Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-04-25
D'FI}[D SF MINING
What is Going on in the Line of Recent Sales, Discoveries
 and Development.
The Mineral 1uns of This Particular Sse- tion of Arizona and its Rapid
 Advancement.

finds reported from the northern end of the Mineral Point district.
 The old Dominion company at Globe has started up again and all the old hands are at work.
 A boiler for the Empire Mining com pany's new mill on Groom creek passed through Prescott yesterday.
 The Chicago mill is pounding away on ore day and night, producing sat isfactOry results.
 The Verde Queen copper company, near Jerome, is pushing forward to the completion of their shelter as soon as possible.
 It is stated that Messrs. Fisher and Darrah have taken an option on the Gladiator mine, the option recently given on the property to other parties having been abandoned.
 Superintendent Douglas, of the Sen atOr. has his new air compressor in place and is engaged in drifting on the S00-fOOt level.
 A. J. Pickrell is pushing development work on the Dunkirk group of mines on Slate creek. The properties are showing up well.
 Sam Purcell and D. w. Fisher have recently sold their Copper Crown mine located in the Castle Creek country, to J. NJ. Ford, of Phenix, for $1,0O0.
 The Los Angeles Mining Review is authority for the statement that there are in the United States seventeen cop per mines capitalized for $150. .jJ0000 that have paid dividends amounting to $177, ,727, ,39S. In other words. they have paid to their respective stock holders $19,177,3 ,39S more than the az gregate of the capital stock.
 Even with the Transvaal mines closed the worlds production of gold is larger than the combined yield of gold and silver in the year 1873. A big grist of financial delusiOns has been cleared away within the last four years.
 Storts, Demary & Reyes have re- ceived a new hoist for their mines on Groom creek. These men have shown great pluck and energy in the development of their mines, and it is gratifying to know that they are meet ing with great success.
 Two years ago Louis Patnaud re- signed his position as assistant post master of Everett, Washington. to try his fortune in the Klondike. Three of his friends made up $400 as a grub stake for him. No word came from the recipient until he returned to Everett a week ago, when he divided $100,O00 among the three friends who had helped him.
 c. r. Collins, of the Octave and Penn Gold Mining company. Operat- ing in this county, has just bonded twenty claims west of Globe for $12J,- 900, all to be paid within nine months, and is working a force of about twenty men opening up the claims, under the management of r. J. Cole of PheniX.
 George Lockwood and James Carp enter. are reported as having re- gently made a remarkably rich strike in silver ore in the Chloride district. Mir Carpenter has gone down about fifty feet and his about eighteen inches of magnificent looking horn silver ore, some of which has gone as high as 1000 ounces to the ton. Mir. Lock wood is only in thirty feet, but has opened up q very promising prospect, his ore being almost equal to Mir. Carpenters. The ore is being handled at the Crown King sampling works. This discovery has given quite an i'm petus to prospecting in that section and further rich discoveries are looked for.
 In q speech last night Smith Curtis, minister of mines of British C6lum- bia said that the government had found that the law excluding Ameri- cans from the Canadian gold fields at Atlin was a mistake, and having dis covered a flaw in it had declared it to be imperative. The government of British Columbia has concluded that Americans are necessary to the de of Canadian gold fields and is going to throw British Column bia wide open to citizens of the United States.
 Oh AhN lOAAlO bslSil BOhne and Klempf sunk a winZe sixty feet deep from the second tunnel level but have now to abandon it on ac- count of the great increase in the flow of water. They intend to cross cut this vein in the lower tunnel and drain off the water to allow of prosecuting work in the upper works. There is a two-fOOt vein of ore in the bottom. through which very rich ore occurs. In all the openings great ore is in sight, but the boys do not intend to do any stOping until connection has been made with the lower tunnel. A short time ago the boys were offered $20.000 for the mine and refused it. Miner.
 The shelter combine has refused to grant the demand for increased wages at the Germania shelter, in Utah. and 45O employees went on a strike last Wednesday afternoon. Some of the men stopped work a week ago, pending a decision of the shelter peO- pie. Superintendent Tucker reported to the employees that the company had finally decided that an advance could not be made for the reason that an increase of $6,0OO per month would mean operating the shelter without profit.
 Among several promising mining claims opened in Cave creek and Camp creek mining districts in the northern part of Maricopa county dur ing the past year is the Jackson min ing claim, situated two miles north of Gold Hill and owned by W. l.. Mckay and K. D. Dickson. Recently lt depth of 125 feet they have made I most promising strike of free gold The ore shows gold plentifully on the surface. and at the very lowest eSti- mate there is $25.000 in sight. InI Ill respects the discovery, according -O the owners statements, seems to DC more promising and permanent han any yet made in the Gold Hill listrict.-Republican
 The new ten-stamp mill of the Elm. Iire Mining company on Groom creek s expected to be completed, ready for operation by June l. The work of ex- awaiting for the foundation is now nearly completed. The mill is being made by the Union Iron Works of san Francisco, and the machinery | will also be put up in place and the | hill erected by that company. A cyan de plant will also be erected in con. lection with the mill. This mine has 'een systematically developed by pr. | IendryX and is now said to make n | inc showing, a characteristic of it | 'eing that the best ore found in it has | 'een at it's deepest workings. Smiley | !. Jones, very capable business and mining man is superintendent of the property,