Arizona republican., 1899-12-26
Mines and Mininq

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 down. The tunnel on the vein is in
 several hundred feet and shows ore in
 abundance.
 The White Hills company is now op- erating ten stamps of the big mill, says the Kingman Miner. Monday eight tons of gold ore from the Golden Eagle and Golden Star mines in Weaver dis trict, were crushed and on the result hinges important improvements on the
 properties. as the removal of the ten
 stamp mill on the G. A. R. is contem- plated. After a ten days run on com- pany ore A. L. McKesson will put in thirty days run from the William J.
 Bryan mine. Nothing definite is yet known of the future movements of the company.
 Clack brothers have five tons of very rich ore on the Nighthawk mine in Mo have county ready for shipment to the sampler
 A carload of hoisting machinery went out to Chloride from Kingman Thurs day morning of last week.
 It is thought that the Mocking Bird mine. Weaver district, will be extens- i lively worked in the near future. The mine is remarkably good one.
 Great improvements in the ores of the Midas Mining company mines now under development in Mohave county are reported. A foot of ore is now in one shaft from the surface to a depth of thirty feet, that gives assay results of over $100 to the ton in gold. The i development work done has been linn ! ited.
 | The San Francisco mine has inn proved wonderfully since operations were begun on it by the Yucca Cya- hide Mining and Milling company a few weeks ago, says the Kingman Miner. In the shaft mineral bearing ore now reaches from wall to wall and the value is in excess of that in the old workings. The company is thoroughly satisfied with its bargain.
 1 Quite a number of miners from the 1 Sheeptrail mines came to Kingman one day recently. The furnishing of poorly cooked food to the men was the cause of the exodus. Food in plenty was furnished but the cooking would not have passed muster even in a Chi nese hashery.
 w. P. Durham and G. A. Whiteford returned from Mineral creek Monday and went on to Los Angeles, says the Florence Tribune. MT. Eben Smith of Denver, who is one of the wealthiest mining operators in the west, accom- panied them. He went over the Ray properties, speaks very highly of them, 7 and predicts a great future for the l camp. Speaking of the proposed rail- road MT. Smith said it was an abso- 'lute necessity, and presented no engi- neering difficulties whatever compared to road he and his partner, Mir Moi fett, built from Florence to Cripple Creek, Colorado, a distance of forty miles, at a cost of S2, 400, ,OO0. If Smith 6S Moffett become interested in Mineral creek, which is not unlikely, they will make things hum.
 The Fl Paso News publishes the fol- lowing which will be of interest here: U. w. Payne, one of the most promi- nent mining men in Arizona and for a number of years general manager of the Grand Reef mine in Arivapi dis trict in Arizona, passed through this city. MT. Payne closed a deal in New York where he had been for the past month and where he sold two of the nine claims of the Grand Reef property for S400000 to eastern capitalists. The Grand Reef is the property of John Mackay. A great deal of development work has been done on the property which is gold, silver and copper, and although it is only a low grade propo- sition there are immense bodies of ore in sight The property is about sixty miles from Willcox.
 General Manager Blair reports a scarcity of carpenters at the Mammoth and an overflow of miners, says the Tucson Star. There is marked activity at the mine and mill, at the latter in view Of the introduction of more stamps and machinery, heretofore men, toned. Operations have commenced in Aravapai canyon in connection with establishing electrical power for ser vice at the mill and mine. Additions to the tramway are being introduced.
 The St. Louis Gold Recovery com Tany continues to dispose of old mill ta.-i@3s at the rate of 24O tons daily, Wkie the Biaisdell cyaniding plant is treating the dump created since fall a year ago.
 Michael Irish and John Ellis filed mo- uce cf the location of four mining claims in the Pima mining district. with the county recorder today.-Tuc- Son Citizen.
 William T. Smith, the assayer of Los Angeles, reports having received a sample of the ore said to be platinum found near Williams and upon anaIy- sis of it could not find a trace of plati- mum.
 From present indications it may be expected that the vicinity of Solomon Springs will soon be the scene of con siderable mining activity. says the Bis bee Orb. The terms of the bond on the Conley group given to Felix, Leavick, representing Denver capital, requires that systematic development work be inaugurated at an early day As Mr. Leavick's operations in this section have already shown him to be an ex- perienced and energetic mining man, representing or controlling abundant capital, there is no doubt but that that