Arizona silver belt. [volume] (Globe City, Pinal County, Ariz.) 1878-19??, 1905-07-20
MOHAvE COUNTY
The Weeks Mining News as Reported
by the Miner

1t is reported that good ore has been
encountered in the Night Hawk and
Ban Yam mines, near Layne springs.
Major w. A. Mensch has shipped
the hosting plant to the Enterprise
mine where it will be installed in a
week or ten days. As soon as the
plant is ready the work of sinking be-
low the present level will be begun.
The Chloride Gold Mining company
has disposed of a group of mines con
tiguous to the Samoan and work has
already been commenced on them.
$40, 900 having been placed in the bank
for the purpose of developing the
properties.
J. Fl. Hoffman stated that a fine
body of ore has been struck on the
lower level of the Samoan mine and ex-
hibited specimens of ore that was
fairly laced together with silver. He
said samples of the ore had yielded
over $50 to the ton in gold and silver.
The cross cut from the $50 level of
the Pilgrim mine has reached the hang
ing wall, where, it is reported. big
body of high grade ore has been cut.
The main shaft has reached a depth of
$50 feet on the incline on the vein.
P. McCardell has just returned from
the camp, having made survey of all
the claims in the group for the Com
monwealth Mining company.
Last Friday the Arizona Mexican
Smelter company acquired title to the
Needles smelter and smelter site. Here
tofore the company experienced con-
siderable trouble in getting title to the
property cleared up. 1t is now ex-
pected that many improvements will
be made on the plant and ore buyers
put in the field. The smelter will be
blown in about the fifteenth of Sep
tember
| The German-American mill started
upon its trial run few days ago with
Hank Letter in charge of the mechan-
i ical department. The mill is one of
finest on the coast, every conceivable
late Improvement and convenience hav-
ing been put in. The combination pro-
cess is being used, the pulp being run
over amalgamators first and then going
to the cyanide tanks. In this way the
greatest part of the value in the ores
is saved.
George l.. Walker and John b. Hughes
of Pueblo, and j. X, Adams of Birm-
ingham, Alabama, who made an exam
ination Of the Samoan mines, returned
from Chloride last Thursday. They
were more than pleased with the pro.
gress the company has been making on
the property and the big showing OF
ore that is in sight. The gentlemen in
vested in one of the properties near the
Samoan and development work has
been commenced on it.
At the Victor and Virgin camp. on
the summit of the divide between the
German-American and Blue Ridge, at q
depth of ITO feet, they are raising 4OOC
gallons of water. The mines are prov.
ing up wonderfully and the future OF
property is very bright. At the Ion
foot levels in both shafts the veins ar,
much larger than on the surface. Their,
are eight full claims in the group, lying
parallel with the Blue Ridge and about
a mile south of that big vein.
/ Within radius of three miles from
the Pasadena as a center there are Il
hosting plants running continuously
with three shifts, all sinking, and thre,
gold mills running night and day turn
ing out great bars of gold bullion week.
ly, in the San Francisco district. Tn,
indisputable fact that every single veir
or prospect that has been developed tc
a greater depth than 100 feet has
greatly improved in value. has given
mining men, who follow mining as a
legitimate business and not for stock
jobbing purposes, confidence in this sec,
tion that causes the unprecedented rusf
and determined following of the big
true fissure veins into the bowels OF
mother earth. The further fact OF
there being no change of the free mill
ing character of the ore below the
water level gives the district an added
value. The rock contains absolutely
no bases.