Arizona weekly citizen., 1896-12-19
MINES AND MINING.
What is. Going on in the Diasrsnt
 Camps in Arizona.

The Commonwealth Mining Co.,, st Pearce, Cochise county, employs sixty men and ships to the Pueblo smelters three to four carloads of ore per day. The rock is rich in gold and silver, yield ing slOO per ton.
 News reached here Thursday that the Queen mine at Hedges, Cal, one of a group owned by the Gold Cross Mill ing and Mining Company at that place had caved in at the 400 foot level and buried four men. The miners were shortly afterward rescued with slight in juries and it is said all will be we'll enough in 8 short time to go to work again. To add to the excitement two dwellings caught on fire and were des- troyed. The loss of the company is small.-Yuma Sentinel.
 The Ponce de Leon Mining Syndicate has 90 men at work doing the assessment work on its mines in the White Gold and Picacho bssirs, The Golden Dream Go. is crowding the work on the Alfonso, Little Frank and Sambranos shafts and on the Monday mine in each of which very rich ore has lately been struck. All three are in splendid ore-and growing better ss depth is attaIned. They arc all, together with the shaft in the Alfon- so, cut above the falls and 60 feet south of the tunnel; and the Little Frank tunnel, on the rich vein of ore which now is known to run the entire length of the Monday mine location.-Yuma Senti- nel.
 The outlook for Picacho and it's mines never was better than at the present time. Eastern men and money are ready to push the work on the promising min ing claims which they have already se- cured. The same IS true of London. There is an abundance of money for development and machinery. but not Q dollar with which to buy mines out and out. When such mining experts as Wm A. Parish, c. ). Bell and Emerson Gee, after having spent days and weeks in . most careful and thorough test of the ores and their veins ln that mineral belt, pronounce in their favor, and confirm the good things which have been said oe them, the time is not far distant when the Picacho mines will come to the front and occupy the place which they 60 richly deserve.-Yuma Sentinel.
 An excellent hint to that unscrupu. lous class, the "salters" of mines, whose field is happily becoming moro limited in the light of better and more intslli. gent investigation of mining properties, came to light in an exhibition recently, before the Imperial Institute of Edin- burgh, Scotland. The exhibit arose over the much discussed questions as to how gold was originally deposited in quartz, and MT. J. c. F. Johnson of Port Adelaide, Australia, who has given much attentios to the subject, showed some specimens of non-suriferous rock into which he had introduced gold arti- ficislly and in such a manner that the experts present were unable to detect the handiwork. NIT. Johnson has for years been experimenting with the various salts of gold, and the result b some remarkable specimens of msnufsc- tursd suriferous quartz which when broken, show the gold through every lamnation of the rock. This discovery of how gold was deposited may prove of value in suggesting an economical method for its extraction, but the agents of the investors should be guarded that the work of nature is not copied by those who have gold mines to sell and are not above "salting" them.-Inter-Moun Mining Review.