Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-04-19
MINING INTELLIGENCE
General and Local Notes From - Field of Mines and Mining
 Everywhere.

Articles of incorporation of the Mining and Milling com pany are pub ished in this issue. The company is operating the Sterl- ing mine on Big Bug. It IS con- posed of men of wealth from the east, several of whom visited Pres colt recently.
 A mining claim has been located on the very outskirts of Prescott by J. G. Wanen, 6 miner from Nevada. He found some vecy good looking float and following up the indica- tions discovered and located the ledge, the ore from which shows up free gold.
 A csblegram received from Lon don announces that W. s. Strattou
 has sold bis famous Cripple Greek
 mine, Independence" to the Ventura
 company, of London. The price is
 not stated but is believed to be not
 less than S2,O00,0O0 and may be
 much larger if all his Cripple Creek
 property is included.
 The Garcia mine, near Wicken-
 burg, which has been closed down
 for some time will soon be started
 up again. The shaft is down nearly
 4O0 feet and . good grade of free
 milling ore lies in the lower drift.
 Probably thirty-6ve men will be employed when the property is re
 opened. New claims are constantly
 being located in that section, which
 IS assuming a marked degree of sc
 tiyity.
 Arthur Hendy came in from Je-
 rome yesterday, on a brief trip on
 business. He is at present in charge of the famous Copper Chief mine
 which was in litigation for so many years. He says that he has num-
 Der of men at work at present mak- ing a road to the property, that just at soon as that is completed he
 will start at work in the develop
 ment of the property itself The
 parties who own 1t at present are practical mining men and know just what 1t takes to make a mine. They will develop it thoroughly before thinking of putting up plant for the reduction of the ore, or in other
 words will find out what they have before commencing to prepare for its treatment. There is little doubt but 8 big camp will be built up there, and probably 6 second Je- rome.
 The FL Paso Times of recent date tells of 8 coal deposit that may prove of importance to Arizona: Some of the finest samples of hard coal known as anthracite, have been discovered near the border of So- nora and Arizona, samples of which have been sent to Fl Paso for in- yestigation and have been found to compare very fsvorably with the Pennsylvania coal. The parties own ing the same have not secured their titles as yet. If the development work proves up large deposit the proposed extension of lhe Sierra Msdre road will come very close to said coal fields, which will give at least private houses in Fl Paso and Juarez a cheap fuel, the anthracite of Pennsylvania being consumed in private houses in preference to bi taminOus coal.
 They now call it Greater Jerome" and it is going to be the biggest city ! ID the territory. Incidentally they I remark that Ysyapai county has the best nining outlook of any county 1 in the territory. The Tucson papers make the same big talk about Pima county and Kingmsn papers have been making the same claim for Mo have county. all the time. On top of these assertions the balance of the territory says Pherix does all the As matter of fact, while county does not claim to have the biggest mines in the world, there are some valuable properties within her borders.-Phenix Herald. The JoURNAL-MNER does not indulge in any boasts, or bragging in con neetion with the mining industry of Yavapai county, but con- fines itself to facts, and right in this line, it is justified in saying that one mine alone within its border has an output probably equal in value to the output of all the other mines in the territory. TaYapai has several other pretty big producers too besides this one property. I
 W. Fl. Ferguson, left this morning Tor the Ridenour mines in MOhave county to take charge of them as He was accom- panied by John s. Mcdonald who .akes the position of foreman of the nine. He also sent out two twelve animal freight teams this morning with over $500 worth of supplies aboard. After their arrival they will be employed in freIghtiag ore rom the mine to the railroad. The cams are owned by T. B. Carter md Steve Jackson, of Wainut jrove. MT. Ferguson also employed force of sixteen miners and just as 'apidly as possible this number will oe increased as it is his intention to push the development work on the 'laims as rapidly as possible. The 'laims are already fairly we'll de- IeloPed aud show up large bodies 'f ore. They are known as the jrand Canyon group aId are To- .ated north of Aubrey, on the Santa He Pacific railroad. The Mohave Miner of last week says that Conard's 'ig pack train passed through King nan Thursday last on its way to 2idenours copper mine, north Of the where it will pack ore to the ailroaG to the mine. It is expected hat carload day will be shipped rom the mine to the Pueblo melter.