Bisbee daily review., 1916-05-07
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 ON TUNGSTEN ORES
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enced mining engineer, and w. w. El- iott, who has superintended the in stallation of more than 100 mills in the southwest, had their attention drawn to the Tip Top. They soon realized its tungsten possibilities. On the dumps they found 10000 tons of ore which, at the present prices of tungsten and silver, sworth nearly S25 a ton. Fhe stepes are filled with an equal tonnage of ore-it was waste when it was thrown in-that runs just a little higher Above the 200-foot level the miners left in place, because it was low in silver and high in lungs ten, 1000 tons worth above S70.
 The shaft is down $50 feet but is filled with water to the 200-foot level. At 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 been stopped all the way to the surface, with the exception of several great blocks that would not pay for mining under conditions then prevail ing
 While Muter and Elliott were draw ing the waste" out of this stope and exploring it as best they could, Napo- leon Waldemeyer, who was a shift boss at the Tip Top in Hagen X Tevis days and yater unde rthe St. Louis Yavapai company, happened along. He told them that if they would draw the stope in a certain place they would find big block of rich ore. They did so, and the ore was there. Other in- formation 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 if other big bodies in the lower levels Other miners employed at the Tip Top in the days of its former glory, bear put, his statements. Waldemeyer is now Superintendent of the mine.
 The old mill was put in shape by Muter and Elliott to make test runs. They. milled 63 tons of samples, not any of, which carried less than five pounds of tungsten to the ton, and marketed nearly S2500 worth of con eentrates Much of the machinery of the AlW can be utilized in the new re tiuctmp plant. which. is to be placed at fherTip Top. ':
 :; WlftE Carroll w Davis, of Prescott, ] MutsTtand Elliott bought out the Wa ssger brothers. Since then the Tip Top tNonsolidated Mining {, company has Ebesn formed- to york the property. fNir: Davis is president, and F. l.. Ha- tiworth, also of Prescott, is secretafy. xTlfe. capita HzatfonS is. ,onIys s375, 1000, which is regarded as lowszhS view of. the ore in sight. =. al.
 vya DE ics to unwater the workings and ascertain what ore is available before deciding what kind of a mill to install It is possible that enough high grade ore will be found to pay the cost of the plant.
 To unwater the workings will cost about s5,000. Once they are dry it will cost little to keep them so, as the mine does not make much water.
 The property of the Tip Top Consol idated company consists of nine claims, millsite, power site and water right. The power site is about a mile and a half down Cottonwood canyon from the mine A ditch was dug by the St. Louis Yaapai company to con vey sixty inches of water from Boul- der creek to Cottonwood canyon, where it will fall perpendicularly 145 feet. This is capable of generating 190 horsepower, and the flow of sixty inches will be available eihgt months of the year. At small cost a storage dam can be constructed and the flow made constant.
 Tip Top appears to se the center of tungsten region. Tungsten has been found in all directions, within radi- us of three or four miles. Tule creek, along which hundreds of locations have been made, is only three miles away. Large shipments of high grade ore have been made from George Thompson's Tule creek mine. There is talk of custom concentrator being erected there. Prospectors are in ev- cry draw, on every hill, searching eagerly for the black streaks and splotches that betray the presence of tungsten.
 An Indian herder named Butler chanced to see some tungsten ore in the hands of a prospector. He said that he knew where there was plenty more like it. The Indian proved his statement He took W. J. Martin, pro- prietor of Canyon station, to point about two miles east of Tip Top, where there was big granite blowout In the granite lay the tungsten. Mar tin and Butler have shipped 900 sacks of twenty percent ore. On another