Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-07-11
IN THE FIELD 0F MINING.
What is Going on in the Line of Recent Sales, Discoveries
 and Development.
The Mineral Zone of This Particular Sec ton of Arizona and its Rapid
 Advancement.

1 The Guggenheims deny that they
 have been taken in by the trust. | During the past ten days the King
 man sampling works paid out over ! $15,OOO for ore.
 Major Robert B. Stanton is putting
 in a big dredging plant on the Colo radO river at Hite. There will be six gasoline engines weighing S40a pounds each and seven carloads of timber will be used to build the dredge. The old
 Haskininni placers will be worked
 MOhave Miner.
 ! The new fOrty-stamp mill of the Oc- l tave Mining company has been com pleted and started in operation yes | terday. This is without exception the | finest mill in the territory of Arizona. | The machinery was made to order. 1 from plans and specifications furnish ed by the Octave company. and cost
 about S15,OOO more than the ordinary
 stamp mill of the same size and ca | pacity would cost, owing to the extra | quality of the material required by the company in its manufacture. | AN NpAAlffAhg NhS1SNl III hGNtiOl-
 ing the GeiSeman copper group in the
 Catalinas east of Oracle. encountered a fine body Of ore, this week. at | depth of sixty feet. A crOss-cut. says our informant, proves the body of
 ore to be about forty feet wide and some of it very high-grade. The lat ter will make the average of the en- tire body high. It looks as if the Old
 Hat district in which this group is situated would yet fulfill its Old-time prOmise.-CitiZen.
 Hon. Robert Leatherwood is chlorid- ing the Apache copper mine which is situated on the San Pedro side of the Catalina mountains. He has sacked
 twenty tons of ore and is packing it over the divide and down the Canyon
 del Gro to the Saminago station where
 it will be taken up by teams from
 Mammoth and hauled into Tucson. He was offered $500 for the ore on
 the dump. but preferred to ship it.
 Florence Blade.
 Many Americans are making for
 tunes out of mining speculation in Mexico. It is said there are 5000 Sil-
 yer mines in the country and over q thousand gold mines. Last year the
 mines of Mexico produced in the neighbOrhOOd of forty million dollars. In Mexico, cotton mills are paying enormous dividends. and manufactur- ing plants are being erected all over the country. A large quantity of ma
 chinery was imported from the United
 States during the past year. calculated | nf .-fx mil In11 s,.
 Americans take advantage of this
 state of things in Mexico. and with
 their usual energy and enterprise are
 placing their money in investments
 that will yield fortunes in the sister
 republic.-COchise Review.
 The Gila county and Arizona De
 velOpment company. an enterprise
 that merits the support of every one
 interested in the advancement of the
 mining industry in this section is now
 being promoted by the organization
 of the above named corporation. says
 the Silver Belt. The capitalization is
 S5.OOO,OOO. divided into as many
 shares of the par value of $1. The
 object of the company is to place the
 mineral resources of Gila county be-
 fore the capitalists of the east in an
 intelligent manner The directory
 will be composed entirely of local
 men identified with the mining de
 velOpment of our county.
 But little has been said of The Ari- zOna Copper Hill Mining company and but few people know that it has
 been operating for some time in Pinal county. It has been going along quiet ly and attending strictly to business
 But in the meantime it has performed a considerable amount of exploration work. Its properties are situated on the west side of the Canyon del Gro
 just this side of the Pima county line and about twenty miles from Tucson. They have driven a 70O-fOOt tunnel on one of the claims, and are now in Stalling a gasoline hoist with the in tentiOn of sinking a vertical shaft to a depth of 800 feet. We have not been over the ground since this company acquired possession of it. but believe. from a personal knowledge of the surface indications there. that the property will develop into q valuable ! One.-FlOrence Tribune.
 An important mining deal was NlOStl lotidN NutItDN lllt ldt8tI Canyon Copper Mining company be- ! comes the owners of the group of l claims formerly owned by Joe Askew. | J. W. Hudgens and !. w. Stocks. The | sixty days period of publication hay ing expired of the application of i claimants for patent to their group they made payment today for the land | to the government and received their final receipt for the same. The Yae- ger Canyon Copper company, which . has had a bond and lease on the prop erty and which has been at work for several months developing them. made its final payment today to the owners, this payment being. 1t Is said, S1S.- GOO. There are eleven claims in the group as follows: Grey Copper, Grey Copper No. l, Grey Copper No. 2, BO- nanZa. Bonanza No. 1. Bonanza No. ?, Queen Bee. Queen Bee No. 1. Queen Bee No. ?, Serch Light and Ranger. comprising a total area of 227.26 acres. The claims have already been pretty well developed and now that title has passed to the company it will prosecute with even greater vigor the work of development.
 Charley Sulnld was m town Satur- day from the Bryan group of mines, owned by him and Charley Wallace. and brought some very fine specimens of ore that were taken from that mine few days ago. This group of mines lie near the mouth of Groom creek, about seven or eight miles south of Prescott, and the following named mines comprise the group: Bryan, Teller and Stewart, and if there is anything in q name they ought to be great silver producers. as they promise soon 10 be. These mines have been owned by Charley Wallace for about seven years and during all that time he has never lost : hope but what they would some day be good producers, for lying as they do in a rich mineral belt with splen- did properties all around them all they needed was sufficient develop ment to bring forth the precious