Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-04-09
MINES AND MINING.

The output for the Cripple Creek mines for March was S2,074, 100.
 w. J. Mulyenon will shortly visit the Blue Bird mine, a property owned
 by him Tn the Bradshaw mountains with view of starting work on it's development.
 H. E. Armitage, superintend ant of the Hercules mining company, is awaiting the arrival of a diamond drill to resume work on the above comPanys property, in the Castle Greek district. The property as far as developed is looking in fine con dition.
 The Anaconda and Washoe con- eentrators at Butte, Montana, have been closed down, throwing about I5OO men out of employment. This action was made necessary by the strike of the holsting engineers of the Anal gamated mines in Butte. The smelt- CTS have a limited supply of ore, enough, 1t is thought, to last two or three days, when they too will be forced to suspend, throwing an addi- tional 1000 men out of work.
 It Is reported that work will shortly De started up again on the Garcia mine, near Wickenburg. There is quite large amount of development work done on that property and if produced ore of fabulous richness on on the surface. Some sort off dis agreement among the members of the company caused its being closed down.
 About the best piece of mining news this week the Jerome Reporter has to offer Is the increase of the force of men at the Iron King twelve men. Plenty of wood is be- ing secured to work the property on larger scale than heretofore. and if IS understood about town that the in tentlons are to prepare for a 2OO-ton smelter as rapidly as possible.
 There has been some delay in tbs arrival of machinery for the Tomb stone mines, but some of it is there now, including the pumps, which will be placed as quickly as possible. About eighty men are employed by the company and the work is going on without interruption.
 As instance of the life of mines if is known that the lead-silver mines of western Greece and Rio Tinto copper mines are probably the oldest work ing mines in the world. Both are known to have been worked, the lead mine 25OO years ago and the copper mines 1000 years. The Grecian mines still yield thousands of tons of lead annually, and the Rio Tinto is one of the largest producers of copper in the world.
 After being compelled to close down for some time on account of be- ing unable to handle the water in its mine work was resumed today again on the Yaegar Canyon Copper com pany's property. The water rose to within 32O feet of the surface. With an SO-horse power boiler and pump purchased from Brown Bros, this water has been taken out and no fur iher difficulty is anticipated in hand ling it, and with as large force of men as can be worked in the mine the shaft will now be sunk to depth of l, 900 feet.
 At the Copper Head mine in Au- prey district, Blakey & Ward have tunnel in between 60 and 70 feet. They are drifting to tap a rich ore 'hute below the old workings from which several thousand dollars were aken out a few years ago by Ed. Will jams and Ed. Mervine. The boys will have to drift 150 feet further to ,et where they want to, but will be :OO feet below the old workings. In he meanwhile they are begging away with streak of fairly goodore in the Irift, which is likely to open upa at any time.-Kingman Ar Ow.