Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-12-09
MINING NEWS.

The Gladiator, near Prescott, is now considered one of the most promising
 mines in the Bradshaw range. There
 are six tunnels in on the property. The lower tunnel is 653 feet in length, and from it and the stOpes is taken | the ore that keeps the mill running. A double compartment shaft is being sunk at the end of the lower tunnel, l and at a depth of fifteen feet the best ore yet taken out, and carving the 1 highest assay value. has been discov- | cred. At present the force is about forty-five men, working in three shifts
 of eight hours each. The mill runs steadily and does good work. The pres ident of the company is Byron E.
 Shear, of Denver. A. Falco is manager
 H. Blauvelt superintendent, E. Green
 wood is foreman of the mill and w.
 Lipps foreman of the mine.
 The Crowned King mine is one of
 the great mines located in Arizona
 near Prescott. and produces something like S1S6,25O per year. which averages
 S2S.S5 per ton of ore extracted The
 mill is substantially built and is cer-
 tainly the best equipped ten-stamp mill in the Bradshaw mountains. The off
 cers of the company are: N. c. Shek-
 els of Los Angeles. president; J. NJ.
 Taylor. of TayIorville, ILL, secretary;
 Geo. P. Harrington superintendent and treasurer. The company is known as the Crowned King Mining Company and has q capital stock of S6,O00. .000- The mill handles from 20 to 9 tons of ore q day.
 The output of the United Verde Cop per Company at Jerome for November is reported to have been 3.500000 pounds of copper bullion. carrying large per cent of silver and gold The freight traffic over the U. " x P. rail way for the month amounted to 800 car loads.
 Chas. Price is running an arastra on one of his gold mines in the neighbOr- hood of Signal. MOhave county and taking out a little bullion. MT. Price has some good property that would pay well with q big reduction plant on it.
 A block of onyx weighing 13.15O was brought in from the Big Bug quarry yesterday for shipment east. It was q beautiful specimen, being translucent and sea green in color.
 Machinery for q hoist for the Sun Dance Mining Company was shipped yesterday. The mill will be started up in few days on custom ore.
 The steamship Moana. from Aus tralia, due at San Francisco December Is. carries SI,355.OO0 in gold This makes the fifth shipment from the same source in five months. and brings the total amount of gold sent there from Australia since August to S11- 1 3T5, 5,O00.-Journal-Mi
 THE GRAND REEF PURCHASE. |
 J. w Payne. general manager of the Grand Reef mine arrived in this city | yesterday. He is here with the view | )f making the last payment for the | Grand Reef mine. The gentlemen who | will be il good many thousand dollars | better off today than yesterday are Raum Cunningham. Judge w F. | Nichols and E. A. Jones all of Will 1 .OX. The purchaser is E. c. Platt of | New York
 The Grand Reef is located about if y miles nOrtherly from Wilcox in the Aravapai country and is reputed as ,ne of the largest mines in the Terri Ory. The bodies of ore at deepest points of development being from wenty to fifty feet wide carving siI- ligh grade and the extent of the veins Is appear from the surface are very | There is every reason to 'elieve that the largest silver and lead nine in the Territory is the Grand Beef which has for the last two years 'een carefully developed until a large 'Ody of ore has been brought to view Star