Arizona republican., 1901-09-18
MINING NOTES.

Siberian p.acer mining tailinss are .. poor investment for foreign capital. There is not the amount of gold in them that here is represented to be by the Russians. There is not the quan- tity of them at any one point that jus tifies the power and plan installation necessary to rework them. The system of mining carried on everywhere under the direct supervision of the Russian government mining engineers results in placers being worked in pits of varying size. From the washing ma chine. whatever 1t may be. the tailings are carted away and dumped where designated by the engineer. One small pit will provide several such piles, ro one of them containing many thousand cubic yards of gravel. Sampling these piles values may be had from 10 to 31 cents a cubic yard and with some of the oldest rich workings where quick silver was uscd without understanding there may be values as nigh as one dollar to the yard. These values and. the quantities of tailings are insuffi- cient to justify the investment of capi- tai. In Siberia they do not attract even the Chinese. who are close miners there as here.-Mining and Scientific Press.
 The Bullwhacker mine ;s now being retimbered and preparations are now
 under way to put his famous old mine again in the front rank Of Arizona's
 bonanza mines. says the Courier. In
 the early days the Bullwnacker dil
 more than its part in sustaining the
 reputation of Arizona, during the per
 iod when anything less than S1G0-ore
 was considered unworthy of attention
 The mine has made quite q product
 and now that Henry B. Clifford has :he
 property. the usual results that follow
 his operations may be expected. f.:
 the finest mire equipments in Big Bug district owe their existence to his en-
 ergy. The BullwhacSer is now down
 l40 feet. and reports state that when the old miners were driven out by water there was q large body of s65-ore
 in the shaft. The last 100 tons C. o, | treated by Hugo Richards. now presi- dent of the Bank of Arizona. netted $1500. The Bullwhacker is one of tho
 Queen of Arizona Copper company'c mines.
 Probably one Of the best if not the greatest strikes ever made in the Hilis- boro, Sierra county. N. NJ. district has been made in the Fl Gro mine. oper- ated by the Philadelphia Mining and Milling company at Andrews. On the 800 foot level an ore body ranging from two feet to sixteen feet wide has been encountered, possessing q value Of from | $S to SIPS gold per ton. One man alone | is knocking down ore sufficient to keep i the mill running. The best of this ore | when crushed and banned produces nuggets varying in value from a few cents to SC and $I.
 | Sheriff Truman received a letter this | week from J. J. Fraser. who is now on Copper river Alaska in which hs i speaks in glowing terms of the mining property in which they are interested with Jack Smith. whom they grub | staked.' There are sixty claims in all, l but MT. Fraser had seen only about q | third of them. On five there were inn l mense bodies of copper glance ore ex- 1 posed Three experts were on the | ground examining the property fol | companies, and the prospect of selling
 at a large figure was favorable. Messrs | Truman and Fraser have been putting up for about four years and they are liable to soon reap their reward.-Flor- ence Tribune.