Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1920-07-31

mountains of Arizona, with record production of nearly $2,000,0O0 under the private operation of Frank Pow CTS, the old prospector, is now under way and rapidly coming into produc- tion again through operations con- ducted on modern basis by the Bach man-Merritt company, of which 0 .B. Bachman is president and general manager; Lewis J. Merritt, vice pres ident of the company, who is the orig inal discoverer and locator of the Mes saba iron range of northern Minne- sota, and is we'll known as the father of the iron production of the Lake region.
 The Worlds Fair has produced many carloads of silver running from 1000 to 2,000 ounces per ton and many a carload around $40,0OO, when silver was around 50 cents per ounce; so, with the present price of silver and modern up-to-date methods which are being put to effect by the Bachman- Merritt company, spectacular and profitable results may be expected from this property which has for 30 years held the record as the leader of southwestern silver mines, and has perhaps produced the richest carload shipments of any mine in the United States.
 It is again producing and stacking up high-grad to be shipped as soon as the new road which the manage ment is now building is completed, and pending completion of a modern reduction plant.
 The Worlds Fair mines are parti- cularly interested from the fact that they have been operated for nearly 30 years by private ownership and have been known as Powers Bank" as it was the custom of Frank Powers, the miner, to take out and sell few hun dred thousand dollars worth of ore then, after locking his tunnels, and leaving a guard on the property, he and his wife would take trip around the world; have good time spending the money, and then come back to their bank again for the same pur- pose, and repeat the operation.
 Under the new ownership, however, the Worlds Fair mine is being put into shape to be operated steadily, both from high grade standpoint, as we'll as milling basis.
 The new 100-ton concentration and Notation plant will be equipped with electricity and enlarged shortly to 300 tons daily capacity. Harvey rotating furnaces will be installed. The con- centrates and precipitates, as we'll as the high grade ores, will be reduced to bullion on the ground.
 The old sorting dumps" which contain thousands of tons of excellent milling ore, will be worked also.
 Roads into the mine, connecting the stage road, apd also the Gulch road, which connects with the Southern Pa cific railroad, at four miles from the mine and plant, are now being rebuilt, and in the meantime, opening up of new ore bodies, and stacking up high grade for shipment, while the inn provements are being made, goes steadily on with force of about 50 miners.
 Mexican labor is employed largely, though department heads, mechanics, and engineers are Americans.
 The ores, which are entirely sul- phide, carry silver, lead, gold and cop per, and are handled admirably by the process installed, construction of which will be shortly completed, and enlarged to handle 100 tons per shift.
 The plant is equipped with crush CTS, ball mills, drag classifiers, Dies ter Overstrom tables, Callow screens K. X K. Notation machines, Oliver filters, Dorr thickeners, Dorr settlers; in fact, a thorough equipment for ores of the character produced.
 The mine is equipped with two large compressor plants, air hoists, and air drills, and all modern appli7 ances.
 Main operation is through the low CT tunnel, 1850 feet in length, and through the shaft from the main tun- mel to depth of 300 feet from the hoisting plant, which is about 500 feet below the surface, or total depth to the bottom of the present workings of over 1000 feet. The ore bodies ill the lower workings have developed into massive sulphides, the proportions of whiche are continually increasing with depth.
 Bulletin No. 5S2 of the U. s. Geo. logical Survey has the following to say regarding the Worlds Fair mines:
 "The Worlds Fair mine is near the center of the western part of the dis trict, two miles west of Harshaw, on Alum gulch, at an elevation of about 4,6SO feet.
 "It was located in 1879 by a Mr/Mc