Mohave County miner., 1916-10-21
MINING ACTIVITY IN YAVAPAI
 COUNTY STEADILY INCREASING

burg Jerome property.
 Reduction of ores from the First Home mine in the Big Bug district will start next week. The mill on the Oriental property was recently purchased by the First Home manage ment for that purpose and has been repaired and misunderstanding an oil-flotation unit. The First Home was taken over recently by a group of local and Los Angeles mining peo pie. Since then the old workings have been cleaned out, the shaft retimbered to a depth of 300 feet, and the ore bodies hitherto opened sufficiently developed to warrant the mining and milling of ore. The mineral contents are silver and lead, and prevail gen. orally throughout the mine workings, the ore in sight being sufficient to insure the milling of 50 tons per day for a protracted period. Development work will supplement the mining and milling of ore, and will be carried out on the levels already established and at greater depth. Ed Block, of Prescott, owner of the property for more than a decade, retains an in terest therein with the present opera tors. W. H. Worthington, formerly a successful mine operator in Mexico, is in charge of the mine.
 The deal recently closed for the Monica mine in the Kirkland country has quickened mining activity and stimulated the demand for mining properties there. Among the more re- cent transfers is the passing of the Stein copper group to the Lucky Strike company. The McMahon mine is again in the productive class and will send out two carloads of ore the latter part of this month. The old Vesuvius mine is once more being operated and is responding satisfact- orily to the development plan in force. In fact, the entire mining country ad- jacent to Kirkland is, like the remain der of Yavapai County, experiencing an unprecedented mining revival.
 The Harqua Hala Bonanza mine started off the current month by shipping a bar of gold bullion worth S6,5O0 to the Bank of Arizona, of Prescott. The bullion represents a run on about 800 tons of oxidized ore that was mined in the upper levels in the vicinity of the old Castle Garden" stope from which approx imately S2,OOO,OOO worth of gold bearing ore was extracted in former years. The property was taken over by the Yuma-Warrior Mining com pany about three years ago and since that time has been developed more with a view of opening and blocking out ore in the sulphide areas than to maintaining a regular production from the oxidized areas. A tonnage sufficient to meet a portion of the ex- pense attaching to exploration work on the lower levels is, however, mined and milled with monthly regularity.
 The mine is located miles from Salome, a station on the Santa Fe, Prescott & Phoenix railroad, and is being operated under the joint ma nagement of John B. Martin and H. William Stevens. A body of sul phide ore of promising extent and copper values has been opened on the 7th and 9th levels. It presents un- mistakable indications of permanency, and holds forth promise of making into a large and valuable deposit of copper. Prescott and Chicago mining and business men dominate the affairs of the Yuma Warrior Mining company and have to date supplied the funds necessary for exploration work in the sulphide ore zone-that is, funds other than those derived from the sale of Harqua Hala Bonanza bullion.