Mohave County miner., 1900-04-07
General Mining News

IenUt~See mas ocCoiue tne leading
phosphate producer of America. There
are 94S valuable mines in the state,
and over 2l,000 men are employed in
the business. New mines are being
opened daily.
From Denver comes news that Mr..
Simon Guggenheim and his associates
10 the Guggenheim Exploration Com
pauy are going to build a 400-ton smelt-
ing plant at or near Valparaiso, Chilli.
for the treatment of ores mined in that
state and in Ecuador.
The mineral production in the United
States this year will reach value of
nearly l,0O0,0O0,0 COOS. One of the most
important economic bills introduced
in congress is that by Senator Depew
to encourage the mining, mineral and
metallurgical sciences of the country
by an appropriation for each state or
territory maintaining school of
niues.-Tom bstone Prospector.
The visit of MIR. Huntington and
party to Sonora, Mexico. may result in
cheaper fuel for Arizona. This would
prove of much Importance Coke laid
down at from IS to 7s per ton, would
result in more than quadrupling the
output of copper, which would increase
the freight traffic OF the S. p com mpany
just so much more. The reduction in
the price of fuel is one way in which
the S. P. company can help itself and
the territory at one and the same time.
It is to be hoped that the Sonora coal
fields will meet these conditions and
open the way for the enlargement of
our copper product.-Star.
A project that gives great promi-
nence to this section as "A mineral one
is the news that the greater portion of
the machinery of the Spenazuma plant
IN Southern Arizona has been pur.
chased by Henry b. Clifford d Co., and
is now enroute to Prescott. 1t will be
placed on the Aqua F,ia aud is to be
operated on ores from mines owned by
the above company. The principal
machinery enroute is $50 horse power
engine, three large boilers, two rock
breakers, two Cornish rolls and other
lesser machines, Clifton Lewis, the
we'll known Chaparral miner, is person.
ally experimenting the shipment
Journal Miner
Last Sunday Mark Lulley and r. K.
Richardson left for the rich placer
mines which Mark had discovered
twenty years ago, says the Nogales
Oasis. Mark returned to Nogales on
Thursday. He stated that the placers
were all right, but it appears from sam
pIe' of quartz that he brought back
that they have struck something bet.
ter than placering. Specimens which
be exhibited to his friends we're fairly
speckled with the yellow metal and q
rough estimate made by an expert
placed the ore As running between
s,OOOS and l0,000s gold. Mr.. Lulley il
enthusiastic over the find and states
that the richest mining district In the
territory lies in the Patagonia noun
tains and that Nogales and vicinity is
destined to become the mining center
of the southwest.--Tucson Citizen.
The africa group of gold mines 10
Gated in the Airca mountain twenty
miles west of the Colorado river and
forty miles from Ehrenburg, is turning
out some remarkably rich sulphatt
ore Col. c. II. Gray, the owner of this
splendid property, has recently erected
three stamp mill on the property te
test the free milling value of the mines
well sunk four miles from the mine
has an abundance of water for all pur
poses; wood is abundant, and the ore
seemingly inexhaustable. Some of the
finest ore ever seen In Phenix came
from that property and shipments have
netted the owner over one hundred
dollars to the ton. There are five
claims to the group in which large
amount of development work has beer
done, showing beyond doubt, that this
Is one of the best gold mining proper
ties now operating in the west.--Phe
nix Gazette.
The New England Statist has de
acription of what 1t terms the mos'
powerful dredge i'm the world. 1t sayi