Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-07-28
Weekly Collection of News Nuggets From Our Mining Camps of
 Interest to Miners.
What Pr0speetors and Miners ar Doing t0 Increase the Worlds Supply of Precious
 Metals.

Supply of Precious
 Metals
 The shaft for the rescue of the impriSed miner at Goldheld was sunk and timbeTod l25 fee. in tOn days and four hours. Tho dimen- sion oI the shaft was threo and q half by six feet.
 John McN,ry who is in town from Walnut Gs"se says he is arranging to develop five aiming claims owned by hitl in Walnut Grove district. The claims carry gold, silvor and copper and are very promising.
 Arizona has a placer region in the Weaver district, which, if taken in iiand by capital, and tho winter and summer rain water impounded in the mountains, would produce imwense quantities of placer gold. Herald.
 Superintendent Tfeadwell, pf the Buster mine, who has been running cross-eut tunnel on the above mine, to tap the ledge, succeeded in strik- ing tho ledge, as well az m orc body, at a distance of 200 foot. He has cut into the orc body three lect, but has not cut through it. No assays have been made of the ore. but 1t shows very rich. The ore is copper. carrying gold.
 W. A. Clark. the owner of tho Jerome mines, has become interested to the extent of having taken 8 working bond on some copper prop critics at Duquesne, in Piual county and is preparing to develop them on somewhat extensive scale. The development already done is very considerable, and the result war. rants confidence in the future of the property.
 The onyx company operating at Big Bug are getting their machinery forwarded as rapidly as possible. They have orderod ten ear loads in all, consisting of boilers and en- zines. machinery for steam derricks and for saving and polishing onyx, machine shops, etc. Geo. :. Un derbill is general manager and \. E. Walker is foreman. A force of about twenty men are employed m the quarries at present. but as soon as the machinery IS placed in posi- tion, the force will be increased to fifty. The company has already orders for loo tons of onyx. which will be shipped as soon as it can be quarried.
 s. E. Fuller, who returned yester- day from Stanton, brought in a lot of nuggets and placer gold from the Weaver district. He says that placer miners are taking out in all between 5000 aud SS,O00 a month in that district. Fair sized nuggets, worth from S250 up to 5000 and Sl0.O, are still found quite fre- 1uently, and not long since one was found worth $200. Mir. Fuller very truthfully says that If this were in Alaska, or some other out of the way place, the world would be informed of 1t through telegrams Co the papers, but the placer miners there look upon their success as "mat,cT of course,n and even the finding ol a S2O0 nugget creates no particular excitement among them. and they seldom speak ot it outside of the immediate circle engaged iu placer mining there, hence the public hears of it, if it all, only by mere chance.
 A San Francisco telegram says: Recent advices from Peru, which have been confirmed by C. Do Mi rauda, the petroleum magnato now m tho city, state that tho wonder fully rich strikes reported from the Klondyke region have been totally eclipscd by fabulous discoveries of gold in the South American repuh lie. In an interview today Mir. Mi randS said there no longer seemed l to be any doubt that the famous 1 Inca gold fields, which have been considered as myths among the inteligeRt people residing in Peru, have at last been discovered. | The location of the newly discov. cred bonanza IS in the department. | of Cuzco and Puma. in the eastern border of the country, which haze long been famous for their richness in precious metals. Among the sue cessful prospectors in the new fields IS a Californian named Hardison, who left San Francisco two years ago in search of petroleum and penetrated into the interior. In June last he took out on one of his many claims 279 pounds of gold and many EngliShmen are reported to be equally lucky.
 Major John Reese, who returned yesterday from Mohave county, re- ports having given a years bond and lease Un the Burro mine, owned by him, Pard Pierce and others. The party who has bonded the prop srty is J. T. Dougine, of Chicago, who represents eastern capital, and ( who will be remembered as having been here recently to examine tho Bullard property. The negotiations were carried to a successful issue by John Owens, brother of II. X. | Ovens. The mine is located on [ 3urro creek, about six miles across r he Yavapai county line, in Mohave , ounty. Although not extensively developed, the ledge is quite large, a nd carries both gold aud silver, the t alter predominating in value. It's ich enough, though, in either metal o pay all expenses and leave small a margin ot profit without figuring 4 he value of the other The capi- alists who have taken hold of it . rOpose to put a large force at work d eveloping the mine, and will also d rect plant of from 100 to POO tons q, ally capacity for treating the ore. he water required being secured