Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-08-13
MINING INTELLIGENCE.

The United Verde smelter has been shut down indefinitely, the manage ment refusing to state when work would be resumed further than it is likely to be from sixty to ninety days A Chicago man has been brought on to handle the fire in the mine who says he can put it out with the prop CT apparatus. Company machinists made a machine for the work, but it did not fill the requirements. It was then found necessary to send to Chicago for special machines, and which will arrive soon.-Jerome Re porter.
 Ex-Sheriff Gibson of Los Angeles, who has charge of the work in the Biffar mine at Cherry Creek, has placed a whim on the property to handle the water that has been struck at 50 feet.
 The Baumann Copper company has contracted for hauling 6 lot of ore from its mines to the Val Verde smelter. Work will be commenced just as soon as a new crossing can be made on the Agua Fria river.
 Captain Phillips received a tele- phone message last evening from the Fl Capitan mine that another body of ore had been encountered in the shaft carrying a large percentage of native copper. The ore covered the entire bottom of the shaft, and how much more there is has not been de- termined.
 A man who deliberately and per niciously attempts to jump mining claims belonging to others, especially when he knows that a sale is being negotiated has no place in the re- spectable mining camp. This is one of the lowest forms of blackmail and Wickenburg has about reached the stage when such creatures will no longer be tolerated. Oh. for a return of the old days and the old ways, when claim jumpers were treated with the same courtesy as were horse thieyes.-News-Herald.
 At a depth of 400 feet a regular lake of water, apparently, was struck in the Prosperity mine, in Copper Basin district, and which is under Capt. L. D. Phillips management for Douglas, Lacey & Go. Af- ter wrestling with it for ten days with their hoist, they discovered that it was impossible to handle the water, so Cameron pump, throwing a three inch stream of water, was or dered, and it has just been installed and started up yesterday. It takes care of the water in good shape, and work in the lower levels of the mine can now be prosecuted. If this water is found to be a permanent supply, the company will have a lot of tanks erected and will erect con- centratirg plant at the mine, as the ore at this depth is largely concen- trating ore.
 The Home Run mine on Groom creek has been closed down. The cause of its closing was not ascer tained. It has fine bodies of or, opened up in it.
 The Merchants Mining compau, does not propose to take. an chances on the ore taken from its recent ricl strike. Instead of hoisting it to tn, surface the company is sacking i and storing it in drift under loci and key.
 The Lion Gold Mining Co.,, opera ting and developing the BarGshea
 mines on Cherry Creek have attained depth of 237 feet in the old shaft having crOsscut the ore shoot fo that distance. They are now en gagged in sinking a new shaft whicI
 pitches with the vein and is dow , l70 feet from the surface. It has remarkable showing of fair grade ore
 assaying S23 per ton and 1 feet i
 thickness. The character of the or is quartz containing sulphides an,