Weekly journal-miner., 1916-08-30

! Water trouble is hampering opera tons considerably due to the inadequ acy of the small hoist and the lack o
 pump.
 Another property in the Copper
 Basin country that is attracting .
 good bit of attention in mining circle.
 is the McNulty & Mcbride, where .
 churn-drill plant recently began op.
 crations. Two shifts of nine men
 each are at work, and three holes arc
 being drilled. As yet no determine,
 tions have been made public. The
 holdings show very favorable copper
 indications at surface and nominal depth, however, and the opinion is
 general that the churn-drills will dis close commercial values at depth. The venture is backed by the Crawford syndicate.
 High Gold Values.
 F. A. Johnson, the recently appoint ed superintendent of the Gold Blos- som Mining Company whose hold ings are located about six miles south of Prescott, has three shifts of miners on the job and will sink the main shaft to depth of 500 feet. The present depth of the shaft is 200 feet. On that level an ore body three feet is being developed. Gold values arc reported to run close to S100 per ton. This ore body is again to be opened by crosscuts and drifts run out at the 400 and 500-foot levels. A hoisting plant, air-compressor and other mine equipment is in transit to the prop crty.
 Officials of the Big Ledge Develop ment Company announce the purchase of the old Treadwell shelter at Mayer and that 1t IS al once to be ovcrhauled and placed in commission. They likewise announce the purchase of the Blackberry and Gopher groups and the intention to thoroughly develop them. The company has for some time operated the Henrietta and But ternut mines in the Big Bug country The announced intention is to reduce the ores mined on all four of the properties mentioned at the smelter recently bought.
 Stringers of ore showing native copper have been encountered in the ! limcstone-capping at a depth of 400 feet in the Dundee-Arizona shaft. The 1 property is located in the Jerome field and is viewed with favor by the | mining men there. Considerable wat CT is seeping into the shaft, but it not hampering operations as the plant of machinery recently installed is amply . capable of handling both water and | waste.
 Midnight Test Sold.
 The Midnight Test group of gold bearing claims have been sold to R. NJ. Merrill, of San Francisco. The Is one of number of form CT producers in Yavapai county that las passed to outsiders of late. The retiring owner, Colonel Chase, of Fairbault, Minn., opened the property to a depth of 400 feet and mined a generous tonnage of free-milling orc which was treated in the Nissen mill erected by him. The new owners have taken possession of the mine and are preparing to open it at great cr depth.
 Development of the recent strike in lhe Lady Alldy mine indicates it to be one of the most important made in the Chaparral section in a number of years. The orc body has breadth ( 5f three feet, where opened on the 200-foot level, and is said to assay ,losc to Sl00 gold per ton. Ben Ky Don and Dr. K. \. Looncy, of Pres ,ott, arc the owners. The mine is being worked by Smith brothers un- l Ter $20,0OO option to purchase. i A 50-ton reduction plant and new [ equipment of mine machinery, all to ,e driven by a scmi-Dissel engine, ( Ire 10 be installed at once at the Ari- | ,ona mine near Humboldt by the Ari- ( ,ona Mine Supply Company, of Pres ' ,ott The property IS being operated ( oy Anderson & Birch, of this city, [ lcd has of late been frequent ship OCT of high grade silvcr-lcad orc. T When the machinery is in commiS- | son the mine is to be opened at greater depth. [
 Orders Three Plants. [
 Manager w. s. Wilhelm, of the New State mine, recently the scene of C | strike of high grade gold ore, will { It once equip the property with addi- $