Bisbee daily review., 1917-07-22
BINGHAMT0N FINDS
 ORE VALUES GARRY
 THROUGH ALL LEVELS
Mayer District Revels in One Producing Mine and Antici- pates Others in the Near Future-Mill Capacity In
 creased.
(Correspondence)

edly the best bit of mining news from this section for long time is the an- nouncement by the Arizona Bingham ton Copper company of the finding of ore in four places on the 600-foot level. There has been a large amount of spec ulation 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 Il separate lenses of cop per ore in the mine which have been opened on the 400 and the upper lev els. The largest vein furnishes a stope , zJ 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 taken. Ev- cry round of holes enlarges the size of the new ore shoots on the 600 and ! there is no question but that the eX- tension 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 a mine than those at Jerome who have the direction of the United Verde and the United Verde Extension. When, ;,, h1naE nf fhn riznnn Binghampton Copper company stock was offered for sale to the public by Senator Reynolds at par value, the Jer- ome men visited the mine and later bought stock and advised their friends | to get in so there is a considerable amount of the stock held by these big operators and at Jerome, Prescott and Phoenix. That was before much work had been Gone on the 500. 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 cash price of par value was but recently made to Sen ator Reynolds for all of the stock which would give a purchase price of s1, 700. 900, but the proposition was ' turned down.
 It would be difficult to find mine with a cleaner record of production since a regular output began. A tlota- tion mill designed by H. Kenyon Burch after the Inspiration type and built under the supervision of c. B. Glyne was put into commission August 24 of last year and it has been in con { tinuous operation ever since. The first day showed an extraction of 95 per cent. This has since been reduced for economic purposes to S5 to 90 per cent For the month of May an out put of 3OO,OOO pounds of copper was made with a net value of sSS.0O0.
 In addition to the mill returns there has been shipped considerable high grade ore averaging 13 to 14 per cent copper. The concentration aver age about 20 per cent copper.
 The mill has run over capacity up to 125 tons daily. A second unit has just been completed which will give daily tonnage of 250 to 800, which should produce approximately 50O,0O0 , pounds of copper per month.
 The present management of this mine is greatly responsible for the ex- cellent showing that has been made for the past year. The general man. aged is Geo. w. Johnson, a former banker of New York, who gives his personal attention to the development of the property. The mine superin- tendent is s. E. Chaney. who came from one of the big mines at Ray. Thos. H. Tullock is the mill superin- tendent who has had charge of the plant since it started.
 The strike of the ore on the 6OO- foot level in this mine means that another large section of the great schist belt from Jerome southward S5 miles has been proven. The mine is only Is miles south of the two big Jer- | ome mines.
 | Geologically. ore on the 600-foot lev el of the Arizona Binghampton would be equal to the 1300-foot level of the United Verde Extension mine. These Jerome mining men are confident that greater depth will find a uniform in crease in the size and value of the ore bodies in this neighboring mine. ! The announcement has been made by Claude Ferguson. superintendent of the Arizona Copper Queen company. which has big developed copper mine adjoining and parallel to the Arizona Binghampton, that construction work | Continued on Page Six.)