Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-09-25
Mining intelligence.

Mining intelligence.
 Although in a sense gold may be said to be imperishable and from its value and utility is very carefully preserved, yet the annual loss of gold by use in the arts and in wear and tear is simply enormous. The gold coins in circulation are constantly los ing in weight. Immense quantities of the precious metals are used for watch cases and jewelry, as well as in gliding and ornamenting thousands of articles of taste and luxury. The gold leaf used in many arts, the chloride of gold as applied to photog raphy, are uses of the metal that mean irrevocable loss, while in den tistry, which is a most effectual method of its burial, thousands of ounces per year are consumed. Large sums are lost by ship wrecks, in con veying coin or bullion from place to place, while the hoarding common to many people, as especially in India and the countries where life and property are continually in jeopardy, means the disappearance of vast sums yearly. Hence the difficulty, or more properly speaking, the impossibility of knowing the actual amount of value of gold existing in the world, either coined, manufactured or in the form of bullion.-M Mining and Engineering Review.
 The shaft of the of the Rebel mine is down $50 feet and they are push ing work for the 1000 foot level. The shaft of the Little Kicker is down 300 feet and drifts are being run at this level.
 J. A. Porterie yesterday began suit in district court against A. P. Gun ther to collect a commission on a sale of mining property. The complaint states that Gunther. about September 1. 1900, employed Porterie to find him a purchaser for the Great Scott mine in the Black Rock district. Gunther held the mine at S45,000 and accord ing to the terms of employment Por- terie was to receive ten per centof the price in the event of the sale. A sale was made at that figure. the com plaint alleging that the plaintiff had brought the seller and purchaser to- gether. He received from Gunther S17650 and says he has since been unable to collect any more of the commission He accordingly brings suit for S4, ,323.50 In the same action the plaintiff garnishees the Phenix National bank and the Valley bank.
 The Gopher and Little Treasure mines have been taken possession of by Mrs. Fannie Kautz, who has today secured from c. H. Jennings his surrender of written bond and lease of all his rights and claims to the properties. Since it became known few days ago that Mrs. Kautz would again have control of the Gopher, she has received several offers of sale and bond and lease but she is con sidering working the mine herself. The Gopher has never been in better condition for practical working than at present. One shaft is down 260 feet where a rich strike was recently made, the vein averaging two and one half feet of high grade ore. No mine in Yavapai county has a better location than the Gopher, adjoining the Henrietta on the south and the McCabe and Gladstone on the north The Gopher ore Is said to look so much like that of the Gladstone mine that they cannot be told apart, and with reason, for they are on the same vein. During the past month the Gopher has been shipping some fine, | high grade ore to the Silver City smelter. Mir. Jennings, who no 1 longer has any connection with the Gopher, expects to leave McCabe this week and will go to California.
 On Saturday afternoon Captain L. D. Philips representing Douglass, ] Lacy, X Co. paid to W. B. Moore and
 Bert Grove S3,000, being the second payment on the U. $. mine in Copper Basin district The mine is about twelve miles from Prescott, being just over the divide on the Skull val ! ley side of the mountains from Copper Basin lt has been worked for a ] great many years and a considerable