Bisbee daily review., 1916-06-25
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 IS HELP ID MINES
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 copper belt Work on the company s property was started last May and is being prosecuted with gratifying re suits under the direction of George w. Salisbury, for a number of years a member of the engineering staff of the great United Verde mine.
 Tiptop Mine Busy
 Seventy-two Der cent tungsten ore has been opened in the Tiptop mine of the Tiptop Consolidated Company. The property is located about s miles from the Agua Fria river and in past years produced upward of S3,000. 900 worth of high grade silver ore. The streak of tungsten recently encountered is inches wide and carries a nominal amount of silver. About a ton of the high grade tungsten is being broken daily, and with tungsten ore of lesser grade, mined elsewhere in the work ings, is being run through the com pany's mill. considerable shipment of tungsten concentrates will be for warded to Pittsburg, Pa. early in July.
 W. H. Skinner, a well known min ing man of this section, is preparing to increase the scope of operations in the mine of the Pocohontas Copper Queen Mining company located near Mayer new shaft is being sunk. and the old shaft-200 feet deep-is being unwatered preparatory to the re- sumption of sinking. Two ore zones heavily impregnated with copper, cross the estate. This ore is to he mined and freighted to railroad on the company's auto trucks. At the annual meeting of the company held recently in this city the following named were elected as officers and directors:
 W. H Skinner, president; Patrick Martin, vice-president; Frank Bron- berger Secretary and Ben A. Brown, treasurer. With the exception of Mir BrowDsth before mentioned. together with F. F. Ubanks and F. L. Martin, compose the directorate.
 l caIt Special Meeting
 At a special meeting of the board of directors of the Boston & Jerome Cop per 'confpanysheld in Prescott on June 14tll it: was aoted to call special meeting ofgthe stockholders at the maih ofhre of the company at Jerome on Jhlys Sthi The object of the special meeting of ,the stockholders is to de- eide upon the esadvisability of reducing the par value of the company's shares from S5 td50 cents per share and to indfe8seathe number of shares from 5OGS00 10 1,50O.0O0.k ' A tompetent mirln gzengineer has been. employed to make, an exanifHa fiSsn ofs the cdmpa- ny,s holdings at Jerome. sRd upon sub mission efkslis report development work will be resumed. In the mean time nominal force of miners is en- gagged in cleaning out the shaft and in surface work.
 Reorganization of tie Venture Hill Mining company. whose holdings are located in the heart of the Jerome cop per belt, has been perfected and plans made to push development work as soon as the engineer who is examin- ing the property has made his report. following named were elected as di- rectors: Boaz Duncan. of Los An geles; Ed Shumate, of Prescott: Hen " Brinkmeyer, of Prescott; C. T. Jolly, of Clarkdale; Ed Kiehl, of Prescott; Philip Pocharich of Jerome and William R. Uber, of Los Angeles. The officers are, BoaZ Duncan, presi- dent; Ed Shumate, vice-president; w. R. Uber. secretary-treasurer. The main office of the company has been removed from Jerome to Prescott. A branch office, however. will be main tained in the first mentioned camp.
 Purchase Big Stick
 Tusla. Oklahoma. oil operators have purchased from Joseph Howell the Big Stick group of claims in the San ta Maria country. A number of outly ing claims were also taken over and added to the Big Stick group. Min | ing operations are in full swing and in addition thereto the old wagon l road out of Congress Junction to the camp is being repaired. Former op- orators sunk shaft to a depth of 300 feet and opened a body of free mill ing gold ore Most of this ore was re- duced at good profit in the mill at the property. The dumps contain a large tonnage of low grade ore and the mine workings show extensive bodies of ore that it will pay to stope. The shaft is equipped with capable ma chinery and the mine is in general in shape for work on an extended scale
 An oil-flotation plant of 100 tons is to be erected at the prop erty of the Major Mining company the plant is the outcome of the re- C