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The Arizona copper camp., 1916-05-05
PRIVATE PLANT IS
CONSUMER RESORT

PHOENIX, Ariz.. May 4.-If a
public utility does not furnish cheaper
and better service than a consumer
can provide for himself, the customer
may go ahead and furnish his own
electric light or gas or water. Failure
to meet the competition of the private
consumer is the fault of the corpora
ton. That in short, is the decision of
the corporation commission in dismiss
ng the complaint of the Yuma Elec
trio and Water company against Johan
Johannsen. Johannsen and two other
men, owners respectively of a theater,
a drug store, and pool hall, were
dissatisfied with the service rendered
by the lighting company. So they
bought a dynamo and wired their es
Establishments for electric lights. When
the company found out what they
were doing, it complained that Johann
sen, in whose building they had placed
the dynamo, was operating a public
utility without a franchise. After in
vestigation the commission decided
that, as they, were not offering light
or power for sale, they were not a pub
lie utility and dismissed the case.
The Arizona copper camp., 1916-05-05
PUBLIC AUCTION SALE
State School Lands
STATE LAND DEPARTMENT

Phoenix. Ariz.. March IS, 1916.
In conformity with the provisions
of the Public Land Code of the State
of Arizona, approved June rs, 1915.
notice is hereby given that the State
Land Department will, on Thursday.
the 18th day of June, 1916. at F. M.
at the County Court House, Florence,
Arizona, sell at Public Auction the
following described school lands in
Pinal County. Arizona. No improve
ments attach to said lands.
N.Y.. SWA, Sec. 16, T. S., r. Is
E.. containing 4S0 acres more or less.
officially appraised at $500 per acre,
or $4,000 for the tract.
No bid for less than the appraised
valuations will be considered. The
right to reject any and all bids is
reserved. Full information contain
ing the conditions of sale may be OBJ
tanned from the State Land Commits
sioner, State House. Phoenix. Arizona.
STATE LAND DEPARTMENT.
BY w. A. MOEUR,
State Land Commissioner.
Date of first pub. April 7. 1916.
Date Of last pub. June 9. 1916-1Ot.
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WANT TO LEASE
MORE SCHOOL LAND

PHOENIX, Arizona, MAY 4-Peti
lions for an amendment to the state
code providing that ten sections of
scnool land can be be leased instead
OF one have been placed in circulation
Dy local cattlemen, W 20 expect to have
ne proposed amendment placed on the
ballot at the next general election. The
proposed change was strongly advo-
lated at the recent meeting of Pima
4nd santa Cruz county cattlemen at
Nogaies. Theg raZing allowance of
one section, cattlemen say, is entirely
900 small to meet their needs
The Arizona copper camp., 1916-05-05
HARRIS DECLARES
CORRESPONDENCE
STOLEN FROM HIM

PHOENIX, Ariz., May 4.-The
charge that official correspondence
was stolen from his office and pub
lished to substantiate the recent ex-
pose of conditions in the National
Guard of Arizona is being made by
Adjutant General Harris. Following
the courtmartial Of Captain c. V. Gull
ley, Phoenix paper printed in full Of
ficial correspondence between the war
department and the adjutant general
and the governor, which confirmed the
story that the department had often
reuested Harris removal. This story,
Harris maintains, could never have
been substantiated unless the official
correspondence had been procured,
either by theft from his department or
from the war department. AS the war
department wrote him that it consid-
believe that the correspondence was
given out at Washington. Harris is
however, at a loss to account for the
publication of recent letters from the
war department relative to the promo
ton of Captain Stacey and the refusal
of his request for the appointment of
another instructor, as he had not re-
ceived the letters at the time the
theft took place. The department
lntimates very strongly that no inspec-
tor will be appointed until further de-
velopments justify a resumption of
this detail" Harris also resentS the
publication of a statement attributed
to him that Arizona is populated by
lawyers and Indians" Harris says he
was quoting an army officer when he
wrote this to the department.
The Arizona copper camp., 1916-05-05

quantities of tungsten crystals, the
specific gravity of which carries them
to the bottom Immediately. Then the
ore is broken into eighth-inc pieces
and more tungsten crystals are freed.
Not less than sixty per cent of the
tungsten is saved on the roughing
tables. Little goes into the shines;
this is a great advantage as it is
difficult to recover tungsten from
slime.
The property of the Tip Top Con-
solidated company consists of nine
lode claims, millsite, power site and
water right The power site is about
mile and and a half down Cotton
wood canyon from the mine. A
ditch was dug by the st. Louis Yava-
pai company to convey sixty inches
of water from Boulder creek to Cot
tonwood canyon, where it will fall
perpendicular 145 feet. This is cap
able of generating 100 horsepower
and the flow of sixty inches will be
available eight months in the year
At small cost a storage dam can be
constructed on Boulder creek and a
The Arizona copper camp., 1916-05-05

