Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1898-03-09
MINING INTELLIGENCE. Weekly Resume of Interesting DOings in the Many Districts Around thIs
 Immediate Center.

] Peter Hanson has ueedeu S. n. Anderson one third of the Ready
 Money mining claim, in Black can yon district.
 James Shirley who is in from the Etta mine, brought in large sized bar of bullion the result of twelve days run of the mill. The Etta is in fine condition.
 A deed was filed for record today from Joe Askew to Jack Crane and Wm. Wolf for one third of the Blue
 Bird and Malone mining claims, in
 Big Bug district; consideration, S5OO.
 James Shirley, manager of the
 Etta mine and mill. brought m a
 bar of gold last week weighing thirty pounds. It was the result of a twelve days run of the mill The mines continues to improve right along, and the prospects grow
 brighter every day. The Etta IS now assured as a permanent and regular bullion producer.
 w. G. Press, who visited San
 Francisco recently for the purpose of purchasing mill for the Storm Cloud group of mines, which he Is working, returned without making his purchase. He has now gone to ] Chicago and may purchase a mill | there. The mines are said to De looking in fine condition.
 Friends of the JOURNAL MINER, and
 all parties interested in the develop
 ment of the resources of thIs sec tion, are requested to constitute i themselves as individual agents and
 correspondents of the paper and send us all the news from their re
 spective localities. As is we'll known ] thIs paper has for years made Q
 speciality of giving mining informa-
 tion and IS looked upon as an eApon
 ent of this important industry of ! the territory. While the expense of
 keeping a representative in tle field
 to gather information Is greater than
 can be afforded, it is hoped that re ! liable information may be furnished l by its readers and friends.
 ! Harlan Brothers have a Wood
 steam stamp mill in operation on
 ore from some claims adjoining the
 Sundance company's property. This
 mill has a single stamp, which is
 operated direct from the steam
 cylinder. It strikes from l50 to 160 strokes per minute, and with force equal to 5000 pounds. While the
 mill is intended to have a capacity of ten tons of ore per day, they are
 running twelve tons per day through
 it at present. The inventor of the
 mill. Geo. Wood, is interested in the claims, and is personally super intending the operation of his in-
 yeution. He is confident that this new invention will supercede the old fashioned gravity stamps.
 The strike recently made in the Gladiator mine, is said by parties who have visited the property to be a very important one. The mine is opened up by means of tunnels and drifts to the six hundred foot level. At this depth a shaft was sunk ninety feet, and the seventh level was started at this point by starting a drift, both north and south. The recent strike was made in the south drift, commencing at a point about thirty feet from the shaft, where an ore body was struck nearly six feet wide. They have continued the drift nearly ten feet in this ore body and, as yet, shows DO signs of lessen ing m width. While those in charge of the mine are very reticent in regard to the value of the ore, it is known that it is quite rich. The ore body in the north drift of this level, while not being so wide, is very much richer. The striking of this ore body at this depth only confirms the oft repeated theory and of demonstrated fact, as well as that the mines of this section im- prove with depth.
 Jack Evans, who IS associated 1 wi.h A. B. Williams in mining in Castle creek district says there are l great many mining men coming to 1 Castle creek every day now, and he | looks for some more important sales 1 in the near future. The Salt Lake 1 parties that bought the Lehman l group of gold claims are now ar ranging to put up ten stamp mill. | In reference to the strike in the i Grown Point mine there he said that the new ore body which | runs so high in gold value IS two and one-half feet in width. He says there are 2I0O0 tons of ore on the dump and blocked out in the l Crown Point mine. Messrs. Evans and Williams will enter into placer mining in the Castle creek district l on what is known as BantJ creek. | Placer mining was carried on here l many years ago and many good | sized nuggets were found. They have three claims there, and the | slucing operations will begin as soon as they can get an engine 1 and boiler en the property, the ! other arrangements having been 1 already completed. Their placer ground is surrounded by an upris- ing of bed rock which forms a basin. MT. Evans figures that when bed 1 rock Is reached in this basin there will be found rich ground, as the floods have been at work for years | depositing gold in the basin as it 1 comes down with the gravel from l the Bradshaws. The basin acts as a pan in washing gravel, and the l gold has been settling in the bottom l of 1t for a great many years. There | IS every reason to believe that they | will find plenty of gold as the gravel l sll over their claims pans good | colors.
 The general land office has re- gently corrected a very fragrant in consistency, which has been in vogue | there for some time in reference to securing patents on mines, and in regard to the annual assessment on mining claims. Heretofore it has been held that one hundred dol lars worth of work must be performed on each claim of a group or an amount equal to that on one or more claims of the group in order to hold them. But in the mat ter of applying for patent it was held Ithat a group of contiguous claims might be embraced in one and the entire group patented on $500 worth of work.