Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1897-11-26
TIMES AND MINING.

owing to high local freight rates, the
ores from the San Bernardino district
all go to Pueblo for smelling.
A beautiful turquoise mine has inst
been opened on the desert by syndi-
cate, at the head of which is ex-Gov.
Grant of Colorado.
The Garlock Cyanide company is run
ming at full blast and the Miner is in
formed that the company has enough
tailings in sight to run the plant for
several months.
The experiments with Thompson and
Cusick's gold-saving appliance OH sand
in the Snake river country, in Idaho,
near American Falls, have been sue
cessful. The machine in operation has
a capacity of 500 cubic yards daily, and
the sand runs about 1925 to the ton.
The machine saves all the gold, not a
color showing in sand that has been
worked.
A placer miner out in the vicinity Of
Willow Creek, just west of Prescott,
Arizona, short distance, secured $50
worth of gold and nuggets by few
days work recently, says the Tucson
Star. Finds of this kind have been
made periodically in that section DUR
ing the past few years, although no sys-
tematic mining has been engaged in.
A company has been incorporated for
the purpose of working over the tailings
of the Rose mine in Holcomb valley.
The company is to be known as the
Rose Cyanide company, and as it's name
suggests, the process of working over
the tailings is to be by the cyanide plan.
There are now on the dump of the Rose
mine from 10000 to $4,000 tons of old
tailings that will 60 from S. to Sc per
ton, and the mill is said to be making
tailings at the rate of 20 tons per day.
These are easily worked by the cyanide
process, and a plant is to be erected
with capacity of so tons daily, which
will be ready to begin operations in
about six weeks.
The PERKS district is making rapid
progress. The district now contains, or
will contain by December 25th, as soon
as the Caviar is finished, 80 stamps
and one Huntington mill, of which the
subdivision is as follows: Good Hope,
20 stamps; Santa Rosa, 20; Virginia,
10; Santa Fe, 5; Ophir, Huntington,
equal to stamps; Menifee, 5; Alice,
s. Infdel, 5; Gavilan, 10. The Good
Hope cyanide plant is running at its
usual capacity, and so is the mine.
The mill is running it's customary three
days a week. The men are clearing
out the ground at the Santa Rosa mine
and generally preparing the ground for
a new cyanide plant. Sam Walker has
decided the Lucky Boy and Green Noun
tain mines to T. c. Mennell of Los An
geles.
A mineralogist who thoroughly un-
derstands his profession, and is we'll
acquainted with the product of the
mines of the Mexican Sulphur COM
pany, in Lower California, the head
quarters of which company are in
Yuma, says the Sun of that city, in
forms us that the sulphur is remark
ably fine article of sulphate of alum
mum. Reduced to soluble solution
and mixed with carbonate of soda, the
aluminium will fall AL OF, or aluminium
oxide, ready to charge into the furnace
and reduce by eectrolysis to metallic,
aluminium, which sells for about 35,
cents per pound. Many other chemical
products are found in this sulphur,
which might be pro6tably extracted,
and the vast supply renders the estab-
lishment of chemical mandatory not
an unreasonable proposition, though so
far as we know the owners of the mines
do not contemplate such thing.
The statement that by the use of i'm
proved machinery the owners of the
Treadwell mine will be able to reduce
the cost of milling ore to less than a
dollar ton ought to revive interest in
this State and elsewhere on the Pacific
slope in the development OF low-grade
properties. Hundreds of mines were
discovered and abandoned in the early
days because the ore ran lower in value
than $40 or $l2 per ton. Many of these
mines have since been worked by new
processes at cost of So and $3.50 per
ton, anything below 81 or IS in value
not being looked upon as worth the
handling. But 81 or less for expenses
opens vast possibilities, for millions of
tons of 50, So and 81 ore are Gin sight,"
as the mining phrase goes, all over the
auriferous belts OF California, Oregon,
Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Arizona and New
Mexico. If these ores could be exploited
the gold output of those States might;
be doubled. The uncertain question Isl
whether the preliminary expense of
putting in the necessary machinery
would not stand in the way of most
owners of such properties. 1t would be
necessary, also, to secure electric motive
power, though that ought not to be diff
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