Daily Arizona silver belt. (Globe, Gila County, Ariz.) 1906-1929, 1908-08-05
GOLD BULLION
FROM THE OCTAVE
HOLDS RECORD IN YAvAPAI FOR
GOLD PRoDUcTIoN-M ccRAcK,
EN- MIME, IN MoHAvE COUNTY,
TO BE OPENED TO 1000 FEET.

With its shipment of IS 500 in gold
bullion and a carload of high grade
concentrates, the Octave Mining com.
pany so far this year is st'll entitled
to the highest place among the gold
producing concerns of the county. The
bullion was received by the Prescott
National bank and the concentrates
were shipped to the FL Paso smeters.
The gold received Mt the bank was in
two bars. The $500 bar represented
the cleanup of the cyanide plant and
the other bar of $4,000 the gold re-
covered from the plates in the forty
stamp mill.
The ore treated was mined from the
1900 and 1900 level, where the rich
deposits opened several months ago are
still holding out well and running the
battery samples higher than ever in
the history of the camp.
In addition to the mining operations
last month, force Of mechanics was
employed in repairing the mill. The
hosting plants also came in for a good
oyerhaul;ng and no wall machinery in
the camp is in first class running or
der.
Since assuming charge, General Man.
ager Knox has made number of inn
portant changes in the conduct of the
mine, installing several new labor saw
ing devices in the Slopes with view
Of doing away with the shoveling OF
the ores as much as possible and max
ing the operation of the mine anG
plant as nearly automatic as possible.
McCracken Mine.
Ed Walker, who has charge Of the
machinery at the McCracken mine 10
Mohave county, will return to than
camp today, after few days vacation
here with old time friends, saws the
Prescott Journal Miner,
Speaking Of the McCracken mine to
a JournalMiner representative yester
day, Walker said: "The new working
shaft is down to depth Of $50 feet.
A station is cut at this point and drifts
started each way on the great vein. The
shaft will be pushed to the 1000 feot
level as fast as possible. Stations viii
be cut every hundred and fifty feet
all the way down and the ledge expog.
ed by drifts and crosscuts. Develop,
ments in the mine are very encouraging
to the MeCracken Hill Mining com
pany, owning the property. The con
Germ is composed of leading capitalists
and financiers of Chicago. Everyone
knows that the silver lead ores of the
MeCraeken mine are famous for their
richness. Houses are being added To-
the camp for the accommodation Of the
force employed, which is being in
creased as fast as development permits
A new air compressor will be adde
TO the equipment soon and number
of other improvements are under con-
by the management.
The McCracken mine is located forty
miles southeast of Yucca, the nearest
railroad station on the main line CT
the Santa Fe. Some of the richest
silver ore ever mined in the territory
was taken from its shallow workings in
the early days of mining in Mohave
county.
Yuma Gold Strike.
Conductor Homer Brown carried the
news to Tucson yesterday of big
strike late last week in the "Walk
Over claims in the group owned by
Crane and Underhill. The group is 10.
sated in the ella range, Is miles south
east of Yuma.
In a tunnel % feet in depth vein
IF % feet on the exposed ledge Of 800
feet gold bearing ore running from 81 |
% $l5 per ton was encountered.
The owners ow the property esti-
nate that there are a million dollars
n sight in the ore. They think it il
second Fortuna, one of the oldest big
PRODUCERS east of Yuma. but which has
Tot been operated for number of
ears.
For some time the owners drifted
way from the ledge. but at last struck
I and and are now working actively
n the find. Crane has been second
and dealer at Yuma and Underhill
as given his attention to the cultiva-
ion Of a ranch in the Colorado valley.
Mr.. Brown said that considerable ex-
itement had been aroused in Yuma
nd vicinity over the strike and that
number of men had gone out to To-
ate claims near the "Walk Over"
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