Mohave County miner., 1910-01-08
Needles Mining s. Smelling Company

pany, one of the auxiliaries of the
United States Mining & Smelling COM
pany, one of the greatest concerns in
the United States, arrived from the
coast Thursday last. The new COM
pany is now in process of formation
and will be in active operation in the
course of this mouth, DR.. Godshall
becoming its manager at both the
mines, in this county, and smelter at
Needles. d. r. Muir, formerly of the
Mammoth mines, at Kennel, Cali
fornia, will be assistant manager, H.
K. Benedict, of Salt Lake, superin-
tendent of the smelter, Mr.. Hoffman,
of Kennel, superintendent at mines,
besides superintendent at all the
mines under control of the company.
A. p. Anderson, field superintendent
of the Z. ). Mining & Smelling com
pany, will have general supervision
over the mines.
The new corporation is to at once
begin the remodeliDg of the Needles
smelter. bringing it up TO a capaci ty
of 300 tons daily, while concentrating
plant of large capacity will be built to
care for the low grade ores that will
require dressing before passing TO the
smelter. By this process much lower
grade ore and one that might be pena-
lized heavily on account of its zinc or
other deleterIous content can be
brought up TO most desirable smelt-
ing product and net the producer a
tidy sum, instead of allowing it to lie
in the mine dumps. A zinc separator
will also be one of the appendages of
the smelter and high grade zinc ores
will be paid for the same as at any of
the zinc centers of the country. The
entire plant is to be complete in every
detail and customs ore will be bought
and paid for at the highest marked
price. A low rate has been secured
from the railroads on ores of low
grade, enabling the miner TO ship
practically the entire mine product,
no matter whather its content is lead,
copper, zinc, gold or silver. This will
enable miners TO work their claims
and get immediate results.
The greatest amount of develop
ment work ever undertaken by cor
pOratiOn in Arizona, has been mapped
out by this company. Work is to at
once begin in the unwatering of the
Tennessee mine, at Chloride, where il
is purposed to sink the main shaft to a
depth of about one thousand feet. The
property is expected TO produce an i'm
mense tonnage of zinc and lead. Elm
the old workings of the mine great
bodies of zinc ore now exist and
this will probably be extracted
and cleaned up in the zinc mill at
Needles.
At Cerbat two shafts are to be sunk
to a great depth on the Champion and
Twins and heavy machinery for this
purpose has been ordered. The
Champion has been one of the old
producers of the Cerbat section and is
as one of the big lead-zinc
properties of the county. A deep
shaft on the mines is sure TO bring to
light a great body of exceptionally
rich ore.
At Todd Basin two shafts are to be
sunk to a depth of six or seven hun
dred feet on the Big Silver and Little !
Jimmie mines. At present a shaft is
being sunk on the Silver, but addition
al machinery will be put in to control |
the water and facilitate the handling of /
ore and waste. In the same locality |
work is TO be started in the near future ]
on the Primrose mine, one of the late /
acquisitions of the company.
At Layne Springs, the Summit group
OF mines has just been taken over from
James Bone, and a wagon road will be
built to the property at once and work |
started up by large force of men.
This property is one of the largest in |
that section, the vein in the Su mint |
being more than twenty feet in width, !
the ore body filling the entire space
between the walls Much of this ore
can go direct to the smelter, while the
balance will make desirable concen-
proposition.
Stockton Hill has been marked out !
by the company as the point where the
greatest activity will prevail. Deep
shafts are to be sunk on the Banner
group in two places, depth of nearly
a thousand feet being among the pro-
iects. Another shaft will be sunk on
the Prince George and shafts on
several of the other properties in the