Weekly journal-miner., 1916-03-29
COUNTY IS HIT BY MINING
 BOOM
ERA OF PROSPERITY LONG LOOKED FOR IS NOW DAWNING ON YAVAPAPS PRINCIPAL INDUSTRY.
(By William P. De Wolf)

 trails and roads hereabouts, the twin industries of prospecting and mining have taken on additional zest in Yav- apai county and are being advanced under more suspicious conditions than ever before. In fact, it is doubt ful if there be a mineral section in Arizona, with the single exception of the Oatman district, where prospect ing and mining are so general in their scope as nere.
 Mining operations have been on the increase in Yavapai county for some months past, and the results have been and are in keeping with the eX- penditure of labor and money. Dur ing last Fall and until late December, when successive snowstorms made further travel in the hills difficult and dangerous. scores of prospectors were ill the field. They were in fact, more numerous than at any previous time during the last ten years. The fore going statement is substantiated by the numerous location notices filed during the latter part of 1915 in the cfice of the county recorder.
 Prospectors Numerous.
 Prospectors and miners arc again taking to the hills; and, judging by their increasing numbers, Yavapai county is about to enter upon the most prosperous mining period in its history. Mines which have been in continuous operation for long time nave Of late augmented their working forces, and in a number of instances 2 have supplemented their ore mining appliances by the installation of ore reduction processes. In addition, a large number of mining properties which for some time past had been quiescent, are again being worked. Many prospects are likewise for the first time undergoing development.
 Notable among the mining men who are at present in the local field are: E. A. Julian and C. C. Starr, mining engineers in the employ of George Wingheld, the we'll known Nevada mining man; Louis Goldman, Of Paris, Tex, formerly mine oper- ator at Blacknawk and other Colo rado points, now in charge of the mine and mill Of the Copper Queen Gold Mining Company; James H. Sullivan, former mine operator at Tonopah and Manhattan, Ncv., who has assumed the management of the property of the Tuscumbia Mining & Milling Company; Lloyd LeDuc, formerly of the Lake Superior cop per belt, now consulting engineer at the Henrietta and Butternut mines of the Big Ledge Development Com Q pany; John Livesey, former owner oi the Colonel Sellers mine al Leadville, Colo, now heavily interested in the Loma Prieta copper mine; Dr. r. A. Wheeler, former mine operator at Goldheld. New, now the dominating factor i1 the Bradshaw mountains tunnel project; J. T. Mcdonald and Ed. Trevarrow, former mine operat- ors at Cripple Creek. Colo. now sue cessful tungsten mining operators here, and N II. Getchell, former mine operator in Colorado and Nevada, now in charge of the Cash mine
 John Barleycorn, hitherto promin' e1t in all mining camps, is notably absent here.
 Many Locations Made.
 Every foot of promising ground is being given the once over, the up and down and the through and through by the adept prospectors who are fiocking 10 Yavapai county from all portions of the Southwest. Several hundred new locations have been made since the first of the current year. and on some of them ore finds of promise have already been an nounced. Claims on which the assess msnt work for 1915 had not been done were closely watched and quick F. appropriated. The circumstance is mentioned because for some years past little attention was paid locally to whether the annual assessment work was or was not performed on the mining claims of this section. The renewal of interest in mining, every where noticeable in Arizona, caused the claim owners of Yavapai county to be more particular than formerly about doing the necessary assessment work and filing proofs of labor. As result of their precaution few claims were jumpable on the first of the current year because of non-compli ance with the mining laws.
 The high price commanded by the minerals which are associated with