Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-02-01

Several properties are being worked
 there with good results.
 J. R. Slack is taking out lots of
 good shipping ore from the Monte
 ChristO mine on Groom creek, which
 he is working under a lease.
 4 report was on the street last evening that the Crowned King company had struck S50,00O ore ID the 500-foot level of their mine The rumor could not be traced 10 any official source, but mus, have had some foundation.
 ] About half of the machinery for the Grown Point mill has been re- ceived at Kirkland valley and DOT ' ton of 1t has been freighted to the mine where it is being erected. lt
 will probably be sixty days before the mill Is completed ready to run ] John s. Jones is reported to have recently made big strike of rich ore in one of his numerous claims in Chaparral. The vein IS said to
 be three feet in width and ore run ming $500 per ton ID gold has been taken out.
 Information from Fools Gulch is to the effect that a lOO-stamp mill
 will shortly be erected on the Planet
 Saturn mines there. The deepest shaft is now go feet deep and there has been no change in the character of the ore for a distance of 300 feet. The ledge maintains it's uniformly
 average width of about three feet. The ore varies in value from S20 to S70 per ton.
 It is rather early yet to get S per fectly reliable estimate of the min aral product for 1898. The gold
 production of the world for the year is now estimated at S2S6, 6,2ls,954, or $4S, ,SS6, ,49S more than for 1897. In six years the output has just about doubled. The total gold output of the United States last year was S65,- ! 7S2667, a gain of SS,4l9,667 over 1897. Colorado produces more gold than any other state, $24.50O.O0O, an increase over 1897 of S6,400000. Colorado produced also $l4.456,559 worth of silver. Californis Is cred ited with $l5, 5,402,6l3 in gold and only S64,443 in silver. The Cali
 fornia gold output is but little more than in 1897.
 San Bernardino's prospective mill ionaires are Mart Mckinney, J. B Paralette and George Ferguson. In Deceu Der they grub-stsked a pros p,7ctor who has. according to their reports, located that famous black ledge that old prosE ectors have dreamed about and capitalists have | louged for. It has been located in the Holcomb Valley Mining district near the Black Hawk mine, and the ! ledge, which is So feet wide and the Lord only knows how deep, assays | n per cent lead and $50 10 the ton in gold. They have named it the Black Lead, and Messrs. Mckinney, Parazette and Ferguson will leave in few days with seven miners to run a shaft and open up the richest strike that has been made for years. San Bernardino Transcript.
 Cripple Greek, Colorado, IS very much excited over a recent discovery of rich ore in the Isabella mine. An associated press telegram in the Pbenix Herald from Denver, taken from a special to the Denver News, says: Your correspondent saw chunks of sylvanite that were thIee inches thick and solid metal and chunks of oxidized ore of the same width that be whittled with his pocket knife. No assays have been made, but pieces of free gold ore run over $500,0OO per ton. The Mollie Gibson never produced any ore that carried more ounces of sil- yer than this Isabella ore does in gold. With every hours work the streak is lengthening and widening. Some ore is go per cent gold"
 A large mining sale was consum- mated in tbis city yesterday between F. A. Huntington of San Francisco, . the purchaser, and Hon. R. R. Rich srdson, Morgan A. Wise and others who are owners. The property is known as the Virgin copper mine and is situated in the Patagonia mountains near Crittenden. The informant, who was a party u the transaction. said the consideration was about $40,000. The property has been sufficiently tested to say that 1t IS one of real merit and must prove famous producer when de- veloped, as it no doubt will be very soon sincs 1t has fallen into tbe hands of a thoroughly practical mining man with ample means to operate the property successfully. Mir. Huntington is the patentee and owner of the celebrated rolling mill process for the reduction of ores. which Is said to be such au improve ment over all former methods. MT. Huntington IS a man who does not believe ID much formalitv ia business as was demonstrated in this transac- tion. He came on the midnight train and on his srrlval at the Occi dental had the clerk call Mir. Wise up from his bed, and within three I hours thereafter the trade was set tied. After breakfast the papers were duly executed and are now filed in the vaults of the Consolidated National Bank of Tucson Citizen,
 John Berrie of Lynx creek. called at the JOURNAL MINER office with a sample of some very fine looking gold ore which he had taken out of a claim of his in the above district. MT. Berrie carries on mining under rather disadvantageous circum stances, but demonstrates what man of pluck and energy can sc- complish. He owns some good quartz claims as we'll as some good placer ground. Having no means whatever except what he obtains from his claims he is unable to hire any help, and he says that he re- and studiously avoids going in debt. Working a quartz claim single handed is a very tedious job at best, but MT. Berrie, to avoid h o,.s,rc, b,. 1-o ,s I.rai.,s,-. H. l