Mohave County miner., 1900-12-15
General Mining News

doing assessment work on the placer
dictate has a large number of locations
on the Colorado river above the Ferry,
and they will put in dredger during
the coming year.-Coconino Sun.
+. G. Anderson, representing Frasier
& Chalmers, the largest manufacturers
of mining machinery in the world, ar
rived this week and assumed charge
of the construction work on the Med
Ter mill and smelter now being erected
on the river three miles below town.
The machinery will soon commence to
arrive, aud it is expected that the mill
aud smelter will be ready for business
by the middle of March.-Copper Era.
Mr.. Davey, mining expert from
London, who was sent here to examine
the Lezinsky group of mines, finished
his labors Monday last, and left for
the east. Mr.. Davey has been in nearly
all of the mining regions of the world,
but this was his first trip to Arizona.
He expressed himself as greatly sur
prise1 at the mineral wealth of this
section, and expressed the opinion
that it would soon be the leading cop
per camp of the west.-Copper Era.
A 50.ton mill run test without as
sorting, just made on the First Home
mine III Big Bug, gave results of 1868
per ton. This ore was taken from the
new workings, which shaft is down
100 feet. The same ore by little sort.
ing can be made to run from sos to
COS per ton. The value of this ore in
the new workings runs principally in
gold, and in the north ore chute which
is 30 feet away the value is principally
silver and lead. Ed Block ana Mr..
Gray certainly have shown confidence
in this property.-Prescott Journal
Miner.
W. II Norway, the Santa Barbara
mining engineer who recently pur-
chased the old Pinal Consolidated
mines, situated eighteen miles east of
Florence, was killed in Los Angeles
last week. He was run down by
traction car and the injuries he sus-
tanned thereby resulted speedily in
death. He expected to start up work
at the Pinal Consolidated mines in the
spring but his untimely taking off will
probably cause these properties to re-
main idle for several years longer He
was a good man and his demise is to
be sincerely egretted.-Florence Blade.
At depth of 69J feet genuine pc
troleum has been encountered in the
Gila valley. About eight miles south
of Stafford, near the Cienega, the latter
struck strong flow of oil, the genuine
petroleum, at the depth mentioned.
At the depth of 90 feet he encountered
a strong flow Of water He is going on
down with the we'll for he is thoroughly
convinced that he will find more veins
of oil as he goes down. This is the
first oil found, but Mr.. Scarborough
says he is firmly convinced that oil
exists here ia large quantities.-Gra
ham Guardian.
The American Smelling and Refin-
ing Company is just now sailing in
troubled seas. A delegation repre-.
senting western mining interests was
in New York last week to try and pre-
vent that company from raising its
charges two dollars per ton for treat.
ing lead ores. In response to that the
officials of the company say that as
they have the entire market for lead
"collared," they have right to raise
the price as high as they please. All
that can be said about that is this:
The company had better make hay
while the sun is shining, because the
new Independent smelters now build
ing in Utah and other places will soon
darken the horizon of the smelling
octopus.-Review.
The Jerome News says that it is ru.
mored, and with some truth, that on
w. A. Clark's next visit to Jerome he
may inaugurate some important
changes at the works of his United
Verde mines. 1t is said that the last
cave has determined him to move his
smelter to where it would be on solid
ground, thus relieving the mine of the
immense weight of all that great una
chinery and guarding against any &C.