Weekly journal-miner., 1919-07-23
ACTIVITY OF MINERS
 SHOWS NEED GOOD ROADS

other form of metal mining has
 given great impetus to that industry
 in Yavapai county. The better dis tricts of the county are one by one
 coming into prominence by the aid
 of capital to open up the caved DOT
 tions of old and long neglected mines,
 and Prescott Is fortunate in having
 at least one great silver district right
 at her doors. The HasSayampa dis
 trict, or that part of it on the Jersey Lily road out about 10 miles, has no wagon road outlet to any other point, and the business therefrom is at present forced to come through
 Prescott, and the wagon road is in many places badly in need of repairs
 and some steep grades should be cut out by alterations so that automobiles md trucks can De used on that road. 1t is not hard country through which to build a road, and the fact that the road remains passable at all with the slight amount of work done on it during the last five years, is evidence positive that it is not hard road to maintain.
 During the past year the Ruby Sil- yer Mining company has been con- tinuously operating under the man qgement of A. C. Gilmore, an old time resident of this city, and a good ore showing has been cut in a tunnel and larger work will probably be lone in the future.
 Adjoining the Ruby Silver on the south and planning to operate the old Zero mine, is the NC-4 Silver Mining company, which has made arrangements to sink double com- partment working shaft or the ore shoot on the Zero vein, as well as to do other development on other of its holdings. The general con
 iensus of opinion of all those ia miliar with this ground is that there
 $ little chance of this property fail
 ng to make big producer. Leasers have. taken out of this property about $5OOO0 in shipping ore above
 he water level, and have left several thousand dollars in good mill ore on tne dumps. Hence one of the plans of the NC-4 is to put up a mill and make the mine pay dividends from the lew grade ores, and the extra money that will come occasionally from the high grade ores will be that much extra profit for the stockhold- CTS, they say Some operators say they will wait to get the high grade from which to build their mills, but the NC-4 with a six to ten feet vein of milling ore, plans to work the other way. Save all the milling ores md extract their values and take the shipping ore as it comes.
 Only a few miles further over are he Blue Dick and Mark Twain mines lying together and opened up by the same series of tunnels, and with his tory of about $1,O00OOO in produc- ion. There are valuable dumps of ore on this ground and in the old ,topes, broken, and in sight unbroken in the mines The group is under option ito J. F. Healy, who IS asso- ciated with some financiers who are planning a large concentrating plant to clean up the old orc reserves, and will also sink on the big veins known to go down below all the old work ings and which carry average values of about $2O and are of great size.
 Adjoining the Blue Dick and Mark Twain groups in the Dosoris group, which has been bonded to New York parties and who should begin work n the very near future. This group has produced about half million dollars without machinery and prac- tica1ly above tunnel levels, and the veins have shown no signs of giving out. One engineers report figures about $3O0,OOO ill gross value now on the dumps of tnis group, which should afford d profit of half that amount ii milled.
 If these four properties get going ;n that section, and open up paying mines, which seems almost certain, there is bound to be much other ac- tivity there, and that district will be one of Prescott's main business feed CTS, and will afford another big tax paying mining district for Yavapai county. The county can easily af- ford to invest few thousand dollars in road improvement for such sec ton as this. The present bad condi- ton of the roads are very discour- aging feature to visitors considering such operations as are planned, and while many may not be greatly in ff,euCpd +hprehv- still thPre k large