Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-10-16
MINES AND MINING.

The Penn Gold Mining compan, , continues to add new machinery t its Lynx Creek plant.
 The Journal Miner was misin ' formed in regard to the alleged sal, of the Gladiator mine. The property has not been sold to MT. Hsrdison , although he is engaged in doing som'
 work on it.
 Brown Brothers sent big galvan ived water tank out to A. J. Pickrelp. mine yesterday. The tank was sC large that it could not be freighted through the Hassayampa bridge, and it had to be unloaded there, rolled through the bridge and then loaded
 again at the other side.
 MT. Rice has started work on the
 Groom Creek property which he re-
 gently purchased from Messrs Slack
 and Gardner. Mir. Rice will be, kofe
 from the east in about ten days. M. H. Dodge will also be back in
 about gve days. While he was back
 in Cleveland he got his company to
 put up money to build a hoist house
 and buy a hoist and to sink at least
 three hundred feet. Mir. Brooks is in
 charge and they have started to put
 up the hoist so it is expected to see
 the Gold Basis big paying property
 before long as it has one of the larg-
 est lodges on the creek.
 When the directors of the Sonora
 Mining and Milling company voted
 to raise the price of small block of
 stock from 9 cents to 50 cents Con
 O'Keefe, the president, made stren-
 uos objections. His claim was that
 development work was proceeding
 satisfactorily and that there was no
 need of immediate additional funds.
 The doors of the office had hardly
 closed after the meeting when a dis
 patch was received from Mine Supt.
 Walsh saying: "Lead going out at
 Fortuna; copper and silver coming;
 assays 162 ounces" This information
 caused the local office to close It's
 doors at once and Pierpont Morgan
 could not have got a nibble.--No-
 gales Videtta.
 E. L. Phelps, Walter Field, Bert Grove and P. D. Brown, Colorado men, today acquired by bond and lease the Good Hope and Smuggler mining claims in Hasssyampa district of James Chambers, the consideration being Sl0,0O0, goodly payment be- ing made in cash. These gentlemen expect to start operations immediately by sinking POO foot shaft below the 1 tunnel level. The tunnel has now 2 depth of $50 feet from the surface. For the past seven years Mir. Cham bers has been shipping ore from the Good Hope mine and from the ore | now in sight could easily ship for | seven years more. The Good Hope | has one of the best showings of any | mine in that section. Machinery will | at once be installed for developing | the property to depth of 800 feet.
 Wickenburg is coming to the front 1 as the place for big finds of mineral. The Republican says that one of the biggest strikes ever made in Arizona was made at the Sahuaro mine, two miles northeast of town, owned by Messrs. Nickless, Miller & Bremen. The ledge, which is over twenty feet wide, was accidentally discovered be- tween the two shafts on the mine, and at three feet from the surface shows large Jumps of native silver. One lump about ten inches square 80 much silver that no man in the camp could lift it. Great ex- citement prevails and many are going out to locate ground in the vicinity.
 Dr. D. NJ. Purman has taken two years option on the Leyiathan group of mines at Stanton. The property is owned by Mrs. Churchill of PheniI. but little work has been done on this ledge, its croppings are the most prominent of any in the county. The quartz sticks up out of the ground and the ledge can bs plainly seen miles away from it. The extend for distance Of | mile or more and locations have been made its entire distance. At the west end the ledge is very wide and thou sands of tons of the quartz ontcrop- pings are exposed. II is said that these croppings run from $500 to $500 per ton, and would pay to mill. Many of the old time miners think that, with proper development, a nine worthy of the name given 10 his group can be made of the prop srty, but for some reason it has not appealed to capitalists favorably to ake hold of the proposition. It is ( hoped that Dr. Purman may be able ( o secure the necessary capital to ; open it up. I
 In 1855, two hobos, known locally , IS Jack Brown were run out of Au- ,urn, Placer county, California, as be- , ng no good. They were given a ,ick and shovel and escorted to the .dge of town and told to go to work l md not come back. They sat down $ IS soon as they were out of sight in I he ravine above town, near the Sac T amento road. One of them began dly striking with a pick. What vas his surprise when he uncovered I ,ood sized nugget. Then both began C ligging in earnest, and they un- g arth a perfect nest of nuggets, the argest one weighing thirty five , 'unces, considerably mixed with 2 Iuartz. They dug out altogether : n that one day, fifty eight ounces, l making at the rate of $17 per ounce, l ;980 Then they went back to Au- ,urn and were well received.-Min- ng and Engineering Review.
 Jules Baumann decided to do some , tile work on the claims of the Bau- ' nam Copper company, called the { ron Mask and the Iron Cliff. As | hese names indicates, the surface of I he claims consist of an immense iron ' lyke and the surface rock did not f ven give trace of mineral. A min- ' ng engineer who examined the prop 2 rites, expressed the opinion in his Q eport that beneath this surface cap ,ing would be found large bodies of ,ood ore. At depth of four feet the Iuartz gave indications of being min ralized and on having an assay made of it Mir. Baumann found hat it contains small per . entage of gold, silver and copper, }, which is an excellent indication show {. ng that the mineral is alrrady com
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