Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-04-21
Weekly Collection of News Nuggets From Our Mining Camps ot
 Interest to Miners.


 Interest to Miners.
 What Prospect0rs and Min CTS aF
 Doing to Increase the Worlds
 Supply of Precious
 Metals.
 c. D. NJ. Gaddis has been ap- pointed receiver for the Utah Mining and Milling company operating m Mohaye county,
 W. II. Harlan has his mill on Groom creek about completed, and will start it up on custom ore on 1 Monday. His first run will Se a 20 1 ton lot oi ore for NJ, H, Dodge.
 A shipment of fifteen tons of ore 1 from the Monte Chrsto mine will be made next week. The ore will go away up tn the hundreds of dollars per ton, perhaps $500 to $500.
 The Williams News says that 1 amazingly rich ore is coming out of William Nellis' mine and there seems to be fortune there. Two tons a day are being placed on the dump.
 W. K. Riley, vice president Of the Arizona Gold Mining and Develop ment Company, came in last night 1 from the Etta mine with four pounds of gold bullion, tho result of four days run. The mine is look ing spIendidiy.
 < deed was filed for record today from E. B. Gage to the Congress Gold Company for the Ophir mining claim. in Martinez district. This ls the clain purchased by Mir, Gage about a year ago from Ed. C illespie and others.
 J. t. Slack anl son, J. II. Slack, are working au arastra in Black Rock district, with excellent results Charles Born and his sons are also working some very promising cop per claims in the same district, The | latter district seems to have cap tivated several of the old time Big Bug and Lynx creek miners and prospectors.
 Local capitalists have been en- ~gaged two months in developing SIX turquoise claims twenty miles south of Santa Fe. and it is announced that they have opened vein of first grade turquoise that will staTtte the 1 American Turquoise Trust, backed by Tiffany, of New York, which has for years had a monopoly of these 1 gems. Colorado Springs capitalists are interested in several claims near the fHd.
 A. Falco. Steve Roach and R. H, Hanson have two men st work de yeloping their Pride of the West l mine. on Ash creek, near the old | Cfuok mine. The vein is from four to fourteen inches wide and the ore runs from 100 to POO ounces in sil- yer. They have two shafts down on the property 70 feet deep each, and have a tunnel in 60 feet, which IS intended to tap the ledge at a depth of 300 feet.
 A miner writing from Desert Springs, California, to the Los An gsles Times, says that when tue people of RandsbuTg quit selling town lots to each other and go 10 work in earnest ou their mlnUs. the wonderful richness of inc district will astonish the world. He mti. mates that the desert camps also need less whisky and more water.
 The timbers 10 he used iii the 1 boom 10 be constructed by the l Temple Bar Mining company weigh a ten each. Hauling them to the Colorado river, seventy miles north of Kingman. will bc canexpensiEe af- fair, but the company has hundreds of acres Of the richest gravel auks on the coast to work as lon as the machinery IS put in Mohaye Miner.
 Superintendent Doran cf tle Lit- tie Jessie, in speaking ol ths report in circulation that new and fabu- lously rich strike had been made ID that property, states that 1t ema- hated probably from some lmagi nary source. He says, however, that while cfosseutting on the 0 veFt 1 fine grade oi ore measuring eight feet has been run into which will be shipped. On ihe 500 he is drifting and at this point the mine is also | looking well. The mill is running steadily and the entire proposition is m excellent shape and rendering profitable service.
 The strike Of rich ore recently made in Minnehaha continues io look very promising It IS on ledge on patented ground, near the For- tuna mill. Messrs. Riley, Swasey & Orion have purchased the claim and will put the Fortuna mill in thor ough repair, adding a number of concentrators, to work the ore. This rich body of ore, it is stated, was discovered over twenty years ago by 6 prospector, but for some reason or other, he never worked 1t to amount to anything. The ledge is said to be fifty feet wide.
 The Copper Queen Company, of Bisbee, have purchased the Morenci copper mines, near Clifton, and will resume business on that property with vigor. Louis Williams, brother of Ben, superintendent of the Cop per Queen Company, has gone to Morenei to assume charge of the new purchase. The fact of this great company purchasing these