Nevada Nugget Hunters

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for DECEMBER 15, 1930 ARIZONA

New mine locations have been filed with the county recorder, at Globe, Arizona, following the announcement of an important ore strike on the Goldenrod No. 1 Claim, of the Pat Savage Property, by Frank D. Rivera. The Pat Savage holdings, located about 10 miles southeast of Globe, are held by Rivera, under lease and option. The ore is said to assay 11 percent copper, $38 in gold, and 10 ounces of silver, per ton, across a four-foot ledge, which was uncovered in an abandoned shaft, at a depth of 70 feet. Plans are being made to start monthly consignments to the International Smelter, at Inspiration, Arizona. Two new claims, which have been filed on, are the Margarita No. 1, and the El Mono, both located in the Banner Mining District.
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Thomas Smart, for many years actively engaged in mining operations in Yavapai County, Arizona, has taken an option on the Al Irvine Claims, in the vicinity of the Vulture Mine, at Wickenburg, according to current announcement. The Irvine Claims, 11 in number, are known as the Vulture Extension property. The option is said to involve $75,000.
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The United American Mining Company, of Oatman, Arizona, has issued a call for a shareholders’ meeting to be held on or about December 20, for the purpose of reorganizing the company along broader financial lines. Under the new plan, it is proposed that shareholders of the present organization be given one share of the new corporation stock for ten of the old. This is on a basis of 10 cents a share for the old stock, the new issue to have a par of $1.
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J. E. Russell and R. B. Westervelt, of Prescott, Arizona, have filed articles of incorporation for the Bell Gold Mining Company, with the Arizona Corporation Commission. The concern has a capital stock of $750,000.
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Current reports state that Van Dyke Copper Company, of Miami, Arizona, is continuing shipments of high-grade, although development work is centered on its low-grade resources. The company has been consigning an average of 80 tons of high-grade, to the International Smelter, daily. Cleve W. and L. D. Van Dyke are the principals of the organization.
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T. Tindall and E. Krona are sinking a new shaft on a mining claim located half a mile southeast of the Tombstone Extension Mine at Tombstone, Arizona. A windlass has been installed, and the shaft is now down past 25 feet.
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Parties of Prescott, Arizona, leasing the Louis Craeber mining Claim at Octave, Arizona, have completed a new road to the property. It is expected that development work will follow.
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Official announcement has been made by President Gordon R. Campbell, of Calumet & Arizona Mining Company, that “the prospective merger of Phelps Dodge, and Calumet & Arizona, will not be completed for a year, and possibly may never be completed.” Prospect of this combination has been watched with keen interest throughout the mining industry during the past year, and especially since the recent acquisition of Nichols Copper, and National Electric Products, by Phelps Dodge.
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Directors of the New Cornelia Co-operative Mercantile Company have authorized payment of a rebate of 15 percent to employees of the New Cornelia Mines, at Ajo, Arizona, on all purchases for the period from December 1, last year, to November 30, this year. Payment will be made on December 20, to employees who were on the payroll September 1, 1930, and who are still on the payroll at the date of payment. In addition to employees of the mining company, and the New Cornelia Mercantile Company, employees of the Tucson Cornelia & Gila Bend Railroad Company, the Ajo Improvement Company, and the Employees’ Benefit Association, are also included in the profit-sharing plan.
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The United Verde Extension Mining Company of Jerome, Arizona, George Kingdon, Manager, has let the contract for sinking of the 500-foot, three-compartment shaft on the Vulture Property, at Wickenburg, Arizona, to A. B. Peach, of Prescott. Camp facilities are rapidly being put in shape for a proposed $600,000 program of development. About 30 men are employed in rebuilding the camp. New houses are being built for the miners, old buildings are being rehabilitated, and new equipment installed to speed sinking of the shaft. Foundations are, at present, being constructed for placing of the compressor and hoisting plant. It is understood that the mill on the property, may later be reconditioned. This work is being carried out under the supervision of D. R. Finlayson, Manager of the Vulture Mining & Milling Company, the former operators.
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Report of a second sensational gold ore strike in the Covered Wells District, in Southern Arizona has been reported made by Richard Ballas, of 2245 East Third Street, Tucson. The new find, estimated to run as high as $50,000 per ton, is on the Red Rock Claims, near the point where gold ore, running $68,000 per ton, was discovered by Newt. Meadows, last February. Ballas recently acquired the property under lease and bond, from Newt. Meadows, Keith Knight, Joseph A. Hunter, and K. G. Manley, of Tucson. The extent of the new find has not yet been determined.
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It has been announced that Calumet & Arizona Mining Company will reduce its copper production, between 14 and 15 percent, from the present schedule of approximately 7,500,000 pounds per month. Output had been running around 7,500,000 pounds since April. Harry A. Clark, of Warren, Arizona, is company manager.
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Victor Hoffman, 1515 East McDowell Road, Phoenix, has a crew of workmen engaged at the Oak Creek Placers, near Prescott, Arizona, building the first of a series of water dams. Mr. Hoffman has taken over William Hugget’s interest in this property.
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The Calzona Mining & Milling Company, Charles A. Dutro, President and Manager, 685 I. W. Hellman Building, Los Angeles, recently shipped by truck, to its mine at Arivaca, Arizona, a 1,160-cubic-foot air compressor, necessary rock drills, and steel, and an 1.800-g.p.h. duplex pump. This equipment is to be used in sinking the shaft from the present 200-foot Level, to 300 feet, where another level will be opened. Drifting is at present being carried out on four feet of milling ore on the 200 Level. A recent assay from the face of the drift, returned $5.60 per ton in gold, with other minerals bringing the value to $12 per ton.
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First machinery for the 50-ton milling plant, to be installed for the Boriana Mining Company, at its Yucca, Arizona, tungsten property, is expected to reach the mine by the middle of the month, and as soon as excavation work is completed, erection of the plant is to be put under way. The management, supervised by L. B. Rece, expects to have the plant in operation within the next 90 days. The raise from the 1,500-foot point in the tunnel, has reached above the fault, and is reported now in ore of excellent grade. Boriana development has reached a point more than 2,000 feet from the portal, and a large tonnage of tungsten ore is now open for production. The road from the valley highway, to the mine, is being widened and improved, and will soon be in shape for the transportation of new equipment to the property.
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Notice has been given that certain property of the Mercury Mines of America, Inc., situated in the Slate Creek Mining District, of Gila County, Arizona, was to be sold at public auction at the Courthouse in Globe, Arizona, at 10:00 a. m., November 29. It is claimed that this is to satisfy a judgment rendered Wesley Gaswick and the Old Dominion Bank, in the amount of $3,040.35, together with costs.
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Three miles east of Octave, Arizona, the Emerson Mining Company, operating property formerly known as the old Bee Hive Mine, has its 100-ton mill nearly completed, new camp equipment installed, and other improvements made, looking toward extensive development-production work. Water is obtained from the main shaft, which was sunk by former operators, to a depth of 250 feet. The shaft was reported flooded half full of water after the running of a crosscut toward the hanging wall ore streak. It is understood that this property has a substantial tonnage of high-grade milling ore. R. R. Weaver, with headquarters in the Homebuilders’ Building, Phoenix, is Secretary-Treasurer of the Emerson organization.
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At Camp Verde, the Arizona Chemical Company of which R. A. Asbury is Manager, is mining its sodium sulphate property, at the rate of 200 tons per day. This material is found in strata, varying from a few inches in depth to several feet. Operations are at present, being pushed forward on a surface area, running five feet deep. A shaft has been sunk 100 feet, where another deposit of the sodium sulphate has been encountered, and when the material on top is mined out, work is to be transferred to greater depth.
It is understood that by a process of elimination, dating from the first work done on the property, a fairly cheap method of mining has been worked out. Tunnels are driven into the hill at the same depth as the strata of sodium sulphate, the material between the tunnels, then being removed, with the exception of pillars that support the roof. Some work is also being done at other points on the property, with steam shovels and dump trucks.
As the sodium sulphate is removed from the workings, it is taken to a dryer and washer, where it is cleaned for consignment to Eastern markets. The payroll at the Arizona Chemical property varies with the amount of work outside, and of mining to be done. The average number of men employed is about 55. This does not include contractors engaged in hauling production to the railroad at Clemenceau, or those hauling supplies to the camp.
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New equipment has been reported installed, and work again started, on the old Johnson Mining Property, four miles north of Octave, Arizona, recently taken over by new interests. It is understood that it will be necessary to build about two miles of road, before extensive work can be undertaken.
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Machinery installation at the Gunsight Mine, 16 miles east of Ajo, Arizona, is progressing satisfactorily, and the new 50-horsepower oil engine and air compressor, are to be in operation in about 10 days. Equipment for the 50-ton flotation plant is now on the ground, it is stated, and foundations for its installation are about complete. Power for the mill will be furnished by a 120-horsepower Diesel engine. Six hundred feet of air and water lines have been run down into the mine, for operation of the drills. The well and pumping plant, located at Wall’s Well, five miles from the mine, have been put in condition, and water is now being supplied the property. This enterprise is backed by the Walter S. Wheeler interests, with offices at 1626 Dime Bank Building, Detroit, Michigan. J. D. Mitchell, Mining Engineer of Chandler, Arizona, is supervising the work.
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A definite plan of development for Big Jim Mines, Inc., is promised as the result of a recent property visit at Oatman, Arizona, by President A. G. Keating. Mr. Keating and Superintendent Jno. W. Henderson, made an exhaustive examination of the various workings, which have been repaired, and put in shape, and it is expected that development will now be started at an early date. It is understood that diamond drilling will play an important part in the company’s program.
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Directors of Phelps Dodge Corporation have placed stock of the company on a $2 annual basis, compared with $3 previously paid, by declaring a quarterly dividend of 50 cents per share, payable January 2, to stock of record December 13. Phelps Dodge is next to the last of the larger copper producers to reduce its dividend rate, since prices broke last spring. Howe Sound Company, operating in Mexico, and Canada, is the last of the larger copper companies still retaining its old dividend rate.
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A recent report of President L. C. Shattuck, revealed that despite the fact that Shattuck-Denn Mining Corporation has ceased production, with the exception of its development ores, the property has been established as one of the most promising and profitable producers of the Bisbee District. Development of the mine’s resources will be carried on during the period of lighter production, and this will be supplemented by a program of diamond drilling. One of the main features stressed by Mr. Shattuck, in his report, was the lowering of production costs from 12.5, to 8.9 cents, a pound. There were 3,563,019 pounds of copper produced from the Denn Mine, during the first six months of 1929, he stated. This copper was produced at a cost of 12.5 cents a pound. In the last half of the year, production had increased to a point double that of the first six months, or 7,167,032 pounds of copper, this resulting in the lowering of operating costs to 8.9 cents a pound. On the Ophir Claim, the company recently found good commercial ore, which gives promise of developing substantial tonnage. To the East and South of the shaft, commercial ore was also encountered, and during the coming development program, work will be carried on extensively in these areas.
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Notice of sheriff’s sale on foreclosure, scheduled for December 16, in Prescott, Arizona, has been published on property of the Hassayampa Placer Gold Mining Company, located in the Picacho Mining District, of Yavapai County, Arizona. It is claimed that this is to satisfy a judgment obtained against the company, by C. B. Broan, in the amount of $1,900, together with interest and other accrued costs.
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Word has been received that stockholders of the Arizona Commercial Mining Company, at a recent meeting in Portland, Maine, approved sale of the company’s mine and equipment at Globe, Arizona, to Old Dominion Company, for $20,000. The company’s Globe property is being closed down as completely worked out, by Arizona Commercial officials. However, it is understood that the management has been inspecting various other mine holdings in the West, with the idea in view of locating a property at which to continue operations.
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The recent awarding of contracts revealed the fact that copper and brass are to be used extensively in construction of the $300,000 Cochise County Courthouse, to be put up at Bisbee, Arizona. Copper will be used in every instance possible, and brass will be used in all heating pipes. In all ornamental work, bronze has been substituted for iron, as called for in the original bids. Bronze will be used in window trimmings.
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Stockholders of the United Republic Gold Mines Company, met November 15, at the offices of L. L. Wallace, in Kingman, Arizona, for the purpose of discussing reorganization of the concern. In the plans for the new organization, it was proposed that the new stock be issued at $1 par, and that the old issue be replaced on a basis of ten to one. However, it is understood that no real conclusion for new plans has yet been reached. The United Republic, of which P. L. Mullen is President, is the owner of the Century Mine, in the Wallapai Mountains, near Kingman, as well as a group of mines near Oatman, Arizona.
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The mill of the Tom Reed Gold Mines Company, Oatman, Arizona, continues to handle around 100 tons of ore, daily, from company operations, with offerings from leases running about 45 tons per day. This tonnage may be somewhat cut during the next few weeks, on account of practically all the developed ore of the Siders Lease, having been stoped out and sent to the mill, with only a small tonnage of clean up remaining, before commencing opening of the oreshoot, at a lower level. The Eyster-James Lease, below the Siders, is now producing a goodly tonnage of $25 ore. Lessees plan to shortly drive a 60-foot drift from the old Stony Shaft, with the expectation of cutting an oreshoot 50 feet below the old level. The Tom Reed Company is continuing its crosscut on the 1,100-foot Level, toward the Aztec Vein, at a satisfactory daily rate, and is now reported over half way of the estimated distance. A crosscut is also being driven to the same vein, on the 800 Level. Victor A. Light is in charge of Tom Reed development work.
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The mining camp of Walker, 15 miles southeast of Prescott, Arizona, again has a post office, after fervent protest when an order of abandonment was made several months ago, following curtailment of operations at the Sheldon Mine and mill. This settlement was first established in 1863, by Joe Walker.
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With capitalization of $500,000, the Lone Eagle Mines, Inc., of Globe, Arizona, has filed articles of incorporation with the Arizona Corporation Commission. The incorporators are W. W. McGart and Hannah C. McGart, of North Hollywood, California, and Graham Foster, of Globe.
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General Metals Merger, 1247 Dexter Horton Building, Seattle, Washington, is making provisions to increase its personnel from 6, to 31 individuals. E. A. Gabryel is President; W. J. Galbraith, Forbes Richard, A. H. Dougall, Jr., and Melville G. Henry, Vice-Presidents; and Paul C. Dubuar, Secretary and Treasurer. After the examination of many properties, five were selected and are either conditionally controlled or owned by the merger. They are: the Silver Cord Mine, Point Ashley, Alaska; the Lawrence property in Yavapai County, Arizona; the Alto property in Custer County, Idaho; the Boston American, and the Silver Creek Mines in Snohomish County, Washington; and the Bethania Mines in Mineral County, Nevada.
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UNITED VERDE EXTENSIONSTARTS WORK AT THE VULTURE

The United Verde Extension Mining Company of Jerome, Arizona, has let the contract for the sinking of a 500-foot, three-compartment shaft at the famous old Vulture mine at Wickenburg, Arizona. The contract was awarded to A. B. Peach, Prescott mining engineer, who expects to have the necessary equipment in place to permit the sinking to start, by the middle of the month. The United Verde Extension has acquired the Vulture property, under option, and is prepared to spend $600,000 in a proposed development program.

Thirty men are at present employed in rebuilding the old mining camp. New houses are being built for the miners, old buildings are being rehabilitated for use, and new equipment hauled in to speed sinking of the shaft. Foundations are at this time being constructed for placing of the compressor and hoisting plants. A 10-stamp mill is available at the property, which it is planned to later put in condition for treatment of development ore. However, should the ore vein give evidence of proving as extensive as estimates indicate, it is considered most likely that United Verde Extension will construct a new plant capable of handling .a large tonnage.

The shaft is being sunk at a point north of where the diamond drills were believed to have entered the main body of the original ore vein. It will be a three-compartment working shaft, two compartments to be ore-ways, with the other to be used as a man-way. The ore-way compartments will be four feet square. The other will be four feet by two feet, six inches.
Present work is being carried out under the able supervision of D. R. Finlayson, Manager of the Vulture Mining & Milling Company, former operators of the property. Mr. Finlayson’s experience and familiarity with Vulture ore, and its formation, gained through supervision of exploration and diamond drilling on the property, during the past three years, is expected to be of distinct advantage in United Verde Extension operations.

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BUREAU OF MINES PUBLISHES 2ND REPORT ON ARIZ. MINERALS

Indication that, despite low prices in the metal markets, Arizona is showing great progress in mining, is contained in a report on the mineral industries of the state by J. B. Tenney, recently released by the Arizona Bureau of Mines. This is the second report of this kind Mr. Tenney has supplied for publication, the first bulletin having been issued in February, 1928.

In the report, Mr. Tenney states that not only have the large, established properties of the state reduced costs, making possible greatly increased reserves, but numerous smaller mines have entered the field as producers, and a still greater number of development companies are working towards production.

The location and description of the larger mining sections of the state are noted in the bulletin, and a list of the principal operating companies and their chief officials is given. A section of the report is devoted to each of the minerals produced within the state, including copper, lead, gold, silver, mercury, vanadium, manganese, tungsten, molybdenum, asbestos, clay, gypsum, feldspar, and onyx.

Arizona copper production for 1929, according to the report, exceeded any other year, with output of 883,525,000 pounds. Approximately 20,000 men were employed during the year in the copper producing sections of the state.
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DECEMBER 30, 1930

