Arizona republican., 1913-02-09
The Mines of Arizona

tomobile industry as follows: 1913. 4O,0OO000 pounds; 1914, 4S,O00 ,OO0 pounds; 1915. 5S,O000O0 pounds; 1916, 69OOO000 pounds; 1917. 83,000, 900 pounds; 1918, 100,0O0,0OO pounds
 "The copper entering into the auto mobile may be looked upon as new consumption, and new producers of copper as represented in the DOT phyry mines
 The Dental mining man. Dr. Burt Ogburn, has moved his painless agony chair from Phoenix to Ray. not for the purpose of extracting cop per or gold values from the geologi- cal formations in that neighborhood but for driving the precious metal into ivory cavities with the painless system, of course The doctors genial countenance will be missed from the streets of the capital city
 MT. John Black of the Vulture mine was in town for a few days during last week and combined little pleasure with his business in con- nection with the mine
 Ray Consolidated Dividend This month the Ray Consolidated will meet for the determining of the amount of dividend. which will prob ably be paid April 1st. The property mas been gaining steadily in prOduc- tion and obtaining d higher efficiency in the treatment, besides the higher tenor of ore now being extracted from the Ray Central. With these favorable conditions the property is unquestiOnably capable of declaring a dividend. The Ray Central shaft has been completed and the equipment is ready for steady production, and the actual extraction of the high grade ore has commenced and about 80 tons has been extracted This re- serve ore body will average five per cent per copper per ton and there is two or three hundred thousand 1 tons of this ore actually in production means much to the com pany. AS the recoverable copper contents is nearly three times higher than the low grade material which constitutes the major portion of the 1 company's holdings and the cost of production and treatment will be l less
 [ At the same time an important and improved factor will have to be ! taken into consideration in the work | ings of the lower grade ore body. | The present horizon of the ore body | in which the workings have pene- l trated is the lowest grade in the huge ore body The better tenor of l ore is below this level and more 1 over less oXidized (the latter condi- ! tion of the ore is not suited to con- | centration). These important con 1 ditions and improvements ought to ] bring about marked benefit to the | stockholders, especially when the im- l proved treatment of the ores is taken | into consideration.
 At the Gold Roads mine in Mo- 1 have county. there is enough broken | ore in the stOpes 10 run the mill a year and there is enough ore blocked | out to serve the mill for five years The Tennessee mine at Chloride is
 now shipping 200 tons of ore daily to 1 the Needles shelter and the Golconda 1 two cars.
 The hoisting engine. pumps and 1 other appliances are being installed
 on the Keystone mine. Mineral Park, , MOhave county.
 
 mine near Mayer, continues energetic
 development and is shipping four 1 carloads of ore per day to the l Swansea smelter and with the antici- patton of constantly increasing this l tonnage. MT. Trengone will make a 1 success of the Blue Bell if any one 1 can. He is an old time miner from 1 bOyhoOd and before coming to Ari- l zona had engaged in mining at Dead l wood, South Dakota.
 C. w. Shey, mining man from Port | land, Oregon, is in town on business l in connection with Arizona mining properties
 w. w. Riese and c. .E Hon. min ing men from Oregon, are in Phoe-
 nix looking over mining interests ir 1 the vicinity as well as inquiring into
 our agricultural resources.
 Ike Cree, former owner of the Gold Sovereign mine at Cripple Creek
 is in town. He is greatly interested 1 in Arizona's mineral productions an6 may become purchaser in one of it's properties which he is at present Investigating
 It is very probable that owing tc the severe weather during December l some of the low grade porphyry prop
 critics will record a lower production
 as quite q little difficulty has been
 experienced by the. freezing and 1 bursting of water pipes and frost
 action upon the concentrating tables
 But we have one consolation in Ari- | zona: We will not have been sc
 much affected as Nevada or Bingham ! Utah. There is one thing sure in
 Arizona, we can work 365 days in
 the year, d scarcely understood prob | lem in the northwest states.
 Eight thousand tons of structural 1 steel will arrive at Miami within the next month for the new concentrator of the Inspiration Copper company. The property of, the Lake Shore Copper company 32 miles south of | Casa Grande, and formerly owned by 1 the great mining fakers, Douglas | Lacy & Co, of New York, sold for $16,0O0 cash last week to Pittsbure