Mohave County miner., 1900-02-10
General Mining News


company, at Pierce, just received their
new smelter, which will be put up at
the Barrett Camp and put in operation
ss soon as possible. John Williams
will direct the building and running of
this smelter.
4. J. Doran started up his mill on
the Accident mine, Lynx creek, on
January 9TH, with Mr.. Gilpin in charge.
The first run was Of surface rock from
sn open cut aud is reported to be plat
ing 2Os Doran has struck three foot
body of ore below the 200 level that
assays l,OO0S per ton. OF course no
one expects such an ore body to last
forever, but its nice thing to have,
even for one day.--Prescott Prospect.
The recent discovery of gigantic
ledge of gold and copper ore IN the
mountains eighteen miles north of
Aqua Caliente, in which Bob Anderson,
Will Despair, Harry McPhaul and 9TH
ers are interested, is attracting great
deal of attention. Scores of prospec-
tors are going to the district and hun
dreds of claims have already been To-
Gated. Assays from the outcroppings
show value of 40S per ton, which is
high enough to admit the shipment of
ore at a good profit as the find is only
ri mi hA rail a..I
eighteen miles from the Gila river
Yuma Sun.
With check for 5000, Richard Ev-
ans recently made final payment upon
the Clark interest in the Ophir group
of mining claims at Stateline, this Civ
ing to him aud his associates three
quarters of the proposition. At present
the shaft has attained depth of 265
feet, where it is still in ore. From the
grass roots the work has been in ore
aud the purchasers are encouraged in
the belief that it has the making of one
Of the biggest things in the southern
country. While the ores thus far af-
ford nice milling average, some very
high grade ore is encountered at inter
walls and not small amount of money
ha, been derived from them.-Salt
Lake Tribune.
Mrs. A. Kinney returned on Monday
from her mines, the Bryan group, on
the Glla river. near Kelvin. A force OF
men have been employed for some
time in development and taking out
ore. The Bryan mines are among the
best developed and richest copper
properties in the Riverside and Min.
eral creek sections, showing large
bodies of ore, we'll opened, and the
property will now become regular
producer. A horsepower whim, ship,
ped from Tucson last week, will be
erected over the principal working
shaft and will greatly facilitate devel-
opment. One hundred tons of high
grade ore have been extracted, and
shipments will begin at an early date
VIA Red Rock station.-Globe Silver
Belt.
Vancouver, B. c., dispatch says:
Senator Campbell, of Cariboo, and a
company of enterprising San Francis
cans have begun work on new por-
ton Of the Miocene property, in the
famous old gold district and will de.
velop it largely on new plan. They
will expend 200,O00S on carrying down
large shaft to the bed of prehistoric
HVer, which is supposed to contain
Immense wealth. Other parts of the
nVer which have been found have been
very rich. The drifting and shaft will
ln all be nearly LOCO feet of straight
ahead work before there will be any
Particular return for what will be done,
1t Is expected that the work will take
ayear, and when completed will show
more pay than was ever before discov
cred in the country.
Julian Padilla, who has for several
years been profitably engaged in work.
'nS turquois property near the ia
nous Tiffany claims, at Turqnesa, re.
ports having recently struck very
valuable pocket of unusually large and
me colored gems in his drift, says the
New Mexican. He brought into town
recently about ten pounds of turquois
10 the rough and says the pocket con-
'ainS good many more. They have
'he exact Tiffany or sky blue shade so
much DriZad hy iaWAiara Mr. padilla