Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-04-17
MINES AND MINING
 AROUND PRESCOTT

ueN6lODnelB WOIk on IL, ODldlilluR e
 cellent results. The ore is principal
 copper, but gives a good percentas
 by assays.
 It is rumored from Big Bug thf
 there was new body of ore struck i
 the Great Belcher mine in a portio
 of the property that was not consiC
 cred mineral bearing. It seems tha
 the Great Belcher mine will never |
 fully understood as to its ore bodie
 until the entire territory covered b
 the patent is fully explored.
 Since purchasing the Silver Bel
 mine H. B. Clifford has purchase
 material which is now on the groun'
 for one of the finest shaft houses i
 Yavapai county. He has also bough
 the Cabinet mine which is an exten sion of the Silver Belt, and which h proposes to develop from the unde ground workings of the Silver Bel property.
 D. D. Mcdonald, of the Lincoll Gold company, operating in the Brad shaw mountains, says that the ma chinery for a new five stamp mill fo that property will be shipped tomor row or next day, and upon its arriva there will be immediately placed il position and started at work reduc ing the ore from the above company At present the force of miners em ployed at the mine is ten, but will b, increased to twenty.
 The Phenix Republican says tha the Moore and Rooms claims, owned by the Moore Gulch Mining company have been bonded for S50,000 to ; syndicate of European capitalists represented here by J. K. Truman Mir. Truman left yesterday with ; force of men and supplies to begir further exploration work on the prop erty. The group lies between Little Squaw creek and Moore's gulch anC is known to old timers as the "Mesha kitty claims, so named from the nick name given to man that was once il them. They are about 45 miles nortt of Phenix on the Black Canyon road There are about 20 claims in the group and about S10,000 has beer spent in their development.
 A new strike of considerable i'm portance was recently made on the rim of the Copper Basin divide. just over the summit on the Skull valley slope, and about five miles from Skull Valley station. The locators of it are W. B. Moore and Bert Grove, and they have located four claims. They have sunk shaft forty feet deep on their claims, and in twenty days took out sixteen tons of ore, which they have just had sampled at the Prescott sampling works, showing a value oi S49.64 per ton. The values in the ore are silver and lead, but at the bottom of the shaft they have just encoun- tered a small streak of very rich cop per ore, which will go anywhere from 10 to 60 per cent in copper. They have drifted sixty feet from the shaft showing up a good body of ore for that distance. J. c. Forest has sam ples of the ore in his law office in the Lawler block.
 According to the Coconino Sun the platinum fever has broken out again in Coconino county. It says that M c. Sharpneck recently filed one hun dred and sixty four placer locations with County Recorder Hibben, sup posed to cover deposits of platinum This week A. A. Coupland filed one hundred and twenty four location no tices which are also said to cover plat mum deposits. The notices embrace 160 acres each. The platinum de- posits are said to exist on each side of the entire length of Cataract Canyon. The locations are made by represen- tatives of eastern parties and cover approximately quarter of a million acres of land. If these locations are really platinum deposits, the supply of this mineral for the world will ere long come from Coconino county. The price is likely to be lower, but the use of the metal will be extended.
 A mining case wherein the name of Phoebe A. Hearst figures was on trial before Judge Trask yesterday. Geo. E. Metz and Frank NJ. Brown, an eastern partnership engaged in the brokerage and commission business, were suing Nathaniel Brown to re- cover 5000, alleged to be due for services rendered in the sale of cer- tain mining properties at Pinos Altos, N. M., between July 1, 1896, and April 27, 1897. Brown is now dead and his widow is the interested party. The specific services alleged were ex- of the property, map ,mak- ing and reports, concluding with the sale to Mrs. Hearst for SS5,000. Where fore, plaintiffs ask judgment for S5,- 900. But the defendant ayers that he was to pay no commission of S5,000 unless the property was sold fOr S150,000. The attorneys for plaintiffs are Messrs. Lawler x Allen, while C. A. Corbin, esq, and H. c. Dillon, esq. are looking after the defendants in terests.-Los Angeles Herald.
 H. E. Armitage, superintendent and general manager of the Hercules Cop per company's mine at White Picacho in the Castle creek country, is in town He says that lumber for the erection of number of buildings is already on the ground, while two ear lods Oi machinery for a new hoist is now en route. At the present stage of devel- opment work the property gives prom ise of becoming a great copper prop erty. The mine is of deposit forma- ton, and the ore taken out in the present development is high grade shipping ore, averaging 30 per cent in copper, of which Nil. Armitage has a ear load now ready for shipment When water level is reached it Is ex- pected that the ore will turn to sul- phides, when large bodies of low grade ore may be expected. A few days since F. NJ. Murphy and D. NJ. Ferry visited Mir. Armitage's camp in con nection with their visit to that sec ton, examining the general conditions of the mining industry, with a view oi building branch road from the main line of the $. F., P. & P. road. They expressed themselves highly pleased with what they saw at Mir. Armitage's camp, as well as with the conditions generally in that section, and it will probably be not very long until a railroad will be built there.
 They Were We'll Pleased.
 The party of eastern capitalists and