Show HACKBERRY SHIPPING concentrates mention has been made in these columns of the new milling plant being installed by the hackberry mining company at hackbert Hack bery arizona by G S holmes of salt lake and associates this plant the mining 11 ining review is informed is now in successful operation and has already begun shipments of high grade concentrates in speaking of the new mill and the wonderful mine owned by the hackberry company the miner of kingman arizona has the following in its issue of march 29 the first shipment of concentrates from the new hackberry mill will be in transit before this paper reaches its readers according to report from F W sheraman She ramn superintendent perin of the mill the shipment wilt will contain about forty tons the value being between and ounces silver 25 gold 20 to 25 per cent lead and less than 10 per cent zinc this will make one of the most valuable cars of ore sent from this county is working fine the mill in many years and it is expected to double its present capacity by the first of april which makes possible the shipment of two cars of concentrates cen weekly this would give an output of approximately per month and make the mill second in production only to the united eastern As the capacity of the mill will not be reached until three shifts have been put on it will be seen that within a short time this plant will reach a production second to none in this part of the state the mine is now getting caught up and within a very short time will be able to reach the entire capacity of the mill new are being opened in the big ore bodies and new surprises are of daily occurrence A few days ago a was carried into unexplored ground and six to eight feet of ore found that sampled over 70 ounces silver across its whole width eighteen inches on the hanging wall of the vein sampled ounces other ore bodies have been entered that show great width and at no point has it gone below big mill values the putting in commission of the big mill and the opening of the mine to a depth of feet has brought to mohave county another big producing property no mining engineer who has been through the mine has other than good things to say of it and the most of them have been very enthusiastic over its future and so great an interest has been created by the success of the mine and mill that all the country around is being prepared for development especially along the great hackberry dike the hackberry has a large estate and all of it is mineralized the ore shoots are long and the ore bodies exceptionally wide it is well situated being less than three miles from the santa ife fe railroad at hackberry and a downhill pull all the way from the mine to the railroad it has one of the finest milling plants in the state and its mine equipment is of the best the success of the project is due to the efforts of gus S holmes principal shareholder in the property to whom fell the burden of financing the property from the first william must be credited with the splendid manner in which the ore bodies of the famous old mine have been opened up mr holmes and wife who have been looking closely after affairs here the past several months departed to los angeles where they will attend to business connected with the company affairs mr holmes must surely be congratulated on the good work aone done in financing this mine especially during wartime when the obtaining of finances were under all conditions hard and especially in the building of such a milling plant when it was almost impossible to get machinery for any purpose but he has the consolation that he and associates have one of the big things of tal th e state to rely on for reimbursement |