Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-02-05

uOuc dL OilCc LldI1 ObucIo WILL ldlSO
 shut down. The breaking of the
 Victor dam last summer made it i'm
 possible for the towns tributary to it
 to store enough water during the
 rainy season for the rest of the year.
 All of the mines owned or controlled
 by W. s. Stratton, and also the Con-
 solidated Mines of the Woods Invest
 ment company, are closed down. The
 cold snap has also frozen many of the
 water mains, greatly crippling the
 already inadequate supply. This was
 true to the Damon, which twas at
 length thawed out so that work on
 the property could he resumed.
 The use of molybdenum has trebled
 within a year in the United States.
 In 1898 the consumption amounted
 to 9,550 pounds of value of S11 ,937;
 for 1899 it increased to S0,000 pounds,
 with a value of S37, 5000. Its princi-
 pal use is in the manufacture of
 tough steel, such as is required for
 heavy ordnance, on account of its
 hardening qualities and non-expand ing propensities under great heat.
 About f per cent is used in such
 steel. It is added to the steel in the
 following forms metallic: Ferro
 molydbenum Containing 55 per cent Mol. Nickel molybdenum Contain ing D per cent Me). The supply of the United States has come chiefly from New Mexicoand Arizona, though more recently an active search has been commenced on the Pacific coast, with the result that there is now dividend paying mine on the shores of Lake Chelan, Okanogan, Washing ton and a considerable vein has been uncovered at White Horse Pass dis trict, Alaska. Through the efforts of local assaying firm, agents for European purchasers, it has been dis covered in the following localities, near Los Angeles, Pacoima, in the Fernando valley, Frazier mountains, Ventura county; Hemet, Ferris, Riverside county; Jolon, Monterey county; San Diego, Inyo; Kern in | California; also Carson City and White Pine district in Nevada. It | occurs in the older formations in the form of a sulphide known as molyb- denite, gray metal, resembling graphite or galena. It lies in flakes and is easily distinguished from the mentioned. The value of molybden:te in 1899 was S240 per ton for metal that averaged over 50 per cent molybdenum. Local agents are now offering from S250 to $500 per ton, according to quality. Molyb denum 95 per cent metallic is now worth SI.10 per pound. Among pros pectors considerable confusion arises these prices.-Los Angeles Mining Review.
 o. O. Saxhung, secretary of the So- nora Mining & Milling company, who returned from Tubutama verifies the statement that in the lower levels of the For tuna mine a new body of ore running 800 ounces and over to the ton was struck. He bfought in some of the largest and finest specimens of silver ore ever exhibited in No gales. The new copper property re- gently purchased by the company is two and one half miles from the smelter site, and for fuxing pur- poses can run the shelter for many years. Mir. Saxhang is greatly pleased with the new purchase, not only as a ime proposition, but as a high grade copper prospect. The water question which is always a difficult and often m expensive one in the Altar as in other districts in Sonora and Arizona, las been settled at the mine for all ime to come; flow of 40 barrels a lay hpving been struck 100 feet from he smelter site. This water will be itored in the immense reservoir being built under the direction of Joe Thompson, of this city. President )'Keefe and family are at the mine md Secretary Saxhang will return in few days.-Border Vidette.