Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-16
SEVERAL NEW ROTATIONS IN PROSPECT WHICH WILL BE
 ANNOUNCED SOON
SALE 0F WARRIOR IS HUNDRED
ALL PROPERTIES PUSHING WORK AND DEVELOPMENTS ARE
 ENCOURAGING

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 of news in the local mining field The
 several options on mining properties
 which brought to Globe many mining
 men and investors, and held public at
 tention for many weeks, have about all
 been closed and there is somewhat of
 a Hull in negotiations at present, which,
 however, is not likely to continue for
 long.
 The first payment on the Eureka
 group of copper claims, which adjoins
 the Miami on the south and southwest,
 and the Inspiration on the east, fell
 due yesterday, and there is no doubt
 that Messrs. Hovland and Smith and
 their associates, who hold the option,
 win be prompt in meeting the terms
 of the contract. It is expected that
 development company for the Eureka
 similar to that organized to explore the
 Live Oak property will be announced
 shortly. One or two other fiotations
 are expected to be announced within
 the mex. few weeks. The local mining companies nre all
 busy, and there is more systematic
 development being done in Globe dis. trict than in any other district in tue southwest. The sale of the Warrior Company's property is rumored, but cannot be confirmed, in the absence of Superintendent E. M. White, who has not yet returned from Philadelphia, where he went some time ago to con fer with the eastern directors The rumor of the sale probably sprung from the publication in an east ern paper that engineers had recently examined and sampled the company s mine for the United States Smelling & Refining company, from which it was in- ferred that the latter company was de- sirous of securing an entrance into the Globe camp. The Warrior company has one of the most promising ore bodies in the district, opened to depth | of 225 feet, nearly 500 feet along the | strike of the vein and averaging about | forty feet in width. Shipments from the Warrior to the Old Dominion smell | ter have recently been increased to more than 100 tons of ten per cent ore daily. |
 There are no changes of importance | to note in the operation of the Old | Dominion company. The management IS making no effort toward q large pro. duetion this month, but the output this far would indicate about 3,000, 900 | pounds for the twenty-eight days of | February. The most important addi- tion to the plant, and the only new con. struetion contemplated for this year probably, will be the central electric | power plant, announced in the Silver Belt several days ago, and which it is expected will be installed within the next few months. Electricity will not supcrsede steam power altogether at the Old Dominion; the present fine equip ment at A shaft will be maintained and the hoists there continue to be op. erated by steam.
 The preliminary work on the Live Oak is very satisfactory. An old tun- nel that has been restored, was found to be in sulphide its entire length of upwards of 800 feet, and while the val ues indicated arc small-from one-half per cent to two per cent, with occasion al seams going five per cent copper the fact that the formation is mineral ized for so great a width is considered very important, and at greater depth the percentage of copper is almost cer tain to be higher, as it is in the shaft at depth of less than 300 feet. By many local mining men Live Oak is re. garded with most favor among the new foated.
 The Great Eastern mine of the Super for & Boston Copper company continues to show improvement, and is increas- ing it's output. It has undoubtedly one of the finest high grade ore bodies of any mine in the district.
 At the Arizona Commercial develop. ment work is progressing and the open ing of level at 7l0 feet in the Eureka shaft is about to be started. At the old Black Hawk workings winze is being sunk in ore from the 500.foot level Grading for the smeiter contin- ues, although it has been somewhat in. terfered with by rainy weather.
 The Arizona Michigan has installed D gasoline hoist and is again sinking. The company is putting down one of