Los Angeles herald., 1905-04-24
EXPORTS OF COPPER
SHOW AN INCREASE

Smelter ana are now Sendlng uOWn dh
average of 100 tons weekly. The mines
are said to he in shape to keep up
these shipments for some considerable
time-Clifton Era.
The we'll known Black Dyke mining
property, formerly worked by com
rany of Arizona people, superintended
by Charles Nathhorst, is now being ex-
amined by some eastern parties, who
have an idea Of purchasing the prop
erty and starting extensive develop
ment work. The Black Dyke is an Inn
rnense cropping of iron ore, carrying
n little copper. In places there Is high
grade copper in sight. Mr. Nathhorst,
who is a mineralogist of considerable
knowledge, says that IL the property is
a mine at all, 1t is a big one. We
hope that the sale will be made and
that large force OF men will be put
to work Immediately.
The Old Dominion sme1ter OF Globe,
Ariz., has been making a record run
since the beginning of April, the aver
age daily output from two furnaces for
the first five days being forty-two tons
of copper. This record, IL maintained
throughout the month, would mean a
production for April of over 2,500,OO0
pounds. II Is possible that these figures
may even be exceeded, as 1t Is inten-
tIon of the management to blow in the
third furnace as soon as there Is suf-
ficient coke on hand.
At the annual meeting of the Arl-
zona Copper company, held in Edin-
burg, Scotland, it was stated by Sir
William ]. Menzies, chairman, that
the discoveries in the Clay mine, and
they were only discoveries as yet,
were most important. Whatever the
extent of the ore was they knew not,
but there were important veins Of 20
and 80 and 20 and Ga feet in thickness
in new territory-and the tunnels
had a long way to go before they got
out of their territory--so they had in
those discoveries a most important
body of ore.
The Batopilas mines, belonging to the
town of the same name in Chihuahua
are again in bonanza, and the miners
are now taking out ore that runs four
ounces of native silver to the pound,
truly wonderful run. This mine was
formerly run by Hon. Alexander Shep-
herd, and was known as the famous
Shepherd mine. His son is now in
charge of the work. The mine runs
into bonanzas at intervals Of few
years, followed by poorer streaks. The
present bonanza is not very extensive
but the last, in 1902, gave 100000
ounces of silver from one ore body.
This is the richest native silver mine
in the world
Prospectors for the Greene Gold
Silver company have discovered some
very large and rich tin deposits in the
Sierra Madre mountains, on the tract
which was recently obtained by Col.
W.. C. Greene by concession from the
Mexican government. The samples of
tin picked up by the prospectors run
more than 80 per cent tin. 1t is stated,
on authority of Colonel Greene, that
the deposits will be developed at an
early date.
Mines Are Financed
Yavapai county, Arizona. is the bright
prospect for a couple of new mines
financed by an eastern company, says
the Prescott Courier. One of the prop
critics to be operated is the "Commo-
dore," owned by F. M. Czarnowski,
about three miles east of Octave. The
group consists of sixteen claims, and
some work has been done on all of
them, the new company recently ex-
pending $500 in a fifty foot shaft con-
tract. The sum of $4,000 is to be in
vested in hosting machinery and de-
velopment The company is under
agreement to carry on continuous con-
tract work on these claims, but from
the tenor of Mr.. Buffers talk the pres
ent showings will prove a sufficient
| incentive to keep things humming.
| f1OTlliDS Hldue ny MN upoh hio NioiI
to the property he thought would run
about $780, and an average assay from
the bottom of a sixty foot shaft run
| s4S.
The other mine to be operated is the
combined properties of Bishop & De-
Almond and Andy Peterson which i'm
mediately join and are an extension of
the Octave. There are two claims in
the Bishop e. DeArmond property, and
about 1850 feet of shaft and drift
work has been completed, and several
shipments of very rich ore have been
made at intervals.
The Peterson property consists of
seven claims and is a well developed
mine. having two shafts of considera-
BILE depth and 800 feet of drift.
The sum of 100000 is to be used in a
more thorough development of the
properties, and it is thought by those
interested that this will put the mine
on a paying basis.
In the northern part of Arizona in