Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-10-06

dition for freighting. The com
 pany will build a twenty stamp mill | and there is ore enough already | in sight to insure its success. They l expect to have it completed ready to start up very soon.
 Geo. H. Smalley, writing to the Phenix Republican in regard to the Yaqui country, says: Saturday, at the La Colorado, 1 met Marshall P Wright, of Rermosillo, and Leo. C.. Cloud, of Cincinnati. MT. Wright has confidence in the Arros country, and says he believes it will startle the world with it's riches some day. It is hard country to get into. All that country near the backbone of the Sierra Madre mountains has deep canyons through which the
 streams which feed the Yaqui river find their way to the big river. l
 believe the gold of Montezuma's day came from the Upper Yaqui. It would astonish you if the figures could be set down to represent the
 gold taken from the Yaqui placers. The world will never know it. The
 high export duty on gold exacted by the Mexican government acts as premium upon smuggling. It is es- timated that SS,0C0,000 has gone into the United States free of duty. The SI42,000 spoken of as having been taken out by parties from Riverside, California, might have gone in this way, who knows? It is this that makes the strike all the more prob able. What I have seen of the Up per Yaqui places me in no position to question the truth of it. How ever, think the greatest possibili- ties are i'll the lodges. I have seen some of the greatest mineral belts in this country to be found any where. The copper deposits sur prised me. And the undevelOped condition of these rich districts can not help but impress any one. The future is all before them. They can not long remain in this way. 1 think the mineral sections of Sonora are on the eve of a rapid growth, and 1 am going to the Yaqui country to spend the winter in further pros pecting the investigation begun last winter At Soyopa, met Capt. Tracy Dearth, an old mining man who has prospected extensively in Sonora. He claims Sonora to be the best country for mining men he has ever seen. I have been in Mexico nineteen years said he, and think Sonora is the best state for the min ing man in the republic. Eventually it will be a great mining state. A great mineral belt of which Soyopa is the geographical center, runs into the Sierra Madre mountains from this point, and I have traversed 1t for 100 miles. There is gold, silver, copper and lead, but 1 believe there is more copper than any thing else
 do not think the placers are equal to what they are reported. 1 have never found placer gold in paying quantities, and have prospected the placers a great deal. "
 The return of J. c. Rankin to Ari- zona again from the east, is note worthy event in mining, and partic- ularly so to the future welfare of Yavapai's interests along the Santa Maria. MT. Rankin stated a few days ago that in addition to the I good feeling of capitalists who had become interested among us, that there was growing disposition in other financial channels to invest, and that the future of Yavapai from a mining standpoint was certainly one of magnificence to look to. MT.
 Rankin will be well remembered as the gentleman who placed the Waters mine in active operation, and gave it for the first time a systematic and practical test in development work and reduction facilities. The returns were indeed gratifying to him and his company in so far as the values of the ore were concerned, { but unsatisfactory nevertheless as far as the method of treatment was shown. The mill runs gave to the property a profit even in the face of loss of nearly fifty per cent in tailings, and with such 10 face the company it was deemed advisa-
 ble to hang up the stamps and intro duce the cyanide process to work in conjunction with the quartz hill. Work has continued, however in the mine and the showing made is bet ter than ever. The improvements to be placed on this property will be cyanide tanks of a capacity to handle at least seventy-fve tons per day, and with them in operation no doubt exists whatever as to the re- suit. Associated 10 the prominence of the Waters as desirable piece of i ground and the gold belt it seems to be a part of, the company of which
 Mr. Rankin is the manager long ago recognized the necessity of extend l! ing their possessions and according ly they purchased the Standard ] group from D. c. Thome and son ! and W. L. House, paylng $500 } down on an agreed prlce of S75,000. 1 This sale together with the good l 9showing of the Waters, and backed up with the determination of the company to inaugurate work on all claims with improved machinery, gives to that section a degree of thrift and prominence that Is due 1t. On the Standard there is now force of miners at work under the super | intendenev of Steva ThOrne. taking