Mohave County miner., 1900-12-08
General Mining News


dends in this country.
A Salt Lake dispatch says: Barton
Sewell Of New York and Samuel New
house Of Highland Boy fame have
joined local parties in the purchase of
the Cactus group of mines in Southern
Utah, owned b. capitalists ia Paris.
The price is not stated, but it i, be-
lieved to be several hundred thousand
dollars.
contract was closed on Thursday
for the grading of the ground for the
erection Of a hundred-ton concentration
and tifty-ton smelter, to be located
three miles below Clifton. The Medler
Mining Co. is erecting the plant. The
concentrator will be used to handle the
ore of the company, but the smelter
will be open to all desiring to ship to
1t.
When one remem bers that the Ana
conda's ore averages ouly 3 per cent.
copper, one may well be lost in amaze
ment over the profits there are in Ari-
zopa's copper ores. There are ore
bodies in that territory that, If worked
to the same extent as those of Monta-
ma, would give three dollars in divi-
dends to their stockholders to Que dol
lar the Montana ores are giving.--Los
Angeles Review.
One of the biggest deals in the his.
tory of El Paso was consummated
there last Monday when the Ell Paso
mine, mill aud smelter supply house
was sold to the Denver Mine aud
Smelter Supply company. The con-
sideration is said to be ln,OO1S. The
Denver house was represented by
Me'srs. John S. Carey and Frank l..
Smith. Mr.. Juan Creel was in this
city to meet these gentlemen and close
the deal which had been pending for
som. time.-Industria Record.
la paying l4,50JS to compromise liti-
CATION and quiet title to its mining
property at Randsburg, the Yellow As.
ter Mining Company has acted Judi
ciously. While no one familiar with
the case believes that the parties to
whom this amount will be paid had
any claim upon the property, vet the
merest figmeut of claim ia the hands !
OF clever lawyers is uftimes sufficient
to impose heavy expenses upon those
defending their property. For that
reason, the Yellow Aster Company has
done well to pay certain amount of
money aud definitely close the matter
Mining Review.
In the state of Michoacan which
borders on the Pacific and lies west of
the city of Mexico, the RothcbiIds are
developing some very extensive de.
posits at lnguarran, near the head of
the Rio Marquee. At the junction of
this stream with the Rio Balsas very
large reduction works are building
The Boleo mines on the peninsula of
lower California have for years been
large producers of this metal, and the
immense deposits at Nacosari in
northern Sonora are just beginning to
yield. Ii Is evident that Mexico is to
De In the near future large source of
copper supply.
AT Pearce the Commonwealth mining
company has its new stamp mill about
ready to start, and has the new steam
hoist in operation. A new double COM
partment shaft is being sunk, which
Will be continued down below water
evel. Water was encountered in this |,
niue in the old shaft, at 427 feet, and I,
although the rich ore was known to
continue below that point, sinking was |,
discontinued, because of the small
NE OF the shaft. 1t is now proposed
% push the shaft down below water as :
apidiy as possible, and pumping ma
hinery will DO installed to handle the .
The Salt Lake Herald says: Jacob
'en' berger a local capitalist, having a
ontidential relations with the Guggen- "a
eitns, returned from the east TO-DAY =
nd says that while there has not vet =
cen an amalgamation between the u
and the American Smelt. "
~ and Refining Company, such a =
will be perfected about =
1e first of the year. This com bina. y
on, 1t Is claimed, would be of direct p
vantage to producers. On account te