Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1904-03-16

| these facts that so many citizens have gone to Judge Andrews to solicit hin again to become a candidate.
 MINING INTELLIGENCE
 Con O'Keefe, J. H. Smith, Mrs. B. McKinnon, and E. J. Snyder, all stockholders and directors in the So, nora Mining and Milling company, returned Tuesday from Tubutama. Or that day they closed deal with 6 Mexican company for the purchase oi the Juarez mines fifty miles south. west of the property they have been working. They will at once erect g mill on this property. The new pur- chase is a gold proposition and it has been estimated that there is S250, COG on the dumps and in the tailings. | Con O'Keefe returned Thursday to the mines at Tubutama to close up the business pending the arrival of new manager. Mir. O'Keefe is still on the board of directors but has retired from active management. E. J. Snyder, the secretary of the company, whose home is in Utica, N. Y., will shortly return to the company's property to super wise operations. Mir. Smith and Mrs. NJ. Kinnon left on Thursday for their home in Little Falls, N. Y.-Tucson Post.
 The Journal Miner is informed that in drifting on one of the levels in the Ideal Mining company's property on Groom creek, a blind ledge was encountered a day or two ago which IS proving to be very valuable find. The ore is said to run in value from $50 to s7O in gold. The ore is being taken out and run through the steam stamp.
 Geo. W. Sarano, of the Ideal Min ing company, reports that MT. Sharp neck, the patentee of the unite steam stamp, has several deals on the boards for prospecting plants. These little mills ought to be a great help in the development of a property, as they cost very little and help pay the de- velopment of prospect by reducing the ore to bullion as it is taken out. There are scores of prospects in this section which could be made to pay all the work of development with a little mill like the one in use at the Ideal
 Joseph Hicks, of the Iron King Ex- tension property came in from the camp yesterday and reports work go- ing ahead in the big working shaft as rapidly as three shifts of men can put it down.
 The visit to Prescott today of Harry La Montague, general manager of the Sultan mine, was of considerable more than ordinary importance. In his grip he carried a bar of pure gold weighing something over forty pounds and worth close to sSOOO. The bar was deposited in the Bank of Arizona for shipment to the United States mint. This handsome gold brick was the re- suit of clean up after an eighteen days run. The Sultan is surely des- tined to be one of the great properties of this section.
 Ed s. Campbell, of the Stark Gold Mining company, came in yesterday from the camp of the company and brought in S3OO0 bar of gold bull. ion, the result of a run of about five days of the mill. The mill is running right, along now. as we'll as the cya hide. plant. Both are giving good satisfaction, hut no clean up ha: been made yet from the cyanide plant The Stark company has entered the list of producers and expects to re main permanently in that class, anC stockholders will DO doubt soon be re ceiving returns from their invest ments.
 A big strike was made recently 1T the Gro Mining company's property at Minnehaha. In fact there were two strikes. One was good sizeC body of ore of fine grade and tb, other was a strike of water. The for mer is of a sort always hailed witl pleasure by all mining companies anC is always a source of qualification and in this case it is no exception, al though the Gro company has haC plenty of good ore in sight righ slong. The Gro company was no !, suffering for want of water even befor this strike and while water is a val uable adjunct to mining at all time and in all places the Gro company ha an excess of it at present. While is in a quantity to interfere slightl. with the operation of the mine, tn company is making no complaint a an excess of water is preferable to
 shortage of the article. There neve can be too much ore, and it cannot b too rich. The new ore body encoun tered in the Gro is from six to sevel feet wide and averages about s20 pc ton in ore. The Orc has always beel a very promising property and the dis covery of this body of ore will mak it still more so. The property i we'll equipped with all kinds of ma chinery necessary tor the successful operation of the mine.
 F. c. Friedman, who has just re turned from a trip through the Bi
 Bug and adjacent mining sections re
 pvrts McCabe as being one of the live
 Hest camps in the county. The Mode
 company has ninety men in its emplo and the Gladstone forty five, beside - those employed in the other camps i 8 tbat vicinity. He says that the Mode r company is running its new mill righ - along and is shipping from three t f four car loads of concentrates pc
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