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Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-03-06
WILLIAMS SHAFT IN NEW GROUND Late Developments at Cop per Hill Property of
 Great Interest

The Williams shaft of the National Mining Exploration company is encoun- tering changes of formation at rate that keeps interest decidedly alive in the development work now in progress there.
 The shaft at present is 612 feet deep and is in quartzite carrying little or no mineral. The strata through which the shaft has passed in sinking consisted of diabase, quartzite, lime-magnesia and black shale, and these different forma- tions occurred in the order named. The shale occurred in conjunction with slate and much of the shale was considerably stained with hematite. The quartzite in which the shaft is now sinking is practically the same in appearance as that encountered in the Eureka shaft of the Arizona Commercial property ad- joining, but the absence of mineralza tion leaves in doubt the outcome of the exploration work on the Free America claim where the Williams shaft is sunk. It is quite possible, however, that cross. cutting from the Williams shaft may be necessary to open the vein. Superin- tendent H. w. Woodward is employing twenty men in development work. The sinking of the Williams shaft is pro. gressing at the rate of about twenty feet weekly. At this rate of develop ment some marked changes should oc- cur in the course of exploratory work within comparatively short time.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-03-06
SUPERIOR B GLOBE ENTERS D|AbASE
 FORMATION
New Equipment at Promis ing Property Giving
 Satisfaction

During the past week the two cross cuts driven from the shaft on the Su- perior & Globe property on the 650-foot indicate veins at no great distance from the present faces.
 The crosscut driven north is 255 feet long and for the past forty or fifty feet has been in broken ground in conjunc- ton with which considerable seepage of water occurs. The formation is dia- base and much of the rock is stained with hematite. Two lodes are indicat- ed by surface outcroppings north of the Superior & Globe shaft and it is not improbable that the first of these veins is only a short distance from the pres ent face.
 The crosscut south of the shaft where the Yuma vein is supposed to lie is about 24O feet long and here also the diabase is somewhat faulted, but con tains little mineral at present. The Yuma vein can be definitely traced by Outcroppings across the country from the place where the Old Dominion Cop per Mining & Smelling company opened the lode and mined considerable good ore in the vicinity of the Superior X Globe shaft
 New ventilating pipes and new blower are being installed in the Super. for & Globe workings. The sixty-horse power gasoline hoist recently installed at the shaft in place of the smaller hoisting engine formerly in use is giv, ing perfectly satisfactory results.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-03-06

600, which must be paid on or before December 3, 1912.
 The total amount of underground work done so far at the Live Oak mine is 1900 feet, and 1,600 feet of this ad- vance is in sulphide ore similar in char acter and copper content to the other large deposits of dissemnated ore so far developed in the Miami portion of Globe district
 It is estimated that 1,25O,OOO tons of chalcocite ore, with an average value of 2.5 per cent copper has been blocked out at the Live Oak mine. Thus far, the limits of the ore body have not been reached in any direction. The area in which the ore body has been actually developed and upon which the above es. innate of tonnage is made includes about three acres. The present tonnage blocked out is estimated to have a total net value of $1,S75,000. During the past three months the ore has been blocked out at the rate of 25O, ,OOO tons monthly, and during that time the ex- penditures for operations have been be- tween $3,500 and $6,000 month. It is the intention of the company to increase its operating expenditures to about $S,- 0OO month, for the purpose of extend ing and determining as soon as possible the limits of the ore body now being developed, and for the additional pur- pose of blocking out the ore by crosscuts and raises, preparatory to production.
 Some initial concentration tests made on the Live Oak ore show the possible recovery to be 75 per cent in treating the 2.5 per cent copper ore. For the purpose of determining the details of design of a mill to be erected in the near future, further tests of ore will be made in small testing plant which will soon be erected and operated
 The Live Oak Development company has announced that a call of two dollars a share will be made on the Live Oak stock, payable April l, 1910.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-03-06
Will Have Capacity to Sink Thousand Feet on Main
 Working Shaft
GOOD AVERAGE FOR
 PAST MONTH MADE
Arrival of Material Allows Good Progress on Concen-
 trator Building

