Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-02-12

Tor A EltnCI kIuNlc os AAA' iAAiht aa NN ve oped. There is enough gold and . silver iu the ore to pay for working l the mine. Another team Is sexpected ! in Wednesday, when ear ot ] about fifeeen tons m all, will be | shipped to the shelter at Fl Paso, l The Cameron mine Is surely strong inducemeut for the building oi the Flagstaff X Grand Canyon road Flagstaff Democrat.
 A. A. Moore, who is in town from Walnut Grove, says that the mills at Placeritas have been completed and arc now in operation. They are located only quarter of mlie apart, and have an abundance of ore to keep them going for some time, while both companies are actively at work developing their properties and opening up new ore bodies. NIT. Moore thinks that Placeutas IS destined to be the coming camp of this section, and so has this impres- sion forced itself upon him, that he has recently invested in twelve claims and two water rights in that
 section. Fred. Nagle has recently
 struck very rich orc in claim owued
 by him in this camp, and IL now looks as if this claim would prove
 to be one of the best there.
 Considerable interest has been at l tracted to a placer mining enter prise inAugurated at Temple Bar, on the Colorado river, last summer. ] The gentleman in charge had two ! large boats on the catamaran order built, which were anchored in mid
 stream, and an immense water wheel constructed between them. The force of the current turned this ! wheel, which was attached to a
 pump which forced the water out on the land to wash the rich gold
 bearing gravel. The machinery alone cost SI5,OO0, and Sl0,OO0 or Sl5, OOO more must have been spent
 on the enterprise. While some 1 shook their heads continuously
 and predicted that the scheme
 would not work, others e1-
 pressed confidence ia its success,
 and general results were watched
 for. According to the Mineral
 Wealth, the general results have
 been obtained, and the enterprise
 has proven failure, as 1t says: "I be
 Temple Bar hydraulic plant broke
 from its moorings recently, and
 started down the river on jam
 boree. It grounded a few mile:
 down, and there it will probably
 stay"
 Speaking of the leasing system
 which is now being practiced quite
 extensively by mine owners through
 out Colorado, the Mining Era o
 recent date says: No method ol
 developing mines has been nor,
 satisfactory to the mine owners anC miners of Colorado than the leasing
 system which has now been mos'
 generally adopted all over the state The system has been in vogue fo
 years in Clear Creek aud GilpiI
 counties, and the satisfactory re suits attained there have followed its adoption in nearly all othe camps where 1t has been tried. |
 gives the mine owner a chance t'
 get his property opeued up cheapl' ! to himself, aud gives the lessee 3 chance to realize a good profit 10 , ! their labors. In many instances, | e is true, the lessees have rather al | l uphill pull for some months unti : they encounter a body Of pay ore 3 but almost without exception the, 8 l sooner or later are rewarded m r more substantial manner than the.
 could possibly be by working a days pay. Cripple Creek has beel , largely developed under this system ! and many of the best strikes Tn th history of the camp has been mad 7 by lessees, many of whom have bee
 raised to affluence in a very shoI , time. LeadvIlle, Aspen, Ouray, Iel luride and other camps have all e1 n | perienced mutual benefit from thes . methods, and it is constantly grow | ing in favor. The readiness wit = which it has been taken up show
 that the miners themselves are vii
 ing to take even chances with tn owner of good prospect, and th e mine owners are willing to met s them half way for mutual beneh '- In some instances, perhaps, exce' y siye royalties are charged, but If tn o miners do not see chance for goo D. remuneration, there is no reason o e earth why they should accept sue a terms as may seem unfair and e e orbitant.'
 ~ Vincent E. Frost, it is stated, hi
 sent supplies out to Groom creek , commence work on the Lelan
 Stanford and Snipe claims. It o further stated that the parties wi ', purchased this property have Pl IS up S25, 600 to be expended Tn deVe y opment work. This is the prop IS principle to work a mining propert s and it is sincerely to be hoped tn ls they may succeed in opening up ,e property which will justify tt re expenditure. The sale of the le prospects demonstrates what can is accomplished on the reputation of ]. district alone. These claims ha' n been developed to a depth of le 1t than loo feet, and have nothir n whatever in sight. In fact, the sho'
 ing has been so poor that the clain Ii- have virtually been abandoned st the locator, on account of not ha d ing the means to risk in an attemI e. to find something. Mining men m moderate means have also refuse te to take hold of the property, i ar though offered it for a mere son ,d ou accouat of not being able ,e develop it. It is located in a distrlC m though, where there are very mal vs pretty we'll developed claims, whi' .h show up fine bodies of ore, and 10 was on the reputation of the distrl Y. that capital was secured to wo in these claims. It is extremely fo is tunate that the claims have be' in disposed of to a company which as not afraid to expend few thousaI th dollars In their development, ,d there are too many companies
 ganized whose stockholders expe