Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-05-20

properties in Tonto Basin on which he has a bond. He went through to Phenix on this mornings train, and will go thence to Globe, from where he will go to Tonto Basin. Col. Hart, who is associated with him in the mines, IS now m Baker City, Oregon, but will come to Arl- Eona in July.
 A deed has been filed for record from E. E. Squires to NJ. II. Dodge for the Ella mine, HaSsayampa dis triet, for $500.
 Henry Murphy came in to-day from a visit to Congress. He says that while there he went through the famous Congress mine and sizes 1t up as the biggest gold mine in the United States. On the SOO-foot
 level yesterday they struck a four
 foot body of ore which goes SiOO
 per ton in gold, and they took out
 a ear load of this ore during the night. The shaft is now down l6lO feet with good ore at the bottom. A car load of ore WAS shipped a
 few days since from Vulture to the Tucson shelter.
 Mine owners should send samples of ore to the Prescott mining eI- change with full description of their
 properties, amount of development
 work done, sizs of vein, character ! and quality of ore, etc.
 The owners or the Silver Flake mine on Groom creek will shortly
 put up new hoist on their prop erty.
 Dr. Kayner has beer engaged in prospecting recently aud located what promises to be a good claim about eight miles south of town.
 Frank Luke and partners con. tinue to work their Eclipse mine in the Bradshaw mountains. making shipments regularly. Ire ore goes up in the hundreds per ton and on every ear load shipped they realize from SS,0OO to 5000. The Eclipse is a good friend to its owners.
 Definite information was received here yesterday ot Ihe sale of the sale of the Pearce mine, near Will cox, which was cOnsummated m San Francisco a few days ago, The price paid was S275,0O0 cash, and it [ IS understood that upon favorable report being made by experts who
 are now working at the mine, the
 ownership will pass into the pos
 session of an English syndicate. A
 stock company has already been | formed with a capital stock of g. 000,000, papers for which have been | filed at Tombstone, Work has been ! commenced by the new owners and
 ore is being shipped to Willco1. A l0O-stamp mill IS to be erected and
 will be paid for from the returns from the ore now on the dump,
 which Is sufficient for the purpose
 and will leave balance Tn the treas
 ury. The sale of this mine and the ! extensive work of development
 which will now be done is a great
 feather m the mining cap of Ar.-
 zona and will do much to bring the
 leading interest of the territory to
 the attention of mining men all over
 the civilized world. The previous | owners of the mine were Mir. and | Mrs. Pearce, their two sons and sons iA-law. MT. and Mrs. Pearce receive
 one-fiith and the others one fifth
 each, making the handsome sum of ! $55.O00 each. It IS claimed that
 there are other mining properties in this vicinity equally as rich. and that I in a short time there will be q min-
 ing camp in proportions somewhat equalling the Cripple Creek boom. ] Tucson Star.
 The Plauet Saturn company at
 Fools Gulch has made a very i'm portant strike in the main shaft of ! their Planet mine at the 3O0-ioot
 level. In running a crOss-cut south from the shaft towards the foot wall | they encountered a fine body of sul- phurets which have every appear ance of being very rich in value. | While no assays have been made it
 is safe to say that the oTe will go at least S200 per ton and most of the
 practical miners who have seen it place even a much higher value on
 1t than this. H. l.. Scott, the orig inal owner of the mine, brought some fine specimens of the ore up
 yesterday. He says that when he left they had gone two feet into the ore body and had not yet gotten through it. This shaft is now nearly 400 feet deep and the company IS still sinking, working three eight hour shifts. They have in all about forty men employed. About 1000 feet east of the main shaft they have another shaft down 225 feet with four feet of good ore in the bottom. Eighty feet west of this shaft IS the old original shaft, sunk by the To- cators of the mine which is down l 40 feet on the vein. At depth of l S0 feet they are running a level and | have three and halt feet of ore in 1 the breast, which averages S70 per 1 ton. It IS estimated now that there l is enough ore in sight 10 keep mill l with 6 capacity of 70 tons per day | running steadily ic5 two years. The l company has developed water sup ply also to keep forty-ton mill in 1 operation.
 John Berry was in town yesterday l and stated to a JOURNAL MINER rep ! resentative that he had just returned i from trip along Lynx creek and | had never seen more active or pros porous times along the creek than | exists now. The water is being 1 tsken,out of the Pine mountain mine, J which by the way has been closed 1 down since last November and a force of miners will be put at work | again in the mine next Monday. ] The mill is being moved from the ! old Howell smelter and is being erected right at the dump of the ! mine, and will be ready to run in | ahnnt n month