ARIZONA

On December 15, the Consolidated Steel Corporation, with offices at 1015 North Fifteenth Avenue, Phoenix, started the erection of a new hoist house, and a 20-ton cran, for Calumet & Arizona Mining Company, at Lowell, Arizona. This construction work is in connection with rehabilitation of the surface plant at the C. & A. Junction shaft.
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A. B. Peach, mining engineer of Prescott, Arizona, has been awarded the contract for sinking the three-compartment shaft on the Vulture property, at Wickenburg, Arizona, for United Verde Extension Mining Company, of Jerome. The shaft will be sunk 500 feet, for exploratory purposes, and the contract calls for the work to be started immediately.
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November copper production of United Verde Extension Mining Company, Jerome, Arizona, George Kingdon, Manager, ran 8,008,000 pounds. Production figures of the company show a steady decrease since August, with 4,028,000 pounds produced that month, 3,772,000 pounds in September, and 3,404,000 pounds in October.
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The Keppler, Hilton, Hasselgren Placer Company. has 25 men working placer ground near Clifton, Arizona, and is handling 1,500 yards of gravel daily. The company has installed a jig capable of handling 40 tons of fines daily, and has nearly completed installation of a large vibrating screen, capable of daily handling 200 tons of material. New equipment planned for installation, will include a dragline, two trommels, 500 feet of sluice boxes, a three-stamp mill, and three amalgamators. The company intends to construct a two-engine powerhouse, a general, and assay, office, and a bath house, all to be completed by February 1. With the new equipment, it is expected that capacity can be increased to 5,000 yards every eight hours. This proposition is backed by H. W. Hasselgren, of Tombstone, Arizona, President; Buster B. Keppler, of Morenci, Secretary and Manager; and J. L. Hilton of Tombstone, Consulting Engineer.
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Ore with values, running $1,860 per ton, is reported being extracted from the old Bland Gold Mine, 38 miles northwest of Hillside, Arizona, which is being operated by E. Brown, and A. C. Bozarth. Six tons of ore have been taken out of the mine, and the first consignment will soon be ready for shipment. The ore is coming from a 30-foot shaft put down by the late Jefferson Bland. Seven men are now employed in the workings.
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A merger of the Del Rey, Imperial, Western Apex, and Lexington-Arizona, mining properties is now in the making, with negotiations expected to be completed within 30 days. A number of Bisbee, Arizona, people are interested in the new program, that is to be inaugurated at the holdings, under the direction of Joseph Walker, of Oatman, President and Manager of the Del Rey Gold Mining Company. Work is to be started first on the Western Apex property, and later operations will be put under way at the other mines. The Lexington-Arizona, and Western Apex, were formerly controlled by the Imperial Mining Company, which organization undertook rather extensive development work during the past year.
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International Geophysics, Inc., of Culver City, California, is conducting a complete geophysical survey of the Copper State Metals Company’s property, near Mammoth, Arizona. The work is being carried out by C. H. Wilson, John W. Daly, and M. Sperling. Martin E. Tew, of Copper Creek, Pinal County, Arizona, is manager of the Copper States Metals Company.
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Shipment of two cars of material, by the Smithsonian Institution, to W. T. Roberts, at Puntenney, Arizona, and the arrival of a quantity of camp supplies from the coast, marks a definite step toward prospecting for radium ore in Yavapai County, Arizona. Mr. Roberts, who is representative for the institution in Arizona, has completed a road from Puntenney, to the site of operations, and expects. to commence diamond drilling at once, as well as open cut work. Operations in search of radium ore have been carried on by the Smithsonian Institution, in Colorado, Wyoming, and Nevada, with proven deposits in the former two states. [REHAB Notes: about 25 miles south of Las Vegas, to the east of I-15, roughly between Sloan and Jean, is a series of old volcano calderas, on the flank of which can be noted two cuts in black pumice like material; one closer to the road than the other one. These were sites known for nearly pure Radium, that was exploited in the 1930’s. No other radium lenses were located in the area.]
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J. L. Mclver, of Phoenix, has lately been at Oatman, Arizona, making preparations to start the old Telluride Mine, on a campaign of development. New work is to be done largely below the 600 Level, plans having been outlined for the sinking of a winze from that level, to a depth of 800 feet, with considerable development laterally. There is a milling plant on the property, which needs only a few minor adjustments to be ready for operation, and it is stated that the shaft is equipped with hoisting facilities capable of carrying development below the 1,000-foot level.
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W. E. Little, of Los Angeles was recently in Prescott, Arizona, looking over various mining properties, in the interest of the Kingman Refining & Smelting Corporation, of which he is an official. The Kingman Refining & Smelting Company is interested in the smelting of vanadium ores, and controls output of the KaaJa Mining & Milling Company, of Mohave County, Arizona. Kaaba ore contains gold, silver, and lead values, in addition to vanadium, and the smelting corporation was compelled to equip a smelter especially built to handle ore of this character. The company has also equipped a refining plant for treatment of this production, and handles a limited amount of custom work.
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Wylie C. Pettis, accompanied by D. U. Beaver, was recently in Kingman, Arizona, from Long Beach, California, looking over the Pasadena Group of mines, which are under option to C. F. Robbins. Plans are understood now being put in shape to carry out the program of development started some months ago.
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The General Gold Mines, Inc., of Wilmington, Delaware, has applied to the Arizona Corporation Commission for a license, authorizing the concern to do business in Arizona, as a foreign corporation. The company has an authorized capital stock of $300,000. H. O. Hammond, Box 606, Tucson, has been named its fiscal agent in Pima County, Arizona, and L. G. Fahnestock of Tombstone, fiscal agent in Cochise County.
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Mining equipment, formerly in use at the Richardson Mine, in the Union Pass section of Mohave County, Arizona, has been sold to interests in Los Angeles. T. C. Slater of Kingman, Arizona, has been directing removal of the machinery, to the coast.
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The Giacoma Brothers are reportedly installing electric power at the Toughnut Mine, at Tombstone, Arizona. They operate the mine under lease.
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Secretary T. C. Miller reports that the Keystone Copper Mining Company, of Dragoon, Arizona, is at this time, overhauling its 300-ton milling plant, and getting everything at the mine in shape for future production. W. W. Craig is mill superintendent. The company is steadily continuing development work, principally through crosscutting and drifting. It has developed more than 250 feet of ore on the 500-foot Level, with the face of the crosscut still in ore. Nine men are employed at the Keystone camp.
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Sam Fields, Vice-president and Manager of the Fields Mining Corporation, reports that drifting is being undertaken on the 600 and 700-foot levels, of the company’s mine at Mammoth, Arizona, encountering good ore on both levels. A car of ore, a month, is being shipped to Douglas, from development work.
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The Spring Creek Leasing Company is steadily continuing its development-production program at its gold-lead property at Young, Arizona; the work requiring 12 employees. The property was equipped with a 50-ton milling plant several months ago. L. E. Foster, with headquarters in the Luhrs Tower Building, in Phoenix, is President and Treasurer of the company.
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The new three-compartment shaft having been completed to a depth of 500 feet, Christmas Copper Company of Christmas, Arizona, H. A. Rossell, Manager, is now driving a haulage drift to connect with old workings on the other end of the property. This new shaft is equipped with a 250-horsepower electric double drum hoist, and a steel headframe, formerly at the Iron Cap Mine, near Globe. The company also has plans for further development at depth, from both the No. 3 and No. 4 shafts. The mill, originally designed for 400 tons a day, is now handling 550 tons daily. Direct smelting ore swells the company’s daily production to around 695 tons. The Christmas payroll at present, totals 306 men. John A. Thorne is Mine Superintendent, and Samuel Knight is in charge of mill operations.
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C. H. Nelson has renewed the lease and bond under which he is developing the Paymaster copper claims, nine miles north of Phoenix. It is understood that Mr. Nelson has plans to soon start consignments of ore to El Paso. Assays of the ore show a return of 12.13 percent copper, and value of about $2 per ton, in both gold and silver. A 50-foot tunnel has been driven on the vein, which has also been exposed through a surface cut for about 20 feet. A shaft is to be sunk at the tunnel heading, which is directly beneath the surface cut. There are eight claims in the Paymaster group.
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A new hoist and compressor have been installed on the R. A. M. group of claims, at Tombstone, Arizona, owned by Russell J. Kohlen, J. D. Chadwick and John A. Kohlen. Three men are at present working on a 65-foot crosscut.
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Holdings of the Mercury Mines of America, Inc., situated in northern Gila County, Arizona, were, according to reports, recently sold for $6,100, to A. E. Richardson, at a public auction in Globe. It is claimed that the sale was held by Deputy U. S. Marshal J. F. McManis to satisfy a judgment of $3,040 in the recent court case of the Mercury Mines, against Wesley Goswick and the Old Dominion Bank, which was decided in favor of the defendants. The purchaser was represented at the sale by L. E. Foster, mining engineer of Phoenix.
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The Flux and Hardshell mines of the Richardson Real Estate, Mining & Commercial Corporation at Patagonia, Arizona, are being operated by lessees, who are shipping an average of about four cars of lead-silver ore per month. Nine men are employed in this work. E. F. Bohlinger of Patagonia, is Vice-president and acting manager of the Richardson organization.
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A comparison of records of United Verde Copper Company, W. V. DeCamp, manager, Jerome, Arizona, shows that the company’s operations are now requiring the services of 1,140 men, against 2,196 employed this time last year. Present production is running 2,000 tons daily.
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Articles of incorporation have been filed with the Arizona Corporation Commission, for the Consolidated Gold Mines Company, by C. W. Gabrielson, A. F. Sword, and John A. Campbell, of Bisbee, Arizona. Capitalization of the concern is fixed at $2,500,000.
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The Hartman Gold Mining Company plans to do 500 more feet of crosscutting on its property at Oatman, Arizona, early during the coming year; 1,160 feet having already been completed. New development is planned to connect with the Kokomo Shaft. The Hartman Company does not undertake regular development, a large part of the work being done under contract. H. O. Granberg, Algoma Building, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, is secretary and manager.
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Current reports from Prescott, Arizona, state that the Big Hill Mining Company, with properties on Date Creek, has purchased a new compressor, engine, and other mining equipment. This is said to be preparatory for immediate operation:
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President W. B. Twitchell, of the Verde Falls Gold Mining Company, has just purchased a complete outfit of prospecting equipment for work on the company’s properties in the Green Valley Mining District, near Payson, Arizona. This equipment is to be installed at the Gowan property, within the next 60 days. It includes a 40-horsepower Fairbanks-Morse engine, compressor, a hoist, capable of work to a depth of 500 feet, three jack-hammers, a complete blacksmith outfit, tracking, pipe, steel, etc. Two houses have also been made ready for employees. Mr. Twitchell is a Phoenix man, located at 144 North Second Avenue.
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Camp construction, and hoisting and compressor installations, are to take place in January, on the Santa Barbara group of claims, located six miles southeast of Amada, Arizona. This work is preliminary to sinking a shaft on the No. 1 Claim, and driving tunnels on both the No. 2 and No. 3 properties. A 25-ton semi-portable Southwestern flotation plant is proposed. A report has been made on the property by Colonel C. W. Steinman, of 1003 East Ninth Street, Tucson, who states that the ore is of a complex zinc blende, containing lead, copper, gold, and silver values. The property is owned by W. S. Stone of Boston, and associates.
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Magma Copper Company’s working force at Superior, Arizona, now totals 634 men, 426 of which are employed in the mine. The company has completed fully equipping its hospital, and has constructed nine new houses for employees. Two shafts are at present under construction.
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J. R. McDonald, 1741 West Jefferson Street, Phoenix, states that the Maricopa Chief Gold Mines Corporation, of which he is President and Manager, is to install a new gasoline hoist, compressor and drills, and construct two more buildings to house employees. A small building has already been built at the camp, and one mile of road has been constructed to the highway. An 80-foot incline shaft has been sunk on the property, and two drifts have been extended, at depths of 40 and 65 feet. It is planned to sink the shaft to a depth of 150 feet.
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The Tungsten Alloys Corporation has completed its 50-ton mill, at its Guijas Tungsten Mine, on the Ruby Star Route, near Tucson, Arizona, as well as the installation of considerable new mine equipment. A hoist and compressor have been installed, and a gallows frame and ore bin constructed at the shaft. Two additional ore bins have also been constructed at the adits. Superintendent Thomas L. Wells states that development work, at present under way, will eventually total at least 2,000 feet. A crew of 48 men is working.
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Shipments are to be started from the Gunsight Mining Company, at Ajo, Arizona, by January 1. Equipment for the 50-ton mill has been delivered at the property, and preparations are being made for its installation. Work in the mine is being centered upon general development of the ore bodies in sight. Ten men are employed under the direction of John D. Mitchell, Superintendent.
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The Lion Hill Gold Mining Company, of which Henry M. Sloan is Manager, has just completed installation of a Hendy rod mill, on its property at Parker, Arizona. J. P. Sebring of Tombstone was in charge of the installation. As soon as water can be obtained, the company will treat several thousand tons of ore, from the old Billy Mack Mine, and dump and dump ore from the Lion Hill Claim.
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Chester L. Proebstel, mining engineer in charge of operations of the Bunker Hill Arizona Mining Company, is installing a new 160-horsepower Diesel engine, and additional mining machinery, at the company’s properties at Sombrero Butte, Arizona, and is arranging for the installation of new milling equipment. A body of high-grade was lately encountered on the 400-foot level of the mine, and now that the new engine is almost ready for operation, plans are being made to sink to lower levels. At the same time that sinking is undertaken, the high-grade is to be mined from the upper levels. E. R. Anderson, 403 Arts Building, Vancouver, Washington, is managing the company’s financing program.
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A 20-stamp mill is being installed for operation at the Allison Gold Mine, near Tucson, Arizona, by the El Oro Mining & Milling Company, which was lately incorporated under the laws of Arizona. George Pearson, Jr., Secretary, states that the company intends to drift 400 feet, east and west, on the 625-foot Level of the mine, and to sink the shaft 200 feet further, to a depth of 825 feet. Plans have also been made for an 1,800-foot tunnel. George L. Dillard is in direct charge of the work as General Superintendent, and Art Worcester will have charge of mill operations. The company has offices in the Consolidated National Bank Building at Tucson.
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The Glenidick Mines Corporation, now operating a gold property at Kingman, Arizona, has plans for the installation of a 50-ton cyanide mill. At present three workmen are employed under the supervision of Homer Derrer, Manager. Glenidick has discontinued its operations near Florence, Arizona, due to the low price of the metals produced.
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Albert Thommesen has taken a $30,000 option on gold mining claims, belonging to W. W. Poindexter, of Globe, Arizona. A recent assay is said to have shown that value of ore from the property runs $12 per ton.
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The Hassayampa Gold Mining Company, Inc., is planning development work, which will continue until next spring on its properties, located 15 miles southeast of Kirkland, Arizona, at which time the company hopes to he in a position to install a mill. Gold is the predominating value on the property, although much of the ore shows some silver. Joe Serafini, Manager, reports a large tonnage of ore in sight on both the Gold Bug, and Gold Spring, properties. Present work is being directed toward driving south on the Gold Spring Vein, which is holding up most promisingly, and future work will be centered largely about this property. This work will consist of raising to the surface, a distance of 50 feet, followed by sinking the shaft, 150 feet below the tunnel level. It is then planned to drive north and south, 200 feet each way, this to be supplemented by two 100-foot raises.
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G. Warren Shufelt, industrial engineer of Los Angeles, lately arrived in Kingman, Arizona, via airplane, to attend a directors’ meeting of the Kingman Gold, Silver, Lead Merger Mines Company, which has taken over the O’Brien group of claims, 15 miles north of there. It is reported that financing of the property has been arranged, and that development will get under way within the next 60 days, plans having been made to sink a 500-foot shaft, with levels run, at intervals of 100 feet. Mr. Shufelt, who has headquarters at 3876 West Sixth Street, in Los Angeles, is manager of the company, and will be in complete charge of operations.
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The California-Arizona Copper Company, L. J. Soper, president and manager, 520 Luhrs Building, Phoenix, has installed a new power plant, and necessary mine equipment, at its Lion copper property, in the Agua Fria Mining District of Yavapai County, looking toward more extensive development work. Also, for work along this line, the old shaft has been re-timbered and the old workings made accessible. One shaft is down 307 feet, and another, 100 feet, with 205 feet of crosscutting. The ore varies from 2 to 40 percent copper, and carries approximately $3 in gold and silver, per ton. Future work will include extension of the crosscut and drifting on the veins exposed in the lower workings, after which additional sinking will be undertaken.
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New pumps and lumber arrived at Prescott, Arizona, the first of the month for the Midnight Test Mine, of the National Exploration Company, operating in the Groom Creek District. This company has been doing considerable construction work, in the way of a new boarding house, change rooms, bunkhouses, and other surface improvements. W. W. Linesba is Manager for the company.
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George Harley, in charge of mine holdings at Clifton, Arizona, which recently passed into the possession of the M. A. Hanna Company of Cleveland, has announced that work is soon to be started on core drilling the property. In fact, drilling is to be put under way as soon as the necessary equipment can be moved into the district, and it is hoped that active work can be started at several points on the old Lesinsky Property within the next week or two. Up until a couple of months ago, when purchase was made by the Hanna Company, this property was controlled by the United States Copper Mining Company.
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Another payment has been reported made on the purchase price of the Pilgrim Gold Mine at Chloride, Arizona, by the New York interests which recently took over financing of the property. It is understood that two payments have been made to the original owner, and two payments to interests who held an option on the property. The new company has been organized under the laws of Delaware, as the United Pilgrim Gold Mines, Inc., and has applied to the Arizona Corporation Commission for a license authorizing the concern to do business in the latter state as a foreign corporation. Its capital stock is placed at $3,000,000. At the present time, Superintendent M. C. Richardson has a small crew of men at work at the mine, awaiting orders to proceed with a larger force and a more comprehensive plan of development.
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Another carload of ore has been shipped from the Dripping Springs Mine, of the United Vanadium Corporation, near Globe, Arizona, making the second consignment within the past two weeks. Fifty workmen are now engaged at the property, and three eight-hour shifts are being worked. Gaettano Naddeo, of Globe, is General Superintendent.
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T. L. Siders, and B. D. Winberly, who have a lease on the section of the Tom Reed Estate, that lies close to the old Stoney Lease, at Oatman, Arizona, have moved their hoist and gallows frame from their present workings, to the Stoney Shaft for further operations at that point. Work will be done through drifting.
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Big Jim Mines, Inc., Jno. W. Henderson, Superintendent, has started a program of diamond drilling, from the North Drift on the 500 Level of its Oatman, Arizona, property. This work has been placed in the hands of the Continental Diamond Drilling Company, which recently completed 18 months of drilling on the old Vulture property at Wickenburg, which was early last month, taken over by United Verde Extension Mining Company. Big Jim intends to drill to the 900 Level, in the direction of one of the veins that comes in from the Tom Reed Estate.
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The present payroll at the Ray, Arizona, mines of Nevada Consolidated Copper Company is reported as approximately 650 men. The mines are being operated on a one-shift basis, with the surface and mechanical departments working only five days per week. R. W. Thomas is Manager of the company’s Arizona division.
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The Chase Mines, Inc., will resume operations at its Prescott, Arizona, properties about January 15, according to Henry Blachford, Secretary. Further work will include sinking the 300-foot shaft to 500 feet, and the company has plans for the erection of a 100-ton selective flotation plant. Approximately 10,000 tons of ore are on the dump, with around 50,000 tons developed in the mine, the latter tonnage being on the 100 and 200-foot levels, and on the tunnel level at 160 feet.
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Construction of the 120-foot steel head-frame, at the “A” Shaft, of the Old Dominion Company at Globe, Arizona, has been completed, as has the 1,500-ton steel storage bin at the same shaft. Other new equipment at the property includes a Dorr bowl classifier installed at the concentrator, and a new 2,250-horsepower F. H. Diesel engine. A survey of Old Dominion records shows that the company is now producing 1,400 tons of ore daily, compared with 1,250 tons this time last year. Records also show that the company has materially reduced its working force, 800 men now being employed, compared with 890 on the payroll a year ago. I. H. Barkdoll is Manager.
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M. Arbuckle and C. L. Ballard, operating the Phantom Gold Mine, at Bumblebee, Arizona, have installed two new Denver flotation cells at their 20-ton mill, and are now moving the plant two and a half miles west of the former mill site. Five men are employed.
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Colonel C. W. Steinman reports that reorganization of the Huggett-Hoffman Mines, Inc., is being effected, plans having been made for large scale operation of the Oak Creek Placers at Prescott, starting in January. Workmen at the property are now building the first of a series of back-filled dams for water supply, and will later develop three wells. It is planned to install gasoline motor-driven long toms. Approximately $4,000 has been spent on the property during the past two months, and at present between 20 and 30 cubic yards of gravel are being handled daily. Colonel Steinman, who has headquarters at 1003 East Ninth Street, Tucson, is consulting engineer for the company. Kenneth Manley, 1842 North Elm Street, Tucson, is Manager.
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Mining activity at Patagonia, Arizona, is reported continuing on the up trend. Juan Sesteaga is making regular shipments of high-grade silver-lead-gold ore to the El Paso Smelter, from the Pocahontas Claim, of the Bracey Curtis Estate, and Harry T. Richards, of Nogales, is also getting out some good ore for consignment, from the Belmont Mine, in the same district.
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PIC Leaching Plant at the Inspiration Consolidated Copper Company. This plant has handled the company’s entire production since the closing of the concentrator in June.

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EL ORO COMPANY PUSHES MILLWORK AT ALLISON GOLD MINE

The El Oro Mining and Milling Company is pushing construction work, to get the first unit of its mill in operation by January 10. This company, incorporated under the laws of Arizona, with a capital of $1,500,000, has taken over the Allison Gold Mine, in the Baboquivari Mountains, 70 miles southwest of Tucson, and is equipping it for production.

The property consists of 18 claims covering the outcrop of a strong vein, for a distance of a mile. The geological formation is a mass of andesite, intruded by rhyolite. Movement along the contact has caused a heavily crushed zone in the andesite, where the values occur.
Development work consists of an incline shaft, 625 feet deep, which is crosscut at 100-foot intervals. Above the 400-foot Level, nothing worth working was found. From the 400 Level down, values for the entire vein average about $20 per ton gold, with about 16 ounces silver. The ore body has been explored for 400 feet along the strike, without reaching limits. The width varies from 10 to 40 feet. Some 3,000 tons of ore, mined during exploration work on the 400 Level, show values of $19.80 gold, and 25.1 ounces silver, per ton. This ore will provide the initial mill feed.

Recovery by flotation was attempted by the previous owners of the Allison, but with indifferent results. The present operators report that tests indicate that stamping and amalgamation, followed by table concentration, will give a recovery of 65 to 70 percent of the values in the type of ore exposed at this time. The 40-ton mill, besides furnishing revenue, is expected to verify this test work, while deeper exploration discloses any change in the character of the ore.

Power is supplied by a 100-horsepower Fairbanks Morse Y-type fuel oil engine, belted to a generator. Hoist and compressor are motor driven. Water is pumped from a mountain lake, formed by a 65-foot concrete dam.

An 1,800-foot tunnel has been started, which is expected to cut the vein within 300 feet from the portal, and to pass through 1,500 feet of territory favorable to mineralization. The operating program for 1931 includes the operation of the 40-ton mill, the completion of the tunnel, and the start, at least, of a 300-ton mill, to be located at the portal of the tunnel. This location affords many advantages, including the gravity flow of water from the lake, an ideal place to store tailings for possible future treatment, as well as elimination of hoisting and pumping.

An unusual feature, which has attracted the attention and comment of visiting engineers, is the low mining cost possible. Protected by a strong rhyolite hanging wall, the ore body itself has undergone intense brecciation, making mining costs unusually low. Much of the drifting and raising, has been done for less than $3 per foot, some of it for $2. A portion of this low cost is due to the location of the property on the Papago Indian Reservation, with a good supply of steady, cheap labor available.

California capital, principally, is involved in the work so far undertaken. F. C. Hulbert, of Beverly Hills, is President; F. R. Pauli, Vice-president; George Pearson, Secretary-Treasurer, and George Dillard, Superintendent. A. W. Worcester, of El Paso is resident engineer,

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LINDEN-COBURN MINING CO. PLANS NEW WORK AT PRESCOTT

Plans for the development of a most promising vein of gold ore, on the Linden-Coburn mining property, in the Groom Creek District of Yavapai County, Arizona, were completed at a meeting held in Prescott early this month. Officials of the Linden-Coburn Mining Company, met with city and county authorities to complete negotiations for the construction of a road, from the Senator Highway, to the property, and at the same time definite plans were made for the erection of the first unit of a milling plant at the mine.

L. J. Coburn, of Phoenix, Treasurer of the company, states that Yavapai County officials have offered every co-operation for building of the new road, and it is expected that this work will be put under way immediately. The milling plant, the first unit of which is to have capacity for 50 tons of ore daily, is to be constructed at the juncture of the Cottonwood and Vera veins, on the Cottonwood Claim of the holdings. The company hopes to be able to start work on plant construction within the next 60 days.

Considerable development work, in the way of numerous small shafts and tunnels, has been done on various parts of the property, which in all, comprises 17 claims. The Cottonwood Vein runs through four of the claims; namely, the Black Horse, Golden Chief, Cottonwood, and Turner. The Vera Vein runs through the Mabel, Maude, and Vera claims. The development and construction work planned will call for the employment of around 30 men, when the new program gets fully under way.

This property was formerly prospected alone by William Linden, of Prescott, and following a close inspection of the holdings several months ago, William Coburn and his father, L. J. Coburn, became interested in the proposition, resulting in the organization of the Linden-Coburn Mining Company, and its incorporation under the laws of Arizona. Mr. Coburn and his father are both officials of the Aztec Investment Company of Phoenix.

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ORO FLAME GROUP INCLUDED IN IMPORTANT ARIZONA MERGER

A mine merger of consequence, has just been consummated by the transfer of the Oro Flame Mining Company Property, the Harriman and Kirkbride Mines, and the Harriman Gold Mines, all of Yavapai County, Arizona, to the Standard Ores Corporation, George A. Kirkbride, President. The newly consolidated organization will maintain its operating office in Prescott and will continue to engage in regular consulting engineering business. It will maintain the home office of the Standard Ores Corporation in the Thomas Arcade Building, 834 North Central Avenue, Phoenix.

Of the properties transferred, the Oro Flame Mine, in the Hassayampa District, near Prescott, is a regular shipper and has been in profitable operation since 1928, having shipped in excess of $55,000 in gold values during this period, on a small operation basis. New plans for this property include equipment, and sinking a 200-foot shaft at the present tunnel portal. A drift under the main ore body will be run a distance of 350 feet in a southerly direction. Further drifting under the Oro Grande orebody, to the north, should open up a large body of mill grade ore. It is estimated that the new development under the main ore body will open 40,000 tons of ore that will average from $18 to $20 per ton, in gold.

There is at this time available, an estimated 10,000 tons of ore of mill grade with all values in gold in minor ore shoots, not including the Oro Grande Shoot, which has to date, produced about $48,000 in free gold, to a depth of 110 feet. Plans are under way at this time for the construction of a 25-ton flotation plant as a pilot installation. Ore from development will be milled or shipped as produced, and mining operations will be carried forward on the present tunnel level, and in the Oro Grande Shaft, to produce mill ore.

Development of the Koerber, or Dora, quartz property, one mile east of the Octave Mine, of the Arizona Eastern Gold Mining Company at Octave, Arizona, will be carried forward within the near future. Plans for installation of equipment of sufficient capacity to sink to a depth of 200 feet are under way.

Two miles of new road has been constructed from the Octave Mine to the property, and ore shipments are going forward regularly. Ore values are in free gold and range from $12 to $65 per ton. There is an estimated 1,500 tons of gold ore now available, having an average value of over $20 per ton. Based upon ground now opened, the new development program should open an additional 12,000 tons of shipping grade ore.

In addition to the above mentioned properties, the Standard Ores Corporation controls a group of copper claims in the Black Hills District, about eight miles southeast of Jerome, and the Gold Bug Lease, a gold property near Prescott. The main development will be concentrated on the Oro Flame and Dora properties at this time. The project is backed by Eastern, Los Angeles, and local interests.
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THE MINING JOURNAL FOR JANUARY 15, 1931

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Excavation and grading for the construction of the new milling plant, to be erected at the Boriana [Tungsten] Mine, at Yucca, Arizona, are practically completed, and it will now be only a short time before the equipment will be going forward to the property for installation. Two additional carloads of lumber have been ordered, and it is expected that within the next month, things will be in shape, so that the machinery can be put in place. The men in charge of construction decided to make room for later installation of new units, and have graded beyond the present requirements.

