Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-02-05
MINES AND MINING.

| Inc val NeIue cOtnpdHy ySStcIud.
 received telegram from New Yorl
 announcing an advance in copper tC
 III cents with market active anC
 many sales reported.
 The county prosperity made an
 other forward step this week and the
 outlook is improving right along
 The parties who secured the Colo
 Basin mines are going right to work
 erecting buildings for their workman
 and a cyanide plant. After repeated
 test they find it the best cyaniding
 ore on earth. The Scanlan springs
 will furnish the necessary water and
 every old timer in the country knows
 that they have an abundance of SIC
 ore that can be cheaply mined. Indi-
 cations are more than favorable that
 before another week goes by the
 American Flag in the Wallapai
 mountains will have a force of men
 at work. Mohave Mineral Wealth. While engaged in making cut in
 the Wizard mine, on Big Bug, the
 railroad graders opened up a body of
 ore eight feet wide and 400 feet long.
 A portion of the rock was dumped
 into the grade, but later the graders
 are piling it up by itself and saving
 it as it goes S30.00 per ton in gold
 The property is owned by J. P. Dill
 lon and Pat O'Donnell The right of way which they sold to the rail
 road company, traverses the claim
 lengthwise, and a portion of it goes right over the ledge, which accounts for the opening up of this body of ore. This is said by people who are familiar with railroad building, to be the first case known to them where an ore body was encountered by graders on a railroad. Of course the owners are considerably elated over the discovery.
 The Oasis, Nogales, has the follow ing item regarding the Sonora Milling and Mining company. Mir. Saxhang, who returned from Tubutuma, reports that one of the mines of the Sonora Milling & Mining O., a good flow of water has been struck which saves hauling water long distance. Mon day President Con O'Keefe of the Sonora Milling & Mining Co.,, wired Mir. John Dessart, treasurer of the corporation at Nogales, that the ore body in La Fortuna had greatly i'm proved and five hundred ounce ore is now coming out. The new smelling furnace will be shipped the first week in February and will be erected and blown in before the month closes. MT. OPKeefe wired also that he had bought, for the company, a copper mine near at hand, the ore from which will be used as fuxes.
 Extraordinary mining operations are being conducted at the old mint in Philadelphia by Dr. David K. Tut | tie, head of the department of melt ing and refining, and a dozen of his most expert men. The prospecting is on the floors, the ceilings, the | tables, in cracks and crannies of | boxes, on old, dusty shelves, and | finally in chimneys, where soot and | dust have accumulated for more than l half a century. Soot out of a hue leading from one of the furnaces con 5ained 24 per cent of gold and silver. That percentage indicates that in a ton of soot and dust there would be | found fifty pounds of precious metals worth between SS,000 and S10,000. The value of the sweepings on the floor of the melting room has been referred to, but Dr. Tut ile's miners don't stop at that. Now they are prospecting the brooms which do the sweeping; they are out the wooden benches, the window frames and corners and a ong shelf running around the room )n which crucibles have been stored or years. In all of these rich finds nave been made and the total gold md silver recovered will amount into thousands.
 The Merchants Mining company las decided to advance the price of ts stock on March l from p cents to 3 cents per share. This action was aken at a meeting of the directors leld January P. It was not taken without cause, as the recent exploita- ions of the property have disclosed uch ore bodies, as well as values in he ore as to justify the action. The nine has already several hundred eet of development work done on it nd good ore has been encountered, ; ,ut as yet no ore has been taken out xcept that taken from opening the nine. About March l. the date fixed or the advance of the price of the tock. the railroad will be completed, vhen they will be able to ship large mount of ore already on the dump, $ well as tocommence stoping in the nine. Only the high grade ore will 'e shipped, of which they can obtain arge quantities, and the balance will : 'e permitted to remain on the dump Intil the company is ready to erect a nill for its concentration. This will a all probability be only a question f few months time.
 Copper has advanced to I3 cents. nd the tendency is still upward.
 The United Verde shelter, which las been closed down for repairs for he past four or five days, started up ( gain today. Parties who have ar ( ived from Jerome recently state that { here is no truth in the report that he force employed has been reduced, 1T that there has been any reduction n the output of the mines. On the contrary, the mine is being operated o its full capacity, and arrangements re being made to increase the pro- luct by the erection of an additional urnace.
 It is reported that the general Flee ric company of Boston has purchased big block of stock of the Cananea hines. D. M. Riordan negotiated he purchase.
 The latest we have heard from G. W. Hull is that he is in New York, ar anging for thirty-ton shelter to be put on his property in Mescal gulch. ] Development work on the 101, 1O2 , md l03 by the Venture till Mining ( showed these claims in nvorable light; since that work on ( he Verde Apex group, which lies ( ust west of Mir. Hull's property, has uncovered ore that dips in his direc- ion. This late showing of the Verde , Apex is responsible for his early de ( ision to bring on a shelter The in ( ention is to put up a 30-ton jacket ; Ir. Hull is tireless in his effort to de-