Arizona republican., 1899-09-27
Mines and MininQ

i sink 1OO feet.-PreScOtt Courier.
 One of the n-st notable of man!
 good mineral finds lately made in thi.
 vicinity, says the Courier, is that O
 Messrs. Nash. Cunningham anC
 Craigue, three miles from the Lawlel
 mining group. on Copper creek, ant
 three miles from Boulder creek Tht ledge shows a width of 150 feet on toI
 of ths ground, and surface ores gave
 an assay value of 11.35 and 12.65 pel cent copper. The property is being
 sought after by investors; but the own CTS have concIuLcd to develop the mine 1 themselves and n,tx .lf-v-i ,'A0 IF ne. 2
 at work. F. A. Craigue, one of the l cswners, located and worked tine old ! DosOris which some years ago was one of the richest silver mines in Ari- zona.
 Ben Belcher, accompanied by Dele gate Wilson. yesterday returned from a visit to the Henrietta mine, which is
 rapidly showing up as a first-ciass mining property under it's present management, says the Courier. The l hoist cn the mine started up yester- 1 Jay, and five stamps of the twenty | stamps will start up next Wednesday l on test run Of sixty tons of the ore. No mere than five stamps can be run
 
 On the Henrietta and eighty feet from the line between tine Gopher and Hen- rietta a new shaft is down forty feet, exposing four and a half feet of ore, which carries from $16 to SIS per ton free gold. The lower levels cf the mine are being cleaned out and re-U;m- bered MT. Belcller statss that on Sat urday three men took three tons for their days work. and on Sunday be fore he left three men had taken out | | 1T and q half o5f ore ia1 thI1-.e hours. The Henrietta is located about 24 miles from Prescott.
 County Assessor Dillon left for Del yer on the morning train to attend the mcuntain and plain festival in that city. He will be absent about two weeks and will probably pull for the Yavapai miners in the drilling con- test.-Prescott Courier.
 George G. Wharton Of the Saginaw Lumber company is spending this week at Wickenburg where he is look ing after some mining interests he pcs sesses in that rich district. News:
 William Shoot, Sz., and William Shoot, Jr, ieturned this wesk frCm the Congress mining country, where
  ing interests. The gentlemen report the weather warm in that vicinity Williams News.
 Judge Smith left for the east We'd nesday, where he go-s to Bo'3k after some prelimina ies in connect 'cn with some of the Grand Canyon mines, which he and his son have become in terested in through MT Sharpnech.- Williams News
 Aluminium is now in great demand for various purposes, such as alloys with copper; for electrical conductors, and for lithographic plates. It is su- perior to tin or iron for cooking uten- sils, and the high price of copper is causing the new metal to be used for power transmission wires. AmTica produced 5,2O0,00G pounds during 1898, being over l3ne-half Cf the total yield for that year. The Foyers and Swiss works also show an increase, but Ger many has ceased to manufacture the metal The Live Oak Copper company Of Globe has resumed ore shipments. they had about seventy-five tons of 20 per cent ore at the mine ready fer shipment week ago.
 The growth Of zinc production in | Colorado is one of the newer develop ments of this up-to-date era, says l Ores and Metals, published iu Denver | mines in the silver camps | that have besn neglected fer years b2- 1 cause of the zinc contents contained :n 1 their ores associated with silver, are | being Ieopened and actively develop:d. | New owners in close touch with the | metal market are on the alert to raise the production to tha maximum. With | zinc sEelter at even less than , cents a p1undg and the ere in big demand. large number Of old silver producers will again become active. and mining generally in Colorado will assume E'-n coalitions so rapidly that with " p7reicu ar "eXcitement'n tc L.-w f. June seekers, we shall see, ore tEc end # the century. every z = ? in tlo sta5e crowded with pros ? 2T5 and investors. Verify. the 'c- .tif, Of Colorado's prosperity $ .zing