Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-09-01
Weekly Collection of News Nugget From Our Mining Camps of
 Interest to Miners.
What PrOspeetOrs and Miners ar Doing to Increase the Worlds Supply of Precious
 Metals.

A cyanide plant for the Little Jessie mine has been decided on.
 J. s. Douglas, Superintendent of the Senate" mine is getting the Senator mill in repair again, prepar- atory to starting 1t up. A small force of men is still at work in the mine and the camp is quite active.
 Two car loads of mining stulls wero shipped to Congress Junction last evening for the Golden Wave Mining Company, of which J. H. Costello is superintendent.
 During the past year the United Verde Copper Company has added eIght boilers to theIr Jerome plant, the capacity of each being 250 horse power. The company is now said to have 800 men oD the.r pay roll, and they disburse over S75,000 on each monthly pay day.
 Word comes from the Hassa- yampa district of a big strike recently made there. The lucky man is Jasper Philips, and the ore is said to run from three ounces to 5000 ounces m silver, besides carry ing gold in quantity to pay to work.
 A dispatch from Lower California says there is great excitement over a rich placer strike fifteen miles south of Alimo. The ground is re ported to be very rich and many men are leaving for the new dig gings. Some rich lodges are also being found.
 George Sutherland IS in town to- day from Crook Canyon, where he is engaged in experimenting work on the we'll known Crook group or mines. He has ten men employed at present getting the property in shape to be orked on more exten- sive scale. These mines have made record in years gone by, and there IS no good reason why they should not dc so again in the future.
 P. Costello, a mining man from Pennsylvania, who recently became interested in mining in this section, has been in town for the past two or three days on business. MT Cos tello is manager of the Golden Wave Mining company, which recently purchased a claim near the Piedmont Cattle company's headquarters on Martinez creek and which they are developing. He says the property IS looking very promising.
 The JoURNAL-MINER is in receipt of inquiries from Colorado capi- talists for good properties, reason ably we'll developed, and at reason able prices, on lease aSd bond. Owners of mining claims having such are requested to send as full and complete a description of them to this office as possible, and state the price and very best terms on which they can be purchased; state width Of veln, assay value of ore, amount of development, and full particulars as to location, character of ore, etc.
 The bubble of the Trinity county, California, gold boom has been pricked, and the wind all let out of it. A Sacramento telegram says: Every down coming train brings its quota Of disgusted gold seekers from the fields of Trinity county, who had been attracted there by accounts published Tn the daily papers of San Francisco. A week ago today said one of the Bees informants, there was an indigna- ton meeting of disappointed for tune hunters aud resolutions were adopted strongly denunciatory of the San Francisco papers for attract ing them thither by extravagant stories of Trinity's riches. It was resolved to banish the reporters from the camp and some of the hot heads even advocated hanging or shooting them. There are fully 5000 new corners in the various camps around Coffee creeA now, and they are coming in by every train, though all who can are getting out as soon as they learn the truth. You will see a grand stampede out of .here soon. | Photographic advices received at Bedding state that three car loads of men will arrive there in day or two from the east. A great many men are entirely without money"
 Lew and John Blakely, accom- panied by their wives, arrived from Cedar Sunday, bringing a sack load ed with rock from a new find re- gently made by the boys near Cedar. It was rich looking stuff, but was scare almost when Lew Lasseil weighed the button showing l27 ounces of gold per ton. They have three inches of this rich stuff besides a good sized ledge of $l00 ore. The find was made while hunting their horses to come to Kingman for supply of merchandise. The ledge is well defined, and while no work as yet has been done on it, the ear marks of permanency are plain to be seen. The judge having mined all the way from '49 to the present day between sermons and law cases IS not much excited over the dis covery, but there is no doubt but what it is rich find and only makes stronger the fact that the country is not half prospected. Their mine, the Belle McElroy, is also develop ing into a bonanza. The ore in the bottom of the 100 foot shaft will average over $50 in gold per ton and the level being run from that depth shows even richer ore. They will soon be compelled to erect hoist on the Belle McElroy.-Mineral Wealth.
 Messrs. Little and Askew are push ing development work on their Red Rock mine, in Chaparral, and the property continues tU improve with each foot of development work. l