Arizona republican., 1905-07-20
Prospects in Southern Yavapai aEd
 Northern haricOpa.

Dr. O. T. Ceer Of Martinez spent 1 yesterday in the city and has the us- ] ual optimistic story to tell concerning l all sections in that vicinity and weSt ] of there. As usual also his optimism l is not merely a glad hope but is based ] on things seen that can speak to some ] extent for themselves.
 He says there is no longer any 1 question but that the Octave mine and
 mill will resume active operations
 about tka Erst of the month when ! Superintendent Hurley returns. The plant wos shut down some months ago
 but recently work was begun again in
 a preliminary and desultory way ] though considerable has been accom- l plished. There has been some change
 in administration the details of which
 the doctor was not informed about i though he has heard that some of the
 old members of the company were giv-
 ing wa to the more active manage
 ment of the younger men, but that MT. l Hurley is stin in charge. It is un-
 derstood the property was bonded re- ! gently for S20O 600. That is not sold 1 but bonds issued for the increase of | the working capital and that there will | be plenty of money for such operations
 as may be decided upon.
 The new reduction plant on the Rim ! con property four and a half miles 1 east of MaTtinez is completed and
 ready to start.
 Superintendent Diamond and con l sulting engineer Hunter of Philadel-
 phia have been at the mine for the last
 ten days awaiting the beginning of
 milling operations. It is a fifty ton ! Elspass mill and concentrating plant.
 The mine is now well developed hav- ing been opened up to a depth of over l q thousand feet.
 ] D. J. Saver of the Saver Mining ] Co. which bought the old Leviathan or ! Churchill property a year and a half ago and which has since been rapidly l developing il, left for his home in Den
 yer a few days ago and expects to re- l turn about the first of September, or l as soon as the weather cools, to re- sume active operations. The property has been well, equipped and much de- I velopment work done which demon ] strates the magnitude of it's ore bodies. ! The greater part of the purchase price
 of the property has been paid off and l there is ample capital available for l operating expenses The property is ] about a h2!f mic from the Rincon.
 There is 9 rumor current the last l few days that the Fools Gulch property l will change hands again shortly or that l new people will become interested in 1t ! but pr. Geer said he did not know the
 authority for the stor2'. It is now un- ! der the management of Paul Johns and l A. A. Johns of Prescott and some oth- 1 CTS who gre interested with them. In ] any event the value of the property was long ago thoroughly demon-
 strated and assurance is given that it
 will be extensively worked by some
 body at an early day.
 Along the line of the Arizona & Cal . ifornia railroad the future looks bright CT every day for the mining man. The | building Of the railroad and the con- | strIIctiOn of the sanpling works at Y Wynden, first known as Wyndendale, | it is believed will prove the beginning E of a, real age of development there. II The trouble has been that it was a |. long distance from transportation and + therefore expensive, so that only those | having large capital at command could | operate. There are thousands of claims | showing good crOppings of low grade
 ore, that is ore worth from ten to . twenty dolIars per ton but there was no way fer d prospector to ship any of
 it at 9 profit and few of them had ] money enough to spend to develop and II sell They could only sink iE the | ground such money as they could make | somewhere else for a grub stake and
 that would not last long.
 II The prospects are now that if they k have any good ore at ali they can sell Y it at once and make more than wages,
 which they can utilize in further de- | veIopment or in other words make the II mine develop itself from grass roots
 in the event it proves a good one, oth- | erwise thc-7 can work out their pros | pect and leave it getting enough at | least to live on during the time they II are prospecting. The sampling works
 are being built by a MT Young, whose \ purpose, 1t is understood, is to sample
 such ores as are brought to him, de- !. termine their value, buy them and | ship them elsewhere for reduction. Dr. ] Geer says it is also understood that
 the railroad company proposes to make