Weekly journal-miner., 1910-06-01
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 OUTFIT

KINGMAN, Ariz. May 2s. - Still
 another of the half dozen powerful
 turquoise companies of Mineral Park
 has entered the metal mining field of
 MOhave county. This week the Ari-
 zona Turquois Mines company, which is probably the largest producer of the blue gem stone in the United
 States, bonded the old ''I x l." mine, owned by Tom Burke, and the
 'COmet" and Possibility" pros poets, owned by Turner and Hanley. These properties are in the Stockton Hill district, near the "C. O. D." mine, whose recent rich strikes have made all property around it valuable, and a large first payment was made by Geo. Bell, representing the New York company.
 This makes the third turquois com pany to start metal mining within the past few months, and is perhaps the best evidence of the strides that have been made in the mines of the county during the last year. These turquoise companies are all long past the speculative stage; they have been operating here for years and with low mining costs have made and are still making tremendous profits. For example, the Arizona company is producing each week about 25 pounds of turquoise of the best grade, worth as high as five dollars per carat, which means many thousand dollars. A snort time ago this one mine made a single shipment of 1,500 pounds of turquois. the largest ia the history of Mineral Park. Familiar as tAeT have been for years with the mines of the district, these conservative companies by entering the metal min ing field at this time would certainly tend to show the growing faith in the ultimate success of the sulphide range
 The CT x L'' is one of the eldest mines in the county, and up to 1885 a grass-root production there ~nstted over $10e, 900 and this at a time when ore was shipped to San Francisco at a cost of about s15s per ten Later the rich silver ores were worked in arrastras and yielded many thou sands more. Notwithstanding all this, just like nearly all others in the district, work was abandoned as soon as water was encountered in the mine, and the lowest workings of the 1T X L' today are oaly ITO feet 1eep. There appears to be nc reason why the results of recent develop nent in similar mines like the c. O. D., Goleonda and Summit, in all of which new work mas proved larger md better ore bodies than ever, mould not be duplicated in the 'fI X 4". At any rate the New Workers Ire preparing to do thorough pros 'eeting and developing, and have ai- eady started the work of establish ng camp and installing surfsee equip nent under superintendenee of G. D. Ktlee.
 Union Pass.
 Development of the Gold Crown nine continues proving larger and igher grade bodies of ore. The nain prospecting and working tunnel 5 now in 200 feet and samples taken everal days ago across the entire ace averaged $16.5O per ton, while
 general sample of the fines of the ump assayed SIP. A erosseut with either wall in sight proves eontinu- us ore 20 feet wide, which averages etter than $10 per ton in free mill lg gold.
 According to Superintendent Bar )n's conservative estimates the work the past year has demonstrated 'mething like 6OO,OOO tons of ore, ot a pound of which win have to be Oisted, but can be worked through lnnels. Barton is leaving for the lst in a few days to complete the