Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-18
PMAL MINES
BUSYAGAM
PARADISE DISTRICT PROFITS
FROM SILVER
MULTI.MILLIONAlRES BUY MORE
MINES
Fabulous Price Is Said to Have Been
Paid for the North Star
Group in kofa
Country

Special 20 The Herald.
PHOENIX, Ariz., Nov. 17.-"After some
shutdowns and some idleness Pinal coun-
ty is beginning to recover from the re-
cent depression in the money market.
being the first to get things under way
again." said S. H. DeMund, Kelvin lum-
ber dealer, who arrived in Phoenix to at
tend the territorial fair.
"WhileCethe rest of the districts of
Arizona continue to shut down mines and
let out miners, we are opening up the
mines and putting more men to work.
This condition is so remarkable, in view
of the conditions in other parts of Ari-
zona, that we feel rather proud of 1t
over in Pinal county"
| DeMund states that mining men in the
district of Pinal county are beginning to
get back their confidence and those who
have not already resumed are making
their plans to get work under way again
between now and the first of the new
year.
After being closed down tight for eight
months the Hercules and Lrizona Min
ing company with property near Ray
resumed operations last week, putting
on small force of men which will be
steadily increased as room can be made
for them.
One of the mills of the Calumet and
Kelvin company continues in operation
at Ray and within the next few weeks
another will probably be put to work and
the output of the company increased.
The Oklahoma Copper company and the
Alta Mining and Smelling company near
Florence have both completed the INSTALL
alton of considerable machinery, and will
shortly begin turning their ore into bull
lion. Neither has been affected by the
financial depression.
Mining men in the Kelvin district are
much excited over a rich strike that has
been made in the workings of the Sui
tana and Arizona company. They have
found rich ore which assays high in cop
per, besides carrying other metals of
value. BY some of the mining men the
strike is looked upon as a most import
ant one, extending the proven district
around Kelvin some distance.
In the Mammoth mining district there
is much activity. The Calumet & Ari-
zona company of Bisbee is developing a
big group. of claims which it holds un-
der bond. General Manager Towell of
the company has made the announce
ment that the development work thus far
justifes the opinion of. experts that the
property is destined to become big pro-
| ducer.
hOtnSCnIIQS buy
In Pinal county the Rothschilds of
London are to spend $3,O00.000 on the de-
velopment of the Oklahoma mine. The
work is already well under way and
there is promise that one of the largest
copper mines in the southwest will be
opened A deep shaft is being sunk and
this will go down as far as the 500-foot
level The ore is reported to be of good
character and in demand at the smelters.
One hundred and fifty men are now en-
ployed at the mine.
| George Rockloff, a mining man from
Colorado, is now at Florence. Ariz., MAX
ing preparations for the expenditure of
$50 900 on prospect on Mineral hill, near
that town. 1t runs parallel with the
Alta Central Copper company's property.
The ledge is twenty-five feet wide and
carries ore similar in grade to the Atlas.
| Gold in paying quantities in the Para
disc district is not certain quantity.
Not so in the case of silver. 1t is safe
to say that Of shipment returns from the
operations in this district to date-lead.
silver, copper and gold-fully so per cent
of the profits have come from the silver
contents of the ore shipped.
| A great many ores here carry silver.
Practically all so-called lead ores do car
ry it, but lead is not always found with
| silver. Contained in the best of the ore
from the Savage and May properties
there is no lead; the principal values are
silver, with light to good returns in cop
per- There are also numerous other
properties in the district containing val
ues greatest in silver and copper; and
QUITE number of them are richest in
silver.
1t has been announced by the local
management of the Shattuck-Arizona and
Denn-Arizona mining companies that
both of the properties would be closed
down within the netx few days, and re-
main so indefinitely. Instructions to this
effect have been received from the di-
raotore of tho oOfnnanfeS