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AlUZONA MINING 30uaNAL

Concentrates

COCHISE COUNTY S ......... 1IIl c.a ... Sit .. r Co.,..,.. ncntly shipped a carload of ore Calum.t & Arizona lIIIlelter at which mowed a lIilica conunt of ~nt and the gold-aimt content

to Ul.eO, of which $8.60 ".. '21.10 wu in ailver.

of aDver, COld and lead ore TOiablJto,'e dilltrict both by leu·

.. __ .... Hill eompeny continue the neicbborhood of 100

a month, aceordinr to the at the J6ea1 cMpot. With ail·

1.30 an 01lJMle Olia mean II a at least ,100,100 per month.

rellOritAd that a rich body of ore on the properties of the

.. rIM_ 1IlaIa, eo.panJ. at Drae­on th. bod,. runnine $75 to

.DYer and I.d. CAl...... " A"'--a Mla~ com­declared a~rlY dIvidend Aue, ~ Ie March 22nd.

inereue of 0 per cent over the

1triIt. of aulphide copper ore H bJ' the MMWl~1a mine, .ita· an. hom Pe&rce. Ore carr)'­.,aI... of ailver aDd ,.ad was in the ~ -...tt at tIM 100-

Fuffner of .. ~ ..... millina' ,...,..... bt tIM

ill whicli h. Is intareetect a ... favorably, tbe CoelUM Mi.·

com pan,. Us ne •• tlf indaUed encine whieb ia driTmg a ck·

tunnel. Abo the Ajax prop-.tart work lOOn, &8 well .. the Extension Co.

__ ""Ge. Arizona, in the last two baa IIhown liteM of a in operation.. after a

sQapenalon of the minell

GILA.

fI'OductioD of the Mia .... Copper ill b.ine kept ~o~ awai~ a

Produdion 18 averacmr .... aa 19U production. of the main shaft of the bOil

Globe district from the 1300 1600 foot level waa atarted re­

ProgTe118 on the buildinc for concentrator is rapid. Ore re­

.... beil1&' steadily increalled. . OW Domiaioa at Globe ill doing

sblking. The main operating aunk from the 18th to the llhaft from the 19th to

from Ule 14th to the 16th

report for the quarter end, , 1919, more than 120 feet

haa been added to the Foot­of the S\lperior and Benton com­

Several small stopell· are on the 400 level. Drifting

level is also reported to be

Dyke Copepr com~any of Mi­lil!hed the world s record in

_,,, ..... having sunk 10 feet a day

for one month of 31 de,.. or a total of 808 teet.

It Is repomd that a rieb .tnb baa beeD made on the 14O-1evel of the I~ miDe which ill lIituated in the Globe diatrid, about one mile north of the Old 0. minion.

The P.rpla,ry Miai •• compaJlT of Globe baa lueeeufull, completed the under­raemine of the drUl bole for the 12 ~-in. cuina' at the old Barne,. .... ft &ad the euing, lowered to a depth of 500 teet.

The Gila C ...... S ........ co.pan, at Chrilltmas Us eme~ from ita trouble with formal action by Judce 8&wteUe, in the U. S. Co art of Ariaona. m diam __ ing the reeeiverahip and turninC the prop­erty back to the ownen.

GREENL&E The Star.o mine, loeatecl one mile out

of Morenci, baa been abiJlPfnc to the C. A A. Smelter. The aibca eoJltent .... been al hip .. 82 per «:ent IUId da. Det return on a carload after payiD, all freight aDd amelter cha~ was between $1100 and ,1200.

The $160,000 mill ot tbe h ... MiaIa( II Mill., eoapany baa Men COIIlp1eted an4 ill now reedy f •• operation&. As 800. .. the aine 11 u ... t.nd, nidi will take about 15 .. ,. more, actiY. miDm. opara-tion will be eo ... enc.... .

MOHAVE W. D. Grannis baa mad. pJ1IfU'&tiona

for the reaumption of work OIl the c-t ."nc ~ Of the A~ a .... com­

pany Iii - the Cedar ~t Th. Groat Republic is ODe of old DI'OCluce" of the Cedar diatriet and they claim to ba.,. COld ope~ l'Unninc better than 60 oanc .. of ailver.

President Wolcl, of the T_ ..... com­pany, Oatman. reports coDditiou bett.r at Oatman thaD at an,. b. 1. the ... , three y .. n. Oabnan ia Mid to be pa)"inc the hicbeet waCeII of aD7 told camp in the world.

The Peto.i mine, formerly the Bella Union, lIituated at Chloride, ia reported to have been taken over b, Chaa. Schoen­mehl, who is planning a campaign of de­velopment.

The abaft of the Kin.-_ SU .. r-GoW Min.. company, situated about eighteen miles from Kincmall, in what ill known &8 Hardy'll Butfe, baa reached a depth of 30 feet and a bi, ho. and comprellllor in­lltalled. The work from now on is to be carried on with lDachine drill and big progresl ill expected.

Co.nsiderable excitement has been caused in Oatman by the opening of an ore body in a crosscut from the tunnel level of the Aleulld.r mine of the Oat­man Southern Mining company. Four feet of the vein are reported to have gIven assays of more than $2,000 to the ton.

The Combinatioll Silver Min.. com · pany of Hackberry, which took over the Combination propertiell reeently, ill ~t­ting IIhaped up for a buay seaaon of min­ing is the report coming from that lec­tion.

