Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-01-17

quIIeu the property, over S9,UUU.UUU \ has been taken out. although only the high grade ore has been worked. Over 1000 men are employed at the mine. It takes a pretty rich silver mine to pay operating expenses at the present price of silver.
 A rich mineral strike is reported to have been made recently along the Maricopa and Yuma county line near Cullens, by Frank Williams and Charles Duchet. The discovery consists of three big ledges of cop per and gold ore. Samples have been taken from all running high in both metals. The discoverers nave located large group of claims and development work has alraady been begun. The find has attracted a large number of miners and pros pectors. The lodges vary in width from six inches to three feet and are easily accessible. The camp has been named Kalamazoo from iunaY circumstance. The discovery of the lodges was celebrated by New Years dinner, at which Michigan apples were prominent on tho bill of fare. There were also egg-Aog, Tom and Jsrry, mincs pies, roast turkey, but the apples were pre-em- inent, and it was decided to preserve their memory in the name of the camp.-Republican.
 G. w. Hull, of tbe Columbia min ing company, has 23,000 feet of two and four inch steel pipe en route to Jerome to be used in conveying water from a spring recently pur
 chased by him 10 the above group of mines, where he announces he will erect a smelter early in the spring. The Columbia mines are south of Jerome and were formerly owned by Mir. Hull, who effected the organization few months ago i'll the east of the above con pany to develop them. MT. Hull has dem onslraTed remarkable shrewCn $ in business and mining in his opara- tions around Jerome. Sett ing there years ago, when the thought of town of any magnitude was not even dreamed of, he commenced to locate mining claims adjoining those owned by the United Verde com pany, and he continued this location process uutii he had eordOn of io- cations extending around three sldes of the company's claims. is the camp grew the only place where It could be built was on claims owned by MT. Hull, and he had the town piatted into lots, which found a ready sale at good prices. The development of the claims demon strated the possibilities which ex- isted for making good paying mines and these claims were sold at a good round price to eastern eapl- talists. With prophetic vision MT. Hull saw the future possibilities of that section and continued making locations wherever favorable indi- cations for ore could be found, ex- tending his operations further away from the town, and he has recently sold and bonded number of other claims. He has also been quietly, but with good business sagacitv, ac- tquiring title to all the water he could find or purchase, and today claims to have control of more water in that vicinity than the United Verde company owns.
 Reports yesterday confirmed the announcement that placer diggiEgs were discovered by sixty laborers at work constructing a cross-cut canal on the Indian reservation near the head of the Arizona canal, aud the find was of greater importance than was at first given out. When the men organized themselves into a party of placer miners the news of their find soon leaked out and pro duced ripple of excitement. Others Hooked to the scene of the discovery, hoping to take out small fortunes. They did not wait long enough to arm tn smselves with good equip ments, but were content to horn out the yellow stuff. The dirt turned out to be richer than was reported. Small quantities of the gravel were found to be richer than the usual placer dirt, and on an average It
 worked over about 35 cents per pan. At that proportion of gold and dirt there would be no reason for com plaint, since the average prNspeetor Is capable of taking out about loo pans in day. The curious actions of the men intent upon making money easier than by conss ructlng cross cuts soon betrayed themselves and because the operations wera be
 ing carried on, on an Indian reserva-
 ton, where, according to law, min ing is prohibited in Arizona, the men were restrained from banning out much gold. The limited amount of work done was insufficient to dis close fully the nature of the unusual
 lind, but it is believed that the dig sings are extensive enough to merit
 the excitement cause6 by the Gis- covery. According to reports the region surrounding the placer find : gives evidence of being well min eralized. It is said that among a few prospectors the existence of gold in greater or less quantities : near the place of the recent diseov-
 cry was we'll known, and that ;n ,, former years certain amount oi the yellow metal was banned out in an excavation near the canal under eoa- , struction n.-Republican.
 The new smelter for the Copper I Ktng of Arizona has been shipped ] from it's works. in Denver, by the 3 Colorado Iron Works Company. and
 immediately upon its arrival st its , destination, in Barrett, Ariz, i; will r be erected and put Tn bias. Th;s shelter is of the most mod
 ern type and contains all the latest : improvements for ob' aiming the i, best results in reducing ores in cop per bullion. Its builders, writing l, to the company about it, say: 'sYoJ i, may rest assured that the fnrnacs n we have constructed for you IS jat o best that money can buy, and VI, r have made a first class job of 1t n About a year and half ago VI 3 built for another company in Ari a zona furnace of this pattern. II starting it they handled oxidizee o copper ores, and the furnace was al . entire success. Later on they found their ores turning into sulphide