Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-05-08
MINES AND MINING
 AROUND PRESCOTT

| c. W. Platt is running his Kirk
 land valley quartz mill right along
 This mill is a five-stamp one and Ii
 run by water power. Nr. Platt has ;
 mine of his own from which he ob
 tains some ore for the mill, but i.
 doing quite a good business in custom
 work.
 A gentleman just in from Groom
 creek says the showing made in the
 Midnight Test mine there is some,
 thing remarkable. He says it has all
 the appearances of becoming big
 mine, and he thinks Groom creek will
 be the Cripple creek of Arizona.
 W. B. Moore and Bert Grove are
 in town today from their mining camp
 on the Skull valley slope of the Sierra
 Prieta range. Mention of the rich
 ness of their property has heretofore
 been made in these columns when a
 shipment of rich ore was made from
 their mine. At depth of forty five
 feet they drifted from the shaft to
 determine the extent of the ore body
 they were in and the results proved
 most satisfactory as they found the
 ore in good quantity and paying
 quality in the drift.
 D. c. Monroe, president of the
 White Horse Mining company is here
 from New York for the purpose of
 starting the White Horse mine in ac- tive operations. He visited the mines
 yesterday in company of D. N. Bar tholdi, John Jackson and Alfred Averyt. They are recognized here as practical mining and milling men and they report that the White Horse group show up equal to any property in the district and no doubt will be one of the great producing properties of Yavapai county as they have there three distinct lodges of high grade ore, and it is gratifying to note that the character of the ore is the same as the McCa5e, Mudhole and Little Jessie, and it proves that the ore in this gold belt is continuous as the White Horse lies between the McCabe and Mudhole.
 There is on the Big Williams Fork of the Colorado river one of the great. est deposits of iron ore to be found anywhere in the southwest, and with railroad facilities into that country it could be made to give employment to hundreds of men. The ore is an iron hemetite and lies in scattered masses all over the plains. There is little doubt that the mines could be made as valuable as those of the iron noun tain of Wisconsin. The Pacific coast needs iron, and on Bill Williams Fork can be found millions of tons. It will bear investigation by the Santa Fe railroad company and others inter- ested in the mineral resources of the territory.-Mohave Miner.
 Thereport comes from Jerome that G. W. Hull has made an important strike in his claims adjoining the United Verde mines. An ore body has been struck in the south drift of the 1888 mine, about sixty feet from the shaft. While the face of the drift is not all ore, the ore body is widening as drifting progresses, and NIT. Hull reports there is every indication to the hope that a large ore body will be encountered in a few feet. On the same night that ore was struck in the above drift the shift in the northwest drift from the main shaft ran into a quartz vein which carries copper. The shaft of the 1888 mine is within very few feet of the line dividing the claim from that of the United Verde mine, and within a stones throw of the main shaft of the United Verde property.
 There is big mining strike in this vicinity from which comparatively little has been heard, but from surface taken with considerable development work, it appears to be bigger thing than the Gro Grande strike. It is at the Ben-Hur, owned by John Osborn, Dr. Purman and others. It is about thirty-two miles from Phoenix. A mining man who had lately visited the famous Gro Grande went to see the Ben-Hur. He said of it: "This will be a great mine when the Gro Grande has been worked out" A shaft has been sunk into the ledge eighteen feet and the foot wall has not yet been found. From explorations already made it Is that there are 600,0O0 tons of ore in sight. The ore is of a pc culiar character, a dark brown quartz of very fine grain. Near the surface it is honeycombed by oxidization. Farther down it consists of sulphur cts. It is free milling ore and gold can be banned from rock taken any where on the surface. So far no ore as rich as most of that found in the Gro Grande has been encountered but university assays from samples taken from along great length of the ledge near the surface show a value of S14. The greatness of the strike lies in the great volume in sight and the reasonable probability that that is only small part of the ore body-Republican.
 Superlative richness would be faint words to describe the gold ore speci- mems which the Goldberg brothers display from their Mexican mine, in the board of trade rooms tomorrow. A small glass show case is used to dis play the specimens and the sight of the contents would make even a caus- ual observer to express interest. The ore displayed is in manner the his torical development of the property which is situated in the Wickenburg district, three miles from the Gro Grande. There are the nuggets from the dry placering, the ore from the grass roots on the lode, and finally the mineralized rock which has been taken from the shaft. Every speci- men of rock is impregnated with pure gold, and assays tell of fabulous richness. The gold taken from one shovel full of ore, which is exhibited in two small trays in the case is val ved at S1,400 and there are more shovelfuls yet to come. Mir. Gold berg is very modest about the prop erty, rich as it is,. He knows that it is a good thing, and although he calls it only prospect, the ore that has come from it is evidence that it is a phenomenally rich prospect. The Goldberg brothers own a two thirds interest in the property and it is pos sible that they will shortly organize stock company to odevelop and operate it on a practical basis. There is little