Mohave County miner., 1900-12-29

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,luices run off to the river or ocean.
As the water passes over the closely
woven netting small PARTICLES of -four
gold catch thereon. la the course of a
few days the netting gets quite laden
with the metal, which usually goes to
waste. The netting is then removed
and burned and the little gold obtain, d
will repay for the work.
The Cripple Creek Times is authority
for the following: There is another
mill com blue on, aud this one bids fair
to be "cinch," so far as the shipper Is
concerned. The last real mill com bine
went under about two aud half
years ago, when some scrapping com
menced between the mill managers,
but the time has arrived now when
they realize that a combine must be
eff ected, aud that unless 1t is they are |
ruined. The combine will handle
prices as they see fit, and the only re-
dress that the shipper has is the smell. |
ready the mill managers have decided
that the raise must be from Is to 2S a
ton on all q adeS of ores. The iUcrease e
in price Is due to one fact, aud that Is
the enormous increase in the prOdnc
tion of ores during the past thirty
days. As they are all surfeited with
ore, they realize that this is All Oppur-
tunity to restore the old standard of
prices, before he suicidal prices we're
made Il couple of years ago, IA fact the
big shippers have "a very vivid recollec.
tiOD of, a. it benefited them to the ex'
tent of thousands of dollars annually.
Just the exact raise in treaI ment
charges is not known at the present
time, but before the week goes by The
various ore buyers of the mills will az.
: quaint the shippers with the new sched-
ule of prices, aud there will be wall
: ing and gnashing of teeth among the
various shippers of the district, The
increase in production of the past
! month aud what j. scheduled for the
, very near future, j. the cause ard the
; mines that are now contributing to
, the increase are: The Golden Cycle iS
now making daily production of 200
: blast, after Il close down Of some time.
. The Granite this week will again be-
: on the shipping list and will furnish
} over 10 ; tons of mill ore day, while
the Doctor Jack Pot company expects
to contribute all OF l5O tons of milling
ore day. The mill managers have
l thi. time entered into an agreement
/ that j. ironclad, and no one eau back
out of it.
After months Of litigation in which
! the services of the most prominent
attorneys of the territory have been
, enlisted, the differences of the Nam.
moth Cyaniding Company and St.
3 Louis Gold Recovery Company, over
; the tailings accruing since April 2,
| 1879, at the Mammoth-Collins Gold
7 Mining Company's mill on the San
: Pedro, in Pinal county, were adjudged
! Friday. The jury had Leen impanelled
A aud the case gone over considerably,
. when the plaintiffs (the Mammoth
= Cyaniding Company offered a com
( promise proposition which was ac.
4 cepted while the jury was taking re.
! cess. There were 5000 tons in diS-
pute, the milling company having
:. mixed the taillngs. From the testi
mony it was shown that the assays of
! tailings ran from LAOS per ton to 4.50S
, per ton, average about 3.90S. The st.
3 Louis Company paid royalty of 25
/ per cent. aud the Mammoth Cyanide
: CImpany paid thirty cents above
) those terms, both being paid to the
3 Mammoth Collins Company. The two
companies partition and will prose.
cute the business Of treating tailings,
the st. Louis Company completing
their work of treatment within few
months.-Los Angeles Mining Review.
/, The Florence Blade has the follow
ing to say of the Dripping Springs gold
. camp in the Gila county; Excitement
: in the new gold camp now developing
a mile or so east of the Troy copper
camp, is unabated. Every day brings
, new evidence that the camp is one of
real merit. 1t has been known for
, years that gold existed there and could
be "panued out" in nearly all the little
Z washes within radius of two miles or
, more. But the leads from whence it