The raise from the lower level of the mine has reached its objective, according to reports, the greater part of the distance being in ore of a good grade. This raise is of three-compartments, and will be used for the handling of ore from the various levels. It is indicated that an insufficient water supply may possibly prove a drawback in Boriana operation. L. B. Rece is locally in charge of the work.
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Work under way at the old Vulture Mine, at Wickenburg, Arizona, by United Verde Extension Mining Company, of Jerome, is reported at present requiring 50 men, with promise that the crew will, be added to later on. It is estimated that the new three-compartment shaft, being sunk under contract by A. B. Peach of Prescott, will take about three months.
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Operations have been started on the newly incorporated Black Bess Consolidated Gold Mining Company’s property, situated about 20 miles east of Ajo, Arizona. John W. Mayes is in charge of the work, and under his direction, a small crew of men have been cleaning out the shaft, during the past several weeks. Continuous development is planned on a small scale, and a little later, machinery is to be installed for the work. In addition to the shaft work, considerable drifting was done on the property, by former operators. J. W. Travers, Palm Beach, and New York author and publisher, is head of the company.
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It is reported that a four-foot body of ore, running in value about $30 per ton, has been uncovered on the 500-foot Level of the old Western Apex property, at Oatman, Arizona. This mine was recently merged with several other properties in the Oatman field, for further development under the direction of Joseph Walker. The new organization plans to make a thorough investigation of the stringers of ore running out from the 500 and 700-foot Levels of the Western Apex.
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Preparations have been made at the Midnight Test Gold Mine, located in the Groom Creek District, near Prescott, Arizona, so that a heavy snow, or another winter such as was had last year, will not affect operations. The mill building, filter plant, and hoist house, have all been completely enclosed. The property is supplied with power by the Arizona Power Company, and is one of the best equipped camps in the Prescott vicinity. Light and heat are furnished in all the bunkhouses, the company boarding house, and for other surface structures.

Recent improvements in the mine include electrification of the shaft so as to expedite pumping operations, and the placing of lights at the stations, with connections run to the drifts and stopes. A little later on, it is understood that arrangements will be made so that a system of electric blasting can be employed. On the Fourth Level, stoping has been started, that will place ore running $60 per ton, on the shipping schedule. The shaft is at present sunk to a depth of 425 feet, with four main levels and two intermediate levels started, to intersect the orebody encountered in both the upper and lower portions of the mine. Two raises have been made on either side of the shaft for better ventilation. The Midnight Test, operated under the direction of W. W. Linesba, Manager, and E. H. Crabtree, Superintendent, is controlled by the National Exploration Company.
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A vein of rich galena ore, two feet wide, has been reported encountered at a depth of 100 feet in the Gunsight Mine, 15 miles east of Ajo, Arizona. The strike was made in a drift that is being run westward from the shaft, toward the old glory hole. The ore was revealed soon after work was resumed in the mine, after several weeks spent in installing new machinery, and getting things in shape for the new program of development. This work also included cleaning out the old 300-foot shaft, which is to be used for hoisting purposes. The new equipment installed includes a hoist, 50-horsepower oil engine, 120-horsepower Diesel engine, a 50-ton concentration and flotation plant, and a Cochise air drill. Another Cochise drill has been ordered, according to J. D. Mitchell, Superintendent. The several carloads of ore now on the dump, are to be sorted for shipment.
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An application has been filed with the Arizona Corporation Commission, by the Wallapai Mines, Ltd., for a license authorizing the company to do business in Arizona as a foreign corporation. The concern is incorporated in California.
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Reports from Kingman, Arizona, state that George Pemberton has made an interesting ore strike on the Edith Claim, of the old Treasure Hill ground, in the Stockton Hill District, of Mohave County, a section where copper ore has never before been encountered. The showing was first uncovered at a depth of only 25 feet, and at 40 feet, the ore is reported averaging 25 percent copper. Mr. Pemberton, his two sons, and two helpers, are working at the property at the present time.
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Notice was recently given that certain property and equipment, of the Wright Creek Mines Company, at Kingman, Arizona, would be sold at sheriff’s sale, on January 3, at the Mohave County Courthouse in Kingman. It is claimed that this was to satisfy a judgment rendered C. H. Granger, November 29, in the amount of $554.
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A force of 10 men are working for silver, copper, and lead values, in the White Horse Mine, near Kingman, Arizona, under the direction of Henry L. Walleck, Assistant Manager, and A. Swan, General Superintendent. This property is owned by C. R. Walleck, of Van Nuys, California.
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The La Paz Placer Claims, near Quartzsite, Arizona, have been reported taken over by the W. C. Callahan Construction Company of St. Louis, Missouri.
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Articles of incorporation have been filed with the Arizona Corporation Commission, by the Vulture Divide Mining Company, naming Donald C. Finlayson, of Wickenburg, Arizona, and L. R. Sutherland and John C. Lee, of Phoenix, as incorporators. Capitalization of the company is placed at $750,000.
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Nine mining claims in Gila County, Arizona, have been sold to the Liberty Mining Company, by Anton Trojanovich, of Globe, according to papers filed with E. T. Stewart, County Recorder. The property includes the Eureka, Alice, Comstock, Defender, Commoner, Confidence, Empire, Tip Top, and Kentuck Claims.
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Renewed operations are to shortly be put under way by the Verde Falls Gold Mining Company, on the famous old Gowan property, on the East Verde River, West of Payson, Arizona. W. B. Twitchell, 144 North Second Avenue, Phoenix, President of the company, has purchased considerable new equipment for the work, and living quarters have been made ready for the employees. A seven-foot ledge of gold ore on the property, is said to assay around $15 per ton. This old mine was located more than 50 years ago by Dave Gowan, who was also the discoverer of the nearby Natural Bridge, famous for its scenic beauty.
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The Dos Cabezas Gold Mining Company, of Dos Cabezas, Arizona, has filed articles of incorporation with the Arizona Corporation Commission, naming capital stock of $2,000,000. The concern was incorporated by Nat McCutchan, of Kansas City, Missouri, and C. F. Spaulding and Thomas Bean, of Dos Cabezas.
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Tom Siders is reported to have sold his interest in what is locally known at Oatman, Arizona, as the Sap Lease, on the Tom Reed Estate, his share having been taken over by his partners. This lease has been producing about 25 tons of ore daily, averaging $25 per ton. Although equipment of the lessees was moved to the old Stoney Shaft for further development at that point, it is reported that after a survey of the ground, it was decided that the ore-shoot could better be reached from a lower level. It is stated that there are between 1,500 and 2,000 tons of broken ore in the old stopes that may be shipped to the mill while the other part of the vein is being explored. Mr. Siders is now interested in the Sunnyside Lease in the Oatman field.
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Mine and mill buildings of the Protection Gold & Copper Company, at House, Arizona, are being repaired and painted, according to reports from that district. Manager B. F. McAllister states that the company plans additional shaft work, a depth of 415 feet having already been attained. The property is equipped with a 50-ton mill.
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Charles S. Doane, in charge of operations of the Arizona Copper Belt Mining Company, at Constellation, Arizona, in the capacity of Assistant Manager, reports that the company plans to install a 50-ton mill, within the near future, probably using amalgamation, concentration, and flotation processes. A hoist and skip are being installed at Shaft No. 1, from which development is being carried out, to intersect the raise being made from the 430-foot Level of Shaft No. 2. Two 150-ton ore bins have been built at the No. 2 Shaft, and a 50-ton bin has been built at the No. 1 Shaft. The company expects to immediately start mining shipping ore from the No. 1 Shaft, and from the 430-foot Level of Shaft No. 2.

The gold vein encountered on the 430-foot Level in the No. 2 Shaft, has been opened for a length of 100 feet. The ore is mostly free-milling gold, down to 430 feet, at which point the company is entering the sulphide, or refractory zone. A crew of eight men is employed at the present time. Consulting Engineer George D. Jordan is now at the property, assisting in supervision of the new program. The organization has recently filed an amendment to its articles of incorporation with the Arizona Corporation Commission, extending the corporate existence of the concern, for 25 years.
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A new hoist and compressor are being installed at the Four Peaks property, of the Consolidated Arizona Mines Company, located nine miles southwest of Bouse, Arizona. This is preparatory to sinking the shaft to greater depth. W. B. Harris, of Salome, Arizona, is Superintendent of the company.
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John H. Walker, Manager, reports that the Johnson Copper Development Company intends to start new development on its properties at Dragoon, Arizona, the first of the year. Initial work will require a crew of only about four or five men. Mr. Walker states that consignments of ore are to be started from the mine as soon as copper prices are settled. Recent development has been centered upon drifting on the 440-foot level.
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According to President Richard J. Darling, the Copper Chief Mines Company has eight men at work, driving a crosscut from the 650-foot Level, of its copper-gold mine, at Quartzsite, Arizona. The mine workings total 2,500 feet.
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The Oatman Eastern Gold Mining Company plans to shortly resume sinking of the winze started, to the 750-foot Level of its property at Qatman, Arizona. This winze, situated at a point 1,000 feet from the 500-foot shaft, is being sunk for the development of a fine showing of ore encountered while drifting. An electric hoist has been installed at this point of development, capable of carrying the work to a depth of 1,000 feet. Oatman Eastern operations are under the able direction of William Tiercy, Superintendent.
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As soon as conditions are favorable to raise the required funds, diamond drilling and sinking of a 300-foot shaft are to be undertaken on property of the Picnic Mines, Inc., near Amado, Arizona. Hugo W. Miller, Mining Engineer and Assayer, of Nogales, Arizona, is President of the organization.
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A certificate of incorporation has been granted the St. John Gold & Copper Company, operating properties near Cleator, Arizona, by the Arizona Corporation Commission. The company has an authorized capitalization of $1,500,000, and was incorporated by John Slak, J. C. Davey, and George T. Wilson.
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E. Ross Housholder has completed road work to the main tunnel on his Chief Engineer No. 1 Claim, at Kingman, Arizona, and to the 90-foot shaft on the Chief Engineer No. 2, in addition to a trail leading to the tunnel on the No. 3 Claim. Since discovery last summer of the hidden portal of the tunnel on the No. 3 Claim, 1,000 feet of workings have been cleaned out, and several crosscuts run to prospect the gold vein. Samples of the vein, taken at 100-foot intervals, showed the ore to range in value from $2.50 to $10.40 per ton, in gold and silver. Width of the ore runs from two to five feet. The trend of the oreshoot has now been determined, with the ore showing increased value.
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Mrs. George F. Senner was appointed Manager of the Merged Mines, Inc., at a recent special meeting of the Board of Directors, held in Globe, Arizona. Mrs. Senner has been associated with the company for some time, and is one of its larger stockholders. A review of the company’s program was held at the meeting, and tentative plans were made for further development of the concern’s mining properties in the Sulphide Del Rey District, near Globe.
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The Calincoln Mines, Inc., operating the Lincoln Mine at Crown King, Arizona, is about ready to start increased mining operations, with a full force of workmen. This work is to be greatly facilitated by the new electric power plant, recently installed. Value of the ore is principally in gold, with some copper and silver. James Christiansen, and Pat O’Hagan, are back of the proposition.
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A crew of 10 men will be put to work the first of the year at the Golden Fleece Mine, 25 miles west of Bisbee, Arizona, according to G. A. Eastman, who has the property under lease and bond. Plans are now under way for the construction of buildings to house the workmen. A boarding house and several cottages for living quarters are to be erected. Sufficient supplies for the camp and equipment for the driving of a 500-foot tunnel, are to be on hand when the crew reports early in January. The Gold & Metal Company of Arizona has been organized for the inauguration of a development program, and it is planned to shortly begin production with the shipment of some of the higher grade ore. Mr. Eastman states that the vein has been traced for considerable distance, showing a width of two or three feet, and assaying from $20 to $75 per ton. The property has been worked by Sam Miller, for the past 30 years.
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William Linden of Prescott, Arizona, President of the Linden-Coburn Mining Company, reports that operations may be started almost any day at the company’s Linden Mine, in the Groom Creek District, of Yavapai County. He states that $50,000 has already been expended on development of the property, and that $50,000 more will be necessary for the proposed program. There are two larger veins on the property, and nine smaller ones. L. J. Coburn, Vice-President and Treasurer, and William M. Coburn, Secretary, Box 1371, Phoenix, are associated with Mr. Linden, in this enterprise.
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The St. Elmo Mines, Inc., operating the old Mildred Consolidated property, at Congress Junction, Arizona, is strictly confining development work to shaft and tunnel operations, according to E. A. Wayne, Superintendent. The shaft is down 200 feet, and the tunnel is out 500 feet. The working force varies from six to 15 men.
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Cheerful prospects are said to be ahead of the Vaughn, Macia, Palmer Lease, on the Bob Ingersoll Mine, at Tombstone, Arizona, with present development in a well-defined body of ore, running well up into values. In addition to the usual silver and lead values, the ore now under development is reported carrying a substantial quantity of gold.
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General development work is in progress on the Forty-Niner Placer Claims, and the Gold Center quartz property, owned by Frank Warning, and Dr. J. L. Barritt, at Oatman, Arizona. A 400-foot incline shaft has been sunk on the Gold Center property, and a tunnel has been driven 300 feet. Lessees made two shipments during the past year, averaging $18 gold per ton. When sufficient tonnage has been blocked out, the operators plan to install a cyanide plant.
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Work on the Little Johnnie gold property, in the Hassayampa District, near Prescott, Arizona, is being carried out with a crew of five men, under the supervision of F. N. Johnson, Superintendent. Development is done principally through tunneling. The mine workings total 1,500 feet, and a depth of 200 feet has been reached.
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Development on a small scale is being carried out on the Ophir Gold Property, of J. E. Harris, at Mayer, Arizona. An 85-foot open cut and an 85-foot shaft, with 12 feet of drifting at 30 feet, have been completed on Claim No. 22, and Claim No. 17 has also been developed by open cut work. Future development is to be centered on Claims Nos. 2, 8, and 5. R. M. Brazle is General Superintendent of the property.
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The recent announcement of the striking of the Aztec Vein, on the 1,100-foot Level of the Tom Reed Estate, at Oatman, Arizona, has created almost as much excitement in Mohave County mining circles, as relocation of the Tom Reed Vein at greater depth, achieved early in the summer. It is reported that the Aztec discovery opens a vein estimated at from five and a half, to seven feet in width. Specimens of the ore are said to be somewhat similar to that of the new shoot on the Gray Eagle, but different to ore found in the upper levels of the Aztec. The Tom Reed Mill is continuing to turn out its monthly quota of bullion. Victor A. Light is in charge of the Tom Reed as Assistant Manager.
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Drills are now exploring territory from the 500-foot Level of the Big Jim Mine, at Oatman, Arizona, Jno. W. Henderson, Superintendent. This work is being pushed ahead with all possible speed, and if exploration is successful, an extensive campaign of development is to be carried on laterally. President A. G. Keating, 436 Fidelity Building, Los Angeles, accompanied by F. B. Chapin, recently arrived at Kingman, for an inspection of the mine.
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R. W. Wood reports that some very high-grade cinnabar has been opened up in the Black Jack Mine, at Casa Grande, Arizona, of which he is Secretary and Manager. Plans have been made for a 120-foot shaft, expected to reach the water level.
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E. L. Tomlinson reports that the Westerner Gold-Lead Mines Company, of which he is president, is at this time endeavoring to finance for the installation of flotation equipment at its 50-ton mill at Venezia, Arizona. The company is advancing its tunnel No. 3 on the Starlight Claim, for development of the No. 1 Oreshoot, and new equipment is being installed in this tunnel for better ventilation. Tunnel work is being done on the Crook Westerner Vein, and it is later planned to equip this development with machinery for rush work. The company recently shipped a 30-ton lot of lead-zinc ore, carrying good gold and silver values, to the International Smelting Company in Salt Lake City. This consignment netted $27 per ton.
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Lessees of the Sunnyside Mine at Oatman, Arizona, are enthusiastic over the opening of the vein on the 500 Level of the property, and while the values are as yet running rather low, it is expected that further drifting will show a betterment of the ore, in both size and grade. Bob Lyons, at one time superintendent of the Telluride, is in charge of the work, and associated with him in the development work, are Tom Syders, and Austin Reed, both well known in the Oatman mining field.
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L. A. Newton and E. H. Bowly, Jr., 2507B East 55th Street, Huntington Park, California, have taken over the old Pittsburgh Mine, near Goldroad, Arizona, and Mr. Bowly is now negotiating with eastern capitalists for financing and operation of the property at an early date. The Pittsburgh was operated in 1912, but suspended operations during the war. Over 1,200 feet of development work has been done, disclosing a tonnage of good milling ore on the 200 and 300-foot Levels. Mr. Bowly states that the mine is fully equipped with modern machinery, and gasoline power is available. However, it is indicated that later on, a change over may be made to electric power.
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J. L. Fulton of Nogales, Arizona, is reported shipping 300 tons of copper ore per week, to the Douglas Smelter, from the Santa Niña Mine, at Patagonia, which he is again operating under lease. The ore also carries a good percentage of molybdenum. Fulton has 10 men employed.
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C. O. Foltz expects to be making shipments from his Oro Blanco Mine, at Ruby, Arizona, next month. The values are in copper, lead, silver, and gold.
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The Money Metals Exploration Company, Prescott, Arizona, J. K. Kilfeder, Superintendent, contemplates a changeover from gasoline to either Diesel, or electric power. This is expected to materially facilitate development work planned, which will include sinking of the shaft an additional 300 feet, with work laterally on the 600-foot Level. Recent work has consisted largely of crosscutting and drifting on the 300-foot Level. Thomas T. Turner, President of the organization, is located at 816 North Mariposa Avenue, Los Angeles, California.
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HASSAYAMPA GOLD MINING CO. OUTLINES DEVELOPMENT WORK

The Hassayampa Gold Mining Company, Inc., with gold properties located at Kirkland, Arizona, has plans for development work, which will continue until next Spring, at which time the company hopes to be in a position to install a milling plant. During the coming year, the management intends to do 200 feet of shaft work, supplemented by 800 feet of drifting. This is expected to put the property in shape for production.

A modern and up-to-date camp has been installed at the property, and, according to Claud F. Harmon, of Prescott, Secretary. Practically all machinery necessary for present development, is on the ground. A road has been built to the mine, and easy transportation is now available. The claims, numbering 42 in all, covering a total area of 800 acres, are but 35 miles from Prescott, the county seat of Yavapai County. Operations are further facilitated by an adequate supply of water available for both camp and milling purposes.

The geology of the holdings varies on different parts of the property. Formation of the Malapai Group consists of granite porphyry, with some schist intrusion, while formation on the Gold Bug and Pay Streak claims, consists of granite with some porphyry along the veins. The Crosscut Contact claim, is schist, with some quartz porphyry, and the Gold Spring claim, is schist. Gold is the predominating value, although much of the ore shows some silver.

Considerable development work has been done on each of these claims, and Joe Serafini, Manager, reports a large tonnage of ore in sight on both the Gold Bug, and Gold Spring properties. Present work is being directed, and future work will be centered largely about this claim. This work will consist of raising to the surface, a distance of 50 feet, followed by sinking the shaft 150 feet below the tunnel level. It is then planned to drive north and south, 200 feet each way, this to be supplemented by two 100-foot raises.
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BIG JIM STARTS DRILLING IN OLD UNITED EASTERN MINE
Following complete rehabilitation of the main workings on the Big Jim Claim, of the old United Eastern property, at Oatman, Arizona, Big Jim Mines, Inc., has started a program of diamond drilling from the North Drift, on the 500 Level of the mine. This work has been placed in the hands of the Continental Diamond Drilling Company, which recently completed 18 months of drilling on the old Vulture property at Wickenburg, Arizona, now under development by United Verde Extension Mining Company. Big Jim intends to drill to the 900 Level, in the direction of one of the veins that comes in from the Tom Reed Estate. This work is being pushed with all possible speed, and if exploration is successful, an extensive campaign of development is to be carried out laterally. It is quite probable that lessees will also soon be permitted to work on the property.

The Big Jim has been thoroughly sampled, and good ore has been found on a number of the levels, as well as in the bottom of the 600-foot shaft. This is a mine credited with having produced over four and a half millions in gold, from above the 600 Level. A. G. Keating, and Jno. W. Henderson, originally identified with the striking of ore at this well-known gold mine, are in charge of the new operations.
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“ARIZONA GOLD PLACERS,” A REVISED BOOKLET BY WILSON

The status and history of Arizona gold placers is given in a revised edition of the booklet, “Arizona Gold Placers,” by Eldred D. Wilson, just released by the Arizona Bureau of Mines, Tucson. While another gold rush may come to Arizona, it will never be the tented city of the “mushroom” mining days. If the remaining gold is to be touched in great quantities, gigantic dredges, and other equipment will be needed.

Greaterville, Quijota, and Arivaca offer the greatest gold possibilities in the Tucson District, according to Mr. Wilson. More than 200 worked the Greaterville Placers from 1875 to 1878, packing water on burros for four miles. By 1886, most of the activity had stopped, with an estimated production in gold of $7,000,000. Gold dirt in this district is said to average 40 to 60 cents a yard, and two companies are at present, in the field.
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ARIZONA STATE MINE INSPECTOR REAPPOINTS STAFF

Tom C. Foster, re-elected Arizona State Mine Inspector, has announced the reappointment of his former staff of deputy mine inspectors and office secretary. He began his new term of office, with headquarters in the State Capitol building, January 5.

Those renamed by Mr. Foster are J. C. Anglin of Globe, Deputy Mine Inspector for the Central District; Clifford J. Murdock of Mayer, Deputy Mine Inspector for the Northern District, and James Malley of Bisbee, Deputy State Mine Inspector for the Southern District. Mr. Anglin and Mr. Malley have both served as deputies since 1923, when Mr. Foster first became Mine Inspector for the state. Mr. Murdock has served as Deputy Mine Inspector, since August 1, 1928. Mrs. Nellie B. Plumb will continue as Mr. Foster’s office secretary.

A native of Scranton, Pennsylvania, where he was born in 1873, Mr. Foster has spent practically all of his adult life in some phase of the mining industry. He was brought to the West by his parents, at a very early age, and since that time, has been at some of the leading mining camps of the country, including the states of Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Montana and Arizona. He came to Arizona in 1898, where he worked for United Verde, the Copper Queen branch of Phelps Dodge, Calumet & Arizona, and the old Shattuck-Arizona Copper Company.

Through safety measures, Arizona mines have been successful in reducing the number of fatal accidents, to a remarkably low figure. Mr. Foster intends to continue to emphasize and direct close inspection of the mines in operation, and the conditions under which the men are working. This practice has been a regular feature of the conduct of his office, during his administration as State Mine Inspector.

According to Mr. Foster’s annual report, recently submitted to Governor John C. Phillips, at the close of 1930, there were but 21 fatal accidents in the mines of Arizona during the past year, compared with 32 accidents in the previous year. Serious accidents during the year numbered 446, compared with 674 in 1929. Mr. Foster’s report further showed that there are 2,488 men employed in surface work at Arizona mines, at present, with 6,475 working underground, or a total of 8,963. A year ago, there were 3,030 men employed in surface work, and 11,499 underground, or a total of 14,529.
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ARIZONA MAN EN ROUTE TO AFRICAN COPPER MINE

Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Carpenter have left Douglas, Arizona, for New York, on the first lap of a journey to northern Rhodesia, South Africa, where Mr. Carpenter will be engaged in construction work at the Roan Antelope copper properties. En route, they planned to make a brief stop at the Madeira Islands.

From Capetown, South Africa, the Carpenters will travel six days by rail, to Luanahya, where they are to be met by D. D. Irwin, General Manager of Roan Antelope, and former Superintendent with the Copper Queen branch of Phelps Dodge, at Douglas; James Sheppard, a former Arizonian, and George Neville, who was Superintendent for the Dwight P. Robinson Company when it rebuilt the Copper Queen smelter.

