Show progress at oatman BY C F SPILMAN oatman ariz may 7 commencement of milling operations at the gold ore mine announcement that a new crushing department is to be constructed at the gold road development of a huge body of high grade mill ore at the tom reed and the resumption of operations at the bluebird property of the big jim consolidated are events of moment that have advanced this camp rapidly toward the head of the list of gold producing sections in the southwest since the whistles announced the birth of 1918 gold ore a new producer the gold ore is the third cyanide mill in the district and adds about a month to the bullion output of the camp which now exceeds the company under the management of A G keating who developed the big jim mine has a lease on a ton unit of the gold road mill for one year the company has to tons of ore between the and levels that should average 15 a ton mine and mill costs will be under a ton thus insuring good profits the ore body on the level is ten tell feet in width and justifies the belief that it will continue to much greater depths crushing plant for gold road the gold road alining development company a subsidiary of the united states smelting smelling Sm elting refining mining company is installing marcy ball mills and a gyratory crusher at the no 3 shaft and will start work about august 1st ast the ore is to be crushed and the pulp conveyed down to the mill through a pipe line the company will use that part of the cyaniding cyan iding equipment not in use by the gold ore treating about tons a day for the past eighteen months a force of men has been employed in development work in the far east end of the property and has developed a large tonnage of high grade mill ore blue bird promising property A G keating of the gold ore rep reser ts the los angeles firm of H E teter company who financed the gold ore and will have charge of the developing of the blue bird property for the big jim consolidated the blue bird end lines the united eastern on the west has a big vein and is generally believed to be in line for the extension eastern ore bodies the so n of the united blue bird shaft is down feet fee t and will be sunk to the foot horizon the mine is now being and is ready to start sinking when that work is accomplished shed since the middle 0 of f february the tom reed has been vigorous vigorously sly developing a wide vein that was cut in the bald eagle claim almost a mile east of the old workings from which the company produced in eight years the vein on the level is eighty seven feet in width of which thirty feet averages 26 a ton according to mine assays essays this ore shoot has been opened up for a distance of feet beef on its strike and two more crosscuts cross cuts fifty feet apart are furthering the development and preparing the ground tor for this huge parallels the aztec big jim vein and geologists declare that it is the top of the aztec big jim vein that has been sliced off by horizontal faulting if that is the case the bottom of the ore will be found at about feet or feet below the level according to the dip of the fault as shown in both the big jim and aztec mines it has been found to extend feet above the level so that its dimension may be estimated as feet in length feet in depth and thirty feet in width some of the ore is very rich twenty five tons a day from the west drift about one eleventh of the tonnage milled raised the precipitate values from 1600 to a day the same has been found to extend east of the crosscut but was cut off by a fault the east drift has passed through the fault and a crosscut is being driven to the north to pick up the vein again the development of this east end of the big lode has stimulated work in prospects in that region the telluride which has long been the pet of jack mclver mciver who with george long found the tom reed ore in what now is known as the united eastern mine is using a davis calyx drill in search of the easterly extension of the bald eagle strike the telluride lieson the south side of the east end claims of the tom reed camp speculators are about equally divided between this property and the argo which is farther to the east and on the south side of the tom reed whichever way the big lode travels one or the other property will find it smiley jones who was superintendent of th the e tom reed during its palmy dividend paying days is at the head of argo jones has a big following among the old timers of the camp who ardently believe that the tom reed would woul d have kept on paying dividends had his services been retained the huge size of the ore bodies in this district ranging from fifteen to sixty feet in width the high grade of the ore and the fact that it is ideal for cyaniding cyan iding make the prizes here big ones to play for the chips now are getting into the hands of expert play players erso men who know the game and the result promises to be the development of a number of great gold m mines ines |