Bisbee daily review., 1917-02-11
Mining Operations in Yavapai Continue to Increase in Magnitude With the Ap- proach of the Spring.
OLD-TIME MINES
 OPENING UP AGAIN
Gold Warrior Takes a New Lease on Life; So do Tillie Starbuck, Silver Belt and Other Groups in County.
By William P. De Wolf.

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 PRESCOTT. Ariz. Feb. lO-Mining operations continue to increase in magnitude throughout Yavapai eoun- Y and are attended by ore discoveries of importance in areas hitherto unex- plored and by ore shipments 10 local and outside reduction points. note worthy feature is the number of old time producers that have of late talk en on their wonted activity under ore conditions which presage a renewal of shipments and of prosperity.
 The old First Home mine in the Big Bug district. one Of number in that section to quicken into activity last year. starts off the current year under suspicious conditions. The old workings have been cleaned out. the old shaft has been retlmbered and de velOpment work started in the old ore bodies from which quite a large ton nase of silver lead ore was mined about a decade ago. The property was taken over some months since by a syndicate of Prescott and Los Angeles people. Ed Block. of Prescott. the former owner. retains an interest. The old Oriental mill. recently bought and repaired. will be used for ore reduc- ton purposes. Its efficiency has been increased by the establishing of an oil-hotatiOn unit
 Starts eff Year Right
 The Gold Warrior Mining company started on right the current year by resumins operations in the old How ard mine. located about eleven miles south of Prescott in the vicinity of the Senator. Big Pine and Dunkirk properties-all three of the last men tioned being on the productive list. In the '90's' strike of high grade ore was made in a shallow shaft on the Howard and about S24.000 worth Of free gold ore extracted. Ultimately. however. financial difficulties forced cessation of work. Prior thereto a tunnel had been started to tap the ore body at depth It is the intention of the company to now continue the tunnel 10 it's objective: not SO much with the expectation of opening hish grade ore as with the object of de veloping a large tonnage of low grade ore. Present operations are attended by encouraging mineral conditions and assays.
 4-foOt body of gOld-copper ore that samples $50 per ton. is being de veloped at a depth of 25O feet in the shaft of the Gold Blossom Mining company. whose holdings are located on Indian creek. Iron and copper sul- .phides feature the deposit and lead the management to believe the mine will prove at depth tO be a copper producer. The showing is. in fact. SO encouraging, the company has taken over forty acres adjoining on the strike of the ledge. The main shaft will be continued 10 depth of 500 feet before attempt is made to prove up on the ore. Southern California people are backing the enterprise.
 TilIie Starbuck Busy
 The Tillie Starbuck group. owned by the Tillie Starbuck Mines comps- ny. is the scene of extensive mining operations and will probably be de veloped into a producing mine during 1917. For ten years past. until recent ly. the property was owned and work ed by Major A. J. Pickerell. who for many years has been identified with the Phelsp-Dodee interests in Arizo- na. and who is likewise interested with Mir. James Douglas in the fam ous United Verde Little Daisyl m.3s at Jerome. Major Pickren ye, dorni- mates the affairs of Tillie Starbuek company and is in charge of it's min
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