Arizona republican., 1899-12-26

hour and is not running more than two
 thirds of its capacity, says the Tucson
 Star. It is also reported that they have developed immense bodies of high
 grade sulphide ores and the end of the
 crosscut has not yet been reached. A second jacket will be installed shortly.
 The force in all departments aggre-
 gates three hundred men.
 About two months ago Martin Cos
 tello made application for patent on
 the Triangle, Iron Prince and Standard
 Quartz mines, at the local land office.
 Today Francis A. Owens and L. C.
 Shattuck started contest proceedings at the local land office against the ap
 plieation for a patent on the Triangle mine. w. H. Brophy, Adam Evans and L. C. Shattuck started contest proceed ings against the application for a pat ent on the Iron Prince mine, and Emil Marks, H. R. Hanniger and L. c. Shat
 tuck filed contest proceedings against application for a patent on the Stand ard quartz mine. Barnes and Martin are attorneys for all of the contestants. Tucson Citizen.
 Tol Lamar, brother of Mrs. J. D. Henderson, left this morning for Eddy,
 '. atives and friends. Tol is the fortu- nate owner of mining claims at Troy, which are bonded to Boston capital ists, who are developing them with most encouraging results, and with every prospect of opening a big copper mine.-Globe Silver Belt.
 Adolph Jacobs returned on Tuesday from a trip to Mineral creek. He re- ports much activity at the Ray camp. The company is pushing development work and the construction of the mar row gauge railroad from the mines to the Gila river. The traction engine which was employed to transport the company's freight from Red Rock 10 the Gila river has not proved the sue cess that was anticipated, and a rail- road will undoubtedly have to be built from the Southern Pacific to the terminus of the Ray company's mar row gauge road at the Gila river. The recent fatal shooting affray seems to have had a salutary effect, as nearly all idle and absolute characters have since left the Ray camp.-Globe Silver Belt.
 G. w. Middleton, manager for the North American Exploration company, is pushing work on properties under the control of that company. A car load of machinery and a carload of lumber passed through Prescott. says the Journal-Miner. en route to Wick enburg for use at the mines being op- erated by him near there, and a car load of oil was received at the Pres rott depot for use at his Richenbar property. At the latter property MT. Middleton has just placed two gasoline engines, one of which operates a hoist and the other air compressors for three L.4Ielsn urIlls. It IS his intention to sink to a depth of 800 feet on this prop erty just as rapidly as the work can be done.
 Last Sunday William Weston and J. D. Murphy arrived in Kingman and the next day proceeded to White Hills, where they will probably inaugurate one of the most important mining schemes in the history of Mohave coun- ty-the sinking of a prospect shaft 1000 or 1,5O0 feet on the White Hills group of mines, says the Mohave Miner. Messrs. Weston and Murphy are two of the best known mining men in Colorado, and their thorough knowledge of the situation and financial equipment for the work in hand is sure to put the mines among the great producers of the world. Yesterday F. w. Stehr of Col orado Springs arrived in Kingman on the flyer and proceeded to White Hills. Mir. Stehr is the secretary and treasurer of the reorganized company, and will probably remain until the new work is well under way. The White Hills mines are among the greatest silver producers in the west, having produced of ounces in silver since their discovery seven years ago. The ores were phenomenally rich in both gold and silver. One carload of fourteen tons, as an instance, contained 29,0OO ounces silver and seventy ounces gold. water line the usual teaching process is Many tons of ore running over 5000 ounces in silver were shipped during the early days of the camp. Near the but where the chutes have been below that level the ores have been found as thoroughly mineralized as on the surface. The miners of the are well situated for economi- cal working through one main shaft, being in a compact body within ra- dius of 5000 feet. Tine mineral bearing zone is about one mile in length from north to south. In isolated places the gold bearing veins of the Gold Basin district, to the east. break through the lime cap of the upper range and pass into the northern part of the district.
 The deeds for mining properties now on deposit in escrow in the Prescott banks represent many hundred thou sands of dollars and a mining man who has been keeping cases" on the trans actions tells the reporter that every one of them will be lifted, anl many mine owners made happy thereby dur ing the holidays or soon after.-Pres- colt Prospect.
 The finest chunk of ore that has been brought into Prescott of late is to be seen at the business place of Ben Belcher and Barny Smith, says the Prescott Prospect. It comes from their Henrietta mine and is something for a miner to feast his eyes on. It is some