The copper handbook a manual of the copper mining industry of the world

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The Copper Handbook

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The Copper Mining Industry Of The World

Founded by Horace J. Stevens.

By Walter Harvey Weed, E. M.

Former Geologist in the U. S. Geological Survey, 1883-1906. Member Institution of Mining and Metallurgy of America; Fellow Geological Society of America ; Member American Institute of Mining Engineers, etc., etc.

Vol. Xi.

1912-1913 Supplementing Volumes I to X.

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Table Of Contents.

PART Detailed Descriptions of the Copper Mines of North America, including UiutedoStates, Canada apd Mexico a a a p 9 PARTII Geographical Index—Mines grouped by Countries, States, Counties ENT DISCS E S HERR TOR, A MES de 990 PART-III: Detailed Descriptions of the Copper Mines of Foreign Countries 1029 PART IE Copper Statistics— Worlds Copper Suppliyo nan dd kn a) A peed, MA dol 1314 World's Copper Production for Nineteenth Century 0 1315 ¡Chart showing Copper Stocks and Metal Prices... 19 soras i a 1316 World's Copper Production RIESE EELE DTe he Baie ET ta TE 41317 World's Smelter Production of Resaca Gorke elt ip. juny. A 1817 Chart showing Copper Production by Continents In TT 1318 Worlds ‘Copper. Production+by Countries. 200004. NIUE oie. ARBIITE 1319 Copper Production: by Continentaridir). 10.2921. OEI, MERO A 1319 Production of Worldis Largest Mines.I01G04 VINIL ih, SOULE BAG 1320 World's Consumption of Raw Copper. m Ebo IAE 1321 German Copper Traders. MIA ¿DE AAA ASIS A AMA 1321 Bnglish Copper Irade nia OLA ERA 1321 British and French Stocks of Copper rr OD OIDO: e OSITO 1322 ‘French Copper Trade.. RON RO bot eZ DOR ola. PY 1323 Austro-Hungarian coos Trade. Be era ce be eps a DO Russian tr oi THAR len nda jade orto PA italian Copper ra dei E TE 1324 Miscellaneous Europeans Copper ladera act ran o a ea LOZO Production otleeading Minestota Won dasa. vaste AS Ie: 1325 Proportion of Copper to American Metal Production 1331 American Copper Production. T ROP rah ee) SSA Chert showing Relative idea e of Une United States, OthereG@ountricshandathiemVVOLUd laa od or a a 1333 NCH Cain GOD Dele x DOUG terre. o ee Does Pa Do Ia ES 1334 American Copper Exports by Destination SeT TEn. a e A 1335 Aeman ean COn a e a A NIE 1335 Amere POOR Er rado, Oe ol ce sn Oe ere ISO

Meaty American Copper Supply cdta 1336

TABLE OF CONTENTS (Continued).

Copper Statistics—(Continued). Monthly American Copper Supply...: pr United States Copper ‘Production by Státes Pr... Lake Superior Copper Production’ by, Mine a Na ee Production, Value and: Dividends of Lake Copper

AvetagesAmerican. and, PuchshePrices..cr. laa ala Chart showing CourserorWietalebrices ss cree ta ety eee Prices ofp Electrolytic COPE la ae e a ee High, Low and Average Prices of Lake Copper oooooooooo.. High and Low Monthly Prices¡of Lake Copper 2 +:. Conversion Table for American and English Prices Share Prices of American Copper Companies Dividends of American! Coppen Minestre ST er ee Total Lake Superior Dividendo cate sins eer te ieee ee Dividends of Lake Superior Minés...:..2... +.) A Dividends and Assessments of Lake Superior Mines Assessments. of Lake: Superior. Mines). ib ir a Capitalization of Lake Superior Copper Companies Copper Production-by-Groups: e ane ssa eee! ON 1913 Output of Electrolytic Copper Refineries of United States Copper Smelting. Works) of NorthuAmesea® Jorra J. ocivecis Miad) Average Monthly Prices of Copper Manufactures 2. Monthly Average Prices of Copper:ectisae. ) do ena Statistics of Refined Copper 1 0:.- oils Ad ck estes Smelters’ Production of Copper in the United States Smelters’ Production of Copper in North America 05. Refiners Production’, na wea EE ae ee smelters’ Production maae Ree tee OA eis Heats cheb ee Crude Supply-and Refined Productions. ee. sas). eases doceeen PART MV:

