Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-01-04
MINING INTELLIGENCE
SOME GENERAL DOINGS OF THE YELLOW PRODU-
 GERS IN ARIZONA.
ACTIVITY IN YAVAPAI MINES
 STILL PREVAILS.

Wm. Miller. assistant superintend- snt Of the Tennessee, and others, nave purchased Samuel Chadwick's mine and have let a contract to drive a tunnel 250 feet on the ledge. The work is now being done. This min- has produced ore by the ear load tbat averaged over 50 ounces of silver and 50 per cent. lead and some gold per ton. 1t IS valuable property. Mineral Wealth.
 John Luke is developing a mine near Crowned King which is owned by himself and brother of PhenlK. and IS opening up a fine body of ore in it. Mir. Luke is very quiet and re,icent in regard to the claim but from other parties it is learned that he has been taking out sPlen- did ore from the claim. The mine IS the old Gretns mine but IS now known =s the Union and Is one Of veins of the Crowned King group.
 The machinery for the Red Rock quartz mill has arrived and has been shipped to HurOe station oI the r. x F. railroad The machinery was purchased from the machinery de Partmeng of Sam Hills big hard ware establishment.
 Major Stockham reports the find ing ol samples of very rich orc 10 the Tucson mountains near the city. Some sImples run as high as $lS0O to S2OO0 a ton. He is looking for the mine, and it is hoped he may find IL. The theory is advanced that a rich mine existed in earlier ages m he neigbhorbO d of where the samples were found, snd that is may have been buried by a lsndslite.-Cit- Zen.
 Speaking in Phenix Of the sale oi the Hull group of mines by James Shirley. Professor George 4. Tresd- well, who IS interested in the C if copper mines u-ar the United Verde mines, said that he was much pleased to learn of Mir. Shirley's success. MT. ShiTley's mission to New York was tO dispose of the Cliff mines also. and slnce be has been success ful m selling the United Verde extsI sion mines, Professor Tread we'll believes that the sale of the Clif mines will folloS. MT. Shirley recently also closed out very large deal iHr copper mines m Sonora
 Alf5.d Oest. a Dane who went to MexlcI tLE-e years ago and prOs PeCteI rn rfe srFrF Of C5s xscs, rfls- other day transferred on SIX months option ais rich mines in the Sierra Madre district, fifty miles from the city Cf Osxacs, 10 Ferdinand Me Cam of the City of Mexico. Me Cam is a Californian, who vent to Mexico in 1892, and for three years of the time has been associated with the firm oI Hecklemaun x McCann, sssayers Oest, iu his prospecting in OayscA located ffty-four claims u the ingle district of Sierra Ma
 ire. He found the Oaxaca Indians suspicious and tTeacherous, but be succeeded in winning them, and in one year bis mining operations net ted him S35O,OOO. The experience of the Oaxacs miners Is identical with thst of the earlier miners in Leadyille. Ore was found near the surface, but at first DO gold, just as at Leadville, Col. Oest's shafts run to a depth of more than loo feet, yet a carload of ten tons recently netted him $21O0. Picked specimines show as high as loo ounces of gold and % OOO ounces of silver to the ton. the ore resembling that of the Mollie Giusou mine, neac Aspen, Col Me Cam IS making preparations to work his new property on a large scale.- San Diego Union.