The Arizona copper camp., 1916-01-21
YAVAPA|'S ASSETS
ARE SET FORTH
BY William p. DeWolf

road facilities throughout the mineral
lied areas; the number and extent of
the mineral bearing sections; the
richness of the ore zones, and the read
mess with which the ores lend them
selves to treatment by low cost pro-
cesses-more particularly to the oil
flotation process-are the foundations
upon which Yavapai county is build
ing it's mining prosperity. They are
the assets that set Yavapai county to
the fore in a state remarkably rich in
mineral resources, whatever it may
lack in the way of moisture and pos
sess in the way of aridity.
A Page of Assets
Cold up to $4,000 per ounce accord
ing to finepess. Silver, 81 cents per
ounce. Copper "a cents per pound.
Tungsten, $45.00 to $500 per unit
Lead, $3.50 per hundred pounds. Zinc
(spelter), $1,000 per hundred pounds.
Quicksilver, $500 per flask.
The foregoing so termed ""war"
prices are spurring the miners of Va
vapai county to increased mining ac-
tivity and are lending zest to the eff
forts of the prospectors in Yavapai's
hills. For Yavapai county, be it
known, is rich in gold, silver, copper,
tungsten, lead, zine, quicksilver, molyb-
denite and vanadium ores. The areas
of their distribution are large and
open to location. Prospectors are
''mushing" in, however, from the vari-
GUS mining districts of the southwest
and are outfitting in Prescott for their
trip into the hills. With the arrival
of spring their number will doubtless
be considerably augmented. There is
statement that within few months
the mineral sections of this county
will be prospected as never before.
That the. results will be in keeping
with the efforts of the prospectors is
evidenced by the records of past
years.
A Plebeian Asset.
There is nothing very gaudy or dis
playing in the appearance of tungsten
ore. 1t lacks the peacock character
istics of the copper deposits; the gaudy
coloring of silver bromide and chloride,
and the imprisoned sunshine of gold.
And yet this plebeian ore, despite the
more snowy appearance of it's artistic
neighbors, is rapidly becoming one of
eYavapai county's most valuable min
eral assets.
The tungsten ores which are being
shipped from here to Denver for treat
ment are being settled for on a basis
of $500 per unit. The demand for
these ores is incessant and the areas
in which they are distributed is large,
taking into considerat ton the fact that
tungsten ore which is commercially
valuable is by no means common The
tungsten deposits of this county offer
much in the way of financial reward
to the prospector and miner.
More Aristocratc Assets
Coda mineral that has quickened
the pulse Of man and lured him to
the four-corner of the world from
time immemorial-is a constantly en-
hancing asset of the local mining in
dustry. 1t is being mined at a profit
in various sections of Yavapai county
both in placer and lode formations
and, at Oatman, with increasing
financial success. The gold mining
branch of Yavapai's mining industry
is we'll worthy the investigation of
the investor Values not infrequently
run into the hundreds of dollars per
ton and less frequently into the thou
sands per ton. Much of the ore can
be treated by the simpler reduction
processes and the remainder by the
oil flotation method.
Morton Frewen, the noted monetary
expert, recently stated that upon the
close of the European war the bel
ligerent nations would, from sheer
financial necessity, be forced to adopt
bimetallic monetary standard. Such
course would mean the restoration
of silver to something akin to it's
formef place as a medium of ex-
change. The increased demand for
silver thereby brought about would
be followed by an increase in its
price, and by the resumption of work
in the silver mines of Yavapai county
and elsewhere in the United States,
and the fact is, the silver mines of
this country are in line for a profit
able production. The markedly in
creasing price of silver of late ap-
pears to lend countenance to Mr..
Frewen's statement.
Zinc as an Asset
There is a ready and never -satiated
market for zinc. AS a result the zinc
mines of the Southwest are being
worked overtime and the prospecting
for that metal is on the increase.
Mohave. the neighboring county to