Arizona republican., 1898-03-17
NUGGETS FROM THE HILLS.

| Pick and Drill says that the noun 1 tain streams and gulches of Yavapai | county are alive with placer miners since spring has turned loose the Wa | ters.
 The Saginaw camp is the Sunday attraction for Tucsonites. The camp | is but nine miles from the city, the roads good and hard and the country picturesque.
 Superintendent c. E. Donaldson is in Prescott from the Sun Dance mine He confirms previous reports as to the worth of that property, from which concentrates are now being steadily shipped
 MT. T. H. Jenks was in Tucson this week from Saginaw. Both mill and smelter are in operation, the ore is abundant and the outlook for the fu- ture all that could be desired. About forty men are employed.
 B. B. Thayer, the well known min ing man, connected with D. B. Gill lett in the management of mining en- terprises for the Hearst estate, arrived in Prescott on Saturday. He has gone out to the Gold Note camp.
 The board of directors of the Consol- dated Gro Fino Mining company in Pima county have levied an assess ment of ten thousand dollars for the purpose of erecting a mill at Gro Blanco, and working mines there. J. D. Helm and J. W. Cover, both formerly of Yavapai county, but who are now in Seattle, will leave the latter place in a few days for Alaska. They will not go to Klondyke but propose to confine their operations to the American side of the line.
 Jasper Philips is preparing to start work on his Centipede mine in the Hassayampa district. The Centipede ore carries 300 ounces silver and nine tenths of an ounce gold per ton. The pay streak ranges from one inch to eight inches wide and has not broken in the seventy-four feet of develop ment work done.
 Hon. s. R. De Long reports much activity among the gold properties about Dos Cabezas The Casey mine has been sold for sSO,OO0. The money has been paid but the deed has been placed in escrow. The Climax, another gold property, changed hands on Fri day last, the consideration being s15,- 000, ten per cent of which was paid | down. MT. De Long expects to stay in Tucson for month or six weeks 1 The question of bullion tax is be- ing agltated pro and con by the terri torial press, but it is a noticeable fact that those papers favoring the meas ure are, without exception, in non- mineral localities Wbile as an ab- | stract proposition the product of a mine is no more entitled to exemption from tax than the product of any other enterprise, yet it is well known fact that, with a very few exceptions more money is being put into the
 ground than is being taken out In
 Yavapai county, aside from the Con- gross, Jerome, Crowned King and. per haps, two or three others, the bullion
 produced does not pay the expenses of development This does not insinuate
 that the mines are worthless, but
 rather that vast amounts of money
 time and anxiety are expended before
 mine is placed on a paying basis To tax the output of such a property would only add to the difficulty-al-
 ready great enough-of inducing capi-
 tai to develop the mineral resources
 of the territory, and would be mani festly unjust. Suppose the agricultur-
 al and stock papers allow the miner:
 a voice in the bullion tax discussion
 before final action is taken.-Pick an(
 Drill.
 A warrant was sworn out Saturda. in Prescott for the arrest of William
 Culver, aged about 55 years, a resi-
 dent of Cherry creek. Culver is ac
 cused of being mentally unbalancet
 and is said to be dangerous.