Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-08-28
THAN
 ANTICIPATED.
The Sonora Mining and Milling COm- pany'S Property Is Agreeably Disap- pointing its Owners.
A Fifty Ton Plant to be Erected at Once for the Treatment of The ore-President Con O'Keefe Makes Statement for Benefit of Shareholders.

Shareholders.
 President Con O'keefe has written letter to P. J. Farley, telling of the grogress, prospects and future plans of the Sonora Mining and Milling company, which will be interesting to all who have invested in the stock of the company. The letter is dated at Nogales, August 19 and is as fol- lows:
 "It is with pleasure that I can again inform you of the better cer- tainties of the merits of our proper ties since I started development on a larger scale. I enclose you list of assays by our own assayer, Mir. Glore, since he got to the mines. The ton age seems to be greater than at first stated, and as I am sending you this for the benefit of those who have al ready invested, and also for those who may make inquiries, l will send you list of samples taken while at the mines this month. I will state further, that by sworn statement of the treasurer, that we have sold 7S,- 172 shares of the treasury stock, and as we have concluded toput upa 50-ton plant instead of 25-ton, we will sell little more treasury stock than we at first figured on at this price. The additional p tons will not cost us much more than the p tons, as the roaster and crushing mill will have to be had; so we won't have to get the extra power and tankage to make the 90 ton plant. We are making all efforts in the selection of our machin cry to get the most available for the treatment of our ores. However, we have concluded to use the Pearce turret furnace, made in Denver, Colo, and the Kent mill, made in New York. Those are the most expensive parts of our plant and those are not made to treat less than 50 tons of our class of ore. I have forty men at work at the mines, and am putting more to work as fast as I can get openings to work them to advantage. There are two shifts working day and night.
 Assay certificates referred to are as follows:
 No. PANASCA QUAMADA
 Lime spar sample, 72 ozs silver.
 2--Dark ore, 4 it wide, old shaft, 16.S ozs.
 Slight iron, old shaft, 3l.5 ozs.
 4-Old open cut, 10 feet wide, PA oZs.
 5-Black iron, 20 fit wide, old shaft, 16 ozs.
 Next is new shaft 600 it south on lead.
 7-Iron ore, mouth of new shaft, PAS ozs.
 S-Open cut cross the vein east of peak, POP ozs.
 9-Open cut cross southwest of peak, 3S.4 ozs.
 10-Sixteen feet deep, new shaft, 16 ozs.
 11-New shaft, IF fit deep, 1922 ozs.
 SERNENA.
 12-Red iron, copper stained, 2S.4 oZs. l3-Red iron, winze, 7.5 ozs.
 14-Botton of winze, 52.5 ozs.
 FORTUNA.
 15-Top of hill, ' it. wide on vein, 15-S ozs. 16-Red iron ore, new shaft, BOA ozs. 17-New open cut, 1912 ozs.
 1S-Croppings surface across the vein, 326 ozs.
 19-Okeefe's samples on same, 35.5 oZs. 2O-Picked samples on same, S26 oZs.
 By the enclosed you will see that it will not take much effort to keep our ore upto a grade of 30 or even 40 ounces for treatment at the mill, and will leave thousands of tons which can be treated later when we will have more money to put up larger plant, when We can treat ores of only 12 ounces to a good profit, and may at any time get rich deposit of ore in the Fortuna, which the old Antiguas were after. No. 20 was a kidney, and no doubt there are large deposits of the same kind. Taking it all in all, the properties in our new developments show an appearance of great future as producers, and the putting up of a 50 ton plant will have great economy over the p ton plant, and as we have bad such good success in disposing of our treasury stock, it is policy for us to do so."