Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1919-03-29
BLACKBERRY MINE
 MAKES SHIPMENT
 OFCONCENTRATES

The first shipment of concentrates from the new Blackberry mill will be in transit before this paper reaches it's readers, according to report from E. w. Sherman, superintendent of the mill. The shipment will contain about 40 tons, the value being between 250 and 300 ounces silver, $25 gold, 20 to 25 per cent lead and less than 10 per cent zinc. This will make one of the most valuable cars of ore sent from this county in many years. The mill is working fine and it is expected to double it's present capacity by the first of April, which make possible the shipment of two cars of concen- trates weekly. This would give an output of approXimately$100,OOO per month and make the mill second in production only to the United East ern. As the capacity of the mill will not be reached until three shifts have been put on it will be seen that with in a short time this plant will reach a production second to none in this part of the state.
 The mine is now getting caught up and within very short time will be able to reach the entire capacity of the mill. New stopes are being open ed in the big ore bodies and new sur prises are of daily, occurance. A few days ago a stope was carried into un- explored ground and six to eight feet of ore found that sampled over 70 ounces silver across it's whole width. Eighteen inches on the hanging wall of the vein sampled 1S0 ounces. 9th CT ore bodies have been entered that show great width and at no point has it gone below big mill values.
 The putting in commission of the big mill and the opening of the mine to a depth of 900 feet has brought to Mohave county another big producing property. No mining engineer who has been through the mine has other than good things to say of it and the most of them have been very enthusi- astic over it's future. And so great an interest has been created by the success of the mine and mill that all the country around is being prepared for development especially along the great Blackberry dike. The Hackber fy has large estate and all of it is mineralized. The ore shoots are long and the ore bodies exceptionally wide It is we'll situated, being less thai three miles from the Santa Fe rail read at Blackberry and downhill pull all the way from the mine to the rail road. It has one of the finest mill ing plants in the state and it's min equipment is of the best.
 The success of the project is du to the efforts of Gus s. Holmes, prin cipal shareholder in the property, t whom fell the burden of financing tn property from the first. William Neagel must be credited with tn splendid manner in which the or bodies of the famous old mine hay been opened up. I {"
 Mir. Holmes and wife, who hay been looking closely after affairs her the past several months, departed t Los Angeles, where they will atten to business connected with the com pany affairs. MT. Holmes must sur ely be congratulated on the good wor done in financing this mine, espec ially during wartime, when the oh taining of finances were under al conditions hard, and especially in tn building of such milling plant, whe it was almost impossible to get ma chinery for any purpose. But he ha the consolation that he and associate have one of the big things of the stat to rely on for reimbursement.