Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-04-07
Some Interesting DOiaSS in the Various
 Districts Surrounding This City.
WhatOld Producers are Doing and Note:
 From New Discoveries.

his interest in the new discovery.
 The Crowned King mine is keep ing up its reputation as B bullion producer, regular shipments of con centrates and bullion being nov made since the starting up of th' mill a short time since.
 The Go operative Mining Com pany's mill, near Rumble Bee, whicl was started up few weeks ago, con tinues in operation. and Is giving good success, the camp giving prom lse of being a permanent one.
 The gold craze seems Co hay' struck the country. Yavapai countl has enough gold within her borCier' to supply the world. or at least | good portion of it All that Il wanted Is intelligent, we'll directed efforts to take it from the earth.
 FL Wright, who has been super intending the extension of his tele- phone line from Chaparral to ths 1 Providence mine says that sectloI has improved SO much in the iasi few years that he scarcely recog- nizes 1t today as the same place b, scored such success iu mining { few years ago.
 The Florence Tribune thinks that the coming copper camp of Arizons is Washington, Pima county. w A ' Clark, the Jerome multi llionaire has secured bonds on several prop critics there. which he Is working the Daquesne Company Is working its mines for all they are worth, aud a Colorado company is putting up s smelter for reducing the Holland ore. Altogether, tho outlook for the camp IS very bright.
 The mining outlook of this sec. ton never was 90 bright as st pres- ent The hills are full oi pros, pectors and miners, prospecting foE or developing mining claims, while car load after car load of mining machinery is being brought into this section to be used in the reduc- tion of ore.
 There seems to be quite boom in progress at the present time in this county m the matter of pros pecting Fourtees location notices were filed for record yesterday. One day previously in March seventeen location notices were filed for rec ord, and on another day eighteen.
 Frank Wright, .he Arizona repre- sentative of an eastern company of capitalists. is making mill tests of ore from the Thornberry * Finley group of Plcacho mines. with a view to bonding It. The properties are showing up in splendid shape, and there IS little doubt that the deal will go through.-Yuma Sun. While stoping ore enough in tbe Little Jessie mine to keep the f5- stamp miil in operation. Receiver A. J. Doran has also force of men at work keeping development work apace. He has, during the past month or two, encountered several new chutes of ore, and says the property never did look SO we'll in its entire history as at present.
 The recent strikes in the Monte Cristo mine, on Groom creek, and in the Aztec mine, of the Sun Dance company, on the Hasssy ampa, " which are only few mile apart, has excited considerable interest in mining mat ters m that section. Both proper ties are located within few miles of town.
 k. J. Cartmell and partner's Par agon mine. south of town, continues to improve with development The tunnel is now in sixty feet aud at this distance is sixty below the sur face. From pan of ore taken pro- mIscuously from the dump yesier- day sl.50 worth of gold was banned, besides several small pieces of ruby silver The ore body averages from eighteen to twenty inches in width.
 The Excelsior Mining Company, W hich recently purchased the White Hills mining property, in Mohaye county, has put in q telephone line from Kingman to their mines. This company is now employing 200 men m the camp, and IS erecting a 40- stamp mill. for which they will pump their water a distance of seven miles, although there is an abundance of good spring water at hand.
 Dick McNary who is in town from Copper Basin, says that there is more activity in mining in that sec tion at the present time than there has been for years Every man who owns claim seems to be at work developing it and he says the sound of shooting can be heard at all hours of the day. Dick is working his Gold Cross mine and expects 10 have two car loads ready to work by May 1. He is negotiating to have 1t worked st the Last Chance mill. 4 man named Wilson, he says, has struck rich sulphurets in a claim formerly owned by him in the above district.
 Ed. Showerman and Geo. B. Up- ton had a mill test made recently of ore from their Gold King mine, at Stanton. The test did uot prove satisfactory, so far as saving the values was concerned, but demon strated the value of the ore. They saved Sl3.50 on the plates. The concentrates were shipped to a smell ter without sampling, but samples of the tailings assayed Sl7.98. By proper treatment, whereby the values in the ore can be saved, the ! property promises to become a good 1 producer. They have already had a very fattering offer for their prop l erty, but prefer to develop it further before placing it on the market.
 James Crittenden, a mining ex- pert, is in the Santa Maria country several mining properties for J. B. Haggin, of New York, the old partner of Senator Hearst when the name of "Haggin & Hearst was