List of Dead, Merged, Liquidated Mining Companies

Preface,

The Copper Handbook was acquired by the present editor one year after Mr. Stevens’ death, an interval in which the loss of Mr. Stevens’ personality was keenly felt. Since then nine months of constant, unremitting work have been required to prepare this volume for the press and no other apology can be offered for its tardy appearance.

For twelve years, The Copper Handbook has been the accepted authority on the copper industry and has given an impartial and fearless account of all known copper mining companies. In the present volume, the new editor will continue the same frank policy, giving accurate and recent information concern- ing both companies and properties with opinions thereon.

The address, personnel and description of the mining companies have been revised and rewritten from a personal knowledge of all the copper districts of the Continent, supplemented by information supplied by practicing engineers and checked by returns furnished by the companies themselves. Corrections and new information will be gladly received for future editions.

As in former editions of The Copper Handbook, many gold, silver and lead mines, producing copper as a by-product, have been included, practically making the book a mining manual, at least for America.

The former arrangement of the volume has been changed to make it more convenient for reference. All North American mines, including those of the United States, Mexico, Canada and Newfoundland, are grouped in Part I; all others, as foreign companies, in Part III, a comprehensive geographic index separating the two parts. All dead companies, including those liquidated, merged with or succeeded by others, are listed in Part V, accompanied by a reference to the earlier volume in which the company is described.

Copper statistics, including productions, exports, imports, prices, dividends, charts and facts of general interest, are given in Part IV.

In the descriptive chapters, the titles are alphabetically arranged, but a GEOGRAPHICAL INDEX has been added with the mines grouped by States, Counties and Mining Districts. By this list, one can readily locate any mine, or company, operating in.a given district and it should prove a great help to the visitor in any mining camp, or to one to whom the exact title of a. company is either unknown or cannot be recalled. Many mines are listed under their own names with a cross reference to the holding company.

In the alphabetical arrangement, the definite article and the words Societe, Sociedad, Compania, etc., have been transposed, the title being listed according to its principal, or distinctive word; for example, “Achaiches; Societe Anonyme des Mines de Cuivre de.” Where. the property of an American company is in a foreign land, for example the Braden company, whose holdings are in Chile, the title appears in the American section while the mines are described in Partantle

Many companies fully described in former editions, but inactive at present, receive brief notice in the present book. Excerpts from previous volumes con- taining descriptions of such companies can be purchased from the Copper Handbook office for fifty cents each.

The author will gladly receive corrections or comments, since it is realized that it is only by such help that The Copper Handbook can be kept correct and up-to-date.

WALTER Harvey WEED. Houghton, Mich., Jan. 2, 1914.

Horace Jared Stevens, 1862 - 1912.

Horace Jared Stevens,

Founder of The Copper Handbook.

Horace Jared Stevens, founder of The Copper Handbook, writer, journalist, copper expert and Man, died April 12, 1912. Born in Conewango, N. Y., Jan. 5, 1866, educated in public school, in the Beaufort iron mine and the printing office, his wonderfully retentive memory enabled him to acquire a wealth of informa- tion which made him an authority in the Copper Industry. With an experience of several years in varied work in the iron mines, his inborn interest in the mining industry found outlet as special reporter for the Marquette Mining Journal, first at Ishpeming and later in the broader field of the Copper Range. He organized the Peninsula News Bureau and it was this work which led him ‘to see the need for an authoritative annual on copper mining and supplied the facts for the first volume, published in 1900.

