Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-30

ROMAN ALLOY
IS FOUND
KELVIN WATTS FOR COMPLETION
OF coNcENTRAToR
STOCKTON HILL is NAME OF
NEW CAMP
Recently Discovered Vanadium Prop
critics Are Extensive and Give
Promise of Great Riches
to Owners

/ Promise OF Great Riches
/ to Owners
Special to The Herald
PHOENIX, Ariz, Sept. ga. B. Broad.
head. prospector and mining man OF
Intelligence, who has been investigating
the mineral deposits of the ella range
reports a very unusual discovery A
ledge of ore containing a metal known as
Modock gold or Roman alloy was un-
covered, and being mistaken for gold
Mr.. Broadhead thought for a time he
had made tremendous discovery.
The specimens were treated in the lab
| oratory of Columbia university, New
| York, and pronounced Roman alloy. Mr..
Broadhead stated upon the authority OF
the university that this was the only de-
posit of the metal known to exist within
the United States.
The ore is quite rich in the metal,
showing above 16 per cent, but since its
value is less than copper 1t is not prob
able that 1t could be mined at a profit.
1t is used quite extensively in the arts
and in manufacturing.
| Seldom, If ever, in the history of min
ing in the territory has a mine proved
to be more valuable than ever after it
was considered worked out by it's owners,
Gray Eagle mine in the Bradshaw noun
tains. in which only a few days ago
greater and more valuable ore bodies
were proved by the diamond drill on and
above the eighth level than have already
been mined.
High Values
Harry Cowell and Ernie Holden, who
located some sixty claims west of Wick
enburg and sold to Mr.. Cline and as
sociates of Los Angeles, now come into
Wickenburg from the Bill Williams
country with locations of twelve claims
in Mohave county with from $700 to $3.50
in silver and gold bullion and with two
sacks of fine native silver specimens.
This property has produced in silver
alone over $500 900 and was worked by
Mexicans up to 1872, and on account of
the depression of silver and copper COM
ing in they abandoned the mine. This
property was located since then several
times by different people. but there had
been nothing done on 1t since 1896 1t is
part of the old Rawhide mine in Mohave
county and lies one-half mile from Bill
Williams river and four miles from the
Montana & Arizona Copper company.
Everybody In the Kelvin district Is
awaiting the completion of the enlarged
concentrator of the Ray Copper Mines
company. This concentrator had a ca
pacity of $50 tons daily, which was in
adequate, and the plant is now being in
creased to $50 tons. 1t is the intention to
further increase the capacity to 1000 tons
about June l. 1908. The concentrator is
located along the line of the Phoenix &
Eastern road In the west end of Kelvin.
Another rich strike has been made In
the mine of the Archise company, north
of Stafford. Recently a sixteen-foot vein,
running rich in gold, silver and copper,
was uncovered. Since that time, while
driving in a crosccut a ledge of high
grade gold ore was encountered. Three
feet have been driven on the vein, but its
width as yet cannot be determined. AS
says from the six-foot ledge show. it is
said values aggregating So. and 1t Is
thought the new strike will run better
than 500 in gold, with small values In
silver and copper.
In Bisbee District
Although at some of the properties. in
the Bsbee district production has been
curtailed owing to the unsettled condition
of the copper market at the various shafts
Of the Superior and Pittsburg operations
have gone on the same as usual, and in
fact slight increase in production will
be recorded for September.
At the various Copper Queen mines
most of the attention Is being directed
toward the development OF new ore bodies
and the blocking out of various deposits.
No effort is being made toward increas-
ing production because of the unsettled
condition of the market. The manage
ment is grasping the present opportunity
to push forward work on the drifts toward
the Sacramento from the various other
shafts, this being the first step in the
task of changing the method; of work.
ing the properties to the skip system.
The Shattllck- Arizona continues to pro-
duce about 400 tons of ore daily, one-half
of which is. oxide and the other sulphide.
The former goes to the Copper Queen
smelters at Douglas for treatment while
the latter is handled at Globe. Most of
the ore is being taken from the TOO and
800 levels, although some of 1t comes from
the 900. where a body of low grade was
encountered some weeks ago. The wiize
which is being sunk on the Leo claim
at the 800 level continues In high-grade
ode proving beyond doubt that the de-
posit is one of very large dimensions.
Arizona has another new camp, one
that is not so new as 1t might be, how
ever, because the men who early learned
that 1t contained riches went to work
quietly and have been at work about two
Years. Stockton Hill is It's name, and 1t
is located in Mohave county, about
twelve miles north of Kingman, the
nearest railway point.
The values at Stockton Hill are mainly
in silver and lead, the ores being of the
galena variety Gold and silver are found
to some extent, however. Twenty-three
miles from Stockton Hill the Gold Roads
Mining and Exploration company Is TAX
ing out 100000 worth of gold bullion ev-
cry month, but the gold values in the ore
at Stockton Hill are very small. High
ASSAYS on silver ores are obtained, but