Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-06-24
MINING INTELLIGENCE.
SOms Interesting DOilsS iH tAs Various
 Districts Surrounding fhis City.
Ehlt0ld Producers are Doing and EGtsS
 From keE Discoveries.


 claims for SS,l0O
 John :. Ross is warking a claim in Copper Basin owned by k. C Me
 Nary, which is very promising.
 Malcolm McLeish has closed down his cyanide works near the Nulture
 and he IS now en route for Alaska, where he goes on a mining and prospecting tour.-Gazette.
 The United Verde copper com pany paid out more money for wages on the 18th of this month than in any one month during its eXistauce.-Jerome News.
 Messrs, Campbell X Quinby have taken lease and bond on the Davis, Dunkirk and Wren mines, on Slate creek, and will start work immedi- ately developing these claims.
 A. L. Butler and his partner had eighteen and one-half tons of ore from their Jessie R. mine, in Cherry creek district, worked at Sines' mill recently, obtaining forty-two ouAces in gold and concentrates valued st SS0. They will continue work on the claim.
 HugheY Hughes and Geo. Burton have given a bond on some mining property owned by them on Groom creek to easterncApitaliSts. A steam hoist has been sent out, and the property will be worked for all that 1t Is worth.
 Geo. Waddell and partner are having about two or three tons of orc from their new claim, near the Sunny South mine, packed in to the sAmPling works for shipment. If the returns prove as good ss they have every reason 10 believe they will from assays they have had taken, they will become regular shippers.
 H. A. Piekerell is engaged in run ming a tunnel on the ledge of the FaiTview mine, on the HaSsayamps, Tor the purpose of tapping the ledge of the Silver Trail It is his purpose to tunuel the entire length of the Fsirview claim, distance of l,50O feet, and will strike the ledge of the Silver Trail at a depth of $50 feet. He Is in now $50 feet and Is in good ore.
 It was Tumored on the streets this afternoon, that the sale of the United Verde Copper mines at Jerome, to the French svndi- cate, composing the copper trust, which virtually controls the worlds copper product, had been con summated. The rumor was brought tO Prescott from Jerome, but now much truth, if any, there IS iu it, can not be aScertained.
 J. W. Brown has been sinking the we'll at the Morning Glory mill on Turkey creek, to a greater depth. and IS being rewarded by largely increased supply of water. He has also been at work putting the mill in repair, and has about completed this work and will start 1t up next week. There Is . fine body of ore exposed now m the mine and the prospects are excellent for this prop erty scoring a financial success.
 Col. Sweet, the Chicago million aire and mining man, who is inter ested in the Last Chance property, has been making an exhaustive ex- animation of our mining resources generally, and to a JoUSSAL-MINER man this morning expressed himself highly pleased with what he had seen. Prom the properties have visited" he enthusiastically said. you have a wonderfully rich min ing section here, second tc none in the country" Col. Sweet went out again to day to look at some other properties.
 The Butte Inter Mountain gives the following instructions for the hasty neutUalizing of noxious fumes In mines from powder smoke: With an ordinary fruit tree, spray pump the foreman m the tunnel blows lime water into the hanging smoke ard gases and the lime neutralizes the latter to such an extent that the tunnel Is rapidly cleared and the men may return to their work at the face. The lime is made by stacking a small quantity of lime in bucket of water and of the latter but q small quantity is needed at each spraying.
 Ed. Zimmerman, miner in the employ of the United Verde copper | company, while taking a holiday ] stroll by himself Co hold communion with nature, happened to drift along he trail leading from town to the i roAsts, and noticing the entrance to he old tunnel just below Miller < Co.'S store decided 10 explore the mysteries of the same, but not hay ng a candle to light his way soon 'ame tO grief by falling into a shaft bout ? feet deep, where he spent everal hours before succor arrived. te IS now in the hospital. having 'sdly injured his right aukle.-Je- ome News.
 The Etta mill. on the Verde river. .as closed down, pending the erec- ion of n 2O-stamp quick drop mill, nth all the latest Improvements m rec gold milling and concentrating. leadwOOd gold mortars and six,foot rue Nanners. The water of Oak reek will be piped under the Verde , lver to furnish power. The length | the pipe line will be one and one , alf miles. This, with a Pelton {