Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-02
BI-METALS MINE
DEAL NOT READY
HAMMOND CONTINUES MATTER
UNDER ADJUSTMENT
WORK AT PROPERTY RECEIVES
NO SETBACK -
Development by Gazing System Goes
Ahead Pending Completion of
Transaction for Additional
Capital for Development

KINGMAN, Feb. 1.--E. M. Lamont,
general manager of the Arizona Gold
Mines company operating the Bi-Metal
mines, has returned from Los Angeles
and says the deal with the John Hays
Hammond interests is still on, but the
company will continue to make better
mentS at the mines without regard TO
any change that the future may bring.
The capacity OF the mill is to be in
creased to 200 tons daily and large
elevator nut in TO handle the tall
ings. Everything will be done with
q view to making the plant as auto
matte a it is possible to arrange 1T.
Work of developing the property will
be continued and the ore extracted by
the caVing system. When the new
mill is in commission it is estimated
that the cost of mining and milling
will be reduced below 81 per ton. The
mine is showing up wonderfully well,
the ore in the new workings giving bet
ter values than on the surface or in the
superficial workings from which the
tonnage was taken during the past
year, and which gave battery samples
better than So to the ton.
Some nice chrysoprase is being
mined at the Belleheur mine, south
west Of Kingman. The material is of
certain hardness and is much sought
after by the people that like fads.
Some of the ore shows the free gold
sticking out of the blue background,
which adds greatly to the value of the
ore as an oddity.
Ships 100 Tons
Up to last Tuesday the Golconda
mine, operated by the Union Basin
Mining company, had sent out to the
smelters HOO tons of ore, or an aver
age of forty-four tons daily. This is
the largest amount of ore sent to the
smelter in any one month in the his
tory of the mine, and shows conclu-
sively that the property is fast get
ting in shape for the production or an
unlimited amount of ore.
The slopes in the mine are reVela-
tion to the miners. Everywhere that
they have been run in on the ore
bodies have increased in width and
richness of product. One of the largest
slopes Is ten feet wide of solid zinc
ore, while the other slopes range from
three to six feet.
The little holster is put to its ca
pacity in bringing the large tonnage
to the surface, whence it is shipped tC
the railroad by team. When the rail-
road is built to the mouth of the can
yon and a larger hosting plant is in
stalled the company expects phe-
nomenal production from this prop
erty.
J. C. Potts reports activity In the
Union Pass region. A strike of gold
ore of considerable Importance was
recently made south of Meyers Well
the vein averaging more than three
feet in width and giving values OF
S1O0 to the ton. He was unable to
learn the name of the locator, but un-
derstood that George Miller of Silver
Creek was interested in the find. AT
the Expansion camp the new mill Is
fast being assembled, teams hauling
the materials from Union station to
the camp daily
Concerns Signal Patents
w. D. McCright of Signal was in
Kingman several days this week look
ing after matters concerning the pat
enting of his group of mines on the
old McCracken lode, which is part OF
the original locations on the property
MIR. McCright has the best part of the
great lode and expects to make for
tune from 1t. The mines are now
under option to Newton Evans of Los
Angeles, the purchase of the properties
heing now under consideration of the
Tinted States Refining Mining and
Smelling company. A. p. Anderson
chief expert Of the company, made an
examination OF the entire property, and
It is quite within the possibilities that
his report will be favorable. This cor
poration is getting things in shape to
make their Mohave county holdings as
large or larger than their holdings in
Utah and Nevada.
EVERYTHING in and around the Ten
.nessee mine is being put in shape 70
begin the extraction of ores. The old
workings are to be cleared of debris
and the slopes opened up. BY the
time the Needles Mining and Smelling
company has it's big cleaning plant
ready this mine will be able to forward
several thousand tons of mixed ore
monthly. The ore will carry good
values in zinc and small values in lead
Tn the lower workings Of the property
there is said to be an immense ton
mage of this class of ore, while in the
mill dumps there is about 10000 tons
Of zinc ore, averaging about IL pei
cent.
Work Begins on London
Work is now under way at the Lon
don mine, in the Union Pass section
II being the intention of the owners
to sink the main shaft to depth OF
several hundred feet. The mine
showed big gold values in the outcrop
Jesse Martin, a stockman living neai
Wallapai Springs, recently disposed OF
mining interests near Parker for $4,000
The claims We're only recently located
and had practically no work done on
them.
L, Hoffman visited Chloride the past
week and looked over the site for the
proposed tunnel that is to cut the Sa-
moan and Lucky Boy veins at great
depth. 1t is understood that this tun-
nei was soon to be started and that il
would be pressed to a successful issue
MAY WORK GOLD BAR