The herald., 1897-09-17
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years been worked by little giant hy-
draulic machine, to which has lately been
added a Bucyrus machine. The placer
banks at that place are continuous on
each side of the stream for distance Of
six miles. The most notable mines are
the Peck, Black Warrior, Silver Prince.
Dosoris. Blue Dick, Catoctin. Tiger. Tip
Top silver mines, which have produced
some millions of dollars in that metal,
and others. The fall in the value of
silver has closed them all; only two sill
yer mines are working at the present
time, the Lorena, in the Bradshaw dis
trict, and the Zero, in Slate creek dis
trict, the richness of the ores making
them profitable. The most noted gold
mines are the Crowned King, the Hen
rietta, McCabe, Little Jessie Furtune,
Sen ator and Jersey Lily, which produced
in 1896 about $3.50, 900 in gold.
Very rich sulphide ore Of the same
character as that taken from the Monte
Cristo mine has been struck in the Doug
lass mine on Groom creek, near Prescott.
The Douglass Is located one and one-half
miles up the creek from the Monte
Cristo, and Is being worked under bond
and lease by Hank Abbott.
The Favorita mine, near Nogales, has
changed hands again, this time to Col
orado parties. Daniel Murphy, Judge
M. S. Bailey and James H. Maupin are
the purchasers. Mr.. Murphy is a well
known mining expert, and Mr.. Maupin
is wealthy mining man of Colorado
Judge Bailey is also mining man.
Nevada
The Mining and Metallurgical Journal
Of this city says George Simmons of
Vanderbilt, Cal, has bonded one-half
interest In the Turquoise mines recently
discovered by him in Lincoln county,
Nevada, to Dave Mof1itt, the banker of
Denver, Colo, for sec, 900.
Some time ago Mr.. Simmons went to
Denver with a small pickle jar of the
gems and was paid $4,000 for the same.
son-in-law Of Mr.. Moffltt made an. ex-
animation Of the property and placed
four or five men to work and more will
be employed in the near future.
The largest turquoise cut in the United
States has just been taken out Of this
mine, it being sixty-four carats. The
next in size, now in. possession Of Mr..
Simmons, is just thirty-six carats, or
one-half.
"A. G. Campbell Is working about forty
men on his copper property near Cres-
cent, Nevada.
The sale of the DEMO district mines
owned by ]. H. Deegan, Robert Denio
and j. w. Cowden, was recently con-
summated in Humboldt county. The
purchaser is j. W. Brin, a wealthy farm
er Of Colusa county, California, and he
paid for them $4,000 in cash. He has
had a $4,000 option on the mines for
some weeks, but made the owners the
above named cash offer. They accepted
it and the deal was closed. The sale in
cluded two well-developed claims, the
]. H. D. and r. A. D., five-stamp
quartz mill and water right. Mr.. Brim,
the new owner, is moneyed man and
will go to work at once with the object
Of conducting operations on larger
scale than anything heretofore at
tempted.
A bar Of gold bullion, valued at $4,000,
was brought into Winnemucca, Nevada,
from this mine in the fore part of the
month.
M. P. Booth, well-known Humboldt
county mining man, has recently dis
covered some very good gold claims
fourteen miles south of Tuscarora that
assay $7926 gold and s13 in silver.