Mohave County miner., 1900-10-06
General Mining News

mtu euipioyou III tuc ROlu dnQ silver |
mines of the state. Their wages run
from ass to 3.5os, and the proportion
of men employed at .he various wages
make an average wage of 290s.
The mill on the Accidental mine, on
Lynx creek, was destroyed by fire
Thursday night last. The property was
being operated by the Montgomery
Mining Company, with Hon. A. J.
Doran as uperintendent. Cause of
fire unknown. Loss is placed at 7,5oOs;
no insurance.-Courier.
The Helvetia company has again "got
into hole," not fguratively but lit.
orally, and they are willing to get into
others like it. Tuesday the men on
one of the lower levels broke into an
immense cave filled with water and
walled with ore. The chamber is $40
feet long and fully 245 feet deep and
flooded with water.-Tucson Citizen.
j. W. A. Off, president of the Con.
solidated Mines Company, accom-
panied by r Wankowski, one of the
stockholders, arrived from Los An
geles the other day and went out to
the mines. They are well salts fed with
the outlook, and are arranging to erect
smelter with all possible speed, the
capacity of which will not be less than
65 tons. The company shipped car
load of ore to the Silver City smelter
Monday. News.
The copper mines within the scope
OF country which embraces Helvetia,
Rosemont, the San Xavier, the Azurite,
Twin Buttes and score of other rich
copper properties, will ere long be pro-
ducing an enormous amount Of copper,
the copper ore Is there in unlimited
quantities. 1t is Of good grade, devel-
opment shows this. These mines alone
in the near future will employ men by
the thousands, and then will come the
rapid and wonderful growth of Tucson.
The copper resources south of Tucson
are inexhaustible, but this is not all
the districts to the west, north and
east of us are all showing up large
copper ore bodies. These facts alone
tell of the future of Tucson.-Star.
Superintendent Joseph J, Pheby, oi
the Silver King, while here this week
informed the Blade man that he ha.
recently taken ore out of the new shaft
on the Silver King which yielded 81
per cent copper and over thousand
ounces silver. The new shaft is nov
down $50 feet, and shows ore as rict
as that which made the Silver King ia
nous al a specimen mine twenty years
ago. He keeps eight teams busy haul
ing this rich ore TO the Mesa City de
pot from which point it will be shipped
in the future. to Canyon City, Colorado
for reduction. He is making the Kinl
a paying shipper and establishing {
reputation as a successful mine man
ager-Arizona Blade.
That there is good money in copper
is shown by the dividend which the
Calumet aud Hecla company paid il
Boston the 18th of this month. 1t i:
20s per share, or 20 per cent on the
face value of the stock. This is the ont
hundred and sixteenth dividend by the
Calumet and Hecla company, whose to
tai dividend disbursements will ag
gregate 7O,S50,OO0s. This months div
idend il the second of the fiscal year
beginning May 1st. The company paid
sos during the year ending April 30
1870; 7as in 1899 ard AS in 1893. Three
months ago the directors declared on
ly 10S in view of the fire which had
broken out in the No. 2 shaft few
days prior to the dividend meeting
The stockholders therefore have re.
ceived only 30s thus far this fiscal
year as compared with 40s for the
same period in l899.--Mining Record
Hon. II. G. Herrick returned from
Dos Cabezas yesterday and reports de-
velopment on his various properties
there progressing rapidly with salts
factory results demonstrating also that
1t Is going to be great copper camp.
The mill on the Casey mine has plenty
Of water to run off thirty tons per day,
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