Arizona weekly citizen., 1896-12-05
MINES AND MINING.
What 1s Going on in the Different
 Camps in Artsona.

W0oe as 6oanG on In the Different
 Camps in Arisona.
 Only one month remains in which to
 do assessment work on mines for the
 year 1896.
 A five foot vein of red oxide of copper
 is among the reported new discoveries iiu Hsrqua Hals district.
 w. c. Cook brought in over thirty
 nine ounces of bullion yesterday from
 the Union mine.-Phoenix Republican.
 It is reported that placer gold in pay.
 ing quantities has Oeen discovered near
 Bill Williams Fork.-Mojsve Miner.
 Work will be commenced shortly on
 the erection of the mill at the Pro-
 vidence company's mine on Big Buzz Journal Miner.
 The water is being pumped from the Oro Plata mine by the lessees, Meears. Sweeuy & Dundon. They have . splsn- streak of of ore to work on.
 The El Dorado canyon country seems to be on the boom. Macy of
 the old mines in that country will be
 worked and new machinery is gong in.
 A large number of placer elaine have
 been located ou the Colorado river be-
 low the mouth of the Virgin, which
 will be worked by large force of meI
 before spring.
 H. J. West has put in larger size of
 the Smith stamp mill, at the Nose mine, and Is doing good work. The mine is looking well and Mr. West expects to
 make it paylnR proposition.
 The EIkhart mine at Chloride is turn ing out lots of lead orc. When lead goes up to S4 co, this mine will be bonanza. They work twenty-five men.-Our Min ersl Wealth.
 Work on tho Lost Gulch Mining Co.'S. ten stamp mill has been finished, and the stamps will soon be dropping op ore. The mill Is one of the meet complete in Globe distriot.-Silver Belt.
 For the October yield La Fortuna miDe shipped bar of gold bullion valu- ed st $92, ,o35. .90-the largest tsr of gold ever shipped out of the territory. It was tho product of twsnty.seven days run.
 Ex-Senstor Stephen Dorsey 10 at his mines tt the Pichsco mining district, | which is on the Colorado river on the California side A hundred stamp mill Is to oe erected immediately and opera tions begun.
 A rich strike in free gold quartz is re. Lorted at Golden. New Mexico. The finder, Pablo Arsndo, describes the ore as 8 white quartz that is iron stained in which every pieos ss big as walnut shows free gold visible to the naked eye. The Huslspai Mining company, op- erating the mines of Music mouRtslp, is reported to have opened up an lp uense body of gold ore in one Of ite tunnels. The main tunnel is being run across country to tap Q number of ledSes.
 Horsne N. Chittendon. . prominent mining man of Colorado, is in the city looking over our mineral resources. Re represents mining capitalists of Denver and is himself heavily interested in various producers of Colorsdo.-Pros- pectof.
 Another pew hoist hss been received | by the White Hills Company and will be 1 hauled out tO tho mines io @ few dsys In about a month there will be teven | hoists ln operation in the White Hills. | This is pretty good showing for dull | times in the great silver camp.
 The Temple Bar plsoers mines are be- ing worked by . small force of men. | There is a proposition on hand to take out a ditch from the Colorado river with sufficient fall to run a turbine ws,er wheel, with sufficient power to pump water against the uplying gravel banke.
 Lowry < Hart have @ fine showing in their Advance mine. Pine Fla,. The pay streak is from one to four feet. They will soon have a mill run made at Harlan & Stull's mill, which is about thrse-fourths of 6 mile from the mine. The Advance is @ new find and the owners have not had time to do much development, but 60 far ss explored the results are very dsttering.-Prescott Courier.
 The Buell. and Gerard group of mines located five miles below Riverside, are showing up wonderfully we'll. They are owned jointly by W. A. Buell and w B. Gerard. Mir. Buell., while doing as- ssssment work on them encountered rich body of ore, and now has about 13 tone on the dump. A sample of 700 pounds tested at the Tucson Sampling Works ssssyed $42 per ton in gold. Development work will contirue-Sil- yer Belt.
 Hon. James A. Fleming recently pur- chased two large reverberstory furnaces and the necessary maobioery, including boilers and engines, at Denver, Cobra. dc, which are now in transit to Globs to reduce the ores of tbs Black Warrior group of mines that have recently passeo into the hands of the Black Warrior Mining Co.,, of which Mr. Fleming is the president. The furnaces are of the most approved design and have a capa- city of 300 tons per day of twsnty.four hours Ample ore IS blocked out al ready to give c long run to the furnaces, and development of ths: character is oaing pushed.-Republican.
 Q. H. Barnhart, son of P. D. Bsrp- hart, and brother of A. D. Bsrnhart, the Prescott aseayer. is now superin- t. t-ndept of the COrnucopis mine, near Bsker City, Oregon. From all reports the property Is one of the bigRest iD that lively miniog section. Mir. Barn hart was formerly connected with his brother n tho asesying busipess here, and was for several years superintend- ant of the Mammoth mine, in Pinsl county, until that property was sold.-I Pre-. colt Journal. Miner.
 There is one shaft in Mohave county 800 feet dsep-the Blackberry. The '63" produced $500, GOO and the deepest shaft on 1t is 100 feet; the c. 0. D. prod duoed s1, ,0OO. 900 and it's deepest shaft s 400 feet on the incline; the McCrskin mines produced nearly $4,OOo, GOO snd the work has all been done through tnn nnal an fha Iadna Tho Niuhthauk |