Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-08-02
MINING INTELLIGENCE
General 'and Local No es From h Field of Mines and ninins
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 Tue Monte Crist0 mining com Paay, whieh has been operating th
 Monte Cristo group of mines, aads. bond, yesterday purchased A bal interest in the PToPer,y. paying cAsl
 For it. The mines are looking yer,
 promising aud the mall Is being ruI
 day and night
 Anna S. Douglas, of NeE York
 caused the arrest of man who sold
 her Cripple Greek mine last year
 and sued for the purchase money
 SCol. on the ground that ste had
 been buneoed into buying a worth
 less property. She lost Increase and
 now the ore being taken out of heu
 mine runs from Sl0.00O to klO0.ON
 10 the ion and the vein Is eight feet
 wide.
 Henry B Clifford has quite a force
 Of engineers 10 the field exploring
 the country south of Jerome aud
 following up the course If the great
 copper belt oF zone on which the United Verde miue is located Mir.
 Clifford says his men have already
 made some very important discover
 ies.
 The Decatur company, operating
 near Jerome, last week struck .
 large body of copper sulphuret ore
 m their property. The discovery of
 this together with a strike made al
 most simultaneously in the News ' property den onstTateS that the | Jerome Ora belt extends iu a south
 erly direction. The News and De-
 catur property ara located | ei Ween
 Jsroms and the Copper Chief min,..
 The Decatur property is equipped
 with a steam hoist.
 An Associated Press disp.tcb r.-
 Ceived from Los Angeles SAYS:
 George Mitchell, farmerlv snperin-
 tendsnt of the United Verde mine At
 Jerome, A. T., Is m the city. He states that deal has been rloss.d
 whereby the controlling interest in the bag Cobrs GTande copper mine al La CAnaBea, district of Arizpa, Sonora. Mexico, has been sold to New York syndicate Tor <I.5O0O10.
 The deal vas closed at Phenix just before he left for this citv.T
 lt IS reported that j. Fl. Costello IS negotiating for the purchase ul the CObre Gfahde mine, Sonora. The stock Is mostly owned by small holders m Jerome, although sOme of it was taken by outsiders Mir. Cos tello oilers tO take the entire capital stock of the company, oT As much as be can secure, at S250 a share. There are 2)0000 shares in the Cobre Grande company The stock of the company has sold as high as S6 sbSrr an a great deal Ws.s purchased al $3. At DO iine dli 1t sell below its par value.
 During a visit here some time since Dr. HendryX gave instructions Co have cToSs-cut run in his Empire mine on Groom creek, to strike the vein at a depth of 3OO feet. The work was completei on Thursday, the day the doctor arriy d here and tue r-sults were most satisfart0ry as It demonstrated that the. ere body a' this depth is good aud the values "a iallv as good, If no. greater. than nearer the surface. Every man or l company that has lie nerve and 1 enterprise Ia sink on miuing prop critics in this section has exploited l the old idea that the ore bodies do l not go dCwn. In every district I where any great depth ha. been | reached IL has resulted in hniIng of the ore bodies.
 The report comes from White PicacbO district that a rich strike was made recently in the Winters group of claims there. The shaft had been sunk only seventy feet when the ledge nsrrawed from four feet to three feet. But the ore in creased greatly in richness aud the vein soon widened io three aud a half feet. In the sinking of the 70 loot shaft the hanging wall wa$ st. NJ assays have been made of the newly found ore, but 1t is estimated that two-thirds of It will carry from S6O to SlOO m Tree milling ore. Tine balance is base, running about 12 per cent copper, but 1t alsS car ries great deal uf gold. It is said to be nothing unusual 10 pick up piece of rock the size of hat which split open with a pick shows sides literally lined with gold. From this ledge toward the hanging wall is considerable country rock, which Is also imprI Euated with gold. ( Is thought to be an indication hat the pay streak will widen with iepth to meet the hanging wall, i
 ArizoBa's copper production for 1898 IS gwen at ll0S23.S64 pounds .s against Sl,0I9,922 for 1897. o- au increase of 29,S03,9i2 pounds. Iu ts aggregate production Ariznna ! itands third on the list. Montana eads with 2l6.979.334 pounds. Mich gan takes second place with l56,- ,69, ,09S pounds. Iu the increase Of ts product fnr the year Arizona q auks tisst. N.,r'1.,a SC, -,,ud ,,,il m increase of n,ething over 2O.OUD,- | 70, and Michigan third wIth an in c 'rease in round numbers of 9O00,0O bounds. The total copper product T. # the United States for 1898 was {, 35, 900. .232 pounds, a total increase ,ver 1897 of 34.529, ,937 pounds.
 Word 0mes from Jerome that a i trike of rich copper sulphurets was made last week in the News con- ,ang's property south of Jerome. 6 This IS the property being operated " Messrs. Owen and Van Zsndt. q The property is already equipped | 7ith steam hoist and on Saturday large new h0i'r- vas received by hem which will increase the a motive power of the plant. The ad- itioual power will be used in run F ing air CG0'H-r--nrs. The parties l avlng bo 'N property are ( 0 we'll pleased with it that they ave taken up the bond, paying the ull amount of the purchase price. . though the bond had not yet ex- fired.
 Since retiring from the personal and supervision of the )rowned King mining company, N.