Show U S COMPANY IN ARIZONA special correspondence kingman ariz march L 22 the U S smelting smelling Sm elting refining company has nearly completed the preliminary work of road building and surface equipment on its different properties in the county and actual mine development is generally under way at stockton hill where more than ordinary work was rendered necessary by the great amount of road work three large hoists have been installed on the banner aryan and infallible properties and sinking started the banner which is generally regarded as the strongest ledge in the cerbat carbat range is already partially developed by a tunnel 1900 feet long every foot of which is in ore making the longest continued ore shoot in mohave county and one of the longest known to mining the ore has a lead zinc base carrying high values in gold and silver and is tapi typical cal of the ores of stockton hill further north and in he die same range the champion and twins mines have also been equipped with new hoists and their shafts are being widened and re timbered preparatory to additional sinking in its little jimmy and big bethel thines mines which I 1 adjoin the golconda zinc mine the same company is drifting and crosscutting cross cutting the shaft of the big bethel is in a porphyry dyke whose average width is seventy five feet and as the zinc of the district occurs in such dykes a crosscut cross cut to prospect it has been started from the level superintendent mclaughlin reports the finding of good ore at a depth of forty five feet in his new shaft on the C 0 D property chloride draining the tenessee mine is still progressing very slowly though the surface waters which were believed to be the main cause of the delay have been flamed off two pumps of gallon capacity have been unable to lower the water in the shaft A bad cave at a depth feet caused more trouble and resulted in a shifting of timbers for seventy feet above all of which had to be reset re set A gallon dow pump is now being installed the dandy mine in the weaver district about twenty five miles northwest from chloride has been sold by bill hall to J P hutchinson of chicago hutchinson who is associated with chas schwab in the san toy silver mines of chihuahua mexico sampled the property several months ago but has withheld the results of the examination until his return several days ago sampling the main ledge which is developed by a shaft feet deep and by about 1000 feet of drifts proves an average of three and a half feet of ore assaying 20 per ton A crosscut cross cut from the level has exposed a second vein with five feet of ore averaging 11 all the ore is free milling gold and a high saving has been made in the small mill on the property by a straight amalgamation process oatman the strike made at the tom reed last week at a depth of feet in shaft no 2 is improving with development drifting has been started tow toward ard the main shaft 1500 feet away and the entire face of five shows high grade milling ore the new mill has been formally accepted by a committee consisting of pres chas grimes and the following directors F J lawrence chas Mush brush and D T reed the boundary cone mine is installing a hoist and compressor on an adjei adjoining nin g prospect bob rohe and henry lovin have exposed a ledge from which samples taken across four leet assay 8 per ton in free gold work has been started on an extension of the kingman power line to the hercules mine in the silver creek district where a stamp mill and cyanide plant are to be bul balt ailt H N tracy president preside ht of the power company was in the district afew days ago and stated that another unit would be added to the plant at kingman immediately J H ROSENBERG |