Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-06-13

-Jerome Reporter
 Grading is in progress at the Lone
 Pine mine for the foundation of the new building in which a lot of new machinery will shortly be placed This machinery will consist of steam hoist. capable of sinking 1000 feet. air compressOrs power drills. etc new shaft commenced q short time since is now down nearly 100 feet and there
 is a good body of ore at the bottom of it and there is also good ore on either side of the shaft. At present this property is looking very promis- ing.
 The Calumet and Hecla. according to independent assays recently made. is losing about four -tenths of one per cent of copper in the tailings. By these figures the loss is about eight pounds of copper to the ton of ore stamped. from which sixty-eight pounds is saved in the mills The copper now being lost is so fine that none of the devices hitherto in use have succeeded in catching it. The value of the copper in the tailings of the Calumet and HecIa for the past year. at this rate. figuring on the present price of copper. would be about one and one-half million dol lars. And the mine managers think they have way to save at least half of the loss.-Silver Belt.
 We are informed by President James A Fleming of the Black Warrior ] Copper company. amalgamated. that an important strike of sulphide ore was made a few days ago on their Gold gulch property. which is situated below the Continental and five and half miles west of Black Warrior. | The ore was struck at the water level. ! in an old prospect shaft at a depth of ten feet. The ledge is sixteen feet wide and the ore is black sulphide. and pyrites of copper. the right kind ! for making acid. The discovery in sures the erection of an acid plant at an early date. and pending its con- structiOn. teaching will be suspended. The teaching works will be closed down today. The reverberatory fur mace at Black Warrior is being torn down and will be rebuilt much larger. A force of forty men are building road mile and a half. to the Gold gulch property.-Silver Belt.
 On the United Verde X Pacific about mile from this place may be seen d little tent by all who pass by. and near il shaft and pile or waste. The claim k known as the Divide and around It are six more claims apprOpri- ately named. The property was bonded from Chris Harrvhausen. for years foreman of the United Verde mine, by capitalists living In Rhode ' ISln hot.
 looked after by that well known miner H. r. Blandy. who has force of men developing the claims The crOppings are iron, formation similar to that overlying the United Verde mine. Noi trace of copper can be found in the capping, but that fact bears no weight with MT. Blandy. who is q geOlOgist and practical and experienced miner. and having studied the formation has the confidence of his employers The shaft is down fifty-five feet. The force will he doubled this week and the work continued day and night. A hoist will soon be put in and q siding is now being extended to the Divide from the main line.-Jerome Reporter.
 Presidio county. Texas. has recently come into prominence on account of rich quicksilver discoveries made there. gentleman who examined the new district recently. says he is confident that within q very few years Texas will control the quicksilver market The future. he says. alone can verify the seeming eXaggeration of the pres ent indications Uncertainty in regard to the surveys and a scarcity of wa ter are the two conditions which at present retard development of the mines. Three surveyors have been ap- pointed by the district court and in July they will complete their work The water question can be easily solved. One of the quicksilver pros poets recently sold to a California firm for S90000. In another prospect on which comparatively little develop ment work has been done. it is esti- mated by expert mining men. who have examined it, that there is ore to the value of $900000 already in sight. Expensive furnaces and retorts are being erected. and the large camp of miners at Terlingua are stalking new locations daily. The excitement over the quicksilver discoveries has been in creased by rich gold discoveries that have just been made across the Rio
 
 seven miles from the quicksilver dis ! trict.
 The following k taken from q recent issue of the Western Mining News and Financier, concerning the mines in the vicinity of Chloride. Arizona:
 Extensive preparations are being made by the management of the Elk hart mine to resume work in few ] days. During its three months of ces- Sation of work every part of the mine steam hoiSting plant and mill have been completely and thoroughly over ! hauled and new machinery made 10 take the place of that worn or in any l way disabled. The great underground 1 drifts and tunnels have been kept 1 well clear of water and when the big l force of men that are to begin work lre given the word they will find no trouble To begin al the right place without confusion or loss of time This means long and steady run for the Elkhart and one that k to pay many times over this great outlay and expense Schuylkill mine is also l To resume work on it's great and good ore bodies. The SchuyIkill has been ! closed down for quite q while pending ! d Sille WHICH uIl nOl lldierldllLe. duu now the owners will work it them selves. This mine sits right down be tween the Elkhart and Tennessee like diamond in silver setting. and is in the same canyon and on the same great lead that has made its two neighboring mines famous. The mine is also to have q new concentrator and q new steam hoist. the latter to be planted over the new 400-foot shaft for which bids are being asked now But the old working shaft and its many hundred feet of drifts and tun- nelS will not be neglected or over looked in this new rush of work There is too much good ore in sight to let them stand idle longer. now that that the proposed sale is declared off and work is to begin. Good forces of men will be placed at work in each department of the old work and the first shot and first lick of the pick will brighten the hig bodies of ore now standing boldly to view. The machin-