Bisbee daily review., 1905-06-10
YAVAPAI COUNTY
 MINING MATTERS
PLAcERlNG iN THE OCTAVE SEC TON IS YIELDING IMPORT
 ANT GOLD RETURNS.
Nueeest Ranging in Value From $2 to SIS, Are Numerous-Rich Quartz Proposition-Bannie and Mammoth Group Under Development.
(Prescott Courier.l

VI ANGNNNN O0AA4SAsJ
 Ex-Supervisor James Smith, who is
 in charge of the company store at
 Octave, came in from that rich gold
 region last Saturday. He says that
 work has been resumed on the Oc- tave mine, the work now being car ried on is in the line of development
 The mill will be started up later on. Since the rains commenced about the first of this year, the store at Octave has taken in s2,000 a month. gold
 dust which has been taken out by placer miners. mostly MeXicans, who follow the most primitive methods known to the mining industry, and this should give some idea of the out put possible if abundant water and the most modern methods could be
 brought to bear on the rich gold bearing gravel beds, bars and hills Of that section, which has poured out its golden store for over quarter of century, much of the gold having been literally picked from the surface of the ground after having been ex- posed by torrential rains. The main industrial stimulus which prompted the building of the great Walnut Grove dam was to convey the water to this rich region and wash out the gold and if that dam had not been washed away, the output of the gold of Weaver district which its waters would have washed out would have astonished the world, for the gold is there, and lots of it, and as pure gold as can be found on earth, gold that commands to 20 an ounce as soon as it is picked up. About 50 nuggets of this gold can now be seen in the show window of the jewelry store of George Cook in this city. These nuggets range in value from about S2 10 about S75 each and they are beauties as to form and feature They were brought in by MT. Smith who took them in at the company store. ill trading with the placer min CTS of that region, and. while they look as if they had been made to order for decorative purposes, are really just as they were taken from the soil. Of course Mir. Smith picked out the prettiest nuggets which came in dur ing the past five months, and the collection is a valuable one. There is scarcely a question but what this gold has all washed from some great quartz ledge or ledges which at one time cropped out high above the sur face and which ages action of the ele- ments caused to decompose. releasing the gold to be scattered here and there, while the disappearing ledges were covered by the drifting sands of unmeasured time. A few of these nuggets in the Cook store window cling to or encompass quartz, showing that they were at one time part of a ledge of quartz. These nuggets | came from Weaver gulch, close to the | historic Johnson mine, located on Rich Hill. This mine is supposed by l some to contain the ledge, or lodges, l from which a great deal of this gold l came, as quartz similar to that in the l nuggets has been taken from the | Johnson mine. the quartz being fully l one half gold. Bannie Group Has a Fine Showing. |
 Supt. Conlee, of the Bannie group, | was in from those properties last Sat urday. From him the Courier re- porter got the following news con- cerning that property:
 The main shaft is now going down on the vein. On the 7th of this month, drifting will commence both east and west on the vein, from the 210 foot level of the shaft. At this point the ore body is 20 feet wide and carries values of from s7.50 to- SS a ton; it is a concentrating prop osition; the ere concentrates ten tons into one: the concentrates carry S70 to $50 a ton. The company expects to have a concentrating plant in op- eration on the property in the near future.
 Development Work on Mammoth
 On the 18th of May a note from the Santa Maria section appear ed in the Courier regarding the re- markably rich showing made in the Elephant mine. of the Mammoth group. which is the first west exten- sion of the Sultan. The Mammoth group. the correspondent stated, had been bonded by John H. Hise from Aex Lucy some months before.
 Mir Hise, who never lets any grass grow under his feet when there isi profitable mining to be attended to,
 zor Los Angeles about the middle -Hfay to arrange for the developmen of the property, and returned last Saturday evening, equipped to pro ceed with the development.