Mesa free press., 1898-09-30
TIMES AND MINING.


M. L. Doyle is working mine in
Auury district, Arizona, from which he
is getting high grade of ore. When.
in need Of money he takes the richest
of the ore and pounds it out in hand
mortar.
Not more than fifty miners are at
this time working in the once great
camp at Virginia City, Nevada. Hun
dreds have gone to Butte, Mont, where
better wages are paid and plenty of
work is to be found.
Cotton, the new mining camp near
Death Valley, is receiving much atten-
ton in mining circles. A ledge eight
feet wide has been discovered extend
ing over 5000 feet, the ore from which
is free milling and assays $50 per ton.
H. HI. Hill, who has just arrived at
Port Townsend from Copper river, af-
ter prospecting all over the section,
says that over 100 men were being fed
by the government when he left Val
des, August %. Hill places the number
of men who have been drowned and
died of privation at 200.
News was brought by the schooner
J. M. Coleman, which has arrived on
the Sound, that two prospectors were
fired on by Indians while drifting down
the Yukon in boat. One was killed
and the other wounded The police cap
tured the Indians while they were
feasting on the prOspectors' supplies
The City of Seattle reached Victoria
from Skaguay recently with nearly
100000 in gold aboard. Sixty men who
came up the Yukon river to Dawson
on the steamer Oro, were on board.
There were also in her passenger list
about seventy miners who left the Cop
per river disgusted with their failure
to find gold.
A large volume of water has been
encountered near the 2O0-feet level in
the main working shaft of the Esmer-
aida mine of Mohave county, and sink
ing has been discontinued. The ore
body, at the lowest point where work
can be carried on is five feet in width
and the ore runs over an ounce in gold
to the ton, with as good percentage of
copper.
Receiver c. w. Pauly of the Golden
Cross mines at Hedges reports that
the output of bullion for the month of
August was $4,000, Of which $23, 900
was paid towards the Indebtedness of
the company. This makes grand to-
tai of $4,000 paid off during the past
year. The mines are looking exceed
ingly well, with vast amount of ore
in sight.
With eight disappointed miners and
no gold, the little steamer Fastnet ar
rived at Vancouver from st. Michaels.
She had on board the crew Of the
wrecked river steamer Stickeen Chief
and j. A. Mara, ex-member of parlia-
ment, owner of the ill-fated stern
wheeler Mara. The Garonne arrived
safely at st. Michaels with her tow,
the Reindeer, but near Unimah pass
lost barge owned by Seattle firm.
The barge is still adrift.
AS fast as teams can be had ore from
the Tennessee mine is loaded into them
and brought to Kingman and shipped
to the smelter. Besides the large
amount of shipping ore the Tennessee
has piled on the dump about 5000 tons
of concentration ores ready for tho
mill that will be erected Immediately.
The Tennessee Is now among the big
mines of Arizona and as the ore body
gets larger and richer as it goes down
the permanency of the ore bodies is
established
The new cyanide plant recently in
stalled at Randsburg Is giving excel
lent satisfaction. What is needed, not
only in Randsburg district, but
throughout Southern California gold
fields, is more up-to-date process plants
and less dependence placed on smelt-
ing Colorado, to a greater extent than
any other mining state. has demon
strated the advantage of the cyanide,
bromide. chlorination and other pro-
cess systems for the treatment of low
grade ores over the older fire process.
High grade. refractory ores, of course,
are more successfully treated by smell
ters. Better methods of treating ores
in California are greatly needed, and
when introduced will swell he annual
output of gold in California to an ex-