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Arizona Enterprise Mining Company

At the north end of the Southern
Cross is No. shaft, sunk on the
ledge with three converging veins.
At thois point there is an excep-
tionally high grade streak but the
general vein matter assays on the
average, about per cent copper, 25
per cent lead and about $40 addi-
tioanl per ton in gold and silver
No. shaft is expected to eventually
develop some high-grade gold ore
Mr.. Shepherd plans to drift from the
shaft toward the old French work
ings at the 200 and 30O-foot levels
The drift on the 100-foot level has
already been started.
On the Head Center group a 36-foot
shaft has been sunk on a contact
vein carrying values of about $40
in gold, silver and lead. This shaft
is to be deepened and some more
exploration work done in the near
future.
On what is known as the Goat
claim an open cut has opened up a
4-foot vein of Is per cent lead ore,
carrying about So additional in gold.
There is also tunnel 180 feet in
length on this claim, from which
some ore has been shipped.
The best gold values encountered
to date have been on the Wedge
claim. One nugget worth $11O
was recently unearthed here and
quite bit of coarse gold is in evi-
dence. No attempt to explore the
scattered ore deposit on this claim
has been made by the company, such
work as exists having been done by
the old-time prospectors
During the past few months the
company has constructed more than
Is miles of good roads, and has made
even the most remote workings of
easy access. A we'll was sunk on
the fat lands between the property
and the Santa F'e lines, insuring a
good supply of excellent water.
This summer 100000 gallon res
eryOir is to be constructed at the
camp and water piped to all work
ings. A modern camp is under con-
structiOn, and within the next three
months should be we'll along toward
completion. 1t is the plan of Mr..
Shepherd to install concentrating
plant with a daily capacity of 200
tons, and central power plant for
furnishing electricity for light and
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power drills. This work will prob
ably be started in September.
At present activity is concentrated
on the installation of hoist machin-
cry and the development of No. 1
and No. shafts. So we'll balanced
is the organization Mr.. Shepherd has
developed that it is confidently ex-
pected the mine will be ready to ship
ore in very short time Mr.. Shep-
herd states that without doubt the
mine will be on a paying basis this
year, and trip over the property
fully supports his statement
The Enterprise Company is con-
trOlled by California and Ohio cap
italists and from all accounts is
amply financed. The company is in
corpOrated for 100000, par value
Of stock 81 per share, and it's stock
is at premium now. J. L. Shep-
herd, a widely known mining man
of more than 80 years experience, is
president and general manager of
the company, S. L. Shannon of San
Diego is vice-president, and T. D.
Friend of Columbus, Ohio, is Sec
retary and treasurer
If the old pioneers could mine and
ship the ore at profit with trans
portation charges averaging about
500 per ton, and mining expenses
twice what they are today, with
modern methods the Enterprie prop
erty should prove a bonanza to the
stockholders.
Alexander Spear, E. M, who re-
Gently submitted a report on the
property stated that the entire cost
of mining, freighting and smelling
the ordinary ore will not exceed $40
per ton as against 1925 per ton
when the mine was first worked.
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When the Enterprise company
took over the property the greater
part of development work consisted
of the old surface workings. some
narrow tunnels and shallow shafts.
At present two modern, two o-compart-
ment shafts are being sunk, hoist
machinery is being installed and the
total development work totals about
5000 feet. No. / shaft, equipped
with 20 horsepower hoist is ap-
proXimately 100 feet in depth and
being driven to water level as rap
idly as possible. No. 2 shaft, which
was started by former operators, is
being retimbered. Strengthened and
widened, preparatory to being sunk
to water level
No. ! shaft is located about 100
feet north of the old French surface
workings, which consist of 7O-fOOt
tunnel and 40-foOt WinZe, both of
which are all in high grade ore Mr.
Shepherd plans to drift under the
old workings from the 20O-foot in
No. l shaft and stope the ore to the
surface. From the 2OO-foot level a
drift will be run westward toward
No. shaft (about 500 yards dis
tant) to cut three parallel veins
which show we'll on the surface.
The ore in the old French work
ings and disclosed to date in No
shaft averages exceptionally high
grade About four tons left from
the early workings was thoroughly
The Parker post., 1917-04-14

