Mohave County miner., 1900-02-03

elsewhere in the world, while those
found south of the San Juan river, in
San Juan county, Utah, are almost as
good. These are of the best colors of
the Cinnamon and Almandite garnet.
rich ruby, and of purple cast. They
cut into beautiful gems, and it is. not
infrequent to find them from ten to
fifteen carats in weight. The Navajo
Indians gather large quantities of these
garnets, also green peridots, crystals of
quartz, excellent specimens of kyanite,
and sell them at Fort Wingate and to
the various trading posts of that coun
try from which points they are ex-
ported to different parts of the world"
A new faction recently has entered
Arizona, the influence of which is de-
! stined soon to be very powerful. 1t is
! probable that its weight will be felt in
business, politics, journalism and all
other essentials of the territory's pub
lie Enterprises. An Amalgamated Cop
per company--otherm.. .he STANDARD
Oil trust-in its acquisition of copper
, properties all over the west, within the
past two months has had its experts
/ quietly at work in Arizona, inspecting
copper prospects and partially devel-
oping mines. Already that corpora
| tion has spent not less than 3OOOO1S in
leases aud bonds, and it is given out
that it is prepared to invest l,000,Oo0S
during the year 1900, the greatest por-
tion of which will be placed in Arizona.
The immense wealth represented by
the colossal aggregation of capital as
sures the expenditure of vast sums in
the development of Arizonas mineral
resources, and the likelihood OF a
marked increase in its production of
copper.-Prospector.
The iaeger Canyon Copper Company,
which owns eleven claims in the vicin-
ity of Yaeger canyon, on the western
slope of the Black Hills, which they
are developing, have gone about it in a
very noiseless manner, but in an ef-
fective way. The claims are better
known as the ones in which Judge
Sloan and Mayor Watts are interested.
All connected with the company have
been very reticent in regard to the
work done as well as to the showing
made. Since commencing work they
have sunk two shafts on the property,
the deepest one being 80 feet A hoist
with capacity of going l,500 feet deep
has just been placed on the property
and was started up a few days ago and
sinking will be continued as rapidly as
three shifts can perform the work.
Col. w. b. Wallace is superintendent
of the property and he is doing the
work in thoroughly systematic man
ner and is building up permanent
camp. To accommodate the present
necessities of the camp he has erected
six buildings, all good substantial ones.
The shafts are both in good ore their
entire depth, and as far as develop
ment work has progressed the Indica-
tions are good for making first class
mine. Development work will be con
! tinued to depth of at least 600 feet
before any steps are taken toward the
erection of a reduction plant on it,
4 Journal Miner.
7 A Wallace dispatch to the Denver
Record says: John Hummel, of the
\ first miners in the Cape Nome camp
on the coast of Alaska, will leave here
next Tuesday for Seattle, from where
he will lead party back to Nome as
early in the spring as is advisable.
There are number there who will be
of the party, 10 having already ad-
vanced the passage money, while others
have promised to do so at an early
date. Mr.. Hummel is native of
Pennsylvania, GA years old, and has
played a leading part in the discovery
northwest since 1859. He thus de-
scribed today the beginning of the
Cape Nome excitement and his Alaska
experiences: ain May, 1898, started
for Alaska. When | reached st.
Michael | decided to go to Golovin bay.
, was shipwrecked four times on the
way, but finally arrived all right and
went to prospecting. | tried the Luck
/ river first; found some colors there,
and went over to the Tipatole river,
where it paid about 2.50s per day.