Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-05-30


VIM. Button is making a satisfactory
run with his new mill at Minnehaha
The King of Arizona mine in Yuma
county now employs over 100 men. 1t
is steady gold producer.
Thos Roach is getting in a new boi-
Ter for his mill on Pine creek, the old
one proving too small for the work.
Frank Williams and Frank Heisler
have returned from a three weeks
pecting tour in the Sycamore
country They made several loca-
lions on some very promising looking
lodges.
Z. A. Dunshee reports the mill of
the Buster company running twelve
hours per day, the water not being suf-
ficient for a day and night run. All
the machinery for the dry process of
working the ore has not yet arrived.
The Turquoise Queen mine, owned by
Freds Drawn and Coolidge. has been
bonded to ]. C. Stewart for $4,000. This
turquoise mine is situated near the
Colorado river and was worked during
the stone age. The gems are of the
very first water-Mineral Wealth.
Owing to the failure to receive their
supply of coke the Verde Queen COM
pany was unable to start up its smelter
on Monday. as contemplated. The
plant is all completed and good sup
ply of ore is on hand and they now
only await the receipt of coke to
start up the smelter. Mr. Van Zandt.
who has just returned from there. says
the plant is very complete and per-
feet one
George Lockwood had a carload of
G. A r. ore worked at the Kingman
sampler this week. Mr.. Lockwood is
said toh ave over $4,000 worth of ore
now in sight in his lease and the drift
is only in the edge of the ore chute.
The chances are that Lockwood will
clean up in the neighborhOod of $780,
geo within the next eight or ten
months. The ore is wonderfully rich
in gold and silver.-Mohave Miner.
During the first three months of 1898
the exports of copper from the United
States We're 54.555. 100 pounds. says
the Los Angeles Mining Review Dur
| ing the corresponding three months of
1900 they were 100, 127, 14O pounds, an
increase of over 100 per cent. Con
trasting the same periods, the produc-
ton during the first quarter of the
present year was less than 20 per cent
greater than it was during the first
quarter of 1898.
( 1t is given out that ground has been
staked off at the Needles for the new
smelter. and that the proposition will
surely be carried forward to compile
/ ton in the near future. The parties
back of the enterprise are reported to
have ample means to carry out their
plans and have determined to COM
mence operations at once. The smell
ter win only have a capacity of thirty
tons daily. to commence with.
! Public interest in mining is more gen
eral now than it has been for years
past, and the amount of money which
is going into mining enterprises is very
large One indication of this is the
number of letters which we are re-
ceiving which contain inquiries about
the different mines and companies and
ask for advice as TO purchases of
stocks of shares in claims and mining
ventures of all sorts. Not day passes
without the receipt of such letters, and
their number becomes embarrassing
f. & NJ. Journal,
The cavern which occurred in the
Gold Basis mine a few days ago has
been repaired and things are running
again as usual. The cave-in occurred
in a main tunnel of the mine, but nc
cial damage done except to delay work
in that part of the mine for a few days
The mine is owned by j. R. Slack
who has it bonded to eastern parties.
Mr. Slack began work on this mine a
few months ago and by his usual en-
ergy brought 1t to the front, and with
force of only eight men he has taken
out over $4,000 a month.
In an article on the worlds copper
supply. the New York World says:
''Of the copper mines of Importance in
| North America today. those of Mon
tana, Arizona and Michigan. are in
the front rank. and Rio Tinto in Spain,
stands practically alone in Europe.
Owing to interminable lawsuits Butte's
production is not increasing, but rather
diminishing. and in Michigan. notwith-
standing the investment of enormous
capital in the opening up of new mines.
the increase in proportion is small.
The greatest individual copper mine
I in this country, if not in the world,
is unquestinably Senator Clark's Unit
ed Verde. at Jerome, Arizona"
A suit is pending in the California
curt as to whether granite is a mineral
or not. and explains that it is a test
case to see whether land upon which
there is granite can come under the law
which excludes mineral lands from To-
cation by railroads. There is no doubt
about granite being a mineral 1t
certainly is not a vegetable or fish.
But we do not think a whole quarry
of it would stop locating the land, be-
cause that was not in the mind of the
men who framed the law What they
had in mind were the metals of COM
merce, gold, silver, lead, copper, etc,
and their intention ought TO govern. If
land can be excluded because there
is granite upon it, then it can be ex-
Guided because there are boulders.
The intention of the legislators should
govern. and it is easy enough to see
what the intention was.-Salt Lake
Tribune
The one perpendicular shaft in the
Calumet runs down distance of three
quarters of a mile The sinking of
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