Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1903-01-28
GENERAL MINING NEWS
Large Steam Hoist Purchased for the Merchants Mining COmpany-Great Rush to Big
 Bug Mining District.
Railroad Building Crowned King Giving Great Impetus to Min ing in the Bradshaws Good Reports From Douglas
 Lacey Co.'S Properties

now being shipped from the mine to the Standard Smelling and Refining company's plant at Val Verde. Louis Greenwood is at present superinten- dent of the property.
 The Express, near Poland, is an- other property being worked by this firm, and twenty men are at present employed in it. The ore is princi- pally gold and silver, and is of good grade much of it being good shipping ore. This is also shipped to Val Verde for treatment. Assays have been obtained from this ore as high as S20O per ton but the average of the ore is about s25 or 80 per ton. The superintendent of this property is Matt Hoveck.
 The Hurricane, another Douglas, Lacey & Go. property, of which W. H. Ferguson is superintendent, is located about six or eight milse from Prescott and ten men are employed at present sinking and otherwise developing the property. Some very good ore has been encountered in this mine and the indications are very encouraging for opening up good mine.
 The concentrating plant built by lAC aOONC GOAC NAAAC oAACCe at Val Verde, has been kept run ming to its fullest capacity, the necessity recently having arisen to increase its capacity to 30 tons. Even with this increased capacity it is kept busy. It is equipped with rollers and stamps to crush the ore, after which it is run over Wilfey tables for concentration. J. F. M. oh i,i ir. oha of fhf1 trating plant, and is a very efficient superintendent as he understands the business thoroughly. A spur runs from the P. and E. railroad to the plant so that ore is unloaded direct from the cars into the mill the ar rangements for economic handling after reaching the mill being perfect.
 Captain L. ID. Phillips, general manager for Douglas, Lacey & Co.,, is now absent on a visit east leaving the management of the numerous proper ties controlled in the hands of his as- sistant J. W. Conger, who is equal to the emergency. The offices of the firm are about as busy place as can be found in Prescott.
 G. F. Harrington, superintendent of the Tiger Gold Mining company was interviewed by Journal Miner representative this morning in refer ence to mining in the Bradshaw mountains. The Tiger Mining com pany's property is situated near the Crowned King. MT. Harrington stated that he is now engaged in sink ing a $50 foot shaft in the old Tiger mine. which will serve not only for ventilating shaft for the mine, but will connect the two tunnels on the property, which are being worked. He says that while drifting in the lower tunnel body of ore four feet wide was struck which was assayed and showed returns on an average of over S2S per ton. The company will soon start to shipping ore and from the promising indications of the ore that is taken out of the mine, MT. Harrington feels that the property will be one of the best producers of the territory in the near future. The Tiger had a reputation for producing high grade ore in the early days of that county, and the old Tiger camp was one of the liveliest in the terri tory in the seventies. The great dis tance from transportation those days prohibited the working of any but the very highset grade ore, but, with the present facilities, ore that was worth less those days can be worked with good profit. MT. Harrington says that the prospect of the early completion of the railroad is having a good effect on mining generally in that section and the greatest activity prevails throughout that entire section.