The Arizona copper camp., 1915-10-22
UNITED EASTERN READY TO
RUSH WORK ON NEW PLANT
OATMAN DISTRICT NEW

OATMAN. Ariz., oct. 21.-Active
construction work on the mine and
mill plants of the United Eastern
company will be well under way
within the next thirty days. force
of men is now grading site for the
proposed three compartment shaft and
machinery equipment. The shaft will
be located close to the new millsite
which is at a point overlooking the
broad flat northwest of the present
working shaft
Plans and specifications for the
new shaft and the mill buildings have
been completed and the machinery
for both plants ordered The new
milling plant will have an initial
capacity of 200 tons Of ore per day
and will be so constructed that addi-
tional units can be added. Crushers
will be used instead of stamps, the
ore going from the crushers to the
tube mill and thence to the cyanide
solution. Electricity will be used to
operate the mine machinery which
will have working capacity to
depth of 1000 feet. An Ingersoll-
Rand 900 cubic foot compressor,
double drum hoist, jack hammers and
drill sharpener are among the equip
ment ordered.
BY the time the new mill AMI mine
plants are in operation the United
Eastern will have a daily water sup
ply of $4,000 gallons from it's water
rights on Silver creek. 1t is the pur-
pose to use the mine water for mill
ing purposes and to conserve part of
the Silver creek supply for domestic
use. 1t is expected that water level
will be reached by the new shaft at
an approximate depth of $50 feet.
Allen G. Burris, prominent op
orator of the Cripple Creek district,
has, with eastern associates, taken
over seventy acres of the famous old
Pioneer Estate and work in this one
time bonanza has been resumed un-
der the supervision of Geo. F. Moser.
In addition to the Pioneer Estate the
purchase includes the main Pioneer
shaft 400 feet deep, mine machinery,
installed at cost of over $15O,OOO
and the ten stamp mill. The latter
will be revamped and made ready for
immediate use. Title to the property
is vested in the Oatman Pioneer
Mines company. The Pioneer Estate
is located on one of the three main
lode outcrops of the district and the
surface showing is phenomenal in its
gold values. The development on the
: 100 and 200-foot levels has exposed
an immense tonnage of commercially
valuable ore and it is expected that
the developments now begun win
double the width of the productive
area and that the old Pioneer mine
will soon be adding its quota to the
gold output of the district.
The crosscut now being run by the
Arizo atom Reed management
through the 4OO-foot level of the
main Pioneer shaft is now out a dis
tance of 100 feet from that point.
The agreement whereby the Arizona
Tom Reed company is to have ac-
cess to it's ore bodies at a depth of
400 feet without the expense of sink
ing shaft is proving beneficial to
that company and also to the Oat-
man Pioneer Mines company. The
objective in this case is the Lillah
vein which lies about ITO feet beyond
the present face of the drive which
at the present rate of five feet per
day should, under normal conditions,
reach contact with the Lillah vein by
Thanksgiving Day.
Five feet of ore that samples an
average of 500 per ton is the Bound
ary Cone mines record at this writ