The same rapid rate of development that has characterized the Miami Cop per company's operations from the be- ginning is still being maintained. Dur ing the last week in February 911 feet of drifting, crosscutting and raising was completed on and above the 420-foot level. The sinking of shaft No. is under way at the rate of about twenty five feet weekly and the depth attained thus far is 60l feet. The bottom of the shaft is in the same kind of con glomerate in which sinking was com menced. At this shaft, through which practically all the ore will be raised when production is commenced, 1,000- foot hoist equipped with seven and one half ton buckets, will be installed.
 On the Captain claim, at the west end of the Miami property, the churn drill work is going rapidly forward, the fourth hole having been put down so far. Underground, the level work at a depth of 370 feet is being advanced toward the scene of the churn drill op- erations.
 The arrival of necessary materials and tools during the past week has per mitted the erection of the steel col umns to support the corrugated iron side walls of the concentrator building to be commenced, and from now on there should be no delay in this work. Other construction now under way at the Miami shaft is the foundation for the new power house, the erection of the boiler house, the completion of the general office building, which should be ready for occupation in about three weeks, and the building of cottages for the accommodation of employees here and there about the property.
 Preparatory to laying the 1S,O00-foot | pipe line which is to convey water from the Old Dominion mine to the Miami concentrator, ditch is being dug, In laying this water main, pipe fourteen inches in diameter will be used. For the purpose of affrding water storage for the mill, a steel tank having ca | paclty of 5O0,O00 gallons will be set up on the Red Springs location near the Pascoe shaft. At the other end of the pipe line on the McLand ranch near the Junction of Pinal creek and Miami wash a reservoir of some kind will prob ably be installed and in connection with It pumping plant will be put in.
 The Miami concentrates are estimated to average between 30 and 40 per cent copper and the percentage of extraction rom the ore IS between 75 and 80 per cent. The Miami Copper company $ monthly expenditure for underground development alone is about $25,OOO.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-03-06
LOST GULCH MINES READY ID START
 PRODUCTION
Mill to Be in Continuous Operation After March
 the Eighth

Final arrangements are being made for milling the gold ore at the property of the Lost Gulch United Mines com. panY at Lost Gulch. A ten-stamp mill equipped with two Wilfey tables and two true vanners, has been erected and m readiness for crushing ore for the past two weeks, but it was decided by the management to replace the mortar blocks with others of better material The new wooden mortar blocks were put Tn last week, and it is the intention of President J. T. Harrington to have the mill treating forty tons of ore every twenty-four hours after March 8. Al. ready several wagon loads of ore have been sent from the mine to the ore bins of the mill, and when reduction begins teams will be in constant use for trans. porting the ore from the several work ing faces.
 It is the opinion of Mr. Harrington that the Badger vein will supply suffi- cient ore for the mill during the next few months, but the Kellner lode, which IS also sufficiently developed to permit of extraction of ore, will probably be mined tO some extent and will furnish a reserve supply for any unusual de- mand at the mill.
 The first ore from the Badger vein to be milIed is estimated to be free milling to the extent of seven dollars to the ton. This will be retained by the amalgamated plates directly. while the sulphidcs will be saved as concen-
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-03-06
ARIZONA M 1 H|GAN ID INSTALL AIR
 COMPRESSOR
Extreme Hardness of Rock Makes Hand Drilling
 Very Difficult

