The San Francisco call., 1906-10-01
Development of Mining
Industry Proceeds.

FACTS FROM ARIZONA.
Copper is reported to have been dis
covered in the Wickenberg district.
Arizona, by the Black Limited Com
pany while cross vein was under way
in search for gold. The spot is about
twelve miles from Wickenberg. The
operators are Canadian and San Fran
cisco parties. According to the story
a great ledge has been unearthed-
The Arizona Republican is authority
for the statement that new strike has
been made in the Pittsburg-Jerome
mine, and this is considered locally to
be very important.
The parties operating. the shannon
copper properties at Gleeson, Arizona,
critics, according to the Tombstone
Prospector.
The Shattuck Arizona mines. near
Bisbee. Ariz., are shipping rs tons of
ore day.
A new shaft OF the Tombstone Con-
solidated Mines Company at Tombstone
has reached depth of 900 feet. The
work has been in progress since May,
1901. The pumps are caring for 100000
gallons of water every twenty four
hours. The mill is dropping forty
stamps and between $50 and 200 tons
of ore are treated daily by the mill
and the cyanide plant is handling. the
same amount.
New strikes have been made in the
Black Hills district in Yavapai County
on Grapevine. Creek. The specimens
carry gold and copper.
After four years of hard and steady
work the problem of draining the Bis
bee (Ariz.) Basin is solved. The water
is down to about 1906 gallons a minute.
1t is estimated that 5000. 600 barrels Of
water have been raised to the surface
by the management of the Calumet and
Pittsburg in three years. At times 5000
gallons a minute were pumped The
cost of fuel involved in the pumping
has been about 100000 a month
The Lime Point Gold Mining and
Milling Company, with mines ten miles
south of Ida, New, has elected W. 3.
I Thomas president. The company has
| three shafts. The main working shaft
is. down 225 feet.
GOLDFIELD BEATS RECORD.
A record has been broken, according
to the GoIdfield Sun, by the shipment
from Goldfield during the week ending
September 81 of 2142 tons of ore from
the local mines. The shipments by
pounds were as follows: Combination,
1,7s5,400; Hayes Monette, 932,S50;
Frances Mohawk, 900, 400; Mohawk
Company, $4,000; Gardner, 5O.0O0s Ogil-
vie and s.. $1,000; Colonel s. & o. Com
pany, 62,600; Mackenzie, 10000; Cook,
100000; State Bank, 1s0,500. Thus so
reports the Sun. 'the weeks output
looms up above any previous record
for the camp and the promise of an in
crease for weeks and months to come
seems to have a substantial basis"
| The Sun finds that the best news for
the camp, after all, is that the opening
of the school term discloses that there
are. three times as many school children
enrolled as there. were last year.
Families are added to the camp and
those who went to Goldfeld TO dig for
gold have satisfied themselves that the
place will be permanent and have sent
for their families.
AFFAIRS OF THE NORTH.
The Canadian Railway Commission
has been inquiring into the rates for
moving mining and other supplies on
the White Pass Railroad in the Yukon
country. President Graves of the
White Pass Company testified that the
road has not made large profits. Fred
T. Congdon and Henry Blocker. coun-
sci for the Dawson Board of Trade,
asked Graves to produce the books, but
he said that they were in England He
offered to make a statement. which, he
said. was taken from the books. but
the attorneys FOR the Board of Trade
would not consent to admitting that as
a part of the record.
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was occasioned by the testimony of ].
Moore Elmer, superintendent of one of
the dredging companies, that, in his
opinion, the rates given on machinery
were reasonable Many merchants tes-
titled that falling off in population
and the exhaustion OF rich placers
made lower rates of freight necessary
Graves admitted that rebates had been
paid two years ago, but explained that
this was at the instance of Dawson
dealers, who asked to be protected
against the threatened underwriting by
the Lower Yukon transportation COM
panies.
The fact was brought out that 10
per cent of the new stock annually Is
sued for three years had been ac-
cepted by the stockholders of the road
in lieu of dividends; also that several
subordinate companies had been organ
ized under the control of one company
in London.
Plenty OF low grade propositions in
the Tatlanika country. in the Tanana
region. are reported by the Fairbanks
News. According to the current re-
ports, 'one can in twenty minutes make
a discovery, as 1T is only three feet to
bedrock. 1t is not the richest streak
in the world, but so far as it had been
developed it pays good enough money
to prevent those who have found it
from wandering away"
Two sales of mining properties on
Fairbanks Creek are reported by the
Tanana Miner. Five Below was sold
by George Poe for $4,000. Captain
Donald B. Oleson has sold all his in
terests in Two Above for $4,000. A
claim that was sold on the creek earlier
in the season for $4,000 is now reported
to be held at $4,000.