Arizona republican., 1899-12-02
MINING NOTES.

Lone Pine claims. about one-haf mile from the Copper Chief. The claims are bonded in the names of H. A. Van Zandt and H. E. Owen. There are three hundred feet of tunnel on the property now and it is intended to put a small power plant in at once to eX- plOre the claims. The Lulu and Lone Pine are the claims recently bonded by Lyons & KnOblock from whom the present holders take them.-Jerome Reporter.
 George w. Campfield. who has been
 spending several days in Bland in the
 interest of the hardware house of T.. J. Post & Co.,, returned last night. Like every one else who has visited the prosperous district lately, he was
 greatly impressed with the evidences of rapid growth and busy life, says the Albuquerque Journal-Democrat. Twe1 ty-five people. he said, went into the camp yesterday by Trimble's stages. and this is about an average number When the Lone Star people begin con struction of the new tramway from the mine to the new mill great many ad- ditiOnal men will find work.
 Mr. Charles F. Potter of Minneapolis | ceived by him from the Colorado Iron
 works of Denver which reads as fol-
 lows: Tn reply to your favor of the 7th instant we are building a circular
 copper furnace for the Copper King of
 Arizona, and expect to make shipment within the next thirty days. .''-Bisbee Orb.
 Several shipments of ore have been ! da 1ot lNz-T r-ti1
 that have leases upon the Toughnut
 group of mines. The ore carries suffi- cient gold to pay expenses and helps
 out iderably.-Tombstone Pros pectOr.
 From parties just in from the gold
 camp near Antelope springs, Dragoon
 mountains, we learn that mining is very active in that locality, says the
 Tombstone Prospector. N. Anguis Of : Bisbee is heavily interested in a group of mines upon which extensive work is to be done. A five stamp mill is now being erected and will be running with i'll sixty days.
 | The country is full Of experts who,
 in the language of the late lamented Bill Nye, don't know a true ledge from
 true Assure gopher hole" The oth2r i day one of these gentlemen was stand l ing by the Old Dominion tramway as
 the buckets brought in a tram load of l fluXing lime. The expert took a piece | of the lime, adjusted his magnifiar l philosophically. gave it a profound jack | knife assay and remarked that he didn't believe it would run over 12 per ! cent in copper but it might carry con- siderable silver
 Daniel G. Jewett has resigned his position as metallurgist of the Big Bug smeIter and will quit the position De- cember l.
 l Colonel Bosworth started his d:a- mond drill Tuesday, says the Journal | Miner, prospecting the Baumann cop per properties in Agua Fria district. | While he is engaged in boring into the | bowels of the earth to locate and de termine the size of the ore bodies sup posed to exist there, MT. Baumann has
 a force of men at work on the Alice
 mine. one of the group. taking out ore
 to ship to the Val Verde shelter. MT. Baumann says he has a fine body of | high grade ore exposed there and he
 is taking it out as rapidly as possible. | Johnny Merwin, who with Belcher
 and Smith is interested in the Polar group of mines that adjoin the Crown l l.. | a heavy shipment of ore consigned to the sampling works in this city, says | the Journal-A1iner. The ore en route l is merely a test lot taken from various openings in the property, and when 1 treated will give the owners
 a good idea of their claims.
 IT satisfactory returns are given [ the developing of the property | n=ix-
 scale. The Polar claims as they stand
 today are spoken decidedly well of
 among miners LIT. Merwin also states
 that the Crown Point mill is dropping
 stamps as long as the water supply
 available will permit and reports are
 that it is a profitable plant. The mill
 on this mine is one of the finest in the ! west.
 Speaking of the new platinum dis
 covery near Williams the Journal
 Miner says: John Roberts. who has returned from the platinum mines of i Cataract canyon. was seen today by
 a reporter and when asked in regard to | the latest developments there said: | Joe Owens took fifty-three pounds or samples from seven of his claims and
 hired an assayer from Williams to go with the samples to Los Angeles and see a mill test run of them. He also
 said he would not be satisfied with re-
 turns if the platinum extracted from | the samples were not returned with
 certificates of assay or mill test. He
 showed me the mill test returns, also
 the platinum sent to him as the metal
 extracted from the samples. He fur
 ther said he had never sent one word
 to a newspaper office to have the camp
 boomed. but a would-be, or broken down editor came to him on two occa-
 sions telling hirl he would write it up
 if he COwensj paid him for it. Owens
 said no, if the metal was not there he
 wanted no boom; if it was there it would boom Itself on its merits. There