Show rejuvenation OF MINERAL PARK special correspondence mineral park ariz april 6 mineral park one of the oldest mining camps and second county seat of mohave is active again after years of practical desertion of all but its turquoise mines at the keystone one of the largest of the old time producers of gold and silver which is now under bond to a los angeles company the new equipment consisting of a 10 0 horsepower er boiler 50 horsepower hoist air compressors and electric generator has all arrived and is being rushed into place the main shaft has been re timbered throughout its feet and a new gallows frame nearly completed work on water and oil tanks of gallons capacity each is also well under way the young construction company of los angeles which recently completed the tom reed mill in this county has the contract for the erection of the machinery the keystone ledge which occurs in a granite and porphyry is from six to forty feet wide and outcrops for over feet its ores are the usual lead zinc copper and iron sulphides sulp hides of the cerbat carbat range and carry high values of gold and silver in addition there are about tons of ore on the dumps averaging 14 per ton and about tons more in the already broken all of which represents ore thrown aside as worthless when the mine was being worked for gold and silver alone there is still very rich ore being encountered in the mine some of which found recently assayed as high as 1500 ounces in silver but it is upon the large tonnages ton nages of the lower grade sulphides sulp hides that a profitable production is estimated with the new railroad rates to the mill and iter at needles and the very small charges for concentrating cent rating and smelting smelling sm elting there even 8 ore can be worked at a profit S R porter who was very successful as manager of the gold road mine in demonstrating its large ore bodies is manager of the keystone and several other mineral park properties one of these the molly a deposit of low grade copper from to feet wide will be prospected soon iby by a shaft and by churn drills the venture exploration company of duluth with J P hamilton superintendent is sinking a new shaft on the oneida near stockton hill A larger hoist has been installed with which hamilton proposes to sink feet before cutting stations the same company operating the cactus mine at globe made a record by sinking feet in ninety days which for hand drilling has probably never been equalled equal led |