Arizona republican., 1898-04-13
NUGGETS FROM THE HILLS.

There is some contention over the
 possession of Lakes sampler at King
 man, between w. H. Lake and Heim- rod & Ewing.
 Lee Chamberlain of Los Angeles
 and c. E. Mills of Morenci were in Yuma this week looking after mining interests Sentinel.
 The owners of the Lottie mine in the Big Bug have commenced tun- nel recently, which they propose to
 run for a distance of 5000 feet along the vein on claims owned by them. It will be to Yuma county's ever lasting disgrace, as well as detriment, if she has no exhibit of her mineral and agricultural products at the Oma- ha Trans-Mississippi congress Max Engasseh, who has valuable
 mining properties in the King of Ari- zona district, was in Yuma last week. M. LOwenstein, a young business man of Los. Angeles, formerly Tue soner, was in Yuma the past week looking for mining speculatiops. He is a friend of indefatigable Max Cohn, a promoter.
 Good reports come from the Red
 Rock mine, Big Bug district. The vein in this mine is from eighteen inches to two feet wide. The ore is valued at $60 per ton in gold. The
 property is being operated by MT. Foe of San Francisco. Fifty thousand dol
 lars was offered for the property a
 short time ago.
 The United Verde Copper company
 is now working coal mines successfully
 at Gallup, N. M. The great demand
 for coal at the shelter required oper-
 ations of this kind to be controlled
 by the company. This will enable the United Verde company to do all the
 business in the way of coal supply through their own officials.
 L. J. F. Ieager and wife went out to the Picacho mining district Tues day, returning by way of the Senator
 mine. MT. Ieager has group of
 mines in the Picacho district on which he is employing quite force of men doing development work and if the
 prospects continue as good as the present indications he will soon have a paying property Sentinel.
 H. P. Ewing has located a ledge on Knight creek in the Aquaris range the ore of which gave return of three | ounces of gold and twenty per cent copper. The ledge is two feet in width
 and can be traced on the surface for quite a distance. An Indian piloted | him to the ledge. MT. Ewing says
 that the Knight creek country is full
 of good looking quartz veins, but he had not the time to make a thorough
 examination of them.
 | The Courier understands that after
 various meetings between the direc- tors of the Prescott mining exchange
 and MT. Best of the Beam process con- pany an agreement has been reached | which will result in the erection of a plant of that process in Prescott Prescott is to pay bonus of S10,000,
 at the rate of $1 per ton, as the ore
 is worked, the payments to be made
 monthly. MT. Best will immediately move in the matter of the placing of 1 the plant in that city.
 | Jack Harkins, formerly known in Prescott as the "boss horse sheer,
 came in yesterday from the desert,
 where he has been prospecting for some time. He brought in some fine | looking ore carrying gold, silver and
 copper in paying quantities, but he is very reticent as to where it came from.
 MT. Harkins spent some time pros
 pecting in Alaska, but says he prefers Arizona to that country, and believes