Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-02-08
MINING INTELLIGENCE
SOME GENERAL DOINGS OF THE YELLOW PRODU-
 GERS IN ARIZONA.
ACTIVITY INsYAVAPAI MINES
 STILL PREVAILS.

.
 GOO shares Late advices from the
 Isabella property fully confirm the
 reports concerning its marvellous
 richness.
 J. $. Jones made quite an i'm
 portsnt strike recently in the Union
 mine, one of the group owned by
 him in Chaparral district. The
 affair has been kept very quiet but
 from reliable sources 1t is learned
 that the mine bids fair to rival tLe
 famous Little Jessie as a producer
 of gold ore. The ore is very high
 grade and .s being shipped as fast as
 1t is taken out.
 Col. c. C. Bean is engaged in de-
 yeloPIng a copper property about
 half way between Gila Bend. on the
 $. P. railroad and the Mexican hne.
 which he says IS bound to toe a
 world-beater. He says the dsvelop-
 ments show up a larger body of
 richer ore thar any similar amount
 of development that he has ever
 seen. To addition to being high
 grade iu copper, the ore carries a
 very good percentage of gold and
 silver. He has about twenty men
 at work developing the property
 Supplies are freighted n from Gils
 Bend by wagon, the distance being
 about hfty miles. Col. Bean says
 he has just completed arrangements
 for the shipment of 1000 tons of ore
 to Silver City for treatment. and he estimates the value of the ore at fl50 per ton.
 Word comes from Tucson that the
 VekOl mine, a once famous prop erty, is being worked again. The property has been n litigation for some time, but 1t IS stated that a compromise has been effected where by the reputed daughter of John Walker, one of the owners of the mine, received among other items of the estate, a one-thiTd interest in the almost dismaDtled Vekol. This passed tO one of her attorneys, P. B. McCsbe, who leased the interest of LucIen Walker and operations were resuped at the ola mine. Tue first of this month MT. McCabe sold his share to J. R. Fisher, the father of Mrs. Walker and he took the man agement of the property which for the first time in a dozen years is again in undisputed possession of the Walker family. About sixty men are employed in and about the mine. The ore is concentrated and the concentrates shipped to the shelter at Fl Psso st the rate of car load a week. Some of the ore is so rich il silver that 1t will bear shipment without concentration. A mill IS employed in the of the ore. Jake Schultz has the contract for hauling the product to the railroad at Casa Grande, twenty-two miles. The Vekol was unskilfully worked by Mexicans and Indians in the earlier i days, so that it is necessarily worked l with great difficulty now. It con tains what DO one would suspect, | twenty eight miles of tunneling and l when operations were resumed on it 1 by McCsbe, the first thirty days were 1 spent in the unremunerative busi- 1 ness Of taking out the waste. The | mine, notwithstanding the low price Df silver, is being worked at great pro6t.-Citizen.
 The following concerning the Isa- bella strike in Colorado, is taken rom the Mining Record of Denver. md will prove interesting reading in his mining community.
 Nothing has been printed or said about the wonderful strike in the that has been half strong enough to convey to one who has not 'een the fabolously rich ore body tow exposed in the ninth level in he new vein an idea of its richness.
 Your correspondent climbed up 1y short ladder into this stope | ,hree weeks ago and was then shown ! streak of oXidized ore sixteen nches wide and 150 feet iu length rom which 165 tons of ore had been broken and shipped without any iorting that averaged $S70 per ton. Now, eight or ten feet higher in the tope the high grade streak has out to three feet, and the trade of the ore has increased in at east the same proportions
 In the widest places along this hute early Saturday morning solid , metallic sylvanite IS inches wide, nd alongside it IS inches of almost olid gold took the place of the ox- dized rock. The miners were al- ( most afraid to rely on their own 1 yes. Pocket knives were brought nto use and the mallable slabs of old were whittled. The yellow tuf whittles like so much lead.
 The men put in a very poor shift. hey were unnerved and thought , hat it would be dangerous to dis urb the metal uptil Manager Kill urn gave them orders how 1t was ! D be mined. c
 Yesterday the find was a big one, i ut today 1t is a wonder. The streak :. f metallic metal last night 'as only ten feet in length and ' ighteen inches wide; tonight it is r Tenty feet long and six feet wide. il
 Your correspondent saw chunks the sylvanite this evening that ere three inches thick and solid Ietal, and chunks of the oxidized q re of the same width that he whit t ed with his pocket knife. No as- A Iys have been made on the rock; it :. not necessary, but pieces of the T ee gold ore, if ore it can be called D
 all, run over $500OO0 per ton. t' Manager Kilburn said to your cor V spondent tonight: "I do not like &,
 say anything that will excite the .., 'ople any more than they are at .. esent. The metallic ore body has [ 'ubled in size both ways since yes et rday morning. Some of the pieces tt orc are 80 per cent gold 1 never st " such mineral, and do not be- ;- ve that its like was ever mined in 'u is or any other camp in the world. to