Mohave County miner., 1901-02-02
General Whining Rews.

tnAI luere are now over one nunufeu
big mines in the Clifton district, and
that the value of their output is % 2.S50S
day.
A Vancouver, B. c. dispatch says:
1t is stated here that the Britannia Cop
per mine on Howe Sound, twenty-five
miles from Vancouver has been sold to
Senator Clark of Montana. The pur.
chase price is reported to be a million
dollars of which l0,OOOs is to be paid
by the 10th inst, to hold the property
while further development work is be-
ing carried on.
A spondent of the Los Angeles
Mining Review, puts the output of the
Randsburg, CAL, district for last year
at a little more than l,100.000S, and
does not include the product of dry
washing, which is no mean amount of
itself OF this entire output the Yel-
low Aster group of mines can be cred.
tied with probably 90 per cent, the
Pinmore of Johannesburg with 10 per
cent, and the remaining 30 per cent.
by the Butte, Kinyon, Santa Anna, Ma
polean, Winnie, Baltic, Stanford, Gold
Coin, Blackboard, Annex, Val Verde
and others.
A car of copper bullion, consisting
of l42 bars weighing 3S,460 pounds,
reached the city today from the Dixie
copper mine near ST. George. The
above car is the fourth one shipped
with the product of the smelter for the
twenty three days run during Decem-
Der. Three more cars Of bullion and
one of matte are yet to come before
the clean up for December will be com
plete. The value of the months work
is estimated at J5,0v0S. Meantime the
work of developing the mine is going
forward, and such ore as is broken
down in this work will be smelted next
month.-Desert News.
Fifty Thousand tons of high grade
zinc ore from the Missouri Kansas
mining district are to be exported to
Europe, this amount having already
been contracted for by the European
smelters through the Missouri and
Kansas Zinc Miners association Zinc
ore has become scarcer 10 Europe
while this productive district has been
yielding more ore than the American
smelters could handle. This latter
condition of affairs has resulted in the
shutting down Of many zinc mines
which cannot make expenses at the
present prices Of ore. There are now
about 5000 tons of ore awaiting ex.
portation. The first cargo will be
shipped ia March.-Western Mining
World.
A. r. English and w. A. King re-
turned yestsrday from visit to the
Black Diamond Co. in the Dragons.
They bring good reports of the devel-
opment work and state the property is
destined to open up as one of the big
copper mines of the west. A large
day and night under Supt John Henry
and an air of general activity is pre-
valent. Excellent high grade sulphide
ore is being extracted while lower
tunnel upon which work has been done
for some time Is now nearing the main
ore body and will give depth of over
800 feet on the ledge. Many new i'm
provements to facilitate work and re-
duce the handling of the company's ore
to minimum are being installed,
while the company houses are all sub
stantially built and every convenience
for the Employees provided.-Prospec.
tor.
The jerome News says thre is much
interest at present centered upon the
Verde Consolidated copper coDpany's
group of copper mines, caused by the
continued encountering OF good
lunches OF ore in the ledge through
which they are tunneling. The ore as
says gold J.04; silver OF; copper GA;
a second test went gold 0.J6; silver 1.S6
oz; copper l.56 per cent. These as
says were taken from ore discovered
at intervals along the tunnel for dis
lance of 10 feet. The ledge along which
they are drifting l. four feet wide, and
the miners who are doing the work are
more enthusiastic over the bright pros
poets OF striking q pay body OF ore
ahead than the owners themselves