Weekly journal-miner., 1916-01-26

change. The increased demand for silver thereby brought about would | be followed by an increase in its i price. and by the resumption Of work { in the silver mines of Yavapai county and elsewhere
 1 Ii is not thought that the contcm- plated visit to The Hague of that sometime champion of silver. Will i liam Jennings Bryan. is inspired by i the possibility of a return to bimetal- { ism. However that may be. the fact i Is the silver mines of this county arc in line for a period of profitable pro- | duction. It IS not amiss 10 call attcn- tio1 to the markedly increasing price | Of silver oi late. and to venture the suggestion that the fact appears 10 | lend countcnancc 10 Mir. Brewers statement anent q possible return to ! bimetalism.
 Zinc As An Asset.
 There is q ready and never satisfied l market for zinc. As d result the zine mines of the Southwest are being worked to capacity and the prospect i ing for that metal is on the increase. Mojave. the neighboring county to Yavapai. is one Of the largest produc- CTS of zinc in the Southwest What has been and is being accomplished by the zinc miners there can be ac- complishcl here.
 The zinc deposits of this county are i1 all essentials similar to those of Mojave county and can be mined as proftably. In addition the area of ,- harn ! than there-due to less thorough at 1 tention-and the opportunity to in vest in zinc properties at low cost is more general Several zinc prop critics are being remuncrativcly work ed in this county and the number IS 1 increasing under the impetus of de- velopment
 Lead An Asset.
 The mining for lead-the price of fered for that mineral being at this time the highest in more than de cade-is being followed with financial success and or an increasing scale in this county. Several discoveries of pay-ieposits of molybdenitc have re- gently been reported and considerable attention is being devoted to further search for that mineral. A snort time ago R. T. Barton. opened a promising vein of vanadium ore in the Constel- lation country. Specimens brought to Prescott show vanadium in crystal ized form and very heavy with lead. Assays demonstrate the orc to carry as high as 65 ounces of silver. 63 per cent of lead and some gold. A cinnabar vein. rich with mecuric sulphide. is being developed by Ross. Hall and McNary about five miles be yond the Phelps-Dolgc copper camp in the Copper Basin country. Indica- tions are very favorable for the dcvel- opme1t of a profitable quicksilver mine at that point.
 Copper As An Asset. At Jerome, Yavapai county, IS To- cated one of the largest and richest copper mines in the world-thc fam ous United Verde mine Purchased by former United States Senator w.. \. Clark for the modest sum of SSO, eco. the property mas been developed to a point where it is producing ap- proximatelv $30.0O0 worth of copper per day To further emphasize the value and magnitude of the United Verde mine the statement is made that Yavapai county derives in taxes thcrefrom about S290.OO0 annually. or approximately $500 per day. The val ue of the copper orc in sight in this most remarkable mine runs into the billions. Geological and mineralogical conditions indicate that the orc pro vails to the deepest point at which Il will be possible to mine 1t. There are other copper deposits in Yavapai county that hold ore-yielding possibilities similar to the United Verde. By the foregoing it is not to he understood that a dozen or SC United Verdc's in the chrysalis are lying around loose here waiting for somebody to stake them out, for mines like the United Verde only out crop semi-occasionally at the best. The copper deposits of Navapai coun- ty do. however. offer an exceptional opportunity for profitable mining re- search. This statement IS proved by the fact that copper ore Is being min ed at a profit at various points in Yavapai county. and that in certain localities - other than the United Verde-it is carrying as high as o5 per cent copper.