Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-06-20
IN THE FIELD OF MINING
What is Going on in the Line of Recent Sales, Discoveries
 and Development.
Ths Mineral Zone of This Particular Sec tion of Arizona and its Rapid
 Advancement.
IMPORTANT MINING CASE.

The Commissioner of the General
 Land Office Reverses the Local
 Officers in the White
 Hills Case.
 An important mining decision by the commissioner ol j.c general land of flee was received at the local land of flee today. It was in the case Of Michael Scanlon. ct al, vs. David II. Moffatt. In 1898 Mir. Moffat filed an application in the land office for patent for thirty-nine mining claims and twenty-three mill sites. These were all grouped into one application. Mir. ScanlOn and others filed a protest against the issuance of patents against two of the claims. on which the town, of White Hills iS situated. alleging as grounds of their protest that the re- quisite amount of work had not been performed. and also alleging the non mineral character of the land. A hearing was ordered and a vOluminOus mass of testimony was taken in King man. when the hearing was adjourn ed to Prescott. About six days was spent in taking testimony here before the land officers. two StenOgrapherS ] " ton of the time In addition to this accumulation of testimony q number | of lengthy dispositions were taken in Colorado and added to the other testi- mony in the case, making q most form | idable aggregation of it. and as con | flicting as it was formidable. After wrestling with the contradictions of this mass of testimony for some time | the register and receiver decided the case in favor of the claimant on both grounds of contest. viz: finding that ! the ground was mineral in character and that the required amount of work ! had been performed.
 1 An appeal was taken to the commis- 1 sioner of the general land office. and in thirteen-page typewriter opinion that official reverses the decision of 1 the local officers in regard to the char acter of the land. holding that it is nOn-mineral. hence not subject to loca- tiOn and patent under the mineral land laws. and holds the two claims for rejection from the application for pa tent of the group.
 The claimant has now sixty days in which to appeal from this decision to the secretary of the interior. The case is a hard fought one on both sides, the attorneys being E. F. EllinwOod and w. G. Blakeley for Mir. MOffatt. and Col l. F. Wilson and Ross X ! O'Sullivan for the protestees.
 It is currently reported that Geo. B. ! Scammell is about closing a deal for the Dodge and Slack properties on i Groom creek. Included in the propos- ed deal is the Dodge mill.
 The Guggenheims. it is said, will re ceive S35. .OOO. 900 for their plants from the trust. This is q price that might well move q GuSgenheim or even a | Rothschild to consider a proposition to sell.
 ]. R. Slack is developing q gold prop erty near the Empire mine on Groom creek which is very promising. He is now down ninety feet with shaft and has ore the entire distance. The ore taken from this shaft has left q nice little profit over all expense of sinking and timbering it.
 A big boiler for the Cash mine was freighted out there on Saturday from Prescott This property formerly owned by Dave Grubb. is now being worked by I. c. Sturtevant and Cap tain Weeks. H. Blauvelt is super intendent of the mine.
 It is rumored that the Cedar Val ley Mining company will begin active operations on their property at Cedar early in the fall The Arnold mine, owned by this company. is one of the good properties of the Cedar country and ought to be a heavy producer MOhave Miner
 The Buster group of mines at Min eral Point. belonging to the late T. c. Barlow MasSicks and Father Quetu have been sold to Cecil G. Fennell and John l.. Davis and active operations have already commenced in their de velopment It is understood that the deal was made through Geo. B. Scammell.
 John Develin, Montana mining man, after paying visit to Jerome and looking over that section thor Oughly has decided to spend about ! S40.OO0 in running a tunnel under the mountain about nine miles west of l Jerome to strike big iron dyke which runs through the mountain. He thinks the chances are good for strik- ing a big body of copper.
 The lead producers of the United | States are preparing to form a trust that has for it's object the maintenance of lead prices that will provide q sub stantial profit to the mine owner The lines on which this trust are to be formed are cooperative. The price of lead is to be maintained at $425, at which price the producer will pay into the combine $1 on each metallic ton. ! fb
 The Anaconda mining company is about to build another shelter at the town of Anaconda that will have a capacity of 1000 tons daily. The old shelter with capacity of 1000 tons will be remodeled and run in cOnnec- ton with the new plant. This will give the company reduction capacity of nearly ten thousand tons daily. the greatest capacity of any shelter on earth.
 William C. Potter. mining engineer of the industrial department of the Santa Fe, was pleasant caller at this office Tuesday. He states the object of this new departure of the railroad company to be the upbuilding of the mineral resources of the country con tiguous to the railroad. He will visit the mining camps of this part of the country to familiarize himself with the resources and later on will make q thorough investigation. - Mohave Miner.
 be paid, and at S4.65 and over s will go to the combine. This money is to be used to buy the surplus lead and maintain the market on firm basis. The committee appointed a few days ago in Salt Lake City will formulate a plan which all producers will be asked to subscribe to. Arizona lead producers will be more than willing to join the producers of Utah to main