Mr. Carpenter will be with the Smelter Buildings Department of the Roan Antelope. He has previously lived in Arizona practically all his life, and is a graduate of the Phoenix High School, and the University of Arizona, Class of 1924, with a degree in civil engineering. He was with Calumet & Arizona Mining Company at Douglas for two years, before becoming identified with the Robinson Construction Company. When the smelter renovation work at Douglas was completed, he became Assistant Head of the Preparation Department of the Copper Queen branch of Phelps Dodge.
Another Arizonian who will also leave shortly for a position with Roan Antelope is P. L. Schefer, of Bisbee. It is understood that he will become Mill Superintendent with the company.
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THE MINING JOURNAL for JANUARY 30, 1931

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United Verde, W. V. DeCamp, Manager, is considering construction work on its No. 7 Shaft, as well as considerable underground work and shovel pit stripping. The company will continue diamond drilling on the Sixty-Four, and Cibola properties, acquired several months ago in the Miami-Superior District. It is expected that the No. 7 Shaft, now under construction, will be completed to the 3,500-foot level, in the latter part of 1932.
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J. C. Miller reports that 200 feet of tunnel work has been completed in the Seventy-Nine Extension Mine, at Hayden Junction, Arizona, during the past year. The workings now total about 1,000 feet.
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Five hundred feet of shaft work, and 2,000 feet of drifting and crosscutting, are to be undertaken by the Bronze King Mining Company, when it resumes development work at its properties at Miami, Arizona. The company stopped work in April due to the low price of copper. Thomas P. Kelly of Miami is President and Manager of the organization.
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The Swastika, Corda-Flannery, and Ohvette-Annette groups of mines, in the Olive Mining District, of Pima County, Arizona, have been merged into the Mineral Belt Mines, Inc., making a combined property of 24 claims. The Mineral Belt Company is largely an Eastern organization. E. A. Royce, formerly connected with the Swastika Company, will have active charge of the business. Albert L. Fritz, of Tucson, is Secretary-Treasurer, and Edward Holderness will act as Superintendent of the properties. Plans of the company include the establishment of a modern camp with living quarters, boarding houses, etc., and the installation of necessary equipment for the sinking of three shafts, with considerable lateral work.
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The Wolverine & Arizona Mining Company at present has a force of eight men busy at its property near Bisbee, Arizona, according to Hugh Dugan, Secretary. The company’s milling plant is at Don Luis, Arizona. J. E. McKenna is in charge of operations as Manager.
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Production at the clay mines of the Filtrol Company, at Chambers, via Halloysite, Arizona, is averaging 40 tons daily. A depth of 800 feet has been attained in the mine. J. A. Mullen, Mine Superintendent, reports that the working force varies from 25, to 50 men.
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The first consignment of steel has arrived for the new Boriana mill being constructed at Yucca, Arizona, the shipment of 20,000 pounds having been hauled in by truck, from California. This delivery is to be followed by others, until all the supplies and equipment for the plant are on the ground. The road to the property has been put in shape, and everything in the way of improvements at the camp is ready for use. A large tonnage of tungsten ore has been developed in the mine, ready for treatment upon the completion of mill construction. L. B. Rece is Company Superintendent.
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December copper production of United Verde Extension Mining Company, Jerome, Arizona, ran 2,473,000 pounds, which was considerably below any monthly record for the year. Production for 1930, compiled from monthly reports, totals approximately 44,800,000 pounds.
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Installation of the new Huntington mill, of 20 tons daily capacity, has nearly been completed on the Mammon mining property, near Casa Grande, Arizona, according to F. H. Rogers, in charge of operations. Work of opening up the property is progressing steadily.
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An extensive placer mining program is to be carried out in the Greaterville District of Pima County, Arizona, according to current reports. Los Angeles capitalists are behind the project, which calls for the working of 6,240 acres of land. While study of the material in the district shows only minor values, it is believed that the proposed large-scale operation will prove a profitable venture. The material is to be worked by steam shovels, and will be run through long troughs, with riffle boards. This area has previously been worked by small operators, but in most instances, it was given up because of the low returns.
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The working force of the Trench Mining Company, at Patagonia, Arizona, now totals 16 men. Mine development is being carried out under the direction of P. W. Carico, Superintendent, and J. C. Schell, Assistant Superintendent. H. Schwartz, President and Manager of the company, has offices at 1105 Bankers’ Building, Los Angeles.
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The Calincoln Mines, Inc., James Christiansen, Secretary and Manager, Crown King, Arizona, expects to be shipping 50 tons of ore daily from its Lincoln Mine, within the next 60 days. A Gardner-Denver compressor has recently been installed at the property, in addition to the new hoist, pipelines, and ore bins. At present, the old shaft is being opened up, and 14 men are employed. Pat O’Hagan is associated with Mr. Christiansen in the management of this property, in the capacity of Consulting Engineer and Superintendent.
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D. W. Driggs, President and Manager of the Moon Mountain Mining Company, reports that at the present time, only prospecting is being done at the company’s gold-silver property, at Parker, Arizona. The ledge is being uncovered at different points along the surface. The mine workings total about 400 feet.
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The company’s mine plant having been completely equipped for development work, the Chloride Consolidated Mines Company expects to soon begin operations at its Chloride, Arizona, property. The shaft will then be sunk to a depth of 500 feet, and 1,000 feet of drifting will be undertaken. R. E. Butler, 818 Yeon Building, Portland, Oregon, is Manager, and C. P. Lupher is the company’s Mine Superintendent.
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Report that the lost vein of gold in the Old Fortuna Mine, 22 miles southeast of Yuma, Arizona, had been rediscovered recently, caused a flurry of excitement among old-time mining men of that district. Fred J. Martin of San Diego, Superintendent of the mine from 1896, until it was closed in 1904, and a stockholder in the Elan Mining Company, present owners of the property, announced that geologists believe that they have found the lost vein, and that work at the mine may be resumed. At the present time, eight families are reported living in the vicinity of the mine, working over the old tailings for gold.
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An effort is being made to get stockholders of the Belcher Extension Consolidated Mines Company, operating the Fortuna Mine, near Superior, Arizona, to exchange their stock, for stock in a new company known as the Silva Consolidated Mining Company. It is stated that over 51 percent of the stock has already been exchanged, with payments, which will insure an operating fund. Company reports state that the new Fortuna Vein shows an average width of four feet, with values ranging from $23 to $100 a ton. The object of the consolidation is to start with a clean slate, and concentrate the ownership of several properties under a single management. The Silva Consolidated brings into the merger, a gold property which it holds under bond and lease. Frank Silva is President of the new organization, with headquarters at One Exchange Place, Jersey City, New Jersey.
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Organization and incorporation of the St. John Gold & Copper Company has been completed, and development of the company’s gold property, near Cleator, Arizona, is to get under way soon. The company announced discontinuance of operations at its copper properties, in the Cleator District, some time ago, and in the future, concentrate work on the gold property. A vertical shaft will be sunk to the water level. John S. Slak is head of the company.
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Work of sinking the three-compartment shaft at the Vulture Mine, at Wickenburg, Arizona, is progressing at the rate of six feet a day. Timbering is being kept up right behind the miners, due to the loose formation of the ground. The shaft is being sunk, under contract, for the United Verde Extension Mining Company by A. B. Peach, of Prescott.
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The old shaft on the Bunker Hill Extension property, at Tombstone, Arizona, which had badly caved, is to be put in shape for exploration, according to John A. Kohlen, of Tombstone. It will take several weeks to do this work, do necessary timbering, and install ladders.
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The Lone Butte Mining Company, of Warren, Arizona, plans the installation of a new hoist, compressor, and other equipment, looking toward the starting of development work in the Spring. The property is to be worked for its gold, silver, and copper values. H. F. Lietzow, 11125 Charnock Road, Palms Station, Los Angeles, is President and Manager of the company.
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C. E. Adair and associates, of Los Angeles, and New York City, who have the Harqua Hala Bonanza Gold Mines at Salome, Arizona, under bond and lease, report the 10-stamp mill on the Golden Eagle Group, about ready to start. Mr. Adair and associates have been quietly reopening this noted old gold property. Some ore was shipped during the Summer, and at present, material is being blocked out on the Tunnel Level, ready for mill treatment.
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The Blue Cloud Copper Company, of Parker, Arizona, intends to resume operations before the end of this month. New work will consist of sinking the shaft to a depth of 300 feet, followed by exploration from that point. Harry Green, Mine Superintendent, and C. M. MacFarlane, Consulting Engineer, are locally in charge of the property. Malin H. Campbell, of Santa Monica, California, is manager of the company.
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Work of diamond drilling from the 500-foot Level of the Big Jim Gold Mine, at Oatman, Arizona, is reported progressing nicely, with the cores showing an improvement in ore conditions. President A. G. Keating, 436 Fidelity Building, Los Angeles, is expected to shortly arrive at the property to outline further work for the 500 and 600-foot Levels of the mine.
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The Arizona Quicksilver Corporation is reported about to resume operations at its property in the Slate Creek Mining District, near Globe, Arizona. The announcement was made by R. B. Stitzer, Engineer.
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A one and a half-mile wagon road, and grading for the proposed new mill have been completed by the Grand Leader Mining Company, of Venezia, Arizona; C. E. Warren, President and Manager. When operations are resumed at the mine in the Spring, the shaft is to be sunk to 500 feet. It is planned that by that time, installation of the mill may be put under way. The property has been worked by lessees during the past 10 months.
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Recent work in the Silver Bell Mine, in Mineral Park, near Kingman, Arizona, by the Cornwall Mining Company, is reported looking favorable after the expenditure of about $30,000 in development. The ore carries gold and silver values. A winze, at present being sunk below the Tunnel Level, is disclosing softening of the gangue, and widening of the ore. E. S. Moulden, 305 North Craig Street, Pasadena, California, and John W. Yuill, 431 West 107th Street, Los Angeles, are among those back of the organization.
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Property located in the Wallapai (aka Hualapai) Mining District, nine miles from Kingman, Arizona, formerly operated by the Hayes-Nevada Mining Company, has been optioned to R. A. Leonard, of Kingman, who is at present, sinking a small prospect shaft on a part of the property heretofore unexplored, exposing a shoot of high-grade galena, about two feet wide. Mr. Leonard is following the vein on the incline, a depth of about 30 feet having been attained. A small consignment of ore from the shaft has been sent to the smelter, to more fully determine its value. The property is owned by J. A. Knight, of Oatman.
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Ten men are working the gold-silver-lead property of the Tombstone Mining Company, at Tombstone, Arizona, according to C. M. D’Autremont, 910 Consolidated National Bank Building, Tucson. Mr. D’Autremont is President and Manager of the company, and his brother, H. H. D’Autremont, is Secretary. W. E. Halt is in charge at the property as Mine Superintendent.
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Louis Hudgin, secretary-treasurer, reports that the Kino Copper Company, of Nogales, Arizona, is prepared to start shipping ore as soon as the price of copper advances. There are also lead and silver values in Kino ore. This is the Nogales property of which Colonel Allen T. Bird, who passed away early last month, was for a long time, the leading spirit.
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According to Manager Garfield Gray of Jerome, Arizona, a hoist, air compressor, and at least two drills are to be installed at the Gray Mine, at Vicksburg, Arizona, and later, a small mill is to be put in. Water can be obtained on the property at a very shallow depth. This is considered one of the most promising gold prospects in Yuma County, and present development work, consisting of several shafts and open cuts, is exceedingly encouraging. Approximately 40 tons of sorted ore are now on the dump ready for shipment. The property is operated under lease from J. Ramsay and W. Clark, the owners.
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E. L. Sweeney, now in full charge of operations of the Emerson Mining Company, reports that contracts are to be let immediately for a large-scale development program, at the company’s gold properties, at Congress Junction, Arizona. Development has been centered largely about the Zeiger Tunnel. Mr. Sweeney, a Consulting Engineer, of Phoenix, now has offices in the new Phoenix Title & Trust Company Building.
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The Lucy Bell Mining Company, of Lowell, Arizona, J. Frank Jones, President and Manager, plans the installation of a new ball mill and a compressor, as well as a lighting plant. Additional houses are to be constructed at the property for employees. The company’s present milling plant has a capacity for 25 tons of ore daily. In addition to the property in question, where the values are in gold, silver, copper, and lead, the company plans to develop deposits of tungsten, and asbestos, this next summer.
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A gratifying development in the Tom Reed Gold Property, at Oatman, Arizona, Victor A. Light, Assistant Manager, has been the recent cutting of four feet of milling ore, in a short raise from the 800-foot Level, of the Black Eagle Shaft. This vein is believed constant up to the 600-foot Level. On the 1,100 Level of Black Eagle Shaft, a drift has been extended 160 feet, in places showing seams of very rich ore. Success of the Tom Reed has stimulated interest in a number of other Oatman properties, which have been idle for a number of years, and has confirmed the belief of old-timers that Oatman is a camp wherein values may be found at depth.
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Lessees, under the direction of Charles Smith, are taking 30 percent lead ore, with some silver, out of the Belmont Vein, of The Belmont Copper Mining Company, at Superior, Arizona. The ore is being found in the limestone.
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The Maxwell Merger Mines Company expects to have tunnel development under way on its properties at Venezia, Arizona, not later than March 1. A small force of men is at present, at work under the direction of Lewis T. Lee, of Prescott, Secretary and Mine Superintendent.
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The Sap Lease, on the Ollie Oatman Vein, of the Tom Reed Estate, is again in the limelight at Oatman, Arizona, with the raise being made toward the surface, entering an orebody said to average $50 per ton. This ore was entered at a point above where the old stope ran out of ore, and it is expected that it will now hold good to the surface. The lessees, principal among which is B. D. Winberly, had transferred operations from the Stoney Shaft, to the old workings, and were sinking on the ore, when it was decided to raise through the stope, to the surface, which resulted in discovery of the new ore shoot. The raise is to be used as a working shaft, the winze to be connected up with it. Approximately 2,000 tons of ore broken in the stope, are soon to be sent to the Tom Reed Mill. A new ore bin has been installed below the shaft, which is expected to considerably facilitate handling of the ore, for mill production.
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Tom Hodges, of Hayden, Arizona, is making occasional shipments of ore from the Standard Gold Mine, in Gila County, which he is operating under lease and bond. The property is owned by A. Hogvall, of Winkelman.
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The shaft of the Apache Silver Mining Company, of Superior, Arizona, Richard Lobb, Mine Foreman, has been sunk an additional 100 feet during the past few months, and 7.5 feet of crosscutting has been done on the 200-foot Level. Further drifting is to be done on the 200, the ore body extending for a width of 24 feet at that point. Joe Canepa, 1111 Pacific National Building, Los Angeles, is President of the Company.
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Lessees of the Sunnyside Mine, at Oatman, Arizona, are much encouraged over a new ore strike made in a drift from the 500-foot Level; this development having been carried out more than 300 feet from the shaft. The ore has shown values ranging from $60 to $100 in gold, per ton, according to reports, with the vein rapidly increasing in width. A crosscut is soon to be run, for further exploration of the orebody. More than 400 feet of ground has been broken by lessees in this mine, with rather discouraging results, up until the recent ore strike. Bob Lyons is in charge of the property.
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A small syndicate of mining men, headed by W. L. Johnson and E. F. Krans, have taken over the Catoctin Gold Mine, in Yavapai County, Arizona, near Prescott, and are reported to have rediscovered the main ledge of ore on the property first encountered years ago. According to reports, assays from this ledge show values ranging from $12.80 to $192 per ton. The same interests are operating the Whipsaw Mine, near Wickenburg, and the Triplett property, near Prescott. Twelve men are employed at the Whipsaw, six at the Catoctin, and six at the Triplett. It is understood that Johnson and Krans have also taken over the Big Sam property, in the Copper Basin District. Plans are being made to erect a custom plant, in or near Wickenburg, to handle ores from these properties.
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Juan Sesteaga is continuing to make regular shipments of ore from the Pocahontas Mine, at Patagonia, Arizona, and Bert Logan is also making steady consignments from the Mowry Mines, in the same district. A. F. Parker, H. S. Reed, and H. T. Richards also recently shipped a car of copper-lead ore from the Silver Bell and Belmont Mines, at Patagonia.
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Ezra W. Thayer, 179 East Adams Street, Phoenix, Arizona, has 14 men at work at his Sunrise Relief Gold Mines, nine miles north of Peoria, Arizona. Jack Bolitho is in charge as Mine Superintendent.
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In the form of annual assessment work, Robert H. Barnes, Route 8, Box 1305, Phoenix, Arizona, will soon advance the No. 2 Tunnel, on his Tortuga Mine, at Ray, Arizona, to intersect the main ore body. This property carries copper, gold, silver, and molybdenite values.
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Excavation work of the Boriana Mining Company, at Yucca, Arizona, has been completed, and mill construction is now under way, under the direction of M. D. Simpson. In the meantime, water is being developed for operations, by drilling wells. The mill work is keeping 18 men busy, with 12 employed in the mine. The old workings have been connected with the haulage tunnel, by a three-compartment raise, 200 feet in length. Development work is for wolframite, sheelite, and copper values. L. B. Rece of Yucca is in full charge of the property as General Superintendent.
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The Dora property, east of Octave, Arizona, is again shipping gold ore. George A. Kirkbride, President and Manager of the Standard Ores Corporation, of Prescott, which is now operating the property, reports that four samples of ore taken from the mine several weeks ago, showed values ranging from $26 to $132, per ton. The recent shipments that have been made, have netted about $20 per ton. Arrangements have been made for the installation of a compressor unit, and equipment is to be placed on the property immediately. Sinking of the Dora Winze, to 100 feet below the present level, will be commenced sometime next month.

Standard Ores Corporation is also negotiating for a claim north of Octave. A recent sampling of this gold property showed the ore to range from $18 to $1,500, per ton. Another car of ore was shipped from the company’s Oro Flame property, at Prescott, December 30, which makes a total of five cars shipped from the two properties last month. The company is at present employing 13 men. George H. Hanson assists Mr. Kirkbride in operation of the Oro Flame Mine, in the capacity of Foreman.
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H. L. Berkey, 728 East Fourth Street, Tucson, Arizona, states that he has just completed negotiations for the installation of a flotation mill at Sahuarita, Arizona, for treatment of copper and molybdenite ore, from the Santa Rita Copper Company properties. Mr. Berkey is President and Manager of the Santa Rita Company. He reports about 10,000 tons of low-grade ore on the dump, and developed in the mine, ready for treatment.
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With the new equipment installed at its properties at Arivaca, Arizona, the Calzona Mining & Milling Company is sinking another 100 feet, and drifting on the vein 300 feet, to reach the apex of the exposed ore shoot. With S. M. Wilson in charge as Superintendent, a force of 23 men is employed. Charles A. Dutro, of 685 I. W. Hellman Building, Los Angeles, is President and Manager of the company.
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The Red Bank Gold Placer Company, John B. Ehrhart, President and Manager, 374 North First Avenue, Phoenix, Arizona, has started work on a small scale, and is now operating a 40-foot sluice box, with water developed by two wells on its properties, at Octave, Arizona. The company plans on purchasing eight and a half miles of pipe for the transportation of water to the property, from Peeples Valley. Five men are at work, at present.
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A new organization, to be known as the Arizona Potash Company, is being formed by William Whelan, for the development of potash deposits on the Whelan property, 30 miles west of Wilcox, Arizona. It is reported that after this deposit was discovered by Mr. Whelan, the U. S. Interior Department set aside 11 sections to be prospected, and sent a representative to inspect and survey the property. After two years testing and analyzing, it is estimated that there are more than 1,000,000 tons of potassium and sodium phosphate in sight. Mr. Whelan and associates expect to begin operations at the property within the next 60 days.
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J. L. Fulton, Manager, reports that the Santo Niño Mining Company is daily producing 25 tons of ore, carrying copper and molybdenum, at its properties at Nogales, Arizona. This mine is leased from the Southern Copper Mining Company. Twelve men are employed.
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Freece & Pettinger, lessees of the Tintic Mine, at Chloride, Arizona, since last June, are continuing operations steadily eight hours a day. Ed. Freece reports considerable gold ore in sight. This is one of the old gold and silver properties of that district.
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The Tom Reed Gold Mines Company, managed by Victor A. Light, is now handling 125 tons of ore daily at Oatman, Arizona. The working force totals 102 men, 80 of which are employed underground.
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MIDNIGHT TEST MINE PREPARED FOR STEADY WINTER OPERATION

Preparations have been made at the Midnight Test Gold Mine, of the National Exploration Company, located in the Groom Creek District, near Prescott, Arizona, so that a heavy snow or another winter such as was had last year will not materially affect operations. Continuing the extensive improvement program under way for some time at the property, the company has re-roofed all the buildings at the camp, and enclosed the water tanks for the mill. It is planned that the two shifts employed will continue work steadily.

Power has been wired to the property within the past few months, and new electrical equipment has been installed for mine and mill work. Light and heat are furnished in all the bunkhouses, the company boarding house, and for other surface structures. Recent improvements in the mine include electrification of the shaft, so as to expedite pumping operations, and the placing of lights at the stations, with connections run to the drifts and stopes. A little later on, it is understood that arrangements will be made so that a system of electric blasting can be employed. E. B. Crabtree is assisting Manager W. W. Linesba, in operations, in the capacity of Superintendent.
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TRANSFER OF ARIZONA MINE TO CLEVELAND CO. COMPLETED

A party of influential men connected with the transfer of the United States Copper Mining Company holdings, to the M. A. Hanna Company of Cleveland, Ohio, were in Clifton, Arizona, the middle of the month, where they were in attendance at the annual meeting of stockholders of the former company. The party included G. W. Humphrey, President of the Hanna Company; W. C. Scott, Assistant Secretary, and M. C. Lake, well-known geologist of Duluth. They were joined in Clifton, by Ira B. Joralemon, mining engineer and geologist of San Francisco.

These men were in Clifton for the purpose of attending the transfer of the United States copper holdings, consisting of the famous old Lesinsky, the Novo, and the Detroit groups of claims, to the Hanna Company. Sale of the property was endorsed by stockholders of the United States Copper Company, at a special meeting held in August, when it was voted to give Mr. Lake permission to explore the holdings, and to grant him an option to purchase the property and rights of the company, at a price of $300,000, under terms of an agreement entered into by the directors of the company.

Work at present being done at the property, consists principally of diamond drilling, being carried out under the supervision of Peter Wicklund of Ajo, Arizona, Foreman for the E. J. Longyear Exploration Company. Assessment work and sampling of the old workings is also under way, about 25 men being employed for this purpose.

G. Townsend Harley, geologist and mining engineer, who for the past year and a half, has been pursuing special studies in geology and microscopic research at the New Mexico School of Mines, in addition to his professional work, is now in full charge of operations of this property at Clifton. He plans to make a detailed geological examination of the area involved.
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POSSIBILITIES OF ZINC PRODUCTION IN ARIZONA

By OLIVER C. RALSTON, Director of Research, United Verde Copper Company.

United Verde apparently offers a greater tonnage of zinc, than copper, ore.

Arizona has never been an important producer of zinc ores for several reasons. Most of the zinc ores in the state are complex oxides, frequently difficult to separate. Most of the deposits have been small or moderate in size. The grades of concentrate which could be prepared have usually been such that, combined with long freight hauls to the smelting centers, their production was unprofitable. The Chloride District in Mohave County, in the Northwestern corner of the state, has been one of the few consistent shipping districts.

Few Arizona zinc mines are at present, sufficiently developed, to permit estimate of their probable zinc content. Many might be developed because many of the earlier gold, silver and copper mines, which were rich in the upper zones, and bottomed in low grade sulphides, frequently containing considerable zinc.

The advent of flotation and electrolytic treatment of zinc flotation concentrates has made necessary the re-calculation of the value of prospects formerly considered of little or no value. The flotation treatment is applicable immediately, but electrolytic treatment must await the development of hydroelectric power. Talk of Colorado River power (Hoover Dam) has naturally directed a certain amount of attention to zinc resources in the territory, tributary to the proposed power plants. If the controversy over the division of water and power from the Colorado River continues, however, projects based on the development of this river are extremely uncertain, and may he a long distance from fruition.