From a modest volume of 300 pages covering Michigan mines, The Copper Handbook grew until at the time of his death, it was a work of 1987 pages cov- ering the copper mines of the world.

An uncompromising foe to fraud, his frank statements haye given The Copper Handbook a unique reputation for its naked truths about fraudulent or suspicious companies. He was proud of the many threats of personal violence and of libel suits, which though numerous, never materialized. This work alone deserves grateful recognition. ;

Reportorial work made night labor a fixed habit and it is apparent that his ability to handle the mass of detail and to cull the truth from verbose mining reports was due to his custom of beginning work when others ended theirs and to continuing it uninterruptedly throughout the night.

Among men he was always welcome, being keen of wit, an interesting talker and ready to help friends with pen, influence or money when called upon. Though a sufferer from illness at various times, his death came without warning to himself or family; going to his office at eight o’clock at night, he reached the head of the stairway, fell and passed away.

He was a worker who fought well and long for the welfare of his country

and fellow men.

The Copper Handbook Part I.

COPPER MINES OF NORTH ÁMERICA. Including United States, Canada and Mexico.

In this volume, the descriptions of copper mines and companies have been separated into two parts, North American and Foreign. As in preceding vol- umes, the order is alphabetical, and in each part, is regardless of location, so that a title can be readily found. The reader is advised to consult the Geo- graphical Index, given in Part II, to locate the properties of any locality. This section contains all companies operating in the United States, Mexico, the various provinces of Canada and Newfoundland. All others will be found in the Foreign section.

AAI MINING & MILLING CO. IDAHO Idle. Miné near Lewiston, Nez Perce Co., Idaho. A. B. Williams, mgr., at last accounts. Lands, 8 claims, at Wild Goose rapids, on Snake river, 35 miles above Lewiston, developed by a 400’ tunnel, planned to cut, at 1,100’ from portal, the main vein, showing auriferous and argentiferous copper ore, said to give average assays of $24 per ton. Mine had several cars of smelting ore on the dump when property was shut down. ABBEY MINING CO. NEW MEXICO Idle. Office: 1007 Bessemer Bldg., Pittsburgh, Pa. Mine office: So- corro, Socorro Co., N. M. Nelson Weddle, Jr., pres.; Earl A. Wheeler, vice- pres.; H. A. Spangler, treas.; J. F. Hinckley, sec.; Nathan Hall, gen. mgr., at last accounts. Organized Dec., 1901, under laws of New Mexico, with capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par. Lands, 19 claims, area 380 acres, The Abbey group, 22 miles north of Magdalena, shows 2 parallel veins with about 600’ of workings, carrying ore assaying up to 40% copper and 80 oz. silver per ton. The Washington group, about 10 miles west of Upham, has a 165’ shaft, shut down. ABBOT CREEK GOLD & COPPER MG. CO. NORTH CAROLINA Idle. Office: Portsmouth, Va. Letters to Lexington, Davidson Co., N. C., unclaimed. W. J. Brent, mer., at last accounts. Main shaft, 80’, is in a vein carrying copper and gold, said to give average assay values of about $15 per ton. Equipment includes a concentrator and mill with Tre- main stamps and crusher. ABE MINING CO. MONTANA Idle. Mine near Wickes, Jefferson Co., Mont. E. R. Graham, supt., at last accounts. Property slightly developed, is said to show autiferous

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and argentiferous copper and lead ores, developed by shaft and equipped with a small steam plant. No returns secured. ABUNDANCIA; MINA LA, PORTO RICO

Idle. Mine near Rio Blanca, Porto Rico, opened in-1869. Produced a small quantity of rich oxidized ore from a paystreak of 8 to 15”, carrying bornite and chalcopyrite averaging 10 to 12% copper, in a vein of cupriferous pyrrhotite of 6 to 10’ width.