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The cro8lCat from tIM M&-leveJ of tM -r.I .. w. .i~ ~ OatlDaD, baa b-. cal'­ritcl qT'V 40 '"' .ad .. oloM to tM ON shoot that was encOuDtered OD Ut. 810-leTel.

Leuen of the 1ktJa;F min .. at CIllo­rid. ban eBtered 0 e body three fNt ill widUt that d... "'erace aatpl.. of from ,50 to ,71" ~ to.. This ore body was .neollntered et... to the lower JeT.il aDd Ii"" Neb of 150 feet for *fmc·

]leeently ... ~Irz, ~ ...... eempany alai,.,. I .. tb tI.. ._lter at B1UIlbo1dt whidl netted $12'70 or $16 JNf to ...

It ia nmored that tM s...te sw .. ..... eoIIIpany aDd u.. Hac~ will eouoliciau.

n is undentood tiaat the E.. rt [ .. to Ilncleqoo ~h d .. elopment widell th_ JUiII abaft will be actively e»­tended m depth. ero.aeuta will be cu­ried to both .. 118 aad into the parap .... .,.ina.

<>.ento" of die Aatl.r aa" c...­w..l.l ........ of YlIeea" are IIIIId1III a wtue below eM l00-lenl of tIM AMI ... On taken from tIlia winae is said to tan7 TaNa of .. oane .. silT .. , se ,.1' cent copper ad a _ll amount of ,old.

A ~ ~ cJf ore 11 "~rted a90 fee' ~. tIM portal of the tune) ~ drtvon bJ tile G.tee Aj_ ... ~. 'l'fai ore .-.oWl aiJ.,er~d .Iu ..

n.., c.w..... Aaa ... Ml .. ~ at J[1ncman 11 being flnaDeed to tile tent of '60,000 for deTeI.,_. . accorcUq to report.

.. ~~ity t:' Ari":!t g~~:~ ea.paQ fa clrtTiDc Ita t.an.l towvdl a ero. ftln. ...ct at a depth .t 2800 feet b'OIIl .. portal .... If;nJek a flow fII. water tIIat .. .,.w to bulic.te proldlll1tJ to the ......

n. aiD. aad Itolcllncs ., tM ~ a.tee .... COD1pa1lJ have been exu.m.d neatly b,. ..... IHD anet It i. aD­noune'" that u.e, TMOIIllHnd the !inane­inc of ~e properties on a lar~. aeale. New eqaipaent will ha.,. to be inMalled to earry on this work.

The..DiM& at Chloride ia makinc a'ood headway aeeordinc to recent report. from that aeetion. On the 800 the drift hall been cut 70 feet ~t and 18 feet eas~ Fifty feet _.at of the main abaft a croll­cut ill being run to tap the foot wall. An e!chty-foot ore shoot ill encounteHfi

. which ahoWi to be a vH'J arood millinlr ore.

The IIhaft of the United AmeriuD at Kincman has reuhed a depth of 450 feet. The vein now bein4r entered ill unexplored. no work havine been done on it at anJ point, although the outcrop looka good.

Drittinc is beine earried on to the east of the lhatt on the 660 lenl of the GoI411 0... mine.

It ill reported in Kinr;man that the Dia._d J_ mine bas jUlt made a IIaIp­ment of concentrates.

A new lea.. baa been made ... tlao • ala h

• at Chloride. A .trike of . grade Wall recently made and tIM Me bein~ hallled down for . hippiac.

ARIZONA MI NIN( , JOURNAL June. I t •

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. Chloride and the Wallapai Mining District Despite the .... t war; deepite the friTOI­

it)' of metal priC4ei d-.Ite the countless burdens of eo.t IaiII .... tIM ahoulden of the evet'7dq mall ~ the political I'YID­DUties of the __ ~able .-iriia-: tntion with wbieIa thiI collnt;ry· ... ever been-bI8lHd; ..,IM the citro. ,... _11IIl of omni"...... hOlallMuli, ..... IOID-total of AlpiratiOb aDd .woD .. , be limited by tile portenttoua f.dioDI ., ta.­nut ... y-da7; deapite all th_ Iwul1~ aad "tile fla" aDd woman .uffrac-. aad national prohibition (wUh no eape) 811. all of ~ .. vryda7 triaIa aDd tribuIaUo •• ad.rid. k .... memnc. sa ..... co .. tfau.Uy ineteUiDl' Dumber of am.. Ia procell of .tftloJlMQt .. the imaediate anel tributarr dWtrleta, with .aaDt india· tioM tod.!!f • aore IOlid aDd uaiD __ UIIa~.'" tan evv before; tWa coa­cIltiDaeloabtl .. beDc ca..-cl .. t·..., hi' tM r-ituDate cttnl.,...nt of ..... .. c:btII, but aJao b, •• oro .. pftIa.n .... bDwtedIe of ~·ftlue., .. _ aiud. ~" • .-at. ..we fI'GIIIl .. ....,.. ..... auea of • nUlber qt 01....,1. eoa ......

~m., all ONi frOID thi8 di.trIet "..

. : lOJIIetba .. to wtrt .....a ....... ... .to Europe d:dd tIiIII fIIe\ iliaci, to • evtain ute... .. idea In tM . '.ws of the . popaiatIA tllat DO dJlf--*

... lUi eoatlr proeedue would ever be '-tbl.. 'l'IIat tIM .. U r-ninp of tIM 'daiGrtdr' _ 'ftll .. the l.rpr to ...... 01 1M ..., ..... alllt an ... .s..-,;-_".... ... d ............ .....

