El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-02-26
YAVAPAI MINERS
LOOK TOFUTURE
Development is Carried on
With a View to Future
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
BY WILLIAM P. DewOLF.

Prescott, Ariz., Feb. 26.-Mining and
milling operations in Yavapai county
/ are being furthered along progressive
and economic lines, and with a view
TO the future ACKNOWLEDGMENT of the
local mining and milling industries,
quite as much as to present profits.
That is to say the operators are en-
( couraged by the future outlook as well
as by the present output, TO continue
their mining and milling plans. Prima-
rily, the increasing activity has its in
ceptiOn in the diversified mineral re-
sources of Yavapai county. A potent
contributing factor is, however, the
marked degree of attention Arizona at
large IS attracting in the mining and
investment circles of the United States.
Arizona Now IN center.
During the cycle of nation wide in
terest in mining which ended in 1910,
Nevada occupied the center Of the in
yestment stage and offered as attrac-
tons the great silver gold mines of
Tonopah, and the famous Goldfield Con-
solidated mine, with its dividend record
of 100000. During the cycle imme-
diately preceding, Colorado had the call
and presented to the public the famous
Cripple Creek district, with its produc-
ton record Of SlOO,O0O,O00 worth of gold.
Arizona has now made its debut, and IS
being received with a degree of atten-
ton that presages its popularity as a
mining proposition and the availability
of the funds needed for the prospecting
and proving of its ore bodies.
There are but few sections Of the
state so thoroughly and adversely min
eralized as Navapai county. This fact
in itself is big asset at time when
the demands of war have increased the
demand for and enhanced the price Of
the minerals that are a by-prOduct Of
the gold and silver ores of this county.
The increased demand for the socalled
base metals has resulted in a more
thorough prospecting Of Yavapais min
eralized areas. and this has in turn been
followed not alone by the discovery Of
pay deposits OF copper. tungsten zinc
and the like, but by the opening as
well Of profitable bodies Of gold and /
silver.
Worked Back in the eos.
The gold and silver mines of Yavapai !
county were worked at a profit as far ]
back as the early COS. Them wus the !
good OF days" when a miner worked
with one eye on his drill and the other j.
on his gun, lest the red brother of the
desert lift his scalp at some unwary
moment during the days shift The
richness OF the ores more than compen-
stated, however. for the danger entailed
in their mining; and this despite the
fact that mining, milling and shipping
facilities were both Inadequate and in
efficient. Notwithstanding the adverse
conditions, the mines were worked sue
worth OF gold and silver to the worlds
supply of the precious metals. In this
day Of thoroughly efficient appliances
they are being worked to better purpose
than ever before.
Take the old silver mines Of the coun-
ty as an illustration in point Formerly
they were were worked for their silver
values solely, and naught save ore Of
exceptionally high grade was touched. !
In treating these ores no effort was
ma de- n a Nur
tents. In fact. the latter were consid-
cred a nuisance ana were sOundly
damned by the prospector. with that
picturesque finality Of profane express
peeved. And yet today these same base
metals are being sought as ardently as
once they were cursed
Now 1t Il Tungsten.
The wolframite and hub1erdte ores Of !
these oldtime producers carry a high !
percentage of tungsten and are being
marketed in Denver and Pittsburg at !
from $45 TO s65 per unit. The demand F,
for them is incessant and the area of {
their deposition is large, taking into 1
the fact that commercial e
" valuable tungsten ore is by no means
The zinc product Of these
mines is another valuable asset. with
spelter selling at from $3.50 to $40 per
100 pounds. Lead, at $6.25 per 100 :
pounds, is another Of the base miner f,
ais that is being mined at a profit.
Yavapai county is rich in ores such !
as those before mentioned, and likewise
in copper quicksilver, molybdenite.
vanadium, gold and silver ores. They
are distributed over a wide area, and as
yet there Is a considerable acreage open
to location. Prospectors are, however,
mushing" in from all portions of the
southwest, now that the short winter
has cropped back into the oblivion Of
the ''has-been." Their numbers are
increasing as the days lengthen and
grow warmer. Hence il appears prob
able that within a few months the
mineralized areas Of Yavapai county
viii be prospected as never before.
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