Bisbee daily review., 1920-03-07
COPPER BELT IN
YAVAPAI FORCES
RAPIDLY AHEAD
BY r. w. Bower

| PRESCOTT, Ariz., March 6. - Blu
few people comprehend the magnitud.
OF the mineral resources of Yavapa
4 county. So extensive are the miner
! aiIzed areas tina. ii is practically i'm
POSSIBLE for anyone to keep track OF
the development work that is in prog
ress.
The great copper belt, beginning al
Jerome on the north and extending fol
one hundred miles southward TO New
on account OF the numerous companies
What are spending money freely i'll de
yelopmenC work. The two big copper
mines at Jerome at the present time
lead all other copper properties in the
county, but there is a possibility, and
a strong one, too, that there Will be
other cOppers just as large and as rich
along this great belt, even to the Kay,
which already is hitting big stride
toward one OF the real big copper
mines of the state.
The silver situation is certain 20 at
tract big capital 10 the several camps
the next few months for there are
many old-time silver properties that
were worked years ago and have since
been forgotten, that can be resurrected
with but little capital and made to nay
again. OF these old timers, there
could be mentioned thirty or forty old
producers that are scattered from
Groom creek, south OF this city, to the
Tip Top mine which is in the neigh
borhood OF seventy miles south OF
Prescott An along this great mineral
lied belt are to be found scores of
really very promising silver-gold pros
poets that have been but partly devel-
oped or held in many cases by location
work only.
Two mines may be selected out of
the many, as examples OF what new
capital, coupled with good manage
ment and the newer methods OF mill
can accomplish. They are
the Silver Belt, two miles west Or
Humboldt and the Monte Cristo, on
Groom Greek, eight miles south of
Prescott. Both are old silyer-gold-lead
properties and are in camps ten miles
apart, on parallel vein systems.
1t IS estimated that the Silver Belt
nine has produced we'll over 100000
rom old workings by former owners.
The mine is now owned and is being
developed by a progressive company
which has sunk an old shaft to depth
If 500 feet, following the main ore
lodIs--At that 5orth -tIae. -rai,,- 49,,
lalt teet OF milling and shipping ore
The high grade will run from 200 10
90 ounces silver and 20 per cent lead
md the milling grade is from $40 to
;4O per ton ore. A conference or the
principal stockholders OF the company
s being held in san Francisco this
week to pass upon the question OF
erecting a Seton flotation mill at the
nine at once. The consulting engineer
IS u. II. Burt, the president, john j.
Mahoney, OF San Francisco and the
ye,. etal manager, Ben cybon, of Pres
colt.
4 remarkably rich piece OF native Sill
yer ore was brought to the city To-Day
from this mine, taken from new
strike On the S00-foot level. The ore
will average about $4,000 ION. A car
load shipment OF the high grade is be-
ing made this week and it is expected
to net the company from eight to ten
thousand dollars for the carload.
The Monte Cristo has about the
same record Tor production in the Oh
DAYS as the Silver Belt The mine has
several old shafts and tunnels, most
Of the work being out OF repair. w
II. Worthington, mining engineer
took over the property short time
ago and began a systematic cleanms
I'M of the old works. His first snip
ment of five tons of ore averaged from
1000 to 5000 ounces of silver. lie
has a 15-ton fIotation mill completed
and ready to run on several thousane
tons of old stope and damp ore tna'
will make mill head of $50 40 $oO
ton. This first mill unit viii pay 10
all the future mine development ani
Law many a good dividend reserve DC
sides. The main body OF ore Is lrou
A,ur to eight feet in width.
These old silver properties are ca
sremely attractive just at the preseh
time for two reasons; the high piic
of the metal and the new oil flotatlo'
process for the sulphide ores and IN
| improyed methods of cyanidatlon u
ttbo ov,dized ores. OF particular valu
is the flotation process for most Oh III
old mines have worked out the sur1ac
Tor oxidized ores, the old workings OF
ing down to the water level where tn
sulphide ores begin.
South of and adjoining the SllFe
| Belt mine is the Anderson'Birch sllV'
mine which has been developed entlr
" from the ore taken out of working
,,o+ lo1vor than 300 feet Three ca