El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-06-24
MIME To TREAT
ITS OWN ORES
New Shaft Connects With
Main Ore Body in the
Swansea Workings.

Phoenix. Ariz., June 2f.-Large I'M
provemeuts are being made at the
Swansea mine. I'm northern Yuma
county. including a 200 ton noatation
mill. this following a series Of eX-
periments in concentration made By
the mine management Most Of the
mine product latterly has been going
20 the United Verde smeltery ia the
Verde valley. necessarily Of sorted
ores. The lower grade sulphides left
viii furnish milling material for
material for many months 10 come
A new 500 foot working shaft has
been completed. and connected up
with the main ore body. securing
economical stopping and transporia-
ton The property is equipped win
a large smelling plant lnaJ c 17..
hardly be operated economically
under present conditions. a legacy
from an over ambitious management
when the title was held by the Clara
Consolidated company.
In the last few years the mine has
been getting gradually out or ueol
under an advantageous lease system,
and its bankruptcy soon is expected
TO be a thing Of the past.
4 large part OF the stock IS held In
Belgium and northern France Hun
dreds Of the stockholders. including
the president OF a year ago. no longer
can be located
strike In Silver King.
There is report that in the famous
old Silver King mine, 90 miles east OF
Phoenix. there has been cut. on the
500 level, a new ore body. 20 teet
thick. with very good values In silver
and copper Almost necessarily, Work
is in new ground, as the old workings
are fun Of water or badly caved- a
so ton mill is being built To handle
the concentrating ores
another pioneer silver producer is
the Tip Top. in the southern Brad
shaws. about half way between
Phoenix and Prescott, once active on
the san Francisco board. and reg
ular dividend payer. Il has been
taken over by Il. C.. Wilmott q Co.. or
New York
The deep shaft. now full OF water,
viii be cleaned out. and new reduc-
tion plant installed especially TO Sc
cure the tungsten. which now has
larger value than the silver
Sheriff sells Copper Mine.
The sheriff OF Pinal county has
sold. under attachment proceedings, ]
the property Of the Arizona Ray Cop
per company at Ray. the purchasers
being W B. Smock and r. T. Dorsey. /
This corporation. organized IN Los
Angeles, for months was the center
of an advertising campaign under I
stood TO have enriched its promoters. T
through practically no work, other I
than q start at drilling. was done on ]
the property, which lies just above /
the Ray toWDsite-
It IS understood that little or no /
ore was ever found, the basis OF exc
-rava giant claims being the fact that
the Arizona Ray claims ad1oius the
property Of the developed Ray Con-
zoHdated and Ray Hercules compan-
les
A great shortage Of mica has been
by the war minerals COM
nittee at Washington. 90 the Arizona
state bureau OF mines. Arizona has az
least one large deposit Of the min
sral. bur 10 has been left unWOrked
lnder operation Of federal laws u I.
les on the Pima Indian reservation, +
near the summit Of the Sierra Estrel- t.
"a range, and about 10 miles from the
main line Of the Southern Pacific rail- I.
Dad. POSSIBLY 20 miles west Of Mari +"
,opa. Large and clear sample sheets
rave been brought into Phoenix in
ly gone years
Make Valuable Strike.
In the Pleasant valley section OF
lorthern Tonic basin. east OF Payson,
.u the Spring creek mine. John Carol
IN and associates have developed a
property said 10 be OF unusual merit
With several gold and silver leads
ven explored by deep tunneliug-
ore from one vein samples above
wo ounces in gold and up 20 90
.uuces silver. The property viii De
reducing soon, as a stamp mill with
yanidiug tanks. Is about COMPLETE