Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1898-12-14
MINING INTELLIGENCE
SOME GENERAL DOINGS OF THE YELLOW PRODU-
 GERS IN ARIZONA.
ACTIVITY IN YAVAPAI MINES
 STILL PREVAILS.

The Crowned King mining com pany declared its regular monthly | dividend on December 6.
 Grove ard Moutrose have leased | the Bedrock mine in Peoples valley, also the Yarnell mill and have both | in operation, making success of both.
 Captain J. w. Lind, veteran miner, is developing some excellent claims Tn French gulch near Placer itas. He has good ore from the grass roots down, some of 1t going | as high as Sl0O per ton in gold.
 The Zonia mining company is the name of corporation which is oper- ating in a very quiet way in French | Gulch, about twelve miles from Kirkland station. So quietly have they gone about their work that | their presence there has been known | to but few in the county outside of | the immediate vicinity of them, al | though they have been at work for | nearly four months. They have se- cured control by purchase and op- iion of about twenty claims, and are already at work grading site for a | smelter aud for a new hoist, and are building a wagon road, erecting off I ces and other buildings, indicativs of permanent camp.
 so far as known Colorado miners aer the first to seek the hidden treas ures supposed to be stored away in the Philippine islands. Joe Dyer, veteran Colorado miRer and pros pector of Cripple creek, and Chief Engineer Gonzales, late of the Terror, United States navy, have formed a partnership and will op- crate in Luzon district. Gonzales was formerly of the Philippine is- lands, and is confident of finding a fortune under Under States govern ment. Dyer just recently returned from Manila, where he went as volunteer, but was afterward mus tered out. He believes Uncle Sam's new possessions to contain untold mineral wealth. Other miners will go later if reports continue good.
 The JOURNAL MINER has been in- formed that Ralph Dillon, who re- gently went to Scotland for the purpose of placing some copper properties near Jerome has been successful and that he is now on his way home. The property is said to have been sold to wealthy Scotch syndicate. MT. Dillon retains an in forest in the property and is to be resident manager. The development of a pay body of mineral in this group means much to Jerome as part of the town is built on the sur face ground of the claims. Under orders conveyed by cablegram, a number of men are now at work there.
 H. L. Scott who was the original discoverer of the Planet-Saturn mines in Fools Gulch, says he has property now which outranks even those famous mines in the quantity and quality of the ore. The ledge is wider and the ore richer. There are two claims, the Plomosa No. and Plomoss No. 2 and they are To- cated in the Martinez range of mountains, a short distance from Yarnell. He has a shaft dow 100 feet and has l50 feet of drifts run on the property. The ledge has an average width of about five feet and the ore averages about S40 per ton in gold, although some of it goes as high as S200. MT. Scott is confident that the claims can be developed into an excellent property.
 Colonel Brodie is en route to Chi cago to purchase a 20-stamp gold mill complete and a hoist capable of sinking 1000 feet in depth, be- sides a pumping plant. The mill will be placed at the mine and water for the same will be pumped from the Hassay ampa about two miles dis tant. The machinery is all expected inside of thirty days and will be un- loaded at Kirkland, and then taken direct by teams to the mine. Sev- eral cars will be necessary to trans port the machinery ordered, and when in position one of the finest and most improved mining plants in the west will grace the Grown Point. Reports from the mine are very encouraging and force of over twenty men are now at work. J. E. Clark, one of the best known practi- cal mining men on the coast being in charge of the work as superinten- dent. A depth of 300 feet was reach ed by the whim process when the mine shut down last spring, Colonel Brodie at that time enlisting as a volunteer to serve his country in the war. The mine has numerous pros pect holes along the ledge also, and wherever work has been done and depth reached the showing is very gratifying indeed. The Crown Point Is distinctively free milling propo- sitiOn and the ledge across will run from not less than five feet to nine feet in places, all carrying ore that will pay to mill and ship also. The dump has several thousand tons of ore ready for the new mill. The Crown Point crops out boldly for several thousand feet and sold orig inally for Sls0. Today it is doubt ful if that many thousands of dollars