Bisbee daily review., 1908-06-02
PROSPEROUS TIMES
At MAMMOTH Mine
Several Companies Are Install
ing MachineY-TaIk of
Mill at Mohawk,

BENSON, June Mammoth is
taking on an air of increased prosper
ity according to a number of mining
men of that section who were In the
city Yesterday Among the ManImgu.
visitors here were E. NJ. Kilberg. J.
E. Dubois, r. w. Pool. J. w. Barned-
burg and H. l.. Newcomb. Their trip
here was made for the special pur-
pose OF looking after 4 land deal.
Much machinery is being shipped
into the country said Mr.. Newcomb
Yesterday. Among the concerns which
are installing mining machinery are
the c. A. company which Is also re-
ceiving considerable lumber during
the past few days and are preparing
for much greater operations The fl
nal payment OF the Cla-ke-Scanlon
property will be made on the tn OF
August. Development work is being
pushed on this property
The Copper Creek company is in
stalling new facilities in the way OF
machinery, and niue siX-horse teams
are now being employed hauling II
hoists, lumber and an electric concen'
trating plant. which will be in service
in the next thirty days it IS thought.
This IS being erected i'll Sycamore
Flats in Copper Canyon. The laying
cut of the tow1site is loTy in prog
ress.
There is talk of forty stamp lnIiI
on the Mohawk property. This is 10
Gated only three miles from Nam
moth. The company is now crosscut'
ting on the 40O-foot level having just
finished a crcsscut on the 350-foot
level. Stopping ore will be begun a.
soon as the 400Ioot crosscut is cUiIt
pleted. On the Featherwood property
in the Catalina mountains, bonded by
Col. Randolph twelve TO fifteen men
are working on development and the
property is showing up splendid
A good strike has been made or
| the property bonded by Mr.. Tanner
where a new five-stamp mill has beer
= put up. But the best strike which ha.
come to light is on the property o.
/ Frank Harner and Hand, which re
fvealed a six-inch ledge of gold ore
running in places as high as S120t
| per ton. This, of course, im picked
! specimens. hut there are about eigh
I tons on the dumps which will ruI
over 800 Der ton. The gold is fOunl
| on 4 pOrphyry and quartZite contac
and there appears to be considerable
( indications OF its extending a g0Ot
! depth. The shaft is now down onl,
! eight feet. The canyon below ha
been worked as a placer for years ant
| many have tried to locate the mOthe
! lode and not until last week did any
I thing which looked like ready none
STOW up for the many prospecto-
who have gone over the claims. MI
Hogswe1l has shipped from an adioin
ing claim parts of two carloads q
ore to Fl Paso and the returns wer
50 200 net according to the reports.
But mining is not the only activit
in that section, says Mr.. Newcomt
The ranges are in good shape, feed i
plentiful in the mountains. A fey
days ago Wills and Brady shippet
200 head of feeders to tie Salt rive
valley. and several others have mac
shipments to this valley during tn
past six weeks
Mills & Kellog have purchased tn
old Wm. Atchley aud Schooeuhouse
cattle estate with about 800 head c
cattle. cOrrals, houses and othe- DroI
rr5y. and including 1.400 acres of ianC
The purchase price was S16,500, an
il IL said to be a good bargain. Tn
ranch is located on the San Pedr
river and is mostly bottom land.
is about nine miles south of Man
moth.