Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-03-13
Kining intelligence.

pany shipped lot of supplies out to that camp today and has put ten men at work developing the properties. Work will be pushed as rapidly as possible on the development of the property, the two stamp mill being used for working the one at present. A larger mill has been ordered and will be erected just as soon as possi- ble. The company expects to be able to commence paying dividends very soon.
 A Journal Miner man had the pleas ure yesterday of examing a quantity of ore recently taken from a group of mines owned by A. J. Rupert, one of the old and honored miners of Yava- pal county, and situated near the mouth of Groom creek about eight miles south of Prescott, in the Has sayampa district. The ore was taken from the ledge at depth of 360 feet where the tunnel crossed the ledge Mir. Rupert has worked these mines for many years, a great deal of the work having been done at great ex- pense, not only financially but physi cally, for he has almost worn himself out working, so great was his faith in this property. He has had many as- says made from the ore taken at diff ferent depths on the ledge and none of them have run less than 80 ounces in silver and a good percentage of lead, but the ore just encountered in the cross cut, assays as high as 276 ounces in silver and 50 per cent lead, which ought to be enough to make any ones heart rejoice. Mir. Rupert also has a fine spring of water flowing from the mouth of the tunnel and an endless supply of fuel right at hand, which are great advan tages and add much to making this valuable mine. He also had some samples of free milling gold ore taken from the Jim Crow, another mine be- longing to him, located about three miles from the above group. This ore runs very high in value, there be- ing a streak of ore in the ledge about 12 inches wide that assays between SlO0 and S200, while there is nearly five feet in the face of the tunnel that will go about S35 or $40. The ore taken from the first named group of mines would be very valuable for smelting purposes, one ton of this ore being sufficient to fux about nineteen tons of reblelious ores, which consti tute such large per cent of the ores in this section, and should a smelter be erected in this section for the treat ment of that class of ore, Mir. Rupert will certainly have bonanza.
 In its issue of March, Matte and Bullion, the new mining journal pub lished at Phenix, has a splendid arti cle descriptive of the great Copper Queen mine at Bisbee. The article is written by Major McClintock, the well known Arizona correspondent, and the following paragraph from the letter will be of interest, showing as it does the relative magnitude of the Copper Queen to the great United Verde of this county: "The Copper Queen smelter is the greatest copper producer in the south west and the value of its output is surpassed only hy that of the United Verde at Je rome, Arizona. It is probable that the production of the Bisbee works last year approximated 25,000 short tons, which would mean a gross out put of about S7,0O0,OO0. If the works didn't do that well last year they will certainly reach that sum in 1901. During the past year the company has had smelter capacity for about 1000 tons of ore per diem, though one of the water jackets is usually "hung up" for repairs or lining. To this equipment has been added Mitchell hOt-blast furnace of $50 tons capacity. It has just been "blown in" and has worked well.
 During the last two weeks four ex petitions, well equipped for prospect ing, have gone into the Navajo India reservation from Holbrook to explor what is said to be a marveiously rich gold district. Two of the parties are backed by the Salt Lake mining com pany, and correspondent says that two others by New York capitalists. Arrangements have been made with the Indians by which they are guar anteed 3 per cent of the net output of any and all mines that may be located and worked. The secretary of the in terior has approved the agreement. Very little is known of the region, ex- cept the fact that there is gold and ore of various kinds. Many samples have come out and many attempts have hitherto been made by moderate sized parties to enter and prospect systematically, but the Navajos have guarded their rights we'll. Fifteen years ago it was reported that Michael Ieneen, an old Irishman who had eluded the vigilance of the Navaios' had secured great wealth of nuggets and escaped. A few years later a party of eastern men who found a rich mine in the reservation were cap tured by the Indians and held as pris- oners for many months. under con stant threats of death, until they swore to leave the reservation and never re- bbllis hC AtllAAOuo L4Ool 4AlllIC Ol DdlNl Rock is located somewhere in the res
 ervation. According to the story of
 this mine, as told by old settlers, the
 party working it was surprised by the
 Indians an,l all but one man killed,
 Paterson by name, who hid in the
 rocks. After great suffering and many
 narrow escapes from the Navaios. Pat erson reached a settlement in Lower
 Colorado. He organized several par
 tics to search for the mine, but could
 never lead them to it, and died of in
 sanity caused by his successive fail
 mes. The region to be exam
 .aed is the Carizzo range, lying be
 lJw the boundary of Utah and Color
 ado, and few miles east of the Ari-
 zona and New Mexico boundary line
 Mining men are now looking to.
 ward Tombstone, where preparation.