Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-11-27

Ol l5OOO lccb, UT pcIudpo uccpcI Dc- fore stopping, as Douglass, Lacy & Go. are miners. The old shaft at the Silver Belt has been cleaned out and retimbered and has also been sunk to a greater depth, being now 300 feet and is still going down. At depth of 250 feet fine new body of ore was struck. This property has reputa- ton for the rich ore it has produced in the past and the indications are that the good ore in it was not all piled up near the surface and taken out by the former owners. Capt. Phillips says that the work of erect ing the concentrating plant of the Standard Smelling and Reduc- ton company at the Val Verde smelter is being pushed just as rap idly as men and money can accom- plish the work. He expects that it will be completed ready for operation the latter part of next month. He says that ore is coming in quite rapidly to the smelter, and it is being bedded preparatory to starting up the plant.
 Colonel Oliver P. Posey of Los Angeles and Clarence K. Mccormick of Salt Lake city are on their way to Arizona to make final payment on an acquisition for which they have been required to expend, it is said, no less than S500.0O0. Four months ago an option was secured on a group of gold mines located about twelve miles from Kingman, Arizona, and on the banks of the Colorado river. Their attention had been called to it by George H. Kislingbury, formerly an attache under Captain De La Mar, and since then the property has been opened under his direction. The re- suits have been astonishing, the ores have been blocked out, for the treat ment of which a mill is to be erected, revealing an average of S25 per ton, while good deal of it is of very high grade. The property has been equip ped with machinery and four ar drills are gnawing their way into vein that measures fifteen feet be- tween walls, while the adjacent river offers all the water necessary for power, as well as the requirements of mill. Colonel Posey has classified the proposition as the biggest thing of which he has ever taken hold, and he and his one associate are alone in the purchase. At present there is a force of fifty men at work, but with the completion of the mill a settle ment of several hundred people is as- sured.-L. A. Herald.
 Messrs H. Reifsnider and NJ. D. Johnson, president and secretary of the Rambler Copper Mining Co, have just returned from an extended trip through Yavapai county, Arizona, having spent about week in the ex- animation of the company's property, which is near Mayer in the Agua Fria district. MT. Reifsnyder reports things quite lively throughout that portion of the country, for forty miles east of Prescott and for about twenty five miles south of Jerome. The Prescott and Eastern railroad, though only about thirty miles long, termi- hating at Mayer, is thronged with business, there being no less than six stations within six miles of the ter minus, and the quantities of freight at those points are convincing proof of the work going on in their vicinity. The Grant Bros. are pushing work on the railroad near Huron on the Pres colt and Eastern, and running up the Big Bug creek, tapping rich mining district, says the Los Angeles Re- view. Rich placer mines are now be- ing successfully worked near Mayer, the operators using steam shovels for raising the gravel. The Rambler property, consisting of seven claims, is situated in Agua Fria district, about six miles by good wagon road from Mayer. Eighteen years ago some work was done on this property, opening up fine body of ore, assay ing 15 to 27 per cent in copper, but owing to the then low price of the the metal, work was discontinued and the claims lapsed. The old shaft has been deepened, and at the depth of forty feet two feet of ore has been un- covered that runs high in copper, be- sides large body of lower grade. There are three distinct veins of ore visible on the surface and all have been opened up with shafts, varying from five to fifty feet, in every case disclosing good bodies of carbonate and oxide ores. The Copper Noun tain smelter, situated about one quarter mile from the Rambler prop erty, is filling its coke bins prepara- tory to working its own output. There is much activity throughout the district, and good miners command readily $50 per day.-Jerome News.
 President Con O'Keefe is just now smoking the best product of Las Dos Naciones cigar factory, and is one of the happiest mining magnatas in the city-and the secretary, O. O. Sax hang, and the treasurer, John P. Dessart are supporting him with a considerable amount of good feeling. The genial president has just return ed from the company's mines at Tu- butama, where he spent five days with MT. F. N. Hubbel, the smelter man, representing the Vulcan Smelt- ing and Refining company of San Francisco. The new process of ore treatment in furnaces as represented by MT. Hubbell and the firm he rep resents, has many new features and MT. O'Keefe is very much pleased with the plan as it applies to the mines. Mir. Hubbel says in speak ing of these mines, that the new cop per coming in underneath the man ganese gossan are well adapted for treatment by the new process. He was greatly pleased with the mines, and it is safe to say that he will soon be at work direct ing the erection of smelter at Tu butama. The new ores are carrying values in both gold and copper. It appears that the new changes in con ditions in the mines have made it de- sirable to change the plan of ore treatment, and the officials of the company seem perfectly justified in their rejoicing.-Vidette.
 Senator Clark is now making every preparation to install smelting plant as soon as possible for the purpose of working the ores from the Iron King group by the lately organized Equator Mining and Smelling Co.