Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-01-29

Martinez mining district, in which the properties of The Congress Gold company are located, gives promise of becoming one of tte greatest gold producing districts m the south west, Notwithstanding the fact that the properties now owned by the above company have been success fully operated for several years, comparatively little work has been done on other claims in the district. although a large number of lOca- tions have been made from year 10 year. ! few of the claimants have taken sufficient interest in their claims 10 do the assessment work while fewer number still have done more and have their claims pretty we'll developed. A new impetus has been given to mining recently, how ever, partly by the success attained bv those who have worked their claims, and partly by the compul- sory feature ol the law governing the locations ol mining claims passed by the last legislature, and to-day the prospector and miner is busy on every hand in the development of his claim. In many instances the results obtained by doing the amount of work required by this law have proven so highly satisfactory that the claim owners have been en- couraged to continue it. In this way old claims which have been lC- cated for upwards of scose of years without any development work being done, are now being made to show up the rich treasures they contain, and new properties are being located and new discover ies being made.
 Among the latter, and one which has created considerable stir in the Congress camp, IS a group of six claims. recently located toy Gibson, Waters x Wine. They are about three miles east of the Congress camp in the Martinez mountains The owners have done considerable prospecting on them and have found rich mineral in every opening made so far. Samples of ore which they have had assayed, gave a value of Sl6O in free gold. while they have found ore Tn other places so rich that IL would be superfiUous to assay 1t to ascertain its value. This discovery has created no little e1- citement among prospeetors and the owners themselves are quite naturally elated over their pros poets and are pushing work on them as rapidly as possible.
 About a mile due west of the Congress IS a claim owned by Dr. Hamilton and Jean Higgison, called the Last Chance. They have cut the ledge at a depth of l50 feet, and have obtained rock at thIs depth which goes from so to SS0 per ton in gold.
 The Gold Wave, owned by Tucker, Cittiden & Cartis, has a shaft down l50 feet, from which there is a drift 60 feet long, and in which there are about eighteen inches of ore which averages $60 per ton.
 The Republic and Prescott, just north of the Congress, Is owned by Cartis X Cittiden, aud has a shaft 70 feet deep in good ore all the way.
 Dennis May, sn old timer in the district, in fact, the pioneer of the district, and original locator of the now world famous Congress mine, has an extension of this mine called the Alabama, which he has recently commenced to work. He has two shafts down % feet each, and has good ore all the way down in each of them.
 Another extension, called the Sin gle Standard, is owned by Bashford & Burmister, and IS pretty we'll opened up and shows up fine body of ore.
 The Ophir and Remnant are owned by BaShford X Burmister. l.. F. Hale and Ed. Gillespie. The former has a shaft 300 feet deep. The ore body in it is two and half feet wide and averages S60 per ton. The Remnant has two or three shafts from 50 to 50 feet deep each.
 James OHara is reported to have recently made quite rich strike in a claim owned by him just west of the Congress.
 Frank Nichols and Charles Vim cent have also a very promising claim west of the Congress, called the Omaha. They have two feet of very good looking ore in it.
 A. l.. Butler, who was one of the pioneers Tn opening up Chaparral district, and who comes as near knowing where to look for ore with the result of finding it, has become not only fsvorably impressed with Martinez district, but has become identified with 1t, and is at work a number of claims. all l of which are reported to be showing up well. The Dauntless, due west 1 of the Congress, is a very promising 1 claim for having only 20 feet of i work done on it.
 Dennis Burke, of Prescott, owns a | claim also on which there is 90 | foot shaft, which shows good ore. l A small shipment was recently made | from this T,ipa fn Gan Erapc,sa, |