Show ARIZONA chifton copper era alex mclean for superintendent of the metcalf many years mines who now resides at el paso is spending a few days in this section looking after his interests he is now operating mines in chihuahua and sonora clifton copper era E depee who is interested with dick marshall in gold mines near the rock house spent a few days in ill town this week he reports work progressing favorably in that section and all the claims looking well considerable ore is being taken out which will average close to per ton kingman miner C D pickering superintendent in of the yucca cyanide M M company is in kingman t he reports that everything is in readiness at the mine for the reception of the big compressor which is expected at yucca today when the compressor is in place work on the deep working shaft will be pushed as fast as possible it is expected to sink this shaft to the depth of 1000 feet the mine in the new workings looks fine and big bodies of rich ora are in sight kingman miner minin mining on bill williams fork is demanding many miners minei 0 aal before winter is past hundreds of men will be employed by the big companies companes going in there hoisting plants are being put on tha th groups of mines controlled by E S osborne and osborne and wardwell on the blanch ard butler mines hoisting plants will soon be put in as the shafts are getting below the depth where whims and windlasses wind lasses can be used to advantage the mines are showing ln up well tombstone epitaph it is very probable that the smelter which will be built for the silver bell mines will be located at red rock the company has purchased sd a tract of land there for a smelter site and the hauling of ore from the mines to red rock would cost very little if red rock were to receive the smelter it would cause the town to boom considerably the capacity of the smelter is to be tons the com bained ned shipments of ore from the silver bell and tombstone mines amount to about 20 tons per day prescott herald within the next two months three more diamond drills will be operating in the jerome district this will make six x drills operating in the district as follows rol lows TWO on the harryhausen Harry housen one on the united verde extension one on tile the alli son owen two on the united verde copper companas Gomp comp anys mine the other properties in this district strict are now being considered considene 1 by eastern capitalists and if taken over it is DrO proposed POsed to explore them with diamond drills alls mining capital is loo looking hing after good prospects and is loo looking kint after them in arizona with copper at its present price capital will take a long chance to the diamond drill bisbee owes its great mineral discoveries during the last few years and with proper han handling idling the diamond drill will make good in the jerome district clifton copper era W F mason of colorado ol orado who has been interested in some mining claims on sardine creek arrived about two weeks ago and comes prepared to test his property thoroughly his surface ores run as high as thirty per cent copper sixty ounces silver and 10 gold per ton mr mason is an old time miner and has always had great faith in his holdings in this section but this is the first time he has been financially able to give the property a fair test prescott herald the welcome news comes from mayer that the rigby reduction company is now receiving ore and that the big plant will be ready to operate within the next ten days the roasters asters ro will start up immediately the rigby reduction company has a new method of working ore known as the volatilization process this is the first large plant built it will treat zinc or any other ore with the rigby going full blast mayer will be a live town the treadwell people will also start up again full blast in the near future prescott weekly prospect the prospect is reliably informed that another reduction plant is to be installed early this spring in this section mr 0 B stanton is the promoter of the enterprise and left yesterday morning after having spent ten days in investigating conditions generally in this section the plant will be a concentrator of tons capacity and is to be located at copper creek some twenty five miles east of mayer its construction is for the purpose pa se of treating I 1 the ores of the rosalie group of seventeen claims owned by a kansas city syndicate this property was formerly owned by joe mayer wm win nellis and D M bartholdi but was purchased last lash spring by kansas city parties the property belt of over schist is located on a feet in width and is nearly two miles in length |