Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-06-16
Mining IntsIliEenes.

Mining Intelligence
 Mrs. Ida C. Harley has given bond and lease on some mining claims on Big Bug to Louis B. Kent.
 L. A. Davies, of the Sun Dance Mining company is shipping two car loads of concentrates the, pro duct ef his mill since starting up couple of weeks ago.
 J.C. Rankin yesterday closed a deal with Dan Thorne for his mine near the Goodenough on the Santa Maria. About fifty thousand dol lars Is supposed to be the purchase price.
 Deeds from Chas. N. Fowler to Wm. r. Stevenson and from the lat ter to Arizona OlyX company for the Big Bux onyx property have been filed for record. the considera- tion named in each transaction be- ing Sl.00 and other valuable consid- eration.
 4 telegram from Gunnison, Col orado, says large body of sul phur in the Vulcan mine was set on fire by a miner dropping candle, and a furious fire is now in progress under ground. The men have been compelled to stop work. Both prop ertles will be destroyed if the fife cannot be put out. The two mines are gold producers and are among the most valuable in Gunnison county.
 Mir. Penrose is engaged in build ing a mill at the Pearce mines, be- low Wilcox, that will start up with an ability to work forty tons per day of the rich ores of that mine; it is however being SD constructed as to be readily increased in capacity to eighty tons per day The pres ent output of the mine is said to be fully S250,000 per month. About one half the output is gold at the present working depth. At first about three -fourths of the output was silver.-Herald.
 IL is reported from the state of Guerrero, Mexico, that the lost dia- mond fields there have been re- discovered. As far back as 1922 Ind ans took from that state speci- mems of what they called crystal chips" and pr, sented them to Gen eral Vicente Guerrero, in the City of Mexico, who had them examined and discovered that they were valu- able diamonds and were equal to the best Indian diamonds from Col conda Traces of the bed were lost and it is now believed that they have been found again.
 The Monte Cristo mine on Groom creek continues to keep up it's remarkable record, and it Is still on the boom, both in the richness and quantity of its ore. The tun. nel is now in three hundred and thirty feet and the ore is richer than ever. In the face of the tunnel the ore body is from twelve to eighteen inches wide and of remarkable rich ness. Another shipment of ore was made a few days since from the mine. An old experienced miner remarked today that m all his experience he had never zen such a remarkable showing as l. made in this mine The property is less than six miles from Pres colt.
 A big strikp vrs made recently at Stanton Tn a clam owned and be ing worked bv ones and oth- CTS Of Cougre>- r1eb has created | considerable aNc.-1ment in that dis triet and which goes to verify the prediction recently made by the JoURNAL-MINER that Weaver district would come to the front within the next year. As told to the JoURNAL- MINER this strike consists of a five foot body of ore which is fabulously rich. The claim is located jus; back of T. E. Peery's hotel and store on the side of rich hill. C. l.. Hayden, who owns the Little Johnnie mine in the same district and near the above claim, Is also reported to have encountered three foot body of solid sulphurets at a depth of l04 feet. He will continue sinking and has every prospect now of opening a good mine.
 Mention was recently made in these columns of the purchase by Al, McCann, from Shackelford, Marsh and Ainsworth of the For tuna mill and an interest in a num- Der of mining claims at Minnehaha. In connection with the mill there is a complete cyanide plant and MT. McCann will start this up about June ?. He has a lot of old tail ings, about 1000 tons in all, which according to careful samples it is estimated will go $500 per ton. They can be worked at a cost of Sl.30 per ton and he expects to run through thirty-ive tons per day. In addition to these tailings there is a large area of ground where the ledge has apparently broken over and of which there are thousands of tons which samples $700 per ton aud which can be plowed up and crushed aud treated by the cyanide process at @ nominal cost.