Arizona republican., 1916-05-07

dowr the property. At that time it only temporary but they became inter- csted in the biz silver mines of Nir- | ginia City and forgot all about the 1 ridden Tip Top. They did | not even pay the watchman who was | left in charge. He sued and was ! awarded the property,
 Leasers worked the Tip Top inter- for several years Eventual 1 ll' the St, Louis Yavapai company took hold and moved the mill from Gillette to the mine. In eighteen months | this company recovered $235.000 from dump ores. Internal dissensions arose over the division of the profits. The company leased the mine to it's super intendent. Cover, and a man named Tyack In ninety days Cover and Ty- ack took S4l.00O out of l50 tons stopped between the fifth and sixth levels
 Once more a watchman was left in charge. He failed to perform the as- sessment work and on January l. 1898. tie Tip Top was jumped" by Frank and Ed Wager, old prospectors who fOndN hoped that silver would once mere come into it's own. It was not until two years later that the first tungsten steel was manufactured and "black jack was given market value
 Last year A. r. Muter, an exper- fenced mining engineer, and w. W. FL liott, who has superintended the install latior of more than 100 miles in the southwest, had their attention drawn to the Tip Top They soon realized it's tungsten possibilities. On the dumps they found 200OO tors of ore which. at the present prices of tungsten and sil- yer is worth nearly $95 a ton. The stopes are filled with an equal tonnage of Ore-it was waste when it was thrown :n-that runs just a little high CT. Above the 200-foOt level the min CTS left in place. because it was low in silver and high in tungsten, 1000 tons wortl. above S70.
 The shaft is down S30 feet but is filled with water to the 200- foot level Al that point it is tapped by a tunnel HOO feet long Between the shaft and tunnel mouth is the mines principal ore shoot which is 600 feet long and more than two feet wide. This shoot has reen stoped all the way to the surface, wlth the exception of several great blocks that would not pay for miniag under conditions then prevail ing.
 While Muter and Elliott were draw ing the waste" out of this stope and av vFsln npTn1e [ leon Waldemeyer. who was d shigt boss at the Tip Top in Hagen & Tevis days and later under the St. Louis -Yavapai company. hlppened along He told them that if they would draw the stope in a certain place they would find a big | block of rich ore. They did so. and 1 the ore was there. Other information that Waldemeyer gave them about the condition of the mine above the 200 was checked up and found to be correct He has told them Of the other bfg bod ies in the lower levels Other miners 1 employed at the Tip Top in the days | of its former glory bear out his state ments. Waldemever is now superin- l tendent of the mine
 The old mill was put in shape b,
 
 ! Muter and Elliott 90 make test runs They milled 63 tons of samples. not any of which carried less than five ounce. ot tungsten to the ton. and marketed nearly S2590 worth of concentrates Much of the machinery of the mill car be utilized in the new reduction plan which is tc be placed at the Tip Top With Carroll w. Davis. of Prescott Mnter and Elliott bought out the Wage
 brothers. Since then tEe Tip Top Con solideted Mining company has beei folmed to work the property. MT Da
 wis is president and r. l.. Haworth
 also of Prescott. is secretary. The cap !. italization is only $375.000. which is re
 gal Ided as low in view of the ore i ] sight.
 The compeny's plan of operation is [ l rnwater the workings and ascertai ] what ore is available before decidin
 what kind of a mill to install. It
 possible that enough high grade or viii be found to pay the cost of tn |. plant
 To unwater the workings will COS
 about s5,000. Once they are dry
 viii cost little to keep them so. as tn
 mine does not make much water. | The property of the Tip Top Conso dated company consists of nine claim
 millsite, power site and water righ Il Ire power site is about a mile and
 half down Cottonwood Canyon from Il
 mine. A ditch was dug by the $ | Louis Yavapai company to convey sixi | inches Of water from Boulder creek | Cottonwood canyon. where it will ia | perpend.cularly 145 feet This is cal | able Of generating 19O horsepower. ar | the flow of sixty inches will be avai
 able eight months of the year At sma
 cost storage dam can be constructe
 and the flow made constant.
 Tip Top appears to be the center
 tungsten region. Tungsten has be-
 found in all directions within a radi,
 of three or four miles Tule cree
 along which hundreds of locations ha'
 been made, is only three miles ava
 Large shipments of high grade ore ha
 been made from Georeg Thompson
 Tule creek mine. There is talk of
 custom concentrator being erect
 there. Prospectors are in every dra on every hill. searching eagerly f
 The black streaks and splotches tn betray the presence of tungsten. An Indian herder named But chanced to see some tungsten ore the hands of a prospector. He said tr
 he knew where there was plenty me like it. The Indian proved his stat ' Iz