Abundancia Mining Co, S. A. Mexico

Address: Puerticitos, via Cananea, Sonora. Organized May, 1912, in Mexico, by O. L. Neer of Douglas, Ariz., Apollo Fuller of Boston and W. C. Webster, Los Angeles. Property, lease and bond on the Abundancia claim, 30 hectares, 5 miles west of Cananea on west slope of mountain. Formerly held by West Cananea Mining Co. and later bonded by Copper Queen Consolidated Mining Co., relinquished 1909. Property being worked under lease by Carlos Schandelmeier. S. G. Burn, mgr. Shipping from - 150 to 200 tons monthly of 9% ore from open cuts and tunnels. Title still

held by Juan Cabral, Sr. ACME CONS. GOLD & COPPER MINING CO. WYOMING

Office: 85 Exchange St., Portland, Me. Mine office: Laramie, Albany Co., Wyo. Otto Gramm, pres.; L. W. Thompson, vice-pres.; Arthur S. Howe, sec.-treas. Organized May 16, 1905, under laws of Maine, capitaliza- tion $1,000,000, shares $1 par. Isa securities-holding corporation, controlling, through stock ownership, the Acme Gold & Copper Mining Co.

Acme Gold & Copper Mining Co. Wyoming

Idle. Address: Van Horn-Miller Block, Laramie, Wyo. L. W. Thomp- son, pres.; Fred A. Miller, vice-pres.; Arthur S. Howe, sec.-treas. Capitali- zation $400,000, shares $4 par. Is controlled, through stock ownership, by Acme Consolidated Gold & Copper Mining Co.

“Lands, 20 claims, 12 patented, area reported by company as 514 acres, also a 60-acre mill site. Property, known as the Gold Hill group, has 2,454’ of workings. Improvements include necessary mine buildings, sawmill and stamp mill.

Acme Mining & Reduction Co. Arizona

‘Address: 108 West Pennington St., Tucson, Pima Co. Ariz}; Ho fi Pilling, pres.; Adolph Bail, vice-pres.; Chas. F. Slack, treas.; Chas. W. Lewis, sec.; Lyman Bridges, megr.; L. W. Waer, mine supt.; preceding offi- cers and R. E. Stevens, directors; Benton Dick, resident agt.; Arizona National Bank, Tucson, depository. Organized 1907, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $10 par. ; l

Lands, the Acme group, 24 claims, unpatented, including 6 claims carrying gold, silver and lead ores; also 6 placer claims, total area 960 acres, in the Amole district, 12 miles from Tucson. Property is claimed to have orebodies of 40 to 150' width, carrying auriferous and argentiferous copper and iron sulphides giving assays of 2 to 38% copper, 2 to 6 oz. silver and $1.40 to $8 gold per ton. Presumably idle.

Ada Copper Mining Co. Montana

Idle. Mine office: Basin, Jefferson Co., Mont. : Jas. B. White, mgr., at last accounts. Organized 1904, under laws of Montana. Property is the ` Ada mine and adjoining claims, carrying gold, silver and copper. Company mined a very rich orebody, which did not go down below the 100’ level. Produced about $100,000 worth of ore, shipped to Butte.

Adelaide Star Mines, Ltd. Nevada

Office: 33. Renfield: St., Glasgow, Scotland. Operating office: 317 McCornick Bldg., Salt Lake City, Utah. Main office: Golconda, Hum- boldt Co., Nevada. P. Coats, chairman; A. P'S, Macquisten, managing

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director; preceding officers, G. M. Reid and E. S. Coats, directors; D. M. Boyd, sec.; Glasgow & Western Exploration Co., Ltd., gen. .; Otto Stahlman, mgr.; Martin Iverson, supt.; Joseph Farren, mine supt. :

Organized April 21, 1897, under laws of Great Britain, capitalization £350,900, shares £1 par; fully issued. Statement for year ending Oct. 31, 1911, submitted to shareholders June 21, 1912, showed debit balance in- creased from £422,589 to £487,956.