If and when the Colorado River power controversy is settled, and the power developed, almost certainly there will be constructed one or more electrolytic zinc plants. The zinc bearing areas occupy a band from the northwest corner of the state, at Chloride, to the southeast corner, at Bisbee. These areas will doubtless come under development at that time.

At present, the Jerome District is the only one containing a known large tonnage of zinc ore. It has likewise remained largely undeveloped or ignored until the past few years. Zinc was known in the United Verde ores for many years, but only recently has any systematic attempt been made to estimate how much of it is to be had. The United Verde main deposit is a huge pyritiferous mass in the shape of a crescent shaped chimney, set at an angle. Much of this chimney consists of massive sulphides.

Disseminated ore occurs along one edge to a certain extent, and is at present being concentrated by flotation. Copper and zinc minerals occur in variable proportions throughout the mass. Where the copper content is high enough, the mineral is called copper ore, and is smelted direct. Where the zinc content is high enough the material will be called zinc ore. At present, 17% Zn is tentatively taken as the amount which shall be called ore. At some points both high copper and high zinc analyses occur, but this “overlap” is rather small in proportion to the total. None of the deposit is free of zinc or free of copper.

The mine has been penetrated as deep as 3000 feet, and a new shaft to go to 5000 feet is now being sunk. Development is not complete, even in the higher levels, and so total tonnages available are unknown. Apparently there will be a greater tonnage of zinc ore than of copper ore.

Flotation research on these ores has been difficult. First, the crystal size of the component minerals is extremely fine. To obtain 90 percent liberation of the zinc minerals on grinding, requires passage through 800 mesh. This is impractical, and considerable proportions of middling products must be made if the grind is 200 or 800 mesh—the present commercial limit. Grinding to this size, it is possible to obtain a high extraction of the zinc in a rougher concentrate, but this must be further ground before cleaning, before it can be graded up in a satisfactory manner. If 55% Zn concentrate is made, the net extraction of zinc is about 89 percent By dropping the grade to 45%, the zinc extraction can be raised to 90 percent. Part of it is in the copper concentrate, which is made simultaneously. Pyrite is the main contaminating mineral in this concentrate.

The zinc itself is present as marmatite of uncertain analysis. The only crystals of the marmatite which were of sufficient size and purity to analyze, showed it to be a marmatite with about 10% FeS and 60% Zn.—which means 60% Zn in the pure mineral, so that a 60% concentrate from this ore would mean absolutely pure mineral. The marmatite is black, except in thin sections. A flotation concentrate containing 55% Zn will also carry 1 to 2% copper and 8 to 20 ounces of silver per ton, with 0.02 to 0.05 ounces of gold. The copper concentrate produced will contain 10 to 15% Cu, and 5 to 10% Zn, while the silver and gold content will be higher than in the zinc concentrate.

The flotation work advanced through microscopic laboratory, until the necessary grind was determined, then into small laboratory testing machines, then into a test mill with a capacity of 200 to 500 pounds an hour. The test mill started operation in February, 1929, and has now nearly completed its work. The first unit of the concentrator for treatment of zinc ore is now under construction, and is to go into commission during the summer. It is rated at 300 tons daily, but will probably treat more. It is regarded as a semi-commercial, or pilot unit, in which final details of treatment will be worked out. At the same time the cost of mining the zinc ores will be determined, and this unit can be used in the present copper concentrating mill in case it is desired to discontinue the treatment of the zinc ores.

The ore which responds to treatment is made up mainly of pyrite, marmatite, and chalcopyrite, with schistose gangue. From such ore, differential flotation of the pyrite first, and the marmatite second, is possible, by the use of proper reagents. Something in the Jerome ores causes serious over-frothing in flotation machines, unless collecting reagents are used, which are strong flocculators of the floatable minerals. It was in our Clarkdale concentrator that one of the early applications of potassium amyl xanthate was made, due to its ability to give this desirable result, and it is at Clarkdale, that mixtures of the amyl (which causes over-flocculation or under-frothing) with the ordinary ethyl xanthate (which causes under-flocculation or over-frothing) are used, in such proportions as to control the working quality of the froth.

The upper level ores, where surface alteration has caused copper to concentrate, as chalcocite, bornite, covellite, and similar enrichment zone minerals, cannot be treated successfully by the differential flotation, because the marmatite floats directly with the copper minerals, and cannot be successfully dropped. These ores have at some time in their history, been in contact with copper sulphate solutions, and hence their marmatite contents are already activated toward flotation, whereas the unaltered deeper ores require addition of copper sulphate to the mill pulp, before the zinc mineral is activated. De-activation of the upper level ores by treatment with solvents for cuprous and cupric sulphides, is only partly successful. Merely adding chalcocite to an otherwise unactivated pulp will cause flotation of the marmatite— pointing toward the probability that chalcocite has a low but effective solubility in the water of the pulp.

Metallurgical treatment of the copper and zinc concentrates is not, at present, completely worked out. The copper smelter at Clarkdale can undoubtedly treat the copper concentrate, as the concentrate from the present mill (which is treating disseminated schist ore) contains 4 to 10% zinc, which is at present, wasted. However, means of recovery of the zinc from the matte and slag of the copper smelting operation is now well along in development. For the zinc concentrate, with its copper and precious metals, electrolytic treatment is contemplated, the residues to be sent to the copper smelter. Research on electrolytic treatment has only just begun in the past year. A plant capable of making a minimum of 200 pounds of cathodes per day is under construction.
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THE MINING JOURNAL

Mining Activities of the Southwest
The mining activities of Arizona, New Mexico and Northern Mexico
summarized into brief paragraphs, and embracing the high spots of the entire industry.

ARIZONA

Although actual construction of the 275-mile natural gas pipe line, from El Paso, Texas, to Douglas and Bisbee, Arizona, contract for which has been let to the Western Gas Company of El Paso, will be done by the Bechtel-Kaiser Company, Limited, of San Francisco, it is reported that supervision of the work will be directed by the Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation, 49 Federal Street, Boston.

For this work, it is understood that approximately $1,500,000 worth of pipe is being ordered from the A. O. Smith Corporation of Milwaukee. The line is scheduled to be in operation by August 1, contracts having been made to serve the Phelps Dodge Corporation, Calumet & Arizona Mining Company, Cananea Consolidated Copper Company, the Arizona Edison Company, and other corporations in the territory.

It is reported that the line will be extended into Mexico, for Cananea operations at Cananea, Sonora, Mexico, under the name of a subsidiary, the Compañia Occidental de Gas, S. A. The system will be run via Fleming, New Mexico, and will consist of 12-inch, 900-pound pressure pipe, with four compressor stations. In connection with this project, it has currently been announced that the Engineers Public Service Company, of New York City, has purchased a three-year option to buy stock control of the El Paso Natural Gas Company, owner of the Western Gas.
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Alter a shut-down of three days for necessary repairs to a compressor, the Squaw Peak Copper Company, at Camp Verde, Arizona, has resumed full time operations, according to Edison Thacker, president and manager. The company is working with six men, and has no intention of curtailing present development work.
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It is reported that at a depth of 100 feet, the incline shaft being sunk on the Loftus property, 10 miles north of Oatman, Arizona, has opened up four feet of ore, assaying $30 per ton in gold. Drifts have been started east and west on the new find, and it is understood that milling of the ore is soon to be started in the 40-ton mill on the property, which is being operated under lease by the North Star Mining Company.
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Amended articles of incorporation have been filed with the Arizona Corporation Commission, by the Oceanic Gold Mining Company, increasing its capital stock to $1,000,000. The company has headquarters in Tucson, Arizona.
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The little mining town of Christmas, Arizona, has been placed under strict government quarantine in an effort to stamp out cerebro-spinal meningitis. With the cooperation of the Gila County sheriff’s office, a quarantine outpost has been established on the winding mountain road, outside the town, and only health inspectors and truck drivers delivering food supplies are allowed to pass in either direction. Six deaths, since the first of the year, in Christmas, have been certified by Dr. J. W. Davis, the camp physician, as having been due to that malady. Five more deaths in
the same period, which is an unusual number for a town with a population of less than 1,000, were designated by Dr. Davis as having been caused by influenza and pneumonia. The Christmas Copper Company is the chief mining operation there, employing over 300 men.
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The Old Dominion Mine will continue operating just as long as it is possible to keep operating losses within reasonable bounds, and employees and business men of the district, need feel no fear that there will be a complete cessation of mining work at the property in the near future, unless conditions become much worse than are anticipated at the present.” This was the reassuring and optimistic announcement made by P. G. Beckett, vice-president and general manager of Phelps Dodge Corporation, recently in Globe, Arizona, on a regular inspection visit of the company’s Old Dominion property. Mr. Beckett added that recent ore discoveries on the lower levels have been encouraging, and that a diamond drilling program is being planned to prospect the mine below the present bottom levels. Old Dominion has just completed an adjustment in its operating force, and it is now hoped that no further reduction will be necessary.
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Capital stock of the Contact Leasing Company was increased from $125,000 to $150,000 at the annual meeting of stockholders held in Lowell, Arizona, January 27. At that time, Dr. N. H. Morrison, 36 East Washington Street, Phoenix, was re-elected president of the company; Thomas Fitzsimmons of Lowell, vice-president and manager; and M. N. Brinson, secretary-treasurer. These men, with Chas. A. Diehl, W. H. Brinson, H. R. Carson, and W. J. Graham, make up the board of directors. Following an inspection of the property, the party appeared pleased with present development work under way.
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The Carbonate Merger Mines Corporation is reported preparing to start construction of a 25-ton smelter at Kingman, Arizona. W. D. Grannis, of Kingman, is president and treasurer of the company.
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Five of the eleven 800-horsepower gas engine compressors, ordered by the Western Gas Company, of El Paso, from the Cooper Bessemer Corporation, of Mount Vernon, Ohio, at a total cost of $375,000, are to be used on the $6,000,000 natural gas pipe line to be extended 275 miles westward from the present terminus at El Paso, to the Phelps Dodge and Calumet & Arizona smelters at Douglas, Arizona, via Deming, New Mexico. It is also understood that the pipeline will be extended to Bisbee, Arizona, and to Cananea Consolidated Copper Company operations at Cananea, Sonora, Mexico.
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A special meeting of directors of the Arizona - Commercial Mining Company, which lately sold its Globe, Arizona, properties to Old Dominion, is to be held in Portland, Maine, February 11, to vote on liquidation of the company. Since its organization in 1912, it is reported that Arizona Commercial has distributed in dividends $9.60 a share on the 265,000 shares of $5 par stock. In the aggregate, these dividend payments amounted to $2,544,000. Preliminary figures show that at the end of 1930, the company had net quick assets of approximately $190,000; and 4,400,000 pounds of copper which valued at 10 cents a pound, means $440,000 additional, or a total of $680,000. Following stockholders’ approval of the proposal to liquidate, it is planned to make a partial distribution of the assets, and further distributions as the copper inventory is marketed.
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The annual stockholders’ meeting of the United Verde Extension Mining Company, will be held at the New York offices of the company, at 233 Broadway, February 17. The election of a board of directors will be held, reports of the various officers will be heard, and other business of the company will be transacted at that time.
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Notice has been given that property of the Calumet & Jerome Copper Company, in Yavapai County, Arizona, is to be sold at public auction, at the county court house in Prescott, February 21. It is claimed that this comes about, under and by virtue of an order of sale, decree of foreclosure of realty mortgage, and special execution issued out of the Superior Court of Yavapai County, wherein George W. Avery obtained a judgment and decree of foreclosure against the company for the sum of $19,546.43, together with interest and other costs.
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The first annual meeting of stockholders of the Black Bess Consolidated Gold Mining Company, operating properties at Ajo, Arizona, will be held at the offices of the company at 225 Martine Avenue, White Plains, New York, on February 17, according to an announcement of M. M. Cook, secretary. A board of directors for the organization will be elected at that time.
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It is reported that a 12-pipe retort furnace, with a capacity of 50 tons daily, has been installed at property of the Arizona Quicksilver Corporation, north of Roosevelt, Arizona, preparatory to the resumption of operations at the mine. O. M. Magnuson, Box 433, Globe, is manager of the company.
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With nearly half his contract’ completed, A. B. Peach, mining engineer of Prescott, Arizona, reports everything going in fine shape, in sinking the new three-compartment shaft for United Verde Extension Mining Company, at the old Vulture Mine, at Wickenburg. The shaft, begun shortly before Christmas, is being sunk to a depth of 500 feet for exploratory purposes. The vein of gold ore which formerly produced millions from the Vulture, but which was lost as the result of faulting, is expected to be cut, diamond drilling last year by the Vulture Mining & Milling Company having indicated that ore of high-grade is to be found around the 400 or 500-foot depth.
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According to Frank Warning, mining man of Oatman, Arizona, there has been an important new gold strike made in the northern part of the San Francisco mining district, in Mohave County, Arizona. The ledge has been opened up in several places, one location showing width of the ore to run 18 feet. The discovery was made by Ed Nordlund and partners, and Mr. Warning, M. C. Richardson, Ed Laferiere and Bert Gilbert have also become interested in the deposit.
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After 15 years of prospecting in the Yuma hills, indications are that F. A. Olmstead of Yuma, may be rewarded with a substantial paystreak in his Shirley May Mine, located 10 miles south of Wellton, Arizona. Geologists have reported favorably on the prospect after an inspection of the 85-foot drift. The vein is being followed, and better values are expected in the next 15 feet. Olmstead is working the claim, with his partner, Bob Davies.
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Negotiations are reported under way to determine the feasibility of Whitman Metals Reduction Corporation’s establishing a plant at Winslow, Arizona. D. J. Foley, sales engineer of the Whitman company, has been in Navajo county, Arizona, since last June, surveying and gathering data relative to the advisability of locating a branch of the company’s Tucson plant at Winslow. Conditions for a northern Arizona project for the company are reported as most favorable. The concern manufactures, through special process, copper and lead products. Henry L. Whitman, Santa Rita Hotel, Tucson, is president and manager of the organization.
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It is reported that B. F. Majors, of San Diego, California, has started installing machinery for renewed operations at the Double Eagle mine, near Wellton, Arizona. About 100 feet of tunneling will be necessary, to open the streak of high-grade. The ore now runs from $20 to $60 per ton, it is stated.
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Bagdad Copper Corporation, George G. Thomas, manager, is at present developing 200 tons of copper ore daily at Hillside, Arizona. J. W. Still is with the company as mine superintendent.
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The Silver Strike Mining Company of Bowie, Arizona, W. J. Schilplin, president and manager, is making preparations to change over from hand, to machinery work. Two hundred feet of crosscutting has been completed, with the last 20 feet in $14 mill rock. When sufficient ore has been blocked out, the Silver Strike intends to install the first unit of a 100-ton concentration and flotation plant. A new bunk house has been constructed at the property, and a three-drill compressor is to be installed for further mine work. At present five men are employed.
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Articles of incorporation have been filed with the Arizona Corporation Commission by the Consolidated Ajo Mines, Inc., of Tucson, Arizona. The company has a capital stock of $2,000,000, and was incorporated by Arnold A. Odium and C. C. Michener, both of Denver, and M. L. Sawyer of Tucson.
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The Arizona Magma Mining Company is understood at present, to be un-watering workings of its property at Chloride, Arizona. This action is being taken after a general survey of the holdings. The work is being done under the supervision of Harold Carpenter, superintendent.
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Waiter B. Laveen, sheriff of Pinal County, Arizona, has given notice that certain property of the Pacific Copper Company, located in the Mineral Hill mining district, will be sold at public auction in Florence, Arizona, Tuesday, February 10. It is reported that this action was brought about to satisfy a judgment rendered Frank M. Allen, in the amount of $546.90, together with accruing costs, based upon foreclosure and a mechanic laborer’s lien and an attachment lien therein described.
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Commencing June 15, Magma Copper Company will cease operations for four or five weeks, according to a recent announcement of Manager William Koerner, in Superior, Arizona. Mr. Koerner stated emphatically that the mine would not close down before that time. During the brief period of the shutdown, important repairs will be made at the main shaft, and at the hoisting plant. To permit repair work and alterations last year, the company’s smelter ceased operations for about thirty days. The suspension this summer will affect the mine, mill and smelter.
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Production of Calumet & Arizona Mining Company, of Warren, Arizona, including its New Cornelia mines at Ajo, amounted to 6,382,000 pounds of copper during the month of December. Total output for the year 1930 amounted to 90,822,000 pounds. Harry A. Clark is the company’s manager.
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Unwatering of the January shaft, near Patagonia, Arizona, has been completed, and further sinking has been started. Three shifts are at present employed, to speed up the work as much as possible. Jim Cowan is interested in this property, and Frank Gallagher is managing operations.
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Articles of incorporation have been filed with the Arizona Corporation Commission, by the Apache Chief Placer Mining Company, of Willcox, Arizona. The company has a capital stock of $500,000, and was incorporated by William Carlton and J. O. Fielding, both of Willcox.
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Tunnel work is the principal development at present under way on the gold and silver property of the Pan-American Mining & Investment Company, at Congress Junction, Arizona, according to Gilbert E. Greer, president and manager. Ore is being steadily blocked out. The workings total 6,500 feet.
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General Manager J. G. Clark of Boulder, Colorado, reports that the Tungsten Production Company, Inc., is continuing some development work at its tungsten mines at Hereford, Arizona, in order that the company will be in a position for rather large-scale production as soon as market conditions are favorable. The company is at present developing a water supply to meet the demands of the proposed mill to be erected at the King mines, in the Little Dragoon Mountains, about 14 miles from Benson, Arizona. R. L. Alexander is superintendent of the company’s Arizona property.
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Diamond drilling intermittently under way on the Big Jim gold property at Oatman, Arizona, during the past two months, has encountered the rhyolite dyke, after a course of several hundred feet, from the 500-foot level. Approximately 200 feet from the dyke, an ore body showing commercial value, and running 22 feet wide, was revealed by the drills. Following the campaign of exploration just completed, the Big Jim management is understood getting ready for a program of production, to involve an output of about 50 tons of ore daily. C. D. Pickering, formerly associated with Big Jim operations at Patagonia, Arizona, is to be in charge of the company’s proposed reduction work. Jno. W. Henderson is in charge of the Big Jim property, as superintendent.
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The Trench Mining Company is continuing operation of the World’s Fair mine, at Patagonia, Arizona, through the World’s Fair tunnel. Lead and silver ore are being produced by a force of 15 men, employed under the supervision of P. W. Carico.
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The following is the personnel of the mining committee of the Tucson, Arizona, chamber of commerce, for the ensuing year, as announced by Arthur W. Jacobs, chairman: G. M. Butler, H. H. De Autremont, A. J. Harshberger, Ed Vail, and David Richards.
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Bert Logan, well-known mining man of Santa Cruz County, Arizona, has started operations at the old Mowry Mine at Patagonia, and is doing considerable repairing and getting the mine in shape for new development. Shipments have been started, the ore carrying silver, lead and gold.
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SOUTHERN ARIZONA MINE HAS NEW GOLD STRIKE
A new gold strike, assaying $1,396.96 per ton, was made in the El Oro Mine, located 72 miles southwest of Tucson, Arizona, during the working shifts of January 24 and 25. Recent work at this mine, originally known as the old Allison property, has been centered largely about the 625-foot Level, and officials of the company are now anxiously awaiting further development of the new discovery.

Art Worcester, company metallurgist and resident engineer, is sampling and testing the ore. The first assay showed 68 ounces of gold, and 126 ounces of silver, per ton. President Frank C. Hulbert of Beverly Hills, California, was at the company’s headquarters in the Consolidated National Bank Building in Tucson at the time of the strike. He stated that the present object of the company is to explore to the 1,000-foot level, reports having indicated an increase in value with deeper development.

The El Oro Mining & Milling Corporation took over the Allison property in October, and it is stated that since that time, approximately $75,000 has been spent, principally in working out a satisfactory recovery process. The 40-ton unit of the milling plant is now practically completed, and will shortly be ready for the first test runs. Between now, and commencement of the proposed 300-ton mill, this unit will serve as a test plant. Operations at the property are soon to be facilitated by the building of 15 additional feet on the present dam, for an increased water supply.

