Arizona silver belt., 1902-03-20
tions, says that mining there Is unusu.

regular peenive or industry at present and he has not seen anything like 1t since he has been in the country. The parties who have taken bond on his Mohawk group are working ten men and ire opening up fine bodies of ore. Work will also be commenced soon on his Cumberland mine on Turkey creek and all tho old-time properties are be. ing worked. Journal Miner.
 After years of litigation and labor, that good oldtimer, Fred Williams, has sold through F. M. Sanford the Storm Cloud group of mines out near the Senator and Cash mines about twelve miles south of Prescott. The sale was made to Chicago people, who propose to go right to work sinking. A pecu- liarity of the contract is that it is in the form of a purchase and sale, not an option. The payments run through period of fourteen months. A cash payment was made when the deal was closed, last evening. The purchase price Is said to be $40, Prescott Courier.
 In Cochise county, at the foot of the great Chiricahua range of mountains, a very important discovery of placer gold has been made within the past few weeks. The gold-bearing gravel ex tends along the foothills distance of five miles, and down towards Sulphur Springs valley for three miles. The gold is coarse placer gold of high grade, running over SIS per ounce at the mint, It resembles the best placer gold of California and looks as if it had been washed a long distance. But little work has been done, only lew openings, and none of in the main washes where a placer miner would look for the greatest ults.-Pros- pcctor
 The Rio Del Monte Gold Mines com. pany, which owns the group of mines lying between Uarqua Ilala and Har- riSburg, in Yuma county, is about to commence the erection of an 80 stamp mill on the property, and within the next sixty days active operations will be under way. The late examinations made by several eminent mining men haue resulted in satisfactory reports, and these mines promise to equal in output the famous Harqua Hala mines, which were at one time great prOdu- cers. The Del Monte mines are about three and half miles from Harqua Hala. Ex United States Senator Pet tlgrew, Uf south Dakota, will be gen eral manager of this property. Yuma Sentinel.
 Councilman William Reid returned last night from a weeks visit to the Galiuro mountains. Mir Reid was es- corted by Jack Gardner, who discov- cred the big mine in that country. they staged it as far as McClelland's ranch, on the San Pedro, and from there went over the trail on horseback. MT. Reid says that about thirty men are now employed at the property Of the Gold Mountain company and that camp presents every evidence of pros perity. All of the supplies are packed in on burrOs over the trail. Mir. Reid says that the stockholders of the com pany are having an examination made of the property and on the result will depend the amount of money that will be spent for machinery and improve ments. ts.-TucsOn Citizen.
 Reports have just come in to the ef- feet that the double c0mpartmentshaft on the First Home mine of the Mer- chants Mining company, Big Bug dis trict, near Prescott, is sunk to depth of 2l0 feet, and they are sinking in a iive-foOt body of fine ore. The entire body is good mill grade. Average samples taken in different places across the large body of ore, assay from s7 to SIP per ton in gold, silver and lead ,and | it concentrates from tive tons to ten tons into one, and while it does not make very high concentrate, il makes profitable grade. The large bodies of ore which the company has opened up and the large amount of de velopmenJ work, make it very valu able and desirable property Prescott Courier.
 Hon. Harry Carpenter returned from Picacho last Thursday. He report: that the excavation for the 1,000-tOr reducti on works is about completed The five large boilers are in place anC the erection of the building is under way. Mel Greenleaf formerly section foreman on the Southern Pacific, has accepted the position of superintend ent of cons truction on the railroaC from the mines to the reduction works a distance of five miles, and work or that branch of the enterprise is now under way. The mines are being put in condition to supply the great quan tity of ore which will be daily required to keep the mammoth reduction plan