Weekly journal-miner., 1909-04-07
MINING ACTIVITY IN
 SOUTHERN COUNTRY
CFrom Fridays Daily)

the county, where he found active op-
 erations being prosecuted on number
 of promising mining properties and
 healthy business conditions prevailing.
 Southern Yavapai county. especial
 ly the Weaver and Black Rock dis
 tricts, is destined at no distant date
 to rival other sections of the territory
 in gold production, he said. "These
 districts are noted for their wide areas
 of naturalization and the lodges are strong, well defined and where opened
 show increase in size and values with
 depth" he declared.
 "Congress is pouring out its usual stream of bullion and concentrates
 and employing full complement of men. The mine is opened to greater
 depth than any in the territory and is known too well for me to attempt
 to say anything new of 1t.
 "At the Alvarado," he continued, ''a test run is being made of the new plant. Twenty miners are employed in the mine, which is opened to a depth of over HOO feet by an incline shaft from which levels hundreds of feet in length expose the vein.
 "Work will be resumed at the Rim con mine as soon as the Arizona Cen tral Electric Company is ready to fur nish electricity from its electric plant now under construction at Wicken- burg.
 "The management of the Octave Mining Company expects to resume operations in 10 days, when it is ex- pected the Arizona Central Electric Company will be ready to furnish elec- tric power. This mine is euipped with a forty-stamp mill, concentrators and large cyanide plant. It is opened by a number of shafts, the deepest of which is down over 1,7OO feet and by system of laterals aggregating over ten miles in length. It has the larg- est tonnage of ore in sight in the county and it's owners are iubilant over the prosrectt hat it will eclipse its for mer record as a gold producer as soon as it is in operation again with elec- tricity the motive power for all ma chinery in camp.
 At the camp of the Black Rock Mining Company, Limited, a test run of the reduction plant is being made. The plant was overnauled recently and is now said to be in better working shape than at any time since its cree ton.
 "R. c. Vincent. president and gen eral manager of the Black Rock Min ing Company, has fifteen miners em- ployed in development, with very showing in his property.
 ''It is reliably reported that F. \. o 'Brien has again accepted the man agement of the Big O'Brien mine, owned by the Interior Mining and Trust Company. and is preparing TO start active operations there. Those in close touch with the company af- fairs do not hesitate to say that the Big O'Brien will be ranking high lmong the county's gold producers be- fore many months.
 "The properties of the White Gold Mining Company the Unida Gold Mines Company are idle, due to vexa- ious litigation among the stoekhold- ITS of both companies.
 "A ten-stamp mill is in course of obstruction at the camp of the Ari- , ona Copper Belt Company. There is
 very promising ore showing in the l ompany's property.
 Improvements costing thousands t f dollars are under way at the camp t f the Stanton Rich Hill Gold Mining a ompany under the personal super O ision of George B. Upton, general d lanager. The eOmpany's properties, | nine patented claims, cover n part of Rich Hill from an acre of the b lrface of which $l.50O,OOO in placer old was mined in a few months in fl le eos. General Manager Upton is il aking a test run of his ores in e nall stamp mill preparatory to erect h g a large plant. t, "Fifteen stamps of the Monica mill e, ,e grinding the Monica ores. Devel- Ii ,ment is being pushed in the mine E Id the outlook there is that the prop el 'ty is entering the most prosperous c, ,riod of its eareer.'' o, Deputy Stephens also mentioned a co lmber of other properties in various c ages of development seen in his tour gl
 which there are promising ore show ol gs. He says that herds of goats c; thousands are browsing on ' . .