Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1903-03-11

OOlu ana copper OOnsOllQaJeQ com
 pany. It has a complete plant for tn
 treatment of the ore, near the Senate
 and NIT. PickereIl has just completet
 a gOood wagon read from the mine t,
 this reduction plant, and with tn
 large amount of ore now blocked ou
 it is prepared to become a prominen
 producer of ore.
 Captain l.. D. Phillips, Arizon;
 manager for Douglas, Lacey & Co.
 has ordered diamond drill to expIor,
 the Fl Capitan mine with. The ma
 chinery has been on the road for a lit i tie over a week. As soon as it arrive.
 it will be placed in position on tho
 above property and the ground will bt
 thoroughly exploited for the purpose
 of locating the ore body. When thi. work is through the drill will be moved to the Lonesome valley oil field and placed on the property of the Manhattan Oil company and the company will continue the prospect ing of its property with this drill.
 With over four thousand feet of work done and an ore showing not to be surpassed in central Arizona, the Gro Grande is in a position where the erection of reducting works is about all that is necessary to make it big dividend payer. While there are places in the mine where the ore values run up into the thousands it is thought, after conservative sampling, that the general average of the ore milled will be in the neighborhood of Sl5. The ore can be mined very cheaply, on account of the extraor- dinary size of the ore body it ranging from 40 to over TO feet in width, in the various cross cuts which have been run on the different levels. The early working of the Gro Grande means much for the Wickenburg section, not alone on account of the number of men which will be employed, but be- cause of the advertisement it will be and the subsequent working of many other nearby properties. -Wickenburg News.
 H. c. Heffieman has been in Pres colt for two days purchasing material for building a camp at the May Min ing company's property about three miles from Mayer and adjoining the Blue Bell property. The May Mining company consists of seven claims running along the same ledge on which the Blue Bell is located and working, and was originally located by MT. Heffleman. Some months ago he interested his brother and few friends at his old home in Ohio in his property and they organized the above company with MT. Heffieman as superintendent and general man ager. A shaft has been sunk to depth of about 80 feet in the ledge, which runs from 15 to D feet in width, and at the present depth cop per sulphide ore is coming in clear across the face of the shaft, and water level has not been reached yet. As soon as water level is reached it is be- lieved that solid body of copper sul- phide ore will be encountered which will be practically the same as the Blue Bell. That mine is now down 300 feet and growing richer at every foot. Mir. Heffieman says the forma- tion all the way down so far in his shaft is identical with the Blue Bell and as he worked on the latter for over three years he ought to be a good judge. This leads him to believe the May will develop into another just such a mine when depth is reached. A whim is being used now but a steam hoist will be installed as soon as wa ter level is reached. A boarding house and' bunk house will be erected at once and work pushed as fast as possible.
 Superintendent E. D. TreadwelI has the water all pumped out of the Blackberry mine on Big Bug and is making underground surveys of the property and sampling the ore. He says the mine is looking in fine con- dition and exceeds even his anticipa- tions. The shaft is down 300 feet. and levels have been run at this depth. Just as soon as he gets the preIiminar- ies concluded, he will commence act i've work developing the property.
 Mat Hoveck, who has been superin- tendent at the Express mine, at Pc land, owned by Douglas, Lacey & Co.,, ever since the above company has had control of the property, has been compelled to resign his position with the company and will leave in a few days to join his father in San Francisco, who has sold out extensive interests in Montana and leaves in a few weeks for trip around the world. MT. Hoveck is pronounced to be one of the best mining superintendents in the west and iU was with deep regrets that the Douglas. Lacey < Co. people thing, though for the company and that was they had Splendid and very competent man in the person of John J. Watterson, who had also been connected with the company for a long time, to put in the important position, which they did and Mr. Watterson has taken full charge of affairs at the Express. A. H. Swener- ton. of the Express, was seen by a Journal Miner man today and said that some very fine ore had been en- countered in the tunnel this week. The tunnel starts in from Blue Gulch and has been run in to tap the large dyke which shows from the top of the mountain. The tunnel is in good shipping gold ore all the way but when the dyke was struck at dis tance Of about 300 feet the ore showed up much better and continues to hold out in values, if any change it being for the better as work prog resses. The returns from the assays