Arizona republican., 1898-04-19

tion at right angles, instead of follow ing it longitudinally. Within 300 or 400 feet as many as fifty "strlngers" of ore have been found. Conditions in this property are duplicated in near ly all the others. The Eureka mill ran twenty three and a half tons of Napoleon ore which yielded $3,500. Tailings from this mill cyanided only S2 20 per ton; hence it is assumed the mill saving was very close and the gold in the ore very free.
 The Merced mine, in the Stringer district, has three or four claims, on one of which is a shaft 160 feet deep, with some drifting. J. w. Scott, man. ager, states that 3S2 tons of ore have been milled the past year and that bullion of the value of s14,532 resulted
 Adjoining the Merced is the Winnie, whose shaft is 150 feet deep. Ie be- longs to Charles Cohen, owner of the Kane Springs stamp mill, and is said to have produced about S25,000 in all. The G. B. mine, nearer town, is owned by Mccormick, Powers & Me Comb. They are developing from a shaft 200 feet deep, and have 800 feet of drifting. I am informed that 1000 tons of ore have been shipped which ran from s2O to s3O per ton. In this property there are stringers of sulphide ores which are better adapted to concentration.
 The Little Butte group, located on the outskirts of Randsburg, is equip ped with a gasoline hoist, over 400 foot incline shaft, from which 300 feet of drifts are run. It is stated that the ore from this property has run from [ O. ol,1n, in comparatively narrow pay StreakS. The Wedge, which joins the Little Butte and Kinyon, has five levels from a. 400 foot shaft, which goes down on the vein, on which there is some local 1 faulting The rich ore is in the pay streak near hanging wall. Ninety i tons of Wedge ore averaged $40 per ! ton. In this vein the pay ore is as narrow as two inches and widens out l in places to two feet. The Wedge and Little Butte mill their ore at the JO- 1 hannesburg mill.
 The Kinyon shaft is 26O feet deep and drifts therefrOm extend 175 feet ] The management say they ship 22O sacks of ore per month.
 1 The mill belonging to the Johannes burg Reduction works has ten stamps, , treats twenty-five tons per day and uses a gasoline engine.
 The Rand-Kern company cOntem- plate putting in an electric power plant on the Kern river, thirtysiX miles west | of Randsburg, and transmit power to the district for the use of the mines
 and mills, a majority of the owners
 having agreed to utilize a certain
 amount of power. This enterprise is
 being promoted by J. W. Eddy of Los
 Angeles.
 1 At present thirteen gasoline engines
 are in use in the Randsburg district
 It is readily seen that they are well
 adapted to use in the desert mines,
 where fuel and water are not easily nor cheaply obtained, and, as opera tors become more accustomed to them, some of the annoyances incident to running them will disappear.
 A milling. concentration and cya- ! hide plant is to be built at Barstow,
 with special reference to adaptability to the ores at Randsburg, Radamacher
 and Panamint country. The project ors of this enterprise are those who own and operate the Randsburg rail road between Kramer and Johannes burg, and their plan is to become ore i buyers and create market for any ! ores running as high as $S per ton. 1 In the Mesquite range, at the foot of
 which Garrick is situated, there are several partially developed properties, whose ores are refractory but we'll suited to concentration. The reduc- tion plant proposed for Barstow should greatly aid in this development. 1 Mineral paint, said to exist ill extan- sive veins near Johannesburg, has been used in painting several buildings f there. c. H. Stagg is developing this enterprise.