Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-09-02
MINING INTELLIGENCE
Some Interesting DOinSS iR the Various
 DIStheS Surrounding This City.
EhltOld Producers ars Doing and E0tsS
 From BsH Discoveries.

A deed has been filed for record from W. C. Kent et al. to J. k. Curry for the Lion mine.
 Frank Gibbons snd others have deeded Divide number l and 2 to the Crowned King Mining com pany
 A deed has been filed for record from Geo. B. Sssmmell to the Chi cago Gold Mining and Reduction company for the Bardshar, Old Nick, Eureka, Bonanza, and Ruby mining claims.
 The second car load of onyx was shipped to New York this morning. The largest single piece shipped weighed 1000 pounds-three and one-h&n tons.
 About S4OO worth of gold was brought into Prescott yesterday from Cherry creek. It was the re suit obtained from run of seventeen and a half tons of ore from the Mockingbird mine.
 Governor F. A. Tritle has men at work developing a claim owned by him about two and half miles south of town, called the Monarch. The ore body has widened out very rapidly as they have sunk on the ledge and the claim looks very en- eouraging. The ore averages about $500 per ton in gold, IA ounces in sIlYer and a per cent in copper.
 Sam Boblett, who has thrown the riatS away for the drill, IS visiting town today from his mine in Min eral Point district, near Jerome, and says the prospect is showing up we'll This district is a new one and is located in Lonesome valley. MT. Boblett says that the Emmett ground and Norton's property are looking well also, and active work is noticeable in them.
 Mark Bradley came m yesterday from Slate creek, where he has been at work on the Black Oak mine, owned by himself, J. w. Wilson and J. Roth. They have been at work on this claim for about two years, during which time they have done over 700 feet of development. Three hundred feet of this consists of a crosscut tunnel, which taps the ledge at dept of 250 feet. At this point the ledge varies from five to seven feet in width, and the ore is quite high grade. They propose to continue the development of the property until sufficient amount of ore is opened up to justify a mill for working it.
 The Cooperative Gold Mining and Milling Company, of which H. N. Merriwether is superintendent and general manager, has its mill about completed, and will soon start up. This company has put m an extensive pipe line, through which they will obtain a water supply to run a big electric dynamo, from which they will transmit electric power to run their machinery. They have not only a very large, but Q very complete plant, and their mines are in splendid condition, and every thing points Unsuccessful culmina- ton for the large amount of invest ments already made. This con- pany's mine is a north extension of the Gold Note mine.
 D. B. Gillette has broken all min ing records in this county in the development of the Surprise and Geld Note mines on the Black mesa, near Bumblebee. He commenced work on the Surprise mine on June II and on August 24 had run drifts and sunk shafts sgg-egating in all 52l feet, 6314 feet in the clear. On July If work was commenced on the Gold Note mine and on August 24, tSe work done on it in sinking and drifting, the shafts and levels being of the same dimensions as those on the Surprise, amounted to 237 feet, making a total development On the two claims, during a penod of one month and ten days on one and two tso months and thirteen days on the other, of 75S feet. In addition to this work in the mines, during ing the same period, he built 2,SO0 feet of trail to one mine, ana 2,6OO to the other. The two claims are located on the same lodge, and while MT. Gillette is justly proud of the rapid progress he has made in their development, he is still more pleased with the results obtained in opening up large bodies of ore. In the Gold Note mine he has twelve feet of a good of milling ore. while in the drift of the Surprise, there is six feet of good ore. It is all absolutely free milling gold ore, too. or course, the ore is not all uniform in value, some of 1t being high grade enough to bear shipment without treatment. He is engaged now in sacking 6 lot of ore for shipment without treatment which will 20 about $200 per ton. Geo. Zika, the former owner, shipped seven tons of ore from these claims, from which be realized nearly Sl 200, after pay ing all expenses of transportation and treataeDt. The development work on the above claims has been | done under the supervision of Morse Dsrnell, one of the most ener- | getic miners in the county, who is foreman of Mir. Gillette's property. MT. Gillette has also recently pur- chased the Hercules mine from Geo. Zika and is arranging to place a plant and pump on this property, preparatory to commen- ring active development work on it. !