Show ARIZONA kingman mineral wealth the depot landing of the chloride gold mining company is again top heavy with ore sacks the burro train is breaking the eight hour law clifton copper era the detroit copper company having recently connected its mines near metcalf with a transmitting cable from its power plant at morenci is now installing the electrical equipment at its m mines ines and will soon have them in operation which will be a great saving to the company clifton copper era work is progressing rapidly 0 on n the new concentrating plant of the arizo arizona na copper company at morenci but it will be some months yet before it will be in commission it will have all the modern conveniences for handling and concentrate i ing its capacity will be about seven huni dred tons daily kingman mineral wealth miners in E from the gold mine being developed by the standard gold in the say it is developing into a twenty four karat bonanza it is the only mine in the county that has three superintendents all of whom get into the fissure and dig they carry their dinner buckets into the mine and fill them with gold nuggets after shooting tombstone epitaph the strike on the p property of fred bernoudy a short distance from paradise of which mention was made in the douglas dispatch seems to have been greater than ever mr bernoudy anticipated the assay made in douglas for mr bernoudy shows that the ore runs in gold 2800 ounces in silver 30 per cent lead and one half of 1 per cent copper clifton copper era D E woodbridge a mining engineer who for several years has been connected with thomas F cole who is now generally recognized as the leading copper man of the world arrived last week to look over the district mr woodbridge is a mining man of note his visit here may have some connection in regard to the bonding of many claims in this district and then again it may not kingman miner report has it that the pinkham mine at chloride has been sold to the E company this company is the owner of a new process for the smelting smelling sm elting of ores by the use of oil instead of coke the i pinkham Pin khani mine is one of the best properties j in the chloride field having produced largely of copper gold silver ores it was formerly owned and worked by schee brothers of santa monica cal A dispatch from humboldt says the smelter of the arizona smelting smelling Sm elting company at humboldt ariz is now in operation having been put in commission last week the plant is one of the largest custom smelters shelters sm elters in the southwest having a capacity of tons copper and tons lead daily this plant has been in process of construction for more than a year and its completion has been awaited with interest by mining men kingman mineral wealth manager C D pickering of the san francisco mine gathered up a few miners and muckers duckers to complete his force of thirty five men that in future will be employed at mine and mill the power drills are working finely and the concentrators are adjusted to save the mineral up to a high per cent the mine is now developed enough to keep the mill running continuously the main shaft is down feet with levels each feet the values are in gold the vein is said to be seven feet wille wide in the lower level yucca is the railroad point and cedar the postoffice post office kingman miner william grant of hackberry was in kingman sunday last on business he reports that the arizona minne sota mining company is developing more water at patterson well and that hereafter the mill will be run night and day enough ore has been taken from the eldorado mine to insure a long run of the mill and economic reduction the ore from other mines on which the company has been at work gave unsatisfactory results in the mill although the ores carried good values this company has stayed with the property and is now on the road to success ess clifton copper era during the past few weeks the lower workings of the standard mines have reached the sulphide zone and sulphide ores are now being mixed with other ores and shipped to the smelters shelters sm elters like all other ores of the standard mines it is of a high grade the first class running from 15 to 25 per cent and the second class probably from 6 to 10 the sulphides sulp hides have been encountered in two places in the mines but the work done has not as yet been sufficient to determine as to their extent the important thing however is the fact that sul aphides have been struck As a whole the standard mines are looking well and also doing well kingman miner hon thomas E ludlam of sea isle city new jersey arrived in kingman sunday evening and departed on on tuesday to the mocking bird mine the owning company of which he is general manager superintendent jordan accompanied him on the trip the mocking bird under recent development has proven to be one of the richest mines opened in the county in recent years six feet of ore in the mine gave average assays essays of more than gold to the ton A force of men have been at work onfre on the mine and opening up water the past two months with best of success two carloads of ore are to be taken from the mine and shipped to the smelter at once to get at the actual average value and milling tests are also to be made kingman miner in sinking the shaft below the level of the altata mine near chloride a cave opened up a body of ore of unusual values specimens of the ore are masses of wire gold and silver interlaced through the copper from people who have seen the ore we get the information that the ore body was found in what was supposed to be one of the walls of the mine and although its extent is not known enough ore is in sight to pay for the property and all work done on it the altata at one time was a large producer of gold silver and copper ores but the ore body was lost near the level and no systematic attempt was made to again take it up the present company under the management of A H dryden has gone to work systematically to open the property and is sure to make a big success |