The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1902-02-06
ARIZONA WEEK BY WEEK.
TERRITORIAL MINING NEWS.

TERRITORIAL MINING NEWS.
! A patent can be obtained for a placer
/ claim with a hot mineral spring on it
/ The patent expressly reserves suct
! springs from the grant where they are
salt springs, but it is doubtful If the
reservation has any force. The last
ruling Of the Land Department is thai
lands containing mineral springs not
/ OF saline character are subject TO sale
under the agricultural land laws. Sui
phur springs are not regarded as saline.
A mineral spring can not be located OF
claimed as placer.
The latest VIC have heard from G. w.
Hull is that he is in New YORK, arrang.
Ing for thirty-ton smelter 10 be put
on b is property in Mescal gulch. De-
velOpment work on the 101, 1O2 and 103,
by the Venture Hill mining company
showed those claims in favorable
light; since that work on the Verde
Apex group, which les just west OF
Mr.. HulFs property, has uncovered ore
that dips in his direction. This late
showing OF the Verde Apex is respon-
sibls for his early decision to bring on
a smelter. The intention is 20 put up
q 30-tOn jacket Mr. Hull il tireless in
his effort to develop this property and
jerome Reporter.
The richest man in the world today
is an American miner. lie has made
every dollar he is worth working
American mines. He is not yot much
past the prime Of life, and he was elect
ed TO the United States Senate from
Montana only few months ago. His
name is William A. Clark He went
10 the Rocky mountains about 35 years
ago, with no other capital than good
health and a pretty good education,
aud today he is the richest man in all
the world-has more wealth than any
other individual in all the world has
ever possessed-has so much wealth
that all the Rothschilds, the Wander
bilts and the Carnegies are poor men
with him. He made his
great wealth in Montana, but it is the
United Verde mine in Arizona that
the bulk OF his fortune 1t
is claimed to represent calculable
gross value today exceeding five bill
lions.-Daily Mining Record.
Consul Moulton of Demerara, reports,
December 18th, 1901, that he has been |
advised by the consular agent at
cayenne that the rich placer gold dig
,ing in the Iuiui river district of
french Guiana are attracting many |
to that locality. During
october aud November last. over 1900 |
pounds of gold were brought down to |
Cayenne, and, according to the agent, |
,ther large lots will soon follow. The
consul adds that in view of the great |
der OF foreigners who may be at
,racted to the colony, the government
las passed an ordinance requiring |
passports from such persons before they
Ire permitted to land.
Gold found casually by any person,
Who may be working for another. in |
grading mill site on public domain,
s not acquired by the employer, in !
california at all events. The Cali
ornia civil code, section 1885, pro-
iidss that everything acquired by an
'mploye by virtue OF his employment,
Except his compensation, shall belong
o the employer; but gold found casual
Y on public domain by an employee be-
ongs to him and not to the employer,
nd the former can maintain an action
gainst the latter for Il wrongful con-
ersion OF gold so found. y decision to
his effect was recently made in Cali
Ornia and the immediate cause WAS
ue to the fact that number OF grad
rs found a pocket of gold worth 5000
whilst leve!ing off for Il quartz mill on
'ublic land. The employer took
possession of the gold under the idea
hat the gold was his "by virtue OF his
The court. however,
loid that gold so found is an adyenti-
ious find and being found on public do
main rightfully belongs to the finder
The case is fully reported in the Min
ug Law Journal of Denver.
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