Arizona republican., 1917-10-16
MAYER MINES ARE
 SHOWING ACTIVITY
(Rv F. w BOWer)


 MAYER AriZ, Oct. l3.-The output of the Arizona Binghamton mine, i've miles east of Mayer, is steadily ln- CreaSing. The first six days of tmS month showed a daily output in the Notation mill of 12,500 pounds Of cop per, which gave d concentrate aVerag- ing between p and 27 per cent copper. The mill heads average close to per cent copper On this basis the output of the company for this month Will De better than 375, 900 pounds Of copper.
 The management of the company has made the important announcement that at the 500-foot level an eXtenslon of the main ore body from the 400- foot ieve! has been crosscut, showing 25 feet of g per cent and 15 feet Of per cent copper The new strike was made. in an upraise from the 600-1oot level It is expected that this same ore body will be broken into at any time on the 605. This strike of ore IS considered to be one of the most m poltant ever made in the Mayer dls- trict. It proves up for a certainly an other portion of the great Jerome belt. 1 On the adjoining property, owned Dy the Copper Queen company, under the l mana cement of Claude Ferguson, a 1 good sized vein of near copper ore has ] been found 200 feet below Adit No. i in crosscut run from the wlnZe. EX- Ntensive development work Is Tn prog ress in this property.
 The Half Moon company has in stalled a gas hoist to sink 500-foot shaft on the next property south ot the 1 Copper Queen and Arizona Bingham | ton There are a number of very i strong copper veins outcropplng. Ore is expected to come into the tun-
 nel being driven by the Red Metal
 Mining company at any time. The i property is being developed by Blsbee 1 capital The tunnel is being driven to strike known ledge which has l been opened by shaft.
 Thorough testing of the ore of the i Pocahontas mine is being made with d view of installing a flotation mill soon. The mine is located two miles from Mayer. The company has re- 1 gently been financed by eastern capital through the president, w. H. Skinner.
 The Black Canyon Mining company | is opening up a large body of silver lead ore in a property four miles south of Turkey Station. A drift has been run on a vein which shows 300 feet of i continuous ore now F feet wide in the l face. Kansas City capital Is inter | ested.
 A deal was closed this week for T 1 copper property 12 miles south of Mayer by Bisbee investors. The ground was owned by J. L. Dillon and associates The property is to be eX- tensively developed by tunnel.
 Anderson & Birch, owners of lead silver mine one mile west of Hum boldt, shipped carload of high grade silver ore this week. A Notation mill
 with a capacity of 75 tons per day is treating a milling grade averaging sl5 per ton The Silver Belt company on
 the north is developing an extension of the same ore body.
 Work is to be resumed within few
 days or all the properties of the Big
 Ledge Copper company. The officials
 Of the company will arrive from Du- mth. The body of ore recently en-
 countercd in the Butternut at the 425- foot level. is becoming the largest body
 of high grade ore in this section. The | grade continues about s per cent cop
 per The company's smelter is to be completed about the first of the year. | By that time the company expects to have it's two principal mines, the But
 ternut and Henrietta mines. opened to i such an extent that the full capacity
 of the smelter will be supplied.