Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-04-07
MINING INTELLIGENCE

Ceutiy ioCatoQ iFOtu bNtiVo tO lltecu
 claims. The claims are about four
 teen miles north of Harrisburg. Mir.
 Ferguson, and his son, Gilbert $.
 Ferguson, will leave by private con
 veyance tomorrow to superintend
 work on them. They propose to
 sink at least ten feet on each clam
 to comply with the territorial law
 governing locations and may con tinue work permanently on them.
 Messrs. Ferguson. both father and
 son, have been engaged in prospect ing for several years and during that
 time have discovered some excellent properties, notably the Jersey Lily. The pay srreak in the Monte
 Cbristo mine, on Groom creek. has
 widened out to twenty-six inches,
 and for this distance there is now
 one solid body of metal in the face
 of the drift. 4 solid piece of ore
 was taken out few days ago which
 weighed 400 pounds. Messrs. Ron
 aid & Row have . car load of ore
 ready for shipment n0w. If there
 were ever two men who are deserving
 of the success which they are now
 experiencing, 1t Is John Hutchius
 aud T. J. Nolan. owners of this
 mine. The former has stuck by
 Groom crock section for years, camp
 ing right there. and developing to
 the best of his financial ability tho
 resources of the district. While Mir.
 NolAn's employment has called him away from here, he has never los1
 faith in the ultimate outcome of the property, and though absent in
 person, has been very perceptsbly present, with his means, for the de- yelopment of his properties. Messrs.
 Ronald & Row are also to be con gratulAted on the success attending their efforts in working the mine mine under lease.
 Charles O'MGlley, who is here on visit from MohAve county, says that the mining industry in that county was never 90 active as at present, and the outlook for the future never so bright. The Excel slor mining company, which recently acquired title 10 the White Hills mines. IS making . complete reTolu- ton in affairs there by increasing the mlll. as we'll as the working force in the mine, And enlargiug op- erations generally. Mir. O'MalIey IS operating a mine at Chloride, and while be very modeBtly declines to make any report in regard to the
 business, he remarked very signi6- csntly that unless he were receiving satisfactory returns from the eater prise he would not continue operat- Iug it. From other sources, how ever, 1t is learned that Mir. O'Malley is laying away a good bank account every month over and above all ex- penses, and his friends will all re- ioiee st his prosperity, ss he IS an enterpFising man snd has resided in Arizona long enough tO entitle him to a competency.
 Frank BIandy, who is working the Logan claim under lease in Cherry creek district, is ln town for supplies and says the above district is quite lively at present. He had assays of ore, from the mine he is working made while here, and received re- turns from three samples. running from S25 to Sl00 per ton. He has a shalt down forty-fye feet on the claim. He states that E. E. Green wood, who has lease on the Sines < Smith mill, is running that plant day and night on custom ore, being crowded all the time. Geo. W. Sines is working the B.-B. mine on . lease and bond. M. G Burns is working eight men on claim owned by Mr. McWaters, on which he has a lease and bond. and which is show ing up well. Nick Gales has con- tracted for 25,000 feet of lumber from the Hudson mill for the Chi cago Gold Mining and Reduction Company. A part of the machinery for the mill for this company is also on the ground, and the balance of it is on the way to the mine.
 Mention was recently made in these columns of quite a rich strike of ore being made in the Aztec 1 mine, near the head of the Hassa- ysmps, and owned by the Sun Dance l mining company. l.. A. Davies, su- of the company's | property, has brought large sam pie chunk of the ore to town, and it | is now on exhibition at Hotel Burke. An assay made from it yesterday at the sampling works gave a return of | s.6S ounces in gold, 250 ounces in | silver and 37 per cent in lead. The | ore body is fourteen and one quar- ter inches wide. This ore was en- at depth of forty feet from the surface, and MT. Davies will sink . shaft 100 feet deep on this mine at once. The vein has been tested already for 250 feet in length. In addition to the large body of ore already opened up in their Silver Trail mine, this new body of ore opened up in the Aztec will furnish an ample supply of ore 10 keep their mill, which is now be- ug erected, in constant occupation. A practical mining engineer, who made an examination of heir property, estimates that there Ire l2OO0 tons of orc in sight, 3,O0O1 'f which are oxydized ores and 9,OOOI The company owns a yroup of seven or eight claims, the being located about 12 niles from Prescott.
 A telegram from Yuma says: Within like period, as many won ierful strikes of gold have Lever before been made in any section of he west as have been made in this ection within the past month. The atest, and perhaps the richest, is eported from Pichacho, twenty five niles north of Yuma, and the in- Iabitants of that camp are delirious with excitement. In the Golden Dream and Monday mines, prop rty of Col. D. K. Allen, strikes Fere yesterday ms1e, almost simul-