~ e;.~=~.::= :;O:I~ tlti'l'I ..... __ ., -... ., ..... _ t • ttt eM , • .......,. of ~ .. Go

. §~;+E:~!':d t:-:.. At:' w:: .. _ ... a_1I! ............. a • ., ..... ----" "~iD""'" "."', ee'" . ' IiIII'tII1IIr ~ III ...u ...... '. bnft.... will ............... f •• ~ of O~I. wIdca. wII "II' ,..,. .... 1' roplaee ... ." dill .at cIQa.

......... f.yon ............ _ ,..

5.:;lIIIate laportuee ., ~.... iii. .ale-it "1' .... tnIJ ... ., ...

area .. of a .-tMa ........ eoff .... ubsdtate-.............. f" ... tIriJ l'eUOn (wpDl..-W "1' • eeNIa ~ of .... ())Ie .w..) II ... e.'" ftnDly fmed In the abMh Of a naa'" of IMn who .re both lDenta117 .nel flllueia1ly equs,ped to profit by it. The ''rouoD'' ia thia: That the Cerbat aa ....... 1M ..... an ...... t ....-t I Onl, -riDe the put ,... thit I'tMOD baa been Inth~ a:prelMd by two different 1D1am. opera­tors .f wide u:pertence, .nd iDdepad­ently of. each other; each of whca .... lubatantially the followin. lltatement: . HI bav. loked over praetieally all of the miJline distric:ta in North Ameriea, ud I ave com. here to Ray. for I bave Dever leen a Metion of the .. rth of liJIlilar Ese 10 wen mineraliaed!' "Why m.D I evln if you .... nt to eut out the properties offered for .. 1 •• there are thousande of pr~ whim are opened to location which have been lIuperficially opened tw.nty 7e&rII aco and abandon6d, which show conctitiona aDd values whieJP,' if they wer..-.ay in Tono­Dab, would be cobbled .p .t bie pricea." l"ne or-.ehutea. .. fouDd In ~e ' maiD

(By PROF. F. C. SMITH, Chloride, Ariz.)

veins at least, .0 doW1l; as shown in the only two deep mines you have, the Ten­nease~ and the Golcon.da; what better do you wantT" These ideas are not exag­cvations; they are facts. If this be th., ease, the query ariaes as to ju~t why these conditions have not been · more largely exploited to profit. The answer is easy. a1&bough it II • function of Mveral va­riIIti_ :

( I ) ~ Joe.1 amine of these com­pMx ..... h •• 'atSac lMd, ainc, copper, an .... r and.... YaI7iac percentagea) ... the ~ . ....... le l!I'OC.dure thirty

. Jean ap ... it it toda,. A nry super­fieia1 conalcleration prov .. thJa axiomatic; linee it ia dittiealt to coneeive • lituation warrantiq tIM uptnM of wacon and rail-road f ... ___ ...... For lDUly yean (we .... t ...... up to • ,Mr &CO) the IIUlllll. of ';:1" _ .... MeD in • "erJ ..uea. ...., ....... ;tM .... tuetIoa 01 tilt -.e1liMr7 ...., ....... ..... to ....... +',al7, .ad Mt the ~,... ......... -.......... ~ 31111WW. AI. _tt. .f f.... IIntil the ..... '" ~11, no IIIilliq methoda _" "... .... w. whieh afforded more than a ".,., ro.... and ineomplete .. "ing OD web 0..... }len~l many depolita of complex ONi ha.,. him.rto been of only problematie value; linee complete millin&' ... impouible in many c:aa .. , and only the rieheat portions of the ore would pay for ahipm.nt.

(I) IIiada unacquainted with the re­~ ~,._ ia the metallurgy of these _ ~ _ ncoUl'M but to base their opi" ....... tWr commercial value (and ~..w,. t.o broad-ealt these opin­.50.) upon ,.. hiatory, which includes til. record of _. ..lient miatakea aDc! of lUalaer eesU than are nec:euary today; ~ rt aut be eonfeued that this cate­COI7 inelwIM .. n,. viaitiq enemeerl, wt.o eaJIlo..n..t.. lack of the nec .... 17 ~.iea1 bow~ to co .... r the lituatioe wWy, ba -.ell ~tio .. fro. the p •• t; fOlU~ ...... ........ ~f'I ... i(lnfl br tH ... ., • I ••• n"'C t·4M!U f or ~ ...... t C...... I loeb I or not) tGtretlMr witll lUXiwI_ ..... nt and seIline COlta, ba~ up .., ......... "ing AI obtained in lOIDe o~.i11, whether the latter is pnperly t or Dot. These 'condi-tiona unj~. t quite frequently, befo. the aitu.tioL

(3) The f.Dac,. of the attempted ex­ploitation of the eomplex ora of the dis­trict by laymen, profoundly iporant of the enforced nieety of technieal detail re­quired, baa Itrewn the diatrict with pitiful wreeb which eannot fail to render ob­lerv.n skeptieal of success. A few yean &co there w .. lOme excuse for thia condi: tion; but today there is none.

