Mohave County miner., 1901-02-23

duction and smelling works will be
established for the permanent opera
tions of the mines. The mine has been
successfully and profitably operated
since 1920. Its main working shaft is
down nearly five thousand feet on the
incline. 1t has produced as high as
100000 to 6,00O,C00 pounds of refined
copper per annum. 1t is expected that
the coming year will show a produc.
ton of from 100000 to 100000
pounds of refined copper.-San Fran
cisco Post.
Current statement is made of a re-
cent discovery in an eastern Oregon
gold mine of a vein % feet wide in
which from "streak" of ore II inches
in width several chunks of ore, each
as large as a mans head, had been
taken out, which yield one third gold.n
With no more than passing reference
to the statement, which may or may
not be true, it is a matter Of record
that a rich ore streak will produce
great store of treasure from a very
small space. Over 2,5O0,OO0S has been
taken from a space "the size Of three.
room cottage" From one little "pock.
ct" in the Moose mine, near Alma, Col,
about 1,500,J00S was taken. The same
holds good regarding several gold de-
posits in Placer, Tuolumne and other
California counties. The Rhodes claim,
near Murphys, Calaveras county, Cal,
produced 250,OO0S from an area 4lxl0O
feet; ninety pounds of gold were taken
out in twenty-four hours. A similar
area in the Jameson claim, Iowa Hill,
Placer county, Cal, yielded over 500,
COOS; the Dardanelles claim, Forest
Hill, in the same county, yielded 2.
000,000s; near Springfield, Tuolumne
county, Cal, single miners carloads of
"pay dirt" panned out l0O0S each. This
constitutes one of the charms of min.
/ ing. Development of prospect,
proper working Of a "mining claim,
may make each of its 1900 feet worth
more than the most valuable 1900 feet
front of property on Broadway, New
York.-M. a. S. Press.
Richard Fleming, who is in charge of
the Black Warrior property, was in
the city yesterday, and in speaking of
their operations expressed himself well
satisfied with the progress so far made.
The concentrating plant has been com
pleted aud is now ready for running,
while the reverberatory furnace has
been turning out matte for some time
and the teaching plant has been busy
working on ores adapted to that pro-
cess, but only in limited way, on ac-
count of the scarcity of coal and the
present high price on sulphuric acid.
The company has been promised a
much lower price of sulphuric acid in
the near future, and if they obtain it,
or put in plant to manufacture their
own acid, they expect to work the
leecher to its full capacity, as plenty
of ore can be obtained for that plant
when suitable reduction in the cost
of treatment is made. The company
will purchase and treat ores from other
properties, which they can use in con
junction with their own ores. In few
days they expect to make test run,
through the reverberatory furnace, of
tons of the Finletter- Harvey ore, and
if that proves successful it will solve
great problem for the Live Oak sec
ton. The company is now employing
about fifty men in and about their
plant and mines, and expect to keep
steadily at work, unless their coal sup
ply is stopped by the coal strike.-Sil
yer Belt.
A Fairview, B. G. dispatch says: A
deal of great Importance to this por.
ton of British Columbia has recently
been consummated by the managing
director Of the Fairview corporation
and ratified by the shareholders on the
3lst of December. By the terms of the
agreement the Gooderham Blackstock
syndicate secured half interest in all
the properties of that company for
100,000S, the balance, after paying the
liabilities of the corporation, amount
ing to 25,OO1s, to be used for the pur-
pose of extensive development and
erection of additional machinery. The
managing director has received in
structions to continue the work of
sinking the compartment shaft to the