Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-01-31
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.

The Storm Cloud Gold Mining com pany has increased it's capital stock from S1OO,0OO to S5OO,OOO and the number of shares from 1000 to 5000, the par value of each being S100.
 Henry B. Clifford announced some time since that he did not desire to invest in any more mining properties, as he felt tha. he had all that he could look after. But he cannot re- sist picking up a good one when ever it is offered to him, and he has just secured the Shylock and two or three others Tn the vicinity of the Belcher, which he also recently se- cured.
 c. H. Mcclure, Nilas Cameron, P. D. Berry and John Halford, who have been prospecting in the Ora i'd Canyon of Arizona for the past three months, returned Saturday. They prospected on the north side of the river and brought in some fine speci- mems of ore which were taken from iedges of great extent. They also show specimens of molybdenum and mica. They had a good trip, the weather in the canyon at this season being delightful.-Sun.
 G. W. Hull and John Duke, who recently took lease on the Garcia mill on the Hassaysmpa, will start it up this week on ore from their Fe- rosa mine. The latter is said to have the finest surface showing of any mine ever diseoveEed in that section ozz.side of the Vulture, and if the Faosa ore continues with depth it pzpmises to rival even the celebrated V1lture mine, The ore body near thsarface Is said to be 100 feet in iIs5Sand assays all the way from
 sp S5O00 per ton. Messrs. Hull and Duke have great hopes for this property, and the showing made az far as development has progressed certainly furnishes good grounds for their hopes.
 "A prominent mining man of Je- rome and Prescott, at present stay ing in Phoenix, gave out some very interesting information regarding the great copper district of northern Arizona. According to the Jerome man that camp will be the greatest copper shipper in the United States within the next three years. The United Verde alone ships 5,G00,O00 pounds a year of the red metal, which carries. enough gold and silver to aIake it pos sible to land the copper con- tents of its bass and snodes in New York and NeSark at clear profit of the entire market price. can. The prominent mining man" was probably misquoted in the above article as the output of copper of the United Verde Copper company is about 6,000,O00 pounds per month or 720O0,000 pounds per year.
 We are reliably informed that the Colorado River Gold Dredging com pany has closed a deal with a Colorado dredging corpora tion whereby a S6O.OOO dredger will be placed on the placer grounds at the Potholes within the next four months. Orders have already been given for the construction of the machinery of the dredger and owing to the enormous proportions of the machine four months will be re- quired to place it on the grounds, but t is expected that within five months the same will be taking out gold. The machine will have capacity of 2500 cubic yards of dirt per day of twenty four hours. Prospects on the ground havp shown the dirt to assay from the surface to bed rock at an aver age of thirty-fve cents per yard, and it is claimed that the dirt can be worked for four and five cents per yard. If dredgers on the Colo rado prove a success it will add wonderfully to the resources of Yuma county.-Sentinel.