The oasis., 1896-01-25
N11~Iros NE ~ws.

Joseph l.. GirOuX, superintendent of the United Verde Copper company at Jerome, has taken a lease and bond on the Etta mine on Cherry creek, Yavapai county, and will shortly start up work on that property.
 The English company who have been in the past operating extensively in Harqua Hala have taken down the air compressor and holstng works and ceased operations, giving lease on their properties Go Arizona miners receiving a royalty on the output and will devote their attention as far as that camp is concerned to milling only.
 Section II, of Arzona's new mining law, reads as follows: "The location of forfeited or abandoned lode claims shall only be made by sinking new discovery shaft and fixing new bound aries in the same manner and to same the extent as is required in making q new locations; or the rel0cator may sink the original discovery shaft ten feet deeper than 1t was at the date of commencement of such relocation, and shall erect new, or make the old monu- ments the same as originally required, In either case new location m0nu- ment shall be erected and the location certificate shall state if the whole or ary part of the new location is located as abandoned property"
 An important process has just been brought to light, according to an As sociated Press dispatch, whereby low grade ores can be successfully treated at a profit. A test has been made in Colorado and ss ore yielded good re- turns. The inventors use bromide, but recover it continuously at an ex- tremely low figure. MT. Cassel is the inventor of the well known cyanide process, and is also the originator of the Cassel Gold Extraction company ofGlasgow, to whose process is due the immense development of tue South African gold fields This is tue age of progression and the day is not far distant when the modern methods of ore treatment will be be universally used in handling low grade ores. Ari- zona has millions of tons of low grade ore ranging from sS to s25 which can not be handled or shipped, but the many Improvements, methods and processes that within the last few years have been successfully demon strated, will serve to bring some of these leads within the limits of profit able working.
 The Citizen says: It has long been a common saying that all theories re- garding mining are upset in Arizona. Another mineral break has recently been brought to light in the Gro Blan co district It is what may be termed calche gold ledge. There is large ledge of porphyry, and lying against it a deposit or ledge of matter similar to callche, which occurs in such large deposits in Southern Arizona. This caliche varies in width from six inches to one foot, aud tests show that it carries from $50 to $75 to the ton. It ! it easily extracted and easily worked l the gold being extracted by washing either in pan or rocker. After be- ing taken from the ground the caliche is allowed to remain exposed to the sun several days, or until dried It is then put in water, when it acts like lime, stacking and releasing the gold The six feet of porphyry will average | SIP in gold. There are three locations on the ledge, owned respectively by | Col. Jim Holden, Dr. A. II. Noon and | Mr. Barclay. Whenever any of these