Ten miles south of Bouse in the
nothern foothills Of the Plomosa
mountains, the Arizona Enterprise
Mining company is setting a local
record. Quietly saving wood
as president and general manager J.
l.. Shepherd puts 1.-THE news of
the activities in what was at one
time perhaps the most noted camp
tains, has filtered to the outside
world
Mr.. Shepherd is getting ready to
operate on large scale, a property
so rich that more than half CEN
tury ago pioneer miners took from
surface workings alone, gold, copper,
silver and lead ore worth at that
time approximately a half-million
dollars. The property is shown on
the old government maps as the
Lead Camp" Fairly authentic
records say it was discovered in the
latter SOS by Frenchman. He
made friends with the Indians. took
out small amount of ore, and later
interested French capitalists III the
property.
The old French development COM
pany that opened up and high
graded from the Planet workings,
and did some work around what is
now Ajo, started to work the prop
erty in the early COS. with Indian
laborers. Ore was hauled fifty miles
across the desert to the Colorado
river at Ehrenburg in roughly con-
structed wagons, f1oated on fiatboats
to tidewater in the Gulf of California
and thence shipped around Cape
Horn to Swansea, Wales. Trans
portation expenses alone amounted
to about $10O per ton
After about a year of work the
Indians became hostile and a few
months later, under cover of dark
ness, crept up on the fourteen
Frenchmen who were working the
property and killed them. The
ruins of the old stone fort in which
the Frenchmen made their last stand
still exists, few hundred yards
from the present camp.
During the ten years that followed
there was intermittant shipments of
ore made from the property by
"'chloriders'' and in 1870, the ore
body known as the Copper King
vein, was opened by two prospectors
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probably attracted by the striking
appearance of the dark and light
colored contacts in the rock for
nation. This vein proved to be
a bonanza, with pure galenas in abun-
dance and carrying rich streaks OF
copper glance.
The vein was Immediately devel-
oped and the property worked eX-
tensively on the surface. shipments
being made to Swansea, Wales, as
by the first operators. After the
price of copper and lead lowered
considerably, the extreme expense of
transportation still averaging
around 500 per ton--so handicap
ped the enterprise that work was
discontinued.
During the years that followed,
however, the knowledge Of the rich
ness of the ore was a sfficient in
centive to cause the old prOspectors
to regularly keep up the assessment
work and the property always had
an owner. About one year ago the
Arizona Enterprise Mining company
secured title to the property and
last October began work.
The property consists of twenty
full lode claims-4O0 acres-some of
which are patented. An excellent
automobile road connects the prop
erty with the Santa Fe, and the state
highway system at Bouse. From
the mines to the railroad is gentle
slope averaging perhaps / per cent.
The Parker post., 1917-04-14

per cent copper are relied upon as
they have done in the past, to finance
the future development of the prop
erty.
No. | shaft is sunk in a strong,
well-defined, copper-gold vein which
has been opened up for a length Of
several thousand feet by shallow sur
face workings. The mineralized
zone is very wide, in one place in
termittant surface showings extend
ing for nearly half mile Copper
ore occurs in the form of carbonates
and oxides.
Lateral workings have been run
from the shaft at the 50-foot, 1OO-
foot and 13O-foot levels, there be-
ing approximately 500 feet of drifts.
Some sulphide ore has been encoun-
tered in the bottom of the shaft,
and an occasional piece of sulphide
The Parker post., 1917-04-14

he is by far the largest stockhoIder
The outstanding stock is held by two
Or three Flagstaff men The com
pany was incorporated for 1000, 600
shares having "a par value of 81
each. The treasury stock os the com
pany remains intact
Although in excess OF 5000 feet Of
work has been done on the property
Mr. Mudersbach has concentrated
most OF it on two claims, the Excel
sior No. l and the Mammoth No. l..
Work at the present time is being
carried on to a limited extent on
both. On the Excelsior No. / one
shift is sinking vertical shaft, now
about SO feet in depth. The shaft
is all in ore of shipping grade and
irregular shipments of around y
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ore from these workings have aver
aged better than II per cent copper.
Mr.. Mudersbach's plan for deveI-
opment of the property, contingent
of course upon his success in secur-
ing the necessary financial assist
ance, is to continue the Excelsior
shaft to water level, where he
expects to find a large body of dis
semlnated copper sulphide ore.
Several hundred tons of good shin
ping ore are on the dumps at
resent, considerable more is blocked
out in the upper workings on the
Excelsior, and with very nominal
outlay for trucks and operating ex-
penses this ore could be speedily
shipped at profit thus lowering
the outlay for development purposes
by the net returns from the ship
ments.
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Mudersbach Property

