Mohave County miner., 1916-08-26
GREEN MONSTER TAXES UP
 BOND LIN ADDITIONAL CLAIMS

the churn-drills will disclose commer- cial values at depth. The venture is backed by the Crawford syndicate.
 F. A. Johnson has been appointed superintendent of the property of the Gold Blossom Mining company, located about six miles south of Prescott. Johnson has put three shifts of miners on the job and will sink the main shaft to a depth of 500 feet. The present depth of the shaft is 200 feet and on that level an ore body three feet wide is being developed. Gold values are
 reported to run close to S100 per ton.
 This ore body is to again be opened by crosscuts and drifts run out at the
 400 and 5OO-foot points. A hoisting
 plant, air compressor and other mine equipment is in transit to the property.
 Officials of the Big Ledge Develop
 ment company announce the purchase ] of the old Treadwell smelter at Mayer 1 and that it is at once to be overhauled
 and placed in commission. They like
 wise announce the purchase of the
 Blackberry and Gopher properties and
 the intention to thoroughly develop
 tthem. The company has for some
 time operated the Henrietta and But
 ternut mines in the Big Bug country.
 The intention is to reduce the ores
 mined on all four of the properties
 mentioned at the smelter recently
 bought.
 Stringers of ore showing native cop
 per have been encountered in the lime
 stone capping at a depth of 400 feet in the Dundee-Arizona shaft. The
 property is located in the Jerome field
 and is viewed with favor by the min
 ing men of that section. Considerable
 water is seeping into the shaft, but is
 not hampering operations as the plant
 of machinery recently installed is amp
 ly capable of handling both water and
 waste.
 The Midnight Test group of gold
 bearing claims in the Groom Creek
 country have been sold to R. M. Mer- Till of San Francisco. The property lis one of a number of former pro- ducers in Yavapai county that has
 passed to outsiders of late. The re-
 tiring owner, Colonel Chase, of Fair bault, Minn., opened the property to depth of 400 feet and mined a gen. erous tonnage of free-milling ore
 which was treated in the Nissen mill erected by him. The new owners have taken possession of the mine and are preparing to open it at greater depth, Development of the recent strike in
 the Lady Alldy mine indicates it to be one of the most important made in the F Chaparral section in a number of years. The ore body has a breadth of three feet, where opened on the 200 foot level, and is said to assay close to $1OO gold per ton. Ben Rybon and Dr. R. N. Looney of Prescott are the owners. The mine is beiPg worked by the Smith brothers under a S20,- GOO option to purchase.
 A 5O-ton reduction plant and a new f equipment of mine machinery, all tc be operated by a semi-Deisel engine are to be installed at once by the Ari- zona Mine Supply company of Pres colt at the Arizona mine near Hum boldt. The property is being oper- ated by Anderson 6 Birch of this city I and has of late been a frequent ship ? per of high grade silver-lead ore
 When the new machinery is in com mission the mine is to be opened al , greater depth.
 Manager w. s. Wilhelm of the New f State mine, recently the scene of 8 ; strike of high grade gold ore, will al 3 once equip the property with addi- f tional machinery, including a large . air compressor and drills. The ifs 9 sure from which the high grade is be- r ing mined continues on into the Elk I & Perry properties, also controlled by 9 the New State people. Hoisting and compressor plants are likewise to be l installed on those grounds. Ali three F of the properties are to be developed 9 at depth as soon as the machinery j; t ir operation. In furtherance of the l plan accommodations for additional t miners gre being established and other . surface improvements made.
 l Satisfactory progress IS being made f in unwatering and retimbering the s Jerome Victor Extension shaft and 1T - installing the big pump on the 700. t foot level. To date most of the un 1 watering has been accomplished by . bailing and to good purpose taking t into consideration the fact there were . approximately 5000 feet of lateral op