The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-19
ARIZONA MINING MATTERS.
The Territory in 3 Tremor Over Rich
Developments.

From the Denver Mining Record.
There is tremor in the air all
through Arizona in the mining atmos-
phere. All the mining camps in the
north are forging ahead with increased
production. Recent Chloride develop
ments place that camp in the front,
where Tombstone, Tucson and other old
time camps were in their palmest days
All the mines are proving richer with
depth. The Tennessee is in one of the
largest ore bodies ever found in that sec
ton and the mill is turning out car
load of concentrates daily. The vein
which carries the lead carbonates is fully
10 feet wide. while the mine Is very rich
in ruby and native silver.
The Merrimac is putting up 1oo-ton
concentration to work it's seven feet OF
ore vein, although much of it is of high
grade character. The present depth is
more than 800 feet.
The Elkton is working on a new ore
body at its 350-foot level. The ore con-
tains much ruby and native silver In a
two-foot vein just opened. The Payroll
has struck some new developments in
copper which are very promising. The
owners expect to put up concentrating
plant the coming season.
The putting up of these mills means
much. Those already up in Chloride arg
reported to be successful. Milling meth
DDS are better and the plants are erected
on business principles by men who I'M
derstand mining as business. The own
er Of the somewhat noted Planet-Saturn
mine, after several milling failures, is
now arranging to put up a 100-ton plant
arranged with stamps and amalgam
plates. "How easy it is when you know
how to do It," and the only method"
now is to connect business with the min
ing and milling.
As to this particular mine. the Planet
Col ;c fbop
and has been on the point of abandon
ment several times, yet an ore vein five
feet wide and averaging 20 ounces in
gold and several ounces in silver was
worth fooling with, even IL located in
Fools gulch. 1t IL thought to be on the
Congress gold mine ledge and shows up
better than did the Congress at the same
development, which has a national repu-
tation as a gold producer
The Johnson mine, in the Weaver dis
trict, is now working in a six-foot vein
Of free milling SIS gold ore. which has
proved to be very uniform in value.
Every mining man knows that in Ari-
zona there are millions of gold in placer
and gulch deposits which cannot be work
ed on account of the lack of water. The
recent purchase by Edison, in New Mex
ico of one of these dry dirt deposits will
he watched with interest. But just now
quite an interest Is taken as to where
NHeSe deposits come from. On this the
Courier of Prescott has the follow
ing:
I'm Yavapai county there are many
reefs containing gold, but the lay in
the form of veins or great deposits that
extend down deep into the earth. Some
Of these reefs are to-day inaccessible
on account of water, but there are reefs
on the headwaters of Lynx creek so
large as to dwarf any gold deposits yet
discovered. and with the advent of enor-
nous capital consolidating for operations
In gold mines we may expect to see many
of these propositions in active operation.
For years the existence of these gold
reefs has been known, for the rich
placers on Lynx creek were indicative OF
a great source from which the creek gold
was washed down, but the grade of the
ore would not permit of its being treated
at profit; in fact, Arizona miners look
ed upon any proposition under $40 per ton
as valueless, but investigation proves
that with the perfection of the cyanide
process the general cheapening of mining
and milling, even ores as low as 81 so a
ton in free gold are worked at a profit.
In fact. the great mines of Alaska only
average 1927 per ton, and the rich Home
stake mines in Deadwood. Dakota, but
A.75.
when capital, such as the large ex-
ploration companies. the Rockefellers
and the Rothsehilds, get into Yavapai
county these reefs will be worked at
enormous profit, for they are the largest
gold bearing veins and deposits in the
world, and, better still, they are mostly
free milling, near to water and in a eli
mate unsurpassed anywhere in the world,
at an elevation of $500 feet. the same as
those in South Africa