| About miles northwest OF the
! Arizona Enterprise mines and Just
8 miles south of Bouse. Gus Muders-
bach. one of the pioneers OF the dis
trict. is making an excellent show
ing on what is known locally as the
| Old Excelsior property.
Although seriously handicapped
by lack of capital to develop and
work the property on the extensive
scale warranted by the ore croppings
to date, Mr.. Mudersbach has consis-
tently worked the property for sew
eral years in a limited way and at
present has one of the most promis-
ing prospects in the district
Howland Bancroft, noted geolo-
gist and mineralogist in the United
States Geological Survey service in
his Reconnaissance of the Ore he
pOsits in Northern Yuma County,
Arizona, published under the aus
terror some time ago, considered the
property worthy of more than aver
age attention and spent several
days on the property, studying the
geology and closely examining the
ore deposits.
In his Reconnaissance he devoted
more than a page of space 10 the
property, and stated in part:
THE deposits of the Muders',ach
copper camp differ from all previous
ly described in this treatise, in that
they represent true contact metamor-
phic deposits formed at the contact
Of an. intrusive cooling magma. The
only other deposits examined in this
area which show strong evidence of
contact metamOrphism are the COD
ralla, the Yuma Copper company's
property and the Calcite."
In writing of these contact meta
mOrphic deposits he accorded first
place to the Mudersbach.
Inc property consists or
claims, on all Of which copper ore
has been developed to a greater or
lesser extent by shafts, tunnels,
quarries, open cuts, etc. A good
automobile road connects the prop
erty with the railroad at BOuse,
from the mine to the loading plat
form being just ten miles down a
gentle grade averaging perhaps one
itated shipping
The property is owned by the now
Excelsior Gold and Copper company,
of which Mr. Mudersbach is presi-
dent and manager and in which
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has been mined at the 10O-fOot and
13O-fOot levels The ore carries
about 81 per ton in gold on an aver
age, according to Mr. Mudersbach,
although much higher values have
been encountered
On the Mammoth claim a shaft
has been sunk to a depth of more
than 200 feet with about 500 feet
of lateral work accomplished. includ-
ing drifts and crosscuts. The ore
III the Mammoth is very similar to
that i'll the Excelsior although prob
ably a trifle inferior in copper con-
tent.
Several additional shallow shafts
and tunnels have opened up the ore
body on both the Mammoth and Ex-
celsior claims. Shipments OF sorted
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1917-02-23
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GET YOUR ORDER IN NOW
IL YOU WANT A FORD

IF anyone in this territory intends
to purchase a Ford car this season
it will be necessary for them to sign
the regular order blank before we
can place the order with the factory"
says F. L. Cruikshank. the local Ford
agent. "E-have just received instruc-
tions from headquarters that cars in
the future will be shipped to local
dealers only when order is accom-
panied by the signed orders from the
intended purchasers.
This means we will not be able to
keep any cars in stock The rule was
doubtlessly made for the reason that
the factory is absolutely unable to
supply the demand for cars
Mr. Cruikshank said he had on file
now 28 orders for Fords to be deliv-
cred early in the spring. and that a
half dozen or more orders would be
filed within the next week A few
days ago Mr.. Cruikshank took cou-
pie of travelling men to st. Charles
in his marrow guage Ford" and
while waiting for the men to rams
act their business took orders for
four cars.
ut is no longer a question of sell
ing the cars" said Mr. Cruikshank,
1.-The question is to get them from the
factory. and therefore TO avoid dis
appointment. anyone who is contem-
plating buying Ford should get his
order in at the earliest date posi-
BILE"
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1917-02-23
THE PRICE OF HOGS LIKELY
To REACH THIRTEEN Gents

