Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-10-23
MINES AND MINING.

| w. c. Greene was at a recent meet
 ing of the stockholders of the Green,
 Consolidated Mining O., held il
 New York city, elected president by {
 unanimous vote and a resolution
 passed approving his management o1
 the property.
 Mineral Wealth, of Bedding, Shasta
 county, Cal, prints an account of the
 new method of cyaniding, tests oi
 which were made at the McKean
 mine, near Callahans, Siskiyou
 county. It says: An interesting
 cyanide experiment new one
 for Northern California being sue
 cessfully made at the McKean mine
 near Callahans, and promises to be of
 no little importance in the quartz de-
 velopment, particularly of Siskiyou
 and Trinity counties. The rock is
 not treated by mill at all, but goes
 directly from the rock breaker to the
 solution tanks. Four forty-ton vats
 make up the present equipment of
 the plant, and one is drawn off and
 recharged each day. The ore, of
 course is one that is specially fitted
 for that method of extraction. It is
 a coarse grained, pure silicate, carry
 ing considerable sulphurets in spots.
 Most of the values, however, are of a
 fine character of gold, the fineness
 being of such uniformity that all can
 be depended upon to go into solution
 in from seventy-two to ninety-six
 hours. A half pound of cyanide is
 used for each ton of ore. The inter- esting feature with respect to this class of gold extraction, is that from 80 to 90 per cent of rather low grade rock is saved from the rock just as it leaves the crusher. Milling and con- centrating are thus done away with, and thus the chief sources of wear. tear and expense are entirely obvi- ated. The theory upon which this process is based involves the struc- ture of the quartz. It has been shown that 1he gold merely lines the castings or fractures of the rock, and accord ingly the work of the rock breaker is all that is necessary to allow the cy- anide solution to penetrate to the presence of the gold" Mineral Wealth further states that credit for the successful operation by this new method is largely do to MT. Frederick Lundstrom, formerly of South Africa and familiar with the cyanide pro- cess. The plant on the property was installed under the direction of MT. E. H. Benjamin, mining engineer of a San Francisco and secretary of the California Miners association, and who, as stated in the San Francisco Chronicle, is the inventor of this new cyaniding method.
 The Amalgamated. Copper com pany, which has been almost religi- ously believed in by great numbers of investors and spectators, as having the greatest destiny. of all the trusts, handles about one half of all the cop per that is produced in the country. The rapid decline in its shares, which has recently occurred, has given a severe mental and financial shock to these believers.-Ex.
 A deal is said to be pending which it is believed will result in the bond ing of the Sahuaro mine by Messrs. Brenneman and Miller to a Mr. Lloyd, representing Colorado for S60,000. The Sahuaro mine is located about two and one half miles northeast of Wickenburg and was the scene of the big copper | and silver strike last week. Unse- | lected samples taken from the ground | assayed one hundred and eighteen ounces of silver and as high as thirty l per cent copper to the ton. Selected | pieces of ore ran as high as four thousand ounces of silver to the ton, and as the ore body is sixty feet wide | 1t the surface, it promises to become 1ne of the richest mines in the terri 5ory upon development. The Color ldo people will start to work develop | ng the property at once if they se- cure it.
 The telegram recently informed the world that the Amalgamated Copper ! company, Augustus Heinze, Senator W. A. Clark and other big copper producers have reached an agreement | io restrict copper production. It was stated that Heinze agreed to curtail | his copper production, in accordance with which he had reduced his work ng force in the mines of his company fully one-third. Also that several of | ,he big producing mines of the Anal yamated company were closed down and operation in all the mines had been suspended on Sun lays. The restriction Is to continue | .inue until the copper supply on the market is practically exhausted, and he price of the metal will thus be If Senator Clark en- cred into any agreement to reduce he output of his mines, he has not put it into effect yet at Jerome. as the pig plant there is running to its full capacity. A gentleman from there, n conversation today, stated that the ,nly way the production could be lar ger than it is at present would be Oy increasing the capacity of the plant.
 Major Pickering, of Prescott, has sampled the Mcguire gold mine be- ow town and found it good enough | 70 bond and go to work on. This is | great big property and if the Major will sink 200 foot shaft and cross ,ut the vein at the bottom he will | nave something that will return him lividends.-Mohave Miner.
 Within the past two weeks devel- ,pment work at the Verde King has Tn the finding of a fine body ,f high grade copper ore in the tun- lel in the Iron Range claim, adjoin- ng the Rock Butte, from which high | grade copper ore has been taken for .he past two weeks. The tunnel in he Iron Range was begun several months ago. The work was done by contract by Joe Peila. At 800 feet Peila began to strike small bunches 1f copper; soon the punches began to lppear with more frequency, and the ore to improve in character. At 53O feet the ore was high grade copper, sulphide ore, and there was width to the ore body. At present the tunnel IS in $50 feet and the ore is found in arge quantities. The property is spoken of by mining men here in Jerome as a sure winner. Stock can not be purchased from local holders for less than par value. The tunnel | $ being pushed as fast as steel and | powder in the hands of expert miners l