Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-10-18
MINING INTELLIGENCE General aas Lsesl Asiss From sAe Fisls sl nises aas xiaing
 Ese0ahere.

capital has bsen invexasst in saiulng
 operations iu Mexico during ths gasi yeaf.
 A Fein oi copper ts reported ts
 have tsesn fecsntiY diseoFersd oH a
 iaFm near Terra Haate. Indiana.
 1he ore is sad so b- higb grade sad
 compAny has beea lofmed to wosk it.
 The Columbia mlaia.s company.
 ahirb recently pafrhassd sleTea
 claims from C N. HuA nesF 4e-
 Eotn,,. have let coutFscis iag sl0 fssei ! of development woTk.
 John Dake. one Of the forueF OWE
 CTS oi the mach litigated Copper
 Chiri and Equator claims. has re-
 ceBily taken 5 bond on tSeire clSims
 10 the yiciuity of Jerome for xs5l0Gt
 the time limit of ths .bopd being
 fourteen moaths.
 Oae of the miniug engineer es-
 cUrsiOnists Nho Vssiteu Kelly &
 Stephens store yesterday wss sur
 prisad a; the -ztent oi thc mineral
 cabinet owned by MT. Kelly He
 seemsd perfectly Astunished tbat
 such a collection of valuable miRetai ] spee5mens could be made 70 AriEona.
 The United Verde Extension con
 psnT, which is operating the claims
 adjoining the United Verde mines,
 are still pushiRg development ~ark
 The shaft tn the IsSS mine Is nov
 down 2i0 feet, while work Is also
 progressing on other claims, The company has recently ist contracts
 for over ifJ0 feet of development
 work.
 The big boilers foT tae Vat Neide
 compAny's smeiteT al Agua Fra ar
 rived yesterday at r. < E Junction
 and were taken out 10 Agua fria this morning. The big CoTilss eu-
 gIne shipped from Phllzdelphis
 al1out two Weeks ago IS expected
 here now any day. WOrL Sf getting this plant completed IS bs.ing pushed as T .pidiy as the machinery can be [ gotteo in and Workmen can get % Ga
 position.
 1 A lot of machinery for the Silver King mine, On Groom creek, was shipped out to that property yester- day. Mackin brothers will gel it ca position just as soon as possible sud wili start work vigorously m the de-
 velopment of the mine. The min~
 was a good producer At the tune when it was assailed by litigation when it was closed down and has
 remained idle ever siace.
 ] IT. Stoddard, who cane in Sat
 urdAy from bis minIug camp a, Cop
 per mountain. had sample ui cops ! per ore with him which Woaid run from thirty to forty per cent 10 cup per He stated that be had run a cross cut eleven isel ID length ia the ore and had not yet cut through lt. Mir. Stoddard has started a double compartment shaft on tbe property
 and has just received gasoline hoist for 1t.
 Newman & Co. of California. re- cently purchased the tailings b,s- i longing to T. E. Peerey al Startou, ana have a small plant at work on 1 them. There are over S0O0 tons of them and assays give a value of from ! S5.50 to $50 per ton. Those that they have worked show only a trace of gold iu them after having been submitted to the cy anide process, showing the great Gdsptabili;y of ! the on. Co lr'ing orE.si by thIs pro- cess, as those whl> have been worked have been put through the process in their natural state with out roasting.
 , Until the present time the only par ! ties who have used diamond drill 10 prospecting Tor copper near Jerome, ! has been the United Verde company ! They are said to have bored a -le [ int he bowels of the earth tO a | del tn ot 1bU0 feet with the result of demonstrating that the big ore ] boGv in their mirss extend at least to Juat depth. Other companies whD a-o inter sre1 in that section, ' have about CO.api, sd arrangements [ to prospect theiT pFoPe9tiss ID the san e mauaer wItu view of locating
 re boties and oi determining their ext .ut.
 The sale of the Z,ks inning prop ertiss at Rirhenb8r. to Boston ! capitalists, IS reported. the price paid being S70OO0. The sale was promoted by Mr M'ddleton. This IS the property on which he Hearst estate had a bond aud lease for about two years and during the life of which under the management of ! the late D. B. Gillstt. over 1000 feet ! of development work vas done. The | bodies are reported quite large and ! the ore of goOd value. The new | purchasers, it Is stated. nave ordered sir comp essors and will push devel- opnent work ou the properties C. A. BarUhart came up from No gales yesterday and returns again this morning He is now located al the Cerro Colorado mine iD the Arr vaca district. This property was once one of the richest silver pro ] ducing properties ID the territory, ' over B 100000 being taken from II within a short time. It IS also one ! of the oldest mines in this section, having been worked st intervals for many hundred years. Mir. Barnhart reports that mining int erests are at tracting a great deal of attention in Santa Cruz county. An important l sale was recently made in this dis
 trict by which Mir. Bradford. the
 we'll known mining engineer, sc- quired a wolfram claim in the Guijas
 district, paying S40,OOO for the same. Star.
 An eastern exchange commenting
 on the great activity in the market
 for mining machinery, remarks: Fl
 the general public could have access
 to the many hundreds of papers
 published throughout the mining
 regions of the United States, and
 were the eye of the reader directed
 specially to the mining industry,
 there is one thing which probably more than any other matter of in- terest would engage attention and cause surprise. This would be the daily account of the movement of
 mining machinery from the central
 markets into the camps and its in stallment into the mines. The , enormous amount of machinery thsl } is being drawn from the msnu- , lecturers. its costliuess and the vast J