Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-07-26
MINING INTELLIGENCE
General ard Local Na e Frsm sA Field si nines ass niaiss
 eseyshers.

Tas LoalA copper compAsyi sEasi
 t~f sSs started aP few dave ago
 Toe Star says that Slo0aO0 wiii bs
 lnEested la mining pEot.ertsss in shs
 vicinity of Taesoa daring the pre-
 ent Week.
 The Empire miaing company
 keeps its tsl stamp min running das
 and night on Lyux cFeSsk. lt is
 shipping a car load of cuBcensFAies every third day.
 ]. + CaaaSan, Who was formerly
 mAnageT of the Zoaia Copper ooEa- { pAny, has taken a hood oa a mine owned by Thomas Hamilto0 which
 he IS getting ready io work It is iu
 the same distFict Hith the ZoniA mIBes.
 J R Tomlinson started up woFk today on the old Jsanings group oI
 miRes eight miles south of iowa. There IS . good mill on the property aud the claims are looking very ] promising, and Il is stated that MF. Toniinson has ample capital 10 op- crate with
 The mill of the Disidend Mining company ia TioonderogA guleh has been started up with satisfactory results This Is the property of which Mr. ParmleV Is superialend- ent. The company has two claims. tbe 1ieonoeFoga and the Dividend ExtensioB, both of which are said to he very promising.
 John H. Hise, who came up on Saturday iron, has Monte Crislo mining camp, says that he is work ing about eighteen tons of ore per day and is saving sl0 per ton on the plates, the balance being saved in concentrates. The coneentratea are ol ve'Y high grade, goiag over f400 in gold Der too.
 The Val Verde Copper company has a day and a night force al work sinking . 3o-foOt Shaft on one of the properties. When the 900foot ieyel is reached the foses will com mence cross-cutting, as the indlca tions appear to prove that there's better orc undeFneslh.-NeEs
 The announcement is made that BepjAmin OrDe, of New York, who Is interested in the United Verde Extension eompany's mines at Je- rome. has purchased the upper Cananea mines in Mexico from W. C. Greene. The deal was Begotiat- ed by James Shirley AEd W. W. Vanderbilt. The papers for the transfer ace expected to he complet- ed and signed today in PbeaiK. The above property has a thirty-tOn smclter on it ready to start in opera ton at ouce and the claims are said to te very rich Ia copper
 SThs Mining 3na seieatiac Press gives the following good advice. Those who coRtanplAtasngAging in mining who have had no practical experience would do we'll tO employ some competent and reputable mn ing engineer to assist ia the enter prise 10 outline the development of the mine and determine the charac- ter of machinery snd the process tO be employed at least. Inexperience Snd self reliance have proven very expensive to some investors in mines in California and elsewhere.
 Maricopa county has sold to Leo Goldman for $40 the personal prop erty of the Harcuvar mining com pany, consisting of mill and other machinery. Charles Prange of St ICuis. a mining man, for many years we'll known in this part of AFi- zona, was the principal man iR the company. He bas failed Co pay its taxes for six years aud the county heiag unsble to sell it's property has annually taken 1t in.
 Word comes in that the opera { tious on the Planet Saturn group of gold mines in Fools gnlch is sue cesslul. A crew of about forty men 1 IS employed and a good supply oi 1 water is had ny piping. The at- l tempt to work the ore by rollers was 1 a failure on account of the hardness I of the rock, which wore the rollers 1 uBeveniy. Treating the ore by a stamp mill wss begun a feW months 1 ago as test, but this process has ceased to bs an experiment. and the capacity of the plant will be in- creased.
 An alien cannot locate a mining claim 10 the United States unless he I declares his intention to become a l citizen thereof. when he has the 1 same rights as a citizen. An alien. l however, may purchase a mining claim from a ct zen locator, and hold . the same until the fact of aliensge I Is authoritstiVely established by a public officer, upon an inquest held l at the instance of the government.
 Walter c Filler, who recently took | bond on the EmporiA mine, owned by Demary, keayes & Storts, located i about six miles south of town, has nine men al work developing 1t. The above miners sank a shaft ll0l feet deep on the claim and did other work on 1t. 1t shows up very en- couragingly. Now that they have bonded their own property they are nc tgotIating for bond and lease on an adjoining mining claim. If they secure It they wilt go to work at once developing it.
 Arthur Hendy was m town Satur- day and reports good progress be- ing made on the Copper Chief mine which he is working. He is sinking 6 double compartment shaft i've by eight feet four inches in the clear, and has it down now l90 feet and has ore all the way across the entire width of the shaft. Just how much 4 wider the ore is he does not know as he has never yet crosscutted to as certain the width of the ore body. He will continue sinking until a depth of at least 500 feet is attained.
 A telegram from Denver says that the American Smelling and Refining will endesvor to reopen within 8 few days, its smelters in Denver, Pueblo, Leadville and Du- Tango that have been closed since June l5 on account of the demand made by employees for the same wages for eight hours as they had been receiving for ten to twelve hours. The company offers the scale of wages paid previous to the ten per cent reduction in 1893. An eight hour schedula will he cyivan fo