Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-12-27
MINES AND MINING.
In the Field of Mining Activity
 of Arizona and Elsewhere.

What is GOing on in the Line of Recent
 Sales, Strikes And Development \
 of New Claims. H
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 Tue bonding of the Lit Kicker mine, to New York capitalists for Sl0,000 is reported. The mine is owned by Jos. Mayer aud W. B. Clark, and is located near the Me Cabe, being an extension of that lode. It is said 10 be looking very promising. Active work develop ing the property will be eomme6ced at once.
 4 depth of about leo feet has been made on the Baumann group of mines, near Agus Fria. with the diamond drill and quite good body of sul phuret ore has been encounter ed. Mr. Baumann has eight men at work doing assessment work on the group and has two men at work taking out ore from the Laura mine. Ire latter are taking out two tons of ore per day. which is being freighted to the Val Verde smelteI.
 Forty men are employed TOW at the Whip Saw mine at Castle creek, and lumber and machinery for a fOrty-ton smeiter are going in. There Is enough ore in sight for an eight months run, api the work of uncovering it has hardly begun. Ike Hesler has taken the contract for hauling for tke company and as soon as the shelter is in operation be will put on 10 animals trans ferring coke and other supplies. Castle Creek sidIng will be made the shipping point for the mine. This IS the mine of which T. E. Parish is sup rintendeut.
 c. A. Van Zandt has taken bond on tue Batternut group of mines on Big Bug, owned by T. W. Boggs and went out yesterday with sup plies and men to start work develop ing them. There gre three claims in the group, all of which show up good ore and the Butteruut psrtic- uiarlv being very promising. Mir. Van Zandt is backed by abundant capital aud will push development work on tie property, as the present showing is Of sufficient importance tn justify the be:isi iu their making big mines.
 G. W. Middleton, manager for the North American Exploration Co.,, IS p.isbiBg work on properties under the control of that company. A car load oi machinery and a car load Of lumber passed through Prescgft yesterday en route 10 Wickenburg for use at the mines heiDg operated by him near there, apt ear load of oil was received at Inc Prescott depot for use ai his Richenbar property. At the latter property ar. Middle ton has jus; placed two gaso- line eugines, one O! which oper- ates hoist and the other air com pressors for three Barleish drills. it is his infection to siuk tO a depth of 500 feet oD this property just as rap.cly as the work csn bo done.
 \ telegram from Denver says tha, mining for gui'l under statn di- recjioD for the benefit of the state treasury IS tbe scheme submitted today to Governor Thomas by AL torney-General Campbell If sue cessinl the plan would solve two pressing problems. It would relieve the state of a financial stringency caused bS a debt of more than s. .0l0,t GO and provide an opportunity for using convict labor without coming into competition with free labor. In Cripple Creek the state possesses valuable mining property. This property ], controlled hy the state land board, oi which ihe gov eruor is chairman. Nr. Campbell, bayiDg his prediction upon results obtained in surrounding m.ues, thinks that the gold bearing strata can be reached by sinking fTom G ) to l0C) fret. One heUdred or more meu from the stale peni'entiaTy could be employed ia doing the work. which would thus be ae- comp!ished at slight exPynse to the stlie.
 Speaking of the Ajo district where he Is opel atiuz. Col. C. C. Bean said to a Phenix newspaper reporter: We ave q vast mineral region, rich ID copper and gni 2. The AjO dis- trict is fully tive nii,-s sqHsr', high ly mineralzed and sufficient .eveloP ment has been don- 10 show that the camp could pr1,iuee 5G0O tons of ore daily for hundreds Of years. There cra millions of tons O. copper from five per cent up tO eighty per cent. together with fair showing of gold. Our company is doing much d-c.' oomenr, and ve ship ora by the car load tta- goes ffly-tSo per cent copper. Or course, this is assorted au4 i- white glancc, Ic,I or black oxide. Shotweil Bros have about completed 9 l0stamp mil and Iha ra-ro IS growing rapIdlY." Go. b. t |. s. D. Hunt ington L.. Jur ahove district with a view of getting him to build rail road there. Speaking of this he said: There IS a proposition to construct a line from Pbehix south to Las Ajo and thence 70 miles to Port Isabel on Adair bay. at the head of the Gulf oI California. This would be 8 paving line, ss it runs all the way oversleyel plain where there would not be 2 cut or ill of 10 feet. Besides, south of Ajo, in Sonora, there is q good deal of gold mining. Mir. Thompson alone operates gold mlne and aas B ] burros busy carry ing water. So you see there would be work for 8 r-t'roai.