Weekly journal-miner., 1916-05-31
OATMAN MINES
 ARE JUMPING ID FRONT
MORE THAN 100 CONTAIN IFS ARE STEADILY OP- BEATING IN SEARCH OF BIG ORE BODIES.
Clos Angeles Mining Bureeau)

usually high value for the Oatman district, with the Carter seemingly just entering its vein on the 35O-foot level. with the Fessenden, lvanhoe and United Western expected to- strike their veins at any time on the 50O-foot levels, and with the Boun- diary Cone drifting in its main vein on the new 750foot level, optimism has reached an unprecedented stage in this district.
 In addition to the above develop ments. the Tom Reed Mining Com pany has developed very important ore body on its new 6OO-foot level in the Black Eagle workings. The Black Eagle workings are about three guar ters of a mile to the south and cast of the Ben Harrison, the main work ings of the company, and are near the southeasterly end of the Big Jim Part of the Big Jim ground lies prac- tically between these two workings of the Tom Reed. Although the com pany has not given out any official statement or information, it is under stood that this new ore body is more than 20 feet in width, and that drift ing operations in it are disclosing orc which ranges between SIP and $4c per ton. The miners employed III these workings state that the ore body is a very important one. Its discovery adds very much to the known mineral-bearing area of the ! Tom Reed estate.
 On the 400-foot level of the Big Jim. drifting to the west has been ir progress for some time, now being out about 75 feet For the last 30 or 40 days the six-foot drift has been in ore which averages between Sl0O and $500 per ton, according, not only to the official statement, but to state ments of mining men who have been in and sampled the workings. On the 4S5-foot level drift IS being run to the west. and values are slightly but constantly increasing. The aver age value of the 35-foot veein on this level where crosscut was SlO per ton free milling gold ore. The trans formers which were ordered several months ago by the Big Jim have ai last arrived, and the big new electIic- ally-driven plant of the Big Jim is now at work. Failure to receive these transformers caused a total delay of more than one months time i'll the development of the Big Jim soon al ter the first of the year. as the old equipment was inadequate to cope with the water which was developed and enable mining operations at the same time. The company will soon sink to the 600-foot level and start lat
 eral work there. It will be the policy of the company to block out its orr reserves in the same manner follow
 ed in the United Eastern property The company has been financed bc San Francisco and Seattle capitalists so that it will be able not only to very extensively develop its property, bu' 10 construct a mill when the ore re-
 serves seem to justify.
 The United Eastern operators con
 tinue the work of blocking out ore or
 the 665-foot level. A drift on th' foot-wall side of the vein has beer , driven about 100 feet in ore which t said to average between Sl50 and S400 per ton. The vein is about 8 : xf.T, .- fA in its entire width about $50 per ton An interesting rumor is to the effec.
 that D. C. Jackling, already director
 of the United Eastern, Is negotiating with Long and McIver the discover CTS of the property, for the purchase
 of all of their stock at the price of s per share. Long and Mclvcr own l50,0G0 shares each.
 The Gold Ore is steadily sending g to 90 tons of orc per day to tho
 Gold Roai mill, and the extraction i, averaging about S20 per ton. Some . ore of spectacular value is being de
 veloped. but none of this IS being ex
 tracted at this time. except where it is
 necessary to extract it to do proper development work. President Wer den states that something like 75.0Ot
 tons Of ore are already blocked out in the property above the 530-fooi
 level; that the shaft will soon be sunk another 100 feet and lateral work
 started on the new level. and that the erection of 3O-ton mill is contem plated for the very near future.
 Aside from these notable develop
 ments. more than 1OO companies arc
 steadily driving shafts downward . their objective points being anywhere , from 300 to eco feet depth. \ mum
 Der of companies have started latera work at depths ranging from 300 tc 4C0 feet. but these laterals are as q , rule mainly exploratory to enable the
 operators to keep in close touch wit.
 the character of the formation.
 Building operations continue 1T
 Oatman. and machinery is continual I ly arriving During the last ten day.
 not less than II machinery equip ,,, +f, Tsc+r,-t