stock having a par value of 25 cents.
Before the formation of this COM
pany, Muter and Elliott put the old
mill in shape to make test runs. They
have put SO tons of samples through
the mill and marketed concentrates
worth nearly $4,000. No sample ran
less than five pounds to the ton in
tungsten. Samples were taken from
the three dumps, from the Slopes,
from every accessible part of the
mine where black streaks and
splotches betray the presence of tung-
stem.
The shaft is down $50 feet but, as
stated before, it is filled with water
to the 20O-foot level At that point
it is tapped by a tunnel From the
mouth of the tunnel to the shaft is
1000 feet; it extends 100 feet beyond
the shaft and in the face ore is
making" once more.
Between the shaft and tunnel mouth
is the mines principal ore shoot,
which is 900 feet long and more than
two feet wide. This shoot has been
stopped all the way to the surface,
The Arizona copper camp., 1916-05-05
FLAGSTAFF BANK HAS
BRANCH AT CHLORIDE

PHOENIX, Arizona, May 4.-Li-
cense to conduct a banking business
at Chloride, Mohave county, has been
issued by State Bank Comptroller
Callaghan to the Arizona Central
new bank is the first to be established
at Chloride, and is the first bank
north Of the Santa Fe main line. The
Arizona Central Bank, recently estab-
lished a branch banlsat Oatman.
The Arizona copper camp., 1916-05-05
STATE UNIVERSITY
SHOWS AN INCREASE

TUCSON, Arizona, May Am in
crease of 40 per cent? In the registra
ton at the University of Arizona is
shown in the registrars report. The
total registration May l was $685. as
compared with 451 last year. There
are twice as many men as women in
the institution. The graduating class
this year will be the largest in the his
tory of the university. Forty five
seniors and post graduates will receive
their diplomas June 8. The total num-
Der of graduates last year was only 20.
The Arizona copper camp., 1916-05-05

India and Australasia. 1t was sub
ject to fifteen per cent import duty,
which was removed when the demo-
Gratis got into power. But these
sources of supply were closed shortly
after the opening of the European
war, when the British government
forbade the expectation of tungsten
from any of it's possessions. Amer
lean manufacturers turned to the
western states of their own country
for tungsten and the price of the
metal rose amazingly.
When the war broke out ore or con-
centrates averaging sixty per cent
tungsten sold for less than $40 a unit
of twenty pounds. Now the price is
500 unit and it is still rising.
The Arizona copper camp., 1916-05-05

flow of water will be available the
year around. This power project is
one of the most attractive assets of
the Tip Top mine
The Black Canyon road is being
repaired and when it is in shape
supplies will be freighted in from
Turkey siding, and the Tip Top ocn-
centrates delivered there. Until it is
completed, however, Phoenix must be
the supply and shipping point for
Tip Top. Much Of the old and ex-
pensively constructed wagon road from
the mine over to the Black canyon
highway is still in good shape. The
principal difficulty is at the boulder
strewn crossings-the road crosses
oulder creek thirteen times and Cot
tonwood canyon eleven times.
Tungsten prospectors swarm the
region in the vicinity of Tip Top
Tule creek, three miles south, is
covered by location notices. George
Thompson has made several shipments
of high grade ore from his Tule creek
property and is shaping up for big op-
erations. Two miners are making $40
a day apiece by following a small
stringer of tungsten ore. There is
talk of a custom milE being erected.
Not long ago an Indian herder
named Butler CHANGED to see some
tungsten ore at Canyon station. 1t
looked to him about like the rock
he had seen in big blowout some
three miles east of Tip Top. He went
to the blowout and brought back ore
that was unquestionably rich in tung-
stem. He entered into partnership
with w ]. Martin, proprietor of the
store at Canyon, and they have ex-
tracted 800 sacks of twenty per cent
ore, which is packed out to the Tip
Top road on burros and hauled to
Phoenix for shipment to Denver
On another claim near their tung-
stem deposit, Martin and Butler have
a promising showing of antimony.
Like every old mining camp, Tip
Top has it's "lost mine" There is a
tradition that when Tip Top was a
flourishing camp prospector ap-
peared every few weeks with sackfuls
of fabulously rich silver ore, which
he exchanged for whisky and provi-
sions. Many attempts were made to
follow him to his mine. but none were
successful
A few days ago Joe Fuller noticed
east of Tip Top, which looked peculiar.
He began to dig and soon broke into
an old tunnel. In the tunnel is a
streak of silver ore, and it is be-
lieved that he has found the lost
mine.
Why Tungsten Went Up
Prior to 1900 tungsten had no value
1t was avoided whenever possible, as
it was avoided at Tip Top, because
it's presence made all ores refractory
Late in the nineteenth century it
was discovered that small quantity
of tungsten mixed with steel made
the steel extraordinary tough. The
first tungstenized steel, commonly
known as tungsten steel was exhibited
at the Paris exposition in 1900
Today tungsten steel is used for
battleship armor plate, for guns. for
wearing parts of automobiles and other
machinery. Tungsten filaments for
electric light bulbs are far superior
to carbon filaments New uses for
the metal are being found every day
Formerly most Of the tungsten used
in this country came from Burma
The Arizona copper camp., 1916-05-05

