Mohave County miner., 1900-06-16
General Mining News


The Ray company have let all the
work on their mines by contract. Chas.
F. Lucas was the successful bidder and
will start work with force of sixty
men. He will be required to extract
$50 tons of ore every twenty -four hours,
and deliver it to the ore bins from
which it is loaded into the cars through
chutes.- Blade.
One Of the best mines in Arizona is
the Copper Chief, formerly known as
the Equator, says the Jerome corre-
spondent of the Republican. Over this
property bitter legal war was fought
for ten years. 1t is estimated that
there is 2,Oo0,OOOs worth of ore in
sight at present. So far only develop.
ment work has done. force of men
has been steadily engaged opening up
the mine since the litigation was set
tied. Superintendent nendry has had
extensive experiments made of the
cyanide process on the Copper Chief
ore, all Of which are said to have been
very satisfactory. / am reliably in
formed large cyanide plant has been
ordered and will be placed rs soon as
1t arrives, and active operations begun
at once. The Copper Chief is only a
short distance from Jerome. A post.
office has been established there al
ready. Keep your eye on the Cope,
Chief.
From Frank Perry and Leonard Page,
who arrived in Tombstone from John
son, the prosperous mining camp in
the Dragons. three miles from Russell.
Vile. 1t Is learned that the camp has a
population Of over 80, says the Tomb
stone Prospector. At the Peabody
mine 165 Mexican miners are on the
Payroll, and two carloads of copper
ore are shipped to FL Paso daily. The
Peabody Is under the supervision of
H. j. Clifford. At the Mammoth mines,
some thirty-five or forty Americans
are employed, aud the property Is
looking exceedingly we'll. These mines
are being opened by au eastern CON-
pany, and are in charge of s. s. Camp D.
bell. Messrs. Perry, Mitchell and
Wien own some promising copper
claims, which are also doing we'll.
Several groups of mines are being me-
gotiated for Ter bono, md the dis
trict l. growing in prosperity. The
Wolfram claims about Russelville are
valuable aud attracting attention. AL
together that section is rapidly com.
ing to the fore in mining development
Citizen.
The South Bisbee mining property Is
to be developed on larger scale than
formerly. Peter johnson aud Maurice
Denn will put a new force of men al
work sinking shaft on the Uncle Sam
Number Two, a claim of the South
Bisbee group. The contract, says the
Review, Is for shaft 600 feet In depth
The claim on which the sinking is to
done has been developed only on &
small scale, but it contains the fines,
surface groupings ever seen in this dis
trict. The location of the intended
work is about one and one-quarte
miles In southerly direction from tn,
Holbrook shaft, about one-quarter of ,
mile from the South Bisbee hoist, anC
nearly 5000 feet to eastward of tn,
White Tail Deer. The winze sinking
from the north drift on the 7O0-foo
level of the South Bisbee mine Is still
in ledge matter and more or less or
of good grade. The winze has passed
through body OF good ore aud shonlt
1t lose the present promising forma
ton as 1t goes down, 1t will be aban
doned and drifting will be commences
from the ore encountered, at dept
Of rs feet below the level. The entir
formation OF the South Bisbee mine
changing with development from lin
rock Of flint like hardness to broke
formation containing clay and blac
manganese, thus greatly facilitatin
the opening of the ground. The com
pany will commence shipping ore tw
weeks from now, from which date th
shipment of ore will continue steadily