Arizona republican., 1897-10-08
NUGGETS FROM THE HILLS.

The Journal-Miner says a very rich strike was made recently in the Sum init mine on Lynx creek divide with in about a mile and a half of the Chi
 cago company's property. Samples of the ore taken out were shown at that office recently, and while no as says have been made of it, gold could be seen sprinkled through it in large quantities, and s1 900 per ton would be very conservative estimate of the value of these samples.
 Any miner or prospector who has a blow pipe, alcohol lamp and few drops of cold sulphuric acid can in a few minutes determine whether tellu
 rum is present in ores. All that is necessary is to break off a small piece of the ore, place it in small porce- lain dish previously warmed so as to avoid breaking, apply the blow pipe until the ore is at an oXidiZing heat, then one or two drops of sulphuric acid on porcelain dish; allow to mix with the ore The reaction will im- mediately follow, if tellurium is pres ent by beautiful carmine and purple cOlOrS
 At the greatest depth ever attained by miners in the history of the world the miners of the vertical Red Jacket shaft in the Calumet & Hecla copper mine have recently stopped sinking at a depth of 4,600 feet, as this is the depth necessary for the company to reach the limit of It's underground territory. Bored wells have been car ried down to greater depth, but the Red Jacket shaft is the largest and best constructed mining shaft in the world. Its inside dimensions are 14x3311a feet, divided Into six compart- ments and timbered thoroughly with pine. The hoisting machinery COZ sists of two pairs of triple expansion engines of 5000 horse power per pair and hoists a load of ten tons fifty feet per second.
 It is but natural that big gold placer deposit like that of the Klon- dyke should have its accompanying frauds and swindles, but the brazen dishonesty of some of the concerns advertising broadcast almost trans cends belief. IA great many people do not object to being fooled, but they like to have it done in a gentlemanly manner. The raw methods of some of these Klondyke investment com panies is an insult to ordinary intelli- genue Of course 1t Is unlikely that any practical miner or reader of this journal will be cajoIed into a dollars investment in such schemes, which are mostly meritorious as a proposi- tion to extract sunbeams from cu- cumbers.-Mining and Scientific Press.
 Mining experts in Utah say that ,, when Uintah Indian reservation is opened the country will see another gold excitement rivaling the Klon- dyke fever of today. One of them says: ''I have been upon the reserva- i tion twice, and I believe it is the rich est gold region in the Rocky noun tains. The Indians are very jealous of that portion of the reservation | where gold is found and it is a dan ] gerous undertaking flor a white man | to attempt to penetrate the noun tains. Although I was protected on my visits by a written permission from the military authorities, I was l led away as soon as the Indians dis covered the object of my mission.
 No white man of recent years has
 visited the gold district. The Utes
 keep constant watch, and the bones
 of more than one prospector are
 bleaching in the canyons of the Uin- tah ervation-Williams News.