The daily morning oasis., 1918-03-07
MINING NEWS.
A Collection of Newsy Items
Among the Mines of Arizona.

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quantities was struck in the Tom
Reed, United Eastern and Gold
Ore mines. This find assays
from $40 to $4O0 per ton. A new
strike was also reported in the
old Comstock mine at Virginia
City last Saturday, at the 23OO
foot level. This strike has re-
vived some of the old bonanza
spirit of the early history of this
camp, when millionaires were
made and unmade in a day.
Clifton Era: Only a few
weeks ago more than 500 en-
ployes of the Old Dominion Min
ing Company presented a petit
ton to General Manager Nc
Bride, asking that he take steps
to establish a company store in
Globe unless there could be some
assurance that merchants there
would lower their prices on
many articles of necessity to the
home. Mr.. Mcbride promised
that he would make an investi-
cation of conditions and give his
answer to the petitioners later.
Last week, on similar complaints
made by employees of the Ray
Consolidated Copper Company,
General Manager L. G. Gates
gave out an ultimatum to stores
doing business at Ray and Hay
den that they could go no far
ther in the matter of high prices
for goods with the alternative
of a company store at these
places which would protect the
men employed by the company
from being heavily gouged by
the merchants now in business
there. Mr.. Gates caused his pri-
vate secretary to make an inves-
tgation of the prices paid and
charged by the local marchants'
and then provided a price limit
on many of the more necessary
articles.
Tombstone Prsopector: The
big shot was set off in the steam
shovel pit Thursday morning at
9:55r o'clock, on this (north)
side of Hill No. 8, and it was a
big success. One thousand ten
boexs Of 40 per cent Trojan pow
der Tin the powders or flour like
form), 800 lbs, was employed
in eight holes; and it is estimat-
ed that 100000 tons of ore was
broken up. There was but very
little noise, and very little to see
just a puff of smoke in two or
three places where a small guam
tity of powder burned without
exploding, and a slight move
ment, outward and downward, of
the whole side of the hill. But
examination of the mass, with
it's new and large fractures, WIS.,
ible on the surface, about 10
feet above the bottom of the
powder-filled holes and IS feet
back from the mouth of the holes
drilled from the hillside, bear
sufficient evidence Of the thor
oughness of the job. In the
largest previous shot in the pit,
27, 500 pounds of powder was
used. This one was, therefore,
nearly twice as large. Movies of
the shot were taken, and as the
weather conditions were favor
able the pictures will, it is be-
ieved, prove to be fine ones. The
foregoing occurred at Ajo.
Mohave Mineral Wealth: The
Bank of Campbell, Campbell, N.
Y, owners of the Cerbat Mining
and Milling Company, have TAX
en- a ten-year lease on the Elk
hart property, and the stock is
listed on the New York curb at
81 a share.--.---The Desert Pow
er and Water Company cut in
theTom Reed and United East
ern line this morning. 1t is an
entirely new line from Goldroads
to Oatman, and was built espe-
cially to take care of the power
used in that district. The line
was begun about December 1.
Charles Brazee was in again