Arizona republican., 1909-12-07
MADE MORE ATTRACTIVE
 TO JOHN HAYS HAMMOND
ANOTHER STRIKE IN A MoHAvE
 MINE.
The atsr DsvsIopment of the Bi Metal
 Property.

Kingman, AriZ, Dec. 4.-(Specla Correspondence of The Repubiican)- The latest strike made q few days ago at the Bi Metal mine. three miles soutf from Kingman. almost insures it's pur- chase by John Hays Hammond. whose engineers have been conducting mill tests there for nearly two months. The find was made in one of the main oper cuts where big steam drills are boring into face 50 feet wide to supply the mill with ore. Rich stringers or a hematite ore bearing gold were found traversing the entire face; one Of these is eighteen inches wide and assays from Is to 72 ounces in free gold.
 The Bi Metal is one of the largest deposits of free milling gold ore in the southwest it is about 500 feet wide and 75O feet long so far as is now known. and lies along great diorite dyke Large mill samples taken from numerous cuts and several shafts on the property during the past few months have plated about s4.9o per ton It has long been the belief Of Manager Lamont that the richest ore in the mine would be found along the diorite contact. and the new strike. though still 100 feet from that point. would tend to bear him out
 Naturally the mill heads have be come considerably higher grade and all the ore is now plating about ss. Last months production of the ten-stamp ,,Tf hsar .nf hntl of which the last one weighed 1O5 ounces and represented a seven days run. The mine is situated on the main line of the Santa Fe. and this together with the fact that the ore can be vir- tually quarried, make for cheap mining and handling Whether Mir. Hammond takes the mine or not. the work of the past few months and the accompany ing mill results make it almost certain that a large mill will be built soon.
 Next only to the above strike in importance of the weeks events in the county is the sale made this morning of the Golden Gem mine at Cerbat to an eastern company represented by w. K Frazier engineer, of Deadwood. S. D; w. H. Bradley. geologist, of Chi cago; E. A Blanton. engineer. of Phil ,delphia: and A. N. Masters. of Jack -onVille. Illinois. The surrounding mines consisting Of the Vanderbilt.
 Columbus, Flores, Broken Hill and idaho have also been examined by -hase men and will in all probability be :aken over, as the new corners want a isrge acreage MT. Frazier Is also
 
 Chance mines in the Maynard Dis trict
 In the San Francisco district the Ruth mine owned by Jack Leedy and associates, has been sampled by Dan =. Richards and Walter Fellows for A. L. White and company of Lima, Ohio. who hold limited option on the mine The faulted vein, which was found on the 100 foot level last week continues strong and is assaying about s25 across the entire face. The White company is now developing three diff ferent mines in the county. the Red Gap. Midnight and Pinkham. in addi- ton to it's Victor mine in the Vivian district.
 George Hartman has bonded his prospects. extensions of the Goodrich Gardner mine in the Tom Reed dis trict, to A. L. Nelson. R F.. Griffin, Thomas McKinnon and Tony Shoe maker all of Nevada, for $50, 1000. Sink ing will at once be started in a shaft where ore assaying several hundred dollars per ton was found a few weeks ago.
 In the Union Pass district work is being rushed on the Expansion mill. which will be in operation within go days according to Manager Hutchin- son. Good progress is being made on the neighboring Gold Crown mine. which is being inspected by President ! R. Claire of New Jersey. The latter in company with F.. II. Barton. super intendent of the above work. is Inak- ing an examination of adjacent prop critics with a view of adding to the present holdings of his company.
 On the Klondyke mine in the Vir- ginia district of the same River ran,e six feet of s6 free milling ore was cut on a parallel ledge several hundred feet from the main workings at depth of thirty feet while. sinking for water. The Klondyke is well developed by tunnels and shows ledge averaging ten feet in width and assaying anout se per ton.
 The heavy shipments of the Golcon- da zinc mine and renewal of work