Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-01-22
MINING INTELLIGENCE.
Some Interesting DoiRsS in the Various
 Districts Surrounding This City.
What Old Producers ara Doing and N6ieS
 From NsE Discoveries.

| flake mine.
 4 deed has been filed for record
 from J. =. Callen to (. l.. SchaSr for the Placeritas camp.
 Seven car loads of mining ma
 chlnery arrived here yesterday and awaits transportation to the mines.
 A deed has been filed for record from The Union Gold company to A. Harvey for the Southern Belle mine.
 Under Sheriff Dillon has pur- chased l50 feet of the North ENten- sion of the War Eagle lode in the
 Bradshaws from the administrator of the estate of R. McKinnon, de ceased, paying therefor Sl21
 \ car load of machinery for I. F.
 Murphy's Silver Flake ten stamp mill arrived this morning. Mir Murphy Is making active prepara- tions for putting it up and expects to have it in operation very soon pounding out gold.
 A travelling man who was in town yesterday from Fittsburg, the town at the new mining camp m Cochiss county, says their is q good sized boom on. and 1t is his opinion that the new town will rival Tombstone in its palmy days. Joe Bignon, well known in Tucson, is conduct ing a hotel there and IS up to hls | eyes in business Citizen.
 Elsewhere in this isse will be found an advertisement of two very promising mining claims being of- | fered for sale at a reasonable price | and on easy terms. Zlka aud Wat sonyille located in the great mineral belt of the Bradshaw mountains near the famous Crowned King mine.
 The United Verde Copper Con- pAny is making extensive improve merits to it's plant at Jerome, among the recently added improvements being a new engine for the electric light and power plant intended to increase the lighting capacity of their electric plant as we'll as to l furnish power tO run ore cars from the mine to the roasts.
 A dispatch from Denver says that Sawpit Gulch. in Southwestern Colorado, k coming to the front as a most promising gold field. A. :. Blake, the first discoverer of gold there, has sold through George Crawford, of New York. the Com mercial group Of mines for S250,0OO and the Belle Champion for 5000
 This week a sale of twenty-eight miEes in Gold Basin was made to Scotch syndicate represented by Messrs Stuart and Orr, of Scotland. The amount paid IS stated to be $250.OO0 and the mines are the Pat terson and SohaefeT group Henry Schaefer was the promoter and to him is due the credit of bringing to Mohsye county the most substantial company operating in Arizona. Charles Pickenbach, who managed the Harqua Hala mines for Hubbard and Bowers, IS the superintendent for the new company. Mir. Pickeu- bach, left for Gold Basin yesterday -Mohave Miner.
 An invention of the utmost i'm portance for the treatment of the low grade ores of Cripple Creek, Boulder county and other telluride ! camps, has just been demonstrated l on large scale by its inventors. H. l K. Cassel and B. c. Heinemann, of ! New York. A fifty-two ton mill has ] been erected at Boulder. Colo, by a i few New York capitalists, headed by 1 Robert Leaman, a millionaire, to 1 test the process, and an extremely l high extraction has been obtained | from S ores. The mill IS now in | operation day and night and the | process will open up immense fields | of low grade tellurides hitherto con sidered unproftable.
 Joseph l.. Giroux, superintendent | of the United Verde Copper Com pany at Jerome, has taken a lease | and bond on tbe Etta mine on Cher | Y creek and wIll shortly start up | work on that property. Chas. E. | Donaldson has been given charge of | the mechanical department. The | Jerome News speaking of thls prop | erty says that Tt is the present in tention of Mir. Giroux to get tho mill pounding ore just as quick as | skilled labor can put the machinery | in place. The water for use in the mill will be pumped from the river thus avoiding the trouble caused by | washouts which was experienced | when the water was turned into the | mill by damming the river. There is | a large amount of ore in bins and | on the dumps at the mine all of | which will be worked first, when | stoping and drifting will supply ore 1 enough to keep the mill pounding | day and night. The water supply 1 at the mill, coming as it does from l the Verde rivar, IS of course, mex haustible. Fifteen miles below Je- | ome is what is known as the Verde | lside of Cherry creek mining district | and in the neighborhood there are some promising claims from many | of which some very rich rock has | been aud is now being taken, notably | among which are some claims owned | by Judge Dick" DeKuhn. The | rock taken from the lodges is free milling gold ore. It is now the in- tention of the ponder of the Etta | mine to introduce the cyanide pro cess into this district later on, if the results attained will justify it.'
 OLD RELIABLE MINE, January l5.- Regular correspondence. - The Anaconda mine is coming to the front. Already a boarding house, stable, blacksmith shop and other like places found in a mining camp have been built Six men are now working, and the "City" of Ana conda, as the place is named, is already putting on the airs of much larger and older town.
 The Anaconda mine is a sumner