Weekly journal-miner., 1922-09-06
VERDE INSPIRATION. IS BEING UNWATERED
 San Francisco People Back Linesba to Prove Property and Order a 1OO-Ton Mill Addition as We'll as Cyanide Plant for Mine
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 w. w. Linesba of San Francisco arrived in the city yesterday from the camp of the Verde Inspiration Mining company in the Verde dis trict, about nine miles south of Je- rome in the Black Hills range. He has been in the country some time and has brought his own confidential mining engineer.
 When work was begun a few weeks ago, there was two-compart- ment shaft on the ground 400 feet deep. It was timbered with Oregon pine and the water was standing in this shaft at the l50{oot level. A high pressure, four-inch pump line was put into the shaft and the water has been lowered to the 250-foot level. Several drifts and cross-cuts have been cleaned out as the old established levels have been reached. Considerable work is still to be done to clean up all the old work down to this point. Fortunately for the operators, the old timbers are stand ing fine and only an occasional one has to be replaced by a new one. As soon as the drifts down to the 250 level have been put ill shape, the water will be pumped from the shaft still deeper til, the bottom is reached. After that it is the plan to continue sinking the shaft to the 900 or 1,000- foot level. The reason for this par ticular point being set upon for the shaft to reach is that at this point the three prominent and ore-bearing parallel veins should intersect each other figuring carefully on their rela- tive dips. At this intersection, which will also be in contact with a large iron porphyry dyke which parallels the veins, there is expected to be found an ore body (which the com 2any will not be ashamed in any company.
 Showing the absolute faith of Mr. Linesba and his packers, which by the way are all in San Francisco and other California points, a 10O-ton ad- dition to the present mill has been ordered and a 100-ton cyanide plant is already on the ground ready for installation. The old workings which i are being cleaned out were opened | i'll the boom days before the panic of ] 1908 and the shaft has not been open | ed since except by the company some l months ago in order that the ore ! might be sampled. It was found that l the values are uniform and that there ! are about 25,000 tons of ore already | blocked out and ready to be broken ! for the mill, which will average SIS 1 per ton in gold and silver. It is an oXidized ore, and does not carry | enough copper at the surface to in terfere with cyaniding. This condi- ton may change as depth is gained, but the tonnage above the sulphide zone is granted to be sufficiently large to justify the installation of f cyanide treatment for the ores above |, that zone. This will give a bullion product which does not have to be shipped to smelters.
 When Mir. Linesba came out on his recent trip the company owned only nine claims but he has arranged by location to secure the ground ly- ing between the company's property and the old Jerome-Prescott highway, and when he has completed all his work, he will have lined up all told nearly 30 claims. This is considered important because in the Verde dis trict ore bodies have been found out side of what might appear to be the best ore bearing formation. The en- tire surface near these three veins on the property where the present development is being carried will pan good in ire gold. This is taken as an indication of wide dissemination of the ore bearing material.
 Besides the installation of the new mill as above mentioned, the com pany has bought a new 2II-ton Jum- , bo truck, and is hauling in building material and supplies and is repair ing the old houses and putting up some new buildings so as to be able to house a proper force of men when the mine is on a larger operating basis which will be almost at once.