Jerome Mining News, 1897-11-27

The Stafford M Hing company has an estimate of the grain raised in the Gila valley, Arizona, this year, 5.300,000 pounds of wheat and 2,000,000 of bar'ey. Wheat is now selling at §1.25 per cen cental - tal cental and barley at SIOO. W. G. Press, a Chicago mining man, operating a steam stamp mill of ten tons capacity per day on the Storm Cloud group of mines in Maple Gulch, and is said to be well pleased with the results. G. A. Kirtley, who has been in Clark district for years, is now shipping ten tons of ore from one of his mines. On recent teats made his ora give returns of $lO3 as the lowest and &J.U as the high highest - est highest per ton in gold. Twenty-four inches of S4O ore in the Thorn shaft and twenty-six inches of S6B ore in the Aztec mine is the latest report from the Sun Dunce group near Prescott. The last car of concentrates shipped ran $l5B per ton. The assertion is again made with con considerable - siderable considerable positiveness that the Le Rio, B. C., mine was sold in London, this week tor $5,000,000, "to the Roths Rothschilds," - childs," Rothschilds," aa usual. Last week the Rio Tinto Co., were the reputed purchasers. O. A. Marshall and W. D. Hall have located the Bryan mining claim in Has Hassayampa - sayampa Hassayampa district. The claim is no doubt expeeted to turn out silver and gold at the ratio of 16 to J, without the consent or interference of any other mine. Malcolm McLeish, it is stated, has about completed working the tailings of the old Vulture mine by the cyanide process. He is said to have made a clean up of a nice little competency on his work. The tailings proved to be very rich and easilly worked. Stock of the Copper King of Arizona has taken unother shoot upward. This time a rise of 30 cents a share is an announced, - nounced, announced, making the stock now worth 50 cents a share. This property is fast coming to the front, andwill ere long be listed among the metal producers of the world.

Judge Allen of the district court of Denver has rendered a very important decision to the effect that the Colorado law providing for the seizure and con confiscation - fiscation confiscation of gambling property is n vio violation - lation violation of the statutes of the United States, which says that no person shall be deprived of bis propeity without due process of law. He also said that the state constitution contained the same provision in substance. It will soon ba necessary to appoint a guardian for the law, as it does not seem to be able to take care of itself. The San Francisco papers announce that the hading mining and business men of that city promise to try and work up a boom in mining. For one thiug ic la proposed w estaon-Sh a headquarters and bureau of mining in information - formation information in that city. Effort* are to be made to induce the press of the entire state to say more about sr- Id mining, and in any way that may be open, to advertise more widely this state's mining interests and San Francisco as a great depot of mining supplies. At a recent meeting, the main proposition discussed was one of getting up £a semi-centennial celebration of the discovery of gold in C diforuia. The extract below appears in an article written by Henry G. Tinsley and pub published - lished published in Harper's Weekly - "ln three months Randsburg changed from a desert waste to as lively a mining town as there is in the world. It has grown faster than even Tombstone in 1879, for iu these days there was no rui road com munication to aid in a rapid growth of the mining towns. Whether Rmdsburg will grow to the importance cf either Cripple Creek or Leadville depends upon the continued success of the newly found prospects there and the finding of water among the mountains away off to the north in sufficient quantity to operate the mines economically."

A Joseph Ladue, who struck it rich in the Klondyke was robbed of ,S7OO worth of nuggets iu a Chicago depot the other day. The gold was in a bug in his overcoat pocket, and theif managed to secure it while Ladue was walking from his train to the depot door. There is no trace of the pickpocket. From the north to the south and from the east to the west of Graham county new mines are being looated each week. The hills are full of prospectors drawn here by discoveries made heretofore. It was thought several months ago that every particle of mineral bearing earth in Lone Star district had been located, but reports come in from there continually of new discoveries. The miners of the Carmen district of Coahuila propose to construct a highway to Presidio de Sin Vicente on the Rio Grande for the transportation of their ores. The installation of an aerial cable line across the river to American soil is part of the programme, and the South Southern - ern Southern Pacific is building a branch from Marathon station to the river in order to haul the ore to the smelters at El Paso, Socorro, Argentine and other points. A great gold strike has been made on Upper Sag creek. A ledge of quartz ex extending - tending extending for many miles and running SIOO to the ton has been discovered and the people in that part of the state are wild with excitement, The little town of Utica has been almost deserted by the male inhabitants, who have staked out the whole surrounding country. It is reported that from any part of the Great Ledge rock can be broken that runs SIOO or more to the ton. Some of the excited prospectors have gone to work with plows and scrapers to uncover the voin.

GENERAL MINING NEWS! THE KLONBYKE LIAR' We want to go to Klondyke; we want to fuss around. Where there are ohunks and chunks of gold that coverall the ground; We want. It so when Willie dear shall stub hts little toe, Wa'll have to dig the matal out before the skin can grow, We want it so our wives cnn take their fry frying - ing frying pans and walk, And fill them up with gold meanwhile - Oh! that's the stuli to talk! We want it so that any day we may steen thousand strike. The way that everybody does up there in rich Klondyke. We want it so that when we eat - you notice how I shout, We'll have to pick out dratted teeth to get the nuggets out; We yearn to live a little while, although they say it's cold, Where the common chairs are gilded and the rockers are pure gold, We want to be a "Klondyke King" and with the monarch stand, A crown upon our foreheads, and a harp ot gold in hand; We long to have a rim of gold on our most common bike, The way that everybody does, up there in rich Klondyke. We want to fael as they have felt, who "rastled" with the ground. And every shovelfull we dug a cool five hun hundred - dred hundred found. And when a midnight burglar cbmes, we'd like to him to say; 'dust dig awhile In my back yard and carry the stuff away." Oh! I tell you there's felicity and yellow joy galore Up where the people pick up gold until they want no mere; And we long to hurry northward and see what the country's like Where people stumble over gold up there In rich Klondyke. Fresno Republican.

