Bisbee daily review., 1917-04-01
Mining Activity in Yavapai County Increases With The Departure of Snow From the Rugged Sides of Steep Mountains.
PAST BONANZAS ARE
 COMING TO THE FRONT
Old Time Properties May Be Worked Harder Than Ever This Year. Tuscumbia, Tip Top and Others to be lrf- cluded.
CBy William P. De wolO

tBN W llildm r. De OIL
 PRESCOTT. Mar. 3l-Save for a few ragged patches on the north slope of the hills. Winters coat of white has been supplanted here by the green and decidedly more comrort- able mantle of Spring. The voice of the lizard is again heard in the land a beastie which in this, by vote of the electorate. bOne-dry. country of mag nificent distances preempts the place of the "turkle" of Biblical popularity as a figure of speech-and the Has sayampas has returned to the banks of full-runnins streams to resume the lucrative pastime of slGicing out piac- CT gold. Days of sunshine. filled with pep. push and progress. have crivrt the repelant look from the face of Nature hereabOuts and have speeded up mining and general business. All of which is one way of announcing that Spring has came" in Yavapai county and that everybody is on the job.
 The Verde copper belt. center of mining interest and mining activity. was the first to respond industrially to the stir of Spring" and to set about the business of mine making with increased vim. The good work being done there is. however. reflect cd in varying degree by that under way at Humboldt. Walker Basin. Cop per Basin. Mayer. Congress. Crown King. Constellation. Groom Creek and other points throughout the country. This is especially true Of YsvaDai's silver-bearing sections and would ap- pear to indicate a general revival of silver mining operations, and return to form of the old-time silver bonan- gas. In fact it appears probable that silver mining the current year VIII be second only to copper mining in popularity and importance here. Pros pective investors in silver properties are examining and Samplins many of the one-time producers of the white metal. and in so far as the eNamina- tions have been completed they have in the main been satisfactory.
 Bonanzas of the Past
 Prominent among the silver bOnan- gas of the past that are again attract ing attention are the Grown King. Tiger. Nelson. Peck. Tuscumhia and Tip Top mines. The Crown King. Is under option tO the Bradshaw Reduc- ton company and is to be developed extensively on the levels already es- tablished and at greater depth. Frank NJ. Murphy. banker. miner and rail road builder Of Arizona. and the late Diamond Joe" Reynolds mined uH- ward of one million dollars worth of high grade silver ore in the old Crown King mine some twenty odd years ago. A very considerable tonnage of the lower grade ore was at that time over the dump. In the early part of 1916 the Bradshaw Reduction secured a lease on the Crown King dump and ran generous tonnage through it's 75-ton mill The ore yielded concentrates having to- tai value of approximately S75.0o0. the company secured the Crown King mine under option and entered upon the work prelimina- ry tO it's further development As a means tO that end the ore reduction capacity of the company's min IS be- ing doubled with the object of taking pn custom tonnage in addition to that mined in the Crown King workings Early April will see the plat again operative.
 Early April will likewise in au probability. record the resumption of
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