Arizona republican., 1905-09-09
HINES AND MINING
Things Going on Under Ground in
Various Localities.
cOCHISE COUNTY.

Since the recent advance in the
price of copper bullion resumed activity
in mining operations is manifest in all
directions in the big camps of the red
metal in the county, Particularly has
this advanced to a higher degf ee at
Bisbee and Douglas. With the present
incentive for more work and greater
activity in the mines, with POSSIBLE
ity of copper going to the twenty cent
mark, the mining companies in the
copper camps of the county are taking
every advantage of the situation and
opportunity and are making arrange
ments and preparations to produce
every pound of copper possible. The
Copper Queen smelter at Douglas is
making every effort to hurry work on
the two big furnaces which are in
course of construction, and from pres
ent indications it appears that the town
and community at large are in for a
period of increased prosperity. The
new furnaces are expected to be ready
for firing within six weeks, and when
this is done an additional capacity Of
500 tons every twenty-four hours will
be given the smelter When the new
furnaces are completed they will, to-
gether with the one opened last week,
have a capacity equal to the five ORR
ginaI furnaces, and thus the capacity
of the plant will be exactly doubled.
General Manager Walter Douglas has
announced that from the present time
every two tons of ore handled in addi-
ton to what the smelter is now TAX
ing care of will mean the employment
of an extra man, either on the railroad.
in the smelter or machine shops.
VIM. Dudley of Tombstone is in
Douglas arranging for a force of men
to put to work on his San Juan mine,
fifteen miles southeast of town in ad-
dition to the large force now being en-
gagged. The mine is a rich one in gold
ores, and has assayel from SO up to
several thousands. One sack of ore
taken out proved to be almost fifty per
cent gold, and while this enormous va
lue did not sustain itself all through
the work performed the ore now com
ing from the bottom of the seventy-five
foot shaft is exceedingly good and ricn.
In digging the foundation for a new
house in Douglas the early part of the
week there appeared in the way of the
workmen three good and we'll defined
veins of ore. The discoveries are very
good as confirmatory of the belief en-
tertained by many miners that just as
good ore bodies exist under the town
proper as there are in the developed
workings on the lower side of the city.
mOHHNE SOON T.
Water in the Cyrus Noble mine in
Searchlight district is causing consid-
cradle trouble. 1t has invaded the
400 foot level of the mine sending the
miners aIoft in a hurry and rising at
the rate of two feet every twenty-fOur
hours. AS a result all work has been
withdrawn from that departments the
mine and transferred to the first and
second levels. The mine is well tim
bered, and while it will cost something
to unwater it, it will suffer no great
amount of damage. The water was eX-
pected and preparations had been
made to receive it and prevent serious
encTOa chments.
John V Clark of Ocean Grove, Cal,
and H. V. DeHaas of Los Angeles, have
purchased an interest in the Little El
Dorado Mining company in Crescent
district. A 200 foot shaft is to be sunk
on the property at once and drifts run
for 500 feet north and south in the
hope of catching parallel veins Of ore.
The ore so far developed is good.
The West Gold Road Mining COM
pany at Acme is getting it's ground in
shape to begin sinking a deep shaft,
the object being to tap the Gold Road
vein.
The Pyramid mill in Signal district
IS receiving Dig cOnSlSnfnehIS OF sup
plies, the outlook for a winters work
at the mine being very favorable.
The old American Flag mine on Big
Wallapai mountain about fifteen miles
east of Kingman has been cleared of
debris and water in the lower workings
preparatory to a resumption of work
after eighteen years of abandonment.
After several years of ceaseless and
energetic. effort Judge ]. NJ. Murphy
of Kingman, has succeeded in placing
his Payroll mine at Chloride in the
hands of option holders. The mine
was once a big payer.
H. J. HeffrOn of Los Angeles, has
taken a working hand I'm the Alpha
mine at Layne Springs and has already
begun it's development.