Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1905-08-26
HINES AND nINING
Things Going on Under Ground In
Various Localities.

The Pacific Copper company which
is engaged in extensive development
of mines i'm the Pittsbrg district,
PinaI county. has recently installed
complete shaft equipment. including
30 -horse power hoist, electric light
plant and pumps. and is now sinking
the main working shaft 1000 feet
deep. The ore is of from Il middling
, to fair quality, more than half of
/ which is of a good shipping grade.
Cyanide tanks and crusher will be
erected for reducing the low grade
ore to a shipping quality.
The outcroppings of stone coal that
We're partially opened up two years
ago by two gold prospectors in the
vicinity and mining district of MOrenci
and Clifton. are to be further exploited
and developed by a company of local
capitalists and mining men. The sam
pies of coal discovered were said to be
of an excellent quality and at the
same time the work is going on the
company will make Investigations as
to the existence of oil in the district.
Word has been brought to Bisbee
B that there arrived at the BancO Min
ero in Chihuahua, Mexico, d few days
since six bars of gold bullion from the
Fluvia de ORC gold mine in the Unique
now the greatest gold mine in nor
them Mexico and the heaviest produc-
er of the yellow metal, yet it has not
been in operation but a little over two
years. Part of that time il had only
a three stamp mill. but now has 20
stamps and a cyanide plant will soon
j be in operation.
Another big mining enterprise
across the line in old Mexico is that
Of the Black Mountain Mining COM
pany, which is operating near Mag
daIena, Sonora. The work and i'm
provement Of this company is being
crowded with all possible dispatch.
Concrete foundations for the boilers
and machinery are being laid. Under
each boiler engine and dynamo there
will be concrete beds twelve feet deep.
Two large boilers VIII be installed.
! two great Westinghouse engines. and
two colossal high power dynamos,
which will in operation drive the ma
chinery Of a 120-stamp mill at Cerro
Prieto. thirty-fve miles away 1t is
anticipated that everything will be in
working order, wheels turning and
stamps dropping by the first of jan
uary.
Many new mining districts are TO be
opened out by the extension of the
! ella Valley, Globe and Northern rail-
road a branch Of the Southern Pacific.
to the north from Globe, touching Je-
rome and passing on to Flagstaff.
This line viii connect with the main
line of the Southern Pacific at Bowie.
and with the Arizona and Eastern,
forming part Of the new contemplated
line to Phoenix. This extension will
cross many new and wide mineral
belts and viii afford Senator Clark's
3 hicr Tinted Ns-1a min a To-
rome a bigger outlet as we'll as the
rich veins and deposits of gold and
silver i'm the Mogallon mountains.
Each week brings better news OF
the workings of the Chase Creek Cop
per company above Clifton. where
Superintendent / L. Stevens is MAX
ing rapid progress in the tunnel being
driven to intersect the big LOugfellow
vein of copper which is supposed to
exist and cross this property. The
ore is growing better with depth and
every indication points to good sub
stantial body of ore. Preparations
will soon be made for shipping and
then the value of their find may be
fully known.
J. w. Bennie and II. s. Anderson of
Clifton have invented an electrical de-
vice which prolOngs the life and use
fulness of screenes in jigs. and which
is being used in mills and reduction
works to great advantage. They have
received a patent for the new inven- |
ton but had much trouble in getting |
il through the patent Office, but finally |
succeeded. The Importance of this |
device can best be understood by stat /
ing that it will save to companies op- /
Grating on a large scale from $4,000 /
to 10000 a year. The invention /
lengthens the life Of a screen by nine |
" per cent. and i'm its way is one of |
the most important discoveries made !
in years.
John Rainey at Tombstone has /
opened up a ledge of ore on his claim I
that will assay several hundred dol
lars in silver to the ton. The new |
strike is believed to be a continlS ton !
of the Old Silver Plume ledge. The !
new strike which the discovere calls |
the Midget, is located between the
Emerald, Revenue and the Anchor |
mines, well known since the earliest
days Of the Tombstone camp, and
forms wedge shaped piece of ground !
containing about six cases. 1t is the
opinion Of miners familiar with the
grounds that it will open into a rich
body Of ore as the formation is the
same as was encountered in the Sill
yer Plume from which many thous-
anGs of dollars We're taken when