Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-01-29
MINING INTELLIGENCE.
Some Interesting DOlnsS in the Various
 Districts Surrounding This City.
Ehal0Id Producers arc Doing and h6ts'
 From AeU Discoveries.

The Crowned King mill was started up again last week.
 Another car load of machinery arnved today for the Silver Flake mine.
 It is said that work work will be resumed on the CatOctin mine again in March.
 A very rich strike Is reported to have b zen made recently in Cherry creek district.
 More mining failures are scored by incompetent management than from lack of ore in the mines.
 Peter St. Peter has deeded one sixth of the Deer Trail and other claims to A. St. Peter. c. W. Spain, of Copper Basin, Hate of Cripple Creek, Colo.,l has a very rich 30-inch vein of free milling gold orc.
 John Mcdonald will shortly com mence taking out ore in the Blue Dick mine. This property has been an old stand by in former years.
 Howard Harlan and Will Hanson have their mill, on Groom creek, about completed, and expect to star, 1t up next Monday on ore from the Empire mine.
 A deed has been filed for record from H. L. Scott to James W. Bo, ! dim for three-fOurths of the Comet Jupiter and Side Issue mining claims and the Scott placer claim. The machinery for the Silver Flake mine is being freighted ou; to that property. With favorable weather and no accidents, Mir. Mur- | phy hopes to get 1t placed in posi- ton within sixty days. 1 An immense boiler weighing b.. O0O pounds was loaded on a wagon to-day for shipment to the Silver | Flake mine. The wagon on which it was transported weighed 5,5OC pounds.
 The shaft in the Henrietta mine is being sunk loo feet deeper and an ore chute varying in width from fourteen to twenty inches IS being exposed. The ore is high grade sulphuret.
 Messrs Frantz, Ray Hill, Wal thers, Nolan and GothscSlk, owners of the North Star mine, nine miles west of Prescott, have their shaft down about 70 feet aud have some fine ore exposed. The ore body is | twelve inches wide.
 Raw hide mining does more to iHjuTe the reputation of a mining country than anything else. Nine ! out of ten of the mining failures of | this section can be traced to either | this or some stock jobbing scheme Good properties can be wrecked by either means.
 The discovery offree gold m some ! of the ore recently taken from the Mercer mine in Camp Floyd district, Utah, has created considerable ex- cilement in mining circles and it is said to be the first free gold that has been found in that section. K. Barrett, who is in town from Castle Creek says that the mining outlook in that district are brighter to-day than ever before in its history. Claim owners all over the district are at work and are meeting with good success.
 J. W. Hubbard is at work sinking a shaft on an extension of the Ella claim in Chaparral. The claim is located on the little Jesse ledge. MT. Hubbard has his shaft down go feet and has an excellent showing of ore.
 w. H. Harlan started up his new mill on Groom creek on Tuesday of this week. Everything is working satisfactorily and he has an abund- ance of ore to keep it in operation, but there IS scarcity of water, at present, the supply not being sutfi- cient to permit them to run full time.
 Reports come from Camp Verde that while hunting on Squaw Peak a few days ago, young man made a mineral discovery, which he To- cated, and for which he refused $500 in cash the next day. There has been some very rich ore found in the neighborhood of Squaw Peak, but the development work done there has not been very extensive. The late strike IS free gold one.- Coconino Sun.
 John s. Jones has been able to run his Little Jessie mill only a DOT ton of the time of late on account of a scarcity of water. He intends during the summer to increase his water supply by extending a pipe line further up into the mountains. Water has been scarcer the present winter than at any time during the history of the camp.
 All reports from the new gold strike at the South Pass go to con- firm the first statement that from surface indications it is the biggest strike ever made in Arizona. Speci- mems of rock running from 5000 to $l0.000 per ton are on exhibition, and all the old timers are enthu- siastic over the prospect and a big boom IS anticipated in the near future.-TombstoRe PrUspector.
 There is considerable excitement on Turkey creek. over 6 rich strike of ore made there by Peters and Warren. It is the same old story: "Old location; no work; relocated year after year" Under the new mining law, the owners were com pelled to do some work, and at a depth of twelve feet, struck body of ore which goes Si0O in gold and 3O per cent in copper. Mir. Warren was in town to-day with samples of the ore.