Weekly journal-miner., 1917-08-29
BRIGHT FUTURE FACES MAYER
 DISTRICT
SUCCESS OF THE BING- HAMPTON PROVES AN IN JUDGEMENT FOR OTHER MINES TO PROSECUTE DEVELOPMENT PLANS.
Special Correspondence.

month, the output of the Arizona Binghamton mine has been very satis- factory to the management. It is eX- pected that the total in copper re. turns at the end of this week will be far ahead of any months work since the Notation mill started to handle ore just year ago the 24th of Au- gust. With scarcely days loss, the mill has been run over capacity for the past l2 months. The first days run showed saving of 95 per cent. | A second unit has but recently been added to the plant, which makes it possible to treat 250 to 300 tons daily. The daily average is from 16O to 200 tons. The ore averages better than 5 per cent copper. The mine is also producing carload of high grade ore which runs between 15 and IA per cent copper.
 Extensive exploration work is to be started soon on the lower levels of this mine with diamond drills. The first work will be to crosscut the formation at several points to deter mine the size of known ore bodies that have been encountered in drifts. It has been proven that the several bodies of orc go down as is shown by the newest work on the 600-foot level.
 Mine Superintendent s. E. Chaney, who has not been in charge of the mine long, is whipping things into shape rapidly. On the 200-foot level, an old drift was turned into a cross cut with the result that the big ore shoot on the 100-foot level was en- countered bigger than ever. It has been drifted on far enough to deter mine the width to be from 10 to Is feet and the length will be approxim. atcly 16O feet. There is considerable high grade in this shoot and the aver age of the milling orc is about 3H per cent copper.
 The Copper Queen Gold Company which has the adjoining mine on the east with parallel orc veins, has dis continued furnishing ore to the Bing- hamton mill, although there is joint agreement existing between the two companies for the orc treatment. The company proposes to carry out an elaborate system of development on the suggestion of the mine superin tendent, Claude Ferguson. The 300- foot winze has been unwatcred at Adit No. ?. There is considerable old workings at the bottom of this winze which are to be sampled. The winze is to be sunk another 200 feet with drifts at each level At Adit No. l, which is 1,2OO feet south. 300-foot shaft is developing separate or, system to that at Adit No. ?, at which level most of the work has been done. There arc half a dozen or more very promising outcroppings of ore which show strong teaching at the sur face. The secondary enrichment iSI expected to be strong.
 There will probably be no more ore treated at any place until the com pany has its own mill built and in operation. Al recent meeting ot the directors at the mine, it was decided to put every cent into the ground and develop mine that would supply a mill of large capacity. The mine with the present amount of development can supply 100 tons daily.
 Announcement is expected to be made in a few days of the beginning of extensive development work on the old Stoddard mine at the north end of Copper mountain, which is owned by the Stoddard Copper Company which is controlled by Senator Rcyn- olds and Cclora Stoddard The com pany is in the process of being re organized. A hoist and air compress sor and other machinery arc to be taken from the Binghamton mine to the new work at the Stoddard. The | old Stoddard mine is one of the old est copper producers on Copper moun- tain and it is considered to be one or the most promising properties in that district
 O. McD. Bywaters, of RoXton, Texas. has encountered shipping orc in shaft he is putting down on property south of the Copper Queen. He has interested capital in Texas. The Agua Fria M. s, NJ. Company is about to be organized to carry on the development of the property. No stock will be offered for sale on the market.
 Everything is on the move around this portion of the Copper Mountain