Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-01-24
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.

A number of miners, working and prospecting, desire the Gazette tc warn miners from going to the Ray mines, looking for work, or to the Mineral creek district. These mines are all worked by Indian and Mex. ican help, and white men cannot se- cure employment there, hence the desire of the miners to prevent the men from tramping to that district looking for work which cannot be obtalned.-Gazette.
 "At her . threshold, lying along and tapping her east incorpora- tion line, Jerome has another mine which IS paying profit to it's lucky owners. It is the Columbia claim one of the Nautical group. This undoubtedly is the most important strike yet made in the Jerome min ing district, of course, always ex- cepting the great United Verde."- Jerome News. The above claim is one of group sold by MT. Hull to the Columbia Copper company.
 The Mining and Scientific Press of January Is, 1900, states that the Arizona, Eastern & Montana Smelt- ing company has declared monthly dividend of 2 per cent. The above plant is located in Big Bug, but twenty-two miles from Prescott, and has been for some months under the personal supervision of Henry B. Clifford. The smelter is said to be running steadily and has several bins of ore to draw on, in addition to many orders from adjacent mines.
 Owners of the Big Bug onyx quarry at Mayer state that plant for saving the onyx will shortly be built on the property and work will be- started up on a larger scale than ever before. The trouble hereto fore has been that ir shipping the material in the rough they have to pay freight on too much waste, thereby making the onyx too ex- pensive. By saving the onyx at the mine and getting rid of the waste there 1t will be possible to work the quarry at profit. Mr. Underhill, the former superintendent of the mine, will have charge of it again.
 The Mining and Engineering Journal of New York confirms the sale Of the United Verde, and says that Senator-elect w. h. Clark of Montana and other directArs ob- tained a decision Tn favor of their plan of reorganization from Justice Gildersleeve Tn the supreme court of New York on January 4. Glider sleeve denied the motion to continue the temporary injunction asked for by George A. Treadwell, minority stockholder. and vacated the pre- liminary injunction granted re- straining the sale of the property of the corporation. On January g the mire, with the works at Jerome and the railroad owned by the con- pany, was sold at public auction by R. V. Harnett & Company for $500 GOO, the purchaser being James A. Macdonald. who is said to have rep resented the reorganization com mittee al the company.
 "The news of an important strike in the Garcia mine in northern Mar icopa county was brought to Pheniz by G. w. Hull yesterday. MT. Hull yesterday. MT. Hull and John Duke, both we'll known Yavapai county mining men, recently ac- quired a half interest in the Garcia for S7000, the London company, limited, a Canadian association, re. taining tie other half. If the Ca nadian company had known as much about its mine few days ago as it now does, half interest in the Garcia would have cot a great dea mole." The above is copied from the Phenix Republican and is an other demonstration of how the re- porters get mixed up on their min ing news. Messrs. Hull and Duke have not purchased any interest whatever in the Garcia mine, but own a whole interest In very promising group of claims know n al the Ferosa group, consisting of foul claims. It was IF one of these mines that the rich ore was recently encountered by them, some of which goes away up in the thousands 1T gold. In order to work the ort from these claims they have taken { lease on the Garcia mill, but have nothing to do with the mine of that name.
 The Yaeger Canyon Copper com pany, which owns eleven claims Il the vicinity of Yaeger canyon, oI the western slope oi the Black Hil S which they are developing, have gone about 1t in very noiseles: manned, but in an effective way The clairus are better known as tn, ones ill which Judge Sloan an( Major Watts are interested. Al connected with the company hav been very recticent in regard to tn, work done, as we'll as to the showing made. Since commencing work the
 have sunk two shafts on the prop erty, the deepest one being 150 fee deep. A hoist with a capacity o going 1900 feet deep has just beel placed on the property and wa started up few days ago and sink ing will be continued as rapidly a three shifts can perform the work Col. w. R. Wallace is superintend !, ent of the property and he is doini a the work in thoroughly systematl
 manner and is building up a per manent camp. To accommodat the present necessities of the cam , he has erected SIX buildings, all goo
 substantial ones. The shafts ar
 both in good ore their entire deptt , and as far as development work ha progressed the indications are goo , for making a first class mine. De i velopment work will be continue
 to depth of at least 600 feet befor v any steps are taken towards th 2 erection of reduction plant on i ? In true western fashion a lon a robber, masked and armed, cleane
 out two restaurants in the center ( Kansas City at 6 o'clock Monda I morning, under .he glare of th | electric lights. He got S200 an C aooanod