Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-04-23
MINES AND MINING.

west business and Is now engaged in mining in Yuma.
 It is stated that the United Verde Extension Company will shortly start up work again on the Red Rock mine.
 The Gro Mining Company is pre- pairing to engage in the mining busi- ness on a permanent basis, having re- ceived about 200 tons of machinery recently for their property.
 s. Goldsworthy and others have located three placer claims on Lynx Creek which give promise of produc- ing considerable gold. Enough coarse gold was procured from one pan re- gently to make a gold 25-cent piece. The claims are located just below the crossing of the Agua Fria wagon road.
 The directors of the Amalgamated Copper company have declared a quarterly dividend of one-half of 1 per cent. Quarterly dividends of 2 per cent were paid on company stock up to October last, when the rate was reduced to la. In January there was second reduction to l per cent a quarter.
 A casting of the Penn Gold Mining company's machinery was broken a few days ago compelling the com pany to close down temporarily. A new casting was ordered by telegraph and it arrived by express last even ing and was shipped out to the com pany's mine today and the plant will be started up again today.
 W. R. Ferguson was in town today from the Hurricane group of mines which he is experimenting the de- velopment of. He says the shaft is now down between forty and fifty feet and has been timbered all the way, and two shifts are now being worked pushing development. He says the ore is improving in quality as he sinks and the ledge is known to be seven feet wide without having struck the hanging wall.
 The Phenix Enterprise has evi- dently moved mine bodily from Va vapai to Maricopa county. It says that the Gro Grande mine is the only rich producing mine in Maricopa county. As the mine was originally in Yavapai county when located, the only plausible theory is that the Enterprise must have moved it over the line mile or more into Maricopa Yavapai county has so many rich pro ducing mines that the loss of one or two would scarcely be noticed.
 A Mine Owners association was organized recently in Denver with the following officers: President, Arthur Winslow, Telluride; vice president, J. H. Weddle, Leadville; secretary and treasurer, Judge E. A. Coburn Colorado Springs. Thirty-eight min ing companies were represented at the meeting. Besides discussing the plans of the association Tn a general way, the meeting chose the commit tees on smelter and railway rates labor, organization, bylaws, and finance, who are to report at the next meeting, which is to be held at the call of the president.
 Foreman Lee of the Bauman Cop per company was in town yesterday He reports that the shaft of the Laura mine is now down to a deptt of 100 feet, and an excellent grade oi ore has been encountered in sinking In fact the quality as well as tht quantity of the ore has exceeded all expectations for this depth. While the shaft is following the ledge, which is very wide, it has not followed the main ore shoot. but good ore has been encountered in it. A station will bt cut at this level, when some prospect ing by drifts and crosscuts will bt made.
 The Pick and Drill Mining compa ny has completed its boarding house at it's mines and is commencing active operations in the development of it property in the Agua Fria district At present force of men is being worked sinking shaft on the Rile. claim for the purpose of prospecting the ledge, and soon two shifts will b placed at work sinking double com partment shaft on the Hidden Treas ure mine. The shaft on this claim i already down twenty-eight feet, anC tunnel has been run on the ledg fifty feet from which winze has beel sunk thirty feet, all in good ore. Tn claims, so far as development wor has been done, are very promising.