Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1920-04-03
DEVELOPMENT TO
 START SOON ON
 BLACKBERRY CON.

AS we nave pISuiSeCu, liiS SoA'' n dation of the Blackberry Consolidated Mining Company and the Senate Sil- yer Mining Company has finally been perfected, and the deal closed. Work is already under way by the new man. agement. This will mean an aggres- sive campaign of development, with the probability that Mohave County will soon have big producing silver mine. Superintendent Sievert is now busy organizing his crew, re-arrang- ing surface equipment, and preparing the shaft and machinery for produc- tive work.
 Work has been discontinued on the Senate Silver property and a big de- velopment campaign is mapped out, so that all work will be done from the new Blackberry Consolidated shaft. Arrangements have been made for the expenditure of some $225,O00.OO on development work, if this amount is found necessary. The Blackberry property is particularly we'll equipped A new 2OO-ton Notation mill was com pleted several months ago. There is in addition to the mill, power plant sufficient in size for all purposes This plant is considered one of the best in the county. It has three 2OO H P. Semi Diesel units, each unit be- ing direct connected to dynamos, SC that the whole plant can be operated by electricity. The main shaft no" has a depth of 800 feet, with five levels; and although the laterals are not extended to any great distance, t is the plan of the new management to immediately extend these laterals SC that good reserve of ore will al ways be ahead of the mill.
 The new management plans to dis card all of the gasoline engines about the mine, and use the Semi Diese plant exclusively. All of theNunder' ground workings will be lighted with electricity, electric triplex pumps vii be installed to take the place of the present system of air pumps, and ar electric hoist will take the place o1 the gasoline hoist formerly used.
 The combined properties of thu Blackberry Consolidated and the Sen ate Silver own some fifteen thousand feet along the Blackberry lode ant : about one thousand feet of this can bt considered as proven by the develop ment work done on both properties Not only has the outcrop been minet on the surface in the past years sue .cessfully by chloriders, but the worl ings from both the Blackberry ant Senate Silver shaft have been of sui ficient extent to prove that the ground between the two shafts will produce great tonnages of ore. The portiol of the vein opened on the Senate Sil yer has proved to carry higher aver age values than that in the Hackberr! Consolidated workings, although it is somewhat narrower. This holds fortf great promise for future development work.
 Little or no work has been done to the north of the Blackberry shaft and this territory, from all indications on the surface, should prove equally as good as the territory to the south
 The Blackberry Mine was one of the early producers of silver in Mohave County, and it has a record of ship ping some two million dollars to the mint, in the days when the ore had to be packed to the Colorado and shipped down the river.
 With a sufficient development com pleted and stopes blocked out and broken ahead of the mill, so that there will be ample ore reserves, the Hack berry will rapidly become one of Mo have County's biggest producers. The ore is there-the equipment is there and it will require only some money and development work to put this property in shape for long life of production.
 The men who will be in charge of the operations of the property are well known in Mohave County. They are mining men of long experience and have already brought in one big mine in the Oatman District.