Weekly journal-miner., 1916-02-23
HASSAYAMPA IS COMING INTO
 ITS OWN
EXTENSIVE MINING OPEk- ATIONS IN ONE OF THE RICHEST DISTRICTS OF THE COUNTY.
(By William P. De Wolf)

Ol1OioNAOAAo AAA ~~N~~0-S ampa country, one of the richest min eral-bearing areas in Yavapai county, are increasing in scope and are at tended from time to time by the open ing of new and valuable ore bodies. High grade gold ores are being min ed in the oxidized stratas-notably in the Climax workings, where a black tellurium having a maximum value of S00 per pound features oper- ations-while in the underlying, or sulphide stratas, deposits carrying gold, silver, copper, lead, tungsten and zinc are being developed. The oxidized ores arc for the most part free milling. That is to say, theii values are readily reclaimed by de cantation and cyanidation, while all of the ores, both free and complex, are amenable to reduction by the oil Notation process.
 The results being obtained in the Hassayampa field are attracting in- vestors to that locality and are en- couraging the operators to increase their mining efforts. The latter fact, in itself, has broadened the area of activity. for nothing is more contagi' ous than optimism-and optimism IS the keynote of success. At no previ- ous time have mining operations been more extensively prosecuted there and at no previous time have the re suits been so thoroughly in keeping with the outlay of time, energy and money. Properties in all portions oi the field have of late been energized and the energizing of others is but a matter of days or weeks. Easing the promise upon the development under way or planned, it is safe to assert that mining in the Hassayampa cou1 try will soon be more extensive than ever before.
 Past, Present and Future.
 The Hassayampa country has 8 mining past, as well as a mining present and mining future. Away back in the early eos, before the troops under Generals Miles and Crook had nulliied the deviltries ot the Apache in Arizona, the prospect ors of former generation had heark ened to the call of the golden Has sayamp." From that day until thi: the auriferous gravel of the Hassay ampa river has been worked at . profit and the lodes in the adjacent hills, from whence the river bed re ceived enrichment, have added their quota to the annual precious meta output of Arizona.
 Ultimately, however, the gold ore: dcpreciated in value until to min' them became unprohtable in that da, of inefficient mining, milling ant shipping facilities. At a later dat the demonctizing of silver added tC the financial burden. and lode mi1in: operations in the Hassayampa coun try became for period desultory an, sporadic. The lower cost attaching to modern methods of mining an shipping ores, together with the pres ent efficient processes for reclaiminl all of the mineral contents of the SC called refractory ores, has again mad mining a profitable pursuit there More profitable, in fact, than ever bt fore.
 A Case In Point.
 The history of the Climax Con pany's mine will serve as case l point. The l2 claims owned by tn corporation were located in the carl eos and were the first to be place on record in Arizona to the north C the Gila river. At that time blac tellurium ore. similar in appearanc and in matrix to the black telluriul ores of Boulder county, Colorad' was scattered over considerabI surface area of the estate. A consi' erable tonnage, showing gold in til free. as well as tellurium, and saml ling as high as SEQ per pound, W; collected and shipped. The locator of the property were, however, ur able to find the source of this ric float, notwithstanding the fact tn; some of the richest of it was in Il form Of boulders, weighing a ton ( more, and that the acreage is trave sed by series of paralleling ledge After a period of varied vicissitud and sporadic mining effort the pro erty was taken over by the prese operators.
 Since September, 1904, the min under the supervision of NJ. C,,,,1J,pu f,aS outpt,tted suffICIP