Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-07-29

greater exertion in the development of their properties and there is greater activity at present in the hills than at any time during the past quarter of a century. While there Is apparently plenty of capital seeking investment in mines, out of | the requisites IS that values must be shown for the price asked. The time has gone by when ahole in the | ground can be sold as a mine at fabulous price, but where develop ment shows ore in sufficient quanti- ties for the price asked there IS but little trouble in selling properties.
 John W. Osborn, superintendent of the New River Gold Mining and Milling compaHy's property, fifty miles north of Pheni1, arrived in this city Friday afternoon. Re re- ports the mine looking well. There are now seventeen people in camp. The main shaft of the mine is down leo feet, with drift on either side. The north drift is in @ feet and the south drift 25 feet. Most of the ore is free milling gold, with s vein 22 inches at the surface, which has wid- ened in going a hundred feet to three feet. The ore is amply rich for milling, and there IS already l30 tons of ore on the dump. So soon as the mine is sufficiently developed to justify machinery, 8 mill will be erected. This mine IS four miles east of the Black Canyon road, all the way an easy grade.-Pheni1 Gazette.
 An Associated Press telegram from Oakland California says:-W. :. Clark, an old resident of Alameda county, who went to Alaska in se.Tch of fortune has made s tour of that country and has sent this report to his irlends: IwOuld not encourage any one to come to Alaska this year, says Mir. Clark. This land of glaciers has its surface rubbed and scared. and its golden seed scattered until every stream and brook will show a color hence the cry that all Alaska IS gold; but 1t IS not in quantities that will pay to work except in localities When quartz veins are found and a gold belt discovered and marked on maps, 1t will be time enough for men to come from civilized parts and To- cate their small twenty acres in this wait land.
 The Jersey Lily mine, twelve miles south of Prescott. which has been closed down for several months, pending its sale to a wealthy En- glish syndicate, will soon be started up again on a more extensive scale than ever before W. C. BAShford went out today to arrange for put ting a small force of men at work doing some preliminary work neces- sary before starting in on an exten- sive scale. As soon as this is com pleted large number of men will be set at work in the mine, and a mill will probably be erected very soon to work the ore. This property has paid from the grass roots down, the money spent in its development being all taken from the mine. With such a record as this there IS every reason to be- heve that when once IL IS started in active operation with . mill to handle the ore, it will pour forth 8 stesdy stream of gold into the worlds supply and will take its position at once in the ranks of dividend paying mines. Mir. Bash lord who has been a part owner in 1t and who Is familiar with all of its working will have the general superiRtendency of the property, at least for time, and no one could have been selected to work 1t to to better advantage than he.
 Mir. Fox came in from the Liver pool Landing country last Monday afternoon after mining tools and supplies. He and Clarence Harris have been prospecting in the lower end of the Chemehuevis mountains and have made some wonderful dis coveries of gold and copper. Not having any drills or powder they were unable to do any work on the claims, but from specimens of gold rock exhibited here they are on the high road to wealth. The rock was a mass of gold. The copper rock will average about thirty per cent and carries gold and silver. The lodges are big and well defined. MT. Fox says that the country is almost inaccessible and water has to be packed from the river fifteen miles away. No one who IS unused to the desert country should go in there until the rainy season sets in. The whole country abOunds in gold. sil- yer and copper, and we expect to hear of many wonderful discoveries in the near future. Many years ago the country around Liverpool Land ing produced thousands of dollars in placer gold, but no effort was made to find the source from whence 1t came.-Mohave Miner.
 Many of our citizens will remem- Der F. F. Thomas, the first superin- tendent of the United Verde copper mines. MT. Thomas is now located in California as superintendent of 8 mine, of which telegram from San Francisco has the following to say: "The California Exploration Com pany wants to buy the Gwin mine. It IS situated in Cslaveras county, contiguous to the territory which the new corporation is developing, and could be proftably worked by the electric power that is being developed by Prince Poniatowski and his associates from the Moke- lumne river. But they have found that 1t cannot be bought for a song. The old vein has recently been re- found, and when the holders were asked what they would take for the property, they answered S,OO0OOO | and not a la.-