Mohave County miner., 1916-09-09
By WILLIAM P. De WOLF

PRESCOTT, Ariz., Sept. 6.-An i'm portant factor in the speeding up of the mining industry that is every where apparent in Yavapai county, is the system of good roads that is being established for the purpose of bring ing the outlying mines and camps into touch with the county's main business center at Prescott and with each other. Much has already been accomplished along these lines, and as a result this county can justly lay claim to some of the best. graded and scenic roads in Arizona. Notably the Copper Basin road, which puts this city in easy tran sit touch with the copper areas of that section; the Groom Creek road, which serves a like purpose for the camp of Senator; the Lynx Creek road, con meeting with the smelter at Humboldt and the mines of that locality, and the Cherry Creek road that gives access to Jerome, Clarkdale and the mines of the Verde valley country.
 More recently the distance from here to Phoenix has been appreciably shortened by reconstructing the old government trail through Black canon This piece of road building has put the Tip Top and other mines of the TiI Top country in touch with Prescott and has added to the pleasure of trav- el by auto as well. The Groom Creek road is being extended beyond Senator to tap the rich mineral-bearing Grown King country and other portions oi the Bradshaws, and consideration is being given by the county commission CTS to a plan for shortening the road between here and Jerome. The latter plan has the support of a majority o1 the mining and business men of Je- rome and Clarkdale.
 Colorado Springs capital is interest ed in the development of the property of the Montezuma Mining company 1T the Bradshaw mountains, near CrowI King. The acreage has an excellent mineral showing, and the ColOradoan' have supplied sufficient money to oper it at depth and to provide the neces- sary mine machinery. A camp is be, ing established and a dozen camp buildings are under construction. J P. Waldron, a former Colorado min. ing man, is in charge of the company's affairs. The Montezuma had been un. dergoing development for eight years before the present outfit became iden tifed with it, and during that time large and valuable silver-gold ort bodies were opened. These ore bodies aside from their precious metal con tents, carry pay values in lead anC zinc. Among the improvements tht management has in view is reduc tion plant so constructed as to reclaim the lead and zinc as well as the silvel and gold contents of the ores. ThiI is to be brought about by installing the oil-fotation process. David Gem mill, of the olph-Gemmill reduc tion works at Crown King, has evolved a treatment by fiotation for the bas, ores of the Bradshavs, and is utiliz ing it with success at his plant.
 In fact, the GemInin improvement to the oil-fotation process has, nor than any other single factor, been in strumental in the renewal of mining operations in the Bradshaw mountains with. the result that work is more ami mated there at present than in man! years. High grade ore has in the pas been the rule rather than the excep tion in the mines throughout tn Bradshaws, and now that a treatmen adapted to the sulphide ores discloset in their lower levels has been evolves many of the old-time producers ar again on the active list. Among then are the Crown King, WildhOwer, Fair view, Nelson, Lincoln, Tiger Gold Tiger Silver and the War Eagle Gladiator. During the heyday o their prosperity these and other mine in the Bradshaws produced ore carry ing from S25O to 5000 per ton in gol and silver.
 A camp has been established at Hel Hole, near Crown King, by the Al gonlian Mines company, corporatio which is backed by Philadelphia capi taIists. Work is being prosecuted un der the supervision of A. J. Heath,
 former Utah mining man. The hold ings were originally developed by tn Shurtleffs and resulted in the open ing of commercial ore in considerabl tonnage. The present managemer will continue work at the point wher the former operators ceased operation and will continue it to greater deptl