Weekly journal-miner., 1922-10-04
By A. C. GILMORE
Superintendent Mineral Department, Northern Arizona State Fair.

!
 While running about Yavapai
 county in pursuit of mineral exhibits
 for the coming Northern Arizona fair, 1 1 have become impressed with the
 fact that the mining industry is far
 from being as moribund as is gen
 orally believed; dlat while others
 have lost faith and courage, ye pros
 pector and chlorider have dug in''
 all the harder
 Result. The opening up Of d con siderable number of excellent pros poets, and the putting upon the
 dump, ore which is as rich as that
 which was hauled by bull teams to
 California smelters in early days.
 The greater number of these chlor-
 iders are taking out silver ore; few
 have gold ore of very high grade.
 It IS entirely within the probabilities
 that one or mere of these small
 mines or prospects which are at pres
 ent making good wages for only two
 or three owners or leasers, will ulti-
 mately foot the payroll for hundreds
 of miners, and continue to do so for
 many years.
 While prospectors have lost inter est in the search for tungsten and 
 molybdenum and copper, which were in such great demand during the
 war, they have not lost sight of the
 fact that gold and silver always have market everywhere, and that there
 is a market for copper ores right
 here at home--at the Humboldt
 shelter
 Not little of the increased inter est ill mining and prospecting is due
 to the resumption of operations at
 Humboldt, for besides furnishing market for ores, it inspires confi- dence among miners and the com munity generaly-makes pessimism give way to optimism. The smoke rising from the stack at Humboldt, and from the locomotives as they shunt cars of ore back and forth in the yards of the Smelter. is an obvious sign of returning prosperity. That smoke, from railroad and shelter, means that there is more work for the railroadcr, for the miner, for the smelterman, and i'll turn a present market for agricultural products where, two years ago. jack rabbits could get free and safe lodging in the town.
 At Mayer two mining propositions are in the formative stage, either of which is apt to make that town in crease its population ten-fold in a short time. I refer to the recent strike of tcllurium ore only three miles from the little mining center, and to the fact that the immense beds of onyx at and near Mayer have been taken over by a company form ed recently for the purpose of work ing the quarries.
 Regarding the tcllurium ore--it is there. 1 have been on the ground, 1 and plead guilty to having "swipcd" a piece oi it. Also to having traced 1 the vein for at least three miles walked right along the outcrop, which | i'll places IS as wide as the Mayer | hotel. At how many places the tel lurium occurs in this and other sim liar veins i'll that section, remains to be determined by careful prospecting and q lot of good old-fashioned dig ging. Just two things certain regard ing the tellurium at present writing it has been found at one place, and it is very rich. The writer saw two pieces of the rock which had been roasted. Said rock as it came from the ground looked like excellent mis- 5ilcs to throw at a dog; but after be- ing roasted, the rock was beaded with gold The assaycr got very |, nigh returns, $3SO to $5,4OO per ton n gold.
 Regarding the onyX--the name of he corporation is the Yavapai Onyx , Mining corporation; James A. Kelly, { president Mir: Kelly is also associ- tied with the Liquid Carbonic com- 'any of Chicago, the largest manu { acturcrs of onyx products in the United States. Upon the platform of 1 he railroad station al Mayer 1 saw ( many large pieces in the deposit. } These pieces were samples, and bore +
 label which will take them to the h Liquid Carbonic company. IL
 w. o. Beliord who has recently I7 'ccn engaged in getting out the amples and in doing prospecting york, said that the area of the de osIt IS known fo he more than 800 | f