Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-03-08

that the Planet-SatuIn company ex poets to have s00 men at work within a month of two.
 Several tons of .gold ore from th, GoOdhope mine, brought to tb. samplIng works last week. brough its owner, James Chambers, SlS0 De ton.
 Southern Arizona papers speak O Col. C. C. Bean very handsomeil and mention the purchase by him U a group of copper claims near Tue son that are rated among the riches in Arizona. Colonel Bean is a pio neer of Yavapai, and is among th, most tireless and energetic miniIg men in the west, knowing gOCC thing when he sees It in the ground
 W. :. Bell, who arrived in the city yesterday, has purchased for A. . Gabbs, F. A. Huntington and Bel SiI copper claims SIX miles south o l Crittenden, Ariz., from Richardson tS Wise for S40,OO0 The new own CTS propose 10 open the prospect, up, aud If they are found 10 pay suf fcently will put in a smelling fur mace. The copper thus far has Tuf b per cent tO 4O per cent pure.-Loi Angeles Times.
 C. II. Brown, of Chicago, hai been visiting the Grand Canyon mining district the past week or teI days and reports very rich copper deposits, says the Williams News He made a minute examination oi several claims and seems 10 thinl the Eclipse mIne of especial value He says 1t has a large body oi cop per ore exposed and the specimens brought back with him seem Co verify his judgment, as the speci mems bear out the good report oi the Eclipse which has heretofore been made.
 1 Reports from Groom creek ArC decidedly encouraging and miners there are very active at present, more claims being operated than al any time iu its history. The Silver Trail mill ;s running on custom ore from ihe Monte Cristo and othel claims, while more machinery Is go ing in on other claims than ever be fore. giving to this olc district de sirable outlook indeed. This dis trict IS but a stones throw from th, town and IS without doubt bettrl situated for wood, water and trans portation facilities than any othel community in Arizona. With th, activity noticeable there at present DO doubt prevails but what 1t will maintain the life 1t is experiencing and go forward.
 The Granite Mountain section i, now sad to be giistening as field o probable ruby fortunes, which hsi back of the stampede to 1t a phase of rainbow chasing in western min. ing that knocks sllly the Peg Leg Nigger Ben and the other highly coiored traditions of the yellOWist hue. There are said to be several people in that section now, who arr inspired by an anonymous authority to get rich, while the promoter him IS so philanthropic that he evidently cares not for stuff but wants glory and is laying behind hIs own sweel imagination in a big dose of that wild elation of having 1t bad. Nc one disputes that old Turkey creek Is not a ruby KlondIke. but like the Man from Missouri" you will have to show us the yoke of the egg This ruby excitement Is running l the Presco.t diamond excitement oi | 1872 necE and neck race. and like | that memorable event which busted several merchants and buncoed every prospectOr, ha its origin from out side sources. The story reads too fanclful. It revives the memory, however, of a deceased Arizonan. "Ruby" Stanton, who over ten years ago passed away, and exsmpiifies that known as history repeating it. self. When alive Mir Stanton dis piaPed a ggnny sack full ol beauti- | ful rubies, and to the public gave out sure thing" tip that he would at the right tune designate the lo- cality. To his confidential gentle men friends who were limited iu number, but interested nevertheless in the stones displayed, he stated they Wrgs captured from au English merchantman of the island of Cev- lon during the Indian war. Other than tdat be would give n'jlirrina- ton, and he carried the secret of bis life to the grave. MT Stanton was man 'f much personal magueiis ID. resolute and thoroughly eduraie,I. and stopped at nothing to favor a friend or crush q foe. The ruUy ex- citemeni of today serves to bring his memory back.
 We Lave been shown over four ounces Uf placer gold taken from a dry gulch less than two miles from Prescott, that was waahed out ID SIX days bv two men. IL is the request of the parties interested to not make known the location at present as they believe the lead which pro duced the gold Is a blind one and they iesi-e to prospect the section they are ia freely and reap any re- ward by themselves. In connection with the theory of blind leads exist ing near where placers have yield ed bOunteOusly, there are many yer siOns for and against. Many years ago so nugget of gold was picked up in Slaughter House gulch, a mile east of Prescott, and notwithstaud- ing vigorous prospecting up to the present time nothing has been run on to in the hie of a ledge. In the Santa Maria country also in early days the Mexican placers yield ed over S4O,O00, but as yet no ledge has been uucoy cred. although hun dreds of prospectors have gone to that section. Rich Hill, on the sur face of which over half million Iu gold has been picked up, does not support any rich leads, although it Is confidently said now that the Johnson mine which Is being ex- tensively opened up in tunnels that cut through this mountain, IS show. ing up well, and the belief prevails that a strong lead exists or else a fabulously rich deposit lives under the mountain. Considerable inter est is manifested among the mining fraternity over the work now going on in this particular property, as the ,,nIarf Ispv sz q rrf~1nss. and aw