Arizona republican., 1899-02-04
TIE NEWS OF
 PRESCOTT

Prescott, Ariz., Feb. 3-(Special cor qespondence of The Republican.)- )-- Great excitement prevails in the Brad shaw country over the reported find Of ore in the Crowned King mine run ming as high as G1G0,OO0 to the tor. That 8 big strike has been made is cer- tainly a fact.
 o. F. Place, who first located the Crowned King, and who is at present one of it's heaviest stockholders. ar rived from the Bradshaws Wednesday where he has been looking after the progress of his property known as the Moody 6 Place. and which adicins tho Crowned King
 When asked about the fabulous wealth of the new strike in the Crown ed King MT. Place said the report had reached him while there that the new discovery lay between the fourth and fifth level on the south drift The vein is said to run from five to twenty inches in width in a ledge that has been uncovered a distance of forty feet. The average assay value of this ore is put at $6,0G0 while portions talk en out runiias high as $1S3, ,000. to the ton. MT. Place hastnot seen a sam pie of the new strike, the information reaching him indirectly from MT. liar ringtOn, the superintendent, but it can safely be said this report is practi- cally accurate. r Expert netaflurgists who have wis tied the the Bradshaws in the past have pronounced it the richest gold producing section of Arizona, and the Crowned King strike certainly con- firms the declaration.
 This new development is sure to draw large number of prospeators to that section and the Bradshaws will be the scene of great activity this sum mer.. MT. Place reports satisfactory progress on the Moody and Place mine. He is sinking at the rate of three feet day and expects soon to have a mine equal to any in that part of the coun- try.
 A Hendley, the mining expert of Prescott, has followed up the inven- tion of remarkably successful con centratOr with the invention of a pro- cess by which the noise and vibration IS almost eradicated in the operation of stamp mill. MT Hendley has proven that the noise in a stamp does not come from the dropping of the stamps, but from an entirely different source. The test of his new invention l has just been made on the Mescal mill l near Prescott, and the mill now cper- ates almost noiselessly. Mr Hendley pledges me to secrecy until the patent I is secured, at which time his new dis cCvery will be made known
 Charlest Wingfeld came in from Huron Wednesday and left Thursday for his mine, where he will begin talk 1 ing out ore for shipment
 i J. B. Ross of Jamestown, N Y, vice | president of the Oriental Mining. com pany, together with WA Kent and ! L. B. Kent, who have charge of the | property, came in from Big Bug We'd | nesday. NIr. Ross and w A Kent left | on the evening train for Phoenix, | while L. B. Kent took the morning train for an extended visit east
 The long stretch of ideal weather | was broken Wednesday night with | snow storm that followed on the heels | of a high wind from the southwest.
 Judge F. NJ Sanford has just re. turned from Washington, D. C., where he went on legal business. He says the lien cases against the Henrietta | Mining company have been submitted to the supreme court of the United | States and the decisions are now mo- mentariIy expected.
 Andy Knoblock, one of Jerome's busiest business men, is in Prescott.
 R. K. Shoemaker, a young man re- gently a resident of Kansas City, has accepted Q position with Judge E. M. Sanford.
 o. F. Place, Judge Sanford, J. c. Mar tin and daughter Miss Irene Martin, left for Phoenix Thursday evening.
 WILL GILSTRAP. l