Arizona republican., 1917-07-20
ORE STRIKE |S REPORTED AT
 MINE IN NORTH
(By F. w. Bower)

(By F. w. BoWer)
 MAYER, AriZ.. July 19.-Undoubt edly the best of mining news from this section for along time is the an nouncement by the Arizona Bing- hampton Copper company of the find ing of ore in four places on the 600 foot level There has been a large amount of speculation on the part of the best mining men of the camp as to whether or not the ore bodies would continue from the 400 to the 500 If they did and if the high grade values kept up, it would make one of the richest copper mines in the state.
 There are eleven separate lenses of copper ore in the mine which have been opened on the 400 and the upper levels The largest vein furnishes a stope 20 feet wide on the 400 from which most of the milling and high grade ore comes. From the new ore bodies on the 600 about 20 per cent of the daily output is now being talk en- Every round of holes enlarges the size of the new ore shoots on the 600 and there is no question but that the extension of all of the ore bodies will be encountered on this lower level.
 Perhaps there is no set of big min ing men in the state more pleased over finding ore in new lower levels in d mine than those at Jerome who have the direction of the United Verde and the United Verde Exten- sion. When, in May, a small block of the Arizona Binghampton Copper company stock was offered for sale to the public by Senator Reynolds, at par value, the Jerome men visited the mine and later bought stock and advised their friends to get in so there is 9 considerable amount of the stock held by these big operators and their friends at Jerome, Prescott and Phoenix That was before much work had been done on the 600. The re- port that the same high grade ore has been encountered on the lower level has set these big operators on edge It is known that a cash price of par value was but recently made to Senator Reynolds for all of the stock which would give a purchase price of $1,700,000 but the proposition was turned down.
 It would be difficult to find mine with a cleaner record of production since regular output began. A flo- tation mill designed by H. Kenyon Burch after the Inspiration type. and built under the supervision of C. B l Clyne, was put into commission Aug l ust "A of last year and it has been in | continuous operation ever since. The | first day showed an extraction of 95 | per cent This has since been re- duced for economic purposes to S5 1 to 90 per cent For the month of May, an output of 3O0,000 pounds oi | copper was made with q net value ol | $38,000.
 l In addition to the mill returns, there has been shipped considerable high grade ore averaging 13 to 14 per cent copper The concentrates average about 20 per cent copper.
 The mill has run over capacity uI to 125 tons daily A second unit has | just been completed which will give daily tonnage of 250 to 300 which should produce approximately 50O.0Ot pounds of copper per month. 1 The present management of this mine is greatly responsfl le for the ex- cellent showing that has been made for the past year. The general man ager is George W. Johnson, fbrmel l banker of New York. who gives hi: personal attention to the development of the property The mine superin tendent is s. F. Chaney, who came from one of the big mines at Ray | Thomas H. Tullock is the mill super l inteident who has had charge of th' plant since it started.
 The strike of the ore on the 600 foot level in this mine means that an other large section of the great schis belt from Jerome southward S5 mile
 has been proven. The mine is onl. 16 miles south of the two big Jerom
 mines.
 Geologically, ore on the 600-foo level of the Arizona Binghamptol would be equal to the 1,300-foot leve of the United Verde Extension mine These Jerome mining men are conf dent that greater depth will find ; uniform increase in the size and val
 ue of the ore bodies in this neighbor
 ing mine.
 The announcement has been mad by Claude Fergfuson, superintendent of the Copper Queen company, whicl has big developed copper mine ad
 joining and parallel to the Arizon; Binghampton that construction worl on a 100-ton Notation mill the sam
 pattern as the BinghamptOn, vii commence within 60 days. This min has large proven ore bodies on sev aral levels and deeper work il planned
 There is sure to be a big mavemen from now on in the development O other properties all around these tw' mines This week, five Bisbee leas CTS, John Ross, w. A. Tucker, Jame Smith. Lee Hunt and John Fitzpat rick took over the Barbara mine { short distance south. They propos to develop the property with thei own money. They are interesting several well known big operators il the state.
 It is known that capital is heins secured for the Pocahontas, Iowa Half Moon, Rig Bug. Jerome Copper Celebration, Yale and Harvard. Mos