Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-11-20
MINES AND MINING.

The Springer, N. M., Stockman, re ports that steam dredge at work a Elizabethtown on a placer bed clean, up S40O in gold every day.
 W. H. Ferguson has gone to Big Bug to do assessment work on some claims owned by him and Bostor parties.
 Jules Baumann returned last even ing from a brief visit to tht Baumann Copper company's camp He has six men employed in tht camp and he says that work is pro gressing very satisfactorily at pres ent. Assessment work is being done on the claims of the group. He say: the shaft on the Arizona claim, the most southerly claim on the group i: down fifty feet and the ore is the full width of the shaft. He says that the ore looks fine and is coming ir more solid with every foot of work done, and it is increasing in richness as well.
 The directors of the Sonora Milling & Mining Co. recently issued very complete prospectus of their mines at Tubutana, Sonora, Mexico. In the prospectus is embodied the report of E. M. Ray, synopsis of which was given in the Citizen and also the re- port of W. E. Deity, the expert min ing engineer from Phoenix. In his report Mir. Deity estimates that there are 75,000 tons of ore in sight. He states that the croppings of this ore body are very massive and plainly visible for over 1000 feet in length and fully so feet in width. He be- lieves that the ore can be mined at very low cost if properly handled. H. G. Glore, a Nogales expert, after number of experiments, reports that the ore can be milled for S2O0 per ton. At this rate the mine will cer- tairly prove a valuable one and take its place among the great producers of the State of Sonora Citizen.
 r- The-4Model Mining Go. made the final payment yesterday of Sl0O,0OO on the McCabe mine and received a deed for the property. The payment was not due until February, but the company decided to make the pay ment now and resume work. Super intendent Paul Johns went out to McCabe today to start up work again and in a few days the mine will be running with a full complement of miners, and the McCabe camp will resume its old time activity. This is of more than passing importance at the present time, as the McCabe mine just now is very prominent factor in the industrial progress of this section. Its output of ore and concentrates is quite large and the Val Verde has contracts with it for its product, and the closing down of the McCabe had the effect of delaying the starting up of the smelter.
 A telegram from Guaymas, Mexico, says the lost Tayapa mines, celebrated in Spanish annalsas having produced SS0,000,000 in silver and gold in the seventeenth century, which are de scribed on Spanish maps as being sit uated in Northwestern Mexico, about fifty leagues from the sea, near Dos Pilares, have been found. As far back as 1859, Robert L. D'Aumalie, a celebrated French expert, declared the mine at Cleneguita, in the Sahuria district, Sonora, to be identical with the lost Tayapa. The Spaniards are said to have been murdered by their Indian slaves near the close of the seventeenth century, and for 100 years thereafter no one was allowed to enter that region. Explorers who have recently returned from Ciene- guita report having discovered the old stone prisons and smelters; also stu pendous work accomplished by the Spaniards. They say there are mil lions of tons of ore exposed, rich in copper, silver and gold, that could not be worked by methods then in vogue. They say there is ore in sight valued at more than S100,000,- O00.
 The recent big gold find in the Galiuro mountains attracted large numbers of prospectors to the country. Charles s. Fleming, manager of the Consolidated Gold Mountain Mining Co.,, returned to Tucson Tuesday from the property and according to his report, says the Tucson Citizen, other valuable claims have been dis covered near his mine. Heretofore that section of the Galiuro country has been wild and unfrequented. On the war department map of the Fort Grant region, that section, for a rad jus of twenty-five miles, is left blank. The country was so rough that it was rarely visited by the prospector. Mir Fleming states that within the last few months every available mining property in that district has been To- cated. Returning over the trail to the Sar Pedro river he met a half dozen prospectors packing into that country. In many of the canyons prospectors can make good money banning free gold. In the vicinity of the property of the Gold Mountain company every pan shows colors. Speaking of their own property Mr. Fleming says that they now have quite good sized camp there. An additional force of men were recently put to work developing the claims. An average on assays for 400 feet across the foce of the great dyke runs s6 to the ton in gold. A crosscut tunnel sixty feet in length shows exceedingly well. Mir. Fleming says that the property goes beyond all expectations. The company has an excellent mill site at Rattlesnake springs, about two miles from the mine. There is an abundance of water at that point.
 Editor Frank Alley of the Globe Times, former resident of the Has sayampa country predicts that "acop- per mine and big one will some day be found on the Hassayampa neaI what is known as the Black Rock about midway between what was formerly known as the upper and and lower dams. This we say from personal observation, having eaten Hassayampa strawberries and shoat- bosom with Sam Powell for several balmy winters while exploring the sinuous channel of that celebrated stream. We know every Jack rabbit trail in that district so well that tho bald headed promontories on the banks of the time honored Hassay ampa would smile their recognition 4-.lnz- .l....l-l l .l