Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-04-16

eAC AAOu 4uCCu ulluC, OWuco O1 LII . Geo. A. Treadwell Mining company
 on Big Bug. The claim is the sout
 extension of the old Boggs clain
 There is a shaft down on the clair
 230 feet with cross cuts and drift
 run at several places, and the show
 ing is such as to induce MT. Tread
 well to arrange for the immediat
 erection of a smelter with capacit,
 of 100 tons daily. The smelter vii
 be provided with arrangements fo
 using oil for fuel. He expects tC
 have it in. operation within the mex
 few months.
 The water has been pumped out O
 the Ida mine on Cherry creek, anC
 the new owners propose to start worl
 on it on an extensive scale by install
 ing powerful pump to keep tho
 water down, and by putting in al ail compressor, a steam hoist and twen
 ty-stamp mill. There is fine body of ore at the bottom of the shaft.
 J. Q. Stephens has men engaged in running cross cut tunnel to strike the ledge on claim owned by him in the Hillside country. The surface ore is free milling and runs $12.0C per ton, the ledge being about three feet wide. This tunnel will strike the ledge at depth of 150 feet and hope to strike good body of rich ore.
 The most active mining at present going on in the Black Rock district is at the Home Stage group, west of Slim Jim gulch, where MT. J. W. Burson is working more men than are worked in any one mine in the i'm mediate vicinity of Wickenburg. The mines, which are all patented, lie in a country traversed by huge porphyry dykes, between the celebrated Groom properties and the Copper Blossom group. The mine has produced re- markedly rich copper ore, but during temporary closing down the work ing shaft filled with water and pump ing will go on until the mine is dry. MT. Burson has shown himself an en- terprising citizen of the district and is always to the fore when any public work is called for. He did his share in building the roads that were need ed, besides doing lot of road build ing on his own account. A few more men with the energy of MT. Burson would soon create permanent boom in this district, which is provided with plenty of mineral and only needs capital and workers.-Republican.
 The Verde Apex Copper Mining company has issued the following: Owing to the rich strike of copper which we have encountered, we beg to state that the price of stock will be advanced to not less than $1 per share, May l, 1902. It is we'll worth five times that much now. We in tended to advance the price April lst, but as we could not advise all our customers, so they could get their or ders placed for additional stock, eff they so desired" we therefore post pone the date of advance as indicated above.
 When the Standard Smelling and Refining company erected its con- centrating plant at Val Verde, the Journal Miner predicted that it would be compelled to enlarge in less than six months if it treated all the ore of fered. The prediction has become true several months before the time limit placed on it, as the company has already purchased machinery for general overhauling and enlarge ment of the plant. In addition to the rolls now employed in pulverizing the ore the company will add ten stamps and will also increase the number of their rolls, and will increase the cap acity of the plant to 100 tons per day. Some of the concentrators in use at present will be replaced with others and number of additional ones will be installed to increase their capacity to the crushing capacity of the mill or to 100 tons per day.
 The Merchants Mining company give notice in this issue that the price of stock will be advanced to fifty cents per share on May 1. The com pany's property continues to improve with every foot of development work done, and with present amount of de- velopment work done and the quantity of ore in sight the stock is a cheap buy at 50 cents per share. Parties who have a few spare dollars to i'm vest can scarcely make mistake by investingin this stock at the present price.
 An eastern man, named Robeson, has taken bond on the Leviathan group of mines near Weaver. The Leviathan lode has immense outcrop- pings which are noticeable for mics. At one place there are thousands of tons of low grade quartz, which, it is said, will pay to mill, and which is exposed on the surface. Mir Robeson proposes to have the ore thoroughly tested and if it is found that it can be worked proftably he contemplates very extensive improvements, includ- ing the building of a railroad from Congress Junction and a pipe line from Peoples valley, and the develop ment of the property.
 The announcement is made that a survey will commence at once of the site for the proposed smelter at Del Rio. It is proposed to erect a plant of 300 tons daily capacity.
 The Empire mine on Groom Creek was closed down for about month while new machinery is being in stalled for the purpose of developing the property several hundred feet deeper than at present.
 Jackson McCracken, who located the McCracken mine at Signal, and afterwards sold it, leaving Arizona in 1876, has written letter to Col. H. A. Owens, telling him of his finding mineral in the Baca grant away back in the early period of the history of this territory. He also refers to the fact that certain rock found on the grant is identical with the oil rock found in California. The grant will shortly be thoroughly prospected for both oil and mineral as indicated by an article published in the Journal i Miner on Saturday.
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