Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-02-26

Another important mining sale was consummated today in Prescott. R.
 NJ. Dougherty sold his group of seven
 claims adjoining the Crowned King
 cOmpany's mines to the Cadillac
 Mining company, composed of De-
 troit capitalists. The claims are
 pretty well developed as Mir. Dough
 erty has owned and worked them for
 the past twelve years. during all of
 which time he has never faltered in
 his faith in the district. He has
 stayed with the district and has kept
 development on his property pro
 gressing as his means enabled him to
 and and he is now reaping his re-
 ward. In speaking of the sale today
 and of the future prospects of mining
 in the Bradshaw mountains, Mir.
 Dougherty remarked that he had al-
 ways said he wovld live to see a boom
 in mining in that section, and added
 it will not take very long to realize
 the boom. The commencement of
 work on the railroad there has already given quite an impetus to mining in that entire section. The purchasers of Mir. Dougherty's claims will com
 mence active development work right away on them.
 The Blue Dick smelter was started up again yesterday on an experiment tai run. It has been demonstrated that the shelter has a greater capa- city by about forty per cent than had been estimated. From fifty to fifty five tons of ore per day can be treated in it.
 Geo. A. Beach came in last even ing from the camp of the Copper Basin Gold and Copper Min ing company and brought in a lot of ore taken from the crosscut at the one hundred-foot level which is very encouraging looking. The ore is a heavy sulphuret and contains values in gold, silver, copper and lead. The crosscut has been run for a distance of twelve feet and the walls of the ore body have not yet been en- countered. No assays have yet been made of the ore and in fact none Is necessary to demonstrate the correct ness of the theory concerning this property. It shows for itself at this depth and has shown with every foot of development increasing values in the ore as depth is made. It is estimated that the crosscut will probably have to be con tinued fifteen or twenty feet vet before the full width is determined. The crosscutt is at the bottom of the shaft on the Black Prince mine, and should it improve in the next 100 feet as it has fromthe surface to the pres ent depth, a bonanza is assured in the mine. The company has been obtain ing its water supply from well only a few feet deep, and owing to the large increase in the number of men being worked now the supply became somewhat shOIt and 1t was decided to sink the we'll deeper. In doing so they not only secured what they were looking for water, but struck fairly rich ore also. The we'll is on a piece of ground where they did not expect to find ore, and the question now is the entire basin may not prove a veritable basin of ore. They have not sunk at any point on their claims expecting to find ore, that they have not done so, and now when they digging 1t out while hunt ing for water puts a new aspect on the A little development work will be done ou this well just to see what can be found. It will not harm 1t as well to sink it little deeper, and it will increase its capacity for water by running drift CT crOsscut or two, so this will be done just to ascertain whether this ore en- countered is bluff or solid body. Work is also progressing on the other claims of the company very satisfac tory.
 During recent visit to Los An gelas a Herald reporter caught w. L. Bell and obtained an interview in which Mir. Bell takes occasion to say ! good word, and a truthful one as we'll, for this section. The Herald says: w. L. Bell, superintendent of he Penn Gold Mining and Milling company, whose properties are To- ;ated in Arizona, arrived in Los An yeles yesterday en route to his home n the east by way of San Francisco. As might be inferred from the name )f the company it is a Pennsylvania concern, and most of the stock Is held n the Quaker state. The only prop erty being worked at present Is the Mudhole mine, about fourteen miles rom Prescott, and here operations nave been carried on upon a large md extensive scale. In all there Is lbout mile of underground work ngs, there beng five levels, in all of which large bodies of ore have been The ore runs on an aver Ige about SS to the ton, and an im- nense amount Is in sight. Two mills crush about ninety ons per day, and there Is also a large plant. About eighty i've men are kept at work, and at present. a new shaft is being put Town, from which exploratory work vili be continued in new ground. The Poland Mining company Is car ying out gigantic wark in this dis rict that must prove of immense ,enefit when completed. A tunnel $ being carried from the Mudhole nine through to Big Bug creek, and Vill be about 5000 feet in length. While this tunnel is being made by he Poland company with the initial purpose of exploring new ground, it ,eing assumed with some degree of ertainty that a number of veins will ,e cut, the tunnel will solve for the listrict problem of transportation. from the MudhOle mine to the rail Oad, a distance of about twelve niles, will be saved by shipments in r out by way of the tunnel For his reason every mine owner and in the district is interested n the tunnel scheme, though It is ne that will not be brought to com 'letion for long time. Mir. Bell re- 'orts great activity in and around 'rescOtt, great number of mining laims being worked and several inn iortalf sales having led to consider ble development work being begun. lueen ylStOria's eift to lsOnOra Jack.
 son.
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