Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-04-05
MINING INTELLIGENCE
General and Local Notes From the Field Of Mines and Mining
 Everywhere


 The mill for the Crown Point mine Is nearing completion and will be started up very soJn.
 Word comes from Kirkland valley that a new stamp mill is being erect cd there.
 Assessor Dillon who recently re- turned from . trip through Big Bug, ChApaTral and Lynx Greek reports mining more active than he has ever seen it before.
 The celebrated Adams placer dig glngs" have been found again. Thsse famous diggings have been found very numerously of late yearA The latest discovery of them locates them in Navajo county. The true history of Adams and his gold discovery aP- pesred in the JoURNAL- MINER several months Ago in connection with . previously reported ind of bis placer property.
 Robert }. Atkinson, who owns a claim near Iron Spring, and which be has worked spAsmodicaiiy at dif- ferent periods. working the ore in an srastra. has brought in some fine specimens from it R hich are Ou ex- hIbiiion 4t the Wiusor hotel. From picked ore taken from thls clAirL, Mir. Atkinson has TealIzsd as high as SlOO per ton, iu aa arastrs. Toe ledge Is four feet wide while the ore streak lR places IS twelve inches wide With a little money for de- yelOpment there are excellent pros Pects for oPeuing up a good mine oui of the claim.
 The Red Rock hoist and mill has beeu started up again alter 8 delay of little over three weeks, occa- sioned by the 6re of the early part of the month. Mir. Little has made a remarkable record n connection with this accident. The fire oe- cured on Friday afternoon. Mir. Little left on Sunday morning fol- lowing for San Francisco and on the following Tuesday evening hsd the machinery loaded on the cars there ready for immediate shipment. In exactly twenty-two days from the date of the fire the hoist had been placed ia position sEd started in operation the mil connected also and running.
 Charles K. Wores, Of the Tucson sSm bling works, says that the gen eTal activity in mining ID Pima county has increased the business of his company a great deal, and hun dreds of assays are being made to- day where there was comparatively no work a year ago. Mir. Wores at- tributes this also to the raise in the price of assaying at the university. ProspectoEs give the local assayes tse Eaeferenee with pFsees the same. he says. The ssfnpliBg works are shipping 8 grest deaf of lead ore, the principal product of this ore coming from the Doxology mine. He looks for the opening Of many new mines this year and a great in crease m ore shipments from this city.-Tucson Citizen.
 J.R. Slack and his son, J. K. Slack, have taken a lease on the Helvetis aud Mountain View mines, owned by Dan Hatz and located at the head of Slate creek. The claims have practically lain idle for several years, althcsgh at one time, during ante-railroad days, considerable ore was taken out that stood the expense of wagon shipment. and left nica profit besides over cost of mining and reduction. Mir. Slack has clean ed out some of the old workings and has found a body of ore fourteen inches wide that goes xl5 in gold, S36 in silver, st current rates, and about sixteen per cent copper. NIT. Slack has had the happy faculty heretofore of almost always catch ing on" to good thing and it is hoped that the present venture may prove no exception to the rule. The never ceasing energy exercised by him in mining matters entities him to all the success possible to achieve.
 4 recent issue of the PheniX Ga zette contains the following item some mining property sn this county: William Osborn IS an old timer in Arizona, having resided here for long perlod of years. lesv- ing about one year ago to take up residence in the soidiers' home at Santa Monica Some IS years ago be located a group of copper claims about 90 miles from Wickenburg and he has held ou to them year in and year out, through good and Ill repute up to the present time when be bonded them to q party from Colorado. There are fifteen claims and expert Wm. E. Deity says that fl bIg mIne IS not quickly devel- Oped out of the group then all signs fail. Development work is to be commenced at once and . number of men have already gone there to es- tablish camp. W. E. Deity will be in charge of the work and left last night ou the north bound train. Before starting he sad that he hsd all the men now necessary but that more men would be put On the rolls as soon as the way was made clear to accommodate them. Tue chances are good inst these properties will within short time realize all that MT. Osborn always insisted they would, and 1t IS 10 be hoped that the old man will i've long enough to 10 part enj joy some of the comforts of life made possible through sn ability to draw his checks whenever the change in his pockets runs short. Not great deal of development has beeR done. There are two shafts, one nlnety-four feet deep and the other sixty feet. It is estimated that it will require s shaft between 300 and 400 feet deep to pierce the surface cap. The nearest water is over twenty miles distant and the present operators have abandoned the ices of piping 1t. They believe that a good supply of water will be available when the base is reached 
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