The Arizona copper camp., 1916-02-18
Operations Along The
Fassayannpa Are Now
Breaking All Records
By William p. de Wolf

Mining operations in the Hassay-
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 mined
in the oxidized stratas-notably in
the Climax workings, where black
tellurium having a maximum value
of $4,000 per pound features opera
tions-while in the underlying, or
sulphide stratas, deposits carrying
gold, silver, copper, lead, tungsten and
zinc are being developed The oxi-
died ores are for the most part free
milling That is to say, their values
are readily reclaimed by decantation
and cyanidation, while all of the ores,
both free and complex, are amenaple
to reduction by the oil-flotation pro-
cess.
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-
GUS than optimism-and optimism is
the keystone of success. At no previ-
Gus 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 of
the field have of late been energized
and the energizing of others is but a
matter of days or weeks. .Basing
the promise upon the development
under way or planned, it is safe to
assert that mining in the Hassay-
ampa country will soon be more ex-
tensive than ever before.
Hassayampa's Golden Past
The Hassayampa country has a
mining past. as well as mining
present and a mining future. Away
back in the early SOS, before the
troops under Generals Miles and
Crooks had nullified the deviltries OF
the Apache in Arizona, the prospectors
of former generation had harkened
to the call Of the golden Hassay-
ampa" From that day until this
the auriferious gravel of the Hassay-
ampa river has been worked at a
profit and the lodes in the adjacent
hills, from whence the river bed re-
ceived enrichment, have added their
quota to the annual precious metal
output of Arizona.
Ultimately, however, the gold ores
deprecated in value until to mine
them became improbable in that day
of inefficient mining, milling and
the demonetizing of silver added te
the financial burden, and lode min
ing operations in the Hassayamps
country became for period desultory
and sporadic. The lower cost attach
ing to modern methods of mining and
shipping Ores together with the pres
ent efficient processes for reclaiming
all of the mineral contents of the
so-called refractory ores, has again
made mining profitable pursuit.
there. More profitable. in fact, thar
ever before.
A Case in Point
The history of the Climax com
pany's mine will serve as case in
point. The twelve claims owned by
the corporation were located in the
early eos and were the first to be
placed on record in Arizona to the
north of the ella river. AT that time
black tellurium ore, similar in ap-
pearance and in matrix to the black
tellurium ores of Boulder county
Colorado, was scattered over a con-
siderable surface area of the estate
A considerable tonnage, showing gold
in the free, as well as tellurium, an6
sampling as high as $4,000 per pound
was collected and shipped. The To-
Gators of the property were, however
unable to find the source of this rich
float. Notwithstanding the fact thai
some of the richest of it was in the
form of boulders, weighing a ton ol
more, and that the acreage is ira
versed by a series of paralleling
lodges. After period of varied
visissitudes and sporadic mining ef-