Jerome Mining News, 1897-11-06

Santa Fe Prescott & PH(Bnix Railway Comnany. WITH THE SANTA FE System. IS THE SHOKTEST AND QUICKEST ROUTE To Denver. Kansas City. St. Louis and Chi Chicago - cago Chicago and all Points East. j S. F., P. & P. Time Card No. 23, Effect I Augdat 12,1897. ; DAYS THROUGH TIME CARD DAYS Mon f 509 pi'Lv S Fra ne t co Ar j « 15 pjTuea Tues ,10 50 ttllv Mojave arj 3 45 ajTues lues' 70®a iv Han Diego, ur lld p Tues Tues 0 45a>v Los Angeles ar SBOa Tucs Tues 455 ptv Barstow art l lOajTuei Tues 11 0) p Hi The Needles ai!6 40 p:Mon Wed 2 15alv Kingman arTG h 7 p Mon Wed 7 lojh Ar Ash Fork Lvi 135 pi Mon. Mon ;1925 p'Lv Chicago Arj 9Mp(Wed Mon ;fl 80 jj'tv Bt. Louis ar ! 615 p' Wed Tues j 2 2-splv Kansas City ar| 705 a! Wed Tues 8 50plv Denver ar sUoplTue*; Wed !10 40plv Albuquerque ar! 10 25 p Mon Thur i 655 alv Holbrook ari 150 p; Mon ThuriStpalv Winslow ari 12 05 p Mon Thur 10 50a lv Flagstalf arllO 15auVlon Thur i lJOpj Ar Ash Fork Lv; 740 a!Mon Southbound Northbound Passenger Passenger STATIONS 311 2 I P 745 a 1 4.5 PiLe ASh Fork Ari 6 50a| 620 p 845 a 240 p| Rock Butte I 550 a 1 620 ri 950 a 335 pi Del Rio 450 a] 4 10 j. 1015 a 350 pi Jerome Junction j 4 28aj 350 p <>/,_ 445 pAr Prescott Lvi 835 a 506 pbv Prescott Ari 315 a! lu *' 1541 p fcumm't 2 12a Val'y 132 a 7 13 p Kirkland I 07 a 7 51 p Hillside 12 25 a 8 53 p Congress 10 43 a 9 42 p Wickenburgh 9 42 a 1014 p Vulture 910 a II 27 p Peoria 7 52 a ill 39 p Glendale 7 29 a 111 54 p Alhambra 716 a jlllspAr Phoenix l.vi 700 p * Dining station. The Scenic line of Arizona. Slxe best route to California. The only North and South line in Arizona to the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, Petri Fed Forest, Great Pine Forest, Cliff Dwellings. Great Salt River Valley and other points of interest. Through tickets to all points in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Nos. 1 and 2 connect at Jerome Junction with trains of United Verde & Pacific Rv. for Jerome. Connecting at Prescott with stage lines for all principal mining camps; at Con Congress - gress Congress Junction with Congress Gold Co. It. R. for Congress and scape lines for Harqua Hala station and Yameu. At Phoenix with M. & P. It. R. for points on the S. P. R. Itt, system, also with S. R. V. R. R. Trains for California leave Ash Fork at 1:35 p. m., arriving in Los Angeles next morning at 8:30 and San Francisco same evening at 6:15. Train for the es.st leaves Ash Fork at 7:40 a. m. GEO. M. SARGENT, Gen'l Ft. and Pass Agent. Prescott, Ariz. F. M. MURPHY, Prew's and Gen. Man'gr., .... xu. ft * Prescott, Aris.

