Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1908-07-08
NO LET UP ON THE
 DEVELOPMENT or BIO STICK
From Wednesday. Daily,

From Wednesday,. Daiiy)
 '' B. uirand, presiden. and manag. ing director of the Big Stick Gold Min. ing Company, stopped over nerc yester. day on his way from Los Angeles to ,he company's properties iu the aapta Mnna district, where he will assume activo charge of operations. He con. tlnued on his way to camp last night. He strongly denied the report that work was recently suspended on the Howel group of mines under develop ment by his company, stating on she other hand that development would be continued, if anything, more vigorous ly than ever.
 l There Is absolutely no truth in tLc report circulated here last week that the company has suspended opera. tions.' he said ,o Q Journal. Miner representative. "Thc rumor is evident. ly due to the fact that IT, !. Walters. who had the contract for the erection of the twenty stamp mill on the ground, has violated and obapdoned his con. tract. Necessarily all of his employees quit work and this caused the rumor that work was suspended entirely.
 "The management has made few changes in It's executive force,n be continued, "but operations never stop ped. Work is going on now and will be prosecuted as vigorously in future as at any time since the company acquired the property in February. The fac.
 that Walters abandoned his contract will temporarily delay the construction of the amill. Another contract win be let immediately, or the work of con s,ruetion will bc carried on under the
 companys management. am going there 70 personally supervise the work and expect ,o push it as fast as opera. ! tions now under way will permit. The company has ample capital to do the |. development contemplated when the ! property was purchased. The concern ) financing the Big Stick properties is
 the Manhattan Securities Company oi
 New York. This company is also Gnan.
 cing the Haynes Copper Company opening the Ilarryhnusen group oi mines, lying immediately north of tho United Verde mines at Jerome. l.. C |. Haynes visited the Big Stick proper , ties when recently nere from New York '. and was SO well pleased with the show ! ing tho, he expressed a desire that ths V work of opening the mines be pushed f with all possible vigor Were it no' | for tho fact of Walters forfeiture oi | his contract, the Big Stick min would }, be dropping stamps in the next sixt,
 days.
 n Developments -n the Big Stiel !. are very fattering to the management | An ore shoot, unknown wnen the prop c erty was purchased, has been openes f on another of the sixteen elaine com n prising the group. The ore body show |. thickness of twelve feet, samplini a slo to the ton in gold. Three feet O 6 this ore body samples $2.sO in gold ( e the ton. so that taking this new hn' c into consideration, with the magnif !. cent showing in the mine when it va ,- purchased, and which has improve d with development, there is no valid req d son why operations should cease o
 such n promising property after it ha s been financed for one of the larges Y scheme of development ever at'emp'e E. in the county.
 1T "Since tho purchase of the propert, |. it has been equipped with large pumI r. jag plant on the Santa Maria rive
 which passes through 1t. A hoist'n
 plant has been installed. 437 feet ( |, shafting sunk and several hundred fec ., of drifts, crosscuts and tunnels ru' ,s Camp buildings have been erected, tf n, excavations and foundations for 2 ,s mill engines and stamp batteries hnisl |. cd. the foundation of the cyanide plar ', laid and part of the framework of q ,s new mill building erected. A wage al road connecting the camp with Da ,,, Greek station on the S. F., P. ( F., hi <, been built at an expense of sever
 thousand dollars, and warehouses ha'
 been built at Date Creek station store supplies and machinery for q n camp"
 " The Big Stick or Howell group
 mines is located twenty miles northwe