The Tom Reed Gold Mines Company, operating well-known gold properties at Oatman, Arizona, has an interest in the El Oro.
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ARIZONA MINING NEWS MINING JOURNAL 2 28 1931

With an adequate water supply being pumped from the 130-foot well recently completed, and carried through 6,000 feet of pipeline to the mill site, the Boriana Mining Company is rushing construction work on its new plant, to handle the large reserve of tungsten ore opened in its various workings, at Yucca, Arizona. Foundations for the milling plant are now nearing completion, and with the assured water supply, erection of the actual building is to begin immediately. A crew of 40 men is working, and this number will likely be increased as operations progress. L. B. Rece is manager.
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After completing 600 feet of tunneling, entirely by hand, W. J. Schilplin, president and manager of the Silver Strike Mining Company, Bowie, Arizona, is now installing machinery for more rapid development work. Besides the development work undertaken during the past five years, numerous test holes have been sunk along the vein to be certain that the mineralization continued for the entire length of the property. The breast of the tunnel is now reported in heavily mineralized material.
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The Keppler, Hilton, Hasselgren Placer Company has purchased the Huggins & Parker placer mining machinery, now located on the San Francisco River, about six miles below Clifton, Arizona. Buster B. Keppler of Clifton, Manager of the company, plans to move the outfit to the Gila River, one mile below the mouth of Eagle Creek, where the Keppler, Hilton Hasselgren Company owns a number of placer claims.
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The Board of Directors of Big Jim Mines, Inc., operating in the Oatman District, has completed arrangements for adequate financing of the enlarged program of development, which should again place the property on a large scale of production, according to an announcement of Manager A. G. Keating, a recent visitor in Kingman, Arizona. Mr. Keating, who has headquarters at 486 Fidelity Building, Los Angeles, stated that last year’s exploration campaign, which consisted largely of diamond drilling, obtained most favorable results for the company, the cores showing the typical gold-bearing Oatman quartz. Crews are now engaged in sinking the shaft to the 700-foot Level.
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The regular annual meeting of stockholders of the Kino Copper Company will be held in the offices of Duane Bird, in the Noon Building, in Nogales, Arizona, March 2. A board of directors will be elected at that time, according to Louis Hudgin, secretary.
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That the exploration work on the old Vulture Gold property at Wickenburg, Arizona, being carried forward by the United Verde Extension Mining Company, is going along satisfactorily, although not yet at a depth that gives any hint of what the outcome will be. That was the word brought to Douglas, Arizona, by James S. Douglas, president of U. V. X., after a trip to Jerome, and the development work at Wickenburg. Mr. Douglas stated that the shaft has been put down to something more than half way to the level where drifting is to be undertaken. The shaft is now more than 300 feet deep. The contract, awarded to A. B. Peach, mining engineer of Prescott, calls for sinking to the 500-foot level.
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Articles of incorporation have been filed with the Arizona Corporation Commission, by the Stanton Arizona Mines, Inc., of Vail, Pima County, Arizona. The incorporators were Frederick W. Kristeller, and Charles Osler, both of New York City. The company has a capital stock of 100,000 shares, without nominal par value.
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The Calzona Mining & Miiling Company, with headquarters at 685 I. W. Hellman Building, Los Angeles, Charles A. Dutro, President and Manager, has, during the last two or three months, drifted 150 feet along the vein, on the 225-foot level of its property, at Arivaca, Arizona. Mr. Dutro states that the values averaged $12.60 per ton, over five feet in width. It is planned to continue the drift to the 260-foot point, where a crosscut will be started, and a raise carried to the surface. A test plant of 15 or 25 tons daily capacity is to be installed on the property at once, and it is planned to have it operating within 60 days.
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The North Ontario Gold Mine, Inc., capitalized at $3,000,000, has been incorporated by the Arizona Corporation Commission. The concern was incorporated by Wayne Hubbs, and J. B. Creighton, of Phoenix.
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According to current reports of the Old Dominion Company, at Globe, Arizona, production has been cut from 1,600,000 pounds, to slightly over 1,000,000 pounds, of copper, monthly. Work of concreting the main shaft has been stopped, and development and construction are being reduced to the minimum amount possible, but diamond drill exploration work has been started more extensively. The payroll has been reduced from 800, to about 500 men, but no further reduction is contemplated. I. H. Barkdoll is Old Dominion Manager.
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The Midnite Test Mine of the National Exploration Company, Prescott, Arizona, consigned a carload of high-grade concentrate to the A. S. & H. Smelter, at Hayden, Arizona, February 9. Considerable difficulty was experienced in the haul due to a heavy rainfall that made trucking dangerous on the Senator Highway. W. W. Linesba, General Manager of the company, has been in Los Angeles on business. During his absence, E. H. Crabtree, Superintendent, is in charge of the property.
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Henry Stoffers, of the Crosby Mine, near Hillside, Arizona, was recently in Prescott, buying supplies. Mr. Stoffers and Ed. Manuel have been operating the Crosby during the past three months, during which time they have shipped 45 tons of ore, and they at present have about 40 tons more on the station platform at Hillside. Several weeks ago, a truckload of high-grade was consigned to the Hayden Smelter, that netted $228 a ton. This property has been worked by lessees during the past three years, and there is a 10-stamp mill on the ground. From 1912 to 1917, over 1,400 feet of development work, not including stopes, was completed, and the main shaft is now down 365 feet. To date, the mine is reported to have produced approximately $150,000, the values being practically all gold. Sufficient capital has been raised, according to reports, so that after March 1, the property will be operated on a larger scale.
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Operations have been considerably curtailed at the Hillside, Arizona, property of Bagdad Copper Corporation, and the company has considered it advisable to await improvement in the metal market before starting construction of its proposed 5,000 or 10,000-ton plant. It is stated that Bagdad reserves are sufficient to supply ore for 10 years, at the rate of 10,000 tons daily. George G. Thomas is company Manager.
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About 15 men will go to work immediately as sub-leasers on the W. W. Poindexter Gold Property, 10 miles south of Globe, Arizona, according to Walter X. Osborn, Superintendent of the Edward C. O’Brien & Company, at Globe, who has taken a lease on the claims. Work will be confined to the surface at present, and, if, after a survey, ore indications continue favorable, it is probable that development will be undertaken at depth. Numerous veins of gold ore outcrop along the surface, it is stated, some of which show values of from $10 to $20 per ton.
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It is understood that directors of the Tom Reed Gold Mines Company will consider placing the company’s stock on a dividend basis in the near future. However, the matter will doubtless not be acted upon formally until the regular meeting of the board, to be held within the next several weeks. Extensive development work is being continued at the company’s Oatman, Arizona, property, and January shipments to the Mint were estimated at mote than $86,000. The company’s fiscal year ends next month, and preliminary figures indicate an annual record of gratifying results. Victor A. Light is in charge at Oatman, in the capacity of Assistant General Manager.
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The 50-ton mill, installed at Sahuarita, Arizona, by the Southwest Metals Corporation, has been purchased by H. L. Berkey, 728 East Fourth Street, Tucson, Arizona, for use on the Santa Rita Copper Company properties, in the Santa Rita Mountains. Mr. Berkey is President and Manager of the Santa Rita Copper Company, which controls leaching operations at the Amex Copper Company properties in Mexico. At the Amex property, the company is interested in fabricating a new metal, and expects to have full operations under way within a period of the next three months.
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K. D. Terrell, operating the Hackberry Mine, at Mayer, Arizona, in partnership with F. Gibbs, Mining Engineer of Humboldt, Arizona, is crosscutting on the 200-foot Level in an effort to pick up the ore body. Numerous shipments have been made from this property during the last couple of years.
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George Krause, owner of placer ground near Prescott, Arizona, known as the Federal Southwest, has completed the installation of a sluice box, engine, pump, and pipeline, and as soon as the weather permits, will be ready to operate on a small scale. It is stated that recovery made at the property with present equipment is several times greater than that made by patented gold saving machines formerly used there.
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It is reported that a mill is under construction on the Morgan mining property, in the Quijotoa District, near Sells, Arizona.
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International Geophysics, Inc., of Culver City, California, is conducting a geophysical survey for the H. Greenway Albert interests, at Ajo, Arizona. The work is being conducted by C. H. Wilson, John W. Daly, and M. Sperling. The chief purpose of the survey is to determine the location of any sulphide ores, which may underlie the lower grade oxide ores which appear on the surface. International Geophysics is making its customary thorough and detailed geological, magnetometer, and electrical studies, of the area, together with laboratory studies of the various rocks at its Culver City laboratories, under the technical supervision of J. J. Jakosky.
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United Verde Extension Mining Company, Jerome, Arizona, George Kingdon, Manager, started the year 1931 with a monthly production of 2,824,696 pounds of copper, in January. This beat December’s production of 2,473,000 pounds, which fell below November output, by 827,000 pounds.
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It is understood that W. F. Grove & Sons of Prescott, are planning to again start operation of the Sterling Mine, in the Hassayampa District. The Groves formerly operated the property, before it was worked last year by George Kirkbride. During the past few months, Mr. Grove and sons, and Louis Milner, have been centering attention on development of the Ten Spot Mine, in the Senator District. This year, to date, they have shipped five cars of ore to the smelter, it is stated, and have two more carloads broken in the stopes. Mr. Milner, who previously operated the Ten Spot alone, under lease from Phelps Dodge, is reported to have shipped over 700 tons of ore from the property, without any help, last summer, Grove and sons entered into a partnership with Milner and put the necessary equipment and machinery on the property, for work on a larger scale.
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Lawsuit of J. T. Jones, against the Tombstone Mining Company, to decide title to a group of mining claims near Tombstone, Arizona, was settled out of court a few minutes before it was due to be called for trial. Counsel for Jones, and for the defendant company, which is composed of the D’Autremont Brothers of Tucson, and W. E. Holt and H. W. Hasselgren of Tombstone, announced that differences had been settled, and that the Tombstone Mining Company would continue to operate the claims.
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The Hassayampa Gold Mining Company, Kirkland, Arizona, Joe Serafini, manager, has installed a large compressor, and is rapidly pushing development work. To date, the company has completed 500 feet of exploration and development work, with encouraging results. At present, the shaft is being sunk deeper, and it is planned to crosscut at the 150-foot level. An old shaft on the property is now being cleaned out, preparatory to sinking and crosscutting there. The company hopes to soon be ready for the erection of a mill.
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E. F. Krans, recently in Prescott, Arizona, from the Catoctin Mine, in Yavapai County, stated that the 400-foot shaft on the property is being reopened, and that good ore was encountered near the surface. The Catoctin has a history of gold production.
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A small crew of men is at work on the Gold Spot Placer Mine, at Congress Junction, Arizona, handling 10 yards of gravel daily, according to Taylor M. Woodward, Manager. Mr. Woodward controls a quarter interest in this property, half interest being owned by Lucy M. Woodward of Congress Junction, with the other quarter interest controlled by R. B. Woodward, of Youngstown, Ohio. They have eight claims. A 60-foot ditch has been completed on the property, for the tumble screen and sluice boxes, and a new well has been developed, with an eight-hour pumping capacity. The operators use a three-inch hose line, and a one-inch nozzle, for cutting the dirt, and driving it to the feed boxes and screens. The last run cleaned up, ran $1.15 in gold per yard.
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Yuma County, Arizona, is reporting much mine activity.
F. A. Olmstead has reported a strike of gold in the Shirley May Mine, 10 miles south of Wellton;
the lost vein of the old Fortuna property is reported relocated;
a 10-stamp mill on the Golden Eagle group of the Harqua Hala Bonanza Mine is about to be started on a run;
and the Blue Cloud Copper Company is planning to resume operations.
B. F. Majors of San Diego has begun the installation of machinery for renewal of work at the Double Eagle Mine, near the Shirley May. Ore reported by Majors, to average close to $35 a ton, is available at this property.
Olmstead and his partner, Bob Davis, have been prospecting the district for the last 15 years, and have spent considerable time in exploration of the Shirley May property. They are centering all work at present on the exposing of the main vein in the Shirley May property, and believe this will be accomplished with a little more effort.
Some ore has been shipped from the Golden Eagle group of claims recently. C. E. Adair and associates, of Los Angeles and New York City, have been working on the re-opening of this old gold property for some time, and at present, there is a quantity of material blocked out for mill treatment. The mill has been reconditioned and is about ready for test runs.
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Much interest is being excited in the Southwest, over the prospective exploration of the Vulture Mining Company property, Wickenburg, Arizona, which is being developed by the United Verde Extension Mining Company. The new shaft is being rapidly pushed, and is now down almost 800 feet. The shaft is being sunk at a point where diamond drills picked up an orebody at a depth of 425 feet, and which is believed to be the main vein which was lost through faulting, by the old company, after some $15,000,000 in gold had been taken from the property. The U. V. X. organization is prepared to spend $600,000 on the development of this historic gold producer.
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Options have been taken on the Hubbard-Rotten group of claims, Hillside, Arizona, by D. B. Finlayson, President of the Vulture Mining Company, Wickenburg, Arizona. The properties are located about eight miles from Hillside, and at present, work is centered on sinking below the 100 Level in No. 2 Shaft, and in drifting on a vein, at the 150 Level of No. 1 Shaft. The latter shaft has been sunk to a depth of 175 feet. These shafts are about 500 feet apart, and it is planned to run a tunnel between them.
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Diamond drill exploration work has been started more extensively on the property of the Old Dominion Company, Globe, Arizona, I. Barkdoll, Manager. Most of the men re-employed for this work, were those who had been laid off during a recent cut.
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A 25-ton concentrator has been erected at the Sultan Mine, C. T. Bageley, Hillside, Arizona. Several shipments of high-grade gold ore have recently been made from this property. The ore is free milling, and the mill will be amalgamation and concentration. Mr. Bageley expects to have it in operation about March 1st.
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Reports from the Little Johnnie Mining Company, near Prescott, Arizona, state that in the past six months, about 800 feet of development work has been done, connecting a new tunnel with an old shaft. Homer C. Chapin, principal stockholder of the company, has been making an inspection of the properties. He was accompanied by two geologists, M. C. Lake of Duluth, Minn., and H. N. Weber of Phoenix, Arizona. F. V. Johnson is Superintendent.
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At the annual meeting of the stockholders of the United Verde Copper Company, Jerome and Clarkdale, Arizona, Charles W. Clark was elected president and Robert E. Tally, former President, was made Vice-president in charge of mining and smelting operations, and William A. Clark, Jr., was made Executive Vice-president, previously serving in the capacity of Vice-president. John H. Hall Jr., and Harry H. St. Clair were re-elected Secretary and Treasurer, respectively. Geo. Adams Ellis, William E. Gower, George G. Knox, and F. Y. Robertson were elected Directors, in place of Sidney Sanner, H. S. Sturgis, W. J. Field, and B. E. Cooks. Other directors were re-elected.
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It is planned to sink the shaft of the Blue Cloud Mine, Parker, Arizona, to a depth of 800 feet. Harry Green is Superintendent of this property, and C. M. MacFarlane, Consulting Engineer. After the shaft-sinking program, it is stated that a thorough exploration of the property at that level, is to be started.
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J. C. McDonald and associates, of Los Angeles, have taken over the Reward Mine, located about two miles from Cleator, Arizona. About 80 feet of new development work has been done, in addition to cleaning up the property, and development work is to be pushed, to determine whether a milling plant is justified. The property is stated to show a 3½ -foot vein carrying good average values in silver, 12 inches of which, carry values running up into several hundred ounces to the ton.
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Notice has been given of sheriff’s sale, of property and equipment of the Arizona Copper and Gold Mining Company, situated in the Black Rock Mining District, Yavapai County, Arizona. The sale is advertised for February 25, 1931, at Prescott, Arizona, and is to satisfy a judgment of $2390.60 in favor of Tony A. Lucas.
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THE MINING JOURNAL 3 15 1931

ARIZONA

The three-compartment shaft being sunk by United Verde Extension, on the famous old Vulture gold property at Wickenburg, Arizona, has passed the 400-foot level, but contrary to rumors, the main ore body has not yet been struck, according to D. R. Finlayson, in charge of operations. Mr. Finlayson, who was previously in charge of exploration and diamond drilling on the property, which led up to relocation of the faulted extension of the Vulture vein, and the option by United Verde Extension, stated that a new strata of rock had been reached, but that the ore body still appeared to be some distance away. Those closely connected with the development are of the opinion, however, that quartz will be encountered before the 500-foot level is reached. If weather and other conditions remain favorable, and the present rate of progress is maintained, Contractor A. B. Peach expects to attain the 500-foot mark within the next couple of weeks. Tentative plans have been made for the erection of a 500-ton mill on the property, if the ore expected is opened up, U. V. X. being prepared to spend around $600,000 on the development.
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At the Tom Reed property, at Oatman, a winze is under way from the 1,100-foot level, on the dip of the vein. The company’s present plan of development entails greater depth in the Black Eagle shaft, believed to be the proper method of bringing about better working conditions and more economical production. Current shipments of bullion from the mill have varied, according to reports, but the monthly average is understood remaining about the same. Victor A. Light is in charge of the property, as assistant general manager.
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It is reported that the Jack White Mine, in the Cave Creek district, near Phoenix, Arizona, has been taken over again by the owners, and that development work in the form of drifting is now being undertaken. During the course of work, ore sampling $42 per ton is being sacked for shipment. The property was recently developed to considerable extent, by the Maricopa Mining Company, backed by interests of Seattle, Washington.
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A new ore body, running in value from $80 to $40 per ton, has been reported opened up in the Sunnyside mine at Oatman, Arizona. Current development work on this property, operated by lessees, has been centered largely around the 500-foot level. Bob Lyons is in charge of the work.
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Work has been resumed on a small scale at the old Union gold property, in the Winnifred district, 20 miles north of Phoenix, Arizona, and a shipment of ore has been made to the El Paso smelter, for determination of value. The property is owned by Sims Ely, of 115 Granada Road, Phoenix. Exploration work was recently started on a parallel vein of attractive showings, from which several extensions have been located. Other property in this area has been located by Claude B. Blitzkie, a southern Colorado mining man, who expresses belief that the district is destined to become a substantial gold producer.
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A copper strike which may be regarded as the most important and interesting development in the history of the property, has been announced by Chester Hoatson, manager of the Belmont Copper Mining Company at Superior, Arizona. Assays of the ore showed 20 percent copper, 10 ounces in silver to the ton, and good values in gold. The vein was encountered during a development program on a heretofore unexplored portion of the property. The company now intends to expand its present operations immediately. A new road is under construction to the mine, and it is expected that production will soon be started with consignments to the smelter.
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A vein of ore, running from $10 to $40 a ton, with an average value of $20, is being uncovered in the Western Apex mine, of the Consolidated Gold Mining Company, at Oatman, Arizona, according to Thomas A. Wood, president. This is on the 500-foot level. The company will continue to drift south and east into the body, and is also drifting north and west, where geologists believe another substantial ore body will be picked up. Preparations are also being made to commence active development on the Lexington-Arizona property, controlled by the same company.
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The Finley Mining Company of Tucson, Arizona, has started development of gold claims on the Quitotoa Mountain, near Covered Wells, Pima County, Arizona. F. B. Finley, well-known mining and petroleum engineer, formerly of Los Angeles, and who can now be reached at the Los Angeles Hotel, in Tucson, is in charge of the work. He states that the property covers a fissure vein 25 feet wide, and presents an excellent opportunity for channel drifting.
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The Western States Gold Mining Company of Cherry, Arizona, is to complete installation of its cyanide equipment, preparatory to the commencement of milling operations April 1. The plant has capacity for 30 tons daily. A crew of workmen are at this time engaged in exploration work in the mine. President Frank W. Brown, 526 Pacific Southwest Building, Pasadena, California, reports that the company blocked out an appreciable amount of ore during 1930. The shaft has been sunk to a depth of 965 feet, and tunneling has been completed for 2,665 feet. W. B. Andrew is in charge at Cherry as secretary and manager.
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Since J. C. McDonald took an option to purchase the Reward group of claims at Cleator, Arizona, December 5, he has driven the tunnel 80 feet, with the heading now in ore assaying 56 ounces silver and $2 gold per ton. This body has a 10-inch streak of ore, running 527 ounces silver and $2 gold a ton. Mr. McDonald, who is located at 2901 Denton Avenue, San Gabriel, California, states that there is a shoot of high-grade, 100 feet further ahead, toward which present development is being directed. The work is being done by hand, with three men employed. It is planned to start shipping some of the high-grade next month.
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With mining men turning to gold fields, the Green Valley district, near Payson, Arizona, has come in for considerable attention, and it is expected that this interest will result in the opening of a number of old properties. Good highways in this section also are aiding in the revival of interest in the mining properties. The Green Valley district first attracted attention about 40 years ago, but due to its inaccessibility and the high costs of mining and milling at that time, development work was retarded. Enough work was done in the district, however, to indicate that with reasonable production costs, the properties would prove profitable ventures. The old Zulu, Gowan and the American claims in this area are known as worthy prospects.
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The Blue Monster Copper Company is driving two tunnels under its surface ore, at Cherry, Arizona. The values of this property are in gold and silver, as well as copper. A shaft has been sunk 400 feet, in addition to the 2,000 feet of tunneling. Thomas Sutcliffe is president and manager of the company.
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The Rialto shaft at the Four Peaks copper mine, of the Consolidated Arizona Mines, nine miles south of Bouse, Arizona, is being sunk to the 400-foot level, according to a report from Manager W. B. Harris, of Salome, Arizona. This is a copper-gold property. Development work is also under way at the company’s No. 2 Copper Hill shaft, located 16 miles south of Salome. At this point crosscutting on the first level reached the hanging wall of the vein, 125 feet from the bottom of the shaft, and in March, crosscutting and drifting is to be started to the footwall.
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A small milling plant is to be installed by the Gold & Metal Company of Arizona, at Hereford, this spring. This property, headed by Sam J. Miller, now at Mesa, is an old-time producer, and has been shipping off and on for the past 23 years. Mrs. .W. W. Allison, 328 North Fourth Avenue, is agent for the company at Phoenix.
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The present development program of the Hassayampa Gold Mining Company at Kirkland, Arizona, is to be completed by July 31, after which a mill is to be erected, according to a recent announcement made in Prescott. The company is reported spending approximately $1,500 monthly on development work, and has around 2,000 tons of high-grade ore already on the dump. Joe Serafini is in charge of the work as manager.
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A program of development is now being planned for the Wallapai mines, located on McCracken Mountain, near Kingman, Arizona, according to John R. O’Rourke, head of the organization which recently acquired the property from a group of Kingman business men. The program is based on data obtained from diamond drilling completed some time past, which, according to reports, disclosed several veins of commercial ore. The company is capitalized at $1,000,000, and is at present conducting a financing campaign through a Los Angeles office.
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A. Y. Smith, president and manager, reports that the Commonwealth Mining & Milling Company has 18 men at work in its gold-silver mine at Pearce, Arizona. Fifteen tons of ore are being produced daily, and shipments are made to the Copper Queen smelter at Douglas. The company intends to start diamond drilling on the property in a few months.
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Big Jim Mine Reopens
By CHARLES SPILLMAN, Reno, Nevada.
Renewed activity in Oatman District follows gold strike by Tom Reed Company.

The reopening of the Big Jim mine at Oatman, Arizona, after an idleness of several years, is one of the interesting phases of recent development in this famous gold district. The re-conditioning of the Big Jim main shaft, followed the discovery by the Tom Reed Mining Company, of what may be a new vein of gold ore, working out from their Black Eagle shaft. These new ore bodies are of unusual richness, with some ore running into bonanza figures. The new strike is of great importance to the district, for it completely dispels the belief which was formerly held, that the limits of the ore horizon was approximately 800 feet. The Tom Reed Company has found in their new strike, that rich ore starts considerably below this 800 foot horizon. It has so far continued to a 1100-foot depth.

PIC Big Jim Mine, with Oatman in the background.

A touch of romance is added to the re-opening of the Big Jim mine, by the fact that the property has recently been taken over and is being operated by a new Big Jim Corporation, which is headed by A. C. Keating. Mr. Keating, as a young mining engineer fifteen years ago, found and developed the original Big Jim mine, which subsequently produced some six million dollars in gold. After the mine had been developed, it was merged with the United Eastern Mining Company in the same district, and the joint operations produced over seventeen million dollars. Approximately eight million dollars of this was paid in dividends.

The life of the Oatman district, from 1903 until early in 1915, was uneventful. There was one mine in the district, namely, the Tom Reed Mining Company, which was carrying on a successful profitable operation. In the spring of that year, the interest of the mining world was attracted to Oatman, by the news of the developments being made in the United Eastern Mining Company property. These claims adjoined the Tom Reed on the northeast. As a result of this discovery, great interest began to be shown in the district.

Mining engineers started investigation, and a number of new projects were launched. Among the early invaders of the new field, was Keating, who although only a short time out of college, had had considerable experience in mining operation. He took the time to make a careful geological study of the district, and particularly of the vein system, as it had been developed at the southeast of the Tom Reed mine itself. The Big Jim claim was located in September, 1908, by S. S. Jones, the superintendent of the Tom Reed mine. “not because it showed any indication of the vein”, says S. S. Ransom, in Bulletin 743, on the “Geology of the Oatman District,” “but because it happened to be un-located ground near a producing mine.” A few months later Jones and his associates sold the property to H. E. Woods, a retired Cripple Creek operator, who had come to Southern California to live.

Keating evidently found something in his study of the vein that convinced him that there was a chance to make a mine of the Big Jim prospect. He made a deal with the owner of the property, and with their Los Angeles associates, and then, began the task of finding the new ore body, which he believed to be there.

In August, 1916, Mr. Keating started sinking a main working shaft on the Big Jim claim. This shaft was started 125 feet in the hanging wall of what he believed to be the outcrop of the vein. He planned that the shaft would be sunk straight to the 400-foot level, and that a short crosscut would open the ore. The shaft was sunk in record time directly to the 400-foot level, and a crosscut run out. On Christmas Eye in 1916 the crosscut broke into high grade ore, and a new mine was born.

The ore in the crosscut on the 400-foot level was solid for 35 feet in width and over 750 feet in length. After the Big Jim Company had developed the mine to the 600-foot level, a merger was arranged, by which the United Eastern Mining Company took over the Big Jim mine, and the properties were operated jointly. This was particularly advantageous to the Big Jim Company, in view of the fact that the United Eastern had at that time, a 300-ton cyanide mill in operation, and because an apex case had developed between the Big Jim and Tom Reed Companies. By the merger, the United Eastern acquired a very valuable ore body, and the Big Jim stockholders received immediate dividends.

