Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-14
BUYS MORE
BIG MINES
EPEs RANDOLPH GETS, GROUP IN
CATALINA MOUNTAINS
REvERBAToRY FURNACE STARTS
AT DOUGLAS
New smeIter VIII Be Erected Near
Christmas, Ariz., by the Saddle
Mountain Mining
Company

Special to The Herald
| PHOENIX, Ariz.. Oct. 13.-Colonel Epes
Randolph and his associates have con-
cluded all the arrangements for the
acquisition of three groups of mines In
the Catalina mountains. including the
Leatherwoo1 group of nine claims. the
! Stratton group of eleven claims and the
Giesman group of five claims. 1t is un-
derstood that the ultimate payment to
the present holders of the properties will
| be at least 100000 and possibly more.
| Details are not easily obtainable, but
from the information at hand it is be-
lieved that Judge William M. Lowell,
Robert NJ. Leatherwood and w. e.
Francis, owners of the Leatnerwood
group, will eventually receive about $780,
OOO that the Giesman people are to re-
ceive about s65,0OO and Stratton some
| $35 900.
The King of Arizona Mining company,
operating some forty-five miles from Mo-
hawk, or the Southern Pacific railway.
| is an exception to most of the big min
| ing companies, in that 1t has apparently
not thought 1t necessary In building up
a mine to annex apy very large portion
of the earth, having but four patented
claims. AS they have 4500 feet along the
strike of the ledge they are not worrying.
and will probably not have to during the
life of either President Epes Randolph.
General Manager Eugene s. Ives or
Superintendent Horace Pomeroy. There
are at present 150 men employed in pro-
duction and development work, In addi-
tion to fifty engaged in freightipg ana
getting out and handling wood. That
makes a pretty busy camp.
At the camp is a dry crusher, with
Cornish rolls, handling obout 100 tons of
gold-bearing ore every twenty-four hours,
a. L., 1tx,rr
without plates is then smelted on the
ground. so the company is surely either
getting all the values from its ores or
knows where to place its finger on any
loss.
The King of Arizona has been worked
since 1898, since which time there has
been lifted to the surface about 100000
tons of ore. The company originally
erected a five-stamp mill near a water
supply, five miles distant from the mine, |
but this plant proving unduly expensive
was abandoned and the new mill. with |
four sets of rolls, was erected at the
mine. The bleaching tanks number nine,
one of steel, and have a diameter of
forty feet.
New Smelling Process
The most important event at the smelt-
ers In Douglas has been the starting OF
the reverberatory furnace at the Copper
queen plant. luTlldC6 10 new
smelling process which has been installed
for the more economical handling of the
very fine ores and the flue dust which is
saved from the converters. With the fine
ores and flue dust the converter Stag is
also fed into the reverberatory furnace.
This furnace was started up the early
part of the week, but sufficient time has
not elapsed to determine the exact result.
The furnace was heated gradually, re-
luiring several days.
At the Copper Queen the product for
September was something over 5000, 900
pounds of copper, whereas the record
monthly production for the year was
more than 9,500,000 during the month of
May. That was when conditions were
different and the price of copper induced
effort to swell the monthly
total of production. The addition to the
power house at the Queen has been al
most completed, but there is little being
done on it now, as there seems to be a
disposition to make no haste with con-
work at the Queen. Four OF
the furnaces at this plant have been idle
during the past month and inquiry brings
no encouragement in the way OF intima-
ton that these furnaces will be put back
In commission in the near future, the in
timation being that the plant will very
likely be continued at about the same
gait as now until there is some definite
agreement between the copper consumers
and producers regarding stability OF price
Of the metal. According to the best in
formation the number of employees at the
Queen has been cut about 450 men since
Il was determined to reduce production
Of copper. This would amount to about
one-fourth of the men usually employed.
The title to the Gold Queen group Of
1--WE claims in the Cherry creek district,
has passed from w. D. Powell to W. E.
Fry, under bond The purchase price is
30, 900, payable in 5000 installments, on
January l, 1909, and December l, 1909 A
covenant of the transfer is that work will
be commenced on the ground before De-
cember / of this year.
The property is considered by mining
men to be one of the promising ones Ci
the Cherry creek district.
Another Deal
The New Issue group of mining claims
In the Peck district has passed from
Issue Gold Mining and Milling company, a
corporation organized recently by local
mining men.
The consideration of the deal was not
stated in the indentures The company
has already made preparations to start
development. The group, consisting Of
four claims, is located in the Bradshaw
taken from the vein, which is opened by
a number of shallow shafts and tunnels.
William H. Palmer of Wendendale- was
in Prescott a few days ago on business
and brings the news of the sale by
Boone of his property in Cunningham
Pass copper district to Davis and asso-
ciates of Goldfield. New, and that a work
capital of S25O.oOO has been raised to de-
velop the property on a more extensive
scale. The same company also acquired
the gold group of Joseph and Wilkinson,
paying for the same something like $4,000.
The claims Of Boone were first staked
out in 1863 by Cunningham and ore was
shipped by the Colorado river and ocean
vessels to Wales. Cunningham was af-
terward killed by the Indians. The prop
erty was later located by Bullard and
brother who afterward sold it to Boone. +
The past few months one to four cars of
ore have been shipped from the property
each month. The shaft is now down to