Arizona republican., 1910-01-07

river and from there shipped to San Francisco. Naturally such ore WAS high grade and represented only the best in the mine. but there was much ore mined. that will mill at a good profit today. which at the time was either thrown, on the dumps or left in the stopes. while all operations were suspended as soon as the sul- phides were reached. The present management will make no effort to mill any ore for the time being, but will devote the coming year entirely to development.
 Near by. the Metallic Accident. an- other great old-time producer, owned by Tom McNeely and Henry Lovin. has been bonded by Carl Hand, who will start work on the first of Janu- ary. while on the neighboring Mexi- can mine. w. H Peck has put three shifts to work. Mir Peck has oper- ated one of the turquoise mines at Mineral Park for a long time. and is thoroughly familiar with tine dis trict
 At the Pinkham mine. midway be- tween Mineral Park and Chloride. the old shaft has caved so badly that it has been abandoned. and a new one started by Manager S8oyle.
 In Chloride the most notable event of the week was the transfer of the Tennessee and Empire mines. owned by Los Angeles men. to the United States Smelling & Refining company ten years lease. with option to buy, at any, time. was granted A. P Anderson of Alameda county, Cal, who represented the corporation in this as in all its former purchases in this county.
 In the San Francisco district sale made yesterday of a group of claims owned by August Just and Harry An derson of Oatman and H. E. Woods and C. E. Woods of Los Angeles to F. M. Drescher marks the entrance into Mohave county of Prescott min- ing men. The properties included are the Surprise and Great Eastern, with east and west extensions, the Ore Shute. Little Bessie and Gold Begin- ner. which lie about half mile south from the Tom Reed mine. and are among the best prospects in the dis trict.
 At the Tom Reed mine the erection of new mill while being hurried is in no way interfering with the steady production of the old. a ten stamp mill. which is turning out about s50.000 in gold bullion Der month. The first of series of three batteries of ten stamps each is all ready in place in the new mill. as are also classifiers. filter presses and cyanide tanks
 In the adjacent Carter shaft two feeders from the main ledge, six and ten inches wide. were cut at a depth of 210 feet. The shaft is being sunk in porphyry. and is about fifteen feet from the ledge at this point. as : shown by the upper levels Although the porphyry itself has assayed as i high as B the last ten feet down. there has been no ore until these { stringers were encountered. which as- say from s25 to S35. and would in dicate the presence of large ore bodies, near at hand.
 i The Hercules mine. in the same dis | trict. was visited several days ago by its principal owners. James NeI- son. August Elkman. 'ndrew Ander- son. and John Burkman. all lumber men of Minneapolis. and Dr. F. Royce ! of Brookings. 6. D. These men were so well pleased with the results of the work done to date. that they decided to equip the mine with more adequate machinery and to erect n modern syanide mill, and in company with Manager 4. w. Brattlund left for Los Angeles to purchase these.