Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-12-13
MINES AND MINING. In the Field of Mining Activity of Arizona and Elsewhere. What is Going OH in the Line of Receat Sales, Strikes And Development
 of New Claims.

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 John Berggren has a ear load o
 very rich ore about ready for ship
 ment from Morristown. He is work
 ing a mine west of the above towI
 which IS showing up very we'll ana
 yielding rich ore.
 John Duke has returned frOn
 Hot Springs Junction, where he yes
 terday bought two mining claims
 paying SI5,0O0 m cash for them. H' says they show up well aud b, thinks they have the qualities tC make a big mine.
 The Garcia mine, in the southern part of the county, the permanent suspension of which was announced some weeks ago, IS about to quicker into life again. The mill will shortly be started up on ore from the 200 foot level under the direction of the new manager, H. N. Cox President Fitzgerald of London, Ont, is ex. peeted here soon.
 The Octave Mining company eX- poets the arrival of machinery for its forty-stamp mill within twenty days, and are making arrangements for its transportation from the rail road to the mine. The stamps for the mill will be unusually large, weighing l050 pounds and each one will have a capacity of crushing three tons of ore per day.
 c. 4. Chamberlain lof Eau Claire Wisconsin, as the representative oi O. Fl. Ingram, today made the final payment of $l0,0O0 to Judge J. Nj. Sanford and N. L. Griffin for the Short Cut. Shelton and American Flag mines On Lynx creek, and tItle in them now passes to the Empire Mining company, which IS under the managementof Hon. Nick Gales and A. G. Kennedy. The proper ties are said to be looking we'll and 1t is the intention of the company to continue sinking on them.
 F.. A. Haggott, superintendent of the Blue Bell mine near Mayer, has ordered an air compressor which he expects about December l5, and up- on its arrival it will be immediately placed in position on the mine and the shaft sunk to a depth of 300 feet, from which point drifts will be run. At the present development be has up four distinct lenses oi rich copper ore aggregating feet III width. Mir. Haggott has unbounded faith in the Blue Bell developing into a great mine. It has come up fully to his expectations so far as develop ment work has progressed. MT. Haggott will return to the mine on Sunday.
 The Williams News in speaking of the platinum claims in SupaI can you, and of the attempt of certain parties to prove that no such metal exists there has the following to says: MT. Smith knows exactly what he has and he has associated with him men of equal and more means, and they are asking no outside investors for financial aid. They are purchss- ing and haven't anything for sale. The men associated with Mir. Smith are C. E. W. Smith, of the Western National bank, New York; J. Wilcox Brown, president of the Maryland Trust company, Baltimore; J. Win field Scott, Brown and Wells and C. ]. Ryan, all prominent New York The gentlemen have al- ready petitioned for a postotice at the mines, and Mir. Smith is now in the east arranging for machinery for the erection of mill to handle the ore. The gentlemen have ample means and theIr plans carried out means much for Williams and north ern Arizoha.
 Judge J. Nj. Sanford, who is in town from Williams, says the ex- citement in that section over the discovery of platinum and alumi- mum continues unabated. The ledge carrying these metals has been discovered recently on the east side of Cataract canyon, the original discoveries being on the west side. It was thought for a time that the vein was cut of by Cataract canyon until these recent discoverles. The vein, which Is a blanket one, IS located much deeper below the surface on the east side oi the canyon than on the west, and this will make 1t much more ex- pensve to work, except on the claims immediately adjoining the canyon, where tunnels can be ruu from its side. Despite the effort: made in certain quarters to decry the existence of platinum and alum mum in paying quantities, Judge Sanford states that representative: of the assayiDg firms which found the metal are the most persistent IT trying to purchase. The fact that certain assayers have not been able to iud the metal in the sample: given them, he says, can be readily accounted for and proves nothing a: against the existence of the meta there. He states further that while the first claims were located about seventy-fve miles from Williams claims are now located within If. teen miles of Williams. A repre-. sentative of eastern capitalists i: negotiating for the bonding and purchase of fifty claims. Owner: of claims are not in the least dis turbed by the attempt of certain knockers to discredit the existence of the mineral in the claims, as theiI motive is well known and the meta cannot be extracted from theiI ledges by the simple denial of its ex istence by these parties.
 Henry B. Clifford & Go. 10 Work tn,
 Lottie Mine and Mill.
 A contract has been executed be tween the Oriental Mining Co. own