It's an i'll wind that blows nobody
good. The possible entrance OF tho
United States into the European war
on the side OF the allies IL believed by
students OF American market condi-
tions to mean a fortune for Amer
ican hog growers. Hog shave ALREADY
passed the twelve and one half cent
limit and are almost certain to go
to thirteen cents at an early date
Everywhere it is admitted that with
the war, II will not last longer than
next September and many students
believe IL will sure come to an end
the coming summer. This early CON
erable drop In wheat. for Russia Ia
understood to have four crops which
will be released to the world with
the close OF the conflict. Hogs and
corn. according TO the government
experts who have studied the condi-
tion from every viewpoint. are sure
to remain high for the next three Of
four years. The farmer who raises
them is sure to make fortune. With
the close OF the war our pork is go
ing to be In great demand in Europe
and particularly among the nations
involved Germany early in the war
slaughtered her hogs by the thous-
ands in order that the country would
not be compelled to feed them the
grain. so much needed for her armies
as we'll as her civil population The
shortage of pork In Germany. as we'll
az the other countries WAS never SO
great and will remain so for several
years to come. The supply must come
from America. With his own mar
ket, az well as the European market
to supply with pork for the next few
years. II Is plain 10 be seen that the
American hog and corn grower IL
Just about going To dictate the prices
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1917-02-23
Il. N. TERRELL APPOINTED
JUDGE IN THIS DISTRICT

Some four weeks ago the legisla-
ture passed a bill providing for an
additional Judge in the Fifth judi
eial district The governor signed
the bill. soon after II reached him.
but he did not name this new judge
until last Saturday. when he appoint
ed n. NJ Terrell. a we'll known attor-
ney OF Pocatello. There were a half
dozen or more applicants for ths
judgship. but we understand that the
governor seriously considered only
two appllcants-A. B. Cough OF this
city and Mr.. TerreTI, and the latter
finally won out.
Mr. Terrell has served as city at
tornsy for Pocatelio and as county
attorney for Bannock county. He. was
also one Of Bannoek countys repre-.
sentatives Ia the Eleventh session Of
the legislature
Mr. Terrell IMMEDIATELY filed with
the governor his acceptance OF the
appointment and be and Judge 0u-
heen are now arranging the eouri
sult the convenience Of the two
judges.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1917-02-23
CONGRESS Will NOT PASS
ANY RAILROAD LEGISLATION
President Wilson'S Plan Laid Aside Failure of
AdrmSon Law Will Put Country in Same
Position 1t Was Last August.

hoods would not have quit their jobs.
and since the enactment Of the
Adamson law there has developed
among the proposed aud supposed
bcneficiRrios serious doubt whether
that law. II fairly enforced. would
operate TO their benefit Many ln-
stances have been cited where the
Adamson law would either result In
n reduction OF wages. or would COM
pei men who now make large wages
for a short run to work & lcageF time
than 1t present in order to earn an
equal compensation.
An interesting sideiiRht on the
railroad situation was cleaned by
member of the senate tn recent con-
versntion with ono Of tho brotherhood
officials. The senator was ropubli-
can and was citing To the brother.
hood official instances where the
Adamaon law would operate 10 the
detriment rather than the benefit Of
many railroad employees "Tha, ba-
ing 40. can not see why railroad
men generally should have voted for
Mr.. Wilson last November. unless II
was under a Misrepresentation. And
why are the brotharhoods even now
so lnslstent upon having that law en-
forced7"
THE passage Of the Adamaon law
was our salvation" replied the broth
erhood official, and when asked TO
explain what he meant. said
1T saved tho brotherhoods. II We
had ordered general strike many OF
our men would have refused to 30
out and would have left IN 80 an or.
ganization. In a ridiculous position.
the strike would have been n farce.
just as the attempted general strike
IN New York proved 10 be. and the
brotherhoods. IN consequence would
have been destroyed =
That waa frank admission IN q
frank discussion and ths name Of lho
brotherhood official. by request was
withheld by the senator.
However. while that opinion may
hold good In some brotherhood cir.
cleb. there are other officials of
these organizations Who favor > re-
neWal OF the strike threat II he su.
preme court oyerturna the Adamson
Law. and the talk now Ii not ln favor
OF attempting nation wide strike
but strike on one or two or a very
few railroad systems. to be followed
by other strikes II the first attempt
proves successful In getting the rail.
road men more pay In this way. the
brotherhoods argue, they viii be lsas
open 20 public ccnsare. and wlll he
able to gain. BY degrees. what they
last August threatened 20 attempt
BY strike affecting practically all
the roads In the country.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1917-02-23

