Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1910-03-04
.bIMETAL IS TO
RECEIVE MILL
OF 40 STAMPS

KINGMAN. Ariz March Be. NJ
Lamont. manager of tine Bi-Metaf
mine, three miles south from King
man. returned from Denver. Colo.
where all plans for the immediate
erection of forty stamp mill have
been completed Bids have been re
ceiyed from nine machinery firms. and
the contract will be let within the next
few days. Lamont expects TO have
the actual work of construction started
not later than April 18th.
The batteries VIII be similar 10
those of the Gold Road mill, but in
other respects the plant VIII be en-
tirely different. The fine grinding
will be done by Huntingtons instead
OF tube mills, and since all the ores.
even the suiDhides. are free milling
cyanidation is unnecessary. and the
new mill will be a straight amalga,na.
ton process. There will be thirty.
two Ieet of plates under the stamus
and thirty-two more under the Hunt
ingtons. Pierce Amalgamating quick
traps viii compete the matchmaking
The Bi-Metal, which has been under
development by the present manage
ment for the past two years. has
bsaen fhOro,,vhl,, r,rr,s.,o<...a - -.
shafts and numerous open cuts. The
result OF this development is shown
oy many months of sampling and re-
samplins, during which large ton
nases of ore were virtually ouarried
and Then without sorting run through
a stamp test mill is a body Of ore
estimated at 100000 tons. assay!ng
itt,H over 81 in gold. The aver
S4,i6; the actual saving on ordinary
age Of all mill headings % date in
plates has been about SO. or 70 per
cent. and il is on a basis Of the lat
ter vclue that all estimates have been
made. However with the increased
length OF plates and better grinding
the new mill Is expected to make an
extraction Of about 81 per cent. or
about $3.50 per ton
Severa' miles further south. in he
same district, considerable work is
seing started on the Gold Butte and
Fay Bonanza properties. Lewis Lusk
of Spof1ne, one OF the principal own
ers. has been examining the prospects
with good results The entire bot
tom OF a 40 foot SHAFT on the Butte
assays IS. while ten inches Of ledge
on the Fay Bonanza runs sos; sam
pies taken across twenty feet OF ledge
on iAe surface averaged $l4. Lusk
proposes TO sink several hundred feet
and then crosscut
The most important event of the
week was the strike made in the
Rainbow mine on the 225 feet level.
l15 feet north from the main shaft
The vein has been split for about 100
feet and the west fork, a small stream
of variable vaiues. had been followed.
when the two branches united again
to form four feet OF good ore between
well defined walls. Ten inches of the
ledge assay from $40 to $50 and the
balance is a good grade of milling ore.
The breast it now midway between
the south ore-shoot which is developed
10 a depth Of 2a0 feet, with ore blocked
out for a length Of $50 feet, and the
Winisail shoot, from which the former
owners shipped much high grede ore
The strike is OF particular impog-
ance because it is further procf o.
the belief OF engineers Who have cy-
amined the mine. that AT greater
depth continuous ore via b. found
under the basin connecting the two
main ore shoots
The Pilgrim mine. twelve miles
west from Chloride. owned by Bu
ODay. is being examined by engineers
representing Spur & Cox. Of New
York The Pilgrim is in the same
range as the Gold Road mine sad
has ore OF a similar ,tlarac,er. II
averages about s. in free mill Eng
gold. and there have been very 'asge
tonnages developed in tho last two
years
The Venture company of Dulnth,
whioh has been in active operation at
Globe as the Cactus Development com.
pany. for some time. is the latest of
the new companies to enter Mohave
county. John II. Hamilton and FrenK
Meyers. representing the fasteners,
are samDling number OF properties
in the different districts Of the county.
and have already bonded the Oneida
group in Lorena Flats. belonging 10
o. ID. Gaddis The Oneida properties
adjoin Stockton Hin mines. on a num-
Der OF which the United States Sme,t
ing end Refining company is doing ex-
tensiye development work.