Mohave County miner., 1901-02-23

NiCN W pun ulChtSluBs ~ Is ONueu ny |
one Juan Beitas, and includes forty |
pertenencias of ground. The ledge is |
AZ feet in width and is developed to
depth of 4S0 feet The ores are rich |
in silver. Ore shipments in the year
1900 aggregated 5JS,000S, Mexican !
money, and the total cost of produc
tion, portation, etc, was 72,400S,
leaving a net return of 405,0J0S Four
hundred men are employed in the
mine. Up to the present day there
has not been employed in the mine a
pick, drill, shovel, wheelbarrow, car,
windlass, whim, pump, or any other
means for hosting water, waste or ore,
save the primitive method of bringing
everything up from the depths upon
the backs of poems. climbing primitive
Mexican mining ladders-poles with
notches cut into one side The super
intendent is an Indiana very intelli
gent man. His son, a youth of -, is
accountant No debt of any kind
stands against the property at five
o'clock of any Saturday evening. All
tools are taken out of the mine at one
O'Clock every Saturday afternoon,
counted and the miners are paid off
in Mexican silver money. That done
the slate upon which accounts are
kept is washed clean, and the work is
started Monday morning with new
reckoning. Shipments of ore are made
to Seckbick & Co, ore buyers at the
city of OaXaca, the owner of the mine
going to their Office twice per month,
receiving the proceeds aud from the
amounts paid him returning to the
mine with money necessary to meet
all expenses. Ii is doubted whether a
showing so remarkable can be made
by any other mine anywhere else in the
world. As herein before stated, Messrs.
Kislingbury 4 Hamilton have this
property under bond, and are nego-
tiating its sale to New York parties.
Under modern methods and with mod
ern machinery it will doubtless prove
/ great mine.-Nogales Oasis.
/ At meeting of the various inter.
ests during the afternoon in the offices
of B. T. Mac Masters, articles of incor-
poration of the Arizona Copper Noun
tain Mining Company were approved,
and will go upon record this morning.
The new company is the owner of the
Z Copper Mountain gronp of copper
! bearing mines in Mohave county, Ariz ;,
| just below the Utah line, and that has
been sending ores to the market for
which as much as 76.75s per ton was
received from the smelter. The ores,
of which samples were yesterday on
exhibition, are very rich, with some of
them showing as much as 62 per cent
copper with % ounces silver, while at
intervals the argentiferous contents
/ have risen to sensational heights. The
directors of the company consist of
/ c. D. White of Beaver, Jerrold K.
Letcher, b. I. Mac acMaster, r. @. Smith,
Z. ID. Miller, A. T. Sanford, T. A. Helm
and J. LIE Grande Marshall, the last
named of Milwaukee, Wis. In the or
ganizatlon of the board Mr.. White was
elected president; Mr. Letcher, vice
president; Mr.. Smith, treasurer; and
Miss MacMasters, secretary. The CON
peuy with good showing of ore ex
posed, is launched under most favor
able auspices st George Falcon.
A Bvtte, Mont, dispatch says Butte
is suffering from a series water famine
aud the city is almost without fire pro
lection. All the mines of the Ana
conda, Boston and Montana, Butte and
Boston, Washoe, Parrott, Colorado aud
Montana Ore Purchasing companies
have been compelled to suspend opera
tions on account of the failure of the
City Water Company to supply water
aud about 5000 men have been laid
off temporarily. Many of the mining
companies even had to stop the pumps
at some of the mines, aud, if the sus-
pension becomes necessary for any
length of time, the mines will fill with
water and the dam lge will be great.
Consumers in the city have been mott
fed that water could be used only for
two hours in the morning and two in
the evening. The shortage of water is
due to the continued cold weather dur
ing the winter, as result of which the
mountain streams have remained fro.
zen. In addition to this, the big en-