Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-03-05
MINES AND MINING.

MlNES ANU MNNUNu.
 Con O'Keefe expects to have the smelter up and running on the Sonora M. 6 M. Co.'s property by the mid dle of March. The smelter was shipped from Los Angeles last week.
 J.P. Dillon received big chunk of ore yesterday from his Wizard mine which the railroad graders are developing for him. The cut being made by the graders is now down thirty-fve feet and the ore taken out goes $40 per ton.
 E. E. Greenwood, superintendent for the Cadillac Mining company, has placed force of men at work on the R. Nj. Dougherty properties at Crowned King. The properties were only purchased by the company less than week ago, but they have al ready commenced work on them.
 Judge R. NJ. Ling has been out at the Gopher mine for over a week experimenting the work of putting in steam hoist on that property for the McCabe Extension company. Just as soon as the hoist is in position they will commence developing the mine and taking out ore. Improve ment continues in the value of the ore being taken from the McCabe Ex tension company's property adjoin- ing the McCabe mine.
 Ben Blanchard has brought in a large sample of ore from the Gold Rope mine in the Bill Williams Fork country, which is remarkably fine looking specimen. It is sample from lot of which he has five car loads, and contains If per cent in copper, 12 ounces in silver and from SIP to S22 per ton in gold. The mine is owned by a syndicate of Kansas City millionaires.
 Benson is to have custom shelter. The plant will cost in the neighbor- hood of S50,000. The machinery has been ordered. It will be in operation within ninety days. The promoters of the enterprise are Peter Kirk, A. J. Pigeon and Mir. Boygers, of San Francisco. These gentlemen have formed a company known as the Elm pire Smelling company. Mir. Pigeon and Mir. Kirk are now on the ground at Benson, drawing plans of the plant and ordering the machinery. The site chosen is the old Webster shelter site for which was paid S2,5OO.
 O. A. Peterson, an old-timer in the country, has applied for patent for a new method of cyaniding. By his process he keeps the cyanide solution pure by the use of electricity and can save values up to 99 per cent on any kind of teaching ore. By this discov- cry there is a great saving over the old methods and low grade ores can be worked at a profit which hereto fore could not be handled. Mir. Peterson was here Tuesday and re- turned to Fl Dorado canyon yester- day, where he is working his method with marked success.-Kingman Ar TOW.
 The Socorro Gold Mining company is starting active operation on its property near Wickenburg. The News-Herald of that place says that its big hoist and one of the S0-horse power boilers arrived Wednesday and have been sent out to the mine. An other 80-horse, power boiler is ex- pected within a few days, it being necessary to have two of this capacity in place of a larger one on account oi the distance all machinery has to be hauled. The hoist is a mammoth af. fair, warranted to sink several thou sand feet, and is the largest yet in stalled in this vicinity.
 The copper situation in the eastern markets seems to be improving ano from reports published in the eastern financial journals, it looks as if the copper war had come to an end, anC that regular price had been fixeC for the red metal until 1903. It is tC be hoped that this is true, for the late battle among the copper king' was most disastrous to many new ano meritorious enterprises. With satisfactory agreement reached, many excellent properties that were forced to shut down pending the outcome of the trouble, will without doub start up again and with good assu- rance that no further exigencies vii arise during the year to retard devel opment work. With copper at fifteer cents Arizona will make big show ing this year.
 The Pyramid Gold and Copper Mining company which owns group of claims adjoining the Copper Basir Gold and Copper Mining company property, are making satisfactor. progress in the development of thi' property. They are sinking two shafts on different claims, one being on the Annabell claim and the othel on claim located on the U. s ledge. These shafts are down sev eraT feet and good ore has been en countered in both of them. The Py ramid gives promise of becoming friendly rival of the Copper Basir company when development has pro gressed to a greater stage and nt company or mine in this section makes a better showing with th' amount of development work done than those owned by these two com panies, with all the indications whicl miners and mining experts judg' from, in the way of formation as vel as the showings so far developed, fo big profit paying properties. Ever. miner who visits that section anC makes an examination of work al ready done together with surface in dications, comes away highly i'm pressed with the possibilities of thes properties.
 A piece of work, of which little I heard lately, is now nearing comple tion in the big United Verde, and will probably be only a matter O weeks when considerable change vii be made, says the Jerome News. Tn work in question is the new shaft sit uated between 300 and 450 feet mort of the present working shaft. It wa started about two years ago an would probably have been finishe , long before now had not certai Instructions been met with which tn shaft was designed to evade. Thes Instructions were large bodies of or encountered where least expected and necessitated a change bein