Mohave County miner., 1905-06-24
General Whining. news.

has inst let a contract to the s. D.. Bower Company of Fort Wayne, h. diana, for the erection of a system of self measuring tanks for lubricatinR and fuel oil. This is the first plant of the kind that has been installed at any mining camp in the country and if successful will be the means of bring ing other, large contracts.--Bis bee Re- view.
 A. J. Morse is erecting cyanide plant at the old Bonanza mine iu the Harqua Halas.a Iny addition to the large dumps of. tailings, there, are large bodies of cyanide ore yet remaining in the old workings of the mine re dy to be treated. New development work will be done, the eastern owners seem ing to have awakened to the realiza- ton that their holdings are valuable.- Yuma Sentinel,
 At the Old Dominion plant the auto. matic conveyors and crushers have been tested and found to work satis- factorily. In a few days all the ore from the mine will be hoisted through the new shaft and handled by the con. veyor system. Rapid progress is be- ing made in sinking the shaft below the twelfth ~level, having reached a depth of 80 feet below that station. The smeNer is fully maintaining it's average output of 100000 pounds per diem.-Silver Belt.
 Geo. w. Middleton has returned from successful trip to eastern money centers on mining business. He will have a $50 ton concentrator installed at Walker to handle the out put of the Mudhole mine, at Walker, and the Crook mine, in Crook canyon The ilroad from the Walker end of the Poland tunnel to the Crook mine is now in course of construction and about one mile has been graded. Thi- road will be about 10 miles long, and will be in operation az quickly, as men and money can do it.-Prescott Cour- fer.
 Mayor D S. Rose, of Milwaukee ar rived in Tucson on Wednesday to look after his interests in the Twin Bnttes mines. With him were Drs. w. H. Earles snd Doern. His visit is for the purpose ofarranging all details for the pletion of the railroad 10 toe mine, building of a local station and install. lation of new machinery. The ques. tion of smelling plant in Tucson to handle the ores of his district will be brought before the chamber of com. merce and prominent citizens, and if sufficient support is forthcoming such plan will be built if there is assur- ance of an abundant supply of ores- Tucson Citizen.
 The Saddle Mountain Mining and Smelling conpany has force of about lOl linen employed at their cam on the San Carlos strip in the erection of IS ton smelter and in developing immense bodies of copper ore. Sup plies for this property are now being unloaded at Wincklenan and arc freighted from that point to the mines a distance of about IA miles. Int wagon road is in excellent condition and the heavy machinery is beini hauled with but little trouble. Th' prospective stage of this company ha been passed, the large bodies of or' developed insure permanent auc steady production and the Saddl
 Mountain company will in the nea future be one of the largest producer of copper in the Southwest, and vii be another monument to the perse verance and energy of the men wh
 have invaded the desert and are mak ing of this the greatest mineral pro ducing county in the world. We hay
 the mineral here and all that is needle
 is the capital and nerve to go after il
 Results are beginning to materializ
 from intelligent and persistent effor
 Florence Blade.
 The present day thew" discoverie
 in the west often bring out some ir teresting history. The gold placer q, found on the Florida mesa, near Dr
 rango, Colo, are said to be the sam
 that were discovered by Senator Stew