Mohave County miner., 1904-01-23
General Whining Rews.

The entire mine force at the Old
Dominion went to work again Saturday
morning and smelling was resumed
Sunday. The production of copper for
Dece % ber was the largest in the his
tory of the mine-over 100000 pounds.
Gazette.
The progress of work on the gigantic
Poland tunnel goes on uninterruptedly
and the operations continue day and
night. From the Big Bug side the
bore has reached a distance of 1000
while from the Lynx Creek end an
opening of LOO feet 10 length is shown.
This leaves gap of about 1,SOO feet to
com pIete the work. When finished it
will be tunnel of about 5000 feet, the
greatest piece of work ever undertaken
in Arizona for any mining purpose.
The date for completion is set for the
first day of July next.
The United Verde is single mon
strous lense of sulphide ore, the exact
size of which is known only to the
management, if to anyone, which is
doubtful. The lense is probably 1000
feet in length, possibly longer, with
width of several hundred feet, and
depth of 100 to possibly 1000 feet.
The mine has fifteen to twenty million
tons of copper ore nnbroken, carrying
one to one and half million tons of
fine copper, or enough to meet the
worlds present requirements for two
or three years.
1t is reliably stated that VIM. G.
Greene, of Cansnea, has raised 5,OOO,-
COOS gold in the United States to ex-
ploit extensive placer fields in the
Magdalena district. He has gotten
control of, so it is claimed, rich placer
ground for 20 miles in length. 1t is
stated by men who claim to know that
the placer ground in the Bacoachic dis
trict, some 60 miles south of Cananea,
are of considerable extent. Natives
make living by panning little and
not even locating ground. The gold is
quite coarse. This is the section in
which the Slnora River Placer Mining
company has extensive holdings.-Chi-
hushua Enterprise.
Much interest is manifested in the
preparations now under way for the
treatment of the giant tsilings dumps
at the famous Crown King mine, in
Arizona, by the Campbell electric sep
arating process, which is owned by the
Crowned King mine show values, ac-
cording to recent assays, of approx
mately 2Os a ton, and if the outcome
of numerous practical tests is to be &C
cepted as an indication, the new com
pany can handle every ton of this
"waste" material at a net profit of
from 15s to It's. 1t is a matter of rec
ord that the Crowned King mine has
sent to the government mints gold
bullion amounting to upwards of a
million dollars.
The Arizona Colorado Copper Belt
and Gold Mining Company, whose
property is situated three miles north
of Globe, now has its big double COM
partment shaft down to a considerable
depth, aud the ore in the bottom of the
shaft is solid and of a smelling grade,
running high in copper and carrying
we'll in gold. The ore in the new shaft
is of a much higher grade than that
which came out of the pany's small
shaft which was sunk 158 feet deep, and
this small shaft sufficiently proved up
the property-aence the sinking of a
big working shaft by the company on
its property, which is on the great cop
per belt and promises to become one
of the big mines of the district-Sil-
yer Belt.
The Phenix Republican says there is
practically nothing being done at pres
agement is engaged in waiting as hard
as it can for the arrival of the Phenix
& Eastern, which will cross the COM
pany's ground thereby affording the
cheapest possible freight rates for the
operation of the company's enterprises
The Mammoth is one of Pinal's most
famous properties and no douot will
be worked on large scale just as soou
as the railroad arrives. The same con,
dition seems to prevail to large ex.
tent all over the Pinal county mining
districts. Some properties are being
worked and assessment work is kept
up on most of the promising ones