Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1897-10-01
TIMES AND MINING.


Dale City bids fair to become pros
porous mining camp. Five adobe build-
lngs are now being button Office and
laboratory, one postoffice, one dwelling
and two saloons.
Tuolumne county is rapidly coming
to the front as big gold producing Sec
ton. A number of good pockets have
been struck this season. Joseph Aul
struck a pocket in chain near the head
OF Quartz gulch, Algerine, the past week,
from which he is taking out $500 day.
The mining interests of Arizona are
going to bring in more money this fall
than all other interests com bined. The
fact is, Arizona has aquiet little mining
boom on right now, and has had all sum-
mer. The hunt for promising mining
property is incessant and searching.
Messrs. Faust & Matheson, owners of
the Marvel mine, adjoining the Mag
ganetta in the Stringer district.at Rands-
burg, have ordered an extra 100 feet
added to their present shaft hole OF tn
feet. A late mint return from this
mine placed $1,000 to the credit of the
owners.
An important and rich strike was
made few days ago in the property
belonging to the Santa Ysabel company
in Tuolumne county. A telegram from
Sonora places the value of the gold found
at $4,000. The Sonora Democrat says
over $40, 600 was taken out in short
time and there was plenty more in sight.
Besides the above strike in Quartz
gulch, big development was also made
last week in the Green mine in the dis
covery of large and rich ore body.
A piece of ore weighing more than
1000 pounds was knocked down in the
Rattlesnake mine, near the Red mount
ain, last Tuesday, and the boys had a
nice time sledging and gadding it into
pieces of suitable size to hoist. A
drift was being started at a depth OF q
feet where the big piece was knocked
down. The rock goes about $40 per
ton, and the prospect looks well.-
Randsburg Miner.
The largest bodies of ore ever found
in Southern Nevada are now opened up
in the Techaticup and Wall Street
mines, owned by the Southwestern Min
ing company. One of the Lodges shows
So foot breast of ore that will mill $40
to the ton in gold. In another ledge an
8-foot body of ore runs over five ounces
in gold to the ton. Charles Gracey,
the new superintendent, has opened the
two mines in excellent shape, and has
enough ore in sight to keep the 10
stamp mill pounding away for five years.
The June output of the mill was $751;
O0O.-Kingman Miner.
Articles of incorporation have been
prepared for the Naturalization mine,
formerly the Madge, later the Yellow
Rover, in the Soledad canon, near the
town of Acton, this county. 1t will be
incorporated under the laws of Arizona
for ], 200, 600 shares at the par value OF
81, fully paid and worcestershire.
There will be zoe, 900 shares of treasury
stock, $4,000 of which it is understood
will be put on the market through the
call board of the local mining and stock
exchange. The officers and directors
of the new company are: President,
Oscar Roberts; vice-president, E. D.
Brown; secretary, Geo. B. Ketzen'
stein, jr. M V. Hartranft and Theo.
Summerland.
The Yuma Sun of recent date says
"The principal mine of that district
and the only one on which any consider.
able amount of work has been done is
the Bay Horse, which was recently sold
by Moreland and his partners to Los
Angeles company for $4,000 and good
share of the capital stock of the com.
pany, which has incorporated under the
laws of Arizona, with capital stock Of
81 $50, 900, and proposes to push the de-
velOpment of the mine to the utmost
Assays of the Bay Horse ore run from
500 per ton to nearly $4,000, and there is
an inexhaustible quantity of it. The
ledge is from eighty to one hundred and
twenty feet wide, and may be traced
on the surface for distance of more
than 1000 feet. It is a veritable quarry,
according to experts who have seen it,
of gold ore."
A gentleman who is a resident of
Trinity county writes giving a plain,
sensible view of the disappointments
that will result to the mining prospec-
tors who contemplate going to Coffee
creek with the expectation of finding
gold in highly remunerative quantities.
He says that while there is no question
but what it is rich country, it is not a
favorable one for the man without cap
ital, as it's wealth is mainly of charac-
ter to require capital to develop the
quartz veins wherein the gold lies, and
which need to be opened, and involving
considerable outlay before they can be
made remunerative. He says there is
nothing to justify the excitement and
rush to Coffee creek, and while a few
may be successful, not one prospector
in ten will make his expenses. He says
the Graves brothers were two years or
more in making their strike. That
there is gold and plenty of it in Trinity
county, but it takes time, energy and
perseverance to find it. To the man
with capital and energy to back it up,
the county offers good field for min
ing, but for the average prospector there
is very little chance of quick returns.
To such as have the means to prospect
for several months and have the neces-
sary experience the locality is good
one, but to all others he says "don't
come" to be disappointed.
A Mica Mine.
George and Scott Barton show speci-
mems of mica taken from a mine dis
covered by them some two months ago