Arizona state miner., 1926-04-10


Equipment from the Silverbell mine
and the Sasco plant have been OBJ
tanned for the new ore sampling
works to be built shortly in Tucson,
according to Miles M. Carpenter, sec
retary of the Tucson Chamber Of
Mines.
New Cornelia Copper Company,
Michael Curley manager, Ajo, Ari-
zona, produced 5,972,4SO pounds of
copper during February. Calumet
and Arizona, the parent company,
produced 3,59Q,OOO pounds during the
same period.
The Western American Mines
Company operating the Ell Trio mine
at Silverbell, Arizona, reports the
striking of silver-lead ore in one of
the lower levels. To date the ore
body has been cut Is feet and drifted
on 40 feet, with no waste rock yet
Trio was known as a lead and silver
mine and this discovery is evidently
the faulted portion of the ore body
originally mined. G. w. McHenry is
superintendent at the mine Percy
Williams, consulting engineer. has his
offices in the Santa Rita Hotel Build
ing, Tucson.
The Greenback Extension Mines.
| Inc, has filed it's articles of incorpor-
alton with the state commission. The
! incorporators were J. E. Morrison and
o. G. Ludwig of Phoenix Capital
stock Of $1,000000. Interested in the
proposition are Howard NJ Snyder,
Capt. E. T. Barnett, and DR.. I. E.
/ Reddin, all of Casa Grande.
Jack Davey, owner of the Bomboy
claims, Superior, Arizona, has in
stalled a 25-horsepower, Fairbanks
Morse Diesel engine, a 9x8 Chicago
pneumatic air compressor with com
plete equipment and an outfit of Co.
chise Jackhammers with necessary
accessory installations. The euuip-
| ment orders were placed through
Jules Vermeersch, Phoenix. Arizona.
1t is reported from Mammoth that
the United Verde Copper Company
+ of Jerome, Arizona. has taken an op-
tion on the old Mammoth and Mo-
hawk mines at Schulze, near Nam
moth, Arizona. A group of United
Verde engineers are on the ground
making extensive examinations. The
option is said to run for a period of
30 days and that the option price is
$750,O00. The buyers are to sink the
present shaft of the Mammoth from
the 850-foot level to the 1,1OO level
and to do specified amount of drift
ing along the vein of this level.
An additional contract for motor
drifts, 8x8 feet, has been given by
the Magma Copper Company, Super
iOr, Arizona, to F. S. Stoll, Box 2S6.
Superior, Arizona. Mr.. Stoll has al
ready completed about 1000 feet of
such work for the Magma company.
This new work will consume several
months time
The assets of the Gila Copper Sui
phide Company, better known as the
Christmas mine, near Winkleman.t
Arizona, were bought at sheric's sale
recently at figure approximating
$650,000. Purchase was made by
Sam H. Morris, attorney for the stock
holders of the defunct organization.
The property has been recently op-
Grated under the management of F.
A. Woodward of Globe, Arizona. The
recent transaction is reported to be a
step in the matter of reorganization
and re-1nancing
William J. Forback, operating the
Reymert mine near Superior, Arizona,
has purchased considerable used
equipment in Tucson, for use at the
mines. Mr.. Forback and his brother
are developing a silver-gold-zinc prop
erty from which they are making reg
ular shipments. They are endeavor-
ing to find satisfactory method by
which the zinc values can be recov-
cred
The Magma Copper Company is
running a spur track from it's railway
to the Bomboy mine, 10 miles south
west of Superior, Arizona. The Bonn
boy has been developed into a pro
ducer of gold, silver and copper by
the efforts Of G. Bomboy Tom Gray
and Jack Davey. Air drill equipment
is being installed for increasing the
output of ore which is being treated
at the Magma smelter.
An option of purchase has been
taken Oh the Silver Bell mine, Super
ior, Arizona, by Lewis w. Douglas,
Box 292, Phoenix, Arizona. The Sill
yer Bell is producer of gold and
silver The Douglas group has also
acquired the J. A. Campbell claims