Lands, 780 acres, including the Adelaide group of 13 claims, area 238 acres, 10 miles south of Golconda, and the Star group of 11 claims, area 220 acres, at Cherry Creek, White Pine Co., Nev., also a 170-acre mill site. The Star mine is developed by shaft and tunnel to depth of 800’.

The Adelaide mine, opened to depth of 300’, with 3,000’ of workings, . has a 300’ shaft, and in the upper levels carried native silver, the 200’ level showing a good body of medium grade auriferous and argentiferous copper ore, a carload mill test returning $9.40 per ton. Vein is wide, carrying chalcopyrite, with gangue of garnetiferous limestone. Mine equipment in- cludes a 200-h. p. steam plant, hoist and 2 air compressors. A 12-mile narrow-gauge railway connects the mine with the mill at Golconda.

The 100-ton reduction plant includes a 30-ton sampler and treats cus- tom ores as well as company’s own production. The mill used the Mac- quisten flotation process of concentration, by which ore is first put through crushers, then through steel rolls, afterward through Huntington mills, then going to the Macquisten plant, which has 100 concentrator tubes, each 18” in diameter and 6’ long, arranged side by side in 4 tiers. More than one- half of the tubes are immersed in water, and ore is carried through by endless screws, passing out of the tubes at surface, into settling tanks below. Concentrates not caught in the first tier of tubes pass into the next set, and so on, the process being completed in the third set. It is stated by the company that this process gives good extraction from all sulphide ores, and is especially applicable to sulphides where the gangue is of nearly the same specific gravity as the mineral. The mill closed down early Dec., 1910.

The company also has a new 25-ton mill at the Star mine, Cherry Creek, Nev. Negotiations are in progress for the sale of the property. ADMIRAL GOLD & COPPER MINING CO. NEW MEXICO

Idle. Office: Sterling, Kan. Letters unclaimed, at Tusas, Rio Arriba Co., N. M. C. A. Cooper, pres.; W. M. Bisbee, sec. Organized 1900, under laws of New Mexico, capitalization $500,000, shares $1 par. Lands, 5 claims, area 120 acres, in the Bromide district, showing 3 fissure veins of 10’ average width, carrying sulphide ores, opened by 3 shafts, deepest 130. Apparently moribund.

Admiral Mining Co. Washington

Mine near Valley, Stevens Co., Wash., 40 miles north of Spokane. Or- ganized 1913, with T. H. Greenway, pres.; T. R. Tate, vice-pres.; Mrs. T. R. Tate, treas., and Chas. Warsth, sec. Property developed slightly and re- ported to show copper-silver bearing ore at surface.

ADVANCE MINING CO. í ARIZONA

Mine office: Fort Grant, Graham Co., Ariz. John W. Manning, pres.; Wm. G. Leland, vice-pres.; Schuyler S. Moore, sec.-treas. Organized 1906, under laws of West Virginia, capitalization $300,000, shares $1 par, as suc- cessor of Graham County Mining Co., which succeeded the Spenazuma Copper Co., a swindle promoted by the notorious Dr. Flower. Lands, 27 claims; 9 copper claims in the Black Rock district, and 18 gold claims in the Clark district. Property has about 2,600’ of workings, made by former owners and said to show copper ore; claimed to have cost about $100,000. Idle since organization, except for annual assessment work.

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Advance Mining Co. Idaho

Office: 824 Vine St., Missoula, Mont. Mine office: Mullan, Shoshone Ca., Idaho. F. D. Fox, pres.; Geo. F. Stoney, vice-pres.; Henry Hubert, “sec.-treas.; preceding officers and Henry Partoll, directors; Jos. Peila, supt. Lands, 4 claims, 4 miles from Mullan, on Snowstorm hill, lying between the Snowstorm on the east and the Butte & Coeur d'Alene on the west. Devel- opment is by a 1,200’ tunnel, with a drift therefrom showing streaks of chalcopyrite ore. É ADVENTURE CONSOLIDATED COPPER CO. MICHIGAN

Office: 32 Broadway, New York. Mine office: Greenland, Ontonagon Co., Mich, Jas. L. Bishop, pres.; Charles G. Lund, vice-pres.; W. R. Todd, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, Chas. J. Devereaux, James S. Dunstan, Chas. G. Lund and Chas. D. Hanchette, directors; W. A. O. Paul, asst. sec.-treas.; Chas. L. Lawton, gen. supt.

