Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1907-03-20
MAHoNEy MINES HAVE CHANGED
 HANDS.
(From Fridays Daily.)

mines, in the Black Rock district, pass. cd under bond from James Mahoncy to the United Arizona Copper company, company recently organized by prom. 'ncnt Kansas City and eastern capital. ists. The deal was consummatcd after close examination of tho property by C. w. Mitchell, the mining engineer, who will have charge of the operations or tho new concern, accompanied by Clayton Bell, of the firm of Bell, Eplon Co.,, financial brokers of Kansas City, and A. R. Grigsby, another prom. incnt financicr of that city, both of the latter being directors of the com. pany.
 In accordance with plan of dcvcl. opincni already agreed upon and out. lined, the work of sinking n double compartment shaft on the ground will be commenced nt once. X new gasoline hoist will bc purchased and installed and other mining machinery will bc ad. dcd later, so that the work can bc pushed as rapidly ns possible. The shaft will bo sunk to depth of 500 Feet before any extensive system of drifting or crosscu,ting will bc com. menccd, as the great ledge or vein has been prospcctod to q depth of loo feet by shaft and over .OOO feet of drifts, which show the ore body to bc a con. tinuous and permanent one. carrying good values m copper, silver and gold. The ledge can bc traced along the sur. face by n gossan capping. in a north castcrly and southwcstcrly direction. Tor distance of over 5000 feet, and every shaft that has been sunk through the gOssan has demonstrated the exist. cncc of inc ore body. carrying good values in all three precious mctnls.
 The group, comprising four claims. is located at Constellation. about twelve miles from the town of Wickcnhurg, to which n good mountain wagon road leads. lt K in the heart of one of the richest mineral sections of the county, many promising mines having been developed in the immediate neigh. borhood within thc pnst two years. The Big O'Bricn mines, with one of the largest ore showings in the north 'rn part of the Territory, K short dis. tancc away, and the Black Rock, King Solomon and other mines, in an ad. vanccd stage of development. with large ore reserves opoGcd, are also in the vicinity.
 Tho company has opened offices in the Bank of Arizona building here, and \. F. Hawke of Tucson will arrive here in n short time to tako charge of the business and office work of the com. pany.
 Mr. Bell. when seen last evening by a Journal Miner man, said:
 "This is my first visit to ,hc Terri tory, and l was surprised nt finding such n modern business city as Prescott is in the mountains here. The buildings arc as substantial as any found any. where and tho Yavapai Club shows that the citizenship, commercial and professional people of the place are equal io any in inc country.
 "I visited the Humboldt shelter, '' | hc continued. "and was amazed at the large amount of ore in stock and being delivered thcrc daily. l was informel that when the construction of th, shelter was commenced the daiiy tonnage of ore produced in the county outside Jerome was less than thirty tons. and that now the average dnil, output was almost l ,000 tons, onc.hali of which is being treated at this plant
 "My frm," he added, lis consider ing the proposition of building smclt ing plant some place in the Territory and from what | have seen of the rc sources of this county during this visit will not hesitate tO recommend our cx pcrts to make n close examination oi the conditions here before the buildinl of the proposed plant is commenced elsewhere. Eastern financicrs and in vcsiors are not familiar with tho i'm mcnsc resources of this part of th' Territory, or they would not be seek ing mining investments in other places One has to come here and sec for him self before he rcalizes the mineral pos sibilitics of this section. lt appear
 to me to have been only scra,chc' except in few instances, and l nm m formed that m every ease where dee
 mining has been followed success al most always attends the venture. "I am certainly much impressed wit
 this country. and 1 assure you that