Mesa free press., 1898-04-15
TIMES AND MINING.

About 300 miners fthe Monitor and
Bay county mines have struck.
The Buffalo smelter at Globe, Ariz.
is making a steady output of copper.
The Temple Bar Mining company
will equip telephone line from King
man to it's mines.
The parties who have been operating
east of Solomonville, Arizona, in ex-
pectation of striking coal deposits, are
down 500 feet.
Forty miners of the La Grange Hy-
draulic Mining company at Weaver
vile, CAL, have gone on a strike
against reduction of wages.
Franklin l.. Perkins, well known on
the Pacific coast as a mining expert
and mine superintendent, died at his
home at Alameda, last week.
Redlands Facts: 1t is rumored that
Yucaiue has three gold mines that have
assayed something over $97 per ton
Gold has been found in paying quanti-
ties in the spurs of Mt San Bernar-
dino in many places of late.
The Casey mine at Dos Cabezas,
Arizona, has been sold for $4,000 the
cash being placed in bank to await
legal clearance of the title. The Climax
claim in the same district has also been
sold, the consideration being $4,000.
The Pacific Copper Alliance Of New
York, and the United Yucca Copper
Mining Company have in prospect the
development Of a copper deposit sit
uated between Daggett and Randsburg
This discovery embraces 1873 locations,
the ore running II per cent copper,
about $11 in gold and $13 in silver.
Bates & Langford of San Bernardino
have finished their cyanidind on the
old Hoag tailings. They have been
occupied for the last six months and
have produced 1000 ounces of gold.
This is very good showing ane
speaks well for the cyanide business,
which is almost new in this district.
One of the biggest stampedes record
ed in the Klondike was caused Febru-
ary IL by very rich strike on the di-
vide between the big and little Skoo-
KUN. The strike was made in bench
diggings on high hogback, 300 or
400 feet above th level of the gulches.
Pay dirt running SIG to $35 to the pan
was found.
Eight thousand claims have been re-
corded with the agent Of the Dominion
government at Dawson City since Sep
tember. This shows pretty well the
excitement that has prevailed in the
Klondike country during the winter
and the large extent of new ground
that is being worked, for the owners OF
claims are not idle.
Reports Of rich strikes in the Pana-
mint country have caused quite an exo-
dus to that section from the Rands-
burg district. Some quartz glittering
with free gold has been brought uI
from Panamint, and a considerable
quantity of ore from that section, run
ming from $40 per ton up, has been
handled at the Johannesburg sampling
works.
An immense body of 25 per cent cop
per has been struck in the Jerome mine
at Jerome, Arizona. This is compara-
lively new property, located near the
famous United Verde, and is owned by
Joseph Dillon of Prescott and associ-
ates. The sum of $4,000 was lately set
aside for development work. The
owners, now secure in the quantity and
quality of their ore, will soon erect re-
duction works on the mine.
Reports of rich veins in the placer
mining section Of Virginia Dale, in Sar
Bernardino county, continue to be re-
ceived. One man with his brother
and dry washer is said to have
taken out $500 in gold in less than &c
days. This is not so big as some OF
the Klondyke strikes we read about
but then it doesn't cost thousand dol.
lars to get to Virginia Dale, nor does
1t cost $5 day to live there II. hy-
draulic mining could be successfully
introduced in that section, the OUTPUT
of gold would doubtless be large.
The washing of the noted gold bear.
ing gravel banks on the Colorado
River, almost at the extreme western
point of Arizona, near Callville, OF
Bonelli's Ferry, will be started on May
1st Great steam pumps are being
placed in position to lift water far uI
on the river mesa, giving ample force
for hydraulic work Several boilers o1
300 horsepower each have been re.
Gently secured. Fuel will be obtained
mainly from the river itself, which
brings down millions of cords of wood
at every rise. Booms will be so placed
as to catch the driftwood and divert II
into convenient lagoon.
The Rose mine at San Bernardinc
has been down to the 1000-foot leve
for some time, but in prosecuting
they struck a vein of water and the
problem has been how to dispose .o1
this undesirable element. They have
at last succeeded in overcoming it by
means of pumps, and the supply Of
milling and shipping ore produced is
satisfactory. The shipping ore runs
$3.50 to the ton clear. The Cyanide
company are doing good work, having
plant capable of handling fifty tons
of ore per day, but the lack of avail