Mohave County miner., 1899-09-23
General Mining News

spanned the Wabash river, near Clin-
ton, Indiana, for half century has
been removed by aid of the electric
current. The county bought the piers,
the principal owner agreeing to remove
the superstructure to make way for a
new bridge. Efforts we're made to burn
the bridge, but it was found that this
would injure the piers, so the sills were
wired and electricity applied. Ia nine
hours the pile toppled into the river,
leaving the foundations unhurt. The
current had the effect of cutting all
the sills simultaneously as with so
many saws.-Electricity.
A Santa Fe, N. NJ, dispatch says:
S. g. Burn, the English mine expert,
representing Thomas A. Edison, hav-
ing formally received possession of
the Ortiz mine grant, for which the
inventor and his associates paid 3.000,-
COOS, left South Santa Fe county to-
night for New York, carrying with him
large supply of placer gravel which
will be used in making an exhibition
test of Edison's gold, saving device
The exhibition will be made in the
presence of the stockholders of the
new corporation purchasing the Ortiz
grant, styled the Calestro company
This is to be the final test, others hav-
ing been highly satisfactory. Mr..
Burn says there are S00,0o0,0O0S in gold
in the gravel beds near Santa Fe, which
his company now controls. Edison is
quoted as saying; II expect to go to
New Mexico with the machinery and
to superintend the construction of the
plant. We shall begin work at once.
At the start we shall produce l0,O00S
worth of gold every day. There is
S00,000,000S worth of it there. The
electric machinery will take it directly
from the sand. There will be no trans
portation of the ore. We shall handle
it all on the spot, and merely ship the
pure gold. My process has solved the
problem of gold mining without water.
1t has been tested and found to fulfill
all requirements"
Hon. j. j. Hawkins came into town
yesterday and today closed the final
act in the Equator litigation, and rung
down the curtain on this famous law
suit. Deeds were signed by W. s..
Verde of Camp Verde, and E. A., f. Z.
and W. A. Jordan, conveying their in
terest in and to this group to w. A..
Clark and j. l.. Giroux, consideration
about l3,Oo0s, and deeds have been
sent 10 Prescott for record. 1t is said
that several persons whose names do
not appear of record in the transaction
received handsome payments for claims
involving portions of this property.
However that may be, the Equator, as
a name, has passed from history. Mr..
Clark's interests in this group will
henceforth be called the Iron King,
and the property of Duke, Hendy, ct
al, will be known by the name of Cop
per Chief. To say Equator" to any
of the parties of the amicable settle
ment is to invite serions consequences.
This happy termination OF what prom.
ised at one time to be another Jarndyce
VS.. Jarndyce, certainly is q big thing
for Jerome, and for Yayapai county
as it is currently reported and believed
that the mines in the vicinity of Equa
tor hill are just about the biggest
things in the way of copper on the Pa
cific coast, not barring even the great
United Verde. There already is SONS
talk of laying off town site in the vi
cinity and the selling of town lots
so sanguine is the sentiment that 1
great settlement will spring up in tha
locality, which is some four or fiv,
miles in a northeasterly direction frc n
this camp in the Black Hills.-Ariz M
Republican.
Copper lodges have been found a
several places in the Chilcat noun
tains, back of Pyramid harbor. One O
the discoverers is j. O'Mally. His or
carries gold, silver and copper. Th
vein is eight inches to seven feet il
width. The recent strike on the Dial
ton trail was copper find near tn
White Horse rapids in the Cope
Blowout district. l,OOOs in place
gold from the Cape Nome district wa
brought to Seattle by Captain Hal
kins, of the schooner Una. The gol