Organized Oct. 17, 1898, under laws of Michigan, capitalization $2,500,- 000, shares $25 par; paid in, $23. American Loan & Trust Co., Boston, registrar; Old Colony Trust Co., Boston, transfer agt. Annual meeting, first Thursday after first Wednesday in June.

Operations, 1912, were conducted at a loss of $38,741, and company ended year with cash assets, $42,307, and liabilities, $33,634. An assessment of $1 per share was levied July 20, 1911. Aug. 6, 1913, company was reported to have $11,000 cash on hand and $1,835 due from unpaid assessments.

Lands include the old Adventure and Hilton tracts, in one body to the eastward, and the Knowlton tract, 1 mile S. W., with total area of 1,696 acres on the mineral belt, also a mill site on Lake Superior. The mineral lands are located in Secs. 35 and 36, T. 51 N., R. 38 W., and in Secs. 1 and 2, T. 50 N., R. 39 W. The Toltec and part of the Belt lie on the north, South Lake east, Toltec and Mass on the south, and the Mass on the west of the main tract. The Knowlton tract has the Mass to the north and east, Flint Steel to the south and Michigan to the west, the Ridge mine of the Mass lying between the two Adventure tracts. The village of Greenland lies on the northwestern corner of the Adventure's principal tract, and the village of Maple Grove, controlled by the company, is near the mine.

The old Adventure mine was opened 1850, along a line of ancient pits showing prehistoric mining. The largest annual production was 233,941 Ibs. fine copper, 1857. After being closed by owners, the old openings were worked for years by tributors, proving notably rich in silver.

The Hilton, or Ohio mine, opened 1863, on the Mass lode, never was worked vigorously. The Knowlton was opened in 1853. These three old mines made 1,949,173 lbs. fine copper, previous to their merging as the Adventure Consolidated, which started work Nov. 1, 1898.

The Adventure property has a series of 7 parallel copper-bearing beds in a cross-section of about 1,200’ and these, coupled with the existence of Adventure bluff, a 300’ hill, caused the opening of the mine by adits, as well as by shafts. The Evergreen belt, of Ontonagon county, comprises a belt of bedded traps, amygdaloids and conglomerates, 7 of these amyg- daloidal beds carrying copper on the Adventure tract. These beds were fully described, Vols. I to VII, inclusive.

The cupriferous beds of the Evergreen belt are notoriously bunchy, being rich in spots and worthless at other points. The strike of the parallel lodes of the Adventure is N. 73% E. on the main tract, where Operations were conducted, shafts beine sunk at an angle of 45”, The old mine has 4 tunnels and 4 shafts, latter, except No, 1, which is in the Merchant lode, being sunk on the Knowlton bed, at 45°, and numbered from west to east.

Production from the old mines ceased, Jan., 1908, since which time

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only exploratory and development work has been done. From June, 1908, to Feb., 1909, diamond-drill holes aggregating 7,096’ were bored, 7 drill holes being put down in the southern part of the property, in an effort to locate the Lake bed, these resulting in the disclosure of the 3 so-called Adventure beds, and giving a cross-section of the property from 500’ N. of the Knowlton bed to the southern boundary. These drill borings located 3 cupriferous amygdaloidal beds, known as Nos. 1, 2 and 3 Adventure lodes. No. 1 bed, averaging about 25’ width, shows copper for about 18’. No. 2 bed is approximately 300’ below No. 1, with a heavy conglomerate bed lying between that and No. 1, and No. 3 is about 1,000’ below No. 2.

