Arizona republican., 1908-11-23
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 0RE VALUES The Silver King Exhibit of the
 Sin Rival to. HISTORY ID BE REPEATED One of Arizona's Oldest Mines Shortly to Be Listed In the Market and Ex- plotted on a Larger Scale Than Ever.
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Probably no show window in the city of Phoenix ever attracted more attention than has that at No. 3I North Center street, in front of the office of W. K James, with whom the Sin Rival Smelling. Milling and Min ing company is quartered. It is dis play of silver. copper and gold ore from the old Silver King and adjacent mines. now owned by the Sin Rival company Mineral displays are com mon in Arizona, so common in fact that one seldom sees such a display in a'window unless it is worth a care full looking over, and it is sadly true that in Phoenix there are too few such exhibitions, due not to a lack or ore in the country but to a lack of in terest in mining matters by the Phoe- nix people who do not appreciate the magnitude of the mining resources of this section. However that is another story.
 This particular display is notable for several reasons. one is that it comes chiefly from one of the most historic. mines in Arizona, one that has produced many millions of silver and seems to have as many more await ing those who will convert the ore into coin. Another is that SO far as is generally known it is the only mine in PinaIs county that has paid all oper ating expenses from the grass roots down. that is, the only ore deposit that has maintained that reputation after large development There may be many little surface deposits that did it for time and certainly there are many. valuable mines that will return their millions after the dead work of development is done. Then the dis play is remarkable for the reason that it is the only ore shown in such quan- titles that carries such high values. the display not being selected samples but taken at random from sacked ore prepared for the smelter. whole sacks at a time being taken out for this pur- pose. Another appealing feature is that smelter returns for the last year on ore shipments have demonstrated that had the processes been then available, the old Silver King mine would have returned undoubtedly, as much value in copper, or nearly so. as it has in silver and these copper values discarded for the time, are still avail- able for reduction by present day pro- cesses. Lastly this mine is producing now to the expense of modest operat- ing expenses and is one of the few, perhaps the only proved mine which has been recently acquired at a bar gain price, a new company organized for it's exploitation, and a limited amount of stock offered for sale to the general public at less than half its par value.
 This window display carries no ore that assays less than 500 ounces and some as high as 25OO ounces per ton in silver and from 1874 to 261a per cent copper. except some gold ores which run from $3 to SIS per ton. The properties represented however are chiefly valuable for their silver and copper. There is some gold as a by product which is thrown in for good measure and some good lodges that might well be worked for gold. only that the richness of the other metals are more attractive. It is mentioned incidentally that the presence of the gold does not hurt anything, for it can be saved at the same time, and it all helps
 John McCabe who is the central fig ure in the Sin Rival company has been working the old King and ad- joining properties and shipping ore all most continuously for the last year or two These window samples are talk en from ore shipments and the returns from the Fl Paso shelter, the Selby smelter in San Francisco and the Humboldt smelter near Prescott, made on the bulk of the shipments from which the sample ore was taken, are the authority for the values placed on the samples shown. They are mill val ues, not mere assays of small indi- vidual samples. and MT. McCabe in his office at 37 North Center displays these shelter returns where all may see, who care to investigate. Moreover he is there nearly all the time and willing and anxious to tell any in- quirer all about the property To elucidate more clearly he has histor- ical publications on the Silver King mine of unquestioned authority and he has maps showing the topography of tiit tilNllt COuilIy EpuIlu dDOul, IOT that matter, clear from the property to the Phoenix & Eastern railroad, many miles away. with which he ex- poets sOmeday to connect by an aerial tramway and erect a shelter at Prices station along the railroad track.
 Among the window samples are two big chunks of ore from the center of the richest vein now available, show ing a valuation of 260O ounces in sil- yer. To the visitor he shows also the remainder of the vein matter running from this valuation down to probably a quarter as much, but even that is big and shows the entire vein to car ry very unusual values. There are also shown some very fine specimens of azarite. chalcopyrite, native copper, lime crystals that look like coral and specimens it would be tire some to detail. There are also a num- Der of curios from the old King mine, interesting to hear the story of