Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1906-11-21
YAvAPAI COUNTS BIO MIN.
 ERAL EXHIBIT.


 made apparent by the remarks and hearty commendntions of all who wit. messed the many attractions within the Fair grounds
 Of the exhibits, the mineral exhibit | from yavapai county was easily the star attraction, and when it Is known that | ihe exhibit of minerals from this | county was even better and greater ! than was the exhibit at the World E Fair from this Territory, one can easily see that the Yavapai county min cral exhibit was the feature attrac. ton.
 In addition to the many exhibits the Yavapai Commercial Club was n' the Fair strong, and secured all the advertising for this county possible. Every visitor at the Yavapai exhibit was registered, decorated with a rib. bon, and given leaflets telling of the wonderful resources of our county.
 Fifteen hundred and forty visitors to the Fair regisctcred their names and addresses for the purpose of having mailed to them an illustrated pam. phlet of the resources of the county which is being compiled by the Pub. licity Committee of the Yavapai Com mercial Club. Those registered include people prominent in commercial and financial circles in all the different states of the Union, as well as Canada. The purpose of the exhibit was to show not only the inestimablc value of our mineral wealth, but also the mar vicious development of the mining in dustry of Yavapai county since the building of the feeder railroad lines and the Humboldt shelter, a picture of which adorned the wall of the Yavapai exhibit at the Fair, as well as pictures of many mines, the switch back section of the Bradshaw Noun thin railroad. and other photographs
 The United Verde mines of Jerome had on display an immense show ease and table containing ores and smcltc'
 products In all stages of development and of all kinds. There were blncl and roasted mlphides, copper matte IT
 various stages, slags, preeipitates, gol'
 sand for lining, dust from blast furn aces, limestone and silicas for Aux
 ing, tin ean precipitates from leachinI plant, copper sulpbates in the form O
 stalactites, taken from the histoTi burning stopes after the extinguish'nl
 of the fires, cores from diamond drili' ? to a depth of HOO feet, and in fac B something Co illustrate every dcpa' ? ment of the immense mining plant. Three large chunks of ore from th D 900 foot level of the, McCabe. .Gla, ! stone mines, in the Big Bug distric 2 the largest of which weighed owe 2 I4OO pounds, attracted great deal q 0 attention, as well as A show ease q gold ore from the Orc Grande mine,
 the lower Iassnyarnpa country, !. which the metal was plainly visibl |. sticking out of the quartz as though 1 had been poured over it in melte n condition.
 ,,I A block of ore weighing 1900 poun' ,, from the Fl Dorado mine. m tl n. Thumb Butte district, about six mil d west of this city was much admired ,e the display, as also were three lsrI m chunks from the Bullard mine. west
 Congress, one of the well know" pro
 critics of that region.
 Is Samples from the property of |
 Chronicle Gold Mining company, sit
 aetd four miles east of Prescott, m
 in copper and gold values, attraet q. much attention from residents of q z Salt River Valley, for the reason th ,l several prominent residents of Ph' ,y nix are interested in it, the Sto' gc Cloud mine, in the HasseysmPa d or trict, being also represented by a n of collection of specimens from the n pt, body of ore uncovered in that pr' w erty since its purchase by It. n' Beemer.
 ty Specimens from the Carroll u' 'n' and Copper eompany's mine, m we Agua Fria district, were on exhibit' ne which assayed 1928 ounces In S''' as to the ton, ISIS in gold, 10 per e
 m lead ana per cent in copper. ed A piece of honeycombed quartz, 'k large as mans head, from the mil ~ of the Congress Consolidated G gre company was n novel exhibition. $0 ore was oxidized and very light VI 'il' it is considered that its assay va his is $35s7 in gold to the ton. He There were also several other m Inc | ..u..I.. <.ns. Nha CanUresa mi