Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-06-30
Weekly Collection of News Nuggets From Our Mining Camps of
 Interest to Miners.
What PrOspectOrs and Miners or Doing tO Increase the Worlds Supply of Precious
 Metals.

to the Arizona Onyx company.
 The Sun Dance company has its mill running now full blast and 1t IS said to be turning out five tons of concentrates per day.
 A deed has been filed for record from E. Besly 10 the Pine Noun tain Mining company for the Pine Mountain, Nameless, Pine Mountain number 2 and Orc Plata Mining claims, on Lynx creek, a quartz mill Sc. The consideration named is $l.00
 An exchange reports that w. A. Clark, who is now in Europe, is negotiating for the sale of the United Verde mine at Jerome to a French syndicate. The copper mine is one of the best in the world, and produces $6000,000 annually. The company value the mine and the improvements at $60.O00,000.
 Parties who recently took lease and bond on a claim owned by Jesse Robinson, on Lynx creek, near the old Belle mine, sent out lot of supplies today, and will commence active work at once on the develop ment of the property. A wbim has been secured for hoisting purposes
 The rich placer grounds below Walnut Grove, along the Hassa- yampa, and around the Stanton country, will some day add hugely to the worlds circulating medium. Of the richness of these placer | fields there is no question, as they have been thorougly tested. The only thing lacking to make them productive is to secure some method whereby their values may be profit
 ably extracted. There is no doubt that this will be accomplished sooner or later.
 The King of Arizona mine, the new discovery in Yuma county, has been incorporated. The incorpora
 tors are Charles E. Eichelberger, the discoverer, H. B. Gleason, who furnished him the grub stake, Col. Epes Randolph, division superin- tendent of the Southern Pacific railroad, at Tucson, Eugene $. Ives, an attorney of Phenix, a d k. J. Duncan. The mill is in operation, working ore from the mine with good success.
 R. c. Powers has just returned
 from the Santa Maria, where he surveyed for patents for the Waters
 mine and millsite and the Sunset
 mine for the Waters Gold Company
 He. reports considerable activity ID
 the district. Work, under contract is being pushed on the Waters and
 Sunset mines, and a contract will soon be let for extensive develop ? ment on the Gold Standard, recently , purchased by this same company , from Dan Thorne. Cyanide tanks have been ordered for the Waters
 mine, and as soon as the proper ap- pliances can be put in place, the splendid 2O-stamp null now on the l property, will be put iu operation,
 Nick Gales IS operating the cyan. |, idle process successfully on his mines
 ten miles aSove the Waters, on the ] Santa Maria.
 The King of Arizona Mining com
 pany is now getting down to work , in earnest. Culver r& Young arc iu- ! creasing their facilities for hauling ore, winch is supplied them much
 faster than they can convey 1t to
 the mill at Mohawk, and the stamps are pounding away good portion , of the time on rock that runs not . less than $250 to the ton-much oi
 it great deal more. Within the next few days the contractors ex- pect to be able to keep the mill go ing steadily night and day. In the meantime sinking for water goes steadily at the mine at the rate os
 six feet per day. It Is confidently
 expected that water in sufficient v quantities for mill purposes and everything needful will be encoun-
 tered at a depth of not more than 400 feet. Much sooner than that water sufficient to supply the camp for prospecting purposes, etc, will be struck-Yuma Sun.
 James T. Carmody is in town ' from Cherry creek and furnishes the , following news from that district: The Etta put on Q night shift of five men last week to sink an 30 foot shaft.-Henry Bardshear is working twelve men on the Chicago Gold s Mining & Reduction Co.'S B. 5. B. e mine and is taking out some fine pay rock. The Huntington mill is work
 ing two shifts to keep up with the mine and is doing fns work under . MT. Pitkins. Already custom work
 is booked for six weeks in advance. Hank Smith has 50 tons of $40
 ore on the ground ready for milling.
 The Gold Leaf, Mir. Reilly,
 superintendent, has now 100 tons on | the dump ready for his turn at the . mill.-Blandy & DeKuhn's "DClly a ScammelP is proving a good prop !, erty. About 20 tons of $e0 ore has : : been taken out and large body of ore is m sight. mill is the 3 cause of good many prospects be- D ing worked.-The Gold Ring is f OClBk NOlhci SbcduilJ 6uu Juo HUI
 on the river has all the ore it can handle for some time to come.
 John s. Jones, who is now in Den
 yer, has been interviewed by the Denver Republican, and is quoted as saying: "The mining interests of ' Arizona are looking up very rapidly. ? Our mines are attracting attention
 all oyer the country, and the terri tory is being tolsrably well explored by prospecto-s. Those of us who are mining are unable to keep close |, track of the developments and dis coveries made in different parts of
 the territory, but it is evident that : there has been a vast improvement in the mining situation during the past year or two. One very import ant matter is the increase in the milling facilities for the treatment