Bisbee daily review., 1908-07-03
MINING NOTES.

klNGMAN, AriZ., July 2.-SOme day Mohaye county will supply the steel plants of the world with molybdenum. The mines of molybdenite ores, in the Cedar district, are the largest ever discovered in the world and are, so far as known, the only veins in which the ore occurs in quartz in regular streaks or dessiminated through the vein. In that locality there aTc veins averaging | from one foot to fifteen feet in width, everyone of which carries molybdenite. While the mineral occurs with copper
 it can be readily separated, less than one-half of one per cent copper remain | ing in the conconetrate.
 Excitement over oil continues to grow in the Virgin field and prepara- ton is being made by the Rhyolite people to put down three new wells.
 So far the wells are producing nearly 200 barrels daily and the gas in the Downey well is increasing in inten-
 sity, making it probable to otain a flow by shooting the well. The Clark
 people are figuring on a branch line
 of road to the wells and are ready
 to enter into contract to take a large | part of the product of the field for
 fuel purposes.
 Albert Burch, one of the best known
 mining engineers of the coast, was
 brought in Kingman last Sunday morning in the McCracken automobile
 suffering from an injury to one of his
 eyes received at the mine while break ing rock The physicians here were unable to remove fhe foreign sub
 stance, so he went into Los Angeles
 on the evening train to secure the ser vices of a specialist. The run was
 made from the mine to Kingman in less than five hours over a rough road. A B. Ming, J. P. Moffit and P. O. Spittler went to the Thumb Butte from Yuma to investigate the new find. The
 rock that was lately brought in certain Ily looks good, and if there is enough in sight the boys can afford the eX- pense of a trip to the coast and a ten Iday stay anyhow That it is going to
 be a producer none deny. And the
 pluck they display entities them to lest luck of any bunch.
 | Wet milling is now so general that dry milling is regarded as an unusual lpractice. As a matter of fact, dry
 milling is by far the older method, and
 it only gave way to wet milling grad,
 ually, when it was found that water
 assisted in clearing the mortar of pulp
 and assisted in the separation of the r valuable minerals from the waste. ; In the chlorination of gold ores, the 5 water should be filtered free from or D ganic matter, and should contain neith CT alkaline salts nor ferrous sulphate
 in solution Thus mine waters, sea
 water and water from many springs
 and lakes is unfit for use without puri . fication.
 The enormous gold production o
 the Fairbanks district, which amount ed to more than $9,000,00O in 1906 ? overshadOwed all other development 1T
 the Yukon basin. The smaller dis f tricts all made progress during tht - lstdIs IL ID GSlltlldLCu iLelN D 5000 and 5000 people were in the Far > banks district in the summer. Prob y ably more than 50 per cent left befor' II the fall freeze up. Nearly all thos'
 who came, with but little money ant V small. if any. experience in mining 2 Iwere doomed to disappointment. e A $2OOO gold bar was received ,yes y terday at the Prescott National banl e from the Congress Consolidated Mine !, company, operating the Congress mine U The bar is the partial result of Q short run of the Congress mill. 1 Q large amount of concentrates wen T shipped from the plant yesterday. Tn If value of the concentrates was no