Arizona republican., 1898-03-25
NUGGETS FROM THE HILLS.

ne PICK ana DTllI threatens TO ISSUE a daily that will make the Prescott papers envious.
 M. M O'Gorman of the Middlemarch company, operating in Cochise county, states that the furnace is already in position and the machinery of the shelter being rapidly put together. The pay roll of the Middlemarch last month amounted to $2,700.
 Ben Williams, superintendent of the Copper Queen, accompanied by A. James and J. C. Mclean of the New York office, left yesterday for Nacosari on a tour of inspection of the con- pany's late purchase there. Mesdames Mclean and James accompanied their husbands. Orb.
 c. H. Livermore, who has been in Tombstone for the past several weeks on mining business, left for Bisbee this morning. Mir. Livermore is most favorably impressed with the mining resources, and it is not improbable he may become interested in mining in the country. He expects to return here shortly.-Prospector.
 Judge R. H. Knight of the Gold Cliff company of Pearce and w. H. Wren, secretary of the company, ar rived this morning from Los Angeles. Both gentlemen are here to arrange some important matters pertaining to contemplated operations of the com pany. They leave for the mine to- morrow and will probably remain at Pearce several days on their business -Prospector.
 The sale of mining property in Yavapai county made by the admin istrator of the estate of J. w. Johnson, deceased, was confirmed and approved Wednesday by Probate Judge Hicks The property consisted of an undivided half interest and was sold for $566 50 l H. B. Quick of the Sterling Placer company of Walnut Grove has pur- chased machinery to place on their property to work the gravel beds there.
 1 The ore body in the Buster mine at the face of the eighty foot drift is now in solid ore from top to bottom and from side to side. The ore body has been widening gradually in the drift ever since it was first struck till yesterday, when it covered the whole face of the drift, as stated. The ore | is comparatively soft and easily
 
 four feet daily in running the drift. A portion of the ore carries a high | per cent of copper, besides being rich in gold. This property gives every promise now of developing into div idend payer.
 | A dispatch from Yuma, Arizona, states that to keep pace with the pro- gress led by the construction in the | vicinity nf 1or o1c q IS commencing the work of municipal improvements. Arrangements are now being made for the construction of a sewer system. discharging into the Colorado river below the city, in connection with the sewer of the ter ritorial penitentiary already con- structed, and Frank G. Blaisdell vii have a telephone system in operation within sixty days. He expects alsl to run lines to the Fortuna, King O. Arizona and other mines within z radius of thirty miles of the city.
 Messers. J. E. Carpenter and Danie Arthur are in Tucson from the Sants Rita mountains in Pima county fo1 supplies. They report discoverins during the present month a body O. argent1ferous galena eight miles soutl Of the peak, and three miles northwes from Crittenden and from four to fiv miles southeast from the Darwin mine The ore chute shows upon the surfac for upwards of 100 feet, carrying abou eight feet of vein matter, at a deptl of ten feet there is a rich pay streaI of twenty-six inches increasing il width as they go down. They hay named their mine the Aetna A valu able adjunct to their mine is a neve : failing stream of water upon the claim During the month they have been a work they saw no other prospector in their district
 A special to the Denver Republican from Springer, N. M, says tha Messrs. Stein and Cable of Elizabeth l. tow nhave gone over to the Rio Hon , do, near Amizette, to begin active op erations on the Iron Dike, large vel of low grade ore that they contro on Gold hill. A letter received fe1 days ago by MT. Stein from Thomas A Edison, the wizard, states that hi tests in removing the magnetic fro : with his separator was a complete su,