Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1898-04-13
MINING INTELLIGENCE.
Weekly Resume of interesting DOinos in the Many Districts Around thIs
 Immediate enter.

The owners of the Lottie min lave commenced a tunnel recent, , which they propose to run for a dis tance of 5000 feet along the vein oI
 claims owned by them.
 The first smelter in the Dragool mountains of Coehiss county wa " blown in Tuesday. The shelter i
 the property of the Golden Stat,
 Copper Company, which has enougI
 ore iu the bins to keep the smelte
 running some time. There ar,
 thirty-siX men employed in the min,
 aud the ore, which is easily worked
 Is accommodating in a surprising de
 gree.
 Jack Harkins, formerly known ir
 Prescott as Ie 'bOss horse shoer.'
 came in yesterday from the desert
 where he has been prospecting for
 some time. He brought in some
 hne looking ore carving gold
 silver and copper in paying quanti-
 ties, but he IS very reticent as to
 where 1t came from. MT. Harkins
 spent some time prospecting in Alaska, but says he prefers Arizona
 to that country, and believes there
 are greater opportunities here than there IS there.
 1 From the present production of
 copper ln Arizona the territory bids
 fair to lead all other geographical divisions in her output this year.
 The high grade of our copper and
 the Tact that nearly all the copper
 producers carry gold or silver or
 both, ard some of them in sufficient quantities tOpay for the cost Of min
 ing the ore and converting it into
 bullion, makes the Arizona copper held preferable to that of any other state or terrItOry.-Star.
 The Sterling Placer Company. which owns extensive placer grounds m Walnut Grove district and which are reported to be very rich, is pre-
 parlng to commence operations on somewhat extensive scale in working them. Sam Miller has just com. pleted the freighting of 47.0OO pounds of machinery from the rail road to Walnut Grove for the com pany, and is under contract to haul about TO tons more for them. Wal nut Grove section promises to be- come q ite active through the oper- ations of this company.
 That more gold will be sent into Alaska than will be taken out has long been conceded, but the state ment of Sir William Van Horne is enough to startle the most enthu- siastlc KloDdiker into staying at home. Van Horne is president of the Canadian Pacific railroad and is ID position to know what he Is talk ing about. He calculates that from 1OO,OOO to 3OO.0O0 persons will be taken into the Klondike country the present year, and that on an average each person will take along Sl,OOO n supplies and money. That would 0e total expenditure of $2OOOOO.- )OO or more, and if one-tenth of that amount is brought back within two Tears, most expectations will be sur passed.
 ID. N. Brown, superintendent of l: be Garcia mine, twelve miles south , 't Wickenburg, came in last night or the purpose of getting teams to laul machinery from Wickenburg to he mine. To Herald representa- s i've on the train he said that the rame work for the ten stamp mill ( Eas up and ready for the machinery. , The water for the mine is pumped trough three inch pipe from the [ iassayampa river, distance of four niles. The old shaft is down TO [ eet, but work ou this shaft was bandoned and another sunk, which . now down 75 feet. A rich body of re was encountered under the old Torkings. Only a small force of = len IS at work at present. There is V nough ore on the dump to keep the a ill running for some time. The |, wners of the Garcia mine, Toronto eople, lately acquired another rich U Iaim in the same district, and it is 1, le intention of the company to il urchase all the claims they can get that section of the country.- q heniX Herald. - A Santa Maria correspondent says: tl here are thirty five men at work Q, the wagon road from the Waters . Ill to the Gold Standard mine. u he load is to be completed in oi Iirty days. Fifteen men will be lt to work on the Standard mine NJ lthin two weeks. Only good miners Q, III be employed. The Sultan and |, e Wyandotte Girl are looking O' ell, as is also the Gold Standard n hich IS on the same lode. On this l de aIe the Sultan, Wyandotte Girl, m locene, Fairview, the Silver Belt, th old Standard and Golden Jacket no he lode runs through the country - miles, cutting the formation in % course. Every opening on the diff De -ent claims on this lode show high so ade ore. The general course of 3 vein IS north and south, the din ar west. The Goodenough vein is IT, ltheast of the Sultan lode. The e 1rse of the Goodenough is east oa l west, its dip is south. Tom ro 7oney has been working for some le on his mine in Peoples canyon. oc @ vein is large and we'll defined. 70 e last samples brought in by him o ayed $50 in gold per ton. Steve TT orne has built nice house near th' Waters mill, and Mir. and Mrs. Pr Ick are enlarging their boarding far lse at the Standard mine.
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