Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-07-26
MINING INTELLIGENCE General and Lseal Ne es Frsm 0 Field Si Mines ard miniss
 Everywhere.

The ZoBia copper eompAhy snaei , ter was started ap fcw days ago.
 The Star says that SlO0.0l0 will h, inFe'siesi la mining properties in ih. vicinity of Tuesoa during ths pr,..
 ent week.
 The Empire mining eompan,
 keeps its tea stamp mill running dsl
 and night % Lynx creek. it |,
 shipping . car load of eoDeentrAie.
 ssery third day.
 J.H. Caravan, who wAs form~rl,
 manager ot the Zsaia Copper com.
 pany, has takeE . bond ca a mins
 owned by Thomas HAmiltoa which
 he is gstting ready t5 work. It is iE
 the same district Nith the Zonia
 mIues.
 ! J. R. Tomiinson started up work
 today en the old JsBnings group ol
 mines eight miles south of town.
 There IS a good mill 0n tke propert ' aud the claims are looking veTy
 promising, and tt Is stated that MF. ! Tomisnson has ample capital to op- crate with.
 The mill of the Dividend Miaing company in TicohdeToga galeh has been started up with satisfactory resultS. This is the property nl which Mr. ParmleV is EupeFiateDd- ent, The company has tWO claims. the Tioonderoga and the Dividend
 EKteasion, both of which are said to be very promising.
 John Fl. Hise. who came up on Saturday from has Monte Crisio mining camp, says that be is work | ing about eighteen tons oF ore per day and is saving tl0 per ton on the | plates, the balance being saved in concentrates The conoentraies AFs oi vesy high grade, going over Slo0 in gold per ton.
 The Val Verde Copper company has . day and night force at woFk sinking a 2O0-foot shaft on one of the properties When the 300-foo, level is reached the force will com mence cross-eutting, as the indsca- tions appear to prove that there's better ore underneath.-News. The announcement is made that [ Benjamin Orne, of New York, who is Interested la the United Verde Extension eomPany's mines at Je- rome. has purchased the upper CAnAnes mines in Mexico from W. C. Greene The deal was negotial- ed by James Shirley and W. W. Vanderbilt. The papers foG the transfer ace expected to be complet- ed and signed today in PheaiK. The above property has . thirty ton smclteT on it ready to start in opera ton at onee and the claims are said to be very rich ia copper.
 sa'hs Mining an6 seisatisc Prs. gives ths following good sdsices Those who coatsm plAtssagAging in mining who have had 30 practical experience would do we'll to employ some competent and reputable mn ing engineer to assist in tho enter prise to outline the development oi the mine and determine the chaEac. ter of machinery and the process to be employed at least. Inexperience and sell reliance have proven very expensise Co some investors 10 mines in California and elsewhere.
 Maricopa county has sold to Leo Goldman for $1D0 the personal prop erty of the HarcuvAr mining com pany, consisting of mill and other machinery. Charles PFange oi St I Tcuis. q mining msa, for nanv years well known in this part of Ari- zona, was the principal man in the company. He has failed to pay it's taxes for six years aud the county being unable lo sell its property has annually taken 1t in. sseI
 Word comes iu that the opeEa- tions on the Planet Saturn group of gold mines in Fools guich is sue cesslUl. A crew of about forty men IS employed and a good supply oI water is had 5y piping. The at-
  q failure on account of the hardness of the rock, which wore the rollers uBevenly. Treating the ore by a stamp mill was begun few months ago as a test, but this process has csased 10 bs an experiment. and the capacity of the plant will be in- creased.
 An alien cannot locate . mining claim m the United States unless he declares his intention to become citizen thereof, when he has the same rights as citizen. An alien, however, may purchase a mining claim from a citizen locator, and hold the same until the fact Of alienage Is authoritatively established by a public officer. upon an inquest held at the instance of the government.
 Walter G Filler, who recently took | a bond on the Emporia mine, owned 1 by DeInaEy, Keayes X Storts, located l about six miles south of town, has nine men at work developing it. l The above miners sank a shaft 1I0 feet deep on the claim and did other | work on t. It shows up very en- coHTagingly. Now that they have 1 bonded their own property they are negotiating for bond and lease on | an adjoining mining claim. If they secure 1t they will go 10 work at | once developing it.
 Arthur Hendy was in town Satur- day and reports good progress be- ing made on the Copper Chief mine which he is working. He is sinking a double compartment shaft five by eight feet four inches in the clear, and has 1t down now l9O feet and | has ore all the way across the entire width of the shaft. Just how much wider the ore IS he does not know as he has never yet crosscutted to as certain the width of the ore body. He will continue sinking until depth of at least 500 feet is attained.
 A telegram from Denver says that the American Smelling and Refining company will endeavor to reopen within a few days, its smelters in Denver, Pueblo, Leadville and Du- Tango that have been closed since June l5 on account of the demand | made by employees for the same wages for eight hours as they had been receiving for ten to twelve hours. The company offers the scale of wages paid previous to the ten per cent reduction in 1893. An eight hour schedule will be given to