Mohave County miner., 1900-12-15

of the greatest dividend payers in the
world.-Western Mining World.
A large nun Der of claims located in
the Picacho basin, San Diego county,
twenty-five miles above Yuma, Ariz,
belonging to ex-senator Dorsey, j.,
about to be opened up. A cyanide
plant of 500 tons daily capacity is con-
tempated. This will be erected on
the Colorado river, five miles from the
mines. The ore will be delivered to
the plant by "A narrow gauge railroad,
aud the plant increased as develop
ment warrants. The ore bodies exist
as immense deposits, aud while Of a
low grade, contain sufficient gold to
make profitable mining it worked upon
large scale. Senator Dorsey, in com
pany with Messrs. Harry GOrham,
Sam Jones, J. B. Landheld, Jr., of New
York, and others, left for the mines
last week, where they were joined by
Senator John p. Jones aud Mr.. Lew +.
Aubury. The opening of these mines
| will be of vast benefit to Southern Cal.
| ifUrnia, as the present development
having already demonstrated the pres
ence of the largest ore bodies ever dis .
covered in California Lack of sutfici-
ent capital to properly operate them
has been the drawback in the past, but
now that capital is assured, it Is prob
able that development will be dill.
gently prosecuted.-Los Angeles Re
view.
The Oxford Copper Company, to do
away with the many complaints about
/ the fumes from It's smelling plaut at
Constable Hook, \. j.. will, it j. stated,
| build a great chimney 40 feet squar e at
the base and about 400 feet high.-Alin-
ing aud Engineering Journal.
They do those things carrier and more
substantial in this country. General
Manager Calhoun, of the Arizona Cop
| per Company, has under contempla
ton the concentration Of all the smoke
from the smelters, reverberators aud
other works of the plant into tunnel
in the mountain, which will be raised
to the surface, a distance of several
| hundred feet. On the surface stack
about fifty feet in heighth will be built
/ in order to clear the smoke from the
top of the mountain. This will ell
/ tirely free Clifton from smoke, sui
| phur and acid fumes, which at times
are very diragreeable in some parts of
| the city. The work will be commenced
| in short time and will be com plet ed
| inside of a year. IL l. estimated that
several hundred dollars a day will be
saved to the company by the accumu.
lation of SCOT, which will be treated
for the metal it contains. Since put.
| ting in the acid plant, which treats the
tailings from the concentrators, this
Is about the only loss now sustained
by the company, and it will shortly be
remedied.-Copper Era.
The Ell Paso smelter received anoth-
er car of ore valued at 20,00OS from the
new Dolores mine in chihuahua last
NJ nday. This is the second car in the
past three weeks from this mine, which
is the property of George Beveridge
aud Mr.. Stent of San Francisco. Mr..
Beveridge claims that he has more
than million dollars worth of ore in
sight, aud says he will sell it all to the
K PaSo smelter at the same rate he
has sold these two cars. The Dolores
mine is ninety miles west of Guerrero
in the southwestern corner of the
state of Chihuahua. Beveridge has
operated in Mexico during the past
twenty years, and "antiguas," or an
cient Jesuit workings, have been his
favorites. Some may call it a fad. But
call it what you will the Antiguas have
been big winners for him. Others have
lost on them; but perhaps his success
is because he Is one of the few success.
full men who knows a mine when he
sees it. However this may be, he
heard of the old Dolores while travel
ing the trail down through the Sierra
Madres in Sonora. A friendly Indian
told him of the old mine where he
thought the Spaniards had operated
possibly years and years ago. When
he examined the mine he found that it
had bpan ODeratpd eXtenSively proh
ably by the Jesuits a century or more
ago, He made a thorough inspection
of the property and found it to be one
of the richest in the country. Return