Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-02-21
MINES AND MINING
In the Field of Mining Activity
 of Arizona and Elsewhere.
What is Going on in the Line of Recent Sales, Strikes And Development
 of New Claims.

or New LlalfiS.
 A handsome specimen of free gold
 IS on exhibition at the Comet saloon.
 It is from the Carboniferous mine,
 On cry creek, owned by Mir. Barnes ana others.
 E. B. Gage. who with r. NJ. Mur-
 phy recently purchased some mining
 property in the Bradshaw noun taii s, on the War Eagle lode, has seut out a lot of supplies and meu to the mine. Work will be commenced at once sinking a new shaft on the property.
 J. C. Brown, who recently bonded some mining claims in Black Rock district from F. X. O'BrieD, is ship ing lot of machinery in to work the properties with.
 The first ear Of pay freight came in over the new Santa Fe & Graud Canyon railroad Thursday. It IS a car of as fine copper ore as could be found anywhere, be'oRgs to the Central Arizona Copper company. and will be shipped to Fl Paso for treatment.-Williams News.
 Prof. s. B. Christy Of the mining department of the University of California, has just been granted au American patent for process fur the recovery of gold and silver from cyanide solutions by electrolysis. The new process has all the advant- ages of the SiemeDs & HaIske pro- cess but avoids its chief difficulty necessity for cupelliug an enormous weight of lead cathodes in order to e over the gold from them.
 Arizona stuckhulders of the ArI- zoua, Eastern and Mortaua com p5ny nave received their third munthly dividend from that com- pany. The dividends paisi have been 7 p"r cent. each on iie par value Of the shares, which are $500 each. giving a dividend of 10 cents per share. Arizona, Eastern and Mon iaaa Is pretty good stock tn hold, as II k one of the few dividend paYers operating in this couoJv. The con- pany. however, owns extensive In- teIests outside of Arizona which are very profitable.
 he recent purchase and D 'ymeut by Goi. Boswor; h of the group of mines adjacent 10 Jerome. from F. E. Jordan and Thos. Campbell, means a whCie lot tO Jerome. Col. Bosw3rth took bend nn the prop erty for S50,O00 and immeG lately started work developing it. He opened up siscif aa ext ensivs body Of ere that be Gild r.ot wait for the exriratiou f tiie ioud but closed the deal by paying for the property, and 1t Is HOW sGld by parties who have seen tiie pfuper,v mat rt could nu, De purchased: :o'ay for S250,tN0 from Col. BosWufih. The latter represents a larg. syndicate of fpitht Standard Oil men or of the Anal garated Copper company, and hA is already preparing 60 put up a smeIi- ing plant to work tle ores from i E,-e mines. The smpiter will prob- ably be erected at tae river and he ore transported tueTe bv means of an electric railroad, which would be bet ween two and three miles long Water Is found on the claims in sui icieut quantity to run a hoist aud anJ other machihery for working the mines. These claims afe To- caled down Inc gulch below the mines of the United Verde mine and many of them have only recently been located. although pros pectors have been locating eiaims iu ail other directions from those of the United Verde mine.
 liugaey Hughes rrce,vad Sl6.OOO ou Saturday from the Empire Min ing company. of which pr. Hendryx is a the head, F. M. Clark received 4,OO0 and Mrs. Geo. Burton also re ceived q small sum. ;he same being iu payment of properties on Groom creek winch Dr Hendrvx Is working These are the same prOpeTtie, of which mention was recently made in the JOURNAL MINER. that Dr. lien dryx has made his contracts for lum- Der aud machinery for building a mill. He has heen prospecting the properties for aHDii two years. using a small stamp miIi to work the ore with, and The fact ti at hp has made payment for tine mines and has placed an oruer for material for mill to be piace,i nn hem. Is suffi, z ient notice of their merit as DII Heudryx is one of the most ccnse vatlve miLing men that has ever visi;ei this section. He has a great dividend paying mine ia British Columb a, aId ha> two iu successful operatIon on the Colorado river. one in MOhavr county ani one m Ne vada. He k provided with ample al ru "arrv ihrorgh aay mining enterprise Iu~t u" undertakes. but purchases W,n ., just as a shrewd business mau purchases any other commodity. fer what he considers 1t worth from ttr shuuiag IL makes. and n"t on any lat tfe Possibil- ities of ii.