Weekly journal-miner., 1909-04-14
OCTAVE .PROSPtRS WORK HAS BEEN
 RESUMED
This Mine Will Enter Its Most Prosperous
 Period

With it's record of gold production
 at s2,5OO,OOO and larger ore tonnage
 in sight than ever before, the Octave
 mine will enter into the most prosper
 ous period in its history May l, when
 work will be resumed with the motive
 power of the mill and mine electricity.
 Operations on the property ceased
 August l, 1908, when the construction
 of the electric plant of the Central
 Arizona Electric Company at Wieken-
 burg was commenced. The Wicken-
 burg electric plant is now finished with
 the exception of a few minor details.
 It will be ready to furnish power at
 the Octave mine and mill before May
 l, the date set at the annual meeting
 of the stockholders of the Octave
 Mining Company held in this city last
 Saturday to resume operations on it's
 properties with electric power. The transmission line from Wiekenburg to
 Octave is finished and the equipping
 of the Octave mine and mill with the
 necessary electrical machinery is well
 under way.
 Preliminary to the annual meeting number of the stockholders of the
 company visited the new power plant
 at Wiekenburg last week. They were
 well pleased with the plant. The oc-
 tave Mining Company is the controll-
 ing factor of the Central Arizona Flee
 tric Company. It has been decided to
 double the capacity of the electric
 plant as soon as operations at the De- tave properties are well under way. The electric company intends to fur
 nish power and light to several other operating mining concerns in the Mar tinez and Weaver districts.
 The Octave stockholders also visited
 the properties of their company at Octave. They sent earlod of elee- triel machinery the bill being installed
 and two other carloads are being delivered. New machinery is being added to the forty stmap mill eaieu- lated to increase it's capacity from 100 tons to 200 tons a day. The output will pass through rock crushers and rolls in future before it reaches the stamps. The concentrating department is being improved by the addition of Richards Pulsator classifers and tables l for concentrating shines. With the addition of the new machinery and tae motive power electricity the manage ment does not hesitate to state that the cost of treatment of the output | will be reduced so that every pound of ore of even the lowest grades in the mine can be treated at a profit.
 At the mine the stockholders saw new skips being installed to replace the cages formerly used in the three principal working shafts and electrical machinery being placed. A committee of the stockholders inspected the mine and found the engineers statements of tonnage of ore opened in the last oper ations in the Joker shaft more than verified. The ore body in the 1000 foot level of the Joker shaft is five feet in thickness and samples on the average better than s16 in gold to the ton.
 At shaft No. , a new ore bin of 5000 tons capacity is nearly finished, a new rock crusher is being placed from which an automatic eonveyor will carry the output of the crusher to the mill.
 With these many and other improve ments fresh in mind, the meeting of the stockholders held in the offices of General E. s. Clark here was not only harmonious but as enthusiastic a meeting of mine in- vestors and operators as was ever held here. The meeting was a large one, ( many being present from different { eastern states. Of 1,750,OOO shares, | l 100000 shares were represented at the meeting by person or proxy. The } plan of the engineers to sink the Joker shaft from the 100O-foot to the 1sO0- foot level and connect it by drift by } driving the east 1900 foot level of a No. 3 shaft was unanimously approved. | The connection can be made as sink V ing progresses by driving this level | 100 feet ahead. This development will s be in ore all the way. When this work is completed it is calculated that I :here will be larger tonnage of high f grade ore in sight than ever before in he mine. [
 To finance this development a new n ssue ot $75,OOO of collateral trust notes l, ras made at the meeting S3O O00 of k