Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-12-20
MINES AND MINING.
h the Field of Mining Activity
 of Arizoaa and Elsewhere.
Hhat is 6eihg @ iH tks lius ui Receal SalsS Strikes lad Bsselepnent
 si Aew Claims

AA H@ANAAa@ hA-AAaA 1aN
 good copper property.
 B. H. Smith brought in . sample of 6ne looking ore yesterday fron
 ths HenristtA miue. it weighs lSs
 pounds and IS of the grade Whict
 makes mllhoEalrus of mlae owner,
 when found in large bodies, as it E in the above mine.
 The new forty-ton stack of tbs Big Bug smeitsr has been placed Iu position aud was blown ia on Thurs. day. Mir Clifford reports that the ore continues to pour iato the shelter, and he says he Wiil be com ] Pellet soon to add another stack. [ The foliowing telegram from ! Denver will bs read with interest by sll mining men: The Omaha and Grant shelter has received one eSS load of ore from the Isabella mine at Cripple Greek that carries values ID gold Of $500 a ton, or total oi ! S20000. A second ear gave returns ia excess of S50,00o,
 4 representative of the Gold Ex- pl0iting company is negotiating with H. M. Merriwether for the purchase of his asS mine, near Bum flebee. The claim has already pro ducsd over SS0000 and IS sad to be one of the most promising claims ia the county with the amount of de- velOpment work performed.
 Under an order of the court the Sundanee mine was sold yesterday al trustees safe. The purchaser was II Wilkersor, of Chicago, and the purchase price S50,O00 The property Is equipped with first class mill and under systematic and intelligent business management can be made to pay handsome profits.
 H. B. Clifford will start work at once on the 6S mine near Rumble bee, having already let four con tracts of loo feet each of develop nent work. The mine has about 800 feet of work done on 1t. Some of the richest ore ever found in Ari- ZonA has been taken from this mine.
 Geo. F. Harrington has com pleted his repairs to the Tiger mill, and after remaining idle for the past three or four years it was re- gently started up again. The mill. as originally built, was equipped with pans aud settlers for the treat meut of silver ore, but MF. HarTing- ton has changed it Co 6 gold mill. It IS in charge of John Jackson, one of the best mill men in the county. Since commencing operations on the Silver King mine tEs new own CTS have erected a new steam hoist and have sunk the new shaft to a depth of 100 feet. Several new buildings have beeu erected, includ- [ ing An engine and boiler house, boarding house, bunk house, car penter shop and blacksmith shop. ! Everything connected with the ! place is of a substantial nature and bears the impression of a permanent mining camp. The company has encountered good ore in sinking the new shaft. 4 force of eight miners is at work ia the shaft.
 Chas. Fl. Gibson, the mining en- i gineer, 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 fattering to the Rebel vein. MT. Gibson states that the ore body recently struck is almost certainly a continu- stiOn of the Bonanza fouad in the MeCabe mIne. A Davis whim has been placed on the Rebel and ship ments of ore will be made to either of NIT. Ciiford's stamp mills on Big Bug creek and the smelling ore will be sent to the Big Bug shelter. H. B. Clifford reports another i'm. portant discovery in the Lone Pine mine. At a depth of 225 feet a cross cut has been run which cut an ore body twenty-seyen feet in width, making a total of ore bodies now opened up in the property of fifty two feet. This latest ore discovered has the appearance of being the apex of an ore body, the depth of which cannot be determined. While there are stresks in it which assay p per cent in copper the average clear across it is 6 per cent in cop per and s per ton in gold. Mr. Clifford still believes that the Lone Pine is second only to the United | Verde, and If he continues discover ing new bodies of rich ore it will not be long until it is a very close 1 second.
 4 private letter received in Pres colt states that the platinum com pany recently organized continues to buy up claims and all tkis in the face of the positive announcement from certain quarters that platinum does not exist there. The perverse- ness of some people is simply re- | markable. Another letter from a prominent business man of Williams to the JoURSGL-MNER says that there is considerable excitement there over the discovery of large de- posits of ore supposedly rich in gold and platinum, on the line Oi the Saginaw cOmpany's railroad south of town. IL IS simply in- comprehensible why those people up there persist in the discovery oI platinum after the sdict has been issued by one who claims authority to speak, that there is no platinum there.
 The JoURSAL-MINER in its last ls- sue stated that negotiations were in pr gress for the purchase of the Eighty-Eight mine owned by Hunter M. Merriwether, near Bumblebee. Before the ink on the paper was dry | the negotiations had resulted m the consummation of the deal and the papers were signed whereby the i CllffOrds assume control of the prop erty. The water rights and exten sion claims of the mine are included Ia the deal. Mir. Clifford, who has been quite active ID buying and bonding properties in this section | for the past few months now says that hrs interests are complete as far as be wishes at present 10 extend them, and that he will not buy or
 bond any more properties unless some extraordinary proposition IS
 presented. While MT. Clifford has ! been called a "plunger7 in his opera
 tions ID this section by the more cnnserYative people. be has certainly