Arizona state miner., 1925-10-03
SOUTHWESTERN
MINING
NEWS

Two of the Verde Valley farmers
got verdict of $1,997.55 against each
of the two smelling companies of the
United Verde and the United Verde
Extension; six received awards from
$3.50 to $780, An appeal is announced
The winze from the 120O-foot level
of Kay Copper, SO miles north of
Phoenix Arizona, reached the 1900
foot level last week, having been in
massive chalcopyrite ore of good
grade the entire distance. On Sep
tember 5 the bottom of the winze
showed one streak three and a half
feet wide on the hanging wall side
Of the winze and from one to two feet
on the footwall side.
Copper is up to 15c, silver, lead and
zinc are all up to good prices, and
western ores that contain several or
all of these are in demand.
1t is the business of every farmer,
every workingman, every storekeep-
er, to encourage legitimate mining.
1t means money in his own pocket,
more and better clothes and food
and advantages for his family, better
homes and better schools. Mining
money spreads like oil on water, like
perfume on air; it touches everybody.
The man-made fire in the sulphide
ore bodies of the Copper Belle mine
of the Shannon Copper company at
Gleeson is still burning fiercely, with
no sign of abatement. It is impossi-
BILE, however, to get into or near the
workings, where the ores are burning,
although from the smoke and fumes,
which are emitted from the shaft it
is known that the sulphide veins be-
tween the 400 and the 100, which
were purpOsely set af1re over a year
ago, are still burning. Setting fire to
the sulphide ore bodies for the pur-
pose of finally teaching the ore from
the underground levels is believed to
be the first experiment of it's kind
ever attempted.
The Mountain Queen mine, located
in the Walapai mountains, is being
financed by a Chicago orchestra head
ed by Hugo Fox, Carl Bruckner and
Axel Skjerne. 1t has a vein 40 feet
wide cropping out for 1000 feet.
Digging for water, A Kempf, about
40 miles southwest of Yucca, recently
broke into a large body of rich gold
ore that runs $50 to the ton Other
veins were opened up and now he has
mine.
The Kay Copper Mine in Yavapai
County shows its best ore at lowest
depths. High grade chalcopyrite has
The North Star has shipped trial
lot Of 35 tons that is expected to run
better than 500 per ton in gold. The
ore is from the apex of the vein
Other points in the vein are excep-
tionally rich and as blocked out is
sure to continue for long distance.
Work was resumed last week on
the Consolidated Vanadium mine s
miles east of Wickenburg. The ore
recently encountered is said to be the
best in the world.
The Idaho mine, in the Orc Blanco
district south of Tucson has developed
a splendid body of lead-silver ore
More than $50 feet of drifting on
the vein at different levels has in
augurated plans for stoping out ore
for the smelters.
A Tucson company will drill for
oil IL miles north and miles east
of Bowie. An old well was sunk near
there seven years ago, but the com
pany ran out of money.
During the past month permits to
sell mining stock have been issued
to Bryan Akers of Phoenix on the
Cerbat Gold Mining Company; M. r.
Matthews of Globe on Silver Dime
Mining Company; S. Curtis of Bouse
on Old Maid Mining Company; T. Fl.
Wright of Prescott for the Hassay-
ampa Gold Mining Company.
The Kelly group of 26 claims in the
Bradshaws. once the property of F.
x. O'Brien of Wickenburg, has been
leased to G. w. Bartholomew, a Wy
oming mining and oil geologist. Re-
ports of government experts 20 years
ago declared formations from the
Bradshaws extended southwesterly
across the Colorado into the Imperial
Valley.