Mohave County miner., 1900-05-26


cial Mining Company, controlled by
Phelps, Dodge Il Co. of New York.
Several hundred pounds of copper
ore from the new copper fields opened
near the Tie Siding, Wyo., we're re.
ceived yesterday by j. d. Caldon of
this city. The ore was brought from
three different mines--one 25 miles
north, one seven miles southeast and
one two miles south Of Tie Siding. AL
most all the ore is copper glance,
mixed with native copper, an associa-
ton seldom seen in copper mines.
Some of the pieces of ore are almost
solid copper, so nearly pure that they
can be cut with a saw, and none was
taken from greater depth than 25
feet. The veins are all large, and the
metallic copper is found in spar and
quartz, fine seams of native copper per-
meating the rock in every direction.
/ From one of these properties l,750
/ pounds of ore taken from depth of
10 feet were sent 10 the Argo smelter,
and yielded 40 per cent copper and
2S ounces silver. The district is de-
scribed as thoroughly mineralized over
a large area, and in every claim opened
up to the present time the same char
acter of ore has been found. Several
/ claims are now being developed by
Denver men, and the country Is at
tracing large number Of prospectors,
who are coming in every day and going
into the hills. The ore brought in is
said to be a fair sample OF the district,
and is the richest copper ore that has
been brought to Denver for several
months. In some of the claims con-
siderable gold Is found associated with
the copper, and in one claim streak
of quartz five inches wide carries be-
tween three aud four ounces of gold
Mining Record.
Another very large mining deal has
been consummated in the Black hills,
Colorado capital again figuring prom
inently. The deal has been made very
quickly, owing 10 the richness of the
ground in the purchase. The Colorado
Springs mining experts have been in
Deadwood the past few days, one of
whom is ID. N. Heizer, one of the best
known mining men in the west. The
ground in question is situated in the
Ragged Top mountain district. about
eight miles west of Deadwood on the
Burlington and Elkhorn railroads.
There are about 400 acres of ground in
the deal, which are covered all over
with blanket of lime rock, which
carries values in gold averaging about
l0s per ton. The blanket runs In
thickness from ten to twenty feet, and
il Is pay rock from the surface down.
The deal is considered the largest one
put through this seacon in the Hills.
The Colorado experts who examined
the property, are said to have made
the quickest examination on record of
Black Hills property. There seems
to be gold everywhere. Near this
group of claims in question there is a
twenty-five ton cyanide plant in sue
cessfuls lsoperation, which has been run
ming quietly in Calamity gulch for a
year. 1t was not really known how
great a bonanza tine owners of the
plant had until few days ago. The
ore 10 this lime formation is very sus-
ceptible to the cyanide process. II is
stated that this small plant is getting
an extraction of 50 per cent from all
the lime ore treated and that the ac-
tual cost Of mining and treating is not
more than l.25s per ton. The ore will
assay l0s per ton. This ground has
been turned down repeatedly by min
ing men as being worthless. As soon
a. Colorado men saw the formation
and had sampled the ore as to value, a
deal was started which will eventually
become very large. Mining Record.
T. r. Williams, a resident of near
Stanton, who has been in Prescott a
couple of days, reports things very en-
couraging for that section from min
ing standpoint. He says the Octave
Gold Mining Company is pushing
things right ahead and in very sub
stantial manner, showing that they
have great faith in the success of their
enterprise. They have the forty-stamp
mill pretty we'll toward completion, are
building duite number of cottages
for the families of the men employed
in the camp and also we'll equipped