Arizona republican., 1897-10-06
NUGGETS FROM THE HILLS.

At Bisbee the Copper Queen com pany pays ], ,150 employees $S5, 900 per month.
 near Turquois, under bond to Sheedy and Wells, are being worked contin- uously with encouraging prospects. The act passed by congress permit ting the entry as placer ground of land valuable for petroleum or other mineral oils. went into effect Febru- ary Il, 1897.
 The Bisbee Tyre states that on the Copper King of Arizona mine, No. 1, the shaft is now down 260 feet, and indications are improving with every blast let off.
 w. H. Elliott, county surveyor, has returned to Yuma from the Picacho district, where he has been engaged in surveying. mining properties for the past twoWeeks. The Evans-Vam Heet company, a Chicago corporation, is putting in a ten1stamp gold mill at Clifton A pumping plant is to be put in and fifty mel employed.
 The rise in silver from 51A to 56A has stopped most of the talk of shut ting down the few silver-lead proper ties that are able to keep above wa ter at the latter figure.
 As cooler weather approaches many prospecting parties are being organ iZed and men are daily starting out among the hills in search of the hid ing place of the fickle goddess of for tune.
 The Mohave Miner says that J. H. Sample and Dan Holloway have leas- ed portion of the upper workings of the Gro Plata mine and the other day took out supplies to commence work. They have just made clean up of the Gro Plata dump, upon which they had a lease.
 Gro Blanco district, southern Ari- zona, is steadily increasing the devel- opment of its gold resources. The Gro mine is proving a veritab1e bo- nanZa. The Franco-American com pany has recently struck a large vei1 of s10 gold ore. Other mines in thai immediate locality are making equal. ly good shoWings.
 The Prospector says that Jerry Sheehy and Patrick McCarty were the lOI UlSCONtu0IS O1 the GOlQ mines found at the head of Post can yen, which are now bonded for S4O,- 900. Once more there will be a small Klondyke in the Huachucas. To judge from the many recent discov- cries of gold it is liable to become the cheaper metal.
 The Yuma Sentinel says that Fran! VOcimil was in town this week mak ing arrangements to begin work o1 his lead mines in Castle Dome dis trict. He will start in at once witt force of thirty men, and will shi fifty tons a week to San Francisco from which he will realize a handsom profit. He has just completed a wagon road from Castle Dome t Camp Gleason.
 R. J. DyaS, a former resident c Arizona, but now living in Los An geles, was in Yuma last week O business connected with several min ing enterprises in which he is inter ested. MT. Dyas is an enterprisin young man of marked business abil lty, and has great faith in the possi Utilities of Yuma county. He wi probably spend several weeks thi coming winter hunting and fishin dionS the Colorado river, and visit ing old friends in Arizona.
 From MT. McKim a Tyre reporte learns that Richard Johnson, one c the most noted and successful minin men in Mexico, who sold the Nina Prietas, Creston and Colorado mine: is now at Altar negotiating with tn English Cyanide company for the sal of a low grade gold property he ha in the Altar district. It is understoo the sale has been consummated an the price that MT. Johnson receive is $200,O00. Although this propert is low grade, the ore body is said t be practically inexhaustible- -Bisbe Orb.
 Regarding the entry of land fo gravel pits and reservoir purposes