Show HACKBERRY operations satisfactory progress is being made at the hackberry mine and mill at hackberry arizona according to the kingman miner of the itta dinst which says A meeting of the stockholders of the hackberry consolidated mines company was held at the off office ice of C W herndon in kingman last thursday G S holmes and wife cainie came in from los angeles to attend the meeting william coming in from hackberry for the same purpose we understand that the company agreed to increase its capitalization from one million one dollar shares to two million one dollar shares the shareholders to have the first chance to take up the excess capitalization the pew new issue will be used to further develop the mines of the company and make possible the operation of the mill to its full capacity of about tons daily the mill is now operating ten hours daily and treating about eighty tons of ore within the next ten days another shift will be put on the mill so that about tons daily will be put through the flotation plant is making an immensely high saving of values only about 80 cents per ton getting away in the tails the plant is ono one of the most economical that has so far been devised for the treatment of ores of the character of the hackberry it is under the management of T D walsh an engineer of ability who has made a study of ore notation flotation the hackberry mine is developing day by day greater ore bodies and the ore it now sends to the mill is of far better grade than that first sent to the crushers with further development and the crosscutting of the big dike we believe this property will be one 0 athe greatest ore producers in the coutney cout nry the mine development has been in the hands of william who has brought it up to its present high state of productiveness |