a solid base of same materia!, and ia t 3 j be an imposing structure that will marV ' tho grave of Tombstone's founder and. pioneer. The actual cost of the monu monument - ment monument will be about $1,009,, John Zehfii g. a Colorado mining man, has recently secured near Wiokenberg,, an option on a very promising copper property, owned by R. A. Roberts. The> latter is developing the claim for M .. Zehring, and is sinking a shaft five by seven in solid ore. An experimental? shipment of a car load of ore has been made from the mine to Denver, and if the returns are satisfactory, regular ship, meats of from one to tw r o car loads per. week will be made. The Lost Squaw, says the Yuma Suil,. is proving almost all that legend claims for it. McC.irroll & Snyder, who each own a one-six? h interest in the group in included - cluded included in the title gained by the mj'steri mj'sterious - ous mj'sterious disappearance of Reginald Gray's Indian wife, have recently returned from doing assessment work on their proper properties. - ties. properties. and they are all wrought up with excitement - in fact, the ore they brought io justifies their enthusiasm. It carries both copper s nl gold - probably twenty twentyfive - five twentyfive per cant of the form r, while it i« literally plastered with gold, which, un unfortunately, - fortunately, unfortunately, is of a 1 ght flaky character. The gold is free milling- Development fourteen feet ten feet down. It is still widening very rapidly. The ore all carries gold, but about four feet, blue iu color, is very rich in both copper and gold. The balance of the iedge matter is a red oxide, so soft that it ui;*y be crumb crumbled - led crumbled in the hand, which when done, and the rock bl >w'n out, leaves many particles of shiuing gold distinguishable to the niket eye. The principal work has been done on the Queen, where 200 or 300 tons of ore was taken out by the original i discoverers hundreds of years ag

THE PROSPECTOR. Why He Should Study and Follow Well Known Principles. Everybody knows that some metals have more specific gravity than others and that most metals have a greater spe specific - cific specific gravity than the gar.gue or rocky substance with which they are associated in the veins or lodes, says T. J. Boltz in the Pick and Drill, and it is also self evident that the first object of the mine operator is to get rid of the gangue and at the same time save the values of met*, als. Inasmuch then as the lighter sub substances - stances substances will float more readily thin the heavier ones, the question then is, and it is the only question worthy of serious consideration - wh.it is the cheapest thing that can be used to float the lighter sub substances, - stances, substances, or in other words, what will separate the metals from the gangue to the cheapest and best advantage 1 And the answer is - nothing will do this better than water, besides, it is cheaper than anything else that will do the work. In Inasmuch - asmuch Inasmuch then as wo have learned to mine the oi'e. and inasmuch as we have learn learnhow - how learnhow to crush and pulverize the ore after it is mined, why not do the most practi practical - cal practical thing and separate the gangue from the metals with water? The whole affair in a nutshell is - he certain that you have ore - next, be certain that you know how to mine it and bring it to the surface at the least possible expense; if you do not know how to do this, be certain to en engage - gage engage a man who doss know how to do it. When the ore is miped be certain to .pro

Mil NEWS! Speaking of the cost of producing cop copper - per copper and its bearing upou the future of the copper market, a mine official says: >4 lu my opinion it wifi be impossible to muck muckfurther - further muckfurther reduce the cost of mining copper. The system now has reached an almost perfect state,and experiments which have been mane recently with a view to still further reducing the coat of mining, by using higher explosives, have proved valueless. We have tried high explosives, but find that the results are far from satis satisfactory - factory satisfactory as Compared with lower grade ex explosives, - plosives, explosives, inasmuch as a smaller quantity of rock is displaced by the higher grades, than by the lower grades. The force of the high-grade explosives, undoubtedly, is much greater, but is expended so quickly that it does not perform as much work as do the low-grade explosives. If the cost of electrical power could be cheapened, it would make considerable difference to mines like tho Tamarack, for instance, where a vertical shaft is sunk, say 5,000 feet, theft changed to follow the incline of the lode. The dan danger - ger danger from fire and the physical and me mechanical - chanical mechanical difficulties are too great to in install - stall install a steam plant a mile under ground, and compressed air cannot he used for hoisting from great depths. Possib'y the future may develop a oheaper electrical 1 power, but, until it does, the cost of min mining - ing mining copper, or of handling a ton of rock, will not be materially reduced from pres present - ent present

to prove the presence of some or all of the base metals Inasmuch then as gold is a very scarce metal in nature, and in - asmuch as there is more silver than gold, and more lead than both silver than gold, and more iron than there is gold, silver and lead, and inasmuch as there is a very great amount of copper in nature, and inasmuch as there is some zinc, some nickel, some cobalt and many other met , als and metallic subatanc-s in nalure and j inasmuch as they are all valuable and of USB to man, why not discard all the old worn out processes, such ns amalgama amalgamation, - tion, amalgamation, lixiviation, roasting and return to nature - that is, to gravity and water,and with the steam j ; g or the hand ]g, or bffh, save all the values of every kind and character fouud in nature's mineral or metal deposits, leads and lodes? It is easy to do; it is practical to do it and it is irue economy to do it, besides it i 3 the only money making method of doing it. It is not always the fault of the mine or the want of ore, for as a matter of fact in nine cases out of every ten or failures, the ore is present but the owner of the mine for want of knowledge of how to save the values he has in the ore, sllows fiom forty to sixty per cent of the values to escape in the talings and then allows them to go to wasie. What we have learned about nature Had practical mining UP, to date -wa nt>w the different kinds of metals and metallic substances when we see them; we know their values and different uses; we know their gravity; wc know that we cannot have a mine without ore; we know how

