Mohave County miner., 1917-06-30
(By William P. De Wolff.

few days ago on the south slope of Tuscumbia mountain has created somewhat of a stir in local mining cir cles, and has melted certain oldtime Hassayampans to indulge in reminis- cences of the days when the silver bonanzas of Yavapai county and the prodigality of their owners was cur rent gossip in a half-hundred mining camps between Santa Fe, N. M. and the Golden Gate. That was many years before the fall of the big drought in Arizona when all the bars went dry and the Hassayampans first began to understand that grape juice is a beverage and not hair tonic.
 The long dry spell just referred to has, however, little bearing upon the subject in hand, except as it touches on and appertains to the enforced ac- tivities of a nondescript band of boot leggers who are breaking big ones into little ones for the county on the | road out beyond Turkey station. While ! thus serving the county and their sen tence, these dissenters from the status quo of statewide prohibition acci- dentally ran across a deposit of ore that samples as high as 500 ounces in silver to the ton.
 The ledge was encountered in the vicinity of the old Tuscumbia mine in the Crown King country, a section formerly noted for the number and richness of it's silver bonanzas, and is though to be the continuation of that valuable lode. So far as surfaced trenched the deposit is holding it's value and bids fair to afford its locat- ors quite as lucrative and decidedly less precarious occupation than that of peddling red kicker in contravention of the statutes made. and provided.
 Chickens Mining Energy.
 The importance of the discovery is reflected by an additional quickening of silver mining activity throughout an area which has already been stimu- lated by the rapidly enhancing price of silver and by the possibility of it's remonethation on or before the close of the prevailing worldwide war. For some time past a number of the old silver properties in the Crown King country have again been operated at a proft-notably the Crown King, Peck and Lane mines-and the tendency of the recent strike near the Tuscumbia is to encourage the exploration of sur rounding territory there and elsewhere which has thus far remained unpros- pected, with a view to opening the extension of ore bodies from which pay ore is now being mined in work ings established in former years. This tendency to broaden the scope of ope- raticas is not confined to the Crown King section, but applies equally to Walker Basin, Cherry Creek and other districts here which were at one time noted for their output of silver.
 During the days of dollar silver the Peck mine outputted about S3,0OO,OOO worth of high grade silver ore, the Crown King mine about S2,OOO,OOO worth, the Tuscumbia mine about s3OO,OOO worth and the Lane mine about S2OO,O0O worth. The Mud Hole and Homestead mines in the Walker Basin district were also prolific pro ducers of silver ores as was likewise the Leghorn mine in the Cherry Creek district. A similar record attaches to the Tip Top mine at Tip Top, formerly worked by Haggin & Hearst, and to numerous other silver, or silver-gold properties throughout Yavapai coun- ty. The properties specifically men, toned herein were selected from the roster by reason of the fact that they are again operative or are about to become operative. The ores in a num- Der of these mines show tendency to make into copper at depth, the condi- tion being one which tends to increase rather than to lessen their popularity and worth.
 Two Cases in Point.
 This transmutation disposition is particularly noticeable in the gold-sil- yer ores opened in the Homestead mine at Walker Basin, and in the Leg horn mine in the Cherry Creek dis trict. Some months ago J. H. Shock ley, of New York city, a well known mining engineer, examined the Home stead property for Irving K. Earring