At the property of the Arizona Mich igan Mining company, located in the Copper Hill portion, five miles east of Globe, development work is being stead fly continued at the Telfair shaft.
 The two crosscuts being driven, north and south respectively from the Telfair on the 5O0-foOt level, have recently en- countered changes in the formation that may presage the striking of copper bearing material within the next few weeks. The north crosscut has been extended 4SS feet from the shaft and is now in quartzite of somewhat different appearance than that through which the drift has been driven heretofore. The ground in this part of the workings, however, contains little mineral, but the general indications are slightly more favorable than formerly.
 In the south crosscut the change for the better has been decidedly marked during the past two or three weeks and particularly so within the last five or six days This crosscut is 533 feet long and IS in diabase much faulted and bro ken and containing little iron The How of water in this crosscut, while not great enough to interfere appreciably with the work, is showing slight in. crease. For the past ten feet the ground has been getting considerably softer. Under the circumstances. it is not unreasonable to suppose that lode IS not far from the present face of the crosscut, but whether this fault will prove to be productive of copper is an open question. The location of the Su- perlor X Boston, a proven mine, is ia Vorable to the ultimate development of copper deposits.
 It is probable that within the next few weeks the development of the Ari. zona Michigan property will be has tened by the use of machine drills. The directors of the company met in Hough. ton, Mich, Friday and, although an ac- count of what business was transacted mas not yet reached Globe, it is be. IieVed that the installation of an air compressor at the Telfar shaft was iaNorably considered. One of the greatest hindrances in the development Of the Arizona-Michigan has been the extreme hardness of the ground in Whlch the crosscuts have been driven. ana thls drawback would, of course, be largely overcome by installing air drills
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-03-06

trates by the Wilfey tables and Frue vanners. over which the pulp from the plate will pass. The sampling of the Kellner lode for distance of about 100 feet of it's length twenty feet below the surface showed an average of near lye $25 of gold to the ton. Tlfs, by mixing this with the ore from the Bad ger vein a uniform grade of ore can be maintained for the mill, averaging nearly $l5 to the ton.
 The proximity of the workings of the kellner lode to the mill permit of cheap conveyance, but an aerial tram is being contemplated for the ore from the Bad ger workings, situated about one-half mile to the northeast, to lessen the transportation cost. Either this or some other similar scheme will be adopted in the near future, but as yet nothing definite has been decided as to what contrivance would be best adapted to this conveyance. O. N. Brown is in charge of the construction and under ground work.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-03-06
SUPERIOR B BOSTON SHIPPING GAR
 ORE DAILY
New Prescott Pump Being Installed on Sixth Level
 of Property

At the Superior & Boston mine the sinking of the McGaw shaft below the sixth level is advancing steadily. In the 600-fOot level station, a l,000-gallon Prescott pump is now being installed and as the flow of water in that part of the mine is not great, it is expected that this pump will prove equal to han ding all water encountered for some time to come.
 Both of the raises put up from the sixth level drift along the Great East ern lode have broken through into the intermediate level ninety feet above and for their entire length have been con tinuously in ore averaging about 9 per cent copper. Most of the ore taken from these raises has gone to augment the daily shipments to the Arizona Commer- cial and Old Dominion smeters. At present one carload of ore is being shipped to the Old Dominion daily.
 At the west end of the Superior X Boston mine, stoping without the use of timbers has just been commenced above the sixth level, This first stope, according to present plans, will be about 60 feet long.
 The sinking of the Great Eastern winze below the sixth level is progress ing steadily, so that, with this develop, meut and the sinking of the McGaw shaft under way, the Great Eastern lode
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-03-06
WARR|. |.RSH|PMENTS MAKE EXCELLENT
 AVERAGE

The shipments of ore from the War rior mine for the months of February averaged over 100 tons daily and the copper content of the mines product averaged about 10 per cent. All of this ore was sent to the Fl Paso smell ter.
 Practically all the ore from which the shipments are made up is being mlned from the 250 and 300-foot levels. The chief scene of advance work at the Warrior mine is on and above the 300-foot level, where the drift being driven west is in ore of high enough grade to make it available for shipment. Raises Nos. 3S and 40, put up from this west drift, are in ore of good com mercial grade. The development work during the month of February at S~A Warrior mine has been very satisfas- tory to the management.
 The churn drill belonging to the War rior Development company is working at its second location, on the Montgom- cry claim. The present depth of the second drill hole is 115 feet and is still in the daeite which forms the overbur- den of the Warrior property.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-03-06
FUTURE OF ARIZONA COMMERCIAL |S
 ASSURED
Continued Development Un, covers Larger Deposits
 of Higher Grade

