Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1904-05-25
MINING NEWS

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tile company's teams. Some short
I pipe line are being put in and every
thing arranged for the Inhalation of
f the one stamp test mill which is ex-
3 pected to arrive about the 10th in
slant. great deal of development
, work is being carried out according
, to well-laid plans. The energy being
displayed and the substantially of
all their improvements are measures
= of the confidence of the company in
the future of the property. There
are about twenty five men at the
camp and it won't be long till more
are needed to carry on the business of
the camp. Success ever attends the
wave OF wisdom and industry.
President Ed Block, of the Old
Mesa Gold Mining company, in COM
pany with two of the directors of that
company, visited the property near
Poland this week and made arrange
ments to resume work in the mine
with small force of miners. About
two weeks ago the 300 foot contract on
the tunnel was completed and since
that time until work was resumed this
week, there has been no work going
on. Mr.. Block speaks very encour-
agingly of the property and says the
company will be shipping ore to the
smelter inside of ninety days.
The contract has been let for the
erection of a $50 ton water jacket
smelter for the Geo. A. Treadwell
company, the Allis- Chalmers COM
pany, of Chicago, being the contract
ors, and the contract specifies that the
smelter shall be completed within
ninety days. The new plant will be
erected near the old oil burning
smelter which has been abandoned, as
the company has not been able to
make a success of the system.
A journal Miner reporter in CONVEX
sation with gentleman who has just
visited the property belonging to Joe
Mayer and Frank Thornton, called
the "Miner'' and which is located
near Copper Mountain, about four or
FIVE miles from the town of Mayer,
was informed that that property is
making a wonderful showing. Messrs.
Mayer and Thornton have been work
ing on the property for the last six
months and have the main shaft down
$50 feet all in solid copper ore, and
the Journal miners informant said it
is the prettiest copper he ever saw in
his life, and will average easily $50
to the ton. In sinking the shaft they
have taken out nearly 1000 tons of ore
which ia now on the dump and ready
to ship to the smelter. From the
present indications these gentlemen
have real bonanza.
The Rigby Mining and Reduction
company are now putting IN the spur
of the railroad track to their smelter
at Mayer. There will be about 5000
feet OF track to lay and the company
expects to have their machinery here
by the time the track is in shape to
run the train over it, as the ma
chinery is now on the road from the
east. They claim they will have the
big plant in full operation by the
first of August.
r. H. Burmister returned Monday
night from Cherry creek where he
went to assist in starting up work on
the property of the Arizona Gold
Lode Mines company. The property
of the company is located right near
7 the postoffice at Cherry and Mr.. Bur
mister informs the Journal Miner that
the showing is very fine, and he fully
believes they will have big mine.
Development will be pushed ahead as
fast as possible.
The new hoi, Ting plant on the Ari-
IONA Michigan property has been
; started up and the Journal Miner is
; informed hy ". ". Elliott, Of the firm
of Elliott q Diescher, who installed
the plant for The company, that it is
working like charm, and has not
given them a moments trouble since
il WAS started I'D.
NJ. C. ParmIey and T. G. Smith, of
= the Dividend Consolidated Gold
t Mines company, have returned from a
! trip to California where they went on
/ important business for the company
, and to attend directors meeting in
Pasadena. 1t was decided at the d.
rectors meeting that there Was now no
] further need of maintaining an office
in Prescott as there was no more stock
to be had and the equipment of the
= property had been about completed,
= so the office ia the Bashford building
e Will be closed in a few weeks and Mr..
t Parmley and his wife Will return to
= their home in Pasadena where the