Arizona republican., 1898-09-13
NUGGETS FROM THE HILLS.

-s- .- ME S~ts is';s- -: E=' Articles of incorporation of the Whiteford Gold Mining company were filed with the Pinal county recorder last week.
 R. ". Pridham, manager of the Chuckawalla Mining company of Los Angeles was in Yuma last week on business connected with his company. c. F. Shilling, superintendent of the Milwaukee and Arizona Mining com rany, operating on Mineral creek, spent several days in Florence last week He has recently returned from trip to California and the east
 Dr. I. B. Hamilton and M. M. O'Gor- man are in Tombstone from Middle march. They state matters at the mine are running smoothly. A new process to handle some of the sulphuret ores of the company is among the inn provements to be added to their smell ter.
 Three carloads of machinery arrived at Thomas last Wednesday for the Spenazuma company. The machinery | is portion of the shelter and it will | be transferred to the mines and placed in position immediately. The balance of the machinery for the shelter is on 1 the way and is expected to arrive any day The smelter will have a capacity of 800 tons per day.
 | Senator Ives left Yuma last week for Los Angeles on business connected with the big mining suit involving the ownership of a portion of the famous King of Arizona. The case will come up before Judge Street for trial on the 22d of this month and promises to be an interesting legal contest. Judge C. w Wright Of Tucson will appear ] for the plaintiff.
 1 Otto Moore, former under sheriff of Cochise county, until he became in- terested in a valuable group of Wolf ram mines that gave promise of yield ing him 8 fortune, was a visitor in Tombstone recently from his property Otto and partners are in a fair way to become suddenly wealthy. Eastern capitalists have made good offer for the property and the matter is under consideration.
 The temporary suspension Of the Utica mine at Angels, Cal, lays of nearly 400 men, Cessation of bullion production by such large California
 mines as the Utica will materially re- Guce Cailfornia's S gold output for 1898 but is the natural result of the unusual drought, which has necessitated stop page of mining operations Tn many parts of the, state. During the en- forced idleness in the Utica mine the fumes and ditches' will be rebuilt and the entire plant overhauled.
 Superintendent Fred J. Martin oi Fortuna was over to Pilot Knob last Wednesday in company with Joe Si- monds, the well known prospector, t6 look at mining properties. owned by the latter. MT. Martins knowledge o! minerals and how to mine them is be ing daily demonstrated by the skill he is displaying in working the best mine in Yuma county, and if he should de eide to take hold Of these Pilot Knot properties, it is safe to engage thai there is mine there.-Yuma Sun.
 :. Prof. Pike Of Jerssyville, H., an6 MT. c. H. Jones of Springfield, III. returned from Mineral creek Sunday with MT. ". F.. Dunham. These Illinoi. gentlemen expressed themselves as greatly pleased with the outlook or the creek, and as a result of their yisi have become interested in some valu EabIe mines located there. It was for. ftunate for Pinal county when MT. Dun tham decided to cast his lot with us flor he has been the means of inducing a large amount of capital to be in fyested here.-FIorence Tribune.