Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-06-19
MINES AND MINING
 AROUND PRESCOTT
THE NEVADA GROUP OF MINES ON GROOM CREEK ARE TRANSFERRED TO LOCAL PEOPLE. --THEY ARE AL so PIONEER CLAIMS AND ARE IN PRACTICAL HANDS.

so PIONEER CLAIMS AND ARE ID
 PRACTICAL HANDS.
 The operations on the Blue Dick Con
 tinue and an Old Time Showing IS Being Made.
 If you want snowballs. Alaska is a
 desirable place to go to, but if you are
 after mines. Groom creek seems to be
 favorable locality these days to in
 vest in. In the past ninety days
 more sales are to the credit of that To-
 cality than can be said of any district
 in Arizona, and in each transfer there
 has followed the practical and i'm
 mediate operation of the properties
 sold. Yesterday the last wedge was driven in that section, and by it the
 Nevada group of claims were trans
 ferred. This transaction means very
 much and closes a vacant gap, as it
 were, in a net work of mines that will
 unquestionably be heavy and profita-
 ble producers in the near future The | Nevada group is the property of
 Messrs. Kelly x Stephens of this city,
 and by them it was transferred to
 Messrs. Doran X Wann, who are prac-
 tical and well known mining men of
 this section. This group is one of the old time locations, and consists of five
 patented claims, laying on the same
 ledge as the Midnight Test and run
 ming parallel to the Home Run. In
 the early working of the property
 some twenty years ago-Mr. Kelly
 stated today that to a depth of 1S0 ] feet the ore was free milling, but
 when the water level was reached sulphide was run into, since which
 time nothing further has been
 done in sinking or development. The Nevada group has been known long and favorably in mining circles and laying as they do surrounded by so
 many claims that are becoming prominently known in development, they necessarily attract attention in this day of regeneration in the in- dustry. Another pleasing feature of the days doings in our mining strike, 1 is the fact that where the greatest | activity prevails in mining, the most | prominent mines are located but
 stones throw from Prescott. Groom, ] Lynx, Copper and Big Bug creeks are apt illustrations of the indisputable fact, and nine tenths of the claims hot eh ha that were abandoned from ten to thirty years ago. In the new era that seizes mining in this section, there has not been failure. On the con trary development work in depth has demonstrated that where the primary was cut and the mother formation en- countered, success has followed in nearly every case. Mining in short around Prescott is assuming an ami mated existence, and while the Nevada is the last to go and to be opened up in earnest, a half dozen more big transfers are ready to be closed in a day or two. Our mineral resources are on top, and no better regard is shown this industry than the promi- hence its enjoys from those who have money to invest and the practical knowledge to know what they are do- ing.
 A. R. Flischmann, who is working the Blue Dick mine has been doing so , in very quiet and unostentatious i manner, and while he may not be i'm , plicitly obeying the scripture com mand not to let his left hand know { what his right hand is doing, he cer- tainly has not been making any great noise about his operations, but has kept digging" all the time. The ] Blue Dick has always borne ] good reputation as a producer of min eral and it is one of the Yavapai prop !. critics of which no adverse criticism is heard from the professional knocker and his near relative, the unfortunate pessimist. While it has never been { worked on regular mining principles, its former owners when in need of ,, funds, always turned their attention to this mine and it never failed to re- spOnd to their demands when backed q up by work Mr. Fleishmann has re l gently struck quite a large body of z very rich ore, assorted samples of it giving a value of between $500 and S400 per ton. After various experi- ments in treating the ore it has been decided that it can be most success fully treated by the smelting process, T and work is now in progress for its ( and it is expected to V have it in operation within the next C sixty days. ,
 A. R. Fleishmann, who recently purchased the New Year group of l mines in the McCabe district from H. t K. Behm has already ordered hoist for the property, and as soon as it is in place will commence active opera ]. ! tiOns in the development of the prop erty. The proper y already has sev- eral hundred feet of development work done on it, and nearly all of the openings are in good ore, giving promise of adding another bullion !. producer to the already quite respec- table list in that district. One thing ] is certain, that if persistent, intelli- gently directed work will accomplish : this result, Mr. Fleischman will make such of it.
 The amount of ore taken out of the f, United Verde was never as large as it is now. Those who have paid any at ] tention to ore being taken out of the , mine to the roast must have noticed , this. A few months ago motors run ming out of the mine pulled ten to z sixteen cars, the latter number being :, the limit; now it is no uncommon thing to see trains of thirty to thirty / six cars coming out of the five hun dred. In the mine new ground has been opened up and the force of min CTS increased eighty per cent. The increase in the number of men em- ployed by fall, it is claimed, will reach the grand total of sixteen hun dred men.--Jerome Reporter.
 George Mitchell, superintendent for the Cananea Consolidated Copper company, was in Bisbee yesterday on business connected with his company.
 He has become well known through DIlt the west i'm cOnnacfio,, u-itb tbo