Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-08-09
MINING INTELLIGENCE
General and Local Notes From ihe Field of Mines and Mining
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It seems that sll one has Co do in the vicinity of Jerome to fBd ore IS to dig. Newcomb and Hall a short time ago commenced Co work a claim owned by them in Mescal guich and had only sunk few feet when they encountered rich copper sulphide ore. There wer,. DO indications of the exislenc, of the ore there ou the surface.
 The gasoline hoisi con the lSSs mine, belonging tO the United Verde Extension company, was started up last week. When woTk was closed down ia this tniBss baierr, siX shots had just been tired oH in the bottcm of the shaft aud the rock was per m m.tts,l to remain there uRdisl urbed In cleaning this out tbe woTkmen Were considerably snEp;i>ed to Eud that u cuctains,i a considerable amount of ore.
 It is stated that the United Verde mine has been explored by means of diamond dri!l to a depth of 200O feei, and the drill core shows the continuation of the ore body for the eutiro distance. The deepest work. ings at present are only 6D0 feet sl- though work Is now m progress sink ing another loo feet, ami when com plotted a level will be opened at 700 feet
 John Mckenzie. the foreman of the Buster mining company, arrived in town today. He states tha there are sixtr-fve men on the pay roll of thc above company. T. DuuShee, tn" general superintendent, has been quite sick but hopes to toe a ] right soon. He is pushing things rapidly. The mil ~'ill be cnmplet'-d Tn few days. There are thousand tons oi or. on the dump that assays fron Sl0 to S25 per ton m gold ard fr~m seven to eigbi per cent in lead. The average width of he ledge isiruu. four to SIX feet.
 It IS stated that W. 4. Cluk has derided to put A fnFce ot msu at work on the Icon King mine. This R he part of the old Equator which hr received iu the compromise of ;La law suit. and if is said that a large ore hody IS known to exist iu 1t. The Copper Chief. which is be- ing worked by Mr. Hendv. a@d which is also a part of the propcri v which wa. involved tn litigation for so many years. is ln ore the entire length anc breadth of he double compartment shaft which is being sunk and which Is now down nearly 300 feet.
 Cecil c. Fennell, of the Val Verde Copper Company, Ltd, who has just returned from trip to Denver un business connected with the smelter which they propose iS- erect on the Agua Fria, states that the plans in regard to the smelter have baen changed aud instead of eFs'ci - ing one of l0O tons daily caparity they will erect one uf DO tons. The Colorado Iron company Cf Pueblo, have the contract for making the machinery for ihe plant and also for putting it in place ready foI operation. This company has let the contract for grading the site for it 10 Webster and EiNardS who alsU have the contract for grading the spur toIt from the P. X F. railroad The latter work IS DOW nearing com pletion and track laying was con menced today. Mir. FenEel states that they hope to be able to star; up within seSenty-6ve days.
 A new candidate for mining hon. ors Is the Maricopa Gold Mines com pany, recently incorporated. and which has secured bond on a mum Der of claims near Wickenburg. The claims are known as the Osborne group and the new company will, Il is stated. commence active opera tions at once developing the prop erty, placing not less than thirty men at work. One shaft on the property is already down to a depth of about l30 feet. It will be sunk 800 feet further to reach the sul phides which are confidently eX- pected at water level. 4 drawback in the development oi these pIop- critics has been a scarcity of water in the vicinity. but it k expected that with depth in the mines a sui 6cient amount of water will be ob- tained from the mine to meet all de mands. The deposits of ore which have already been encountered make a showing which would justify put ting ill a small smelter, but the com pany proposes to develop the mine thoroughly before erecting one. Il the property proves satisfactory 6 large one will be installed. Sample shipments of ore have been made tC Fl Paso with fattering results. Th, ore shipped rau about 2 per cent copper and the net profit was s! per ton. It is stated that there is s great deal of this surface ore.
 New York capitalists are said tc have secured a controlling interest in the Whipsaw Copper Mining com panv, which owns some very promis. ing properties in the Castle creel section, the price paid being S75,000 | The clsims were located years agC by Bob Groom. They are situated only few hundred yards from tb, ! junction of Castle creek and Whip saw gulch. The property compriSa' | the Dummy, Atlanta, Brooklyn Star. Merrimac. Mossade. Patauka ' Maud $ Side Line. Blunderbuss ! Red Cross and Uncle John claims which cover about 250 acres. Ter years ago a ten-stamp mill was run ming and several thousand tons O ore were milled. No attention wa pad to copper which mining meI ' now believe to he the principal meta of the mine. Ire ore IS il a gOssar of copper and the locations are al essentially copper. There are 300 or 5000 tons of surface ore whicl runs al least ten per cent cope
 and carries about s in gold. IL |
 believed that the copper is leache' out of the rock lying beneath. Blu
 at the base is thought to be a larg
 body of rich sulphides. The Whip
 saw mine is said to be located in tn
 fault Assure, which includes tn
 United Verde mine. the Ajo an,
 other mines near the gulf. By build
 ing a road two miles iD length ac
 cess would be had to large pinerie
 eight miles distant. Another roa
 five miles in length would connec
 rrith fha Trilhr nina and facilita al