Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-12-06


 erty IS said 10 be one of the mos. promising in the state of Sonora.
 II. B. Clifford has an advertise- msbt in this issue which Is of special importance to miners He desires to let contracts for sinking loo feet oo each ot two mining claims. Read his notice.
 Charles M. Shannon has disposed ot his big Clifton copper mine property Sui will soon have the neat sun of S200,0O0 to his bank ac- count. The purchasers paid Mir. Shannon $l0,0O0 down. and put S75,- OOO worth of machinery on the mine, and m siK weeks the bNiance viii be pasd.-Gszette.
 J. B. Tomlinson started up hts stamp mill CD the Hassayampa yes teriay. He has large amount of ore out on the dump ani large bod ies open up ready Io take out and is pr'pared to run as long as his water supply lasts He has been prepared to start up the mill for some time bu, was compelled to defer It oa ac- count of a scarcity of water.
 Four car loads of lumber, a car IO.si of pipe and car load uf ma chigery have arrived at the depot for the Yaegar Canyon Copper Mines company. Development work IS progressing rapidly on this prop er'v, and 1t is proving so satisfactory that permanent camp and other Improvements are being made.
 Dick Geor-e arrived yesterday frCm Bisbee. He says that word w>s broughx there by freighter that Con O,kaef had again secured cog rOl oi tse Cohre Grand prop- CT ' for t1eSo-ca .led Wood-Costeilo faction. lStkts ou.tei by the Greene Mitch' ii sespi". Members oi the Costello ,,tement in tI,is city said that they had had 20 information of any character from Mexico lately. though Mir. Wood himself is now in BlsOee-Republican.
 Henry E. Clifford, who is iu charge of the Big Bug shelter, and who ar rived in Prescott yesterday, says that the new water jacket furnace re- gently ordered for the above smelter, has arrived and will bs put in place just as soon as possible. He says that the receipt Of ore has been greater than the present capacity of fha smal4ar ITha,, ..t,.A =. to A.. Lone Pine mine be stated that it continues to improve with develop mont. He has four vel. defined ore bodies now opened up on the claim aggregsting twelve feet in width. Mir. Clifford has recently bonded the Rebel mine. an extension of the Me Ca6e, and wIli commence develop ment work on it at once. He ad- vel tiseS in this issue of the JOURNAL MINER for bids for sinking loo feet on this property.
 The country is full of experts who, in the languak ke of the late lamented Bill >ye, don't know a true ledge from a true Assure gopher hole" Tn other day one of tAese gentlemen was standing by tn" cd Dominion tTamway as the buckets brought ID a tram load of fuxing lime The expert took a piece of the lime, adjusted his mag nitier philOsophicaliy. gave 1t pro- found jack knife assay, and remarked that hr didn't believe 1t would run over l2 per cent in copper. but it mIght carry conside. able silver. Such rusty frauds as these call 10 our minds the immortal parody on Maud Muller:
 "Of all sad words I ever Spake.
 The saddest are these,
 He's bloomin' fake"
 -Globe Times.
 c D. Collins Stnd hi. assOcistes. comprising tbe Octave mining com. pauy. have just completed ttt purchase of T. E. Peery's group oi mines near Stanton, the purchase price being S65,000, of which one fourth IS to oe paid December b There are four claims in the group. The Octave company owns several other claims on the same lode, and a fo:ty-stamp mill will be erected on the property at once, the machinery for which has already been ordered. MT. Collins has engaged in the minss ing business ID a business manner since commencing opera tIons here, and has gone about the development of properties system atically before putting up any ma chipery for the reduction of ores. He and his associates have spent thousands of dollars in the county and are just now in a position where they can commence to realize handsome returns on their invest ment. The operation of the comPan- ies incorporated by MT. Col lins has given great impetus to legitimate mining ID this county. ! In connection with it's mining 1 operations at Stanton the Octave ! mining company has taken an op- ton on a water supply in Peoples 1 valley, which 1t proposes to pipe to ] Stanton for the use of its mill. THE REBEL AND FLAT ROCK
 MINES.