Rere, then. are a few of the reasons for the interrupted progreu of Chloride, whereby it baa evidenced repeated periods of creat activity, with alternate periods of depreaaion j explaining very fully why many promiaing ore-deposita have been abandoned before fruition, and why many investors h.ve been afraid to proceed, or to properly finish what they have begun. Notwithstandine this limping progreSll, a roal procreu it bein&' accomplished, limply

as the natural result of ~ oecurren~ so many ore-deposita whicb limply cat be neglected; and therl! ill • ,racti~ tainty of the early erection of a modern and efficient mill for the ment of the ores from the Schuylkill: ne8see mines. The erection" of t:Jali should absolutely solve the probleln Chloride's future; riddin, it of the fm incubus of the installationl of p cranks and· visionary dreamers. and lording a proper pattern for busin operators.

The f.d IDa not be omitted ... t are already two ...u flota tion aiJI,t in this Mctlon; the W~ aad Ke)'llton.. NeitheI of tt... 1iii8,-, hifO -active operation ... theN "­reason to 40.~ u..q. ."tin wllea ~ ...

Ala. .... ~ tale 8ehUI~~= • ......... eat • tt.dJ im .. .ad ........ t ,.lie,. ; .,.,.,..... aIUn. aDd openh. lIP D" or.. aplnn the clay of prodlletion. Co h .. recently been ... de with tile • abaft on the SchuJikill end-line, .. raise from the TennellHe toO-foot nOJ'th, thus e1Itebliahinlr tlte .tity ., one vein. drainin~ the SehuyDdll aaiI inlt better general n"ltilation. "

The Cerbat Silver Mining~O actively operating the old erty, northward on the same VI nJ the Schuylkill shaft . nd IUrf.ee and c')ntinuine the drift on the 80 northward into Elkhart eround. 'ndI brine the explonAtion 110 .. 100 feet the old Elkhart abaft, ead ill tit ... workings good ore hu Men alreaft eountered. There are two parallel v one earrying silver-lea4l, or., tit. pyritie ,old ora.

Still to ~ tH>rtbward, the Chlo Queen Company II drifting OD tile foot .le"el , .. d ..,odueinc some 'Yery naby ~II"., ('1ft 'J1Ua propen, conn Ir. t..-...ctl' . wi ..... Jeut-West aDT. ...hd have pu .. ed • quaatitr of ITade OH, with the North-8outh " upon which are the min. ..,... ... tioned.

A short distane. east of the TenD:! an operation baa been .undertaken is of great interen to he whole cHatri It consi.ta of a double-traek croa.eut! nel, opened near the 10Uth end of Payroll claim, which is to be drlnn a two -mIles eaterly to intenect and ~ the many veins at great deptlta. Th ... terprise has been started by Colonel :aa. kin, aDd the tunnel has a d.pth of .... thing like 300 feet. It i. unde!'8tood .th64 T. B. Scott, the owner of the Payron. has become intere1lted, and that the woftI will proceed without delay.

The Brunswick property, on the Tea­nessee vein, has reeently belrUn aeti"e 0p­erations, and promises to take a prominent part in the ore production of the camp, It is located a few hundred tNt south ot tbe Tennessee.

In thil immediate vicinity and near th old A)tata mine, the Rescue or Dorothy claim has recently jumped tfl~ prominence havine produced and ahipped 8OIIIl. of the

aT ore which the district baa

. ~rta indicate that the three min­""'- recently operated under the

t of Mr. J . B. Hupes· have dated, and that active develop­

entire iTOUP will be com-

In:;~~~~itt~l~m;~in- in Min­by a I)"D-by Mr. M. B. Dudley,

rapidly developed. The property which h.. not

... ~eo in many years, but which baa ~ filled the cabin eta of Mohave .. tUl the most magnificent sped­lIative silver. After unwatering ('onditions have been found of a

character than could have 1,~bI.n·ed. and there is little doubt

propertiee will very loon be­sUver producera.

mine, alao in :Mineral ripiCJIy brought to the pro-

iIIII'e, .. the mill ia practically .nd baa already palsed the ex­

atace. The property shows sev­interesting veinl, with .certain carrying hich values in ruby ia heine operated by a syndi­:Mr. F. E. G. Berry in charge.

theae propertiee, many otben are ac1tiv:itv with the advent of many

operators, and new finds are reported. Many of the tormer

of Chloride, who left the camp aftft the war conditionl became

.,.r. returning; all exprelline their • .a.taction at their ability to resume

""the finest mining camp they evu

I • ARIZONA. GEM MINES

(1Ipecial Correspondence) at Mineral Park, 20. miles

I ingman, Arizona, is perhaps the ,.-oducinl' turquois min('!! in the .\ large percentage of the stone

·h"!'!, ..... -' of th , poorer grade consisting and b lf!,,\l~d with turquoise and by the tnlde "matrix"; while

tive and has a large sale, it rated in price with the clear

pri~&. prevailing up to 1907 fyoom $2.50 to $12.50 per pound

but sinee that time prices dropped, until f or several

these mines have been closed

st producing company, with acreage, is that of the Aztec

('ompany .ot New York. Thil ~ the pioneer, beine followed

ARIZONA MINING JOuRNAL

by the Southwest Turquo~e Company of Los Angeles, the Loa Aneeles Gem Com­pany and the Arizona Turquoise Company of New York.

There ia evidence that the minel wen worked in the atone ace as numeroul ltone hammer. and hand dip'pinl' llton.. were found there. The late Ja.. W. Hau was the ori,uw diacovenr of the turquoise at Mineral Park, opera~ the old Monte­zuma mine in the Turquoise mountains aouthw .. t of Ithiea Peak, but uJ.'Ofl ftacl­ing the later min.. in the Ithlea Peak country the old MODMZ1UIla mine ".. abandoned.

