Arizona republican., 1898-05-04
NUGGETS FROM THE HILLS.

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 The Mahoney group of mines seven teen miles northwest of Nogales, has been sold to O. B. Hardy and J. A. Straith.
 Placer miners are washing cut from $5 to $50 per day near the Harper mine in Huachuca mountains of south ern Arizona
 Charles Gracey will work the ores Or his Klondyke, Mohave county, mine, with a five stamp mill which he mas purchased.
 A mill will shortly be put In the Turning Point mine,- south or casa Grande, Pinal county, in which prop erty large bodies of gold and silver ores are being opened up.
 Work has been resumed in the Pinto Creek, Gila county, group of ten claims, belonging to the Pinto Creek Mining company. The large ore Soay carries a good gold value.
 The fifty stamp mill of the Mammoth mine, near Tucson, started up last week The ore body in the Mammoth is fifty-two feet wide, and 4,325 feet of drifting has thoroughly explored the
 
 tons of ore per day.
 A very important strike of copper sulphides was made in the seventh (the 1owest) level of the Hoosier mine, of the United Globe mines, last Mon day. The discovery places the Hoos- fer among the great copper mines of Arizona, and is highly important to the future welfare of Globe.
 The Temple Bar company is Gomg extensive work on the Colorado river in Mohave county. About sixty men are at present employed, and as soon as a cleanup has been made numerous other companies will start to work and the greatest hydraulic operations carried on in the world will be inaug- urated.
 A mining district to be called the Stanley Buttes has been formed in the section recently segregated from the San Carlos Indian reservation on ac- count of the coal fields existing there.
 W. H. Ferguson of Williams has gone to the Grand canyon of the Colo rado accompanied by Prof. Treadweil, where the latter will examine some claims belonging to MT. Ferguson.
 The Sultan brothers finished a test run of 160 tons of ore from the Badger mine, at the Kasser Gold Mining com pany's mill last Friday. We are in formed that the result was satisfac- tory. The Sultans have engaged the mill for another run of fifteen days on ore from the same mine, beginning May 1. The Badger is fairly well developed mine, and regarded as one of the best claims in Lost gulch.- Globe Belt.
 The extraordinary stories told of the rich silver finds made in the wide expanse of rugged country lying be- tween the settlements at the eastern base of the Sierra Madre and the "Yaqui country" are completely knocked in the shade by the report from Springdale, Colo, to the effect that the Rip Van Dam mine at that place is showing pockets of calaverite assaying $125,00O to the ton.-South- west Bullion.
 The Klondyke craze is abating and steamers are now going north from both San Francisco and Seattle almost empty. Instead of the Klondyke an nual output being so great as to pos sibly affect the commercial value of gold, as the transportation companies would have the verdant believe, a con- potent and reliable mining engineer writes from Dawson City that it will probably not exceed $lO,000,000.- Southwest Bullion.
 The statement recently going the rounds of the press to the effect that Thomas A. Edison "has perfected an invention upon which he has been working for a number of years, and which, it is said. will enable him to mine ore containing as little as S1.25 worth of gold per ton,'' was referred to MT. Edison Dy the Engineering and Mining Journal for reply, and this was his answer last week: Tt is only a private affair." Southwest Bullion
 The Southwest Bullion is in receipt of some rich specimens of gold o1e from the new Yukon camp twelve miles north of Stafford, Graham coun- ty, Arizona. The ore is evidently of the free milling class, and of a na- ture and constitution admitting of ready and rapid reduction under stamps As the veins Of Arizona's s Yukon are said to be large and we'll defined, it is not a matter for won der that they should already have at AAAAAAAAAAAAAA .n><n>AA