The border vidette., 1926-02-20
BIG jim MILL READY TO START
Will Turn Out 100000 Worth of
Concentrates Per Month.
(Santa Cruz Patagonian)

Jim mine at Harshaw at present
owing to the fact that the new
concentrating plant is ready for
operation. Work of installation
was delayed for several days,
says Superintendent J. J. Peter
son, on account of bad roads
caused by recent storms, which
made hauling of the heavy equip
ment impossible. However, the
trouble in that direction is over
and the mill ready to do it's part
to reduce the big deposits to q
high grade shipping prod uct.
The Big Jim mill will start off
on a basis of SO tons per day,
with an increase in tonnage as
the machinery is worked in.
Although the mill now has a
capacity of IS tons per day. the
management plans for the first
few months to treat about 1000
tons per month. This will mean
some $60,GC0.O0 per month of
new wealth to the district, with
increased amounts as the opera
tion goes forward.
Much interest has been shown
in the district surrounding the
Big Jim and several mining pro
perties adjacent there to have
changed handsome on a cash
basis and others on q bond and
lease plan. Active operation Of
many nearby properties is ex
pected with the completion of
the Big Jim concentrating plant.
Among other properties to
change hands within the last
few weeks were several claims
adjoining the Big Jim. Herman
Bender an old-time Harshaw
miner, sold for cash several
claims and Grover Marsteller
sold on a bond and lease, it is
said several claims that. adjoiu
the Big Jim.
Financial papers and mining
journals have lately been giving
considerable space to the Pata
gonia. district, which is being
talked of more and more in min.
ing circles, owing to the large
and numerous deposits of lead
silver ores here. Below we
quote, in part, an article that ap
peared in the Los Angeles Elk
aminer of January 25, 1926,
written by Charles H. Haskell,
financial writer for that news
paper:
One of the Oldest mining
districts in the United States
will come into it's own during
1926, after lying practically
dormant for more than so years,
according to mining men return
ing to Los Angeles from Santa
Cruz county, in Southern Ari
zOna.
There is claimed to be no
parallel in American mining
history with the facts surround.
ing the territory within q 50
mile radius OF the city of No
gales. Within this circle half of
which is in Mexico, 233 success
full mines have been developed.
The great majority of these have
only scratched the surface of the
available metal and have lain
undeveloped for decades.
The first of the old mines to
to be brought out of the maze of
difficulties surrounding most of
the Santa CRUZ county properties
is the Big Jim. formerly known
as the Blue Nose and Abe Lin.
coin. The mine is one of the
most promising of old properties,
the surface possibilities of which
had been developed years ago.
A year ago it was taken over
By Los Angeles interests. Since
then the mine has been put in
shape for the extraction of ore
from the upper levels, shafts
run to lower depths, and the
most modern concentrating mill
in the southwest completed on
the property.
THE mill has now been fully
completed and shipments of ore
will begin justt as soon as ad
iustments of machinery and in,
stallation of electrical equipment
are completed. Shipments are
expected to run over $50, 900 a
month.
THE excellent results obtained
by the Big Jim management are
spurring others to activity in
the old silver lead district, the
historic background of which is
one of the most interesting in
the west. The Oldest metal
mines in the United States are