Show B BIG IG DEALS NEW MILLS AND SMELTERS ALL THE TALK IN LOS ANGELES los angeles march 10 the announcement has hag been made that the big jim mines inc of los Ang angeles elds the successor of the big jim consolidated of oatman arizona which found the bonanza ebady oi in its big jim group and abid sold the property to the united eastern mining company 1 i i seemingly going to duplicate its past record in developing another big profit maker as it has taken over for spot cash the famous old abe lincoln mine in handshaw Hard Hards shaw liaw mining d district santa cruz county same state the abe lincoln was discovered in the seventies and is s reported to have recorded a production of about i in n the eighties the ore being taken from depths not exceeding sixty feet the mine was owned by the richardson estate and before the war was worked under lea lease seand and bond in its operation under this management 1500 feet of develop development work was performed a hoisting plant and other machinery installed while the mine was worked to the foot level and in ore blocked out according to report three other ore shoots it is said were found and partially developed each estimated to have a pot tonnage value of about war conditions however caused a suspension of operations and a surrender of the option this was the state of affairs when the big jim mines mine s purchased the property a short time ago together Z with a ton concentrating mill which will be overhauled and placed in commission at an early day and A G keating president of the company believes the mine will be on a profitable basis in the near future the run of mine ore assays essays 5 per cent lead and ounces in silver to the ton in the ore measures it is said there are occurrences of silver running up to 1000 ounces per ton big milling plant planned word has been received fro from m cacoz Naco nacozari zari sonora mexico that the canario copper company expects to have its big working shaft at the balamoti Bata moti mine down to the foot level within the next few weeks wh when en it will bein begin b bl blocking 0 ck 7 out of extensive bodies of ore on that level the shaft is less than feet from its 0 objective and sinking is progressing fa rapidly with the ore blocked out and systematically s sampled affa affi pled according to advices advises from the mine plans will be perfected for the construction of an initial ton capacity unit of a milling plant which will use oil flotation in a recovery of the copper content of the ore meanwhile railroad transportation por tation facilities will be provided from the mine to the main line of the southern pacific at na nacozari Naco zari john carter anderson is consulting and managing ging engin engineer eerA and n dar frank a n k wilson is superintendent of operations i mill for arizona mine charles E Nath hort of los ange angeles ls chief chieten engineer in ee r a and r ii d manager for the great southern mining company operating near Wicken wickenburg burgi arizona states that hd behas afa S purchased a five drill chicago pneumatic air ir camp compressor r agor which is now in course of installation soon after this is in commission preliminary arrangements will be made an and specifications perfected for the construction of the first 25 ton unit of a milling plant which will employ concentration methods for the recovery of the metallic content of the ores of the mine of which a considerable tonnage it is stated is in sight in the mine workings and on the dump duma this ore according to assays essays runs about 20 aton ton in i its ts silver lead zinc content f ah diamond drillich A h 14 drilling g at apache pa e the famous apache mine near salome ar arizona boap is 1 s li alt being put to th th y detest testy yil jing methods method sl til j work asbe is ng done at the cnstance ns tance of james J C godfrey afrey 1 pres president iaciA oath odthe e ka ecay y b copper op ei I 1 corporation now doing inte intend 11 sive sive development work at zanon canon y fifty miles 1 north of phoenix itis it is stated mr G odfrey godfrey will wil 1 sink ten d drill r i 11 holes in in the performance 0 of f this ex exploratory P lor atory wark and that these i will hit be to a depth of approximately 1000 f feet et in or order der to fully test the value and extent of th the e ore reserves of the property I 1 I 1 the apache mine mine is owned by the arizona apache mines mine company of los angeles dick dick wick hall of salome discoverer of the frog which was ten years ea rs old and which ha had ne never verlid had a bath is is president I 1 t and manager mr hall is al also so a noted author and m magazine a gaz ine writer and what lie he know about banking would fill a large volume although he has the rudiments down pat a and nd can speak the language the apache is noted for its high grade cipher copper 0 ore re in in crop droppings crop p pings afi 9 s and shallow surface workings borkin gs la corona has four million at a recent meeting of the la corona M M company of los angeles the capitalization of the company was increased from shares of 1 each to shares of a par value of 11 frank E davis president and manager who was in los angeles from yago nayarit lower california a few days ago stated that the company is operating a 40 ton oil flotation plant using a K 1 K machine manufactured by th the southwestern engineering corporation of this city the recovery it is stated is 86 per cent of the assay value of the heads the company is putting in in more machinery and eap exp expects acts to make a higher recovery by amalgamation chanid ing and concentrating methods it is stated the company will soon begin the construction at Maz atlan on the west coast of the first ton unit of a smelling smelting sm elting plant for the treatment of itoNya it own and custo custom mores ores mr davis states the company jia has in ore blocked out in its mines included in the list being behia the long lost la Cur archa cockroach mine ande and el I 1 tejon another property of note two carloads of concentrates are now to ali the 1 e selby elby smelter near near san francisco i new mill for kern river the new 40 ton rod mill for the property of the kern river mining company operating near kernville Kern ville kern county is in commission according to A ries of los angeles president andis and is now running to full capacity mr ries also states the mine is looking better than ever before since it its taking over by his company in mining operations the company is making an up raise brorn fram the tunnel level 1200 feet in from its portal tk taj breit ore it is said ranges range sf from rom one to three feet in width and rims f from r bm 50 to I 1 in gold to the ton the company ha has 5 from twelve to fifteen men hen on its payroll geo H wyma sr aris I 1 is mine manager I 1 and geo H wyman jr is consulting engineer engi neen i 1 r |