Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-12-19
MINES
 AND D-
 MINING.

J.D. Harrington, of Seattle, Wash
 ington, is the owner of the largest
 specimen of pure gold ever taken
 from the Atlin district. The speci-
 men is of nugget formation and
 weighs twenty-nine ounces, seventeen
 pennyweighs and twelve grains, and
 is valued at S502, although Mir liar
 rington has refused offers of S7000
 for it. The nugget was picked up in
 Harrington's bench claim No. 9 on
 Pine creek, at depth of about ten
 feet.
 Black Rock district is forging to
 the front in its development. Mining men in that locality are all in the best of spirits and development work is being pushed on every hand. The whole district seems to be lively and nearly every claim looks prOmis- ing. The Slim Jim property is down over a hundred feet and there is a good showing of ore. Chunks of na- tive copper are being taken out vary
 ing in size from an ounce or so to four or five pounds. Those who are ac- quainted with the larger mines of the territory say that the Slim Jim bids fair to some day outrank them all. The Octopus group of claims has re- gently been examined and reported on by Denver experts and their report was most fattering. The showing made by the group at this time IS said tO be most Hatterino
 The Oasis is informed by J. F. Tener, general agent for the Du- quesne Mining and Reduction com pany, owned by George Nesting house, the millionaire manufacturer of Pittsburg, Penn that Mir. Nesting house has bought the entire Buena Vista grant, comprising some 1000 acres of land, and will erect thereon, at some point on the Santa Cruz river, a colossal reduction works and smell ter, and a railway connecting the mines at Duquesne, the reduction works and Nogales. While not fully determined it is thought that the ca pacity of the reduction works and smelter will be about 800 tons of ore daily. Mir. Tener will start for Pitts burg on Saturday, December 16th, to make the final arrangements for in auguration of this great work. The enterprise will treble the wealth and population of Santa Cruz county Oasis.
 A mining case of considerable i'm portance was decided in the district court yesterday. c. O. Ellis ct al ap piled in the land office for patent to number of mining claims in the Brad shaw mountains. F. c. Beckwith filed an adverse claim and suit was instituted in the district court to de- termine title, one of the claims in volved being the Guadalupe mine. The case has been on trial before the court for the past two or the days, terminating yesterday, by a judg ment in favor of plaintiff, so far as the Guadalupe claim, holding that the claim Is contiguous to the Buster mine according to the way the Buster was monumented in 1893. The other ground involved in the litigation was awarded to claimants who are the defendants in this case. It is claimed that so far as opened up the plaintiff secures the most valuable ground, ! although the larger portion in dispute was given to defendant.
 Manager Colquhoun of the Arizona ! Copper company Is making prepara- | tions at Clifton to carry all the | smoke from the smelters, re- verberbatOries and other works of the ! plant into tunnel in the mountain, which will be raised to the surface, a ! distance of several hundred feet. On . | the surface a stack about 50 feet in height will be built in order to clear the smoke from the top of the noun tain. This will entirely free Clifton from smoke, sul phur and acid fumes, which at times are very disagreeable in some parts of the city. The work will be commenced in a short time and will be completed inside of a year. It is estimated that several . hundred dollars a day will be saved to the company by the accumulation of soot, which will be treated for the metal it contains. Since putting in the acid plaut, which treats the tail ings from the cOncentratOrs, the Cop per Era says this is about the only loss now sustained by the company, and will shortly be remedied.-Citi- zen.
 A prominent mining man, one who is connected with number of successful mining enterprises in this county, in conversation with the JoTnal-lIiner editor today, said that the coming year promises to be the most pros porous one SO far as mining is con cerned, in the history of Yavapai county. He states that opportunities for investment in mines is being eagerly sought now by eastern capi- talists and inquiries for properties are becoming very numerous. Copper seems to be in the lead. There is a great abundance of idle capital in the east, and no opportunities are pre- sented there for its investment, so it is looking to the mining sections of Arizona and elsewhere for the op- r portunity. The gentleman in qUes tion said that with a favorable win ter so far as rain or snow is con cerned, we may expect lively times next year in mining.
 D. J. Jones, formerly of the Octave Gold Mining O., has bonded \ Peter sons mine, just north of the Octave property. It is a well know fact that Mir. Jones has been interesting eastern capital in this new enterprise and it is reported that he will have the mine in operation within the next eighteen months. He will put a number of men to work on the mine immediately. This will be a great help to this section of the country. The Octave company has had the Peterson mine bonded for some time and expected to commence work soon but the bond expired few days ago before they were aware of the fact. The company offered Mir Peterson $500 for 30 days extension, but he refused the offer. Mir. Jones was not asleep and took hold of it as soon as he had clear sailing. It has been re- ported that the Octave people were not on the best of terms since their trouble some time ago, causing Mir. Jones to resign, and this was partly the cause of Mir. Jones getting the property from the Octave company.