In 1875 Jack Moore. John Corning
and two other prospectors found i'm
mensely rich silver ore along Cotton
wood canyon. some fifty miles north
west of Phoenix and only a few
miles over the hills from Castle Hot
Springs. Boulders that they pried
out of the canyons rocky bottom ran
as high as $4,000 a ton. Many
tons of this float were freighted to
Yuma and shipped to the Selby smell
ter at San Francisco. Today rock
that they passed up because it had
too little silver and too much tung-
stem is strewn along the canyon for
miles.
The float was followed to it's source,
which was at the point where the
creek had broken through two paral-
lei veins. and the Tip Top was dis
covered. 1t was soon sold to Tevis
& Hagen, of San Francisco Some
say that Senator George Hearst father
of william Randolph Hearst. was as
sociated with them in it's ownership.
Soon the Tip Top was almost as
famous as the Silver King. A typi-
cal western mining camp sprang up
there. Once 1t had as many as TOO
people, housed in stone and and
adobe cabins that perched precari-
cously on the canyon walls The
ruins are still noticeable, and a build
The Arizona copper camp., 1916-05-05

The watchman was supposed to per-
form the annual assessment work, but
he failed to do so. On January l,
1898. the mine was Jumped" by
Frank and Ed Wager, old time min
ers and prospectors, who fondly hoped
that silver would be restored to it's
former glory and price. They made
various attempts to operate the mine,
spending $4,000 in the rehabilitation
Of the mill. but lack of capital and
the low price of silver made it i'm
possible for them to realize a profit
Last year A. F. Muter, an expert
enced mining engineer. and w. w.
Elliott, who has superintended the
installation of over 100 mills in the
Southwest. had their attention drawn
to the Tip Top. They soon became
convinced that it was the biggest
tungsten proposition known. With
Carroll w. Davis. of Prescott. they
bought out the Wager brothers. Only
a few days ago the Tip Top Con-
solidated Mining company was formed
for the purpose of working the prop
|erty. Mr.. Davis is president and
treasurer, and F. L. Haworth, also of
Prescott, is secretary. Davis. Haworth,
Elliott, D. E. Nelson and M. P. Car
how make up the board of directors.
The company Is capitalized for $685.
! 900. There are 100000 shares of
The Arizona copper camp., 1916-05-05
CBY ERNEST DOUGLASS.
p Top is coming back.

