Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-12-19

US way 70 the surface at the rate O1
 10000 gallons every twenty-fOm } hours. It had been quite a problem
 with the management to get water fol
 mining, but for the present, at least
 this Is made easy. Judge Deans company will be ready to take up the
 work of developing by January 1st
 In the mean time he is having a num-
 Der of bunk 5Duses, dwellings, etc, | erected. A road has been made con-
 meeting the property with Sloan camp
 and the saw mill.-Reporter.
 A telegram from Fort Worth says:
 It is reported here that the Rosario
 min ing property located in Mexico
 has heen sold for SS00,000 to a syndi-
 cate headed by Senator Clark, of fMon-
 tana, who is known to have been ne-
 gotiating for the property for num-
 Der of months. Senator Clark is rep
 resented here by E. L. WhitmOre and
 F. l.. Sizer, two mining experts from
 Butte Montana. These gentlemen
 have been in Fort Worth since Mon
 day, but the object of their visit was
 only made known today. The RO- sariO property is said to be valued at
 over S1,000,O00, and is owned princi-
 pally by Fort Worth parties.
 The silver mines formerly owned by
 John Webb, but lately the property of W. W. Nichols and Fred Nickel,
 in the Yaeger Canyon section, have
 been bonded by Los Angeles parties,
 with whom is connected J. P. Tag
 gart, of Jerome. These people have group of seventeen claims lying
 three miles to the south of SlOan's camp, on which there has been done some 400 feet of work. The surface of this group is porphyry with a
 heavy iron dyke running through them. On the Black Warrior, this dyke has been cut about forty feet and samples of the ore brought to Je- rome assayers. Returns give Fl per cent copper, 8 to S22 in gold and, forty ounces in silver. Some of these seventeen claims have been purchased outright by Mir. Taggart's people, while the rest are held under bond. In the whole country there is seen nothing more encouraging than Is found on these claims.
 Charles Behm came in yesterday from his mining camp on Spruce mountain in Groom creek district. He confirms all previous reports con corning mining activity in that dis trict and says that just now it is hay ing somewhat of a boom. In addi ton to the recent strike of rich ore in the Monte ChristO and the Empire mines, mention of which has been made in these columns, he says that A. J. Pickerell has also made a strike of remarkably rich ore in the Mid night Test mine. This is an exten- ton of W. N. Kelly's celebrated Nevada mine which has been big producer of rich ore along with the other claims in that district. Mir. Behm says that the only thing needed there is work as every property which has been developed to any depth has responded to the work with a gen erous yield of good paying ore.
 The Denver Republican in speak ingof Arizona has the following to say: The annual report of the gover- nor of Arizona to the secretary of the interior presents the resources of Ari- zona in a way to convince any thought ful man that the future of the terri tory will be great in so far as nature can make it so. It depends upon the people now there and their recruits and successors to develop these re | sources into profitable industries and sources of wealth. Arizona Is a typi- l cal Rocky Mountain subdivision of the national domain. It has an arid climate. Lofty mountains stand in the midst of wide plains and both plains and mountains resemble the : other parts of the arid region, except that the climate is warmer and the rainfall somewhat less than in Utah . and Colorado. Southern Arizona Is . almost aDerfect desert, consisting as ! it does of vast plain where vegeta- ! ton hardly exists, and the river courses are small. But in some local ! ities in that part of the territory rich . deposits of mineral have been found . Gold. silver and copper are chief | ArizOna's minerals. In cop . per production it rivals Montana and :. Michigan, and with the future pro ductiOn of that metal will be very large. Its most notable deficiency is in coal deposits. Thus far but little of that mineral has been found, but . there is an abundance0near the east ern border of the territory, across the line in western New Mexico, from which Arizona can draw its supplies. It is probable also that prospecting will disclose the existence of coal similar to those of New Mexico and Utah.
 \. H. Mellor, who is a scientific has made valuable coal discovery about three miles east of in Pinal county, and has located two claims of 100 acres each. says the Florence Blade. Mir. MellOr had been studying the geological structure of the country between Dud- levville and the Deer Creek coal fields for some time and became satisfied that coal shoulds exist in the fOrma- ton at the place where he has found it. Having made up his mind to this effect he left his camp last week to search for the ''dusky diamonds" and had gone but a short distance when he found "coal blossom" He com menced to dig and inside of a few moments he encountered small string CTS of pure coal. A letter received from him by Geo. A. Brown, of Flor ence, Tuesday, states that he expects to have three feet of coal uncovered by the end of this week. The vein and the formation lie perfectly flat, therefore are in place. This makes Mir. Mellor's find the most valuable of all the coal strikes yet reported in the southern part of the territory. We have contended that the valuable coal measures would be found west of the Deer creek field for the reason that the formation there is in place and is equally as favorable for scOal as is the Deer creek formation. In the Deer creek fields the rock mass has been tilted to such an extent that the qualification and coal veins are almost vertical. And it has also been found. in going down on these veins, that they have been faulted laterally. To what depth this displacement in the Dner creek field is extended has