Arizona state miner., 1926-04-10
Arizona's Mining Industries Purr-
ing With Activity That Is
Startling the World

I6uUIdl
w. Prout, general manager, at Dos
Cabesas, has completed the new head
frame at the Elma mine and the new
electric hoist will soon be in opera
tion. This hoist was manufactured
nv the Vulcan Iron Works, run by
75-horsepower motor and has
65OO-pound rope pull good for LOUO
foot depth. Under the direction Oh
II w. Brock, tranmway engineer for
the Frederick and Bascom company
work on the Observation-Disclosures
+,.orowav is well under way, including
the framing of timbers, excavations
for receiving and discharging termln-
ais and other necessary preliminary
construction work. The new electric
locomotive ordered from General I'll
ectric will be received during May
The Night Hawk Leasing company
at Bisbee, Arizona, declared a olVl-
dond of 25 cents a share on its out
standing stock. payable March 2O.
The Centurion mine, controlled by
T. P. Richardson of Dragoon' mas
bnen examined lately by couple Oh
onoiners looking for new propertleS'
The shaft, an incline one, was SUNK
- tho 7OO-leyel some time ago, ana
35 feet of water is in the sulnp'
High grade copper ore was coming
oross the shaft when sinking was
stopped.
The Benson, Albert and Mellgren
concentrator, Tombstone lnacClSe
during the past few months pending
co++1ement on shipment of conceh-
+rates which went astray last Octo-
her. has resumed operations V. u
Me1lgren will act as manager. Dur
ino the shutdown Mellgren added sew
oral new units to the plant ana Is
now handling ore from the Silver
Thread mine as we'll as material from
the dump. Three full shifts are .oe-
mo used. C. S. Benson and II. ".
A1bert are operating the SILVER
Thread mine.
The extensive marble deposits IN
the Dragon mountains are to be ue-
welcomed very shortly by the owners
paul Monier of Tucson and Bruce
C+onbanson of Douglas. These de-
roeits were quite recently examined
bv N. edfern, geologist for the
Southern Pacific company, and capltal
rrovided for their development. The
demand for marble among the Paclllc
coast building trades will provide
favorable market for the product
The management of Calumet ana
Arizona Mining company at Blspee
is very we'll satisfied with the new
ore development near the Camppeh
shaft in Junction gorund. The most
remarkable Ind is above the l,79O-
Foot level where Raise No. 64 con
times TO show high grade ore. At
last report from Bisbee this raise
had been cut up a distance OF LOU
feet and was still in high grade
Crosscut No. Is, on the 800-foot leVei
of the Cole shaft, has reached 1ol
feet and is still in ore of good grade
The new Leedy mill, operating al
+ba old Emerald mine, Tombstone,
will soon be in regular operation.
7 p. Endsley, field engineer for the
Simpson Engineering company Of
Long Beach, California, has been in
charge of the designing and cOnstruc-
tion of the Leedy mill. It has been
constructed to treat approximately
100000 tons of ore discarded by for
mer operators. This ore will run
from 80 to 40 cents in gold, to 10
ounces in silver, and 2 to per cent
lead to the ton The company formed
to construct and operate the mill
consists of Dan Leedy, general man
ager; Tom Kane of San Francisco,
secretary; and Ellis Rosenberg OF
Long Beach, business manager. The
Emerald property is leased from the
Phelps Dodge Corporation.
Miller and Dorsey, mining men OF
Dos Cabesas, have taken lease on
the Leroy lead-silver mine and are
making shipments to the Ell Paso
smelter.
The Tombstone district of Arizona
shipped 20 cars of silver-lead ore
during the month of February. March
shipments will probably be larger
due to the activities of the five mills
cf the district The Mellgren mill is
running three shifts: the Johnson is
rrrning two shifts; and the Sebring-
F-ceo two mills running one shift
ceo+ Tan Fraera1d is ready 70 start