Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-07-14
Weekly Collection of News Nuggets From Our Mining Camps of
 Interest to Miners.
What PrOspeetOrs and Miners ar nOing to Increase the Worlds Supply of Precious
 Metals.

nave ms null dt NsuIOFitit, iti NbOhofc county. running the latter part of this month.
 Deeds have been filed for record from George Whitney and Dan Bowen to Chas. Jstt for a number of plarer claims among them being the Sonata, Little Joker and Kreut- ger.
 A deed has been filed for record from j. l.. Giroux to the United Verde Copper Company for the Missing Link claim. the nominal consideration of $l.0O being given in the instrument.
 Joe Dougherty and Fred. Sattes have given years lease on their Indiana mining claim, Thumb Butte district, near the Last Chance. The leSsesS have excellent ore in sight at present.
 A deed was filed for record teddy frem F. H. Swasey and La Rue Orton to the Bradshaw Gold Mines company, for several mining claims in the Bradshaw mountains,
 Clinton H. Beck has deedsd the Garden Cltv and Rgd Mule mining claims to the Crowned King Min ing Company. the consideration named in each deed being x25.
 The talk is that the Congress Gold Company wall shortly add sixty additical stamps to its mill, making a total of 100 in all increase the capacity of its cyanide plant and purchase new hoisting machin- cry to sink to depth of 5000 feet.
 The sale is reported of four claims by Sinclair & Walloth to Dr. Under- wood, of San Francisco, for S20, 900. The properties are located in Pee ples valley. Luke Turnbull con- ducted the negotiations resulting in the sale.
 A San Diego telegram says: The courts have again put the Golden Cross mine at Hedges, this county, in the hends of a receiver. This IS said to be done to force an under standing between al the interests as the mil has been sold to Col. Isaac Trumbo, of San Francisco, who IS here, for $l ,6O0,OO0.
 Robert DeLarge has just had thirty tons of ore from Q claim owned by him in the Black Hills, worked at Hull tS Houston's mIll, the results coming up to hIs expecta- tions. The mine IS opened mp by a forty-foot shaft only, from the bot tom of which Mir. De Large has run a drift ten feet, exposing a good body of ore.
 A new law of Idaho provides that none but citizens, or those who have declared their intentions to become citizens, may be employed in the mines. Manager Hnntley last week notified all the alieus al the De LaMar mine io quit or take out their first intentions 10 become citizens. The constitutionality of the law will be tried in the courts. Mining Record.
 4 mining expert named McMullen. has gone to the Santa Maria country to make an examination or two claims, owned by Bashford & Bur mister, H. A. Owens aud E. J. Austin. The properties have already been examined by two experts for the same people Mir. McMullen rep resents, both of whom have made favorable reports. Mir. McMullen's examination will be principally tn determine the nature of the plant required 10 work the ore.
 Prospects for the erectiOu of re duction works in Prescott are daily growing brighter and it now seems as if the dawn of a new era for { 6 town is close at hand. Every nne comedies that the erection of redue- ton works at this point means large and rapid increase m our pop ulation. Parties have been investi- gating some time, and gentleman is now in Presco { for the pHrpost. of still further Investigating and IS very fsvorsbly impressed with the outlook generally.
 4 Palm Springs, California, tele- gram says: Frank Millnsr has just come in from the placer digglugs near the lost horse mine, bringing six bottles of coarse gold, the result of two months dry washing with a very primitive machine. The six bottles will yield between $700 and $500. MT. Millnsr goes to Los Angeles to purchase improved machinery with which to work his several claims. He reports the weather pleasant and the water supply holding out remarkably we'll.
 Salt Lake has been selected as the place for holding the next session Of the National Gold Mining Conven- tion. At the present session of the the convention 6 resolution was adopted memorializing congress to throw all mineral lands on spanish grants in California, Arizona. New Mexico and Colorado open to loca ton as mining claims. The resolu- tiOr relating to the proposed new cabinet bureau of mines and mining was adopted and referred to com 1 mittee appointed by the chairman | to take the necessary steps toward | a constitutional amend | ment establishing such bureau. A minority report declaring for the | free and unlimited coinage of silver at Is to was offered by delegate from New Mexico, but the chair point of order that the report was out of order and was re- fused consideration.
 The international gold mining convention is in session in Denver. Over twenty states are represented. Ths objects of the convention as by Governor Adams in his Op'ning address are as follows: To secure national legislation calcula. ted to promote the business inter- ssts and development of the re- sources of the mining industry in America. To bring together mining