Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-11-14 | Page 19 | Black Range Gets Promising Results

DIM REE GETS PROMISING RESULTS fipaclal tft The Tribune. KT NO-MAN, Ariz., So v. 13. The Black Rango is petting r nioiTncing re-sultH re-sultH in its operations. Ooiuiitlona pro-vailing pro-vailing at a depth of 2(10 foot warrant tlio belief that the shaft hoing mink to disclose- th inaiu ledgo of the property in na.rinc it an assays of 0.00 per ton havo iust l.eon obtained. Whon the shaft has roar he-d tha 300-foot point crosscuts will be extended for exploratory explora-tory purposes. In view of the fft'-t that surface abbur ns high as $2000 huve' been ohtainod on iho ground and that the oro bodies of the district have Iven found to give a bettor account of themselves them-selves at depth, the Black Rang is considered hy many ruining men of the Ont man district as a property possess-inix possess-inix ti great future. The mechanical equipment has just, hern improved bv the installation of a five-drill sir com- pressor, two machine drills and other accessories. The compressor is of sufficient suf-ficient rapacity to permit of air being used in the operation of a pump, should flow of water in the workings demand it. At present the flow measures about 100 callous per hour and la being easily handled by a baler. Excellent headway Is being made in sinking operations on the Big Jim property. prop-erty. The shaft is now down more than 320 feet and is revealing highly interesting inter-esting conditions. Stringers of quarts of encouraging value are bolng disclosed in drifting operations op-erations on the 200-foot level of the Tvanhoe. The management is pushing the exploratory work with all possible vigor. Unless; present plans go awry, operations opera-tions upon an extensive scale will soon be under war at the property of the Lost Basin Mining company. Tt Is located lo-cated about forty miles north of Kingman King-man and consists of the old Scanlou mine and adjoining gTOund, embracing, in all, fourteen claims. Former owners, own-ers, operating in a primltivo fashion, explored the numerous ledpes traversing travers-ing the property suf fie lent 1v to place in sight a large tonnage o1' ore averaging aver-aging around fT.OO per ton. The out-eroppings out-eroppings of the ledges present to view some ot the largest bodies of mine.ral-bearing mine.ral-bearing quarts to be found in northwestern north-western Arizona. The management of the Arizona Tellurium Tel-lurium Mines company is obtaining excellent ex-cellent results in the operation of its property in the Wallayai mountains, fifteen miles et of Kingman. The new maiu working shaft is now donn more than fifty feet and the bottom, wirh only the hanging wall exposed, show nine feet of ore of a shipping grade. Some of the ore being extracted extract-ed parries exceedingly hi eh values. Tt i Thn intention of General Manager vV. T.. Ma-'kay to soon extend crosscuts from the shaft to the footwall of the vein. There is everv reason to believe that si.'h work will le attended by highly gratifying results.