Mohave County miner., 1900-12-08

Jonn Scuily has discovered gold
/ quartz lead 80 feet wide, and can trace
1t 800 feet in length on the strike of
the vein; twelve feet of the vein aver
| ages 3,9OS in gold, and the rest zoos in
gold per ton. = The discovery is about
three miles south Of the famous Mend.
ha mine, which will average 2OS in gold
per ton aud is opened TO a depth of
67j feet, while comparatively little
stopping has been done, the vein aver
aging six feet. Mr.. Scully gives it as
his opinion from the outcrop of the two
mines, that he has second Delamar.
He intends to open up the claims as
rapid as possible.-Nevada Record.
The new 80 ton concentrator being
built by the Red Chief Mining Com.
pany, which is operating the Water
lode and Red Chief mines at Red
Bluff, is completed. The company has
done great amount of development
work and it is reported that they have
been rewarded b. striking excellent
o Idies of rich ore in the Waterlnde
claim. These mines are situated with.
IN mile and half Of Rsi Bluff. 1t
l. repJr;ei l that they have 700 tons of
c Incentrating ore on the dump of the
Red Chief and nearly as many on the
dump of the Waterlode. Besides they
have in the neighborhoOd of 1850 tons
of ore blocked out in the mine ready
for stopping w. w. Wishon of Butte
and Mr.. Sawyer, broker aud capital
ist of New York City, came in Sunday.
Mr.. Wishon has had three or four men
sampIing the big BISs Tweed aud
Clipper group for the past three weeks,
presumably with the idea of getting an
option on il, If the present holders of
the option fail to make a deal. Who
the parties interested are the Sentinel
was unable to fiud out, but it j. under
stood to be people who have plenty of
the capital necessary to undertake
such a mammoth propositioD.-Pony,
Montana, Sentinel.
Chas. j. George, president aud man.
ager of the Verde King Copper COM
pany, arrived in jerome from Los An.
geles yesterday morning aud is out in
the hills near town looking over the
property owned aud operated by his
people. Mr.. George is highly pleased
with the appearance of the group of
IL claims owned by the company, and
says he would not take any undeveI
oped piece of mining property in All
Znna for the Verde King group. The
tunnel Is now in 40 feet and native
copper has been struck. The ledge l.
stronger and wider than when the TIM.
mel was started, and the indications
are that the company will have pay ore
IN their mines before Christmas. Mr.
George, who is mining expert. own.
Ing mining property in different sec
tions of Arizona aud Colorado, is very
over the late propertv
acquired here, and says he is receiving
letters of inquiry from all over the |
United States abont the Verde King /
Mr.. George is a man who
Is not afraid to put in capital, and will .
open up the Verde King group in short
order He has sold great deal of
stock at ID cents a share, and will soon
have all the first 100000 shares of
treasury stock disposed of. The next
stock sold will go for twice that sum
The location'of the group and the sur
ace indications point to the existence
IT large body of ore in their property.
jerome Reporter.
A good deal of unnecessary alarm
la5 been raised over the burning of
IRE piles in some of the upper levels of
he Iron Mountain Copper mine and
he possible danger to the security of
he property through it. The prema.
ure ignition of the ore will, in fact.
esult in big saving to the company )
the cost of reductions; the larger the
re pile in the slopes on fire increasing {
roportionately the volume of the
rotit. The ore obtained from this q
lmous mine is a sulphide, which must q
roasted before it goes to the smell
n. The roasting is done to expel the II
lphur from the mineral com bination. o
IL of the ore taken from the mine is u
lrried first to the roasting furnaces at
eswick, whence it is subsequently "
Irned over to the smelter for final p
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