Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1898-05-18
Mining intelligence.

An agreement has been filed for
 record, whereby Wm. P. Bonbright
 agrees to sell to W. P. Hsmlyn, the
 Doro hy. Lucky Boy, Saddle. Red
 Horse and Copper Beauty mines, in
 Blue Tank district for $l2,500. An
 agreement between the same parties
 has also been filed for record for
 the sale of the Bentley. Red Bird.
 Big Blue. Beatrice, Red Bluff.
 Corner Stone and Good Hope mnes,
 in the sane district, for Sl0,0O0.
 Jack Evans and 4. B. Williams
 are prospecting some very promis-
 Ing placer claims in Castle creek
 district. Three shafts have been
 sunk, but bed rock has not been
 reached owing 10 water. The bed
 rock is about twelve feet deep at the mouth of tho creek, aud where Castle creek gulch appears thero is an uprising of bed rock which holds i the gravel from Banta creek in natural reservoir. It forms a gold 1 psn which holds the gold and ! throws the washed gravel over its rim with every rain. They will put in pump to dram the diggings and the bedrock gravel will be hoisted
 and dumped into sluite way. Good colOrs have been found on the sur
 face of the diggings and as far down
 as the water would allow prospect
 ing. and the owners think tha; bed
 rock will give them pay gravel. Al copper mine Is also owned by Mes SITS. Evans and Williams in the same district, and Evans owns a group
 consisting of three claims, two of them being on the same lead and
 the third is higher up the noun ain several hundred feet oE a lead run ming parallel with the lower one. One claim has considerable develop
 ment work done-on it, while the other two nave not gone without a'- tentiun. The discovery clam known as the Evans Is developed bg tun- nai which takes the cour a of the l ledge into the mnuI aiu l75 feet; Ih- ledge cuts the formation of the | mountain and IS defined and reSu- lar. It's greatest width Is about ] eight feet including tue acromplnv- ing mineralized gapgIs which cop per lGd2es always gIve portions of their values. NIT. Evans has worked this mine Tor many years, and at one time he had bumps well tiled with the ore which came from the tunnel, but a heavy rain filled the gulch with water and his ore was taken down the gulch and buried in the gravel. On either side Of the wash made by the flood remain small piles of ere which give the visitor an idea of he mines product. The other claims are developed by open cuts and small shafts.
 Santa Maria, May 13.-ICorre- spondence. The cyanide plant of he Waters company, under Steve tEOrne's management, is working 7sry successfully. The general manager informed your correspon- leut that the company is very much pleased with the outcome. I've i zuew,' said he, what values there Ire in the ore and figured on saving i . certain per centage, but Steve has lone much better than we antici- ' ,ated. He has worked it to a..higher z than we figured on. We i Ire very much pleased with Steve's f Work" The plant is great sue Z ,ess. The tramway and chute at [ he Gold Standard are going up I ast aud the wagon road is nearly [ The teams will com 4 hence hauling ore in about four or c i've days at the rate of fifty tons T lay, according to contract Wal CT Banks, as good a miner as ever 'pened up mine, has charge of the ! told Standard and is opening it up n fine shape. I wish we had more : nen likeBanks and the skilled miners s nder him, in the different mines of T he district. If we had things | -ould hum Jack McNiff has a ontract to drive a 400-foot tunnel e u the Gold Standard. He has | riven 1t in loo feet in 30 days with be assistance of one man. Joe c Iowel is working the Purple Rose t roup Of mines near the Waters. He Q as II feet of ore in the Purple Rose c he other claims in the group show II lrge ore bodies. .. 4 contract to b rive tunnel loo feet on the Turn 5, augh and 100 feet of an incline on \ le PocohOntas has been let. ls hey are delving away on the Sul- T m and Wyandotte. The mines l -e looking well. .. MT. Lucy, who as been working all winter develop
 g his claims on the Turnbaugh
 de, has struck very rich ore in the Ol. Ingersoll. A