Another important depomt il that of Cbryaophrue in the River range, lOme 18 mil_ north of Oatman. Th... pJ'opertiea are of late dllcovery and are expected to rival the famous old turquoise outpat, .. it il of more cOJDIDereial value and very rare. Thil trem ia remindful of the remotest antiquity; a hard semi-trans­luaeent creen atone e&ITYina Itripes and colored with nickel. Perha.,. the only operatiq .ine of this ltone in Ameriea today ia located at Pon.rville, Califonli., and owned· in New York.

Owine to ita hitrb market value, aU gradel are uaed, eomprisine a dozen dif­ferent IrrAdu from common to clear, and values run all the way trom a few do\lara to around $400 a pound.

STANDAJU> MINERALS DEVELOPINC

A strike of told and .ilver 0" baa been made on one of tile cia... of tlae Stand­ard MiD...u. eoa,.ll7, twot, ail ..... of Kiqman ....... --.en, laM bMa aiM­inl' a .• haft oa tIM ......... cIau. aDd at a depth of tWrty t .. t ran into on that pve resulta of b..- foUl' to ten ounces cold and 826 ouneu Iilnr.

The veiD in whieh the Itrike ".. made ia .about five feet in width, the rich atreak having a width of trom eichteen inclMa to thirty inch.. The whole width of the ore-bearine IU.u is pay.

The Standard Minerals company ha.f been operatinc a mill on ita molybdenite properties and han heen openinl' the ore bodiea on the deep levelL The mill baa bun doine eood work, a product of about sixty per cent molybdenite beiDlr secured. The companr il understood to have con­tracts coverIng al1 the concentrates the mill can produce.

The mill is under the direction of S. S. Jones, who is alao consultine encineer for the company. Mr. Jonel is one of the best mining enl'ineers and metallugists in the country and the Standard Mineral. com­pany is to be congratulated on lIecuring his services. George Williston, a young eng!neer and metallurgist, is assistant to Mr. Jones in the mill work and Gerald . Stimpson is general manager.

Through the hospital system the work­men of the Warren district get all medi­cal care and surgical attention necessary for sickness and accident, and the fam ilies of Ule workmen get all med ical attention.

The rai lroad f rom Cedar Glade to Clark­dale, the smelter town of the United Verde Copper company, rU lls through a mi nia­tur€ Grand Can yo n; this has not been ad­vertised to a ny eJt tent , but it ill a rare scenic attraction.

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[ The Chloride Queen ] The 'Chloride Queen Minine Co. baa five

claims and two fraction., over one hundred and twenty acres of 11'0und in one bloeir side-lin inc on the north lide of the Cerbat Silver :Minea Co. (known as the Elkhart mine) and end-lining the Empire propert, northeast of Chloride about one and one­half milM.

The equipment conaiat8 of one lSI-H. P . hoist complete, one eO-H. P. oil bamlne Beu.laer eneine, ~hicaeo Pneumatfc eoJIl­preuor witll caPacity of 41 7 cubic f_t, blacbmith MOp tuDy equipped, c~ room. ore bina, and larKe plvanized _ buildiq coverine aU the machinery. •

TIM m&.in abaft ia timbered down ItO feet, with manway and world nc abaft, with a drift run at the forty lenl, lot. foot drift at 100 level, and at the lot level the drift is in two hundred f_ pine under the hill, which when jn .boat 200 feet more will give a depth of about 600 feet. Crosscuta have been run on tWa level 21 feet to the lOuth and 22 teet .. the north without eneounterinc eitJaeJ' wail A ,ood vein of ore at ti.... widen.irte to thirty ineh .. has b .. n continuous for 0 ..... 160 feet, with valnu at t im .. ranniDl' over $150 a ton in .Uver, b..tclel Tam. in lead and COld. The drift il bebt( pull .. to the west on the east and WMt vein of the proputy, and well versed m1ninc men .. y that the company will sure have • very Iarce body of ore under the hill froID ; all indications. One thine noticeable .. that the work i. beine done on the aut and west veins, which are 10 ric". leaTiD&' the north and south veiDt to be opened .., later. These north and IOQtb velDt han !riven up millions in rich or ... to lOch w.u known companiel or propertMe .. the • hart, Sebu~~ Distaff 8c~:e~ ~euee ri!' tiD MIS

; -;--; littention of the manacemeat to run the drift under the hill and open up the ore and go on a prodacine buIa.

. In fact, the fint car of ore will be ahipJ)8d to the Selby smelter within a month. The IIhort haul of one mile with a good road from abaft to the railroad at the T enn ... ~ee mine ill an added fea ture of low pro­duction eost to the comp"ny. The Chloride Queen Minine Co. baa hun dredll ot feet of stoping ground from the 200.foot level up carryine rich valuel in l ilver orea be­sides the hundreds of feet of ground be-. low this level which will be opened up .. the property is developed, and which ill assured by what the Elkhart and TeD1lee­see properties have proven, a!tlt 'elpee'i.ny the latter, which has a depth of 1(00 feet, with val uable ore practically all the way, and a reported ,J>roduction in the past of something like '1 8,000,000. One mUlt not 10lle sight of the fact that the Elkhart, which side-line!! the Chloride Queen 61'1 tIl_ south, is reported to have produced over one million dollars with deepest workinp 500 feet.

