Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-12-12
Mining Intelligence.

by the Commonwealth company. The property is located in Cochise county
 Ira P. Smith, assistant superinten- dent of the Yuma prison, denies hay ing taken a bond on the recently To- cated mining claims near the King of Arizona mine.
 The Verde Queen smelterat Jerome was blown in last Monday morning for a months run. Dr. King says that the mine looks better than ever before, and that it will not be long before they will have no trouble in keeping their smelter in constant oper- atiOn.
 w. H. Ferguson has been doing some work on five or six claims on Big Bug and has struck some very rich copper ore, samples of which he had in town today. The ore contains red oxide of copper and these sam pies run as high as so per cent in copper.
 The Pride of Arizona Copper G., operating the Rebel mine, are figur- ing to erect a compressor and air drills. They recently bought the D horse power engine that was originally on the old Pratt mill that was erected on Big Bug and ran for while on Great Belcher ores. The Rebel is now down nearly 400 feet and shows the rich McCabe sulphides.
 Brown Bros. are supplying the Mammoth gold mine of Big Bug with steam hoist, the water coming in too strong for the Davis whim to handle. Joe Mayer has sold his Cypress mine boiler to the Mammoth people, he having placed a larger steam plant on the Cypress, which is the extension of the Mammoth and Eugenie mines.
 The new Mitchell hot air furnace is nearly completed, and about the first of the year it will be used in the treat ment of ores. The capacity is about $50 tons per day. This furnace is a patent of George Mitchell, of the Greene Consolidated, and is very sue cessful. Four are in operation at Globe, and two more are being erect ed at the Cananea and will begin operations the first of the year. The Copper Queen company will hereafter have no trouble in the treatment of sulphide ores, which at present must be mixed with iron ore in order to be smelted.-Bisbee Review.
 The big shelter at Helvetia was burned to the ground on the night of December 6, says the Citizen. The fire started from a mass of slag, which could not be controlled, and ran from the jacket over the floor, igniting the timbers and driving the men from the building. The tappers were unable to stop the flow of slag, and before they realized how serious the accident was their places and the smelter was a mass of flames. The destruction was complete, and it means a loss of S10O,000 to the company. No other buildings burned. Although no word has come from Manager Seager, yet there can be no doubt of the intention of the company to at once rebuild the shelter.
 Thomas Elder, of Phenix, has spent the past week in Jerome, looking after the Venture Hill mining com pany. A deal was arranged with G.. w. Hull and Thomas Fryer, whereby three patented claims, the 101, l02 and 103, were thrown into the group owned by the Venture hill people, giving them nine full claims. Work is being done on the tunnel of the Socrates, which is now in 145 feet. Treasury stock is being sold and the proceeds put into this work. Lately arrangements have been made to float a good big block of this stock in the east and increase the force of men used in developing the property. The Avery brothers, who are among the heaviest stockholders in the concern, are so sanguine of the early success of the proposition that they have re- fused all offers to part with their in- I dividual stock. They are looking after the development work.
 Dr. O. L. Geer, of Congress June tion had some specimens of very rich ore in town today. It was taken from claim about forty miles west of Con gress which he is developing for an eastern company. The particular specimen which he had today would probably run between S200 and S30C per ton in gold. He says the ledge is sixty feet wide and is mineralized throughout the entire width and caI be traced by croppings on the surface for long distance. Assays of the ore from the ledge varies from S20,0C to S275 per ton. Dr. Geer says that considerable development work is be ing carried on in properties in the , vicinity of Tyson's well and excellent results are being obtained. He say: that the country west of Congress i: in need of railroad badly and tho people he represents will make active efforts to secure one built. Some O. the eastern capitalists represented by him have been down there lookins over their property and were wei pleased with it. They left for thu | east on yesterdays train.
 The American Mining News pub fishes the following concerning tn,
 United Verde Copper company
 mines at Jerome:
 ], The great United Verde, largel, owned by w. A. Clark, of Montana t was first gold and silver mine, bu ,. at about 160 feet from the surface 0 copper sulphides came in and forn l. the next 400 feet, it is said, there ha
 been taken enough ore values to giv 5 to the stockholders S14,000y0O0 il
 dividends, leaving Sl6,OO0,O00 in tn e treasury, and leaving a block of or
 underneath the smelling works whicl cannot be moved, but which is esti 7 mated to contain S14,000000 more
 Nothing of moment has yet bee $ taken out below the 600-foot leve 'I but at this point the mine has opene,
 a vein of ore 1900 feet long, estimate, > to be from 600 to 500 feet wide, cal a rying 10 per cent copper.
 The vein has been penetrated wit O a diamond drill to a depth of l6O
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