The Arizona copper camp., 1918-12-28

yer King stockholders is a report is
sued December 5 by the board of di-
rectors of that company. The report
not only verifies press reports con-
corning the new developments at that
property, but indicates that as soon as
the additional equipment now ordered
has been installed and placed in oper-
alton, that Silver King will step into
the front rank of important producers
of silver in this state
At least 5000 tons of milling ore
which runs from $40 to $25 ton has
been blocked out on the 400 level. and
it is to handle this immense amount
of rich ore that Silver King is now
proceeding as fast as possible to dou-
bic it's milling capacity. The report
says, in part:
I'm the last report to the stockhold-
ers it was stated that no shipments
would be made from the mine until
the shaft had been retimbered to the
400-foot level. This was accomplished
in July last. This level was cleared
out as far as the old stope, about 100
feet from the shaft
''The condition of the stope made it
necessary to run a drift around it in
a northeasterly direction in order to
get into new territory. About twenty
five feet had been driven in this drift
when several rich stringers of ore
were encountered, and followed up for
about. fifteen feet, or in all forty feet
from the main drift, when a body of
ore Of considerable size was found.
"a sill floor was established which
was five sets wide and four sets long,
each set five feet, encountering por-
phyry on all sides which showed that
chimney of ore had been struck. An
upraise in the ore body was started
and as it went up the body got, larger
so that the third floor was seven sets
wide and six sets long. From the
third floor two sets were run up to
the sixth floor, when it became neces-
sary to discontinue taking out ore
from the stope on account of limited
storage space. All the space on the
surface was filled with mill ore, so
that in order to continue bringing ore
out of the mine and sorting the same,
it would have meant two or three ex-
ira handling costs. About fifty sets
of ore were cleaned out from this
stope averaging $35 per ton, from
which were sorted ten carloads of ore
Of about 95 tons each which brought
net return of $122 per ton, amount
ing to $3S,229, after deducting rail-
road freights, treatment and smelter
charge.
There remained over 100 sets of
ore in sight, with the top set, or sixth
floor, still in ore. The sill floor pro-
duced the highest grade ore that was
taken out and it is yet to be deter
mined how far below the 4OO-foot level
this body of ore extends. ; This stope
is known as the East Slope of the 400
foot level.
"The surface was blocked up with
mill ore owing to the delay of the
Mine and Smelter Supply company III
shipping the No. 43 Marcy mill and
Dorr classifier. This machinery was
ordered in March and promised for
shipment in early June. The Marcy
mill arrived about the 1st of October
and the Dorr classifier the end of Oc-
tober 1t can be readily seen that if
the machinery had arrived as prom.
1sed, or even during July, the mill
would have been in operation and the
work of sorting out shipping ore and
sending the balance to the mill for
treatment could have continued. This
would have avoided the necessity of
ceasing operations in this ore body.
"The east drift on the 4OO-foot level
was started in territory never before
expolred. After going twenty-five feet
in this drift small rich stringers of
ore were discovered in the porphyry
and the porphyry itself showed min,
eral throughout. Samples taken from
across the face of seventeen feet of
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suit of thirty-one ounces in silver and
14.4 per cent copper This drift has
been extended over 100 feet and two
'crosscuts started forty feet apart, one
of which has been driven about, sew
= enty-five or eighty feet and the other
about forty feet continuing in ore. An
Supraise of twenty-five feet at the ex-
treme end of the No. crosscut and
an upraise of fifteen feet at. the ex-
Atreme end of the No. 2 -crosscut have
been made, still in ore, thereby block
ing out at least 5000 tons of this mill
ing ore, which should average between
= $40 and $25 per ton. This is. consid,
cred the most important strike which