The ma nagemen't of the Chloride Queen Mining Co. is confident · that their prop­erty with proper deVelopment in the next few years will produce ita millionl in rle silver ores, and WIth present pricae of ail­VET t he outlook for the company to cO 0

the dividend-paying basia in the v., n ax future ill of the bed.

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REPORT •

ON THE QIDAOR IDE QUEEN 1JINUm CO.,

By Frank Clemes Smith, E.M.

LOCATION & DESCRIPTION. I,' The property is located in the Wallpai ~ining Distriot,

Mohave Count~, Arizona, about' two mil~s north-easterly from the

town , of Ohloride~ and one mile northerly from the ' Tennessee Mine . ; --- ~ . ~

It oompromises two d stinot ~oups:- (1) The Silver Hountain Group

consisting of three, full sized,_ un-patented alaims, and (2' The d,

, Sunday Sohool Group, oonsisting of two full sized and two fraotion-

al, un-patented claims. Attention is called to the Sketch-Map

here-to attaohed, for approximate conditione. The names of

olaims -are as followSl- • t , ,

·SILVER MOUNTAIN GROUP, ' . _. -- (Highland Mary

, (Highland- Chief ~ (Sootland

Sunday Sohool Group

(Sunday Sohool ~ Sunshine ,(Dike (fraotion ~ (Club (fraction

The Empire (patented) olaim adjoins the Sunday Sohool Group on the

North; looated upon one of the primary veins whioh extend in a

northerly and southernly direction along Tennessee Wash, and ' is

mentioned for the reason that it has some Glaims to importanoe;

being noted by Sohrader (Bulletin 397, U.S .G.S.) as having yielded

$ 70,000 to a depth of 200 feet; principally from rioh silver ore8~ I '" II

Refering to the sketch-map attached, it Y,ill be notioed t hat while'

the East-weBt veins s 10wn in the groups have similar strikes. the

olaims themselves are not parallel. This is probably due to errors

in original location (as the claims should be parallel) and the

natter can be properly adjusted in the amended ,locations, when

patent is asked. i'

Silver Mt .' throe cla.ims are IO<1fated \ F' ' a veilt'-whioh been ~opened by relatively shallow surface

and whose witdth or thickness is difficult ' to estimate for that reason. The vein strikes almost due East-West (magnet io), and oon­sist (as far as the shallow workings permit ex~mination) ~f vertical stringers of oxidized ferr~inolls material in a granite-~or~hyry

• . 1 natrix ; f,ratlually passing into the eran! te oountry-rock whi oh con-' stitutos the walls. These ferruginous strin~ers have been found to

., . be rich in silver, and have been mined to shallow depths in many plaoes along the vein, and an indeterminate ~ tonnage of high=grade ore has been shipped many years ago. As there are no working faoes now in shape to afford a sample which would oonvey valuable information

, as to the ore values, no sample was taken. As to ~he probable value of this ve in as an ore produoer, and as to the probable value.of a very important adjunot to both groups--the North South veins--ref~ ' erenoe is oal led to that heading below.

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Sunday School Group:- The two ful l -sized claims of this group ~re located upon another East-West vein, of similar characteristics to that of the Silver ~.[ountain, but (as observable in the workings) much greater thiokness. As visible in the 12-foot shaft on the Sun­day Sohool claim, tho vein is fully Ueet thick, stands ver~~ally and is woll defined and strong ~ The same oonditton is observable (but to a less extent, as the shaft is under repair) in the 100 foot shaft on the same olaim: noted on sketch as no. (l) and fixed upon as the future working shaft. West-ward from this shaft for a. distanoe of probably 400 fee t, there is a series of open cuts, from whi ch ore has been mined to varying depths; ano. beneath the cuts, there is a drift run westward from No.)l) shaft for about 100 feet.

\ at the bottom; Sunshine Claim, No.(2} shaft is 'about 140 feet deep. driven high up on the mountain, and conneoting at ist bottom with the cross cut driven about 220 feet from the north.

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These last and there-f

The postl] on of the three shafts indicate a

examb1ht1on. ~

-west ore ohute ~f

something ov&r 1500 feet in length. Referenoe to the heading Ore

Shipments and Assays will below give evidenoe as to t he oharaoter of

the ores t~{en f r om these old workings . To an extent, the workings on

these olaims are in the same oondi tion as those .of the o~Jler group.

and I bave taken no samples whioh oan be oonsidered '8s averages of any

particular ore - body. There i 6 abundant evidenoe .of ve,ry oonsiderable

shipments having been made from t his property .ye.a~,s .ago I:l but only I at

the No./I) shaft has any depth been reaoned. In this shaft un-altered I

ore 60ems to be just coming in and a sample of blue fstained porhphyr1t10

material, showing some sporadic sulphides, was taken and assayed. S.e

No.(2} Sample No.Cl) oonsisted of a number of odd pieoes of iron-stained

material, from various openings; and merely shows the presence of good-

grade material. , I I

The existenoe 'of several other oross-veins is notable=

but none of them have been explored to any extent. The Dike and alub

fractions are looated on such, but afford nothing worthY of sample.

THE l,; ORTH SOUTR VEINS: Extending for long distanoes both North and

south of the Tennessee 1line and oropping on both sides of the Tennessee

Wash, are seve~al--probably at least three--strong veins, striking in

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the approximate direction given above. On these veins are looated some

of the most important mines of the district; suoh as the Tennessee, the

Schuylkill, the Elkhart, the ScheneotadY ' and othere. At least two of

these veins, or mineralized zones, pass through the Silver Mounatin Group I

( and probably through the Sunday School group 8S ~ell) Where they are I

strongly marked by hard, sohistose out orops and iron-eta1nd gravel;

thus orossing the silver veins of the two groups almost a.t right ane;lea.