Tip Top is coming back.
Arizona's famous early day silver
mines. Its silver fame is in the past,
it's tungsten fame is in the present
and the future.
For there is more tungsten at Tip
Top than in any other one mine on
earth
All unknowing, the early operators
of the Tip Top, in extracting the sill
yer ore rich enough to be handled at
a profit under the conditions that
prevailed in those times, developed the
worlds biggest tungsten mine.
The once despised metal that was
partly responsible for the abandon
ment of the Tip Top. is now respon-
sible for it's revival. 1t still has sill
yer in untold quantities, but now
the white metal is merely secon-
dary consideration, even if it is worth
over seventy cents an ounce The
owners expect to recover enough sill
yer to make their tungsten clear
gain.
And with tungsten at $3.50 a pounj
there is some gain in sight.
Undoubtedly there are greater de-
posits of tungsten than at Tip Top
but they have not been discovered
yet. All over the world prospectors
are searching for tungsten. They
have found much of it, some right
around Tip Top. but there isn't any
other developed tungsten mine.
Tungsten is an elusive substance
you've got it today and tomorrow
it amt there" is the prospector'.
way Of describing its tendency tC
show bold and strong in a ledge. ther
quit all at once.
The Ore Is There
If there wasn't anything at the Til
Top except a surface showing, one
would be justified IN doubling il
LlACAS was A4aCA AuOIC Orc SnCES oQ
on the three dumps there are 10000
tons of ore averaging nearly $25 6
ton in tungsten and silver. The
slopes are filled with an equal ton
mage of ore - it was waste when i
was thrown in-that runs just a littl,
higher. Above the 20O-foot level tn,
miners left in place 1000 tons Of orr
that is worth above $40. Nobod!
knows what is below the 200 for tn,
shaft is filled with water to tina
point. but miners who worked at tn,
Tip Top in the 7O's and sos say tina
immense quantities of ore were ex
posed in the lower workings, and tha
it is richer than what is in sigh
above. What they say must be true
for all the dump ore, including tina
which is known to have come from
below, runs high In tungsten.
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ing that was then used as a brewery
is now the camps boarding house.
Gre that was worth $4O0 a ton and
over was freighted to Yuma and FL
Paso at cost of 5000 a ton. Slabs
of ruby silver as large as a mans
body were often encountered. Low
grade material was not handled. Any
thing that apparently ran high in
black jack"-they call it tungsten
now--was thrown over the dump, left
as broken in the slopes, or not broken
at all. 1t was commnly supposed
that the tungsten was zinc. Even the
Cornish miners employed there, who
were familiar with tungsten in their
native land. did not recognize the
tungsten for what it was. as there it
occurs in conglomerate while at Tip
Top it is in quartz and other for
nations.
"Black Jack"
The miners did know that black
jack played hob" with smelling and
concentrating processes. 1t caused
mill foremen to tear their hair anC
smelter superintendent to emit Ian
suage even more sulphurous than the
fumes from their own smokestacks.
the ore became lower, a concentratol
was built at Gillette, ten miles east
of the Aqua Fria river The plant
saved about seventy per cent of the
values.
Though no accurate records arc
available, the Tip Top is supposed
to have yielded $4,OOO.OOO while be-
ing operated by Tevis & Hagen. The
stock was listed on the San Francisco
exchange and quotations at one time
! gave the property a value of nearly
i$2. 100000
In the early sos, just after big
hoist had been installed and other
/ improvements made, the Tip Top was
ICAOSC0 OOWA GNO O41c dI lIdI lAAS,
least of all the owners, had any idea
that the, shutdown was more than
temporary. But Tevis & Hagen were
interested in the Virginia City mines,
which were then in their heyday.
They forgot all about the Tip Top
and did not even pay the watchman
who was left in charge.
The watchman sued and was award
ed the property. For several years
the hip Top was worked intermittently
by leasers.
| Then the st. Louis -Yavapai COM
lpany took hold and moved the mill
from Gillette to the mine. In eighteen
months this companysrecovered $685.
900 entirely from dump ores. internal
Idissensions arose. The company leased
the mine to it's superintendent, Cover
'and a man named Tyack. In ninety
! days Cover and Tyack took $41,00(
out of $50 tons stopped between tbs
fifth and sixth levels.
Once more the Tip Top was idle
with only watchman in charge
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1000 tons of ore left in great blocks
because it was too low Ill silver and
Ptoo high in tungsten 90 pay Tor min
ing.
What Waldemeyer Knows
While Muter and Elliott were draw
ing the "waste" out of this stope and
exploring it as best they could, Ma
poleon Waldemeyer, who was a shift
boss at the Tip Top in Tevis &
Hagen days and later under the st.
Louis Yavapai company, happened
along. Waldemeyer told them that if
they would draw the stope in a GER
tain place they would find big
block of rich ore., They did so, and
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 abso-
lutely correct. He has told them of
other big bodies in the lower levels
For instance, he says that the main
eastern vein. on which most of the
mining has been done, and the west
vein came together at $50 feet; below
THAT the silver content is low cut, but
tungsten content is higher than ever.
In places, according to Waldemeyer.
the silver was displaced entirely by
the tungsten. Wherever this occurred
in the stope. He says that when
work was stopped by Cover and Tyack
winze had been sunk thirty feet
from the 800-foot level, and two feet
of rich silver ore was in the bottom
who worked at the Tip Top in the
days of it's former glory have sub
stantiated Weldemeyer's statements
Waldemeyer is now foreman of the
| mine His knowledge of the workings
should be of great value in reopen
ing them and exposing the ore.
The present equipment of the Tip
Top includes hoist, which is in good
condition though old. When it is
will be connected with it and the
old steam engine discarded. At the
200 foot level is a Vulcan pump, op-
Grated with current from a twelve
kilowatt dynamo. This pump can un-
water the mine down to 400 feet,
! where heavier machinery must be in
| stalled.
| 1t is estimated that to unWater the
mine will cost about $1,000. When
the workings are dry the expense of
keeping them so will be small, as the
mine makes little water.
Plan Of Operation
The company's plan of operation,
adopted upon the recommendation of
Engineer Muter and Mr.. Elliott, is
first to unwater the workings and
ascertain what ore is available. 1t is
quite possible that enough high grade
tungsten ore will be exposed to pay
the cost of installing a mill and other
machinery
Much of the machinery in the old
mill can be utilized in the new plant
To equip the Tip Top with mill
which would save ninety per cent of
the silver and at least eighty per cent
of the tungsten would cost not to ex
ceed $4,000.
Engineer Muter has perfected sew
eral improvements in the concentra-
ton of tungsten ore, which are to be
tenn of "stage concentration" The
ore is first broken into fragments an
inch in diameter. This shivers away
The Arizona copper camp., 1916-05-05

FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE-Lo
in Los Olivos Heights for Pinal Devel-
opment or Venture Hill mining stock
Address Owner, Box 3z7. Phoenix,
Arizona
The Arizona copper camp., 1916-05-05
TIP TOP, OLD SILVER PRODUCER,
COMES BACK AS TUNGSTEN MINE

Pioneer Operators UnknoWingly De-
veloped What Is Now Worlds
Largest Deposit of Tungston Ore.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-11-27
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NOTICE

TAKE NoTICE-That the under.
signed will, on December rs, 1916
or as soon thereafter as the same
may be heard, make application tc
the Corporation Court Of the City OF
Alexandria, Virginia, for license to
order, purchase or receive ardent
spirits for the use of the Alexandria
Hospital, and not to be used contrary
to the provisions of chapter 146 OF
the Acts of Assembly of 1916; and
to sell such ardent spirits upon pre-
scription to the patients of said Hos
pital under and in accordance witt,
the provisions of chapter 146 of the
Acts of Assembly of 1916.
WORTH HULFISH,
President of Board of Trustees Of
Alexandria Hospital. Nov. 21-28. Dec
S
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-11-27
FLIGHT OF ARETHUiA.
Psychological Origin of a hvorite
British Warship Name


From the days of Drake "Atsthusa"
has always been the favorite l1me of
a swift, light cruiser in the British
navy. 4 corvet named ArethYa took
part in the battle of Cape St vincent
On Feb. IA, 1897. when Nelson. ben un-
der Jeryis, defeated the Spanih fleet,
and this Arcthusa was henccfoth with
the great admiral down to his asst bat
tie at Trafalgar eight years latG.
AS Arethusas have succeedcdone an
other in the British TT, Legends have
gathered around the name uftl the
ship so named has seemed TO symbolic
the NEUROLOGICAL origin or the term.
There is in PeIoponnesus riIer call
ed Morea. In ancient times, tits said,
it was presided over by a rver god
named Alpheus. Alpheus fell in love
with the river nymph, Aretbtsa, and
pursued her through the water. Diana,
hearing her cries of distress, opened Il
passage for the stream so thatit flowed
under the sea to Sicily. whste, near
Syracuse, Arethusa disappeared In the
spray Of 4 beautiful fountain.
The river. untainted by the sea, still
flows underground to the I9untain,
and Alpheus is still said to b, search.
ing for the nymph, but never dnds her.
This is why her naval names;kes have
eludcd the enemy through al the CEN
turtles and have been beloved by the
superstitious to be invulneraile.-New
York Times.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-11-27
Odor Of Sanctity.

The sexton Of suburban church has
many stories to tell of the comments
made by visitors.
On the occasion Of festival. when
the church was beautifully decorated
with cvcrgreens and flowers IN old
lady walked up the aisle to the chancei
and stood shifting the air after every
one had left the church.
Don't 1t smell solemn she said at
last to the sexton. as she turred away
with evident reluctance.
~ don't know as ever realized just
what the 'odor of sanctity' meant be.
fore today."-Chicago Herald.