The copper era., 1910-08-26
Eyes of Capital Upon the Mines of Mo-
have County, Arizona.

ed sampling the MCCracken mine,
has returned east. Mr.. Botsford
made the examination of the Nc
Cracker mines for the account of
the Shannon Copper company, of
Clifton, the deal being in the hands
of an eastern firm of mine operators.
IF the preliminary sampling checks
with the reports made by engineers
some time ago the company will at
once begin the further work of de-
velopment and the sale of the prop
erty is practically assured.
The Shannon Copper company has
been expanding its mining operations
the past several years.
Capt. John Hall, one of the heavy
shareholders in the Yucca Cyanide
M. & NJ. company, has been a King
man visitor, coming here from Phila-
delphia to look into affairs of the
company. 1t was his opinion that
the company will settle up its affairs
and that within short time the
mine would be running again under
competent management. The cost
of fuel and haulage has made the
property an expensive one to work,
but with power plant at Yucca and
auto trucks for hauling this expense
would be cut in half at least.
William Ochs, of Salt Lake City,
accompanied by one of his associates,
arrived in Kingman and departed to
the mines near Little Meadows,
which he recently bonded from A. L.
McKesson. Mr.. McKesson accom-
panied the party to the mines. 1t is
understood that work will be com.
menced on the mines within a short
time and prosecuted with vigor.
T. E. Ludlam, of Sea Isle City, New
Jersey, arrived in Kingman to look
after extensive mining interests in
this county. He is the president OF
the Mocking Bird Mining company
owning mines in the Weaver district
which he intends to operate in the
near future.
F. T. Pagliuchi, mining engineer,
arrived from New York having com.
pleted the details for the taking
over of the Tyro group of mines
These mines will be operated by a
corporation under the direction OF
! Walter Harvey Weed.
The Frisco Mining & Power com.
pany, operating the Tragedy group
of mines, in the Union Pass section,
has just received its machinery and
the big teams are hauling it to the
mines from Union station, on the
Western Railway of Arizona. The
mill will handle a large tonnage or
ore. The tube mill is of a new de-
sign and is said to be an efficient ma
chine. E. H. Barton, general man.
ager of the company, is rushing work
on the mill and expects to have it in
commission by the latter part OF
November.
J. J. Connolly, who has been at
work on his mining properties in the
old Bob Tail basin, little depression
in the hills near Todd basin, reports
that he has run a drift 200 feet into
the hill and expects soon to tap one
of his veins 200 feet or more in depth.
In his group of claims ne has opened
up some very rich gold ore and when
he encounters the veins will have a
large amount of STOPPING ground
above him.
The first carload of ore from the
G. o. d. mine netted the company
500 per ton, which more than paid
the expense of opening the property
during the time of its extraction.
Since the property began. oper-
ations few months ago a new shaft
has been sunk oyer 200 feet and many
hundreds of feet of new drift has
been driven on the vein. At the
lower level the mine shows better ore
than in the upper workings and it is
expected that when the lowest level
of the old workings has been reached
and the mine drained of its acCumu-
lated water, thousands of tons of
rich shipping ore will be available.
On the 300 level drift has been run
west from the old shaft distance
of 1000 feet and it is expected to
break into this drift in the near
future and pump out the water so
that slopes can be opened up in this
vein throughout its whole length.