Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1895-07-17
MINESAND MINING
Some Interesting DOingS in tho Various
 Districts Surrounding This City.
What Old Producers ars Doing and EGtsS
 From New Discoveries.

Several important mining sales are
 on the tapis.
 Scores of dry washers are at work
 in gulches all through the noun
 tains, and their owners are all mak-
 ing good wages.
 T. G. Barlow Massicks is clearing out the old shaft on tho Kimball
 mine on Lynx creek and retimber- ing it. This is the property former ly owned by G. W. Curtis and upon which he erected a mill. but afte T working out the surface ore which was free milling the property was abandoned and has lain idle ever ever since. The ore taken from it was quite rich and there is no req son why good property may not be developed.
 Leon Chandler, a young Colorado typo-miner, has a Schufelt dry washer about completed, ready to take to the dry gulches in the hills in quest of gold. The ordinary ma chine of this pattern weighs about thirty pounds, but Mir. Chandler has constructed one on his lines that only weighs i've pounds. He says he will guarantee that it will do the work as efTectually as the larger machine and that it will save all the gold contained ln any gravel bed.
 Messrs. c: T. Picard, general manager, and l.. II. Heron. superin- tendent of the Isabella Gold Mining Company, are pushing work at Pla- ceritas with all possible speed. They have twenty men employed grading for the mill. The machinery for the mill has arrived at Kirkland station, on the s. F., P. & P. road, and will be transported to the mine and placed in position soon.
 The bromine process mill of fifty tons daily capacity, which has been under construction for some time past in the La Plata mountains at Hesperus, Colo, is expected to be in full operation on or before Au- gust l. The process is the invention of Mir. E. c. Englehardt, the we'll known assayer and chemist, and for merly a resident of thls city in charge of the Consolidated chlorina- ton works. The method has been completely tested, and in all cases gave complete satisfaction, both in economy of treatment and per cent. Of extraction.- Mining Record. MT. Englehardt will be remembered as the gentleman who talked of put ting in his bromine plant in Pres colt.
 Two years ago ore that would re- turn less than S20 per ton was not considered worth shipping to smell ters. It had to run through the stamp mills, where but 40 to 90 per cent of the gold and silver were saved, and then sent to smelters. Now the smelters have educed their schedule of rates to range from 8 to S7.5O per ton, making this the era of low grade ores. No figures of the rates charged for the smelting of ores two years ago or to-day are ob- tainable, but on the authority of we'll known shelter a reduction of an average of about S20 to the ton to from S3 to $7.50 has been made in the time between the two dates. The reduction means a good many things to mines and miners. It is practically a death blow to stamp mills and concentrators about mines that lie within reach of railway transportation. It means that all ! low grade mines can be successfully operated, for the shelter extracts l practically all the value from the ! ore, and there are no more great | losses from the different preliminary | processes. It means that fair rates | of transportation will give the rail roads all they can haul to smelter points. and smelters all they can do. working day and night. It means that the dumps of low grade ore stacked about so many of the mines that have heretofore shipped only high grade stuff will be gradually to the smelters. Low grade ore bodies are always of greater size and more lasting than high grade. and their successful operation, will employ hundreds of men more than are at present working. The chlc- and cyanide mills that have made announcements of ability to handle low grade ores, thus find themselves in direct competition with plants that had been supposed o be out of their class. This is, of 'ourse, a wondsrful revolution in the of mine products, and it hould result in great advantage to .oth mine owners and workers, and he state at large.-Denyer Mining Record.