Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-02-13
Mining Intelligence.


 l velopment of the properties of the
 Mingus Mountain Copper company, of which he is corporation president , says the Los Angeles Times. q , confidently believe that Arizona will some day be the greatest mineral pro i, ducing country in the world" said MT. Thomas. Since 1895 the copper
 production of Arizona has risen from 47,OOO,OOO pounds to 122,0O0,OOO in
 1899, an increase of l60 per cent. This
 is equal to the increase in the Lake
 Superior region and Montana com
 bined. Twenty years ago almost the
 entire production of copper was from
 Lake Superior. There is great ac-
 tivity in the Jerome region at present,
 and some big developments are sure
 to follow. There are now more than
 twenty corporations at work about
 Jerome, aside from the great United
 Verde. Most of these are doing de-
 velopment work and employ only
 from ten to fifteen men, while the
 United Verde alone employs from
 120O to 400 men. This great army
 is largely employed about the smelter
 and in handling the ore in other ca
 pacities, only about fifty being em-
 ployed as miners. In development
 work it is not practicable to
 work over fifteen men. l
 As for our own properties, the Mingus |
 mine is located about six miles from
 the United Verde, and the Black Hills |
 mine about one mile from the same
 great property. In the two openings we have twenty-five men at work, and
 in the past nine months we have taken
 out a great deal of ore. At a depth of
 about two hundred feet we have cross cut forty feet into the ledge, in the
 Mingus mine, and have found some
 very rich mineral. We found ore right at the surface, and in every foot of our development we have simply been piling up ore, which will more than pay for the work of development. We have had many assays of the ore from the Mingus and all show it to be a wonderful strike. They have all run from to 17 per cent. copper. The best ore run 1O38 ounces of silver, s in gold and 17 per cent. copper. All the assays have been made by Charles E. Nathhorst of Jerome. The silver alone would make it paying propo- sition. The copper, in ore of this grade, is worth $58 to the ton.
 c. E. Eichelberger was in Yuma ( the first of the week and made ar with the Colorado River , Steam Navigation company for the shipment of twenty five tons of ore from his Good Enough" copper mine in the Tyson district to the smelter at Needles. A large body of high I grade copper ore was recently en- q countered in the "Good Enough" mine and the outlook for a paying ( is very encouraging. If the s from the first shipment, which C will be made in few days, are satis- factory, the force of miners will be in- creased and regular shipments in boatloads will be made hereafter t The ore has to be freighted by t wagon from the mine to the landing I near Ehrenburg, distance of twenty five miles, but the roadi is all down hill, making it possible for an ordinary team to haul an exceedingly big load. Sev- e sral other parties in the same district t will also make trial shipments of ore, | which will make Tyson a lively camp !. in the near future if the venture proves proftable.-Yuma Sun. t
 Richard Summid came in day or TWO ago from the Bryan mine, located | 1t the mouth of Groom creek, and S brought in some samples of ore which he recently struck in the tunnel at a distance of 400 feet. The ore resem- Oles very much some taken from the | same tunnel several months ago, but c hat ore was only in stringers and V 7ery rich, assaying S2S in gold and r 552 ounces in silver. A few days ago . he ore began to come in in quanti | iies and is now three feet thick on t he foot wall and nobody knows now much thicker. The strike seems o Q be splendid one and promises to 2 oe a good thing for Messrs Charles . Wallace and Richard Summid, the f owners. D
 Articles of incorporation were filed n oday of the Lincoln Gold Mining h md Milling Company the incorpor- :; oorators being Charles J. George FL . ner c. Chapman, B. W. Riley, M. c. t Nichols and NJ. NJ. George. The n company will operate the Lincoln f yroup of mines in the Bradshaw A new five stamp mill, Iuick drop and heavy stamps, having ] capacity of four or five tons per day o the stamp has been ordered and will be placed on the property just as t. ;oon as possible. There is a three h loot vein of ore in the mines, which q show value of about S30 per ton.
 J. c. Leavitt, manager of the .Ster ing mine, on Big Bug, left for the ,ast this morning. He has just re- O turned from Fl Paso where he had 300 tons of ore from the mine sam c oled. On his return he expects to N commence taking out for shipment, a having heretofore confined his opera l ions to the development of the mine. t;
 The owners of the Minnesota, Ten s lessee, and Elkhart mines in Mohave county have decided to burn oil in stead of coal hereafter. II