Arizona republican., 1917-05-13
0be MINES of ARIZONA

The Schenectady is again active after a shutdown of more than month to receive and install new ma chinery. The company has among it's principal stockholders Bulkley Wells, the noted Colorado mine operator, and the treasury has been amply financed contract has been given to local men to sink the present shaft to the 400 foot level. About five feet daily is being made with three shifts of miners. The shaft continues to follow the vein as it has done from the sur face. There is now two feet of ship ping ore in the bottom. The ore is d gold -silver-lead- zinc. Much wire sil- yer was found while drifting on the 173-foot level.
 The Rattlesnake shaft is down so feet, headed for the 200 Thirty tons of S60 ore lie in the bins.
 The SehQy1llill shaft is down 790 |. feet, with ten feet more to go before cutting a stump and beginning the crosscut. The shaft was dropped from the 300 without running a crosscut. Above the 300 foot point the company has opened up what their engineers estimate to be over s3,000,00 worth of ore. Official announcement has been made that as soon as the ore is cross cut on the 800, work of building 125 or 150-to mill will be commenced. The Tennessee has drifted on the ore at the 1900 for a distance of 800 feet, the vein varying from five feet to eleven feet in width of shipping ore. That company is shipping close to 200 tons daily to it's mill at Needles, California.
 Th- Emerald Isle Copper company is bringing in electric current for use in it's first electrolytic unit which it is just installing. Four large leach ing tanks have been installed and electrolytic copper will be produced on the ground from the product of the teaching plant.
 The recent strike on the Gold Back is holding out we'll in values while the ore is increasing in width, there now being seven feet that averages s24.22 per ton.
 The company is arranging with the Steffy mill to handle a portion of it's output.
 At the Copper Age there is much activity around mine and mill All the machinery is in the mill and there only remains the testing of engines and adjustment of beling to put the
 
 The drifts being run both ways on the ore from the bottom of the 1S7 foot winze has proven the ore to be of good grade and of a better average width than in the workings above.
 A working tunnel that will cut the vein system at d depth of $50 feet and will bring the ore out of the mine on a grade with the top of the mills ore bins, has a good face of sulphide ore 400 feet in from the portal. The inn portance of the find has not been proven and cannot be until the ore shoot is further penetrated.
 The wHtoI coming into the Robbie Burns shaft is strongly impregnated with copper solution, and the company believes it is sufficiently strong to pay for treatment by precipitation if it continues to flow as heavily as it is now doing. Tests will be made to see what effect the water has on tin cans and scrap iron.
 The shaft is down 35 feet and indi- cations based on the increased quartz and sulphides coming in lend credence to the suspicion that the contact is being approached.
 The concrete is being poured for the engine bed and some improvements to surface buildings are being made.