Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-03-24
MINING INTELLIGENCE. SOms Interesting DOInss iH ths Various
 Districts Surrounding This Ciiy. EhltOld Producers arc Doing and EGtes
 From hsH Discoveries.

K. Barrett has sold the Nancy Hanks claim, in Black Rock district, to c. J. Hall fer s5.000, according to . deed filed for record.
 A deed has been filed for record from E. W. Fisher and wife to Mary Whltehouse for the Tennyson min ing claim, the consideration named in the instrument being S50o.
 The Congress Gold Company has just filed sir patents for mining claims for record, being for the Ohio, Rich Quartz, Snow Storm, Incline, Golden Eagle and Old State.
 Onyx has begun to arrive from the big mine fifty miles north of Phenix. Yesterday an eight-horse team with two big wagons came in. B. HeyInan has been busy for some time placing machinery for cutting and polishing. and in . few days a full hsdgei onyx factory will be running on a large scale. The fac tory is located corner or Adams and Second streets, at the big machine shops next ths Gardner mill.-Ga- zette.
 Another big mining deal has just been affected by which the owner ship of the Santa Maria Mining company changed hands. The new owners composss s syndicate of east ern capitalists, headed by Joseph B. 6reenhut of PeOus, III president of the whisky trust. The property embraces six valuable claims on the Santa Maria owned by Chaunoev D. Clark and $. c. Rankin of Phenix. The famous Greenhut ranch north west of the city will be turned in in part payment. Messrs. Clark and Rankin bought these mines two years ago, erected a mill aud have been engaged in thoir development with the rgs,lt that large ore bodies have been uncovered. Mr. Rankin lately returned from visit of several months to New York and Chicago on business connected with these properties. The new company will at once put up more stamps, put in a cyanide plant and work the mines on an ex- tensiye scale Phenix Republican.
 k. C. Kerr, of tho Co-Operative Mining aud Milling company, operating mine aud mill near Rumble Bee, on the Agua Fria river Is in town. He states that tho com pany completed the repairs to it's pipe line last Monday and the mill was started up on "Wednesday morn ing. The pipe line is 5000 feet in length with a 2ll foot head the pipe being from l2 to 10 inches in dia- meter gives which them loo horse power. Electricity is generated from large dynamo bv this water power and the power is then tlars- mitted by this electric current 27O0 feet to the mill which is run by 1t. The power IS perfect The mill has ten stamps and the company has ore enough in sight now 10 keep 1t in operation for four months. Their deepest shaft as yet Is only l20 feet deep but they have a body of ore in 1t twenty feet wIde the vein running from three to twenty feet in width. There are three distinct veins on the claim, two Of which have been connected by cross cut which is being extended to the third vein. Prior to the breaking of the com pany's pipe line by the flood last fall successful run was made with the mill. The property adioins the one being worked by D. B. Gillette.
 The big strike near Yuma con tinues to attract general attention. John W. Darlington in conversation with Phenix Republican reporter Is quoted as sat ing; There Is no longer any doubt in Yuma or among old pros Pectors and miners that the Lost tIenchman" has beer redis- covered after more than 25 years. The mine whose verg existence was half doubted was SD named because it vas supposed to be worked by a couple of Frenehmen, one of the other of whom used to make period ical visits to Yuma after supplies which were always pad for with large gold nuggets. Fruitless at tempts were made to learn from them the locality in which the mug gets were found and equally fruit less attempts were made to follow them. The Frenchmen always but once succeeded in leaving town un- observed. That time they were fol- lowed by party of Mexieans whom they managed to elude near Agua Caliente. 4 last the Frenchman came to Yuma no moro. As it was evident that they would likely leave the country iu no other way than through Yuma, 1t was supposed that they had been murdered by Indians. Years afterwards skeleton was found in the vicinity of the late strike It was believed to be the skeleton of one of the Frenchmen and though there was no workings in the vicinity, interest in the sup posed fabulously wealthy mine was revived and the whole country was prospected over again and again. | or late years people only smiled | when the "Lost Frenchman" was mentioned. The gold brought in l from the new strike is said to be of l the same character as the gold with | which the Frenchmen fired up Yuma | a quarter of a century ago.
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