Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1899-10-26
MINING NOTES.

The White Hills Mining and Milling
company of Mohave county is doing
effective work and making a fairly
large production. The company owns
u twenty-stamp mill, water rights; has
such conveniences as boarding houses,
telegraph lines, etc. The disburse-
ment for help alone amounts to $4,000
to $4,000 per month.-Mining Reporter.
3. j. Skertchley, a prominent Aus
tralian geOlogist, in an interesting
monograph says tin is the most spar
ingly distributed of all the metals in
common use. While all the known
gold fields of the world cover more
than 100000 square miles, the tin
fields have an area of less than 1880
square miles. Thus for every square
mile of tin ground there are 1872 square
miles of gold bearing country. There
are seven tin districts in Europe, pro-
ducing about $500 tons yearly, of
which the Cornish mines yield about
5000 tons. Asia has two tin areas
Human, in China, estimated by some
of the best authorities to produce TO-
900 to 10000 tons year, but proved by
official figures to yield less than $500
tons; and the Straits Settlements and
adjacent principalities. yielding $4,000
world. Africa has no known tin
mine; North America has no payable
mine; South America only one tin area;
Bolivia and Peru, yielding less than
1000 tons a year; Australasia, the
youngest, contributes about 5000 tons
a year. Practically all of the worlds
supply of tin comes from England, the
Straits, South America and Austral-
asia, the Straits supplying three
fourths of the whole.-Mining Reporter.
Large bodies of good ore have been
cut, in the Midnight mine, near Chic
ride.
A splendid body of rich silver ore
has been discovered in the Juno mine,
Chloride.
T. L. Ayres and o. D. NJ. Gaddis yes
terday returned from the river range
where they have been examining min
ing property owned by themselvs.
TIL river range is now attracting great
attention on account of the great de-
posits of lime carbonates carrying gold.
--Mohave Miner.
Castle creek is to have another smell
ter, according to reports from that
section, says the Prescott Journal
Miner. T. E. Parish, superintendent
OF the Whipsaw mine, has just closed
"a contract with S. w. Traylor of the
Colorado Iron works of Pueblo for the
erection of a forty-tOn smelter valued
at $4,000. The smelter will be in OPP
Grafton in about seventy-five days The
Whipsaw mines We're originally locat-
ed and worked for gold and have been
worked for copper since February of
the present year. A good equipment
Of machinery is at the mines, which
is being added to as it is needed. The
Whipsaw Mining company which re-
Gently purchased the property, owns
thirteen full claims.
J. c. McNulty, the original locator of
the Green mountain copper group on
Copper creek, has contracted with
James Newlapd and James OBrien to
sink 100 feet on the mines. George c.
-EVaddell is interested in these proper
tl2 s1-Prescott Courier.
The following news of a new strike
comes from the Mohave County Miner:
Foster S. Dennis, John JamisOn and
George Ney came in this afternoon
from Layne springs and are wildly en-
thusiastic over the great strike Of cop
I1e. in the Alpha mine. Mr.. Ney says
that forty men could not remove the
great mass of copper row in sight in
many years A cave in the old Slopes
reveals great masses of antimonial sill
yer and copper glance ore.
A turquoise trust is in process OF
ornation in, Boston which gives every
promise of proving a big success. The
purpose of the trust now organizing IS
to control the output of the turquoise
mines and to this end options are now
being taken on all producing proper
ties. Most of the more valuable
ones in New Mexico have gone