No. 5 shaft, started May 6, 1909, is 6x16’ inside measurement, with two 6x6’ hoisting compartinents and a 4x6’ compartment for ladders and pipes. Shaft is vertical and was 1,520’ deep, June, 1913. It is located about 1,500’ south of No. 3 shaft, is lined with concrete for a depth of 50’ from the collar, and is solidly timbered from surface. The shaft cuts No. 1 Adven- ture lode at depth of 894’, and is expected to cut No. 2 lode at about 2,200’ depth, and No. 3 at about 2,600’ depth. The No. 1 lode, opened by an 80’ crosscut on the 1,021’ level has been drifted upon for a distance of about 200’ and discloses very little copper. A 1,150’ exploratory crosscut south and west on the 1,500’ level intercepts 3 beds, designated as Nos. 2, 3 and 4, cutting the first at a distance of 634’, the second at 880” and the third at 1,015’ from the shaft. These lodes, opened by drifts out from the crosscut, are altogether without promise so far as opened, the No. 2 lode, 29’ wide, and opened for a distance of 145’, carrying much copper in the first 7’, with the remainder practically barren; No. 3, 32’ wide, and opened 547’, showing varying amounts and generally poor, and No. 4, 65’ wide, carry-. ing practically no copper in the 34’ drift run along the footwall of the iode. A fifth lode, No. 1%, first encountered in shaft sinking, is opened for a distance of about 130’ at a depth of 1,190’ in the shaft, and makes a fair showing. All work was suspended June, 1913.

The new Mass lode, so-called, lying about 120’ S. E. of the Evergreen bed, was opened by test pitting, May, 1909, and some crosscutting was done from the Evergreen bed, down to the 6th level of No. 2 shaft, but only a few feet of drifting was done. This bed shows a width of 8 to 12’, but carries flaky copper, with considerable epidote. No work is in progress on this bed. f -

The mine equipment includes a 38x59 steel boiler house with three 500- h. p. Burt boilers; a 59x59 steel engine house having an Allis-Chalmers

. duplex double-cone drum direct-acting hoist with 42x60” cylinders, capable

of raising a 12-ton load from a depth of 5,000’ on an incline of 45° at a speed of 2,000’ per minute, and a 38x65” steel compressor house having a 60-drill Rand-Corliss air compressor. There is a complete electric light and power plant and protection from fire is furnished by water mains. The principal mine buildings are sheathed with steel and painted, and the property is served by a spur of the Copper Range railroad.

The stamp mill at Edgemere, on Lake Superior, went into commission Sept. 22, 1902. Equipment includes 3 Allis-Chalmers heads, fitted with Parnall-Krause mortars having 11 to 16” openings in discharge screens, with 2 horizontal revolving screens having 5 to 18” openings for each head. The stamp pistons are automatically rotated, equalizing wear on the shoes. From the revolving screens of the heads, crushed rock goes to the sep- arator jigs, 24 for each head, or 72 for the mill, thence to 36 finisher jigs. There are round slime tables, 3 Overstrom and 3 Wilfley concentrators, and Huntington mills for raggings. Rock bins have a storage capacity of 4,500 tons. Coal is delivered from trestles to boiler rooms by gravity,

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through chutes. The pump is a 16,000,000-gal. Riedler, drawing its supply from Lake Superior through a tunnel extending 1,200” under the lake. Miscellaneous improvements at the mill site include an office, smithy, machine shop, dwellings, etc.

Production has been as follows: 23,572 Ibs. in 1900; 29,361 lbs. in 1901; 606,211 Ibs. in 1902; 2,182,608 Ibs. in 1903; 1,380,480 Ibs. in 1904; 1,606,- 208 lbs. in 1905; 1,552,628 lbs. in 1906; 1,244,874 Ibs. in 1907, with no later production. i AEOLIAN COPPER CONSOLIDATED MINING CO., LTD. IDAHO

Idle. Office and mine: Mullan, Shoshone Co., Idaho. Alfred Andrieux, pres. and mgr.; F. Enjolras, vice-pres.; Clara H. Phipps, sec.; Marguerite Andrieux, treas.; preceding officers, G. E. Phipps and Alexis Canceau, directors. Capitalization $1,500,000, shares $1 par.

