Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-11-29
In the Field of Mining Activity
 Of Arizona and Elsewhere.
Ehat is Going On in the Line of Rsosai Sales, Strikes And Development
 of kev Claims


 DO-tou lot of ore from the Monte i ChristO mine oa Groom creek, which IS being worked under lease by J. R. Slack X Sons.
 The Tucson Citizen says that Governor NJ. H. McCord and BaEk- CT William ChTisty, both of Pheuix. accompanied by Lee Won Rosen- berg, a mining capitalist from New York city, are visiting the Azurite mine near Tucson. Their purpose in making the trip IS to arrange the details of the sale of the Azurite property to a company of eastern capitalists, of which Mir. Von Rosen- berg IS member. The sale of this ! property means the enriching of Editor Hughes. Of Tucson, by about SS0,0OO.
 ] Colonel BOswoTth started his dia- mond drill today, prospecting the Baumsnn copper properties in Agua Fris district. While he is engaged in boring into the bowels of the earth to locate and determine the size of he ere bodies supposed to exist there, Mr, Baumann has force of men at work on the Alice mine, one of the group, taking out ore 10 ship to the Val Verde smelter. MT. Baumann says he has 6 fine body of high grade ore exposed there and he IS taking II out as rapidly as posi- ble.
 Johnny Merwin, who with Beicher and Smith is interested iu the Polar group of mines that adioin the Grown Point, came up Sunday and IS awaiting a heavy shipment of ore consigned to the saDpling works ID | this city. [ he ore en route is mere ly test lot taken from various open ings in the property, and when treat ed will give the owners a good idea of their claims. If satisfactory re- turns are given. the development of the property will be renewed on au extensive scale. The Polar claims as they stand today are spoken de- eidedly we'll of among miners Mir MeTwin also states that the Crown Point mill is dropping stamps as long as the water supply available will permit and reports are that it IS profitable pIapt.s The mil on this mine is one of the finest in the west.
 William Weston. the well known mining expert, will leave early next week. for Kingman. Arizona, from which point he will go to the prop critics of the White Hills Mining aud Milling company, located 55 miles from Kingman. MT. Weston is general manager of the property and is making periodical visit of inspection. This property is one of the famous shippers of silver of Ari- zona and its production per month is 10000 ounces, upon which a good revenue can be derived even at the present prices of the white metal. The company owns several claims and IS not yet thoroughly de- velnped. Tais mine Is one of the beet managed and worked proper ties in the territory Of Afizona- Denver Mining Record.
 Prof. J. C. Carrera, a pioneer min ing engineer, who IS delegate from New Mexico 70 the Paris exposition, has been making a tour of the min ing camps to gather New Mexico mineral exhibit for the Paris expo- sitiOD. He brought the first definite report from the vast mineral soda dePosits in Don8 Ana and Otero counties. which he has examined. rhr United States spends S2S,OOO,- OO0 annually for different salts of sod manufactured in England, vet in New Mexico exists the raw ma terial in inexhaustible quantities to manufacture those salts. A vast de- posit of this mineral, thirty miles iu length and two miles wide, banks in the sunshine at the foot of the San Andres mountains. Along the east ern border of this vast deposit lies a bed of g psum, forty miles long and ten miles wide, which IS commonly known as the White Sands. It IS as fine as meal aud as white as snow, immense hillOcks having been ] formed by 1t ss the wind carries it along ia great waves. Prof Carrers has also traced an immense deposit of alum from the Colorado river t0 Bsrnal creek, which crops out in stretches of forty miles at time. ' The soda deposits have been ae- quired by a manufacturing syn0i- cate, which will erect manufactHr- ing plants and build a branch rail roSd to the region.-Ex.
 John Roberts, who returned yes terday from the platinum mines of Cataract canyon, was seen today by JOCRNAL-MNTR reporter and when asked in regard 10 the latest de- vel0pments there said: Joe Owens took B pounds of samples from seven of his claims and hired an as- sayer from Williams to go with the samples to Los Angeles and see a mill test run of them. He also said he would not be satisfied with Ie- turns if the platinum extracted from the samples were not returned with certificates of assay or mill test. He shoved me the mill test returns, also the platinum sent to him as the metal extracted from the samples. He further said he had never sent one word 10 newspaper office to have the camp boomed, but a would be. or broken down editor came to him on two occasions telling him he would write it up if he (Owens) paid him for it, Owens said DO, If the metal was not there be wanted no boom; If it was there it would boom itself on its merits. There are forty or more men in and around Sharp neck & Owens camp working and stalking out claims, all of them hon. est ID their belief that the metal is there. MT. Smith left the camp last
 Monday, having taken options oh several claims outside of the ones he had already secured, and intends to have 5-ton plant on the ground iu thirty days" Speaking of the best
 way to reach this new district. Mr Roberts said Selignan was thirty
 miles nearer the new mines than |, Williams and about fifteen miles
 nearer than Ash Fork, the most de sirable route, then of course. beiog via SeligmaE.