Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1898-05-31
NUGGETS FROM THE HILLS.

Prof. ]. J. Pheby of Stanford uni
versity is visiting his brother, Mr..
Fred S. Pheby, superintendent of the
Silver King mine.
1t is amusing to read in a mining pa
| per of tunnel from the bottom of
| the 600-foot shaft" Most miners call
such workings drift. Florence
Tribune Ma
Mike Maloney has sold to o. b. Har-
| dy his half interest in the Pena Blonca
mine, in the Gro Blanco district. John
Maloney still retains his half. Good
ore is being shipped from the mine.
A. H. Wallace, a we'll known mining
man Of Jerome, formerly superintend-
| ent of the Swiss Girl mine, has gone
to San Antonio, Texas, in response to
a telegram from Major Brodie to join
Teddy's Terrors
Newton Hackney returned to Globe
| last Thursday from Grub gulch, Ma
| deria county, Cal, where he worked
| for four or five months in the Gam
BETA mine. He says Arizona is more
prosperous than any part of Califor-
mia he visited.
/
last from the mines up the range. He
speaks in glowing terms of the rich
gold finds of Virginia camp and says
that it is destined to become one of
the big camps of the county. He ar
rived in Kingman just in time to save
This trunk and other effects from. the
fre.-Mohave Miner. 'sa' -
J. W. Gerritt and Thomas McNeely
went out to Wallapai mountains Tues
| DAY morning to look at the mining
claims recently located by Robert Kier.
Mr.. McNeely informs us that the
claims show big groupings of good
grade of ore. Gerritt & Kier, the own
ers, are preparing to do considerable
| work on the claims.-Mohave Miner.
Robert B. Stanton, who several years
ago surveyed route for railroad
down the Grand canyon, was in Flag
staff last Monday. He is interested in
placer mining at Lees Ferry, and filed
nine mining locations with County
Recorder Pulliam while there. He
thinks that the vicinity Of Lees Ferry
will afford quite field for placer min
ing
Tuesday OF the present week,
through the agency Of Harlow & Cow
an, there was closed deal by which
Miguel Bornin & Co. transferred to
Mr. Monroe Sieberling of Peoria, ILL.,,
and associates, consisting of Mr.. o. B.
Hardy and others, the famed and very
rich Las Planchas de Plata silver
mines, group situated about twenty
five miles southwest of Nogales. Elk
tensive improvements will be immedi-
~ fa6 on ai OIL
duction plan will be Immediately
erected, and work will be prosecuted
upon an extensive scale.-Oasis.
Horace Woman and James Chamb-
ers have bonded one of their gold
mines for a good round sum. The claim
! is situated between Zero camp and
Hassayampa creek, about ten miles
south of Prescott. The mine shows a
pay streak of good milling ore from
two to four feet in width, which ore
yields concentrates carrying $50 gold
per ton. A small force of men went
out to the mine yesterday to begin
work under the bond, and it is pro-
posed to push development work rap
idly as soon as arrangements are made
for accommodating the men.-Courier
The Mining and Scientific Press
says: So far as heard from the bill
which recently passed the United
States senate suspending the opera
ton of the annual assessment law Oh
unpatented mining claims as to men
enlisting in the United States army
has not passed the house, though ii
promptly should. In the war of 1861
'65 such provision was in force. Min
ers and prospectors are enlisting, and
should be granted this extension. The
law was made for times of peace and
should be temporarily abrogated. II
ought to be only necessary for any
miner or prospector to file an affidavit
of his enlistment that during his term
of service no assessment work be re.
CURED on his claim. The miners are