Weekly journal-miner., 1910-02-23
MINE EXPLOITATION
 TO BE EXTENSIVE
(From Wednesdays Daily.)

yesterday, of c. W. Mitchell, the first vice president of the Pacific Cop per Mining company, and W. E. Bal lard, a member of the Pittsburg Stock Exchange, who is a heavy stoekhOlder in the enterprise, what is believed to be the beginning of an extensive, sys- tenn of exploitation on the properties of that company is practically as sured
 In addition to the placing of new and heavy mining machinery on the ground, with an increase in the force of miners, it is the purpose of MT. Ballard to make a practical examina- tion of their interests, with the view of listing the property on the Stock Exchange of Pittsburg, at an early date This in itself is a noteworthy move, and back of it is the establish ed rating of the ground. The group owned by the Pacific people is To- cated in the famous Silver Mountain, I three years the development has been prosecuted steadily and practically, showing one of the best mineral com binations in existence in that field. The work performed has been done quietly and but little prominence has been attached to the operations of the company until recently, when de terminations of a gratifying nature were solved at the deepest points reached, this information reaching the public from the meu who have been employed on the project.
 The company in its initial opera tions selected the Sunny Side ground, and at that point the eentralization of the work is shown, and it is also where the best showing is made i depth, a potent factor in estimating the possibilities of the group at other points.
 Minor work is also shown on many other locations, proving that the min eral conditions to be uniform along the entire belt owned by the com pany. An immense tonnage of ore is also available from past develop ment on the group, MT. Mitchell say ing that as soon as the Humboldt shelter resumes a ear load a week will be sent, which could be increased if better transportation facilities were in existence Ores from the Pacific carry values in goId, silver and cop per, the former running from $10 to $40 per ton, while in copper from 3 per cent to 10 per cent is given. Linked to the future of this cor poratiOn are associated some of the most prominent men in the financial life of Kansas City and Pittsburg, whose methods in the brokerage busi- ness are centered along lines of con servative and judieious handling, and who also will represent the Pacific ground with a strict regard for the merits of the enterprise as the mine determinations follow from time to time.
 An incentive to start up work on new order and on a bigger scale than heretofore, is due, according to statement made yesterday by MT. Ballard, to the recent disposition of the purchasing public to again become identified with the copper industry. He says there is a general reviving of that industry, and he anticipates buoyant market in the very near future for these stocks, and further believes that upon the restoration of the red metal the market will be maintained without any serious flue- tuation, as formely was noticed. He feels very enthusiastic not only over the possibilities of the Silver Noun tain interests he has, but likewise over the favorable markets in mineral that are anticipated.
 The Silver Mountain came into prominence in the pioneer days of mining for silver, through the heavy yield it made in this metal, and from the old Mammoth claims some heavy returns were made. But this mineralogieal condition changed with development, and at other points the coming in of distinctive characters, carrying gold and copper, gave the old landmark prominence in the read and yellow discoveries that have re- suited from deep workings. It is practically the old story told over again, that after all the pioneer To- cations are the best, and this has been exemplifed in so many instances that the coming into the column of the Pacific peoples interests at this late day, is, after all, but a natural condition to be expected.
 Messrs. Mitchell and Ballard leave today for their mines at Silver Noun