The stoping and drifting on the two lower levels of the Arizona Commercial mine are in ground of such general min eralization and copper content that the future of this property seems endowed with great promise.
 General Manager J. w. Bonnie, who IS now in Globe, says, after recent examination of the mine, that all the stopes above the sixth level drift are looking better than ever before, that the ore in the intermediate level drift driven west from the bottom of the g. root Wlnze between the sixth and sev- enth levels IS continuing to be of good quallty and that the present face of thlS dflft, 300 feet east of the Eureka smart, IS m good grade of ore An other most encouraging feature in the development work at the Arizona Com mercial is that the flow of water has diminlshed so rapidly within the past week that the pumps are raising daily about 5OO,OO0 gallons less than they were ten days ago. As the water prob lem at the Arizona Commercial has al ways been one of the greatest with winch the management had to deal. this decrease of flow is an extremely impor- tant change for the better.
 The croSscut driven from the Eureka Snatt opened the Black Hawk lode at q distance of about forty feet from the station and ffty-fve feet of drifting along the vein has developed twenty rect of ore averaging between 7.and s per cent copper, while the rest of the ground passed through is very highly mlneraIlzed, with a somewhat lower cop per content. The material in which tnls drift is advancing at present is highiy lmpregnated with both copper and iron lpol
 The Arizona Commercial smeIter is treating from 200 to 22O tons of ore da'ly and practically all of the smell ter supply at present is obtained from the company's mine.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-03-06
HAS GOOD LUCK WITH
 CHURN DRILLS
Permanent Development to Follow Prospecting by
 Drill Holes

The ninth churn drill hole on the property of the Boston Miami Develop ment company is being drilled at the southern part of the group of forty-two claims. The present depth is 400 feet, and the formation being drilled is gran ite porphyry. The eighth drill hole is at the extreme northern part of the company's territory, and at the depth of 800 feet shows considerable mineral ization in the porphyry.
 According to the original plan of pros pectiOn, the ninth hole is the first of large number to be put down at short distances apart for the final sampling of the property by means of churn drills preliminary to the beginning of the more permanent underground work. Providing the results of the drill work prove the existence of an ore body of sufficient extent and percentage of cop, per, the underground development work will be begun on large scale and the deposit exploited in the most expeai tious manner. As the results obtained in the churn drill operations to date have been of a very encouraging nature little doubt is entertained by those in charge as to the ultimate successful de velopment of this property, but until such time as the drills have demonstrat ed the accuracy of the assumption upon which the company is operating, nc shaft or other underground work of a permanent nature will be attempted. However, the largest extent of the ground to. be prospected will require considerable time for the accomplish ment of the desired amount of under ground work.
 A force of forty men is employed by Superintendent F. w. Hoar.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-03-06
OLD DOMINION HAS
 LOWER OUTPUT

The Old Dominion shelter output for the month of February was about 2,000,- 900 pounds of copper, which is slightly less than that for the preceding months. This was the product from daily pro duction of about 675 tons of ore, smelted by two furnaces. Only a small portion of custom ore is being included in the shelter shipments. The mine is being developed at most of the levels below the fourth, but principally at those be-
 low the tenth. At the sixteenth, sul- phide ore forms part of the daily shelter supply, but the fourteenth and fifteenth levels furnish the bulk of the ore shipments. The pumps are raising about 3,O0O,000 gallOns of water daily from the various levels of the mine.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-03-06

of the Superior & Boston should be opened at depth within the next few months. The Iron Ledge drift which is being driven along cross-fault on the sixth level of the mine is now about 100 feet long and the work here is be ing rapidly advanced.
 The foundations for the two 250-horse power boilers which are to be added to the present 500-horse power boiler plant at the McGaw shaft of the Superior & Boston mine, have been practically com pleted.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-03-06
GOOD RESULTS AT
 CORDOVA

