Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1898-03-02
MINING INTELLIGENCE.
Weekly Resume of Interesting Doinas in the Many Districts Around thIs
 Immediate Center.

half interest in the Buena Vista mine. near Castle creek, to Laurence Ryan for a nominal consideration.
 X partial clean up was made few days since of the cyanide tanks at the Little Jessie mine. The results obtained are sand to have been very satisfactory, coming up to the expectations.
 The F. A. Lehman group of gold claims in the Castle creek district have been sold to John Edwards, E. Townsend and T. K. Lloyd, all of Salt Lake City, Utah. The sale was effected by D. P. Kyle, of Phenix. The consideration was S5,OOO.
 The town was put in quite an excited state last night by the report that a rich gold ledge had been discovered in the vicinity of Gold Gulch. Several rich specimens of quartz were discovered which were literally covered with gold. Quite number of parties left for the place this morning to stake out claims Bisbee Orb.
 FIX. O'Brien, who is working the Mabouey group of mines, short distance from the Crown Point, IS putting up ten stamp mill Cn his property, the development work already done being deemed sufficient to justify this. The outlook fer the above section, it will be seen, is extremely flattering, the work hing ing, as in other districts, on work and the attainment of depth.
 Clark & Stuckey, of Lynx creek, have recently added new concen- trator to their mill, and started it up few day ago. IrhaS been work ing very successful thus far. They are only running five stamps of their mill, but as soon as the success of | the new concentration isfully demon strated, they expect to add another one of the same make, and start up the whole ten stamps of their mill.
 Supervisor Thos Roach had some samples of small nuggets in town today which are rivals of the Klon- diae. They were washed out of ore taken from the 100 foot level of the | Cumberland mine in Turkey creek district and from one pan of dirt he washed out Sl0. worth of gold. The nuggets are quite small but demon strate the value of the ore. From where they were taken there was rich ore on all sides.
 A. W. Warwick, a mining man of ' Butte, Montana, has taken hold of a mining clam in Santa Maria district, | in the southwestern part Of this county. He IS pushing work actively on the development of his claim and Is contemplating erecting a mil soon on his property. MT. Warwick 1 believes that the Santa Maria dis trict IS one of the richest in the territory. and the fact that it is new and undeyeloped, gives him good ground for believing that some big strikes will be made there with the advent of prospectors.
 The Rossland Times says that there is more capital in ROsslapd today seeking investment in good mining properties than there are good mIning properties to be ob tained. Claims with no work done on them are plentiful enough, but unless the owners can show good rock aud an assayer's certificate that the rock carries a fair amount of gold, copper and other values, they can hardly give away an interest. To sell a claim in Rossiand now, there has to be something more than talk put in evidence. The rich ore they are taking out of near by claim does not cOuLt such a strong factor as used to be the case.
 A very important strike was made recently in Ihe Congress mine, brief mention of which was made some time sIuce. 1t was the striking Of a body of ore in the cross ledge of the Congress claim. Heretofore work has been done altogether on the main ledge, although the existence of this cross ledge was known to the owners, but had never been devel- oped. In doing some cross cut work they struck good ore in the cross ledge, which induced them to pros pect the lead some, resulting in striking a body of ore at the $50 foot level and also on the 800 foot level. The ore body is not only larger, but richer also, than that in the lead they have been working or for years and it may be said that they have practically opened up a New Con gress. bigger and better than the old one. They are now working to strike the ore body of the cross lead at the 1000 foot level.
 Col. A. O. Brodie, general mana ger of the Crown Point mine, who is in town, says that satisfactory progress is being made in the devel- opment of that property. He has made about 1890 feet of develop ment work in the mine, and is down now nearly 300 feet deep. At the 2OO foot level a body of ore about four feet in width was struck aud 1t has continued to the present depth, varying somewhat in width, and the assay value of the ore has been from ] SlO9 to Sl55 nearly all in free gold. Col. Brodie feels greatly encouraged at the showing made thus far, but will continue development to a greater depth, as tn" ore grows richer as depth is obtained, this being particularly noticeable below the water level. He has a sufficient quantity of water now in the mine to run a ten stamp mill, and the : water is increasing also with depth Col. Brodie says that J. K. Murphy, of Pheni1, who owns mine in the same district, on parallel ledge, recently made quite rich s'rike, also, in his property. The vein IS about the same width as that of the Crown Point, and the ore resembles it very much both in character and richness. This mine has produced some very rich ore.