Mohave County miner., 1902-08-30
General Whining news.


good showing in the Victor mine on
Lynx creek since commencing oper.
tions. Last September active opera,
tions were practically begun almost at
the grass roots. The shaft, equipped
with hne hosting work, ia now down
over 300 feet and 1000 feet of drifts
aud crosscuts have been run. A good
water supply comes from the mine and
new pumps are now being installed.
For the past three months a three.
stamp mill Of the Merrill pattern has
been In operation, and very success.
fully. Considerable of the values are
saved on the plates and two Wilfiey
tables are used In concentrating.
There has been some loss, however,
in the tailings, and cyanide plant will
probably be installed at once to save
these values. A Huntington mill has
also been ordered aud preparations
for its installation are all made. The
soft ores that fall through the grizzly
will be worked by the Huntington mill,
aud the harder rock only will be sent
to the stamps. The Victor plant and
the camp that has grown up around It,
forms a beautiful little suburb OF the
town OF Walker and is a glorious mon
ument to the years effort.--Journal
Miner.
Alopzo Bailey, president of the Pinal
Paraffine Oil Company, which is drill.
ing for oil near Riverside, Arizona, will
go to Globe, Arizona, September /,
after lengthy stay with his family at
Avalon.
From late advices received by Mr..
Bailey, the we'll OF the Pinal company
is down about 400 feet, and drilling is
progressing satisfactorily. The COM
psny has control OF 2D80 acres of land,
and has great faith in striking oil of
high grade. L. W. Leighton lie super
intending operations.
Mr.. Bailey was one Of the owners of
the property in the Globe mining dis
trict which was sold to the Old Domin-
ion Mining Company. The latter
bought for l,5Oo,OO0s, but extensive
development has made the property so
valuable that the price appears pretty
small now. Mr.. Bailey has hand
some residence in this city, but he
finds 1t impossible to remain long
away from ArizonR.--Oil, Mining and
Finance.
Frederick W. Webb, the miner
journalist, will leave this morning for
the bismuth property near Ft. Nc.
Dowel, Ia which he is interested with
others. He takes along enough pro.
visions to last gang of men that will
be put to work for about four weeks.
The owners of this property believe
that after q certain amount of develop
ment work is done, enough of show
ing will have been made to justify the
erection of mill similar to that used
at Joplin, NO., to work the bismuth
mines there. Webb said last night
that he expects in short time to have
one Of the biggest bismuth proposi
tions iu the country in operation
Phenix Democrat.
chihuahua Enterprise: Arrange
ments have been concluded between
the chihuahua Mining Company and
Generel Manager Nash. of the Mineral
road, by which the differences between
the two com panies have been amicably
settled, and the threatened competi.
tion which appeared inevitable some
weeks ago will be avoided. The Min
eral will not build further into the
mining district, nor will the miners
who ship over the Mineral be Obliged
to freight their ores on burros, as here
tofore. A through rate will be given
from the mines to chihuahua and the
freight will be handled by the Chihua
hua Mining company as far as Santa
Eulalia, where it will be unloaded into
seven large bins with capacity of $50
tons each, and unloaded automatically
into mineral cars.
J.R. Aich and +. L. Eddy yesterday
transferred to the Eddy Gold, Silvsr
and Copper Mining company the New
Year, Mills, Golden Leaf and Copper
Butte mining claims, and according to
the record at the Office OF the county
recorder the consideration was l,00o,-
,OOOS. George f. Sanders OF Wicken-
s.~.atarral IN tho ri1nna