This condition has apparently never been given suffioient degree ' of

importance by 'the former miners; ~osaibly since they felt themselves

limi ted to surface workings; but to-day for sever'a.l reasons t the pres.once

these veins beoomes important. In th.e first place, they themselves pro-

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ably aarry vel

groupb ; iL~ aga~n. there is ~ore than a good probability t hat a looalization of high­

ore will be found. But one opening has been made on either of these

two primary veins:- this oonsists of a shaft , siad to bave been about

30 feet deep, but now filled in" whioh is noted on the sketoh map by

as Shaft 110. (4), on t he Highland Jiary Claim. This shfat soarcely

attained suffioient depth to "tell much- of a story," but there stiil

remains a small lot of ore at its brink whioh would be oonside~ed of

fairly high-grade: al though when the shaft was sunk it would not be

considered of any value. The approximate looation of the two primary

veins are noted on the sketah map by the dotted areas -PP-PP., and the

Empire ore-deposit may belong to one of them. .. ~ . " \ . )

ORE SHIPUE1lT S AND ASSAYS: Reoords of a few only of the former ore-shipments from the

Sunday Sahool property are available, and are, given below.

Maroh 3rd - 1896. ~ Shipment by Frank Allen to Kin~nan Sampling Works.

1185 Ibs. gross; 1147 Ibs. net. Assay values--Gold 2/l0ths, oz., per ton. With Silver at 68 ats, and gold at $18.00 per oz., and hauling at $6.00 per ton. the net yield 'tSer ton was $169 .• 60 and the lot yielded $93.75.. This ore was said to have been taken from t he No.(l) shaft, to a septh of 35 feet; the pay streake being

f rom two to four inches thiok, and the vein filling 6 feet.

July 7th, 1896. ~ Shipment by Barney McCall to Arizona Sampling Wks.Kingman, Ariz.

5479 lbs. gross 5326 lbs. net. Assay value--Gold l/lOths, OZ, Silver 239 oz, per ton. Payment was made for ~3% of the silver, at· 68 3/4ths, ~er oz. and gold at $18 . 00 per oz. With tereatment charge of ~20.00 per ton, and wagon freight at $5 .50 per ton, and the net yield was $129.11. per ton, and the lot yielded $143.40 .

Jan. 24th, 1897. , Lot of ore sold by Barney McCall to F.W,Thai8S, Chloride. -- - .--- -- - -- --------- ~ -------------.------------- ~ -1514 lbs. gross f 1461 1ba. net. ~ . . . Assay value Gold 5/l00ths OZ, Silver 329 .60 pz, per ton. With silver at 64 3/4ths , ota, per QZt and a treatment obarge of $26.00 per ton. this lot brought $126.72. The ore ia said to have been takel1 out of a stope west of ahaft, 15 feet from surfaoe of ground.

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Oct. 2nd, 1898 • Lot of

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6~-, lbs. lb • net. t

Chloride. , ,

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Assay value- Gold 5/100thS, oz : Silver ' ~t 263 oz, per ton. Wi th silver at 61 1/,4thS '1 cents and tereatment oharge of $20.00 per ton, the net returns were $129.81 per ton, or $53.20 for the lot. This ore was said to have been taken from the shaft 10 feet below the surface; quartz and ore 4 to 12 inches thiok; . vein from 6 to 16 feet thiok, with well defined foot-wall.

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June 24th, 1898. Assay ot sample from shaft Bo.fl) by 'H.O.Listerude Silver 32 6/10ths, oz,- per ton; $17.60.

Same Date. Assay of sample from shaft lio.f'2( yielded ' Gold 3/l00thS, oz. Sil.,e~ 69 7/10ths, 0&, or $38.25 per tOll.

Aug',lOth, 1908~' - Assay of sample by Muter &: Teale, lttngmat1, Ariz. Silver - 45.56 oz., por ton. Val~e per ton - $23.67

Aug. 25th, 1908. • ~ ,- ' Assay of sample by HiO.Listerude, Chlordie.

Jan. 11, 1912 ; , -- \ ' ASsays by H.O.Listerude, Chloride (1) Silver 41.4 oz. ' Value t20.70 per ton. (2) Silver 32.15 oz. Value i16.25 per ton.

All of the above from the Sunday School Group. , I have stated that I took no samples in the oourse of my ex­

amination" meanine thereby that no samples were taken which might in­dicate certain values for a partioular tonnage of ore; for reasons which are obvious. I did, however, take a few odd bits ' of soattered ore-material, and have had them assayed~ laragely as a gUide toward oertain oonolusions: the results are appended.

Sample Ii o. (I) Surface material, iron stained, taken about 100 yards east of the l2-foot shaft, on Sunday School.

Assa1 by Everett yielded Gold 2/100ths, Silver 2.86 oz, or a value of $2.30 per ton. ,

Sample No.(20) A ohunk of blue material, iron stained in frac­tures and showing scattered pyritic material, apparently taken from the bottom of shaft No,(l( on Sunday Sohool. '

Assay by Everett yielded Gold 4/100ths, Silver '41.6 oz. or 8 value of $32.02 :per ton. ' "I Sample No.(3) Chips broken off in new workings on Highland Mary. wherenniners have attacked the junotion of the Ee.st-west vein with one of the primary veins. No solid materila had been I reaohed and it was scareoely expected that the sample would

show value s. Assay by Everett yielded gold 6! 100ths , silver 10.4 OZ, or a value of $8.48 per ton.

