Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-04-08
MINING INTELLIGENCE.
Some Interesting DOln6S in the Various
 Districts Surrounding This City.
EhatOld Producers araDOiRS and Notes
 From ksE Discoveries.


 A steam hoist for the Planet Saturn Company, at Fools Gulch, passed through Prescott on to-day's south bound train.
 Scammell aud Bardshear are work ing some claims on Cherry creek. They are negotiating to have a mill erected for a half interest in the property.
 T. C. Hill returned today from a visit to the Colorado river on min ing business. Speaking of the new copper district in that section, he says it is a good country for poor man to stay away from.
 It is said that the Etta made a clean up of over Sl $50 for less than a four-days' run with ten stamps. This would give an average of about 5000 a month, or Sl0S.OO0 a year with ten stamps. Cherry creek is evidently all right. Jerome News.
 A. l.. Kendall, who is the new lessee of the Pratt mill on Big Bug, has his plant started and Is running night and day on ore from the near vicinity of the mill, and has a supply engaged that will last for A steSdy run we'll into the summer.
 Frank Kuehne has four men at work sinking aud otherwise devel- oping his Sunny South mine south of town. He says he has four feet of better ore in sight now than he has ever struck in the mine be- fore. The ore body not only increases in size but the ore gets richer the deeper they go on the property.
 Reif and Flimmelreisch are active ly prosecuting work on their claims at the head of Big Bug. They are drifting south from the bottom of the shaft, and a large body of mineralIzed quartz shows in face of the drift. The upper wall IS granite and lower wall black Porphyry, a promising contact. Randall IS now running his mill on ore from this property.
 Supt. Wallace, of the Senator mine and mill, has secured a bond and lease on the Surprise and an adjoining claim, from the owners Wm. Kent and Frank Parsons, and has force now putting up buildings preparatory to active development of the claims. The Surprise IS the property on which Frank Wright recently took out q shipment of wonderfully rich gold ore. and the new deal Is the result of that dis covery. A fine body of ore shows in the tunnel.
 Work at all the mines in the Cripple Creek district, Colo, owned by W. \. StrattOn, except the h. dependence, has been stopped. About two hundred men are thrown out of work. When asked his reason for this action Stratton said freight and shelter charges on his ore had been exorbitant and he would ship no more until he completed the large redu,tion plant which he Is building. The work at Strstton's properties will be resumed and the ore output largely increased. About half the force now in the Indepen- dence mine will be retained, doing development work.-EX.
 Mir. Phillborn has been devoting his personal attention to the Silver Flake mine on Groom creek and the mill is now rapidly approaching completion. He expects to com mence dropping stamps next Tues day. Major Dewitt who visited the property on Friday says that it IS one of the most complete aud best built mills he has seen in this county. The shaft on the mine is 2O0 feet deep and 1t continues to look better with every foo; of de- velopment work done. The force of miners is being increased as rapidly as ground can be opened up to pat them at work. They have a fine body of good sulphuret ore blocked out now ready to run through the mill and new ground will be opened just as rapidly as possible.
 The Fl Gro Gold Mining Com pany, B. A. Fickas, president, W. T. Smith, vice president. C. E. Major, secretary, was organized yesterday with Sl, 250,0OO capitalization. The company owns q number of valua- ble gold properties in Yavapai coun- ty on which money has been profit ably expended in development work. They have about 1000 feet of work ings on their various claims nearly all of which is in ore They report a good showing of mineral. some of the ore taken out running over SlOO per ton. This is but another evi- dence of the increased evidence in mining in our territory, and when such we'll known men of our city take an active interest m Arizona mines, we can safely predict heavy in the same channels from eastern capital.-Phenix Ga zette.
 G. B. Scammell and Henry Bard l shear have twelve men at work on | their "lS96" mine, at Walnut Grove. 1 This property was worked some 1 years ago by an English company, l but owing to disadvantages existing | at the time, 1t was abandoned after | l 200 feet of development work had | been done on it. Since Msssrs Bardshear X Scammell relocated it on January l of this year, they have added largely to the development work and have a good body of free gold ore now in sight which assays s40 per ton. They are having a lot of loo tons freighted by wagon .wenty miles to have it worked at a Placeritas mill. the latter part of the week. The property has been nego- lated for by Chicago parties for 75,0OO, and the prospect is good for he consummation of the sale. The nine was formerly known as the Texas.
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