Arizona republican., 1899-12-05

sold Tor the purpose of providing funds for further development of the proper ty. The Era will have more to say about this property next week and will publish the names of the officers and members of the board of directors of the company.
 A big strike of rich ore was made in the San Juan mine one day last week. The vein is ten or twelve feet wide and is almost entirely solid mineral, there being very little rock in it, says the AriZonian. The body of ore seems to be almost inexhaustible and this. with it's great richness, has considerably eX- cited all who have seen specimens. A large piece of it can be seen in front of Dr. Braden's assay office. and sev- eral carloads are now on the dump at the mine and the bins at the smelter are full of this ore.
 The double compartment shaft at the San Juan mine is down fifty feet and when down 15O feet cross-cutting will commence, and when it is driven a lit tie further down. besides facilitating the work, it is expected to uncover an- other large body of rich ore. In fact, this mine is showing up richer and bet ter as work progresses.
 N. s. Wright has started the freight ing of ore from the Cuba mine to Tue son. This is a copper and silver prop erty located about six miles west of Mammoth and produces ore of a very high grade. Ten tons of ore were re- ceived in this city Wednesday and ten tons more are on the way. The ore will be shipped from here to the Silver City smelter. This is only one of the many demonstrations of the need of a smelt- CT in Tucson.-Citizen.
 Prof. J. C. Carrera, a pioneer mining engineer, who is a delegate from New Mexico to the Paris exposition, has been making a tour of the camps to gather a New Mexico mineral exhibit for the exposition, says the Albuquer- que Citizen. He brought the first news from the vast mineral soda deposits in Dona Ana and Otero counties, which he has examined. The United States spends $2S, 900 annually for different salts of soda manufactured in Eng land, yet in New Mexico exists the raw material in inexhaustible quanti- ties to manufacture those salts. A vast deposit of this mineral, thirty miles in length and two miles wide, banks in the sunshine at the foot of the San Andres mountains. Along the eastern border of this vast deposit lies a bed of gypsum, forty miles long and ten miles wide. which is commonly known as the White Sands. It is as fine as meal and as white as snow. immense hillocks having been formed by it as the wind carried it along on it's great o1G traced an immense deposit of alum from the Colorado river to Bernal creek, which crops out in stretches of forty miles at a time. The soda de- pOsits have been acquired by a manu- featuring syndicate, which will erect plants and build a branch railroad to the region.
 The following from the Yuma Sun is an up to date report of mining opera tions at Gier's Landing: Dr. Harrison Gier of Giers Landing. spent the week in Yuma on business pertaining to his extensive mining interests in that sec tiOn. He reports the mining outlook exceedingly fiattering in his district and says that more development work is being done at present than at any time in the past. R. J. Dyas. a St. Louis capitalist, who is operating in the Empire Flat country, has one shaft down two hundred feet with an eighty foot crOsscut at the one hundred foot level and a forty foot crosscut at the two hundred foot level, showing up aa immense body of sulphates carrying seventeen per cent copper and S33 in gold per ton. On another claim MT. Dyas has sunk sixty feet, making a forty-five foot crosscUt at the bottom. The ore in this mine is a green carbon ate and carries 65 per cent copper with S135 in gold per ton. DeVelopm ant work is also being done on several other claims of less importance il the same group. MT. Dyas is doing asse ss- ment work on fifty-six claims altogeth- CT and is opening up one of the richest and most extensive ore bodies in Ari- zona. He has in operation a steam hoist, air compressor and three Bur leigh drills. There are on the dump ready for shipment three or four car loads of high grade ore. One clrload, running S4 to S6 per cent copper and $60 in gold has been sacked and will be shipped to New York about the first of the new year or as soon as the new steamer Cuchan is ready for business