Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-05-22
MINES AND MINING
 AROUND PRESCOTT
SOME GENERAL NOTES FROM THE PROGRESSIVE MINERAL FIELD
 HERE AND ELSEWHERE.
A Promising Strike m the Bradshaws- The Grown King Section the Scene of Much Activity-New Con
 centrator on Pine
 Creek---Notes.

A rich strike was made last weel
 in a mine owned by Harry Brown of Crown King. The mine is located
 just south of Crown King, and tn shaft. which is being sunk in littl,
 draw just up from the creek bed, wa
 only down about thirty feet when ;
 body of ore was encountered whicl
 assays away up, the exact amount no
 being given out, but enough to mak,
 it big thing. The ore body is also
 quite large, and indicates that it vii
 increase with depth. The rich ort
 was struck just at water level, whicl
 is also a good indication. Consider able excitement has been caused il that section by the strike.
 Another complication of the olC
 Hassayamper belief that the mine. | discovered by the pioneers would il the long run be the most profitable producers, comes to the surface again in the case of the old Chicago mine on Groom Creek, near Prescott. E.
 NJ. Clark, the owner of this mine, has signifed his intention to go ahead and yesterday after an investigation of it, together with the fact that the Chicago occupies a location in the center of a zone that is active and prosperous, believes that depth will demonstrate the wisdom of his belief The Chicago originally was worked by Charles H. Reyes over a quarter of century ago, an arastra propelled by an over shot water wheel being the means employed to handle the ore. Mir. Reyes states that on the surface the ore was free and with depth a sulphide was run onto, which with a great body of water in the bottom compelled him to abandon it, and la ter he sold to Mir. Clark. The surface ore on the Chicago was immensely rich and among miners the statement is made that it will with development prove itself to be property of merit. The shaft on the property will be re timbered, the water pumped out and hotsting machinery placed thereon to facilitate development, all of which is to be undertaken at once. The Chi cago Is among the last on the long string of pioneer locations to have an active future ahead of it and the pre- . diction is that it will prove itself to be good property. Everywhere in the districts surrounding Prescott the basis of our mining activity and our prominence as a mining field is due tc development iii depth and with few exceptions the mines today that are the backbone of the industry are the ones originally worked away back in the seventies and only abandoned from lack of money, transportation facilities, and an inability to handle the proeuct with machinery that the present era faces. With the Chicago in line with the methods of today and backed as it will be to reach depth we believe Mir. Clark will be rewarded
 R. A. Thomas, president of the Mingus Mountain Copper company, and Arthur Gleason, prominent citi zen and monied man of Pasadena California, arrived in Prescott this morning from Jerome. They have have just returned from an inspection of the properties of the Mingus Noun tain Copper company in the Black Hills district and were highly pleased with what they saw. This is Mr. Gleason's first visit to this section, and although he had heard a great deal about the resources of Yavapai county he said he was simply staggered with the possibilities of this section in a mineral sense, and said he didn't be- lieve there was another county in the United States that could compare with Yavapai. He said the properties owned by the Mingus Mountain Cop per company were among the best he has ever seen, and believes in a short time they will be among the large dividend payers of the west. Speak ing of the Jermoe district he said: "A man don't have to take anybody's word for it nor guess at the richness of that section; it's there, on the dumps all aver the country, and any body. with ordinary, good business sense and foresight, cannot see but that this is destined to be the great est mining section on earth"
 The new Standard concentrator re- gently purchased by Thos. Roach for his Pine creek mines, has just been started up and the results are most satisfactory. This concentrator is something new in this section, being operated on different principle from the old style concentrators, and from parties who saw the new Standard in operation we learn it is a great sue cess. The original cost is much less, also. Mir. Roach is doing some tell ing work on his properties at this place, both mines and mill running day and night with the result of a large amount of bullion being turn ed out.
 William Bright and Jake Reese, who returned yesterday from an in spection of the new strike in the Ven ture Hill mine at Jerome, corroborate late reports of the immensity of the showing of that property. Both of these people are interested as stock holders, and are practical miners as well, and feel somewhat enthusiastic over the mine after an inspection of it. The Venture Hill is a copper property, carrying some gold values, and when the tunnel is completed the general supposition among mining men is that it will develop one of the biggest bonanzas in the west. .
 A party from Cleveland, Ohio, have very recently been investigating a group of mines belonging to John Duke and others, in the Crown King section and from all that can belearn- ed were well pleased with them Should the investigation prove en- tirely satisfactory, and the prospects are good that it will, the company will take hold of the properties, the purchase price being S50,000.
 We learn from a correspondent in Arizona that the South Bisbee Cop per Mining and Townsite Improve ment company has given a bond on all its copper properties Dear Bisbee, Cochise county, Arizona, to a Glas- gow syndicate. The price named in the bond for the purchase of them is 2,225, 900, and the bond runs to Sep tember l, next.