a drift 50 feet long run on the property. The ore is
 principally silver, although 1t carries
 small percentage of gold, but Is
 rich enough in the white metal to
 pay handsome profit. If silver is
 restored to its position as a money
 metal, the Monte ChriSto promises
 to prove true to its name.
 k. NJ. Dougherty came in on Sat
 urday's stage from the Crowned
 King mine, on a business trip to
 Prescott, being his first visit here
 for a year MT. Dougherty is one of
 the old time miners and prosPectors
 of this section, one of the small army
 of brave and courageous men who
 built the first trails over our noun
 tains while standing of hostile In
 dians and blazed the way for civili-
 zatlon. He prospected in the Brad
 shaw mountains before any trails
 were ever made there and located
 claims there over thirty years ago,
 and still owns some promising prop
 critics, which he is developing.
 Through the courtesy of W. N.
 Kelly, We were to-day shown a sam
 pie of ore taken from the Monte Christo mine, on Groom creek, but
 six miles from Prescott, that excels anything in the line of beauty and
 richness ever displayed any where.
 The ore is from a depth of l60 feet,
 and Is held together by wire silver
 of immense wealth, and in addition
 to the nugget, carries much value in gold sulphurets. Looking at the sample through a msgnifying glass, the view to greet the eye Is more
 like that of a panorama than the dull impression conveyed usually by such commodities. If, few years ago, such a piece of ore was dis played, as MT. Kelly says there would be a locator for every foot of the ground present in few hours after it was known, and that, too, if men had to walk to it in the night. Under present conditions prevailing in mining in this section, our hidden wealth does not seem to move any one particularly, except those it directly affects.
 The old Peck mine which has in times past yielded over a million dollars and which has furnished many surprises to its owners, has just added another surprise in the shape of a rich body of ore. The m,ne is a whimsical affair. Where rich ore has been expected it has failed to appear and oftimes where 1t was least expected to be found has been the place where it has been discovered. The latest strike has been one of the last named. About fifty feet from the vein, which has been worked for the past twenty-five or thirty years, and right on the surface where it has been trodden over for all these years by miners, foremen, suPerintendeEts, mine own CTS, lessees of the mine, and mining experts, a good sized vein has been discovered the ore from which goes over N, 200 per ton. The discovery was made only few days ago and 1t has naturally aroused considerable interest in this old camp. The vein has all the appearance of perma- nenney as far as they have developed l it, and a cross cut will probably be l run from one of the lower levels for l the purpose of cutting the vein at a | greater depth. Pat Donlan, one of | the old stand bys of the Peck camp | also struck a very rich pocket of | sllves ore recently in one of his mines in that district. While it | was not very extensive the ore was quite rich and he has hopes of | it again. This old camp | gives promise yet of coming to the | front.
 As several parties left here for Alaska last spring the following taken from a letter received by an Oakland man from that country will | be interesting. The letter is writ ten from Sunset city, and the writer speaks first of the equable eli mate, and mentions the fact that the snow seems to be rapidly disappear ing, and that thethermometer only reaches the freezing point once in hours. He then says; The gold hunters are at work along the beach in the sand, and they all find 'colors'. The pieces are worth from 25 cents down. The 'and flats are located by Tulare farmers. Snow and floating ice bring the gold down and deposit on he beach in the sand and slate. They find from 15 to p cents per lay and go crazy over it. Some few, however, make from 90 to 75 cents per day. The gold found is worn md flakY, and is scratched in many .ases by harder substances. showing hat it had been washed long way. The pieces found are the size of a mall pea. There is but little quartz ound near the water. Part of our 'arty left, and people are going in very direction, walking over good md bad ground, banning here and here on the surface, then crying IIaud' and selling out at any price, nly to return to civilization. No sh to speak of ever get here, for he tide would leave them on the lud. You may sit up until mid ss-lxe .n