Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-08-27
MINING INTELLIGENCE.

The little town of Blackberry, in Mohave county, is to be awakened from a sort of Rip Van Wrinkle sleep of several years. John Howell, who built the smelter on Lynx creek and gave the name of Howells to the min ing camp there, is to perform the awakening and revivifying act for Blackberry. Our Mineral Wealth, of Kingman, has the following in refer ence to it: ''JOhn Howell, who worked 400 men at one time on the old Blackberry mine, near Blackberry, is making preparations to start the old mine up again. The Blackberry mine is high grade silver mine and has shaft following the incline vein to depth of 500 feet. A perpendic- ular shaft will be sunk from the sur face to strike the vein at depth. Mr. Howell has become several times a millionaire in working the Broken Hill silver mines in Australia. From reports from the Broken Hill it is learned that they treat ore at profit that runs as low as four ounces of sil- yer per ton. It is not known who will have charge of the Blackberry. The mill now on the ground will be overhauled and the latest method of extracting the metal put in. The second awakening of Blackberry promises to be greater than the first.
 Frederick W. Webb, the miner journalist. will leave this morning for the bismuth property near Fit. Me Dowell, in which he is interested with others. He takes along enough pro visions to last gang of men that will be put to work for about four weeks. The owners of this property believe that after certain amount of development work is done, enough of a showing will have been made to justify the erection of mill similar to that used at Joplin, Mo, to work the bismuth mines there. Webb said last night that he expects in short time to have one of the biggest bis muth propositions in the country. in operation.-Phenix Democrat.
 A strike of rich gold ore was made yesterday by the graders on the Tombstone branch of the E. P. & s. W. while making a cutin the foothills near Watervale, about one and half miles from Tombstone. While run hing one of the series of cuts near the race track, some specimens of free gold was found which created considerable excitement among the graders. In running a cut through granite, some 15 feet deep, ledge of white quartz carrying plenty of free gold was encountered. Specimens of the find shows the gold in quantity. some having the appearance of shot gold, while occasional specimens of wire gold is also found, the mineral ized streak all banning" well. Con tractor May has had several claims located and many of the graders and prospectors will doubtless soon have the granite foothills all monumented. -Prospector.
 Dr. J. Bradford, president of the McCabe Extension Mining Company, came in yesterday from McCabe and left on today's train for the east on business connected with the company. He says that the business affairs of the company are in good shape now, and during his trip he will purchase an air compressor and drills and will sink the shaft to a depth of 400 or 800 feet just as rapidly as two shifts can do the work. Since taking charge of the company's affairs as its president and general manager, Dr. Bradford has secured an ample water supply and the town of McCabe is again lighted by electricity from the company's electric light plant. The latter was compelled to close down for about two months on account of shortage of water. Dr. Bradford is very enthusiastic over the outlook of the company and is confident of strik- ing the extension of the McCabe ore body by sinking. This has been the theory of the best miners, too, that at depth of 300 feet or a little more that ore body would be encountered.