Arizona republican., 1899-06-23
Mines and MininQ


Springfield will make it one of the
 best camps ia the county.-.Prescott
 Courier.
 Another seTiCsis affray occurred at i Dcs Cabezas, Sunday w. P. Reuss, a
 carpenter employed by G. W. Bibbens
 at the Dives mine, gave to a Scotch
 nm named Hugh Mcdonald an order
 which the latter resented. In the en-
 suing quarrel ReuSs made a rush at Mcdonald, and received the point Cf a
 miners candlestick in his breast, sus-
 tai1ing bad wound He was brought
 to Dr. Nicholson, whc found his in ] jury to be quite serious The steel
 shank of the cand,estick entered his lefl breast near the breast bone and 1 penetrated to a depth of from four to six inches, passing diagonally through both lungs Dr. Nicholson states that while he Is not yet out of danger his i symptoms today are favoraI5le.-Ari
 zona Range News.
 1 It is said that there is no waste Of ] cd iron or machinery at the mines of i the United Verde Copper company, for, ] as soon as it comes under the head of
 waste, it is thrown into water which cones frcm the mines and the action Of the copper imQregnated water soon causes the iron tC disappear and cop per to take it's pace. It is said that a large iron car wheel will be thus sub stituted by copper in remarkable short space of time. It is common
 around the mines to hear heavy blast ing going on, as old machinery is be- ing blown to pieces 70 oe placed in the copper water-Prescott Courier
 George Mitchell of the Cobre Grand Mining company of Mexico, came Up
 this morning from the south. MT.
 Mitchell a little over six months ago.
 was an employee of the United Verde Copper company at Jercme as head sinelter. Tcday he could realize $1,-
 000,000 or more Cn his holdings Of stock in the Cobre Grand company, which is taking out over s4,00O worth Of copper per Gay.-JeTcne Miner.
 An eastern capitalist said to the Courier man that, after examining the Copper mountain mining properties, he had offered Hon. I. T. Stoddard $200,- 900 for them, ard that Mr. Stoddard refused the offer.-PTescott Courier
 Hualpai Clark, foreman of the Table mountain mines, was in the city las. night leaving for the mines again this mcTning. Tcare are f1fty-seven ci9-nS IOCdJSQ III CQo 1slD.e mountain district ard the work of surveying them has just bern completed. Mr. Clark thinks that this will prove to be one of the best camps in the territory The ore makes a good showing both in gold md copper. Foreman Clark was for many years chief of the Hualpai scOuts under Crook and has Lr1d many interesting experiences. He is very enthusiastic over Tucscn's prospects, ] and with good reascn. He claims that this will become the big mining center Of the territory. MT. Clark contem- plates building a home in Tucson at an early d~te.-Tucson Star.
 It is an interesting fact about the RcsemOnt mining property that a 1 great deal of money was once expend- ed on the mines, af>er which they were practically abandoned. J. Rose, the wealthy Californian, ,who recently com mi5ted suicide in Los Angeles, was the founder Of ROsemOnt An exchange l says that the mine was developed by Mr Rose te. the tune Of s60,000 and then work discontinued. Subsequent 1 events proved the property to be a val uab,e one, as under the present man. l agement it is being operated very sue | cessfully.-TLcsOn Star.