Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1898-06-08
Mining Intelligence.

The new engine room for the
 Providence Gold Mining company
 has been completed, and the new
 eighty horse power engine for
 running their new air compressor
 has been placed in position.
 | Frank Williams, who with B. H.
 Smith is developing some mining
 ground on Slate creek, went out
 yesterday to look at the claim. Re
 ports from the claim are very pleas
 ing to the owners and samples on exhibition give to the property a great deal of prominence.
 A marvelously rich strike, said to ! be the richest ever made in the mine,
 was made yesterday in the Senator mine. The mine is being worked
 under lease and the lessees made the strike. They have good ore across the entire face of the drift.
 but there are about ten inches of
 fabulously rich ore, the gold stick
 ing out of it in all directions.
 In letter to the editor of the JoURNAL-MINER from Wells H. Bates the latter states that the new ma chinery for the placer company in which he IS interested has been shipped from the east, 200 tons in all. He adds that, i've all believe this machinery Eill do the work and solve the problem we have been working on so long. It IS hoped here that the machinery may prove successful, as 1t will mean very much to this terntory.
 A very important mining sale was consummated here today, the pro motor being J. c. Rankin, an eIpe- rienced mining man of Phenix. The property involved was the Gold Standard group, at Santa Maria. owned by D. c. Thorne and son, s. W. Thorne. The purchasers are J. B. Greenhut the wealthy distiller of Peoria, Illinois, and Sumner R. Clarke, a capitalist, also of Peoria, Illinois, and Chauncey D. Clarke, a we'll known capitalist of Phenix and Peoria, Arizona. The purchasers have been working the property for some time under bond, and the bond had still year to run, but they had become so we'll satisfied with the results, that they decided to con clude the purchase at once. They have teams, aggregating sxity ami mals, hauling ore, and have a s'amp mill and cyanide plant in operation reducing it.
 The demands for a transparent and yet tough and refractory sub stance to serve as a substitute for glass have occasioned lively trade in mica. This remarkable substance IS one of the silicates and is found so extensively distributed in nature that hardly any country is without 1t. Very extensive beds have been discovered in North Carolina, New Hampshire and other states, while in Sweden, Norway, Russia. Siberia, China and Peru, there are enormous deposits. Plates three feet square have been quarried in Sweden, and . blocks yielding pieces almost this size have been taken out in the United States. On ships of war it is used as a substitute for glass in port holes, not being read fly fractured by the discharge of heavy guns. It IS employed in the floors of stoves and in many coun- ries as a substitute for win low glass. IL is extensively used in he arts, spectacles, optical iustru- nents aud bronze powder have been made from it, and it is also service Ible in holding small objects for through a microscope. dica, when found in combination 7ith other silicates, sometimes bears very striking resemblance to gold. t is then called "foors gold" and Ias been the means of misleading 1, nany persons who imagined they ad found fortune, when, in fact, { heir discovery was a worthless con s lomerate rock. In the early history | f Virginia large vessel was loaded s nth this composite and sent to ! 1nglaud, the miners believing them i elves possessed of enormous wealth I nd it is said one of them con- iitted suicide when he discovered s hat the cargo was worthless. c