Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-12-11
MINES AND MINING.

a telegram rom Monterey, MeXlct states that the men employed in th Veladora mine, in that vicinit /, whil driving a tunnel, broke into a larg cavern which had evidently been eI cavated, and found there the skele tons of fifteen men, together with
 number of ancient mining tools. | the cavern there were also about tw car loads of silver ore, consisting o horn silver, wire silver and argentifel ous galena. It also states that tn old Spanish records show that tn mine was worked over POO years agc
 Carl Tanner of Victor, Colorado, ar rived in Kingman this week from th Gold road country, where he has beel prospecting for some time past. Or the Ben Paddock vein he has made location that he obtained rich speci mems of ore from. He says that tn, vein is one of the richest in that sec ton of country and has gone back tC do his work on it. On the Paddocl claim Col. Tom Ewing is getting mug gets of gold that would make an olC 49er's mouth water. The vein is O good width and the ore outcrops fol several hundred feet. Mir. Tanner has interested with him a company capable of developing a mine on it. merits.-Kingman Miner.
 W. F. Grounds is in Kingman iron his Clay Springs group of mines. The tunnel on the vein is now in POO feet and is still in the ore shoot struck one hundred feet back. There is now 8 back of ground over them of 150 fec in depth of very high grade gold ore and this back is increasing in deptl as the tunnel gets under the hill. The out crop of the vein over this orc shoot is big, strong and carries big values in gold. As soon as the vein has been thoroughly exploited it is the intention of the owners to put 1T a mill to work the ores. So far it has proved to be one of the best mines in the county.-M -Mohave Miner.
 The Val Verde Copper Co. is now ready to operate, having its new pyritic machinery completed, good supply of ore and coke on hand fol its preliminary run and all other de, tails completed. It is now simply waiting to increase the quantity of its iron and sulphur in reserve, in order to make a more economical smelling mixture. The arrangement of this plant in order to operate at the mini mum of expense (to do which has cost the company some tens of thousands of dollars extra in its construction the economical management and the conservatism which the company has throughout, rebounds to the benefit of the producer, as the better and cheaper the company can smelt the lower it can make its rates.
 4. J. Doran, one of the old time miners of this territory, arrived in Kingman Tuesday evening last and together with E. F. Thompson and James Rosborough departed the fol lowing evening for the Copper Prince mine, on Bill Williams Fork. It is the intention of MT. Doran to sample the mine in the interest of big east ern copper company. The mine has been opened to the 200 foot level and shows big bodies of ore of an average grade of nearly seven per cent cop per The vein is over sixty feet wide at the bottom of the shaft, where a crosscut has been run. Big streaks in the vein show magnificent values in gold, silver and copper. The ore carries about four dollars in gold and about six dollars in silver to the ton This average is from the vein in all the openings and is far better than that shown by the big mines now working and paying dividends of mil lions of dollars annually. The mine is sure to be sold and when the new railroad is built into that country il will be outputting thousands of dol lars monthly.-Kingman Miner.
 A. J. Pickrell was in town today from his mining camp and says that everything is running satisfac tory with the properties he has charge of. He is working three properties the President, Kid and Chicago group, all owned by the Gold anC Copper Consolidated Mining com pany. They arc located in the Vi cinity of the Senator mine, and tho mill, formerly known as the Chicago mill, has been in operation since No vember s, reducing the orc with very satisfactory results. Since starting i up on the above date he has shipped several bars of bullion to the com pany's headquarters in the east. H, has about forty men in his employ a present, and in addition to taking ou ore for the mill, is carrying on exten sive development in the mines, sink ing and working double shifts in tn, drifts. Mir. Pickrell has been yer, successful in his mining operations il this section.
 Jules Baumann, general manage of the Baumann Copper company property, has just returned from visit to the mines and says that worI is progressing very satisfactory. H has men at work just now doing as sessment work on the Baby mine, on of what he has considered the mino claims of the group, but in sinking
 shaft on the claim they struck an ex cellent quality of copper carbouates The ore body varies in width iron five inches to foot, but is very ricl in copper. The ledge matter for tn entire width of the shaft is highl
 mineralized and assays as high a S33.50 in gold have been received from the ore. This carbonate ore towards the hanging wall and he ha left 1t in the shaft. When greate depth Is attained it is his purpose t cross cut the ledge outside of tn shaft to ascertain what it contain: The finding of this ore in this claiu is very gratifying to the management
 showing that good values exist i
 other than the claims on which tn
 principal dependence for a bonanz
 has been based.
 The Reporter is able to state def
 nitely that there will be a shelter
 active operation at the Iron King b
 April l. The plans are to begin a
 once, grading for a 2OO-ton wate
 jacket smelter, the product of whic
 will be hauled to Jerome in wagon
 and shipped with the bullion frol
 the United Verde. Extending u
 railroad to the Iron King will depen
 upon the extent Of the deposit at th
 mine. When the plant Is in oper; ! tion t aud the mine will give emplor
 ment to about one hundred men d