Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-08-23
MINING INTELLIGENCE General and Local Notes From the Field of Mines and Mining
 Everywhere.

Ralph Campbell, recent arrival
 from the east, has taken bond on group of mining claims on the
 head of Groom creek. owned by Tim Fell aud MT. Fletcher Tor Sl0,OO0
 M. s. Taft has his drift ou the l25 foot level of the Sterling mine now ID 50 feet and has about two feet of very rich copper ore in the face of it.
 The drift Is 10 ore all the way, some Of it running as high as forty per cent in copper.
 The Gladiator mine which was sold recently under judgment on fore closure of lAboFeTs' liens, has been purchased by T. G. Norris. The mine is considered good one and Is we'll opened up and is equipped with a stamp mill.
 Within two years California will have mines over 800 feet ID depth. There are several shafts now down, to the 200 foot mark, or near it, and some below il. When the new Kennedy shaft in Amador county reaches the proposed depth of $500 feet 1t will be about 900 feet below sea level.
 Word comes from reliable source that the Spenezuma compaay are about to resume operations on their properties. The manager, Schuyler $ Moore, IS at present at Spenezuma and will visit Tucson in e few days. 1t is understood that the manage ment IS going to put in additional machinery and that the properties are going tO be thoroughly develop ed. Star.
 The Nogales Videtts says that Richard George aud his big freight outfit arrived m that city a few days ago, the first big consignment of copper ore brought to that point for shipment from the Cobre Grande mine. Mir. George says the Dew owners of the mine are making things hum out there, and barrels of money will be spent to make the big copper camp a bonanza. Alter advertising for weeGs the Harqus Hala mine was not sold at auction. The highest bid for the mines was S5,0l0, which was prompt ! lY rejected by C. H. Lindl.y, al ! toTney and auctiOneer. 4 number l of bidders were present, but ali ! seemed rather timid and the sale was a disappointment A. G. Hubbard. who sold the mines to the present owners few years ago for Sl, ,2JO. .OOO. !. was the highest bidder. It IS under ] stood that arrangements were made later m the week whereby Mir. Hub bard will again get possession of the . property, but the consideration was not made public.
 The Mohave County Miner tells ! Of San Francisco man named Tel l | Ter who is in that town, who claims to have a new method for the reduc- ton of ores. He claims that sy his method ores can be treated for not l to exceed S7 per ton and over % ] per cent of the assay value of gold and silver extracted. The process is l simple and inexpensive. Mir. Teller will take 2O tons of ore from the | CeTbat mine to San Francisco, ! where a thorough test ot it will be made by this process, and if it . proves a success the county will be given a thorough examination and | in the near future a plant of 100 tons | capacity will be installed h, King l man. A company has been formed ID San Francisco to operate the new process.
 Amended articles of incorporation of the Cobre Grande Copper com { pany have been filed with the county z recorder of Maricopa county. Two sth,Tds Of the stock of the company voted 10 amend the articles at the meeting of the stockholders of the company ou July 25. J. H. Costello is named as the president of the company and J. H. Woods, the min ing expert who made a report on the Cobre Grande mines prior to the sale of stock last month, Is the sec retsry. These two men own the two-thirds of the stock which voted the amendments.
 George Hamlin has returned from visit to his property, the Relief mine, twenty-three miles northeast of Phenix. 4 great deal of develop ment work has been done, but the ore has been mostly low grade. When Mir. Hamlin was there the other day he concluded that a shaft should be straightened. 4 portion of the fast wall was blasted where the wall was crooked and consider able pOrphyry was thrown into the shaft. I his rock was found to run nearly $200 in gold. The ore which had previously been taken from the mine was quartz, and the porphyry was thought to be worthless. The extent of the rich rock Is not known but it is probably only pocket.-7' Gazette.
 Capt. T. c. Cree has returned from a trip 10 tho Castle creek min ing district, wbi l. i> attracting at tention just now owing 10 the rich copper claims that are being opened up there. Capt. Cree says that there is more activity in that dis trict just now than he has ever seen before. He visited the Gray group of copper claims which give prom ise of becoming rich producers of copper ore. The veins appear in a favorable formation, being con tained in lime, porphyry, iron and granite, the matrix of the ore being lime. The character of the ore is a hard carbonate and the assays show that it is very rich. There Is 300 feet of work d ue ou these claims, exposing the veins to a considerable depth and defining the strike of the ore. Justice c n. Gray of Phenix, | Jim Dunn d C. .T McAunlv are the owners UI t--s group. Justice Gray believes that the claims will produce 8 good mine with develop ment and it is the intention of the owners to prosecute further deveI- opment work early in the fsll.-Her- aid.
 The great hoisting frame which was mentioned in the Herald last evening will be shipped to the Cop [ peropolis mine in the Castle creek . mining district tonight. This frame . T 4 h. HE