Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1897-12-10
TIMES AND MINING.

White Picacho district, in Yavapai
county, numbers several good mines,
jured Walter 9. Stanley last week. 1t
was raised, however, and the miner re-
leased in time to save his life.
During October the Kingman sampler
sold to the Ell Paso smelter over $2S, 900
worth of ore, the product of Mohave
county chloriders. No companies oper-
ating in that county are now shipping
ore.
The coal mines at Ration, N. NJ, are
reported to be immense, covering an
area of 900 square miles, coal measure.
AS cooking coal it is reported equal, if
not superior to, the Connelsville, Pa,
product.
Eastern capitalists have bonded the
Baumann group of mines, in the Aqua
Fria district, Yavapai county, and de-
velopment work on them will begin the
10th of the present month. These four
teen claims are very promising, and
will give good reports.
Regular shipments of ore are being
made to the Ell Paso smelter from the
Telephone mine, in Cochise county.
which is now down $50 feet. Ten min
ers are furnished employment, and the
number will be increased when depth
of 800 feet is reached.
A 25-ton chlorination plant will be
purchased for the Providence mine, in
Yavapai county, on the recommends
tion of Prof. Saunders, a mining engi-
neer of wide experience. Prof. Saund-
ers spoke highly of the districts he Wis
ited-Chaparral, Big Bug, Lynx Greek
and Senator.
An important strike has been made
at the mouth of Crestone canyon, Colo
RADIO. In tunnel at fifty feet vein
three and one-half feet of copper and
gold ore has been exposed. Experienced
miners pronounce it one of the best ore
bodies opened in that section. The
claim is owned by Ira Marshall.
Up in the Klondike region first
class barber can make barrel of money
in short time. He gets dollar for
shaving man, and then pans out the
whiskers, from which be derives profit
of about SIS per head. That is place
where the wind blows through to good
advantage, and "'Tis an ill wind that
blows no one good" in that country.
The $25, 200, 600 fortune of the late
Imblay Clark, which Miss Grace M.
Elliott of San Francisco expects to in
herit, seems to have been myth.
Vice-President Hobart and Governor
Griggs of New Jersey, whose substantial
names used in connection with the story
gave an air of relia bility to it, disclaim
all knowledge of the case in which it
was stated they had been engaged by
Eastern heirs of the dead miner
I, A. P. Mingar of New York says:
Ginning on the Pacific coast is only in
its infancy. The surface has only been
scratched over. So far as quartz min
ing is concerned, it will increase for a
thousand years, as tin mining has done
in Cornwall, England, and this Cali
fornia country will be the great gold
mining district of the world, and all in
the heart of rich agricultural district.
There is nothing like it anywhere else"
Though silver is so low in price as
to render the mining of the metal at
profit almost impossible, Arizona has
number of mines inswhich it is found
with large quantities of lead, the pres
ent strong price of which latter metal
making the shipping of the ore profit
able. Much of that character of ore is
at present coming from the old San
Xavier mine, in Pima county, and it
is SO rich that the property bids fair
to prove big bonanza.
A new smelter trust is in process of
formation. At a meeting held in Den
yer the leading smelling plants of Colo
RADIO were represented, and also the
smelters of Utah, Montana and Wash
ington, together with the companies re-
Gently organized for business in British
Columbia, which are closely related
with the industry on this side of the
line. The meeting was only formal,
and as none of the smelters or their
agents are inclined to talk, nothing can
be learned as to how definite the plans
of the proposed trust are, or how far
they have matured.
An Important Decision.
The Supreme Court has settled a
nnastion of interest to mining men. and