The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1916-02-01
Mining NOTES OF
ARIZONA CAMP
(sneeial 10 the silver state)


KINGMAN, Ariz., Feb. 1.-Plans for
the merging of the Tom Reed Gold
Mines and the United Eastern Mining
companies, which has been under dis
cussion by the officials of the two cor
porations for about month have fail
ed. Official announcement to that eff
feet have just been made from the Of
fees of the two companies in Oatman.
1t was further stated at the United
Eastern office that the erection of the
proposed mill on the ground will now
be pushed with all possible vigor. The
plant will have an initial capacity OF
200 tons of ore daily, but will be 80
constructed that additions can easily
and quickly be made. A 50-foot gal
lows frame has been erected on the
new or No. 2 three-eompartment shaft
on the United Eastern and full com
plement of powerful machinery viii
soon be installed. 1t is quite probable
that sinking operations in this shaft
will be resumed at the 400-foot point,
within the next ten days or two weeks.
It will be sent down to the S00-foot
point with all possible despatch. AL
though no official information is OBJ
tainable, it is learned that the new ore
body revealed about six weeks ago ON
the 1175-foot level of the main shaft
of the Tom Reed continues to respond
splendidly to the development and that
still another new strike has been made
recently on the 300-foot level of the
same shaft.
The Boundary Cone is making prep
arations to Immediately continue its
main shaft from the $50 to the 750-foot
level. In drifting east distance OF
450 feet on the former level, the man.
agement has exposed an ore shoot $50
feet in length and Is feet in width
that averages $14 per ton.
General Superintendent L. G. Keat-
ing, of the Big Jim, is at present Civ
ing his attention to handling heavy
flow of water that was recently tapped
at the 445-foot point by the main shaft
which is being continued to depth or
500 feet for the purpose of thoroughly
exploring the big vein disclosed about
three weeks ago by the south crosscut
on the 500-foot level. A sinking pump
was installed a few days ago and a
station pump will soon be placed In
I osition on the 400-foot level to handle
the water, hIch should not prove r
serious hindlAnee in future operations.
It is believed that the flow is merely
temporary and that the volume win
steadily decrease Air for the opera
ticn OF the pump viii be obtained frorr
the Eiaek Eagle shaft Of the Tom Resf
eompaa".
The two-compartment main working
shaft on the Jerome Oatman has passed
the 270-foot point. No decision has
been made by the management as to
what point lateral operations will be
started. The company is well financed
and it is likely that laterel work win
not be undertaken at a lesser depth
that 500 feet. The shaft is being sunk
vertically in ledge 80 feet in width.
Tie shaft bottom is now yielding as
says ranging from 81 to So per ton.
The company is employing force OF
Is men.
Charles s. Sprague, president ana
general manager of the Jumbo Exten-
sion Mining company of Goldfeld, Ne
vada. and associates have concluded
negotiations with J. E. Leeper of King
man for the acquisition of the Merritt
group eff three claims and two frac
tions, adjoining the United Eastern on
the northwest and the Tom Reed and
Big Jim on the west.
Five feet daily Is the rate of prog
ress being made in the sinking of the
main incline shaft on the Copper Giant
mine, located in the Cottonwood dis
trict, miles east of blackberry and
owned by the United Verde Copper
company. The shaft is being continued
down from the 550, to the 900-foot
point. Three shifts of miners are EN-
ployed in the work and the 700-foot
point has been passed. 1t is expected
that the objective point viii be
reached within the next two months.
Upon the completion of the shaft TO
the point named, lateral work will be
started and the ore body, which has
given such a splendid account of itself
on the 55G-foot and other levels above
and Systematically deyei- |
oped. For FIVE consecutive months prior
to the resumption of sinking operations
in the shaft, weekly shipments averag-
ing $50 tons were made from the prop
ertv to the United Verde smelter at
On the 550-foot level the
main ore body shows an average width
of 20 feet and assays per cent copper
and $40 in gold and silver per ton.
ne management iAdtto Aht wv
tion upon the property of a eoneentrat-
ing plant at an early date.
The management of the Nevada
Arizona Mines company is at present
its efforts at its prop
ertv at Music Mountain in the May
nard district, in the sinking of the
main working shaft ON the Mary Ellen
vein. which stands practically vertical,
from the 400 to the 700-foot point,
tunuel work on the Roosevelt vein hav
ing been recently temporarily suspend
ed. The bore is nearing the 500-foot
point and sufficient ore is being ex-
traeted 10 keep the mill running ten
hours daily Three shifts of miners
are being employed in the shaft work
and as soon as the objective point Is
reached the fgoree, which now number
90. will be materially increased in or
der that the ore body may be blocked
cut as expeditionsly as possible and a
heavier production made Eastern Off