Arizona republican., 1897-09-12

A miner on hlS Way to Crowned King from Fortuna, reports times as being good at the former place. NUGGETS FROM THE HILLS. The Lottie company is steadily pushing development on its properties and is employing fifteen or twenty men.
 The Annie people have large force of men working and nave enough ore in sight to keep their ten-Stamp mill running for many months Messrs. Freyda & Ragere, slessees of the First Home m1ne, will make another shipment in a week or two. The mine is looking better than ever.
 George R. Sutherland is working ten men in the old Crook mine in Crook canyon. They are engaged in both sinking and drifting, and are taking out fine ore The mines are looking splendid.
 The Bell-Poland mines, owned by Frank Murphy and others will un- doubtedly prove the biggest producers in the camp. In working the lower levels the management encountered a body of very high grade ore.-Pick and Drill
 ->- Askeu, Little & Bliss have com menced Mof kvrthe Bed Rock in Yav- apai county, and intend sinking their double com partn,emt shaft 500 feet. They are taking out some very fine ore. The Bed Rdck will surely make a record for itself 49d for the camp.
 The Prescott mining exchange has received a letter, asking them to rec ommend a copper property to be worked in conection with a smelter which a company propose to build at Prescott. If the company can find a good mine they propose to at once build.
 The Monte Cristo mine still holds it's richness as development work goes on. A carload sampled last week at the Arizona Sampling works went four and fifty-tlree one-hundredths ounces gold and 161 and seven one hundredths ounces silver, or a result from eleven tons of $1,700.
 The best proof of the great activity in minillg in this distinct Is the large number oI orders for lumber and mining timber that Cal Fair, the saw mill man, is receiving every day, and with the advent of the railroad soon
 e followed by snelters, Big Bug w be the greatest mining camp in the southwest, and don't forget it. Pick and Drill
 ,Messrs. Wm Curran and Johnnie Kern have made good strike on the south extension of the First Home, in Yavapai county, according to the Pick and Drill. They have a shaft down about twenty-five feet on a three-foot vein of $50 smelting ore, which carries S15 to $20 in gold, a high per cent of lead, and "a good value in silver. They intend pushing development as rapidly as possible.
 Sam F. Webb, ex-collector of GUS toms at Nogales, has sold his Favor ite mine in Sonora, to H. w. Ran dall and O. K. Franklin, mining men, for handsome figure. The new own CTS will at once set a force of men to work developing the mine. The mine, although a silver proposition, Is very rich and can be worked at profit even at the present low price of the white metal
 Mine owners and prospectors some times experience difficulty in find ing men who wish to invest in min ing property. To overcome this register is kept at the mining ex- change in which is listed claims that are for sale. The secretary will reg ister the claims with amount of work dona for any mine owner and pros pector in Yavapa county, free of charge, so that any investor may, by looking over the register, select the property that suits him. All mine owners and prOspectors are invited to at once register their mines.-Cour- fer
 Hon. R. R. Richardson has just leased fifty acres of patented placer ground in the Greaterville mining dis trict to a Chicago company, says the Citizen. This company will put in a large new dry process machine which it is claimed washes fully 100 tons of ground day. The Greaterville dis trict is in extent and richness one of the best placer fields in the western country, but could never be worked to any extent owing to the almost entire absence of water. If the above company have a machine which will do the work, there is no need to look to Alaska for a Klondyke as then Arizona would have }one' of her own.