At the meeting of the stocklioldera of the P. & P. Ry. last week, the following were elected a board of directors: F. M. Murphy, D. M. Ferry, C. C. Bowen, G. W. Kretsinger, N. K. Fairbank. Simon J. Murphy, Robert McCurdy, Jay Morton, W. C. Bashford. While miners' wages in California rule as high, and in some instances higher than elsewhere, there are no more $4 per day jobs, the usual price now paid being from $2.50 to $3 per day. The Comstock, Nevada, and some Butte. Montana, mines still pay $4 per day. "Jack" MiQuester, "the father of the whocame down from there re recently - cently recently has sold a claim on Minook creek for $50,000, and one on El Dorado for the sum of $150,000, and left for New York eity last week to organize a mining company to work in Alaska next season A. D. Lewis of the Mountain View Viewmine. - mine. Viewmine. Mt. Union, reports he has 80 feet of development work showing a twelve inch vein of unusually rieh free gold ore The ore is fa>rly knitted together with wire gold, which projects from the sur surfaee - faee surfaee in glittering array. This ore is said to be worth about $40,000 per ton. John Meador, an employe at the Con Congress - gress Congress mine, a prctical miner, whose ob observations - servations observations on mining matters are of value, says that at a depth of 1,325 feet a coss-cut is being run to strike a large body of ore that is known to exist. A vein of high grade sulphutets 'has been encountered, which in itself is sufficient

was purchased from the Ojo Negro Mining company. The Goddart mines have a large force of men employed erecting the ten stamp mill and preparing for handling the ore from the mine. A. H. Hackney, the senior editor of the Globe Silver Belt, celebrated his eighty second birthday Oct. 31. He has spent more than 50 years in journalism. The government of New Zealand has purchased the McAuthor-Forest cyanide patents, for the public welfare, subject to the approval of parliament, for the sum of $150,000. B. M. Belcher and B. H. Smith have Irased and bonded for $5,000 the Maric Twain mine, Hassayampa district, from N. Levy L. Wollenburg, 'N. Gable and Jack McDonald. Mining in the Tombstone district is quiet owing to the low price of silver, but the Dragoon mills, Whetstones, Huachacas and Chiricahuas mountains are reported to be full of prospectors. There is a terrible fire raging in the lower workings of the Smuggler mine at Aspen, Col. If it becomes necessary to flood the Smuggler and Mollie Gibson it will shut down every mine in the camp. Klondyke ore funs about S7OO fine; California gold goes sometimes as high as 925 fine. Probably the purest native gold is from the Mount Morgan, Aus Australia - tralia Australia mine, which has gone as high as ' 987. Frograss is being made at Cripple creek in the construction of the electric tramway, which is intended to connect | the principal mines with the railway shipping stations and the local reduction j works.

Pearce. Travel to Pearce is on the increase these days, the stage every day bring bringin - in bringin several passengers The building boom continues, houses are going up all the time and the place is assuming the proportions of a thrieving western min mining - ing mining town. Everything looks very en encouraging - couraging encouraging about the camp. The Gold Cliff mining company has a new superin superintendent - tendent superintendent in charge. Fred Hewitt, the old force of men has been discbargid and arrangements are being perfected to carry on the work on an extensive scale Considerable develpment work has been dene on Monmonier's mine. A shaft has beet) sunk 170 feet from which a drift has been started in a westerly direction. Tne ore extracted thows a milling test of 122 ounces, the total value being $142 a ton. The Common Commonwealth - wealth Commonwealth company is increasing the eapac eapacity - ity eapacity of its mill to handle their second secondclass - class secondclass ore, their first class ore being daily shipped away for treatment elsewhere. They have also commenced the erection of works to prepare the ore for cyanide treatment. The camp is a quiet one, very little ruffanism, and the rough element well subdued, Cochise county sets great store by Pearce, and expects much from that camp in the uear future.

GENERAL MINING. It is rumored that Spreckels Bros, have taken hold of the Yuma railroad scheme and intend to carry it to a finish. As compared with twenty-five years ago, forty per cent more gold can now be extracted from the same ore at a less cost of thirty per cent. R. W Thompson, whois well-known iu mining circles, was committed to the insane asylum at Napa, C«I. His mind is hopelessiy wrecked through reverses. B W. Rice, of Milford Utah, has filed the first papers toward getting a patent on a flour-gold machine. The principle is just contrary t® that existing in the mind of every old time placer miner. Rich ore is by no means synonymous with large profits. The character of the ore, thes-eizcof the vein, the situation of the mine, the water supply are now the chief factors in what is purely a com commercial - mercial commercial problem. The Colorado mining men are excited over the reported formation of a smelter trust, and have organized to oppose the attempted r* gulation of the prices of smelting ores. There is much bitterness manifested on both sides. Glass sand has been discovered in large quantities in Antelope Valley by E. M. Hamilton of East Los Angeks. The sand is a very fine grade and promises to be quite a factor in the manufacturing industries of Southern California. The gross output from the Coeur