Mohave County miner., 1916-10-28
By WILLIAM P. DewoLF

duStry ot 1aVapal county and to ln- crease its already significant impor- tance as a prime factor in Arizona's mining a $ airs. The matters referred to involve the outlay of considerable sums of money and demonstrate con clusively that the mining districts of the county, as a whole, are participat- ing in the minng prosperity which is so forcefully emphasized in the Jerome field. The more prominent are the Orc Belle deal the production of ore at the Nelson mine, the financing of the Cash mine, the reduction of ore at the Ari- zona mine an dthe installing of mod ern machinery at the old Octave mine.
 For some time past the Orc Belle Development company, a corporation dominated by E. J. Riggs, M. G. Brad shaw, c. c. Cowan and Eli Perkins, has been operating at a profit the hold ings of the Tiger Gold Mining com pany, in the Crown King country. Re gently, however, Perkins sold the in terests of himself and associates to H. O. Howard, a Nevada mining man. Howard, in turn, has interested New York capital in the venture and is now in that city arranging for operations on a more extended scale. The plans include the erection of a mill, the opening of the mine at greater depth and extensive exploration in the ore bodies already exposed.
 The old Tiger Gold is one of the bo- nanzas of former years and has to it's credit an ore production of nearly S2,- 100000. At depth, however, the ores became base, and failing to respond satisfactorily to the treatment proc esses of the past, the mine was closed down. The success which attends re- duction by the oil fotation process has again given the Tiger Gold ores a commercial value. Bradshaw, Riggs and associates have been mining and milling these ores at profit for a number of months and will continue to do so until such time as Howard in augurates his more comprehensive mining and milling plans. Riggs for merly operated in the Cripple Creek district, and later, with Bradshaw, in the mining sections of Southern Ne wade.
 The Jerome-Verde Contact Copper company has taken over 400 acres of ground in the heart of the Jerome cop per belt and is arranging for its de- elvopment at depth. The estate ad- joints the Pittsburg-Jerome, Hull Cop per and Venture Hill companies prop critics on the southwest, the Boston & Jerome and Verde Central on the south and the Venture Hill on the north. The acreage completely sur rounds a portion of the property of the Hull Copper company, control of which recently passed to W. A. Clark of the United Verde mine for S1,000,- 900. The Verde Contact ground car ries the same iron gossan outcrop that prevails on the Venture Hill ground and shows strong copper indications at surface. Development plans have not as yet been completed.
 Connection of the two main levels in the Nelson mine, recently made, af- lords 500 feet of backs, or stoping ground, and puts the property in line for immediate production. The ore now being shot down carries a gold content in excess of S25 per ton and is being saved for shipment. The first consignment will go out before the close of the current month and will be followed by other shipments at regu- lar intervals. The property has been undergoing development for nearly three years and is considered one of the most promising in the Crown King section. In the near-surface levels very high grade gold ore was from time to time discovered. Now that the continuation of these ore bodies at depth has been demonstrated it would appear as though the Nelson was in line for a large and regular produc tion.
 Cash Company ReOrganized
 Reorganization of the Cash Mines company has been perfected through the agency of N. H. Getchel and a development fund of S2OO,OOO sub scribed. New York city and other eastern capitalists are back of the re- organization and will visit the prop erty immediately after the presiden- tial election. The Cash mine is locat- ed beyond the Senator, in the Groom Creek country, and is one of the coun- try's best known gold propositions.