Weekly journal-miner., 1920-12-01
SILVER ORE COMING TO THE FORE AGAIN
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 After slletching the part played by
 silver mining i'll this country from i25 to 30 years ago, when silver was ! the mining queen and Fhe backbone Of Yavapai, and the old Peck, Sunny South, Zero and other silver proper
 ties were flourishing at q time when the big copper holdings of today were just beginning 10 develop, Gil-
 more yesterday told of the develop
 ment work being done on a group of
 new silver properties all of which have come to the fore within the last
 six months.
 Silver is coming to the fore again" Gilmore said. "Yavapai is Ipreeminently a mining county, and is very rich in silver, which constituted it's chief mining industry before the big copper companies at Jerome were under way"
 Going over some of the ore dis plays at the chamber of commerce mineral exhibit, Gilmore pointed out the ores from the newly developing silver prospects The Mary Louise, in the Eureka district, owned by Pentland, Mayer, Giroux and Barron, who took the property over from (. C. Stukey, its former owner, IS pro ducing lead-silver ore assaying 20 per cent silver, 40 per cent lead, and SC gold to the ton. The Mistake, the Deering mine in the Thumb Butte district, recently shipped 30-ton lot of silver-go1d ore, which netted them, after all expenses were paid, $5,O0O. The ore from this mine assays 23l9 ounces of silver and SIG in gold to the ton.
 The Blue Jacket, one of the prom ising newer silver mines, is produc- ing silver chlQride assaying $20O to $1, 500 a ton, and the Swastika, in the Peck district, $500 to $2,OOO. The Swastika is the property of F. NJ. Giroux.
 In the Verde district, the Shea Cop per properties are producing an ore netting 500 to 1,5OO ounces of silver a ton. The copper content of this ore varies from 20 to 40 per cent The Marquerette, owned by Baker and Ryckman in the Walker district yields a silver-gold-copper-lead ore showing the following proportions: Silver, $50; gold, $l4; copper, 4 per cent; lead, 40, per cent with a good ore stretch" Gilmore said, "this prop erty is likely to make a mine"
 Gilmore's own property, the Ruby Silver, abutting on the north end of the NC-4 location, is assaying 200 to zoo ounces of silver per ton. This ore was encountered in September, and taken down to make a place for the chute. It has three distinct charac- tcrs. A sample of fine grain galena assayed 486 ounces i'll silver and 5S per cent lead. The second sample, Of coarse grain galena showed 122 ounces of silver and @ per cent lead.
 The third sample, although not as sayed for lead, was estimated to con tain 25 per cent Of this metal, and as saved 68O ounces of silver to the ton. This last sample was taken from the bottom of the Ruby Silver tunnel, at the exact spot where the shaft will be continued. Development opera tions on this property, consisting of l q raise between the main tunnel and [ that on the south side hill, were com pleted Saturday. This raise, now 60 feet, will be continued through to the | surface, and will then form the upper | portion of the upper 135 feet of the working shaft to be sunk later on. This shaft will go down at the point . where the sample assaying 680 ounces was mined.
 At a point on the north breast Of the property, tunnel will be run 100 feet to a point where in the early | days ore of the same high grade class as the newer samples was taken out.
 In the same neighborhood as the Ruby Silver, the Little Johnny, of which H. Blanvelt is superintendent, i is putting in timbers, with Horace Yeoman on the job. The Lucky Strike people, Gilmore says, are talk ing in supplies, and have just com oleted several camp buildings. A volley of shots can be heard from their new tunnel.
 The NC-4 is working right along, driving a drift to a point 75 feet be- ow the old Bonanza drift. It will .ake another 100 feet to come to this point. The NC-4 people are also brushing out for a wagon road from he Jersey Lily road to their property, he road now in use being much too steep.