Arizona silver belt., 1899-10-05
Territorial Mining.


 examining mining property at Mazat- Ian, Mexico.
 The 20-stamp mill at llarqua Hala is kept pounding away night and day on ores from the Bonanza mine.
 J. <. Coxey, of Commonweal fame, is at the head of a company that has opened lead mine at Joplin, Mo.
 A report from London shows that. the profits of the Stratton lndepend' ence mine in Colorado for the first eleven weeks after the property was bought by the English company amounted to Si40,000.
 s. w. Gleason, who was blown up by premature blast one day last week at Jerome, has gone to San Francisco to have his eyes treated by specialist. He has the hope of retaining the sight of one eve.
 Prescott papers are agitating an in- ternational drilling contest, to take place at that city about Thanksgiving Day. Suitable purses will be offered as an inducement to get miners from all sections of the country to contest
 The paid-up capital of the American Smelling company is s54, I95, ,000. Of this ST, ,000, 900 represents money that has been paid for the several proper ties in the cQmblne and s7,795, ,00o cash paid in.
 High grade sulphide copper ore has been encountered in the shaft of the Blue Bell mine. Yavapai county. at a depth of l25 feet. The property is be- ing worked by !. E. Addicks of Dele ware under bond to purchase.
 The United Verde mine at Jerome employs from 1000 to l.200 men. but less than fifty miners are said to be necessary to keep the great works of that company in operation, the deposit being large and easily worked.
 The Bonanza pocket mine at sonora. Tuolumne county, California, is cred ited with production exceeding g. OOo, 900. A single pocket contained more than S500.0OO and one mass s4O,0Oo. Most of the gold was taken out with the use of hand mortors.
 The work of putting down the shaft .t hx ,,tn t,nla,. L., agement of the United Gold Mining company is going on day and night. The ledge shows up better and better as depth is attained. This promises to be valuable property.
 A 4-foot ledge of remarkably rich ore is said to have been uncovered last week in the Gillespie mine. located in the Black canyon, Yavapai county. Two assays of the ore were made. one of which gave Sl32 gold and s8 silver per ton; the other S2l0 gold and Sl0 silver per ton. The property is owned by Messrs. Jet and Merri- weather.
 The Black Diamond mine. twenty miles from Tombstone. in the Huachu- cas- mountains, the property of the Copper Queen company, is reported to be showing up excellently. A large force of miners are engaged in the de- velopment of Black Diamond. and judging from the interest manifested by the Bisbee people it is almost an as sured fact that a big copper property | will be found in the Huachucas. Where party relocates an abandon. ed claim the fixtures and improve ments, not removed by the original ] locator, become the property of tho new tenant, to whom the law gives ex- elusive possession of the ground, and /, the former locator, having forfeited his right has no business upon the premises and therefore can remove nothing from it. All decisions in sim | liar cases have been rendered in this direction.
 The Harqua Hala mine in Yuma countyrecently purchased by Mr. Hub bard, one of the original owners, for S7,0O0, is again being worked, and.not- 1 withstanding all the fairy stories that have been told regarding the property, will again be placed in the list of Arl. zona bonanzas, says the Phoenix Her. aid. There is plenty of good ore there and Mir. Hubbard is one of the men who knows how to get it out. Anoth- CT is Charles Pickenback. Mir. Hub. bard's old foreman, who is again in charge of the works. About twenty men are now employed, and it is un- derstood that new men are being con. stantly hired What possessed the English company to sell the mine is a question few can answer and the figure at which it was disposed of can be ac- counted for on the ground that pros pective mine purchasers naturally sup [ Fl SI.- VI n T