Arizona republican., 1898-02-05
NUGGETS FROM THE HILLS.

NUGGETS FROM THE HILLS.
 Chris Grauer, the well known stock man, was in Wilcox from the Chir- icahuas recently and Stated that his mine is looking better than ever.
 Thornton & Albert, who have lease on the Henrietta mine, Big Bug country, have now 200 tons of milling ore on the dump.
 ,Messrs. Ryder and Swayzee report their property improving and are still doing more development work on their mines in South Pass, Cochise county.
 J. T. Dougine is patiently awaiting the arrival of his car load of freight from the east to commence work on his Santa Maria mines. He is now in Prescott.
 Mr. P. Moore of Fucker, Cochise county, is about to begin development work on his Governor Mckinley mine in South pass, which gives excellent promise of becoming a valuable prop erty.
 Work has been suspended on the Little Jessie mine near Pearce. Super intendent Clark desired an extension of time, which it is said the owners refused to grant. However work is progressing on adjoining claims.
 MT. John Brockman, general mana ger of the C. W M & M. company, passed through Wilcox January 2S en route to Silver City. On beard tha same train were seventeen bars of bullion from the Pesrce mine, aggre- gating in weight about 3,O00 poun9s Twelve ingots had already been ship ped in January.
 Hon. o D. M. Gaddis writing from Kingman says: The Republican trav- eler's treatment of Kingman and the MChave county mining interests in the letters early in December was highly appreciated by all. I am glad that we have hope of a mining asso- citation. I think it will help us.
 A stamp mill is 10 be eut in on the Gopher mine, which is located be- tween the Henrietta and the. McCabe, Yavapai county. This mi e has 800 feet of development work, showing quite a body of ore. A party of Seat tie people, mostly naval officers, are developing this property. Lawrence Spear is president of the company He is superintendent of naval con- struction at Seattle.
 Dougherty & Doyle's mines on the summit of Helmet peak, are looking as well as evSr They are taking out high grade gold and silver ore, which yields about $70 in gold and APO ounces in silver. They have about fifteen tons out, and as much more in sight. This indicates bonanza near Tucson. The San Xavier is working a good force of men shipping the ore extracted to the Fl Paso smelter for treatment
 The Saginaw Mining company in Pima county has several carloads of coke standing on the track at Tucson waiting to be hauled out to the mines, but owing to scarcity of teams they are somewhat slow in unloading It. The shelter is now already to be blown in and as, soon as the coke isI on the ground the ore will be put through and the company will com- mence operations in earnest. About twenty teams are required for haul ing the coke to Saginaw and they have been unable to get but a very small part of that number so far One car, however, has been unloaded and the contents hauled to Saginaw It is expected that the smelter will be started up next week.
 It is understood work is to begin at the Six Mile Hill property near Pearce. It is said the owners refused very fiattering offer and now pro pose to work the properly fhemselves Work had been suspended pending ns- gotiations, but will be resumed by the shipping of ore at once. IA good vein Of shipping ore is in sight that is s3id to run over S250. per ton.
 Howard B. Banes Is developing a property under Helmet Peak, Mineral Hill, Pima county, district. His pros pect looks very promising. The ore carries copper, silver, gold and lead. l There is a large vein, so far as de- veloped, the vein matter being sev- en,y-fve feet wide, carrying rich streaks, which are liable ito concen- trate at depth.
 Frank A. Smith and William P. De- laney, directors of the Guijas God Mining company, are highly elated over the bright outlook for the com- pany, especially so since the very re- cent strike on one of it's proIDerties Gin the Grant tunneD Of a consider able body of very high grade free gold ore, it sampling several hun- dreds of dollars per ton At present ! development is being pushed on two claims only (the Grant and Compass as 1t progresses the more ea isfactory their investment appears. The com pany contemplates the erection. in tht near future, of a ten stamp mill CT
 the property. So far as the Star car Judge the gentlemen who have visited
 Tucson in connection with this CT. terpr1se are by no means persons like ly to become interested in visionarl schemes, or to conduct any bushes in any other than a legitimate con
 servative manner. The property ac
 quired by the company had bee1
 largely developed by it's previous own
 CTS and had been considered by min , ing men a valuable and DrOmisiQi