Mohave County miner., 1899-07-29
General Mining News.

U uS which owns "A mines In an angle
formed by the junction of the Tuol-
umpe river and the North Fork on the
eastern belt, Il miles southeast of So
nora, is contemplating the purchase of
over 100 claims in the same vicinity.
1t is the purpose of the company to
erect 10 batteries of 100 stamps each to
weigh 1850 lbs. to the stamp. TruaX
self-dumping ore cars will be used to
deliver the ore to the rock breakers in
an electric tramway which will CON
meet with all the mines. After crush
ing, amalgam8tion and concentration
the tailings will be carried into the
river by gravitation. Large Pelton
wheels will be used to generate the
power, the water being supplied
through a canal to head & ite so feet
above. The mines owned by the com
pany have yielded over 200OOO0s.-
Mining Il Engineering Review.
Answering several queries on the
subject of the right of aliens to pur-
chase or locate mineral lands of the
United States: The United States
statutes plainly state (Sec. 23l9): "All
valuable mineral deposits in lands be-
longing to the United States both sur
veyed and unsurveyed, are hereby de-
clared to be free and open to explura-
ton and purchase, and the lands in
which they are found to occupation
and purchase, (from the United States),
by citizens of the United States and
those who have declared their inten-
tion to become such, under the regula-
tions prescribed by law, and according
to the local customs and rules of miu-
ers in the several mining districts. so
far as the same are applicable and not
inconsistent with the laws of the Unit
ed States" Any state law giving aliens
the right to locate, take or hold or pur-
chase from the United States the lands
of the public domain is in conflict with
the United States statutes. A citizen
cannot locate land for an alien corpor-
alton. The Landowner says concern
ing this: "A mineral entry made by
an alien is not void, but voidable, and,
while of record, the land covered there
by is segregated from the public do
main. This simply means that To-
cation made by an alien may he sue
cessfully contested by a citizen of the
United States. Mining and Scientific
Press.
Parties reaching this city from May
er within the last two days brought in
formation of an important strike made
by the Stoddard Copper Company,
which is verified by 1. T. Stoddard,
the principal owner in the property
who il now in Prescott. 1t seems that
the matter has been kept quiet until
development work has shown that the
ore body encountered has come to stay,
and of this there can be no doubt
Years ago shaft was sunk one hun
dred feet in a saddle of Copper noun
tain and at point northeast of and
lower than the main workings, and a
lense of the ore cut by the north half
of the shaft extended from point AZ
feet below the surface to the 100-foot
level, where the ore pitched to the
north and away from the shaft, at
which point the ore was fourteen feet
wide. 1t is a massive black sulphide
of iron and in 1885 several lots, of tons
each. were shipped to New York and
Boston and tested, Mr.. Stoddard seek
ing to find some process by which the
gold in the ore could be protitably
saved no value being attached to its
copper contents, which we're less than
five per cent, while the metal itself was
at that time worth only about eight
cents per pound. These working tests
of average sample lots returned from
20b to 26505 gold per ton and several
ounces of silver. About week before
his death the late Z. N. Riotte, then
manager Of the New York Metallurgi-
cal Works, reported that he had at last
succeeded in finding process for the
profitable working of the ore. By di-
rection of Mr.. Stoddard, who was then
living in New York, the shaft was con-
tinued to depth of $50 feet, being 55(
feet lower than the apex of Copper
mountain, and drifts we're run in three
directions to catch the ore body, but