Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1905-02-15
MINING INTELLIGENCE

Mining company. He was accompa-
MED by Mrs. Agnew, the wife OF the
president of the company. Both stop
ped at Wickenhurg, drove out to the
mine and came in last night on the
freight from the north. Mr.. Agnew
will arrive in the city in few days.
Mr.. Edwards said last night all the
machinery for the mine had been pur-
chased and that part of it had been
shipped. 1t will be installed and
operating in May. There will be
twenty stamp mill aud power with
capacity for forty stamps. There will
be in addition cyanide plant. The
trip east and back was not a pleasant
one. During the greater part of the
time be was gone Mr.. Edwards was
moving from one blizzard into anoth-
er or else he was escaping from one
blizzard only to be caught by another
Republican.
At Congress more cheerful spirit
pervades just now says the News-Her-
aid owing to better showing in the
Consolidated company's development
work in No. 3 shaft especially. The
report is current in Congress that
good strike has been made in this
shaft, and the report has been sub
stantiated by the men at work in the
shaft. Ghe officials are not saying
anything, but the fact that mill men
WIN were intending to leave have de-
cided to remain in Congress augurs
we'll for the situation there.
One of the owners of the old Nc
Cracker mine is having considerable
work done on that property. The old
drifts are being cleaned out and the
mine put in good shape. Years ago,
when the mine was extensively worked
a cave buried two miners in the lower
works and no effnri vas ever made to
dig them out, the niipe shutting down
shortly after the accident In that
part of the mine the ichest ore was
being obtained, and i. is this part of
the mine that is nov being opened
up. The cave will ~ caught up and
it is expected that "a great body of
rich silver ore will be found. -Mohave-
Miner.
The Lincoln Mining company is
working ten men building a road from
Crown King to the property of the
company about two miles from the
above place. The Lincoln mine is
we'll developed property and with IA
cilities for working the ore should be
made good dividend paying mine
1t is reported that II. B. Clifford
has succeeded in financing the Great
Peck Mining company and that active
work will soon be commenced on the
property again. Parties who have been
working a portion of the mine under
lease during the past year are report
ed to have made big money out of
their operations The Peck mine has
produced up into the millions of dol
lars in its time and no great depth has
been reached yet.
The Anderson Metals Extraction
company has commenced work on the
foundations for eleven cement tanks
at McCabe for Its cyanide plant to
work the tailings, under royalty, pro-
duced by the Model Gold Mining
company mill. These tanks will be
forty three feet in diameter each and
| four feet high. There are about 3, 600
tons of these tailings. The company
expects its machinery to arrive within
the next sixty days from the east and
hopes to be operating by May 10th
running one hunrded tons day. They
have ten men at work on the plant.
The company is backed by sufficient
capital to thoroughly demonstrate the
Anderson cyanide process.
Tim Hawkins was in town yesterday
with some fine samples of ore from
the Lost Mountain Boy mine in Black
Rock district. The mine is owned by
Melone and Hawkins Ore from the
surface assayed s25 per ton. They
have three small shafts sunk on the
property, the deepest one being only
ten feet, but good ore is shown in
each of them.
During his recent trip east, John S.
Jones purchased a Kincaid mill for
the Jessie mines company, which
when erected will double the milling
capacity of that property and he will
be able to treat from 40 to so tons of
ore daily. There are thousands of tons
of low grade ore on the dumps of the
mines and blocked out in the mine
and it is the intention of the company
eventually to put in two hundred