Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1899-12-19
Mines and MininQ


the Azurite and General Thomas F.
Wilson visited the Azurite yesterday.
Mr.. Christy expressed himself pleased
with the mines, plant, etc. 1t is said
that Mr.. Christy has negotiated the
sale of the Azurite. Should this be so.
he ought to be christened the prince of
the Azurite, for it is a magnificent
property and the purchasers, whoever
they may be, ought all to make prince
ly fortunes.
T. 3. and T. c. Mills have taken a
ond on two copper claims in the Santa
litas from Thomas Deering and w. B.
dcCleary, says the Tucson Star. Two
hundred feet of work has been done on
he claims and the Messrs. Mills will
return from New Mexico next month
o continue development. They both
ike the climate of this section and will
remain some time after they return
lere. a good figure was agreed upon
between the parties to the deal.
n. S. Wight is shipping right along
to Ell Paso from the Cuba mine in Pr
nal county near Mammoth, says the
Tucson Star. The Cuba is rich in cop
Der. silver and lead. Foreman E. Kin
gen, who has been well known in this
section for many years is in charge. He
was in town this week and said a new
shaft had just been started on the apex
If the lead and struck ore at ten feet,
Of high grade. He will go down 100
feet TO the top of the lower drift. In
locations are good for more ore chutes
ahead, the new shaft being 200 feet be-
yond the fall of the drift.
H. D. Hardy and D. NJ. Gilleland
have contracted with parties from
Phoenix to sink a seventy-five foot
shaft on one of their copper claims
known as the Maybell, says the Globe
Silver Belt. This is one of the many
fine claims on Gun creek, and is To-
Gated about two miles from the Schell
group. The ore is copper glance, and
runs from 80 to 40 per cent copper with
forty ounces silver. Many who have
seen this claim say it is one of the
best IN the district. Mr.. Thompson OF
Verde is experimenting the work.
]. T. Dougine, the we'll known min
ing man who was formerly enga ged in
mining operations in Santa Maria, is in
town attending some litigation. Mr..
Dougine says that upon the favorable
termination of this litigation he Will
resume his operations again.-Journal-
Miner.
Charles H. Gibson, the mining engi-
neer, who has been examining the
Rebel mine. the south extension of the
McCabe mine on the Big Bug district,
has completed his report, which is very
flattering to the Rebel vein. Mr.. Glib
son states that the ore body recently
struck is almost certainly a continual
ton of the Bonanza found in the Nc
Cabe mine. A Davis within has been
placed on the Rebel and shipments of
ore will be made to either of Mr.. Cliff
ford's stamp mills on Big Bug creek
and the smelling ore will be sent to the
Big Bug smelter.-Journa1-M Miner.
Under an order of the court the Sun
Dance mine was sold recently at trus-
tees sale, says the Journal-Miner. The
purchaser was ]. H. Wilkerson of Chi
cago and the purchase price $4,000.
The property is equipped with first
class mill and under systematic and
intelligent business management can
be made to pay handsome profits.
Homer Goss came in on Thursday
with the old compressor which has
been in the Quijotas and the machin-
cry is being put into good condition by
Gardiner, Worthen & Goss for the
King of Arizona Gold Mining and Mill
ing company.-Tucson Star.
Frank King returned from a trip to
Helvetia and he says the camp looks
fine and that the Helvetia Copper COM
pany is experimenting on carbonate
ores. He echoes the opinion of others
that the Helvetia is the coming camp
of Pima county.-Tucson Star.
Colonel E. S. Ives was prominent
figure on the streets of Tucson yester-
day. The colonel is delighted with the
promising future of the King of Ari-
IONA in which he is interested with Col
| onel Randolph. There are about 200
men at work in the mine and at the
mill.-Star.