Mohave County miner., 1900-09-08
General Mining News

September |, all underground men
will be paid 3.5oS per day-Silver Belt.
During July there entered Mexico
mining machinery to the amount of
lO2,iJ0s gold. 1t is expected that the
orders for the month of August will
reach 1000 gold In fact there is
constant increase in the amount of
mining machinery going into Mexico
Silver Belt.
A sample recently received and an.
alyzed at the Arizona school of mines
adds another important substance to
the already long list of mineral pro-
ductions Of the territory. 1t came
from Martinez, and is found to be a
variety of Fuller's earth, much used to
remove the oil and grease from wooden
goods.-Florence Tribure.
Mining journals are publishing the
report that the Guggenheim interests
have been sold to au English syndi.
cate. The sale as reported includes
all the smelling and mining interests
of the Guggenheim both I'm the United
States and Mexico, with the exception
of one twentieth interest which they
retain, and the price paid them is said
to be 35,0OO,OOOs in gold.
VIM. Lawrence, who was in town last
Monday, received ,l2Js, returns from
the gold shipped to San Francisco a
few weeks ago, and which represented
the July output of the Lawrence aud
Glisson mine near Dripping Springs.
Mr.. Lawrence stated that they have
struck another pocket of ore equally
as rich as the first one encountered.
The ore runs over 200 ounces in gold
to the ton.--Silver Belt.
A new prospecting drill and outfit
has been received by Henry Linn,
superintendent of the Advance Gold
Dredging Co, and the work of demon.
strating the values of new and untried
ground will at once be inaugurated
aud prosecuted with vigor. The Cros.
by.Ehrich Syndicate, of Colorado
Springs who promoted the Advance
proposition are promoting the organi-
zation of additional companies to
operate 2400 acres of ground adjoining
that of the Advance company. This
land will be prospected as rapidly as
can be reached.-Yuma Sun.
On the Panama mine in the Old Hat
district, Capt. J. ID. Burgess, who has
charge Of the property, has sunk a
double compartment shaft which for
its entire depth is 10 ore, the assay
value of which is 2l3 ounces Of silver,
1l.40s gold, 8 ounces copper and 80
ounces lead. The above Is an assay
of the entire face of the shaft. At
present Capt. Burgess has a large
force Of work, not only developing the
different properties, but clearing and
grading grounds for a large concen-
trating plant shortly to be erected, is
also in progress.-Stsr.
Some miners at the San Simon min
ing camp, six miles south of Stems
Pass, recently prospected an old shaft
which has long been abandoned. At
the depth of thirty five feet they found
body of carbonate ore, three feet
wide They took sample of it wnich
was sent to the FL Paso smelling works
for ANALYSIS. 1t was found to contain
thirty per cent copper and six and
eight -tenths ounces of silver. 1t had
fiftecn per cent of iron and thirty sew
en- per cent of silica. If the Abandoned
shafts of this camp carry such ore
what must there be in the property
that the owners thought worth saving.
--Lordsburg Liberal.
A dispatch from London says that
many millions Of tons of coal from
the mines of Pennsylvania and the
Virginias are soon to be coming across
the Atlantic to compete in the ports
of Europe through the scarcity and
high price OF the British coal. In an
ticipation of the foregoing European
demand, American coal carrying rail-
ways like the Baltimore and Ohio and
the Pennsylvania, are adding hun
dreds of thousands of acres to their
holdings. Within the last few weeks
score OF purchasers have expended
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