Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1898-12-07

quoise mire Is reported at Sl,OOO,OU to foreign syndicate.
 Dennis Burke is. taking good ore out of his Wizard mine ID Big Bug district, and has commenced ship ping it. The ore is similar in char acter to that of the Little Jessie mine.
 Pacific Coast papers mention the fact that the Comstock mines are to drained of all water below the 100 levels, and new pumping machinery to cost over $, 3,500,000 is to be put in at oLce. Water power is to be used to perform the work.
 The Empire mine, on Upper Groom Creek, has been closed down for the present. The plant on the same is a roller mill and proves an unsatisfactory process m handling the ore. IL Is the intention of the owners to erect a new aud complete mill, when the mine will again be started up with a larger force. The new machinery has been ordered aud will be in operation not later than February 1 next.
 Ralph Dillon IS said to be en route from England, having accomplished his task of enlisting foreign capital to operate the Winninghsm proper ties at Jerome. The starting of the work and the good showing they are said to make, will result in a dozen other properties starting up, and which adjoins them. Jerome will be one of the greatest mining camps ln the west under the favorable operation of these mines, which lay right at its door.
 Placer mining in the Black Can yon country is being carried on more extensively now than ever be- fore and with better results. Judge McPbee says that from the amount of gold being taken out there at present the people have about come to adopt the Mexican idea that gold grows, as he says that there IS more being taken out now than ever be- fore, although the groLhd has been worked there for years. There is talk of putting in hydraulic plant near Rumble Bee for washing out the gold. - --- J. R. Slack and his son, ]. K. Slack, have taken lease on the Monte Christo mine on Groom creek and have been working it since the first Of November. The Monte Christo in the past has maintained the reputation of its name and 1t has been a regular treasure producer. MT. Slack and his son have been hard working industrious miners ever since they settled in Arizona and We know of none who are more deserving of success and ot reaping rich Monte ChTistp treasures than they.
 Dr. Hendryx has grown tired of running his Huntington mill on his Empire mine on Groom creek. and during his recent visit here he closed down work on the property. The little mill was inadequate to meet the demands of the mine and he will immediately erect a stamp mill on the property to work the ore. The mipe is looking fine, there being large bodies of ore exposed, and even with the old Huntington mill it has been made 10 pay right along, but Dr. Hendryx wants larger re- suits which be can easily obtain by means of 8 stamp mill.
 Prof. George Treadwell and Jas. Shirley have been working quietly for some time developing number of copper claims near the United Verde mine. The development has revealed a grea. quantity of ore which is of the same character as the Verde ore and as valuable. The parties whom they have interested in this mine are not known, but it IS thought that Marcus Daly, of Mon tana, is one of the hea' fest investors if not the sole owner. MT. Daly is president of the Anaconds copper mining company, which owns the i famous Anaconda mine. Hic con- 1 6dentiaI man was in Arizona for some time last month, but he would not state the nature of his visit.
 The former government ruling admitting patent on groups Of min ! ing claims, on one of which $500 worth of work or improvements had | been done, was superseded on De cember 17, 1897, by a new ruling 1 from she Secretary of the Interior and the Commissioner of the Gen eral Land Office, making it necessary to have $500 work done for each claim before patent could issue. Subsequently, the operation of that latter ruling was suspended, upon numerous requests from mine owners everywhere, to go into effect July l, 1898. Since that date it is necessary to make satisfactory showing that for each claim in a group for which patent is asked, $500 ID work or i'm provemeuts has been expended, though, as before, all the work may have been done on one claim for the joint improvement or development of the specified group.
 A. J. Doran, who was in town yes terday from Lynx creek, where he is experimenting work on a promising claim, is one of the many practical mining men who believe that the belt which lies on the west side of that stream, and which by develop ment can be traced for several thou sand feet, is a guaIaDtes that the future of that sectson is sssurec. At the present time Lynx Creek is the scene of more genuine mining than st any time ID its past life, or so far as quartz operations go, the intention of the various companies operating there being to reach greater depth than has ever before been accomplished in that district. While nothing of a boom is on hand the fact that deep mining is in order, and a better feeling fol- lows the progress of the work, we look to see that old section come rapidly to the front, and to stay also.