Arizona republican., 1898-07-31
George Merwin will leave Prescott

George Merwin will leave Prescott for Los Angeles in a few days, from which point he expects to proceed to Mexico to examine some mining prop critics.
 The Prosperity mine of the Cordova Bros is being worked. Good ore for shipment is being extracted. This property is a quarter of a mile from the Azurite.
 The Helmet Peak mines, cne-half mile southwesterly is being worked by Dovie & Dougherty and continues to show high grade ere. They are ex- tracting for shipment and have car load on the dumps.
 The Azurite mines have never look ed SO well as at present, every new opening on the surface showing good ore. The developments on the lower workings show a very fine grade of ore, the body of which is easing in size as the drift advances.
 George Merwin returned to Prescott last Friday from the Klondyke coun- try. He left Dawson on the 18th of May. He reports the Prescott colony getting along all right. MT. Merwin is not in love with the Klondyke re- zion and will not return there.
 Parties in from the Pima district say that the Twin Buttes mine is emp-oy ing sixty men, sinking fire shafts. drifting and taking out ore. The Twin Buttes are located six miles south of the Azurite on the same copper belt, the ore being similar in quality to that in the Azurite mines.
 The steam wagon brought in the first consignment of ore to the smelter from the Grand canyon copper mines the first of the week. The lead of ore weighed about forty tons. A new strike has been made in the Nellis group of mines and a large body of fine ore is being uncovered.
 The old maxim in mining, "Stick to your ore body" was we'll illustrated in the case of the Saginaw City mine of Park county. The Pittsburg owners were not miners and started a tunnel in the wrong place. Not finding the ore they leased the property to Chaun- cey Gumaer, who, being miner, fol- lowed his pay streak and took out more than S, ,OOO in 800 pounds of ore.
 The Johnson mine in the Rich Hill neighborhod has been bonded to east ern capitalists, who commence work on the mine some time next month. This is the mine from the decomposed quartz Of which is supposed to have come the gold found in such abun- dance on the surface of Rich Hill in the early days.
 The following records were filed in Cochise county last week: Location of Belle Ward and Mountain View mines by M. McFadden; seven mining claims in Warren district by J. w. Greene; eight mining claims in Ora goon mountains by N. o. Bagge. Deeds by s. J. Miller to J. W. Greene of mines in Warren district, s2,O0O; by Rober, Downey to C. w. and R. c. Hart, mines in Huachucas, s1. Bond by Pidwes. and Castle to N. o. Bagge, mines in Dragoon mountains.
 | M. T. Joice is developing a very promising gold and copper bsaring vein of ere, located about nine miles south from Tucson, and west of the Saginaw mill. He has shaft seventy feet deep and thirty feet of drifting c: crosscutting. The ore shows that i has been subjected to intense heat. 1T fact has been cooked. He expects tc find copper in mtallic state as deptt is reached. The ore vein shows from ten to twelve feet wide on the surfacs and lies between porphyry and quartz MT. Joice thinks he has very promis ing mining prOperty.-Star.
 The Azurite company has purchased i the Apache smelting plant which vii 1 be erected at once On the company. mines. This plant is nearly as goot as new to all intents and purposes, no i having been used altogether more thar 1 three months. It cost large sum c i money, but it is said the Azurite pur chased it at very close bargain. Theri being plenty of water in the three hun dredfoot level to serve the jacket, 8; well as other purposes of the plant ant the camp, the company can congratu late itself, as most of the mines in tn