The United Eastern assumed the defense of the Apex suit, and subsequently won it. As the Big Jim ore body was being developed, the Tom Reed Gold Mine Company, whose property adjoined that of the Big Jim, turned their attention to the development of their Aztec ground. The Tom Reed Company sunk what is known as the Aztec shaft, and produced over five million dollars from the continuation of the Big Jim, which ran into their ground.

During the period from 1917 to 1925, Oatman production was at its height, the United Eastern mill handling an average of 800 tons per day, and the Tom Reed producing approximately a similar amount. In time, however, the rich ores of the district were thought to be exhausted, and the United Eastern and Big Jim mines were shut down, and the Tom Reed Company turned over to leasers. Unfortunately, shortly after this, the Big Jim and Aztec shafts were destroyed by fire.

The leasers, however, were successful, and subsequently over a million dollars was produced as a result of their various operations. Of principal interest, was a long drift, which the Tom Reed Company had carried out in a northeasterly direction from the Tom Reed Aztec shaft. This drift was pushed north and east, until a small amount of ore was found lying along the side line of the Aztec Center Southeast claim. This ore body did not at the time hold great promise, but it was gradually developed. The Tom Reed management then came to realize that there was great potential possibilities in the new section of the field, and sunk a winze to develop the ore at depth.

A few feet below the 800 level, the ore body worked by the leasers pinched down to only 75 feet in length, and was of a grade that did not pay. The winze was continued, however, and at about the 900-foot level, the ore shoot had begun to lengthen and the values increased. As the winze was continued, the values still increased until the ore carried gold spattered through the rock, and Bonanza assays were reported. The outlook was so encouraging that in 1928, the Torn Reed Company then undertook the sinking of a new main shaft, which was to develop this end of their ground. The new shaft was sunk to the 1,100-foot level, and drifts were then run out to the new ore body, and connected up with the winzes.

On the 1,100-foot level, the ore was found to be as rich as that in the winze, while the vein was as wide and stronger, and the ore shoot of about the same length. Values of average ore have run as high as $200 per ton for the millheads, with much of the average placed at $30.00 to $40.00. From some of the ore extracted, specimens have been saved that showed much gold in the green stained quartz, with values to be measured in dollars a pound.

The new main working shaft was named the Black Eagle, and is located near the east end of the Aztec center claim, belonging to the Tom Reed Company. It has an elevation of 200 feet above the collar of the Aztec and the Big Jim shafts. Under the very able management of Victor Light, the Tom Reed Company has been, during recent months, producing upward of $100,000.00 per month at a handsome profit. This production has been accomplished under difficulties of pumping water, and the handicap of having to obtain ore from development work.

It has not been definitely established as to whether the so-called Blue Bird ore body is a part of the main Big Jim Aztec vein, nor can it be conclusively proven that it is a separate vein. The work so far accomplished indicates that it may be a separate vein, or at least an overlapping ore body, which branches out from the main zone system. This same condition of a branch vein connecting into the main zone, occurred in the westerly part of the field where the United Eastern vein overlaps the Tom Reed vein.

The fact of importance, however, has been established that an ore body of first importance, and of richness, has been found to extend to a depth of 1,100 feet. The mythical 800-foot ore horizon in Oatman has been disproved, at least as far as the new section of the Oatman district is concerned.

Mr. Keating, whose attention was again called to the Oatman field, by reason of the Tom Reed development, after a careful study, reached the conclusion that the ore bodies in the new discovery, when prolonged, must strike through the Big Jim ground, or else lie in the claims adjoining this ground to the north. Realizing the situation, he took over from the United Eastern, the original Big Jim property, and added to this, the North Aztec and Aztec claims, which sideline this ground on the northeast, and which end lines the Blue Bird claim of the Tom Reed Company.

Although the Big Jim main shaft had been completely destroyed by fire in 1926, the underground workings were in good shape. There had already been driven a long crosscut to the sideline of the Aztec claim. This crosscut was on the 500-foot level and gave a most favorable opportunity to strike into the new ground, in order to locate the prolongation of the Tom Reed Blue Bird ores.

As a preliminary, and quick way of prospecting this ground, contracts were let for diamond drilling, and at 200 feet from the start of the hole, the diamond drills entered the foot wall of a vein. Some three to four feet of typical Oatman ore was encountered by the drill. Then the cores showed approximately ten feet of oxydized and silicious country rock, and again upon the hanging wall, two feet of ore was penetrated. The drill hole was continued until it reached the large rhyolite dyke, which is considered to be the hanging wall of the entire Oatman ore zone. Since the dike forms the boundary of a possible ore zone in that direction, the Big Jim engineers consider that the vein encountered by the drills is one of major importance, and particularly so, since its strike when prolongated, connects up with the strike of the Tom Reed Blue Bird discovery.

PIC OATMAN DISTRICT

As the Big Jim shaft was being re-timbered, and the drilling program carried out, the old workings were found to contain considerable ore of a milling grade. Development work carried on by their neighbor, the Tom Reed Company, indicated that with further depth, a new zone would be encountered in the Big Jim ore body itself. Plans for production are now under way, together with the immediate opening and development of the vein discovered by the drill hole. In this virgin ground the Big Jim will have some 2,000 feet along the strike of the vein so that it is possible that the Big Jim Company will enjoy a production equal, if not greater, than in the past.

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716 ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL Vol.123, No.18

Mining and Milling at the Katherine Gold Mine

By R. L. Diminick and Eugene Ireland
Manager and Mill Superintendent, respectively,
Katherine Gold Mining Co., Kingman, Ariz.

MUCH INTEREST has been aroused recently, particularly in the Southwest, in the reopening and successful operation of a property, whose history dates back some twenty-five years—the Katherine gold mine, in the San Francisco mining district of northwestern Arizona. So much has been published that is inaccurate and misleading, that the present seems a propitious time for an authoritative article.

When the mine was first opened, a 400-ft. shaft was sunk, with lateral work at 100-ft. intervals. Considerable stoping was done, the ore being treated in the old Sheeptrail stamp mill, on the Colorado River below the mine. Wagon transportation was expensive, and the amalgamation process used was not particularly efficient, so that little profit was made even on $12 ore, and operations were suspended in 1906. In 1919, active exploration was resumed by the original company, the Katherine Gold Mining Co., of Delaware, which resulted in developing a large low-grade gold mine.

As already mentioned, the mine is in the San Francisco District of Mohave County, Ariz. Thirty-three miles to the east is Kingman, the county seat and nearest railway point on the main line of the Santa Fe. About twelve miles south of the mine is the well-known town of Oatman, and a mile and a half to the west is the Colorado River. The elevation of the mine is 996 ft. above sea level.

GEOLOGICAL ASPECTS EASILY DETERMINED

The geology of the deposit is simple. The vein occurs in the midst of a large and fairly uniform area of Pre-Cambrian granite, the granite being largely buried under debris. To the southeast, at higher elevation, andesite, porphyry, and rhyolite flows are in evidence, though to the west, erosion has removed all signs of these flows. The andesites are frequently consolidated breccias, and sometimes amygdaloidal. They’re cut by later rhyolite dikes.

GOLD FINELY DISTRIBUTED THROUGH QUARTZ

The lode was evidently formed in stages. First, seams and layers of a white and glassy variety of quartz were deposited, with silicification of the intervening rock. This variety of quartz carries little gold and practically never constitutes commercial ore. In the second stage, seams and large lenses of crystallized calcite were deposited locally in the vein. Not much of this calcite remains, for in the third stage it was largely replaced by quartz of a pale greenish tint that retains the internal structure of the calcite.

Compared with the veins in the Oatman district, the Katherine vein contains much less calcite. The greenish quartz is at times traversed by narrow wavy bands of ribbon quartz, layers of a greenish-yellow waxy appearance alternating with layers of white quartz. It is this aggregate of greenish quartz, ribbon seams, and remnants of the coarse crystallized calcite, stained dark by manganese dioxide, that constitutes the ore. The occurrence is well understood by all who have been familiar with the ore in the Tom Reed and the United Eastern mines. The gold is finely distributed throughout the quartz, and the vein is remarkably free from other minerals. A fine sprinkling of pyrite has been observed in the fracture planes in adjacent or included masses of country rock, but, in general, sulphides are entirely absent.

Pronounced faulting is a general characteristic, most of the faults being thrust faults dipping gently westward. Except for complicating the estimating of the ore reserves, and adding to the difficulties of directing the exploration work, the faults give no trouble, though they are, of course, annoying. The geological problems are in the hands of Ira B. Joralemon.

PICS To the left, above, is Section No. 1, N. 30 deg. W., through the Katherine shaft. In the middle is a cross section of the mine at “F,” and to the right, at “H.” Below, is a map showing the workings at various Levels

The irregular Katherine vein, of quartz and calcite cutting granite, follows a fracture zone, which strikes N. 55 deg. E., and dips 80 deg. or more, northwest. The total width of the fractured shear zone is more than 260 ft. Away from the ore shoots, the mineralization is confined to narrow streaks of crystalline quartz along the fractures in iron-stained, altered granite. In and near ore shoots, the proportion of quartz to granite increases until there are bands of nearly solid quartz up to 60 ft. or more in width.

Much of this gold-bearing quartz has replaced the earlier calcite mineralization referred to before, though some calcite remains un-replaced. Even in the heart of the ore bodies there is much altered granite. The steep banding of the vein material is everywhere apparent. Although some of the bands have filled open fissures, much of the vein material has probably replaced the altered granite of the fracture zone.

Intersecting faults have broken the vein into many irregular fault blocks. The faulting is apparently all due to a prolonged pressure, from below and from the south. Often the ore is found crushed into a breccia in which none of the original vein structure remains.

Two methods of stoping were adopted: a slice-and-fill stope, and a shrinkage stope, the last named being the usual practice. A sill floor of 10x10-in. timbers is carried where the vein is more than 15 ft., and up to 40 or 50 ft. wide, and all posts are head-boarded against stulls for their protection. Several times this style of stope has been carried over a length of 700 ft., with a vertical height of 200 ft. The slice-and-fill stope is resorted to wherever the hanging wall is weak, fill being obtained from the footwall material. In the width of the shear zone developed, four strands of ore have been found, varying in width from 9, to 60 ft., over a length of from 600 to 1,700 ft.

The main workings are from the 400 level to surface, but a winze was sunk to the 600 level, and diamond drills cut to the 1,000, where the vein was located. In February, 1927, the main three-compartment shaft was being put down to the level of the deepest drill hole. Although workings are below the Colorado River level, there is little trouble from water, the average being 40 gals. per minute, at the 600 level. The cost of mining this type of orebody ranges from $1.50 per ton shrinkage, to $2.25 on filled stopes.

Electric power is generated on the ground by direct-connected Diesel engines, there being installed two 360-hp. Fairbanks Morse, one 200-hp. De La Vergne, and one 200-hp. Chicago Pneumatic. This combination allows for a complete stand-by unit, records covering the last eighteen months’ operation showing 98 percent operating time. Three-phase, 60-cycle current is supplied from the generators to all sections of the mine and mill at 440 volts.

Run-of-mine ore, which will pass an 8-in, grizzly, is hoisted in skips to a 100-ton bin. This bin discharges over a bar grizzly, with 1 ½ -in. spaces and inclined at 37 deg. to a 24x12-in. Allis-Chalmers Blake type crusher set to deliver a 21-in, ring product. The discharge from the grizzly and crusher falls on a 14-in, inclined conveyor belt, which delivers ore to a 150-ton silo type mill-ore bin.

From the center of the bin bottom, ore runs on to an 18-in, ratchet-driven apron feeder and is delivered to a 6x6-ft. open trunnion type Allis-Chalmers ball mill in closed circuit with a type C duplex Dorr classifier. Overflow from this classifier flows into a second type C duplex classifier. This second classifier is in closed circuit with a 6x6-ft. open trunnion type Allis-Chalmers Ball-Peb mill. Overflow from this classifier flows to
the primary thickener of the cyanide plant.

Each mill is direct-driven through Wuest gears by a 125-hp. slip-ring motor, about 85 to 90 hp. being required to drive each mill. Five-inch forged-steel balls are used in the primary mill and 21-in, in the secondary, or Ball-Peb mill. Grinding 260 tons per day consumes about 2 lb. of balls per ton of ore in the primary and 2.2 lb. in the secondary. A feature of the grinding, showing the rapid settling properties of the ore, is that dilution in the secondary classifier is only 2.3 to 1.

The primary thickener is a 30x10-ft. Dorr. Overflow runs to the mill sump tanks, and is used as mill solution. The thickened pulp is pumped by a No. 4 Dorrco suction pump, to the first of a series of three 28x14-ft. Dorr agitators. Agitation is continuous. No. 3 agitator overflows into the first and second thickeners of the counter-current decantation system, about 15 percent going to the second thickener and 85 percent to the first. The object is to lighten the load on the first thickener so as to be sure of having a clear overflow at all times.

The decantation system consists of five thickeners, four 28x10-ft. Dorr and one 28x10-ft. Hardinge Superthickener. The Hardinge thickener is the last in the series. As in standard C. C. D. plants, the thickened pulp is pumped by No. 4 Dorrco suction pumps from one thickener to .the next, and finally out of the super-thickener to the tailing pond.

Water wash and one-half of the barren solution wash go into the last thickener, the other half of the barren solution going into the next to the last thickener. The tanks are stepped, enabling the solution to flow by gravity back through all thickeners to the thickener immediately following the agitators, from which it goes to a Hardinge clarifier. The filtrate from this clarifier goes to the precipitation department. Excess solution overflows the clarifier into the mill sump tank, where it unites with overflow from the primary thickener and is used as mill solution.

The precipitation department consists of standard Crowe vacuum equipment with a Merrill zinc-dust feeder and a 36-in., twenty-frame Merrill precipitation press. This press is dressed with four layers of Pequot sheeting. At each cleanup, the top sheet is removed and burned, a new sheet being placed next to the frame.

The mill and cyanide plant were originally designed to treat 150 tons per day, grinding to about 80 percent minus-200 mesh. It was soon found that coarser grinding would give satisfactory extraction, enabling the plant to be stepped up to 260 tons per day, the present tonnage. The problem then was to treat the increased tonnage in the cyanide plant. During the summer, when solutions average about 88 deg. F., the Dorr thickeners would handle 210 tons per day, discharging at 45 to 50 percent solids. During the winter, when solutions average about 55 deg., the discharges had to be kept at 40 to 45 percent solids.

Originally the C. C. D. system consisted of only four thickeners. To it was added the 28x10-ft. Hardinge Super-thickener, which successfully met the difficulty, the Super-thickener discharge at about 65 per cent solids cutting the cyanide and water consumption about 50 percent, and making an equal saving in reducing the dissolved gold loss.

Mine development shows that a larger plant will be needed, so with this in view, experiments are now under way to determine the capacity of the machine, what effect deeper feeding would have, correct filtrate discharge, and minimum sand cut. With the coarse feed, which the thickener is getting, it has been found necessary to throttle the filtrate discharge to keep sufficient slime in the tank to mix with the sand.

Standard practice in a C. C. D. plant treating gold ores is to use the overflow from the primary thickener as gold solution, and the overflow from No. 2, or the first thickener following the agitators, as mill solution. The reverse is being practiced in this plant. This was made necessary by clarification difficulties. Originally, when treating small tonnages, a pressure leaf filter was used for clarification; when the tonnage was increased this was found inadequate, probably owing to chemical precipitation, and a 20x8-ft. Hardinge clarifier was installed. This is practically a duplicate of the Super-thickener, the same sand being used for the filter bottom in each instance with the exception that for the clarifier the sand was washed with 1 to 1 solution.

When the solutions from the primary thickener were clarified, a hard impervious sand cake soon formed on the filter medium. This was undoubtedly due to calcium sulphate in the solution, cementing the sand. This condition was corrected by clarifying the overflow from No. 2 thickener, the calcium sulphate evidently being precipitated out in the pulp during its passage through the agitator. Further proof that this assumption is correct is shown by the fact that the sand bottom in the Super-thickener has never shown the least tendency to harden during six months’ operation. Since making the change, the clarifier has worked satisfactorily, a 1/12in. sand cut per day being required to keep the filter bottom open.

The improvement in clarification had a marked effect on the product in the precipitation press. With the standard Crowe vacuum system used, the zinc consumption per ton of solution is about 0.09 lb. Approximately equal amounts of gold and silver are precipitated, though there is slightly more silver than gold. The press product is fed wet into a DFC tilting furnace; and this product, exclusive of moisture, will average 850 to 900 fine in gold and silver. Bullion produced is about 950 to 960 fine. The extreme purity of the product is due to chemical consumption of the zinc, not only by cyanide, but evidently sodium and potassium hydroxide as well. These hydrates, as well as the calcium sulphate, are evidently formed by the action of calcium oxide on salts in the mine water used for milling and salts dissolved out of the ore. Probably the salts dissolved from the ore have more effect than the mine water alone.

The zinc dust used is the finest grained obtainable. A coarser dust was tried out in an endeavor to stop some of the dissolution of the zinc, but precipitation was so erratic that this was discontinued. Precipitation efficiency is about 99.90 percent. A further feature of this plant is that no lead acetate or litharge is required. Repeated tests have shown that precipitation is as good without as with the use of these lead salts.

The tailing loss averages about 15c. per ton of ore, un-dissolved, and 4.5c., dissolved.
Construction of the mill started Jan. 1, 1925, and it was put in operation June 29 of that year. Total construction cost as the mill stands today is $95,000, or $365 per ton of capacity.

Pic Method ‘of timbering sill floor where the vein is wide

PIC A 50-ft. stope width on the 800 level

The mill and cyanide plant was designed and erected by Eugene Ireland, present mill superintendent, under direct supervision of R. L. Dimmick, manager. Charles Sutro, of San Francisco, is president of the company; R. L. Dimmick, of Kingman, Ariz., vice-president; Julius I. Cahn, San Francisco, secretary; and the Anglo-California Trust Co., San Francisco, treasurer. Directors include Charles Sutro, R. L. Dimmick, Ben W. Vaflett, A. L. Bloomfield, and Allen E. Ware.
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ARIZONA MINING NEWS EMJ 10 28 1922

ARIZONA E&MJ OCTOBER 28, 1922

Bisbee—The Copper Queen branch of the Phelps Dodge Corporation has encountered a flow of 1,100 gal. of water, per minute, in the Calumet & Cochise shaft. This is adequate to assure all the water necessary for the operation of the new Copper Queen concentrator. When it was decided to undertake the development of Sacramento Hill, and the construction of a concentrator to handle the low grade ores, it was realized that a much larger supply of water than had previously been developed, would be necessary. The Calumet & Cochise property was purchased, and work began on the 700 level, the shaft being sunk to 1,834 ft. Drifting was then begun from the 1,800 level, in a southeasterly direction, and at a point approximately 500 ft. from the shaft, water was encountered, but the volume was not sufficient to meet the needs of the concentrator. Further drifting was done in the same direction, and at a point approximately 1,000 ft. from the shaft on the Black Gap fault. After 900 ft. of drifting on the fault, a big volume of water was encountered, which assured a supply sufficient to meet all needs.

The Calumet & Arizona Mining Co. is expected to increase its production for October, as compared with that of September. The increase of wages has been effective in bringing new men to the district.
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Dragoon—E. C. Fulghum, B. E. Gilbert, and A. A. Seabright are examining the Golden Rule mine, a lead-silver producer, with the object of putting it into immediate operation.
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The Texas-Arizona mine, owned by Sidney Webb, of Mineral Wells, Tex., is being operated by E. K Gilbert and Alex Mills under a lease. Miller & Son, who are operating the Keystone mine, are building a substantial adobe store building and a bunk house. The machinery for the new mill is on the ground and will be installed by J. H. Hubbard.
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MINING AND SCIENTIFIC PRESS May 14, 1921

ARIZONA

Globe.—More than 300 Mexican employees, with their baggage, have been taken to Nogales, Sonora, at the expense of the Inspiration Copper Co. and Gila County. The Inspiration company has agreed to transport all Mexicans who were in its employ on January 1 of this year——
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Kingman. Several mining properties are already being developed in the recently established camp of Katherine, in the Union Pass country, about 35 miles from Kingman.
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At the Gold Chain property, a hoist and compressor have been installed. A two-compartment shaft is now being sunk at a point 125 ft. below the tunnel-level, to tap, on its dip, the vein exposed at surface. A recent sampling of wide sections of the outcrop gave an assay return of from $5 to $10 gold, and from 2 to 15 oz. silver per ton.
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Development work is in direct charge of F. C. Neurse. Shaft work is under way at the Katherine Extension Mine, and is being expedited by the hoisting and compressor plants, that were recently installed. The area lies between the Gold Chain, and Katherine estates, and is on the strike of the Katherine fissure. At 200 ft. the continuation of the Katherine vein is expected.
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In the Katherine Mine, many of the headings and cross-cuts on the four levels, and in the raises between them, are in ore. The tonnage, at present blocked-out, has an estimated value well in excess of $300,000. At a recent meeting of the Katherine stockholders, in Kingman, plans were made to finance a small mill for the reduction of the Katherine ore. It is planned to sink the shaft from the 400-ft. level, to a depth of 700 feet.
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A. G. Cushman, of San Francisco, and Mile Wash, of Oatman, have taken over a group of claims in the vicinity of the Katherine Mine, and are now erecting the buildings preliminary to development work. Similar work is also being done on the Katherine-Mohawk group of claims, recently purchased by Frank T. Torpey, and other San Francisco mining men. Operations will be in charge of Albert Degenhart.
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At the Oatman-Revenue property, shaft work is well advanced. Henry Johnson, formerly of Chihuahua, Mexico, is in charge. At the Roadside Mine, recently optioned to Thad M. Boggs, metallurgist, and Sherman Bagg, plans are being made for development work.
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Yuma County. The property of the New La Paz Gold Mining Co. is in Yuma County, Arizona, about 12 miles northeast of the town of Blythe, California. It comprises 15 claims, lying in Goodman Arroyo, covering an area of 1596 acres, This ground was the scene of a gold rush in 1862, and was extensively worked for the following six years, by dry panning. Later, dry-washing machines were introduced, and work was carried on in this way, until this land was taken into the Colorado River Indian Reservation, from
which it has only recently been released.

The east end of the property was systematically prospected and sampled by E. A. Rasor, in 1916. The prospecting was done by means of pits, some 74 being sunk on this portion of the property. Thirty-three samples, varying in weight from 80 to 180 lb., were run through a dry-washer, and the concentrates panned. The material from the pans then dried, and the coarse gold separated out, and weighed. The black-sand concentrates, from which the coarse gold had been removed, were then combined and assayed. The combined value is reported as averaging $2.50 per cubic yard. The placers are to be operated by hydraulic-mining methods; 125 miners inches of water will be pumped from wells, at the old town of La Paz, on the banks of the Colorado River, 4 ½ miles east of the point of operation.

The water from the tailing will be impounded and used over again, being pumped through an auxiliary plant. In operation, the water pumped from the La Paz wells will be used as make-up water, to supply the losses. The capacity of the plant is expected to be 1500 cu. yd. per day, at a cost of 45c. per cubic yard of gravel mined. The accompanying illustration shows the work on the 12-in, main, which will carry the water to the reservoir, 225 ft. above the gravel deposits. O. L. Grimsley is general manager.

