Show big bar of gold from the gold road special correspondence phoenix arizona feb 9 there has lately been brought in from gold road one of the largest bars of bullion ever cast at the mill its weight was and was ten days run of the tanks a cleanup clean up from a the bar was one of the handsomest and cleanest ever brought to kingman the mill was shut down for a few days during the week while the batteries were being changed from dry to wet crush but the new mill was started up thursday the object of the new mill is to regrind and amalgamate before the pulp goes to the tanks the ores now carry considerable chahe coarse gold that cannot be reduced to the desired fineness for cyaniding cyan iding and this is to be taken out and thereby increase its cyaniding cyan iding capacity the little jessie is now working sixteen men general manager J S jones came back from the east with plenty of capital and matters will be pushed there with a vim A boiler is on the ground ready to set to increase the working capacity of the property and it is said on the best of authority that a big shipping of other machinery for this mine is in transit the twin buttes company has struck a fine body of ore in the double compartment shaft the good reputation of the twin buttes is steadily growing and here is one of the coming bonanza producers of southern souther n arizona the recent floods entirely destroyed the dam at the camp of the detroit copper company the dam was constructed for the purpose of conserving the tailings and slimes from the companas comp anys plant it is being re paired and strengthened so that it will be better able to resist any water pressure that may come against it in the future several improvements have been made for handling the tailings and it is expected that the dam will not again be washed away so easily the smelter at the copper queen has recently made an enormous output for awen ty four hours run producing tons of bullion in that length of time this is the greatest run ever made in the southwest in any twenty four hours by any reduction plant one hundred and sixty three tons of copper at the present price is worth quite a days business word has been received in prescott that a body of ore five feet in width has been encountered recently in the blue bird group of mines 1 this group of mines owned by hugo richards W J and thomas roach adjoins the group owned and now being developed by the gold king mining company As one or two of the claims in the gold king group are extensions of a ledge of tho the blue bird group the finding of this body of ore is very enco encouraging urgIng to the latter also A party of the eastern stockholders ot of the tri bullion mining development company have recently made a trip to the com banys properties in kelly gulch this concern is now working men and has a nicely located camp in kelly gulch opposite the mouth of the crosscut tunnel which is now in over 1500 feet and has cut several veins and which will be continued about feet farther and at the breast will be over 1200 feet below the surface at about feet in the tunnel a ledge of hematite hemi tite thirty seven feet wide in a lime formation was cut on which a short drift was run northerly and a sunk in the drift to the depth of thirty feet there is a large body of hematite hemi tite disclosed which runs over 60 per cent iron and carries gold silver lead and copper in the bottom of the it was found that the percentage of copper increased from what it gave at the tunnel level the tunnel is equipped with a forty horse power gasoline engine and a sullivan three drill capacity air compressor the surface indications and outcrops on this property are similar to those of the copper queen at bisbee yet they show much more copper than did that mine on the surface from this shaft four carloads of ore shipped recently returned from 54 64 to 62 per cent lead besides gold silver and copper and after deducting railroad transportation and treatment charges gave about 46 per ton to the company the companes compan comp anys yos properties are within five miles of the survey line of the phoenix and eastern railway the troy manhattan smelter made a successful run of ten days but owing to the severe storms which washed out numerous bridges on the phoenix and eastern railroad was compelled to shut down pending the arrival of supplies of fuel oil and coke which is held up on the railroad the steam hoist has been removed from the ninety one shaft to the main shaft and is is i now in commission the boiler from the alice shaft has also been removed to the main shaft and with the others to be placed with it there will be a battery of four A body of high grade copper oro ore twenty feet in width has been opened in the buckeye mine the new double compartment shaft on this property is now down about feet and a large area of ground has been opened the troy manhattan mines are now to be counted among the certain producers of the territory the globe mining company held its second annual stockholders meeting in chicago on january 10 and reelected elected re J F hechtman and george goo goodwin dwin of globe and S J collins of moline ill as directors for three years there ads was a large number of stockholders present and plans for the future development of the company property and other matters were discussed after the adjournment of the stockholders meeting the directors met and reelected elected re all the officers of the company and formulated plans for the more extensive deve development of its mining property it is expected the plans of the company will mature in a short time when sinking willbe will be resumed on the main shaft while taking out ore and opening ng more ground along the vein |