Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-05-01
WHAT IS GOING ON TN
 YAVAPAI MINING CIRCLES

of Phenix, and several Denver and
 Detroit gentlemen, has acquired hali
 a dozen claims in the Plomosa district
 and is preparing to develop them
 More attention seems to be directed
 toward the Plomosa section of the
 country at present than any other.
 The transfer was made from Aaron
 Myers, H. E. Kelly, G. A. H. Fraser,
 l.. H. Stockbridge and Bruce H. My
 CTS to Alfred Skeels, and from Mir.
 Skeels to the company mentioned
 above. The claims are the Black
 Warrior, Nos. l, 2 and 3, and the Red
 Indian, Nos. 1 and 2, and the Bonanza
 placer claim.-Yuma Sun.
 One of the best and most prosper
 our mining camps in northern Arizona,
 one which is going right ahead in a
 first class business like manner, but
 of which very little has been or is be-
 ing said, is the Octave Gold Mining
 company's camp at Octave, about ten
 miles east of the great Congress mine.
 This company, which is composed
 largely of Standard Oil men, began
 operations only a few months ago, but
 they went atit in mannerthat showed
 that they meant business, and that
 they intended to demonstrate whether or not there was a mine there, and
 with their unlimited financial re- sourcces to back them they have suc- cessfully carried forward their aims, and have demonstrated beyond a doubt that they have a great prop erty. During the closing months of
 last year the company was working in zone of low grade ore at about the 400 foot level, which was scarcely profitable to work, but about the first of January the work of sinking was begun, the shaft being run to the 600 foot level when drifting was resumed and a magnificent body of very high grade ore was opened up and the forty stamps of the mill have been pounding away day and night, with three shifts in the mine, ever since, and the profits are said to be very | large. The Journal Miner is inform ed by parties that are in a position to know, that there is an almost inex- haustable supply of this high grade ore opened up, and no company in Yavapai county has better future in store for it than the Octave.
 Superintendent Giroux was kind | enocgh to show a representative of this paper through the Iron King mine last week, while he was there looking after work thruugh the mine and giving instructions to the men to guide them in further prospecting the Mir. Giroux says there is to hide about the property, and we violate no confidence in stat ing what appeared to be the condition of the workings to an eye not practiced in mining. There has been a heavy on the property, without the slightest doubt, the power plant avd otber surface improvements ap- parently having been erected for other than temporary uses. The tunnels are large, the lower and upper being con nected, permitting excellent ventila- tidn. The men are now working at the end of the upper, or old tunnel. This tunnel runs east and west, the first hundred feet through hard dio- rite, when there is gradual and con tinuous change until the end of the tunnel is reached, where is found solid mass of black copper ore, carry ing from 12 to 20per cent copper. The foot wall appears to pitch in the direction of Jerome, or at right angles with the tunnels. The lower tunnel runs under the foot wall and misses the ore body, the upper one striking it. The intention of MT. Giroux ap- pears to be to find out whether or not the copper deposit continues to follow the foot wall any great depth, as indi- cated by the present workings. Ore has been blocked out 100 feet square at the end of the tunnel and 76 foot raise made through. The copper ore is the iron oxide that overlies the de- posit; drifts are being made north to further explore the deposit. The out look for big mine at the Iron King has passed the stage of expectation it settled fact, and it means every thing to Jerome. To smelt the ore will double the number of men em- ployed at the smelter.-Jerome Re porter.