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The Vindicator Consolidated G. M. Co., in a letter to stockholders, advises that an option has been taken on properties in Pinal County, Arizona. The lease and bond covers 300 acres, traversed by several quartz veins, the outcrops of which show free-milling gold ore, with low silver content. Recent development work at depth in the Cripple Creek mines has been encouraging.
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TOM REED APEX LAWSUIT, OATMAN

May 14, 1921 MINING AND SCIENTIFIC PRESS 677

Tom Reed Gold Mines v. United Eastern Company

Abstract of Decision by the Superior Court of Mohave County, Arizona

On January 1, 1904, Ely Hilty located the Grey Eagle, and the Bald Eagle claims, in the San Francisco mining district, at Oatman, Arizona. These locations were amended on January 10, 1909. The territory, as included in these amended locations, comprises a part of the estate of the Tom Reed Gold Mines Co., the plaintiff in this case. It owns this ground by virtue of a patent, dated October 31, 1917.

On September 2, 1908, the Big Jim claim was located by S. S. Jones, B. L. Lunsford, and W. L. Corbier. At the time of this location, these parties were employees of the plaintiff company, and S. S. Jones had charge of the property of the plaintiff company.

The location of the Big Jim claim was prior to the amended locations of the Grey Eagle and Bald Eagle claims. The locators were citizens of the United States, and the territory embraced within the Big Jim location, was then a part of the public domain, and no evidence was given to indicate any bad faith upon their part. On that date, the ground was subject to location by them, or by any other citizen.

The United Eastern Mining Co. is the owner of the Big Jim mining claim, and derives its title from the Big Jim Gold Mining Co., which company secured a patent to said ground. The Tom Reed Company did a very limited amount of development work on the Grey Eagle and Bald Eagle claims prior to 1916. This work on these two claims consisted principally of two shallow shafts, one of them probably ten or twelve feet deep, and another about 40 ft. deep, but during that period, plaintiff company was engaged in extensive mining in the district. The defendant company and its predecessor in title, the Big Jim Gold Mining Co., during the year 1915, and since, have performed very extensive development work beneath the surface of the Big Jim claim. The result has been the development of an orebody, valued at more than two million dollars, which orebody lies beneath the surface of the Big Jim claim.

On March 1, 1919, the plaintiff filed this suit against the defendant, to quiet title to certain portions of what it alleges to be a part of the lode belonging to the Grey Eagle and Bald Eagle claims. The case was brought to trial on November 8, 1920, before the Court, without a jury, said trial being concluded, on November 15, 1920. On December 1 and 2, 1920, the Court, in company with W. B. Phelps, representing the Tom Reed Company, and Horace V. Winchell, representing the United Eastern Company, viewed the premises in question. This view of the premises included an inspection of the various points, both upon the surface, and beneath the surface, of these claims. On February 21, 1921, the case was presented by oral argument, at the conclusion of which it was submitted upon briefs.

The issues in this case present a suit to quiet title to an underground vein or orebody situated beneath the surface of the Big Jim claim, which claim is patented and owned by the defendant. The plaintiff owns the Grey Eagle and Bald Eagle mining claims, and they are, also, patented; and said plaintiff is claiming the ore in question, by its alleged extra-lateral right, under what is known in mining parlance as the ‘Apex’ law. This law, as expressed in Section 2322 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, reads as follows:

“Locators shall have the exclusive right of possession and enjoyment of all the surface included within the lines of their locations, and of all veins, lodes, or ledges, throughout their entire depth, the top, or apex of which lies inside of such surface lines extended downward vertically, although such veins, lodes, or ledges may so far depart from a perpendicular, in their course downward, as to extend outside the vertical side-lines of such surface locations.”

This section gives to every mining claim, whether patented or unpatented, not only the surface within the lines of said location, but the subsurface, subject to the apex rights of the owner of some other claim whose vein may enter the subsurface on its downward dip, and, in addition to the grant of the surface and subsurface, the owner of any mining claim has the right to follow his vein, lode, or ledge on its downward dip through its sidelines. In other words, the owner of a claim who has the apex within his boundary lines may pursue said vein on its dip downward outside of the vertical side-lines of such claim.

This fight is given by the apex law, but said right does not include the right to run a horizontal tunnel from the owner’s claim, into an adjoining claim owned by another party. The owner of the apexing claims does not have this right, even though it might be essential for him to exercise it in order to reach his vein. The theory of this rule of law is that the, adjoining owner has the common-law right and title to all of the other ground within his claim, except the right of apex. The patent for a lode claim not only gives title to the surface, but to the subsurface, that is, everything under the surface except what may belong to someone else because of his apex rights.

The action of the Mallery Fault is the cause of this lawsuit. A fault is merely a vein which is not mineralized. It seems that faulting results from strain which accumulates in the rocks of the earth. Two of the most important causes of this strain are the operation of temperature within the rocks, and the moving of weighty material from one place to another on the surface. By these movements, the ordinary balance was distributed, and corrected by the flow of material from below, and thereby the balance, was restored.

When these strains have accumulated to a point beyond the strength of the rocks, they cause the rocks to break and slip, which breaking and slipping is what is known in geology, as the faulting. The Oatman District has also been lightened by erosion. A great deal of material has been moved eastward into the Sacramento Valley, and westward toward the Colorado River. At some time in the past, when hot waters were percolating and circulating through the openings of the rocks, the early fault-fissures of the Oatman District were mineralized, and when these faults became mineralized they then became what are known as veins.

At some time later, when strain was developed in the rocks by other causes, there was a recurrence of faulting, and at this later time, the movements dislocated and passed through the older fault, which had become mineralized. Because the faulting which created the Mallery fault occurred at a later time, and at a time when the temperature was not high, mineralization did not take place, and, for that reason, what is known as the Mallery fault, is simply a fault instead of a vein.

We have established in the Oatman District two fissure systems: the older system which was mineralized, as exemplified by the Tom Reed vein, and the later system, which is not mineralized, as exemplified by the Mallery Fault.

This case is governed by the law of the apex. It is essential to determine what is meant by an apex, when used as a mining term. An apex is the top or highest part of the vein. For instance, commencing anywhere upon a vein and following the line on its dip, to the highest point on said vein, at which vein matter is found in the fissure of that vein, you arrive at its top, or apex. This top or apex forms the terminal edge of the vein. If this terminal edge reaches the surface, it is called the outcrop. However, it does not have to reach the surface in order to constitute an apex. And the apex of any given vein is all that portion of its top or terminal edge from which the vein extends downward on its dip.

The word ‘apex’, as used in the Federal statutes, means the highest point in the vein. An apex must be the top, or terminal edge of the vein, either on the surface, or the nearest point to the surface, and must be the top of the vein proper, rather than the top of a spur, and it must be a point from which the vein has a dip and a strike.

A vein, lode, or ledge means a more or less continuous body of mineral lying within a well-defined boundary of other rock, in the mass within which it is found; in other words, the body of mineral within defined boundaries in the general mass. It is not always a straight line, neither is it uniform in dip or thickness or richness of mineral matter throughout its entire course. It may be narrower in some places than in others, or it may close up for a short distance and then be followed further on.

The mining acts of Congress do not define the terms vein, lode, or ledge, but as these terms are used in the Federal statutes they are applicable to any zone or belt of mineralized rock lying within boundaries, clearly separating it from the neighboring rock. It includes all deposits of mineral matter, found through the mineralized zone or belt coming from .the same source, impressed with the same forms, and having been created by the same process. Geologists say that it is a fissure in the earth’s crust, filled with mineralized matter.

The vein that traverses the Grey Eagle and Bald Eagle claims, lengthwise, and what the plaintiff has called the ‘first segment’ of the Tom Reed Vein, has its apex within the surface lines of those claims. Since the first of the year 1916, the plaintiff has mined the ore from this vein, to a depth of 600 ft., and at that depth the vein stops abruptly against what is known as the Mallery Fault. At the bottom of the vein, the ore is bent upward on the hanging wall of the fault. At a distance of about 480 ft. from the 600-ft. Level of the Grey Eagle, the orebody, which the defendant terms the Big Jim Vein, and which the plaintiff terms the ‘third segment’ of the Tom Reed Vein, stops against the foot-wall side of the Mallery Fault. The ore in this vein is bent downward. The top of this orebody is about 200 ft. beneath the surface of the Big Jim claim. There is a much smaller orebody along the foot-wall of the Mallery Fault, between the 200-ft. level of the Big Jim, and the 600-ft. level of the Grey Eagle. Experts for the defendant term this the Sideline Vein.

Experts for the plaintiff term this the ‘second segment’ of the Tom Reed Vein. It is more or less a jumbled-up mass of ore that has been dragged down from about the 200-ft. level, at the time of the faulting. Part of this ore is on one side of the common side-line, and part of it is on the other. In order to reach the main orebody within the Big Jim, the plaintiff would either have to travel up the Mallery fault, a distance of 430 ft. from the 600-ft. level of the Grey Eagle, or cross-cut through country-rock mostly beneath the surface of the Big Jim, for about the same distance.

After listening to the testimony of the geologists, and after reading and re-reading the same, the Court is of the unqualified opinion that at some time in the dim and distant past, the orebodies beneath the Tom Reed property, and the orebodies beneath the United Eastern property, were once connected as a part and parcel of the same general fissure, and vein system, but this Court has no information as to just how many thousands or how many millions of years have elapsed since that condition existed, but that it, at some time in the past, did exist seems to be the opinion of all the expert witnesses on both sides. But when the faulting occurred as the result of the formation of the Mallery Fault, there was not only a downward displacement of approximately 480 ft., but there was a horizontal movement, the extent of which is not known, and the best proof which could be introduced as to the size of the horizontal component, would be nothing more reliable than a wild guess.

For instance, there is nothing before this Court that any part of the vein along the 600-ft. level within either the Grey Eagle or Bald Eagle claims was ever attached to any part of the top of the vein, as found at the 200-ft. level within the surface of the Big Jim claim. About the only testimony on this point was to the effect that the horizontal movement was greater than the downward displacement.

This case involves nothing more than a novel question of the apex mining law. During the course of the trial there was not much dispute or serious conflict between the expert witnesses on both sides. The essential facts relating to existing conditions were practically admitted. The law of the case simply calls for a construction of the Federal statute, Section 2822, under which the suit was brought.

Every man is required to keep his hands, off any and everything, within the surface lines of a claim belonging to another, which surface lines extend vertically downward, until he sustains the heavy burden of proof that he is working upon and following the vein which has its apex within the surface lines of his claim.

This apex right only attaches to the vein of any claim, when said vein may be identified on its downward course, and when it is a continuation of the same vein, both without and within the lines of his claim; in other words, in order to assert this right of apex the vein outside must be identifled with, and a continuation of the vein inside of the lines. Identity and continuity are essential to the exercise of apex rights, and after the identity and continuity of the veins have been proven, there must also exist the continuity of right, as indicated by the statutes.

The mineral deposit within any lode or vein may be reduced or disappear for a short distance, but if it is found again in the same general course with the same mineral within a short distance, there is a presumption of identity, but if the mineral entirely disappears, or the walls of the fissure stop so that its identity can no longer be traced, the right to follow such a vein outside the apex owner’s claim is gone. If veins are separated permanently, and cannot be followed as the same vein, and if it is necessary to pass through great distances of country-rock in order to connect them, in which distances there are neither mineralized walls nor seams, such veins must be deemed separate and distinct ones, and cannot be identified as one and the same.

The connection between an apex, and the orebody in dispute, can only be made by following the continuous streaks of body of quartz or ore, or by passing through vein-matter, and such connection cannot be made by following such material, or indication as the practical miner would follow in the expectation of finding ore.

The burden of proof is always upon the apex claimant. What may constitute a sufficient discovery to warrant a location of a mining claim, may be entirely insufficient to justify the locator in claiming or exercising the rights reserved by the statute.

That which constitutes a discovery that will make a location valid, is a very different thing from what constitutes an apex, to which attaches the statutory right to invade the possession of, and appropriate the property which is presumed to belong to the adjoining owner. It is the object and policy of the law to encourage the prospector and miner in their efforts to discover mineral, and, therefore, as between conflicting lode claimants, the law is liberally construed in favor of the senior location. But where one claims what prima facie belongs to another, because of the apex in the claimant’s location, a more rigid rule of construction against the claimant prevails.

This case must he decided from a practical viewpoint as the miners find conditions in the ground today, or it must be decided upon the theories and testimony of geologists in accordance with conditions as they existed many thousands or millions of years ago. If the decision be based upon the theory and testimony of the geologists, it seems to me that no mining location in the Oatman district could be secure or valid. The fundamental purpose of the apex law was to give the miner what he found.

The law was passed for his benefit, a reward to him for incurring the hardships incidental to the life of the prospector. When Ely Hilty located the Tom Reed vein on January 1, 1904, could it be said, under the theory of the geologists, that he discovered the orebody beneath the Big Jim claim, taking their testimony not only as to the downward displacement of 430 ft., but as to the horizontal movements? In order for Ely Hilty to prove identity, continuity of right to the vein which he discovered on that date, he would have to travel a great distance in order to find a continuation of his vein, or that part of it which was attached to his discovery, before the Mallery fault occurred.

We are reliably informed by geologists that this northwest section of Arizona, including the San Francisco District, experienced at some time in the past, a great upheaval, and sank about six thousand feet. With this in mind, the Court is compelled to view this case from a practical standpoint, and adopt the views of the practical miners, and view the conditions as they are today, and as they were when the rights of all parties herein were acquired.

Continuity of right means something different from the continuity of a vein. For instance, under the apex law, the identity of a vein may be clearly proven, and said vein may he shown to have such practical continuity as will comply with the law, and still there would not attach to said vein that continuity of right which would entitle the apex owner to follow said vein into the claim of an adjoining owner.

For instance, suppose that when the Tom Reed vein reached the 600-ft. level of the Grey Eagle claim, instead of stopping abruptly against the Mallery fault, as it does, it spread out and extended on laterally into the subsurface of the Big Jim claim. Under the apex law no extra-lateral right attaches to a blanket vein or one that extends laterally. Again, suppose that the Tom Reed vein, instead of stopping abruptly against the Mallery fault at the 600-ft. level of the Grey Eagle claim, bent upward and extended upward along the plane of the Mallery fault.

Under the apex law no extra-lateral right attaches to a vein on its upward course. The statute which grants this right says “downward course” or ‘‘course downward”. ‘‘Course downward’’ or ‘‘downward course’’ means, in so far as the apex statute is concerned, going down from the apex of the vein on the dip of the vein practically within the plane of the vein toward the centre of the earth. It may be argued that such a construction is unjust and is calculated to deprive apex owners of their legal rights.

It might be argued that there are many veins which have a displacement of only a very few feet, and that there could be no denial of their identity and practical continuity. There is no reason for such an argument in this case, because the downward displacement is over four hundred feet, and the lateral or horizontal displacement is greater than that, and probably several thousand feet. It would be an impossible task to frame a rule that would do justice in all cases. In fact, lawsuits upon most subjects are not decided by any ironclad rule. Each and every case stands upon its own merits.

Again, suppose that instead of this vein system having been cut in two by the Mallery fault, that it had been cut in two by another mineralized vein. Could it be argued that when the plaintiff followed its vein down to the 600-ft and found another vein, it could then follow that vein upward 430 ft. and connect with the detached part, even if there had been no lateral or horizontal displacement? Section 2322 of the Revised Statutes of the United States does not grant extra-lateral rights under such conditions. In that event the plaintiff would not be following its own vein, but following an entirely different vein, though at some prehistoric time this second vein was located some place else, or had not been found.

These geological theories lead entirely too far into the uncertain realms of speculation and doubt. The lawmakers who framed the statute used the term “course downward”. The law is an incentive to the miner to go down into the bowels of the earth and search for hidden treasure. It was not intended as a technical device to furnish an excuse for acquiring, through the agency of geological speculation, property which more rightfully belongs to another. As stated before, the three essential conditions to be established in this case are identity, continuity, and continuity of right. The burden of proof rests upon the plaintiff. Unless plaintiff has established by a preponderance of the testimony the existence of these three conditions regarding the orebodies found within the premises in question, its ease must fall.

The plaintiff introduced a great deal of convincing testimony as to identity. Among other things it proved that the ore is abruptly cut off and exists on opposite sides of the Mallery fault, that the strike and dip of the various orebodies are similar, that the vein-filling is virtually the same, that the wail-rocks are similar, and that, on the hanging-wall side of the Mallery fault, the ore is bent upward, while on the foot-wall side of this fault, it is bent downward. But the plaintiff did not identify the ore which is located beneath the surface of the Big Jim claims as the continuation of its vein, known as the Tom Reed vein, which stops abruptly against the Mallery fault on the 600-ft. level of the Grey Eagle and Bald Eagle claims.

This identity and continuity of the Tom Reed vein within the plaintiff’s ground into the ground of the defendant was not proven, and could not be proven, if for no other reason than because it would be impossible to ascertain the extent of the horizontal movement at the time of the formation of the Mallery fault. When a locator locates a mining claim, his claim is limited to 1500 ft., and his apex or extra-lateral rights are also limited on that claim to the same distance. These rights may be limited to a much shorter distance.
Whatever may be the length of the owner’s terminal apex, is the extent of his extra-lateral rights.

For example, when a vein enters the end-line of a claim, and continues nearly parallel with the side-lines for a part of the length of the claim, an owner of the claim can only exercise extra-lateral rights from the end at which the vein enters, to the point at which it crosses the side-line. In other words, if an owner has the terminal edge of a vein within his claim for any given number of feet, he is only entitled to the same number of feet on that vein after it extends through his side-lines, into the ground of the adjoining owner.

Under this rule of law, because of the horizontal movement found to have occurred in these premises, and independent of other existing conditions which affect its rights, plaintiff has failed to sustain the burden of proof as to whether or not it is entitled to extra-lateral rights for any distance whatever on the Big Jim vein, located within the property of the defendant. The burden of proof was upon the plaintiff to show that the orebody constituting the Big Jim vein, and located beneath the surface of the Big Jim claim, is identical with, and a continuation of the vein or orebody, which it worked down to the 600-ft. level, which burden of proof plaintiff has failed to sustain.

The testimony of-all the geologists who testified in this case shows that the continuation of the Tom Reed vein, on the foot-wall side of the Mallery fault, is at least over 400 ft. from where it was once connected and attached to the Tom Reed vein, and probably several thousand feet from either the Grey Eagle or Bald Eagle claims. The testimony shows that these two orebodies were once part and parcel of the same fissure or vein system, and that the Big Jim vein, as found beneath the surface of the Big Jim claim, is not identical with, and a continuation of the Tom Reed vein, as found beneath the surface of the Grey Eagle and Bald Eagle claims.

In order to prove the identity which the law requires, it would have to be shown that the Tom Reed vein at the 600-ft. level of the Grey Eagle and Bald Eagle claims was once attached to, and formed a part of the orebody, constituting the Big Jim vein, and therefore, the Big Jim orebody, was a continuation of the Tom Reed orebody. This was not proved, but the testimony merely showed that they were, at one time, a part of the same general fissure or vein system. A fault which causes a downward displacement of over 400 ft., and a horizontal component of that much displacement, or a great deal more, destroys the identity and continuity of the vein, and deprives the apex-owner of his continuity of right, to follow that vein under such conditions into the land of an adjoining owner, and Section 2322 of the Revised Statutes of the United States grants no extra-lateral rights under such circumstances.

This Court has no power to enlarge the provisions of that statute. The plaintiff in this case has not established its continuity of right under that statute, because plaintiff cannot start on the apex of the Tom Reed vein, proceed on a course downward, on the Tom Reed vein, along the dip of the Tom Reed vein, practically within the plane of the Tom Reed vein, and reach the orebody found within the Big Jim vein beneath the surface of the Big Jim claim, owned by the defendant.

The Court finds that within the premises in question, there exists at this time, three separate and distinct veins or orebodies, namely, the Tom Reed vein, the Sideline vein, and the Big Jim vein. These veins are permanently separated, have been so separated for many centuries, and each of them possesses an individuality of its own. The only physical connection that they ever had in past ages, was that each of these veins or orebodies at some time in the distant past, constituted a part of one main fissure or vein system, which was disrupted by the Mallery fault. So far as the testimony in this case shows, it would be impossible for any geologist, either by positive knowledge, or through the agency of geological projections, to locate the actual physical continuation of the Tom Reed vein.

This same condition exists as to the Big Jim vein, with reference to the ore which at one time constituted the upward extension of this vein. The Tom Reed or Grey Eagle vein is wholly within the round of the plaintiff, has its apex within the ground of the plaintiff, and is owned by the plaintiff. The Big Jim vein is wholly within the ground of the defendant, has its apex within the ground of the defendant, and is owned by the defendant.

The Sideline vein is partly within the ground of the plaintiff and partly within the ground of the defendant, and a part of its apex is within the ground of the plaintiff, a part is in the ground of the defendant, and a part of its apex is bisected by the common side-line of plaintiff and defendant. This vein is secondary or accidental in character, and is of minor importance, in comparison with the other two veins in question. As Mr. Hershey very aptly remarked during his testimony, this orebody “lagged behind” when the Mallery fault was formed. A part of this Sideline vein is owned by plaintiff, and a part of this vein is the property of the defendant.

That part of the vein which has its apex wholly within the ground of the plaintiff, is the property of the plaintiff. That part of the vein which has its apex wholly within the ground of the defendant, and where the apex is bisected by the common side-line, is the property of the defendant. The ore beneath the surface of the Big Jim claim cannot be reached by following the Tom Reed vein, from its apex in the manner outlined and limited by Section 2822 of the Federal statutes. This section of the Federal statutes is the legal authority, and criterion for the exercise of extra-lateral rights.

Furthermore, commencing anywhere on the dip of the Big Jim vein, if said vein were extended upward to the surface, the apex of this vein would still be entirely within the surface lines of the Big Jim claim. There are no orebodies within either the Grey Eagle or Bald Eagle claims that may be followed within the manner outlined and limited by Section 2822 of the Federal statutes, which would lead into and connect with the orebodies which constitute the Big Jim vein.

Section 2822 of the Federal Revised Statutes is the guiding star in this case. Mines are usually found in mountainous regions, in the lonely places of the earth, where the surface is rough, broken, and irregular, and the veins, lodes, and ledges found beneath the surface are frequently of the same character. The lawmakers who framed Section 2822 in the year 1872 no doubt were aware of this fact, and if they had intended to extend the law of the apex so as to provide for such contingencies as are found in this case, they could have done so, but they did not, and it is not within the province of this Court to change that statute. Under that statute the defendant would be entitled to a judgment in this case, even if there had been no horizontal movement when the Mallery fault was formed, but as the Mallery faulting was accompanied by a horizontal movement, there was also created another vital reason why the plaintiff’s argument cannot prevail in this case.

Suppose that this Court should adopt the view that this case should be decided from the standpoint of origin, at the time when these veins, lodes, ledges, faults, and apices were formed, would it not be just as reasonable and legal to go beyond the Mallery fault period to other times, and other ages, and have the geologists read the story of the rocks back to the time of creation? There were no doubt prehistoric times when the premises in question presented very different conditions from those portrayed at the time of the formation of the Mallery fault, or immediately preceding that time.

Furthermore, if this Court should ignore that horizontal movement and that position should be sustained by higher tribunals, the title to mining property on the hanging-wall side of the Mallery fault would be just as invalid, and insecure as the title on the foot-wall side of that fault. In other words, if this case should be decided upon the theory of origin, the plaintiff would not own the Tom Reed vein as found within the Bald Eagle and Grey Eagle claims, but that property might be successfully claimed by some owner of barren ground a few thousand feet away.

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