Arizona weekly citizen., 1896-12-12
MINES AND MINING.
What is Going on in tho Different
 Camps in Arizona

What is Going on in the Different
 Camps in Arizona.
 Extensive co, l fields are bsizg discov- cred in the desert region and extepding into Colorado and New Mexico.
 The water is being pumped from the Oro Plata mine by the le sees, Messrs.
 >weeny $ Dundon. They have splen- did streak of ore to work on.
 O. Jackson of Prescott, Arizona, states that there gre $50 stamps Tn present operation in Yavapai county. There are 245 stamps dropping in Pinal county.
 A large nI ID Der of placer cl.ims have the mouth of the Virgin, which will be worked by large force of men before spring.
 The Arizona and New Mexico con- psny's 6 sDelter st Ivephoe is in full blast again upon the copper ores of the dis trict. A large part of the ore reduced comes from le-sed mines of the Santa Rita company.
 Another Dsw hoist bee been received by the White Hills company and will be hauled out to the mipee in a few days. In about month there will 0e eeven hoists in operation in the White Hills. This is pretty good showing for dull times iu the great silver camp.
 A Mexican miner fell down one buU- dred feet through perpendicular Winze in the Creston mine the other day from the eighth level to the ninth without re- ceiving any serious injury.
 And now comes a Californian named Polyn ath of Los Angeles who claims to have discovered process by which h. can extract every particle of gold from quartz, whether t bs free or base, st the trifiing expepse of S5 cents per tor. With 8 plant costing S1,500 hs can treat forty tons per day.
 The extreme high price of IA cents per pound for copper ought to make great activity ID prospecting io Cochise coun ty. Fine copper prospects ate found at every point of the com pass from this place, and some of the prospects are un- surpassed any uywhere in the territory. Cochise aboU nds in good ieads.-Pros pector.
 It is rumorsd that s mining deal of magnitude is Icing coosum- ated st Dos Cabezas. Tbst section is without doubt ore of the most promis 'ng gold countries in the territory and bu,sa xaits capital to transfer ite collossI ledges aud ore bodies into builion.- Prospsctor.
 close estimate of the copper produc- ton for the month of October would | show the following: Montana, 1900, ! 100; Lake Superior, 13. coo GOO; Arizona. 65O0,O0O; Scatterinz, 2.1I5,0O0. Total. | i0675, GOO. It now looks as if the Unit J sd States would produce 1896 no less ihar 203,CG9 Gross tons and exo0rt i53, 00h tors of that, leaving only S0,0C0 rna for home oopsuption. Last yesr the bome consumption was l20,COO tons.
 In answer tp a telegraphic dispatch from E. E. Gage. Joseph McPherson and W 10. King left for Congress last even- jag. It Is rot known why these gentle men were sent fer. but from the fact that very rich strike was made receot- y about six miles from Congress it is thought that Mr. Gage may have secur- ,d the contract for moving the ore out put ot this new field, which would have 70 be done by wagons and mule teams. If this be correct the big teams and ,eavy ore wagons of McPhereon $ Co # which Mr. Gsge is 8 member, will oon be on the move to the new mines. uessrs. McPherson and King expect to eturu in few dsys.-Prospector.
 Capt. J. o. Beatty arrived here Mon- lay from 8 short busipess trip to Los Angeles. The genial captain paid the ,antinel office pleasant call Thursday. n speaking of his mine be said tbe ein at the 100 foot level was forty feet a width and continued to grow richer nd wider as depth is obtained. He had rdered a ten-stamp mill but as the nine WAS proving bopanzs he counter sanded the order and will erect in the ear future a much larger mil. The nine is known as the Bueua Vlsts and lace on the Colorado orIver.-YumaSen- incl.
 Mir. James F. St. Clair, a mining man pteresteu iE the Picacho mining district ear Yuma, is & visitor to Tombstone. fir. St. Clair states that bis section is rowing bonanza producer. Eastern capitalists Lave acquired some property here which in every instance are prov- ,g valuable producers for their owners. he Capella, White Gold, Golden Dream, Ioonday and Leon groups of mines, wned by various companies, are among hose working, and the erection of mills !, tuO of tboca proparfioa Uitl ooop ba , progress. MT. St. Clair states that ch strike of s2,0o0 ore was found in one the mines there last week. being big , hsmber, the extent of which has notyet cen observation-disclosures bstone Prospec-