GENERAL MINING NOTES. Phoenix is apathetic on the fmeltee quest it n. Ah explosion in the Grand Central tniue, at Minas Prictas, Mexico, killed IS miners. At Sk guay silver is so scarce that & S2O gold piece has been given for nine nineteen - teen nineteen silver dollars in change. The steamer Excelsior arrived at San Francisco the otder day bringing no dust from Klondyke. A mine own>r at Dawson Cty has issued a public notice that the wages of minors would be cut down to $lO per day. The price of flour and beaus, how - ever, remains the same. The Yukon river is one of the larg efc in the world A man standing on its biink 150 miles from its mouf.b c mnot see the other bank. The river is twenty miles wide 700 from its mobth. With it* tributaries it is navigable 2,500 miles. It is large chan the Danube, the La Pla ; a, and it discharges one-third more water than the Mississippi. The water is fresh fifteen miles from its mouth, tt has more gold in its basin than any other river, i-a color is beautifully blue to its junction with the with the White river 1,100 miles above its mouth. It is not possible to definitely state which is the ''biggest and most profitable gold mine in America/' whe e there are many good one 3, but El Oro, 100 milea from the City of Mexico, is near the top of the list of those that might be men mentioned - tioned mentioned in the connection. Seven-teutha of the stock of El Oro is owned by J. B. Haggiu and Marcus Daly, the remaining 30 per cent, being held in Londou. The mine is now paying a profit of $400,006 per month.

to mine it when we have i : ; we know how to crush or pulverize the ore after it is mined; we know that when the ore is crushed that if we agitate it properly that the teudency is for the heavier parti particles - cles particles to sink, while the lighter wiil rise to the surface, and, that if we will use wat- r to assist in floating the lighter particles from the heavier, that in time and with proper agitation and the use of water we can rid ourselves of the light and worth worthless - less worthless rocky subst .nies or gangue and tint when this is done we have nothing left except the valuable substances, and that we can sell those in any m ark at. What else have we to learn about mining? The answer is, nothing Why then are not all mining enterpr'2bs and ventures a sue cess? The answer is, because we do not practice what we know. Nature is not at fault. What then is the trouble? The whole difficulty is be because - cause because man will not obey his observation, practice what ho knows, or in other words, will not harmonize himself and his industry, raining with nature. Of oourae, in additiou to the above, there are men engaged in mining who do not i know and understand these things and it is only natural that such men must fail. We educate and prepare ourselves f.r any occupation or calling, except m : mng. We ought to prepare ourselves in this as well as in the business affairs of life and if we fail to do this, then it u our fault and not the fault of the mining industry of nature.

The rich strike made 1 ist week at a depth of 150 feet on the Schuylk'U mine at Chloride still continues. The ore is worth $25 in gold and 1000 ounces in silver per ton. Besides the precious metals in tho Schuylkill ore, it carries a high per cent in lead. The Annie, the most extensively de developed - veloped developed of tho Providence Company's mines, in Yavapai county, is showing up in excel'ent shape. Toe shaft is now down 350 feet, with a strong, rich pav streak in the bottom and all the way down. The ledge is growing wider as depth is attained. The Baumann group of mines, four fourteen - teen fourteen claims, located in Agua Fria dis district, - trict, district, have been bonded to Philadelphia capitalists. The men interested are not noted - ed noted throughout the United States for their wealth, and will commence the ex extensive - tensive extensive development of the property about November 1 I. T. Stoddard is working quite a force of men developing his copper properties at Copper mountain, with excellent in dications for opening up a good mine as depth is attained. Considerable native copper has been encountered in the shape of nuggets imbedded in quartz, as well as ribbon copper in various parts of the mine. M. W. Jones with five stonecutters is at Tombstone to commence work upon the Ed SohiefMin monument. The monument is to be built of granite such as now surrounds the grave,; it is to have | aj>ede3tal of 25 feet heighth placed upon