Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-08-19
MINING INTELLIGENCE.
Some Interesting DOlnsS in the Various
 DiStrlCS Surrounding This City.
WhatOld Producers are Doing and Notes
 From heR Discoveries.

Monroe mine.
 E. C. McNary has deeded one- third of the Highland Chief and Gold Hill mines to II. Rixen.
 4 deed has been filed for record from F. J. Smith ct al. to W, C. Bashford for one-third of the Point Look Out mine.
 Two more wagon loads of onyx arrived this afternoon, making a to- tai of 25.O0O pounds. They are ship ping sO,OOO pounds ;o New York.
 The Providence Mining company has opened an office on the ground floor Of the Bank of Arizona build ing just in the rear of the bank.
 Two wagon loads of onyx were brought in to day from the Big Bug onyx mines. The onyx consisted of three pieces, one of which weighed '"1 pounds, or two and half tons, auG the other two blocks aggre- gated 4,5OO pounds It was brought m for shipment east.
 According to data collected by Secretary Parsons, of the Colorado Mining Exchange. the gold produc- ton of Cripple Creek in the first six months this year was S7, 7,256,OOO. He estimates the total production of
 1896, will be Sl5OO0O0O That camp
 produced, ia 1895, S9,199,OOO.
 The report comes from Woodland
 Park, Colorado, that James Aims field has opened on Hayden Dyke a vein five feet wide at the surface, showing as great an ore chute as ever was opened in the state. The ore assays Sl,300 gold per ton. Ain field IS erecting d mill, and that town promises to have a mining
 boom.
 The second payment on the Tuck CT mine, located about one and one-
 hall miles northwest Of Congress,
 has been made. Judge Barnes of Tucson Is handling this ground and the price agreed upon for it is S3O,- GOO. Surface indications are excel lent on thls property while some de velopment work justifes the work ing ol 1t and the payment of more money.
 lt Is said that \. Falco will soon start a force forty men at work on a claim he has recently secured two miles southeast of Congress. The name of the property Is not known, but has q prospect shaft that shows up q good body of ore and in order to definitely determine the extent of the same the above gentleman will thoroughly operate II. The prop erty is favorabiy spoken of by min CTS and good results are expected to follow it's operation.
 A carload of machinery aud tim bers have arrived from Phenix for the Little Annie and and Yum Yum mill on Big Bug. This material is part of the old hundred stamp mill | of the Phenix mine near Phenix, which in it's day was one of the fin est mills in the territory. The tim | bers for the mill were framed in | Chicago and then shipped to their destination. The Yum Yum oW Ders have purchased the machinery and | for a ten stamp mill.
 $. C. Miller has taken the contract | for hauling 7O,0OO pounds of ma chineTy tC the Lynx creek hydraulic works for T. G. Barlow -Massicks. This machinery comprises the new Bucyrus shovel and amalgamator recently built for working the gold bearing gravel there. One piece of 1t weighs 10000 pounds, or ten tons. Mir. Mlller's teams are engaged now in taking this machinery to its des- .ination.
 .. J. Wright, a prominent citizen of Paris, Texas, k developing claim n the Agua Fria district and is highly pleased with his properties. He recently sunk we'll fifty feet ieep in dry gulch and obtained m abundant supply of water for ordinary purposes, and he prososes Q sink another we'll on a ledge or iyke there in the hopes of getting 'nough water to supply a mill yhich he proposes to erect soon, the nine showing up sufficient amount 'f ore DOW to justify the erection of mill.
 Judge Berrie, of Pine Tree pre met, who Is in town to-day, to at end the populist convention, says hat there are ten men at work with Try washers in the various gulches , lear his place and each of them is making from s to S6 per day. He urther states that the other day fter a hard rain. one of his broth rs picked up an SS nugget in the | lain travelled road. While popu- } ists are for free silver, Judge Berrie | avs there can be no mistake about | hls gold nugget being a populist q s It was found in the middle of the I pad" ( Arizona has, to-day, in operation t wo of the greatest gold mines on :, he Pacific Coast. viz, the Congress- " llne, m Havapai county, and the v fierce mine, in Cochise county. The '. Itter has developed so quietly that ti ne territory IS entirely unaware of ' le fact that ore is being shipped to U le amount of SlOO,0O0 worth every ay of the week. ."-Phenix Herald o UT Phenix contemporary over S H 'oked mention of one very import ': It mine which is in Operation V hat IS the Crowned King, in the TT;, mountains. This prop- " ty IS making the greatest record U u
 any gold mine in the territory in n m -oportion tO the number of men '. nployed, and in proportion to the Imu m pacity of its mill. The McCabe sl ia Little Jessie are both mighty nI ri 2 little mines, too. pl ?. D. Barnhart left ou this after iv 'on's train for his mining proper tn