Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-06-03

mill is completed, which they are now about to erect at the mine; after which, they will ship the concentrated sulphurets. This rich sulphuret ore was struck at the water-level, 70 feet deep--Great credit | is due Messrs. Bates Brothers for the manner in which they have handled this They have also great difficulty i in getting their ore shipped East, owing to the opposition evinced by the Southern Pacific Railroad Company to ship ore from Arizona in that direction. The last | batch of ore shipped took two months to reach New York from Maricopa, and the | charges were enormous! The Atlantic & i Pacific railroad will be patronized by this Company as soon as 1t gets near Prescott. Miner.
 Mining. ng.-From D. c. Thorne we learn that a recent clean up of Silver Belt ore at the shelter, gave one hundred bars of silver bullion and two tons of matte, which will be shipped through Blake & Go. Sinking and stoping is now going on in the mine, and all the good miners that can be found are being employed in the work. From the 160-foot level the drifts have been run 800 feet along the vein and fine ore shown drought. The Belt is. without doubt, a mine creditable to the country. w. Boggs is in town. He says of the Blackberry mine, which is located in Big Bug creek, near the mouth of Grapevine, that they are now down on the ledge some thirty-six feet. The ledge is sixteen feet thick and averages SIS gold and silver with fifteen per cent copper per ton. Prof. Shafer, of the Lynx creek shelter, who recently made some tests of the smelting qualities of this ore says that it can be smelted with wood. .-G. w.. Curtis recently acquired possession of 2 large ledge of gold ore on lower Lynx creek, near Virgin Mary hill. The work of developing the ledge has been only re- ccntly begun, and at depth of some ten feet sample assay made of the vein which is five feet wide, gave as a result S69 gold per ton. Courier.
 From Captain Williamson, who made business trip to the Mary mine, last Mon day, we glean the following particulars: The mine IS situated in Dos Cabezas dIs- trict, about SIX miles north of this camp
 The location is called Evans camp Two men have taken a contract to sink one hundred feet. The mine is showing up well. A road is being made from Bowie station to the mine, for the purpose of bringing in suitable machinery for work
 ing the ores. It is an expensive and very difficult undertaking, but the Cochise NJ. & NJ. Co., think the outlook at the mine will warrant the outlay. We hope they may not be disappointed. -Mr s. P. Duzan, who has charge of the mines of the Cincinnati and Pittsburgh Mining onJ D pa1, i,,fo,o,s ,s in one month he will have sufficient quantity of ore extracted to keep the mill constantly running, with what he can take out from day to day. A good road to the mine has been built and Mir. Duzan thinks the outlook is very promising. We hope the ore will yield good reults, as the mill company deserves all the prosperity that may smile upon them. Fred Hinke and T. B. Harris, have struck it rich in the Mahogany mine. It IS owned by Messrs Washeim, Hinke and Harris, and their many friends will rejoice at their prospective good fortune. Note.
 Applicability of the Lixiviation Process. All silver ores which allow good chlor- ination in the furnace, and which permit filtration, are suitable for the lixiviation
 process. 4 great advantage of this pro cess is its cheapness. Roasting IS, of course, indispensablei except with the chlo- ride ores; butneitherpans and the required
 power nor quicksilver are used, and for tkis reason less capital IS necessary to put
 up reduction works. Kustel, in his
 Roasting of gold and silver ores," says: It is not only a dispensing with pans that i it deserves commendation. In using pans there is gearing, telting and other parts exposed to breakage; the pans welr out
 in time, especially with base roasted ore.
 The cost of quicksilver itself is not great,
 provided 1t has not to be transported too | far; but this process IS important in To
 calities where lime and sulphur can be got in the neighborhood, while the traDspor-
 tation of quicksilver is troublesome and
 costly. The process, although little
 more complicated than the pan amalgama-
 ton. and requireing more time, is never
 theless simple and more easily learned.
 Ores containing much clay and lime, or 1 tale, filter very slowly, sometimes so slowly
 that pan amalgamation must be preferred.
 The remedy ill such case IS found in se-
 paration of the mud or slime from the
 coarser sandy part. The crushing, there
 fore, must be changed to wet crushing,
 and the separation must be effected either
 through pointed boxes or some ether
 arrangement, where the flow of water is
 swift enough to carry the fine stuff further
 than the sandy part This latter, for the
 purpose of roasting, must be dried. Gen
 orally, it is charged wet in a roasting
 furnace with two or three hearths. h
 this case, the salt Is added when the ore
 is in the last hearth. But then comes the
 convenience of handling the shines In
 Mexico this part can be subjected to the
 patio amalgamation, provided the silver
 comes out by this process, and in tht
 United States the slime, on account of its
 extreme fneness, may admit direct par
 amalgamation; but Ill either case double
 manipulation Is very inconvenient. The
 proposal to treat such ore without separa
 tion in an agitator with Altering bottom may perhaps answer in some instances but this point must be decided by exper iments. Ore that permits filtration, bu too slowly can be leached much quicker with hot solutions, beginning with ho solutions, beginning with hot water; bu the hot water in the beginning dissolve more chloride of silver than cold water Lixiviation, with aid of suction, is a grea advantage where it can be arranged. Tn teaching boxes must be located ten t twelve feet above the precipitating vats The hose IS inserted at the lowest point O the vat below the false bottom; then ther is glass pipe, reaching outside near tn l rim of the vat The hose, before com mencing, is likewise lifted as high as til s glass tube. After the vat is filled wit ore and the water admitted the air belo, the false bottom escaped through pipe: 5 but after awhile, when the water rises an covers the mouth of the hose, the air frol