Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1898-03-30
MINING INTELLIGENCE.
Weekly Resume Of Interesting 0Oings in the Many Districts Around thIs
 Immediate Center.

4 deed was filed for record todal
 from J. l.. Giroux to Walter c. Mil Ter for one fourth interest in tn, ] City of Butte mining claim. nea |, Jerome. Consideration, Sl50. Eight ear foods of machinery fol : the Garcia mining company have , been lying at Wickenburg for some time. Teams from Phenlx com. menced today to freight it to the mine.
 w. W. Vanderbilt received let ter today from James Shirley, gen. eral manager of the Etta mine, say. ' ing that the mine is looking in bet
 ter condition than ever before. The mill is running regularly also. A deed has been filed fer record from Frank Gibbons to John
 Thompson for Bueno Esperanza mining claim in the Bradshaw mountains, the consideration being } S1OO.
 An option to purchase or agree ment of sale of the Morning Glory group of mines. in Turkey creek district, has been filed for record,
 the price agreed upon being $ll, 600 J. NJ. Kuebler, of Chicago, has
 been in this section several days investigating our mining resources
 with a view of investing. He is
 we'll pleased with what he has seen
 and has his eye on a property in
 Cherry creek.
 The largest chunk of gold ever
 taken from aquartz claim was found
 in New South Wales in 1872. It
 was worth Sl4S,0O0 and weighed $40
 pounds. The largest nugget on
 record was also found in Australia.
 It weighed 190 pounds and was
 worth $45,OO0.
 The Providence mill has been
 closed down temporarily for the
 purpose of putting in some ad-
 ditional machinery. A new eighty
 horse power engine will be put in
 ard three new six foot Frue Vanner
 concentrating tables will be added,
 making six in all. An Ingersoll-
 Sargent duplex air compressor,
 capable of running six two and
 three quarter inch drills, will also
 be added to the machinery. All Of
 the machinery is now on the way.
 The force in the mine will not be
 disturbed by these operations.
 R. H. Paul, formerly United States
 marshal for this territory, has been
 engaged for about year in system
 atically prospecting, with diamond drills, for coal near the Gila river, east of Solomonville, and is conf dent that he will fad it. California capitalists are associated with him in the enterprise. Should they sue ceed in finding coal it will revolu- tionize copper miuing about Clifton, Morenci and Globe, and greatly cheapen the cost of reducing other ores in that region.
 Joseph c. Mckee, manager of the New Vulture Mining Company, has returned to VRlture from his ex- tended visit in the east, where he went to complete plans for the improvement of the Vulture prop erty. It IS stated that the company has decided to construct a forty | stamp mill out of the old eighty | stamp mIll. The old four inch pipe | line from the mine to the Hassa- yampa river, a distance of thirteen | miles, will be put in repair, a portion | of it having been washed out, and at | the river there will be installed a | pumping plant which will be oper- ated by electricity. Other improve ments will be made in the property | of the company. The new strike, which was mentioned in the JOUR- NAL-MNER a short time since, is said | to be developing better than eyer.
 Charles Born, who was in town on Monday. reports that he has recent ly made strike of very rich ore in his Hidden Treasure mine in Lynx Creek district. The mine is located just beyond the Seven Mile House on the telephone line to Chaparral. He has the claims opened up by a shaft 100 feet deep and by a tunnel 155 feet long. He found some good ore in the shaft, and in sinking a winze from the tunnel at distance of p or 30 feet from the face of it, he made the recent strike of ore at a depth of seven or eight feet in the winze. He says it is high grade gold ore, and he thinks will bear shipping. He proposes to continue work on the property and hopes 10 open up good mine. He has shown 3 persistency and energy for the past lew years which is entitled to a reward of complete success.
 SANTA MARIA, March 27.-(Special { Correspondence.)- )-The fine cyanide { plant of the Waters company started ] lp yesterday under the management i of Steve Thorne. The plspt will l run on tailings for some time, as S here is a large amount on hand. D. c. Thorne, Jr., will run the plant nights. The tunnel on the Gold s Standard is in over 800 feet. The [ lace shows 6 large body of good { grade ore. There are thousands of z ,ons of ore on the dumps of this I nine. The Sultan and Wyandotte i }irl are looking we'll. Mir. Dousine t las gone to Chicago, and report has t that he will start on the Turp [ 'augh & PocahoDtis when he re- v urns. The Swiss Girl company are c ,oing to increase the size of their 2 'lant and make some needed im- e movements on their property. il Ashton is working on the Yellow l. acket, west of the Gold Standard; t e has some work that will show r so prospects in the Horn spoon. 4 ack McNif located a very fine n respect near the Gold Standari b c Speaking of the Mammoth mine. {, he Tucson Citizen says: The won sI CTS of the Mammoth mine are not Ii alf known. The mill will consume e nd crush 175 tons of ore per day IT nd this impense amount is fur g, ished by five men who break it d own and send it to the surface. A 'robably no other mine in the ter d. tory can make such showing. The al re body is wonderful in strength ir nd vuiHth r. ;a ol1 --z -l - | -