Show ARIZONA MINING NEWS special correspondence phoenix ariz jan 23 A good body of ore has been encountered in a crosscut on the ledge oi of the arizona pacific mining company at woolley at a 9 distance of 93 feet from the shaft this crosscut penetrated penetrate the of the vein and at the time oi or our visit had been extended across the vein a distance of 25 feet but had not reached the hanging wall for a width of ten feet from the the ore is high grade consisting chiefly of chalo cite copper glance and oxides the remaining 15 feet of the vein exposed while lower grade is pay ore the opening of the vein by this crosscut increased the inflow of water in the shaft to such an extent that it cannot be successfully handled by the present pumping plant hence the company on recommendation ommen dation of the superintendent has decided to re equip the mine throughout with steam machinery and three carloads of the latter will arrive over the phoenix and eastern within a few days A force of men is now engaged in grading a wagon road from woolley down to the mouth of the Zelle wager where the phoenix and eastern railroad company will establish a station for handling the woolley business another crew of men is engaged in quarrying rock for the foundations for the new machinery and for enclosing the boilers the main shaft is now down feet and as soon poon as the new machinery can be installed this shaft will be continued down to a depth of feet as fast as possible the figures below show the enormous copper output of the two big mines at bisbee arizona the copper queen and the calumet and arizona copper queen production of blister copper from ores of its mines in this camp during december was aba about ut pounds jn addition to this the smelter turned out a couple of million more pounds from the nacozari Naco zari concentrates it handled from the imperial ores delivered and the more or less tonnage coming to the custom plant which is just getting under way calumet and arizona blister copper production of the ores of its single producing shaft in the camp was I 1 tons in december or pounds with the oliver producing as it will soon be and its additional furnace in operation at douglas the C A will in a very little while be turning from its smelter close to pounds which being added to the copper queen smelter for the handling of increased production of the bisbee mines of the company it will soon be producing in the the neighborhood of pounds per month the combined production of the C A and copper queen will vill be pounds of copper per month for december the selling price of the copper outputs of these two companies can safely be lutat put at 15 cents per pound call the total pounds to be entirely conservative thus lopping off pounds the returns from which at 15 cents per pound would make a I 1 neat holiday present for most people and there is a total to the credit of bisbee Bis bees s production for the month of the cash sum of the bonanza and golden eagle mining company which has recently acquired the old harqua halqua hala mines made a trial cleanup which netted a bar of bullion worth 2 from a run of eleven days these mines have been worked for many ears and have created several fortunes for their various owners development work of recent date has opened up new ore bodies that promise to rival the output of the harqua halqua hala in its bonanza days A modern cyanide plant and full equipment for a big camp now stand on these properties ready for use the saddle mountain mining company is very much encouraged by the favorable development of their group of claims on the strip an important discovery of high grade ore was recently made on one of the obrien claims owned by the company their drilling operations in the deer creek coal fields have been temporarily suspended owing to the drill sticking at a depth adepts of about feet they have purchased a diamond drill outfit and expect to resume i drilling at some future time not far distant at the present time they are prospecting an old shaft in which there is showing of coal on the queen mine dump of this company there are over tons of ore roasted ready for treatment while ready for extraction thousands of more tons are blocked out and can be handled at any time and are being held in reserve the best claims of this company are the hackberry the queen and the boggs the development work on the hackberry has terminated satisfactorily the main shaft has reached a depth of feet and it is being continued to a greater depth and crosscutting cross cutting from that point is given the deeper this shaft is driven all the better the showing that is in evidence this mine of the treadwell people is very highly spoken of by mining people and every indication at the present time supports the belief that it will from now on be a very desirable piece of ground improving in values and widening out in vein matter with every shot several new steel bottomed ore cars of a broad gauge type have been ordered to handle the companas comp anys ore output their narrow gauge railroad is finished and it has a total length of over three miles touching the hackberry the boggs and a branch line has been run onto the queens ground it has a terminus at arizona city where it connects with the main line of the S P P P system and from the latter point the standard road conveys the product to the new smelter that is located at mayer the new ore bins for the old shaft of the united verde copper company which have been under construction for the past two months are now completed and will add greatly to the handling of the large amount of ore from these workings to the smelter below furnace no 1 which has been down for the past six weeks undergoing general repairs was started up the first of the week furnace no 2 being closed down for needed repairs an exceedingly rich strike was made recently in the war eagle claim in yuma county A ledge was opened which i is in the neighborhood of seven feet wide with a pay streak of from eight to twenty inches which runs into the thousands A sack of this ore sent to los angeles assayed 1 in gold per ton an average taken of the whole ledge shows an average of free milling gold per ton the war eagle is owned by certain arizona capitalists and prominent mining men A deposit of mercury has been added to the minerals already discovered in arizona J A stevenson has discovered this valuable metal in copper basin in yavapai county the f he ore is in the form of red sulphide of mercury better known as cinnabar A sample of the ore sent to los angeles shows about 8 per cent quicksilver certain los angeles capitalists have made a proposition to put up all the money needed to develop this property and get out the ore so in a short time yavapai county will have added a new industry to its already large number and a new metal will be added to its list of minerals |