Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-09-26
Mining Intelligence.

tunnel.
 Stratton's Independence mine a
 Cripple Creek has been closed, tn,
 miners refusing to work on accoun
 of an order requiring them to stoI
 and change clothing before a watch
 man before leaving the mine. Tn,
 object of the order is to stop thefts O
 ore, said to amount to thousands OI
 dollars monthly.
 Fl PasO is to have a new smelling
 plant. The Federal Copper company
 has begun preparations for the cree
 tiOn of a 300-ton plant at that point
 It is said that employment will be
 given to 300 men in the new enter. prise. It is anticipated that lively rate war will be precipitated when the new plant is blown in.
 NJ. H. Dodge has started work. ex- tending the tunnel on the Gold Basis claim on Groom creek, and has start ed sinking a new shaft on the '95 mine. He has five men employed He expects to start up his mill in a few days on some custom ore.
 J. R. Slack and his son, J. K Slack, have sunk through the old workings in the Benjamin mine, and at a depth of forty feet encountered a body of ore about one foot in width which carries eighty ounces in silver and S4 in gold.
 w. A. Ross and Thomas Huft have struck good ore in their Gold Trail mine on Groom creek. During the past two weeks, while sinking their shaft, they took out twelve tons of ore which assays $50 per ton. They will have the ore worked at NJ. H. Dodge's mill to determine its value from a mill test.
 The land of the Yuma Colorado River Gold Dredging company was recently bonded for thirty days to Arkansas capitalists. A prospecting party is now in the field and it will not take long to determine whether or not the deal will go through.
 The sale of a mine owned by NJ. J. Hickey, J. D. Carter and J. H. Cos tello, in the Castle Creek district is announced. The sale was for cash, the price paid being S2O,OOO. It is a copper property and is fairly well de- veloped, the ore body in it being sixty feet wide. The purchaser is Vim. Quigley, an Ohio capitalist.
 
 Word comes from the Crown Point mine that an immense flow of water was encountered in the lower work ings of that property. It came in so fast that it taxed the pump to its full est capacity to handle it. The own CTS of this mine have been handicap ped heretofore by a scarcity of water, but will now have it in abundance for all purposes, and will no doubt soon start up the mill again.
 JIG. Glissan and Vim. Lawrence were here yesterday from their mine near Dripping Springs, and brought with them eight pounds of gold, which was shipped to the San Fran cisco mint. This amount of gold was procured from 800 pounds of ore and required only five days work in the mine and three days arastraing. This is probably the richest gold ore discovered in Arizona. It is found in pockets connected by well defined stringers of equal richness. The property is only a prospect as yet, but the owners expect to do consider able development work the coming fall and winter, and as they have a well defined ledge carrying good values, the prospect of opening up a fine mine is encouraging Silver Belt.
 A gentleman interested in mining matters returned a day or two ago from a short trip through the mining district of Congress, Octave and vicin ity. Speaking of the additional sixty stamps being erected at the Congress mine he said the foundations were laid, the necessary timbers on the ground and the work is being pushed. In a short time the company will have 100 stamps pounding away on good ore. At Fools Gulch the reduction machinery now in place does not seem to be competent to do the work re- quired, and there is talk of erecting a forty stamp mill in its place. The Octave company has now had its forty stamp mill in operation for two months and everything seems to be moving with perfect satisfaction. It is reported the company will at an early day add sixty more stamps. The camp is a prosperous little town. The company seems to have plenty of good ore and know how to handle it. Mr. Forbes of the Octave company has some good looking copper claims in Cunningham pass, not far distant, and about the first of October expects to begin the sinking of a 800 foot shaft on the property. That part of Arizona is exceedingly rich in mineral and it is only a question of time when more big mines will be developed from among the many prospects now to be seen. Republican.
 Copper mining is now more prof. table than gold mining, and the great advance in the price of copper which has taken place during the last year is likely to be permanent, because it was not brought about by speculation but it is due to an increased demand for the metal which came in with the of electricity to so many of the daily uses of life, and since the use of that element is to be per manent and the ends to which it may be applied are likely to be greatly in creased the chances are all in favor of the price of copper becoming still higher, rather than lower. The noun tains in Arizona are full of indica- tions of copper, and the prospectOrs of this territory could not turn their in a more promising direc tion than than to undertake a sySte- matic search for this metal. Twenty years ago, when the mountains were full of men prospecting for silver, many promising copper leads were found, and though the most of them would not pay for working at the prices then. prevailing it is probable that a great many 0t, them could be made good Propertiss>-at the price, which the metal now comifands, E will be worth while for the mineF> : this territory to give their attention to this matter. There is money in cop per, and the best feature of the situa- tion is the fact that it is the coming metal. al.-Ex.
 During the past two weeks there have been a number of interesting happenings in a mining way in the