Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-11-06
MINES AND MINING.

The Elkton gold mine has struck
 the richest ore yet encountered in the
 Cripple Creek, Colorado, district
 The vein is five to six feet wide and
 gross vein values show Sl,000 to
 S2, ,24O per ton. Select samples carry
 values close to S1OO,OO0 or one-sixth
 solid gold. It is estimated that 800
 tons of the bonanza ore is in sight.
 NJ. R. Riley of the Gro Mining com
 pany, who is in town, says the com
 pany expects to start up it's mill in
 about ninety days. MT. Riley says
 that they have experienced great diff
 ficulty in securing teams to haul lum-
 Der and other needed articles to the
 mine. Mir. Riley tried to engage
 some teams in Prescott, but was un-
 able to find any.
 A body of rich ore has been en-
 countered in the Yaeger Canyon com
 pany's property. On the 200-foot
 level the ore body is said to be thirty inches wide, going 43 per cent in cop per, and a similar body of ore also exists at the 30O-foot level, where a station is being cut out now.
 D. J. Jones has taken a bond for two years on the Yarnell mine and will shortly commence work on the property. The mine is now owned by Frank R. Biedler of Baltimore. It has been pretty we'll developed, and good ore has been encountered in the workings, but, for some cause or other, they were unable to make it paying proposition and it has lain idle for number of years.
 Captain Johnson of the schooner Siglin which has just returned to Seattle from Nome, brings the news that the Siberian peninsula, which extends into the Behring sea, Arctic, and which embrace about 6S,000 square miles of land, will be thrown open to the public for mining opera tions next spring. The proclamation formally opening the country will be issued about April.
 The sale of the Roach group of seven mines, known as the Mohawk group in Pine Grove district, nego- tiations for which have been pending for some time was completed today. The owners were ex-Supervisor Thomas Roach, James Roach and Fred Ashman. The purchaser is Geo. J. Atkin, of Chicago. The price is not stated but it is known to be we'll up in five figures and a cash of A 900 was made op the property.
 It is claimed that saving of about | SlO0 per ton can be made by Senator W. A. Clark's newly acquired process for the manufacture of bars, sheets and tubes out of the crude copper at | the pits mouth. The process is cleo trolytic and very similar to the cleo trolytic refining method by which | 100000 tons of copper were refined in the United States last year; it uses the same amount of electrical energy per ton of metal as the old but it is at rate ten times greater, and in making bar copper for subse- quent smelting a rate twenty times greater is said to have been success fully employed.
 The big combination shaft that is being sunk on Contention hill by the Consolidated mines com pany has attained depth of 490 feet, 1nly thirty feet more remaining to reach the water level, says the Tomb stone Prospector. Sinking has been for the present, and the entire force of miners has been set to work cutting out the several stations that will be necessary for the accom- nodation of the pumping system that is to be soon installed; at the same time drifts are being run to connect with the old workings of the Grand Central and the Contention mines. These connections are being made solely for air. The desired machin- cry, pumps, etc.. necessary to the fur fher exploitation of the mines, is ex- pected to arrive at an early date, or by the time the work has progressed to receive the needed equipments.
 Jules Baumann has recently locat- ed four claims just east of the prop erty owned by the Baumann Copper and in performing his loca- iion work has encountered numerous stringers of remarkably rich copper ore assaying twenty one per cent in copper and S2.00 in gold. There is ln iron capping on the claims which ,ontains'a small percentage of copper md it is believed that large ore body will be encountered with de- St. Louis capitalists are already negotiating for bond on the claims with view of developing and if sufficient showing is made to pur- ,hase them. The claims adjoin the Baby claim of the Baumann Copper group and the ledge of he Baby runs into these claims.
 The Copper Basin Gold and Cop per Mining company is the name of new minlng company recently organ zed by c. E. Snider, the stock of which is being advertised at two cents per share. The property owned oy the company is located in Copper Basin district just east of the old but up on the side of the They have sixteen located claims. Development work has just one tunnel being in fifty ieet, from which the ore taken goes IS high as $40 per ton. In another shaft being sunk they have ore going s41 60 per ton. There is an immense iyke on the surface over 100 feet vide, in which are found rich copper md iron sulphides, and, it is thought that this is good indication of big deposit of copper ore at a greater iepth. That entire section is copper