Bisbee daily review., 1902-08-15
THE MINING FIELD
cREEL WANTS MORE MONEY
Big Suit against Mine and Shelter
 Supply Company Filed.

o'9 out N9dinSl Mine ana Smeiter
 Supply Company Filed.
 Juan A. Greet, of Chihuahua. insti- tuted a suit in the district court to- day against the mine and smelter sup ply house for s6.0S734
 The plaintiff sets forth that prior to December l9, 1900. he was engaged in business in Fl Paso under the name of the Fl Paso Mine. Mill and Shelter house; that defendant pro posed to purchase of plaintiff his en- tire stock and fixtures and that plain tiff agreed to sell the same: that it was mutually agreed that the price fixed should be the invoice price and carriage. and if that errors were made and later discovered that they should be corrected by the party benefiitting and the amount of money involved paid to the other party: that sale was consummated; that the amount according to the inventory was only $73.620.71. when il should have been S79,6OS.O2; that said inventory was carelessly taken and that much of the stock was not included; that a claim made against plainiff on ac- count of alleged errors the plaintiff paid; that afterward carefully exam ined inventory books and invoices and found the errors mentioned in his ia vor, an exhibit being appended to show errors in detail; and that the gross amount still due the plaintiff by reason Of thse errors is s6.0S7.34.
 
 All the machinery for the big con- Smelling and Refining company is now on the ground at Val Verde and reayd to be put ir place. The mini mum capacity of the plant is S0 tons day 4 10-stamp mill 10 hadle the free milling ore. will be run in con pection with the concentrating plant. The company has now on hand amout 1000 tons of ore awaiting treatment and an unlimited supply in sight. The company not only works ores from its own mines, but buy ores from other mine owners. thereby giving a ready cash and home market for our main home product. thus filling T long felt and pressing necessity in local mining circles. Douglas Lacey & Go. are the fiscal agents for the Standard Smelling and Refining com pany. and Capt. Phillips. Of Prescott, is the local head man of Douglas, Lecey. X Co.
 President O. B. Steen. of the Eure- ka Mining company. who are operat- ing in the Huachucas, reports re- cent strike on the sixth level of their property that is most f1attering A fve-foot ledge of rich boinite ore, carrying high grade silver values. be. side the copper product was GaeaTth- ed and proving a most substantial ore deposit. The ore from this find is the richest yet encountered in these workings andis being scked for ship ment to the Fl Paso smelter. The concentI ating mill of the Eureka com panyis expected will shortly run On large ore reserves al the mines that are awaiting treatment. The company have also closed negotiations for sev. eral adjoining claims. their holdings now numbering some 30 acres in the heart of a most favorable mineral section.
 Col. Mike Nugent came in from Kota Friday night having in charge s50.000 chunk of gold bullion. rep resenting the past 30 days cleanup oI the King of Arizona. which was brought in for shipment-Arizona Sentinel.
 Ex-collector William W Hoey was to leave Nogales for Muncie, Ind. this week. Mir. Hoey, who is very well known here. is interested in a gold and copper property in the Her mocillo district, which is said to De wonder.
 Con O'Keefe, president of the min ing company operating sixty miles from Magdalena. Sonora, is in the city for a few days. He says work progresses finely at the mines which are low grade and the bodies are large
 That Arizona is making some prog gress is instanced by the fact that two more Of the twelve counties of the territory have within the last year increased their property yalua- tions to the requirements named by the law for first clsas counties.
 
 It is stated that a Chicago man has arrived a tJerome for the pur- pose of putting out the fire in the mine by means of chemicals
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