GE1~RAL CONCLUSIONS:

It should be stronely notioed on the start that all of this

:property has 'been absolutely ne eleotcd for the least oighteen years;

no work of any kind having been done, except such "soratching," as

mi ght serve to cover t Ile annual asse'ssments j part of that, (so I am

Told) consitted in one case of filling up the 30 foot shaft on the

Highland l1ary claim. This ,means that practiclally nothing is now in

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evidence which is in shape to serve as the usual marks for valuation.

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" .. . It sho noticed. strong uoh mining as was • I I ~

done \ by bY :lhloriders. o extract the high grade ores from seams near

the 'srufaoe: the result being thut the property to-day is absolutely

u.n ... deveboped to any extent. This. to a large degree is trure also of

the Sunday School Group; the two shafts of 100 and 140 feet respectively

having barely reaohed the un-altered zone, and aff ording little infor.­

mation as to anything besides the rich surface ores, whiCh ' do not rep­

resent the material ' upon whioh large workings must be based.

Another fact shoul~ be oarefully aonsidered;, that the possib­

ility of good (or even greater) values, on the basis of real mining,

being found in the North-South veins, or at their junction with the

East-west veins, seems to have been entirely negleoted. This has been

doubtless due to the careless system (or lack of system) ' of the "ohlor­

ider." who was only interested in what might be obtained easily, and

probably laoked funds for any real development. tending to greater

profits in the future.

This relegates this whole property to the positon of a pnos­

peot ; but I believe it a good one, and one which IDay be somewhat easily

opened up with good prospect of suocess. This judgment is teacbed by

the following reasoning:-

In the first place. the East-west voins are undoubt-

edly well-defined and perr:.Jistent; cro l?si ng, in eaoh case, certai n 3000

feet , and probably muoh more . Their surfaoe values in each case have

been hip:h; and there is no reason to believe that" any conditon could

confine these values to the surfaoe. In the only case where un-oxidized

or sulphide ore has been assayed (my sample No .( 2) on page (6) very go od

values are found in a sample of altered granite which could soarcely be J

identified as are by its appearance. 'This predio$tes the strong prob-

ability of good ores being found in the un-altered zone below the present

workings . Further good ore undoubtedly oame from the 30 foot shaft at

the junction of liighland hlary vein with the north south vein; the one

: mentioned on page 'ernall 1&pth " . l

could by J~ mens give any adequate informati . \ m1.ght be

along the orossing of silver vein with the older vein and this;

opinion, is a very · important matter in this conneotion. These primary

veins, for a long distanoe to the South, have been ~nd are very produo-

tive. and very 1arge~ and the hig}\- r do or \\ t) l' r h

to the north of the groups herein oonsidered--is doubtless oonneoted

with them. The evident existenoe of at least two of these large prim­

'ary veins upon the Chloride Queen property very materially enhanoes its

probable value.

I am not prepared to put a oash value on this property, but if

it oan be aoquired without too large a cash payment, upon a so-oalled

"working bond," where by a large part of aotual chash expended in min­

ing work, I unhesitatingly reoommend its aoquirement. Despite the

faot tha.t there is an evident ore-ohute extending west-ward f ,romthe

no. (1) shaft on the Sunday School, ~ should personally be inclined to

sink that shaft another hundred fert, more, and drift east-ward; largely

for t he purpose of interseoting a primary vein. Howverver, drifting

might also pro ceed west-ward with a good chance of success. On the

Silver I'.1ouna.tin C'!"Group I should be inolined to open and sink the 30

foot shaft bef ore mentioned.

Respeotively submitted.

---------------------------Mining Engineer.

Chloride. Arizona.. Jan. 8th, 1917.

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The Chloride ~ueen Mining Co. w~s i ncorporated under the laws of the state of Arizona July 20th, 1916. and during the past year has made some very much needed improvements and considerable development work has been done. notably. a good automobile road has been b~ilt too, and on the property to the main workings; a tunnel has been driven into the . mountain one hundeed 'and five (l05) feet, along the main Nain on the Sunday' School claim, and the ' old tunnel, whioh is in 1;\'10 Hundred and twenty (220) feet . has been cleaned out and the traok put in first olass shape; The old 100 foot shaft with a 100 foot drift at the bottom is now being re-timbered, all material being puroha~ed and the work progressing for the past three weeks. ConSiderable material, tools and amunition, also a blaoksmith shop are in evidenoe, and work is being pushed on getting ready to sink on the main Sunday School vein. Taking it all in and the showings are more than satisfactory to the management, and great hopes are held forth that the company will in the near future have sufficient milling ore to ship to the 100a1 custom mills.

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SCHEUDELS " An

7,506 shares of stock sold at 151 per share 55,675 . n n" "n 5~ n "

Commission paid on sale of 7,506 shares ••••

EXPENDITURES

Labor and contracts ••••..•••• $ Supplies and office expense •• Abstract,deeds, eta •••••••••• Cash in Valley Bank, Phoenix. Cash in Bank, Chloride ••••••• Balanoe on tunnel contract •••

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$1,125.90 2,783.75

$ 3,909.65

375.30 , 3,534.35

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