Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1898-08-24
Mining Intelligence

The fine new big hoist owned by
 the Gold Note company at Richen-
 bar has been shipped to the Pinos
 Altos gold company's property near
 Silver city, New Mexico. This hoist
 IS fine piece of machinery, large
 and complete.
 A paper recently read before the Colorado Miners Bureau on Gold
 Yield Cf Placer Mines brings out
 some noticeable statistics coinciding
 with some former statements in thIs
 paper regarding the large percent
 age of the worlds yield produced
 from placer mines. The paper re-
 ferred to goes further and claims
 that more than eighty per cent of
 the worlds supply of gold has been
 taken from placer ground. Some definite statistics were furnished compiled from official reports,
 which tend tO corrOborate the claim. In those reports Russia is credited with an annual placer pro- duction amounting to S20,000,00O. Some of the figures seem to be ex- sggerated; for instance, Africa appears as having yielded a total of S553, 100000 In placer gold; Japan, OO,OO0, 900; ;Australia,Sl ,250, ,OO0,OO0; New Granada, S847,ll3,750; Pern, Sl24,OOO,OO0; Bolivia, $205, ,0O0,010; Brazil, $5O0O00; California, $I, 200 600. The present Klondike gold yield will tend to further augment the percentage of the worlds gold yield from placer mines. And yet the enormous aggregate Is but an index of the possibilities in that direction.-Scientifie Press.
 w. c. Davis, the banker, real es- tate owner and mining operator, re- turned from the Vulture Gold Min ing Co.'S camp yesterday, after an absence of about thirty days. MT. Davis and his associates are follow ing the vein at a depth of $40 feet incline. They have a vertical shaft down 250 feet. A good body of water has been reached and a steam pump will be put in to take adyart- ! age of the strike so much needed, ! where 30 stamps are located under one cover and a I00-ton cyaniding plant is to be operated. The water supply is certainly something to be thankful for. Only a few stamps have been pounding, and the cyanide l plant has been worked at intervals. | The Vulture produced SI6,C00OOO | lp to 1887, and the acres of taIlings, above and below Wickenberg, north | 1f Phenix 54 milesl, have been ,yanided by Macolm McLeish, at Smiths mill. (the lower pile) and by & Burmister, of Prescott, Harvey Helm, manager.) just above Wickenberg. The two banks of tail ngs have made for McLeish S1S,OOO md nearly SS,010 for the other par .ies named. The old Vulture, one of early developed properties, les west of Wicksnburg l5 miles. Henry Wickenburg discovered gold )n the surface in 1862, and at the anne instant observed a vulture on he Hassayampa, above and below he town. A long story could be old of this mine and it would read much like 8 fairy tale, though it is rue what has been said of it Tn Iarious prints. Today, Henry Wick 'nburg is comparatively a poor man, hough he hopes to realize on river which he is satified are n a mineral belt. Mir. Davis said hat several parties are developing, md building hoists, and a few are putting up small stamp mills within m easy rea,hing distance of Wick 'pburg. He added that he would eturn again to the Vulture and would not remodel his Tucson dwell- ng until he came back to the city Tucson Citizen.