Cupid makes a mistake when he
CRAFTS a bud ON an old shrub.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1917-02-23

Washington. Feb, l9.-There Is no
indication that congress intends be-
fore the 4th of March to pass any
sort OF bill which will prevent rail
road strikes. That part of President
Wilson's recommendation submitted
at the beginning OF the session has
been thrown into the diacard by the
interstate commerce committees of
both senate and house. and the pres
ident himself has, by silence. RcQuies-
ced in this course.
In lieu of the railroad leEiRlative
program which the president propoA-
ed, congress is to be asked to do lit
tie more than grant to the president
authority TO take over the railroads
{ the country and operate thom in
lime OF emergency and operate them
under military authority. OF course.
the bill reported authorizes further
Investigations, but provides no REM
edy whatsoever II the country lie
again threatened with a ntaion vide
strike.
Tho consti'utionality OF the Adam
son law Of last session will not he de-
termined until after congress shall
have adjourned. for the supreme
court In In recess and will not recon
vone until March 8. II the court
holds the law unconstitutional the
situation will be thrown back 20
where IL was last August, and the
railroad brotherhoods will be again
forced TO put their demands to the
carriers. and employ whatever means
they may have for enforcing COM
pliance.
Not long since there was meet.
Ing OF the hfotherhoodE In Chicago
i secret meeting---at which II was de-
cidad, eacording to common under
standing. that IN the event the su-
preme court does not uphold the
Adamson law. another strike viii be
called TO enforce the demands of the
members of the brotherhoodH and the
president will have no more power or
: #hhAhBAAA1 W PAfNEhA = HNEAhN 81 NAaA "a
than he had last August. for which
congress- has sidetTaeked that portion
OF the original railroad bill which
would prohibit sTike In advance oil
an investigation. and the brother.
hoods. If they have sufficient conroI
over their members could cripple IN,
carriers.
After reflection some senator's and
some congressman who have given
the railroad wage situation consider.
able study. are satisfied that there ii
far less danger of Il Eenrai STRIKE
] now than they thought there was last
fall 1t has been discovered that had
the strike order OF last August beer
put into effect. thousands Of railroad
employees. members Of the brother
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1917-02-23
IDAHO TERRITORY,s FIRST
DISTRICT JUDGE DEAD

Idaho's first district Judge. Samuel
c. Parks. died recently at Kansas
City. aged SO. He was an intimate
OF Linucoln and was named by the
Civil war president TO be the Judge
of the first district court organized
in Idaho territory. the first session
of which was held in Lewiston In
January. 1864.
Judge Parks presided at several
notable trials. including that Of the
men who murdered Lloyd McGruder.
a Lewiston merchant. He sentenced
them and they were hanged
Hill Beachey. q beloved Idaho pio-
neer. known to many Of the old tim
ers in Boise was instrumental in fer
reting out the guilty parties He
went to Oregon with a requisition
only to find that the suspects had
fled to San Francisco. He did not
wait for a requisition on the governor
of California. but he got his men
The requisition showed some inter.
lineations that were never explained
At the recent meeting OF the state
bar association a message of greeting
was sent TO Judge Parks.-capial
News
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1917-02-23
FARMERS EQUITY SOCIETY
HOLDS ANNUAL MEETING

The annual meeting of the Bear
Lake Farmers Society of Equity was
held at the Montpelier city hall last
Saturday = goodly number of far
mers who are stockholders and many
who were not were present to hear
OF the progress OF the organization
during the past year. Questions of
interest TO the farmers and the vel
fare OF the society were discussed.
After the adjournment OF the gem
eral meeting the stockholders met to
hear the reports Of the manager and
auditor. A dividend of per cent
was declared payable to the stock
holders.
The following directors were elect.
ed for the ensuing year: John
Quayle. Henry Tenscher, c. G
Reetch. z. p. Hoff, Harrison Tippets
J. A. Berry and ]. W Cook.
The directors then chose the fol
lowing officers:
President-G. H. Hall.
vfce-President-Fred c. Evans.
seey and Aanager-W. Woodruff
Clark.