The churn drill work being conducted by the CordOva Copper company, on the Eureka group of claims, located in the Miami portion of Globe district, is ob- taining gratifying results.
 Hole No. ?, which is now being sunk at point 800 feet east of hole No. l, struck copper sulphide at depth of sixty feet and passed into material of commercial grade at depth of 125 feet. This hole is now 495 feet deep and at this distance from the surface is still in ore, although, as is often the case in the development of low grade ore bodies, the copper content of the ore at the various depths has not been below commercial value.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-03-06

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Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-03-06

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Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-03-06
Air Compressor Practically Ready to Furnish Power
 for Ten Drills
GOOD BALANCE IN
 FINANCE STATEMENT
Company Announces Call of Two Dollars per Share
 Due April 1

The Live Oak Development company is on the eve of beginning operations on considerably larger scale than has been possible in the past In the more extensive development work being con templated, the ten-drill air compressor now being installed at the portal of the Sulphide adit and a Star churn drill al- ready ordered will be notable factors. The air compressor is practically in readiness to operate machine drills at once and the churn drill is expected to arrive on the ground by April l. Ac- cording to present plans, four air drills will be used in development work for the present and others will be added from time to time as the number of working faces is increased. The fouI drifts being driven westward from the drift No. 306, are BPS, 255, 166 and 87 feet long, respectively. All of these drifts are in sulphide copper ore of good grade, the average value shown by the assays during the past week of advance work being 25 per cent copper.
 Raises No. l and ? measure III feet and 23 feet, respectively. Both of these raises are in ore, but work on them was discontinued during the past week and will be resumed again as soon as the machine drills are ready for use.
 According to the report which the Live Oak Development company has just issued to its stockholders, the en- tire 50,000 shares of stock at a par value of $10 each has been issued. Of this amount of stock 1000 shares is full paid and 5000 shares is part paid On all the stock partially paid for, $5 share has been called. At the close of business December 31, 1909, there were delinquent on the second call of one dollar a share, 125 shares, and on the third call of two dollars share, 400 shares making a total cash delin' quency of $2,925. Between December 31 1909, and the issuance of the com. pany's report, $2,325. has been paid thus leaving $600 outstanding. This amount is due for the most part from holders of certificates in brokers names.
 The cash statement of the company from its organization to the close of business December 31, 1909, is as fol | lows:
 Receipts from calls on stock $192 ,0750C Sundry receipts ...........-..--...... 165.St
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-03-06

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Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-03-06

Total disbursements $163, ,746.12
 Balance of cash on hand January |, 1910, $2S, ,494.l2.
 On December 3, 1909, a payment of $40,000 due on the company's property was made. Future payments to be made on the property amount to $40l,-
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1910-01-07
Christmas ParlOr.

Christmas was celebrated at the
Methodist Church, South, Christ
mas Eve night, which was enjoyed
by all present. Although the night
was a disagreeable one there was a
good attendance.
A feature of the entertainment
was the Christmas parlor, which
had been tastefully arranged in
the alcove of the church, and the
effect was greatly admired.
The musical program included
solo by Mrs, B. c. Hudson. Mrs.
Hudson has cultured, we'll mod
ulated voice, and her rendition of
the beautiful Christmas carol wes
splendid, and was enjoyed by the
assembly, which gave her rapt at
tention.
Several recitations by members
of the intermediate and primary
classes also greatly pleased those
present.
The crowning event of the even
ing was the appearance of Santa
Claus, Mrs. Santa Claus and their
son, personated by. .Rev.E. W. Mel
son, Mrs. G. O. Hubbs and Master
Moody Whitfield. This feature
appealed to the little tots and was
heartily enjoyed by the older ones.