Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-05-15
MINES AND MINING
 AROUND PRESCOTT

Geo. Wood had some ore in town today from the Midnight Test mine on Groom creek that was good for sore eyes. It was worth S5,OOO per ton and was taken from the lower levels of the property. Themine con tinues to improve with every foot of development work done.
 H. K. Mcdonald is doing a whole sale mining business. Right on the heels of sale to G. W. Middleton of the Whale group for S20,000, he yes terday sold another group to Oscar Bergstrom, of New York, for S10,000. The properties are located in the Peck district and are very promising cop per properties.
 Dr. Warren E. Day and his son To- cated a mining claim on Tuesday about five miles from Prescott, or just about a mile beyond the four mile house. The croppings attracted their attention as they were riding along the road, and on investigation they found it so promising that they made the location, bringing some of tie ore to town with them.
 Moore and Grove have received the returns from the sampler of the last shipment of ore made from their mine on the western slope of the Sierra Prieta range. The shipment lacked a few pounds of amounting to four teen tons, and they received S402 net, after paying all freight and sampling charges, being between S29 and $50 per ton.
 During his recent visit east, A. J.. Doran succeeded in making arrange ments with the Montgomery Mining company, whereby he will sink POO feet deeper on the Accidental mine, on Lynx cree6. The Accidental is looking fine and has always borne a good reputation as gold producer. Mir. Doran recently purchased the Ajax claim, adjoining the Accidental, also very promising one.
 The Parker & Young strike, over in the Weaver district, is about the big gest thing yet found in that district. They have been offered S25,000 fer the property. In addition to the gold and silver strike they have a copper prospect in the same locality that runs as high as 50 per cent copper and high in gold and silver. This is the land of Ophir. They have given Col. Harris an option on their gold claims for 15 days at S25,0O0. When it does come mans way it hits the high places.-Our Mineral Wealth.
 H. Krueger is developing the Kansas claim on the western slope of the Black Hills range of mountains. The claim is located near the edge of Lonesome valley. It is a copper property and MT. Krueger is now down to depth of nearly 200 feet. It was worked about twenty years ago by John Marrs and John Kinlock. The latter went east to secure capital Tor further development work, obtaining quite a sum of money and was on his way back to Arizona when he dis appeared in Chicago as completely y as though the earth had swallowed him. By some it was thought that he met with foul play while others concluded that he simply changed his mind about returning to Arizona and with the money he had obtained went to Mexico. The claim shows up quite well in copper, while Mir. Kruger com plains that the water is so abundant that it seriously retards his develop ment work.
 'The most costly metal is gold and silver comes next. That" said a chemist, lis what the average man would say if you should ask him, but he would be very far of the truth, in deed. Gold is worth S340 a pound and silver SIS, but there are a score of metals worth much more. Chromium and tellurium cost, for instance, S1OO a pound, and asnium and zirkon, which are used in the making of cleo tric mantels, S1 40 pound. Barium cannot be gotten under S2,110 a pound, and rhodium and niobium are worth almost S2,700. Strontium's market price is S4,500; didynum is worth SS,400 a pound. Rubidim is matter worth S11, 200 a pound, and vandium is worth S13,000. Above all these, however, gallium stands, a metal discovered in 1S45, pound oi which, if it were procurable, would be worth S75,500, or 22S times as much as , a pound of gold, and 596l times as much as pound of silver"
 Capt. J. w. Lind came up this morning from Hillside on mining | business. He reports everything looking very encouraging for his sec tiOn of the country in mining matters A company of Denver capitalists have just taken hold of group of mines owned by Messrs Redkins, Savage ? and Anderson, on Copper creek, and have put several men at work and will add quite a number more to the working force at once. The company : is not only going to push develop l ment work on the mines, but arrang, ing to build a wagon road through s the Copper creek and Boulder creek sections to their properties. This will be a great advantage to quite a large ! number of other miners in that sec tion. This part of the country is
 going to be heard from in good shape
 in the near future, as there are nc l doubt rich mineral deposits there 2 which only need capital and labor tC a bring them out.
 s One of the best bodies of gold ore q judging from the present outlook d ever made in the Bradshaw mountain: a was made about three weeks ago il a the Lincoln mine. This property i. , situated about 40 miles south of Pres a a colt. in the vicinity of the Crowned a King and Gladiator. The strike re q ferred to was made in a tunnel TUT a into the mountain on the Quien Sabe 4a claim, one of the best in the group
 At 40 feet a body of gold quartz wa, u struck, four feet in width and as fin,
 looking gold ore as a person would like to see. Free gold can be seer 'e shining in many pieces of rock a S- they are taken from the tunnel. Som, ss of the miners working for the com [ pany have worked in all the big mine 1T in the Bradshaws and say the strik, es is the best one they have ever seen il
 that well known district. Any of th lt ore from the four foot ledge horns s
 well that the parties interested ar
 certain that they have one of the big - II