Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1904-10-26
MINING NEWS
 OF CHAP AERIAL Successful Operation of Dividend Mine. Large Bodies of Ore Blocked Out in the Lelan Ready for
 the Mill.

Chaparral, Oct. 20, Special by In.
 dependent Telephone) The Dividend
 Consolidated Mining company is push
 ing development work on both the Ga lena and Dividend properties and are milling a good grade of ore from both mines. No stoping is being donei and more than sufficient ore is being taken out in the course of development to keep the ten stamp mill running twelve hours each day. In fact the mill could be kept going twenty four hours per day without stopping if the water supply would admit of running the mill continuously. The company now has measures on foot for obtain ing an ample water supply for a much larger plant and when the water be- comes available they will enlarge their mill to at least twice its present ca pacity. There is now enough ore blocked out to keep the mill going day and night for the next five or six years. They use oil for firing the boilers, this fuel being fed to the fur naces by gravity and is not only prov ing perfectly satisfactorily but effect ing large saving in the expense, the one set of boilers furnishing steam for both mill and holst. The Dividend company now employs twenty men and everything is moving along with a smoothness which reflects credit on the management.
 The Lelan mine has been developed along practical lines during the past two years and has splendid bodies of ore blocked out down to the 800 foot level. We understand that enough ore has been blocked to keep ten stamp mill going for years. Considerable water has been encountered in the shaft and a spring on the property has been developed and is furnishing suff1- cient water with what comes in the shaft to supply ten stamp mill. An additional water right has been secur- ed, over in Eugenia gulch which now assures an ample supply, under all circumstances. It is understood that plans for a mill are now being con- sidered and that within the next few months stamp will be dropping on Lelan ore. This will give employment to an additional force and add to the life and mineral output of what is destined to be the banner camp of this section.
 Hank BeveriDg, superintendent of the Burlington, is putting up a new hoist on that property and also pre- pairing to put in pumps.
 R. L. Adams moved his family out from Prescott the first of the month and is now running the Lelan hoist.
 Fred E. BiIes, manager of the Dividend Consolidated, made flying trip to Prescott Monday on business. Fred is one of the republican nomi- nees for the legislature but his business here will not admit of him getting out.
 Joseph Jacob, who formerly run the boarding house at the Lelan, now has charge in the same capacity at the Little Jessie.
 A. B. Turnbull, who is working the New Year mine under lease, expects to make shipment of ore in the near future.
 E. G. Veil, the efficient superin- tendent of the Dividend mill, is mak- ing a good record and keeps matters going as smoothly as if on oiled wheels.
 Politics and the Japanese Russian war news form the chief subject for discussion in this camp but while the three tickets each have adherents this precinct will go republican by a nice majority.