Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-06-23
Weekly Collection of News Nuggets From Our Mining Camps of
 Interest to Miners.
What PrOspeet0rs and Miners ar Doing to Increase the Worlds Supply of Precious
 Metals.

Minnehaha Flat and surrounding country IS reported active, the For tuna ground particularly forging ahead rapidly.
 R. Nj. Dougherty has sold his Charleston mining claim in the Bradshaw mountains to the Gladiator Mining company. The claim IS an extention of the Crowned King and shows up we'll in ore.
 The Swallow Mining Company of Castle Creek is preparing to move their plant from Briggs to the mine three miles above. Work will soon be started on the mine and the same operated permanently.
 The price at which the Standard group of claims on the Santa Maria were sold was S75,000 instead of S50,000, as previously reported in these columns. Dan Thorne, the seller of the property, so informs us.
 Lester Jackson returned yester- day from twoweeks' trip to Tonto Basin on mining business. He says that generally the outlook there, IS good and with further development work many claims will undoubtedly prove to be steady and profitable producers.
 Charles Born, who with others IS interested in group of mining claims near Wickenburg in Black | Rock district, left today for Denver, where a transfer of the property will be made for a sum running into the thousands. He speaks we'll of that section and believes it has an excellent future.
 Three deeds have been filed for record from w. F. Roberts to E. w. | Fisher. One transfers title to the Copper bar mining claims, castle creek district, the consideration be- ing $500 Another transfers title to tho Copper Queen claims, same dis trict, for S40O. and the third another mining claim for $50.
 Another body of free milling gold | ore has been encountered in the Little Jessie mine at depth of 190 | feet. This is in the old working of the mine where 1t was worked under | lease, and Superintendent A. J. Do- ran cross -cutted the ledge striking a twelve-inch body of ore on the hanging wall. The ore is very rich, running from S2O0 to $500 per ton.
 An old mining man said to the Star yesterday: "WhY is it that miners aud prospectoTs deliberately deceive themselves and then turn around aud try to deceive others, and bring men thousands of miles to see a prospect which is not one tenth as good as described, and all the trouble is for naughti Don't | these men know that they cannot subslantiate their grossly exagger- ated statements, and that both time aud money are losti" The Star re- piled there is too much of that kind of business. but it is the result of enthusiasm. They don't mean to misrepresent. They simply can't help it. It is the bigness of their hopes agitating their imaginations, that is all, but it don't sell mines ali the same Tucson Star.
 Brief mention was made in the JoURNAL-MINER of the sale of the Thorne mine in the Santa Ma ria district, by D. c. Thorne. The sale was made through J. c. Ran kin, who also negotiated the sale of the Waters mine in the ssme dis trict. The purchasers were J. B, Greenhut, a millionaire capitalist of Peoria, Illinois, we'll known all over the United States, on account of bis connection with the whisky trust, Sumner Clark, another millionaire of Peoria, and Chauncey D. Clark, a a capitalist formerly of Peoria but for several years prominently iden- tilied with this territory. The pur- chasers of this property are also the owners of the Waters mine aud this investment means much for that district and for the territory.
 w. H. Ferguson has recently made some discoveries about twelve or fourteen miles southwest of town which he thinks is the biggest of any ever made by him. He has To- cated eight claims on the ledge. He says the ledge is from four 10 eight feet wide and while he has had DO assays made of the ore, he says it horn spoons we'll and thinks it will assay up in the hundreds of dollars per ton. He made the locations this week and as yet he has done no work whatever, his samples being obtained from the surface. He has named the claims the Gold King, Revenue, Dividend, Fair View, Mammoth, Leviathan, Gopher and Contact. He proposes to con- mence work immediately doing the ten feet of work required before re- cording the location notices.
 An instrument consisting of over 1000 words and the fees for record ing which amounted to over $l4, has been filed for record in the office of the county recorder. The instru- ment IS mortgage executed by the Arizona Onyx company of New ter sey, to the Continental Trust com pany of New York City, snd covers the Big Bug onyx claims recently sold by Joseph Mayer and others, and is intended to secure the first mortgage bonds of the aforesaid company, the amount being $250,- 0o0. The mortgage bears the date of April 1, at which time the bonds are supposed to have been issued, and from which date they bear in- terest. The number of bonds are 250, of the value of $l, 900 each, the rate of interest being 6 per cent. The bonds, both principal and in- terest, are payable in gold, the prin- cipal being payable in ten years, but redeemable at the option of the 1 aOmnanv affar tho axN;r.t,on of