Lands, 9 claims, 2 fractional, area 140 acres, fairly timbered, including a mill site and water right near the head of Deadman’s gulch, 3 miles from Mullan, near the Lucky Calumet and west of the Snowstorm, supposedly carrying the Snowstorm ore zone. Property shows 2 well-defined veins in quartzite and porphyry, about 400’ apart, south vein being 10 to 40’ and north vein 4 to 10’ wide. The north vein has given ores from near surface, assaying up to 22% copper, with high values in silver, and ore also has been secured assaying up to 4% copper and $50 gold per ton. Develop- ment is by a 650” tunnel, and the long tunnel of the National mine passes ‘through several claims.

Equipment includes a 24” Pelton wheel, a 500’ flume of 8” pipe from the east fork of Deadman’s creek, and a 10x12” single-stage air compressor. Buildings include an engine house, boarding house and smithy.

Aetna Mining Co. Wyoming

Idle. Office: Merrill, Wis. Mine near Riverside, Carbon Co., Wyo. Hon. Julius Thielman, pres.; E. F. Hanf, sec. Organized under laws of Wyoming, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par.

Lands,-7 claims, area 140 acres, in vicinity of Beaver creek, about 12: miles south of Encampment, having 4 orebodies of 3 to 6’ estimated width, in fissure veins and in contact deposits between granite and quartzite. Mine has a 215’ shaft with upwards of 1,000’ of workings, drifts on the 100’ level showing 3 ore shoots assaying up to 15% copper and $8 to $28 gold per ton, ores including chalcopyrite, bornite, covellite and chalcocite, car- rying good gold values, Mine also has tunnels of 125 and 380’. Equipment includes a 40-h. p. steam plant. Work was resumed Oct., 1909, after 5 years’ idleness, and again suspended in 1910 on account of the smelter at Encampment being closed down.

Afterthought Copper Co. California

Office: 400 Meridian Life Bldg., Indianapolis, Ind. Mine and works office: Ingot, Shasta Co., Cal. T. H. Adams, pres.; James E. Watson, vice- pres.; O. E. Adams, sec.; W.-H. Watson, treas.; preceding officers and Geo. L. Porter, directors; S. E. Bretherton, gen. mgr.; John Bull, smelter supt.

Organized Jan., 1909, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $8,000,000, - shares $1 par, nonassessable, in $200,000 of 7% cumulative preferred stock and $7,800,000 common stock; issued about $4,200,000. Was organized as successor of Great Western Gold Co. s

Lands, 19 claims, 18 patented, area 380 acres, with mill and smelter sites and timber lands giving. total holdings of 1,704 acres. Lands include the Afterthought, Liberty, Last Chance, Section 15 and Bull groups, mines more or less developed being Afterthought, Copper Hill and Copper Grand.. Lands are on the east side belt, which extends from Ingot to DeLamar, and is entirely distinct from the copper belt on the west side of the Sacramento

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river. Lands show porphyry, slates and shales, carrying contact deposits with sulphide ores, there being 5 known orebodies, of which 2 are under development, 1 being reported by company to be 160x500x35’ in size.

The Afterthought mine, in the Furnaceville district, 20 miles east of Redding, had about 2,000’ of workings, when taken over by predecessor of present company, and now has shafts of 216 and 327’, with 7 tunnels, main tunnel being about 2,500’ long, with a total of 8,500’ of workings, estimated by management to show 400,000 tons of ore, with 300,000 tons blocked out for stoping, ore being estimated to carry 2.7 to 3.4% copper, 10 to 43% zinc, a trace of lead, 6.4 oz. silver and 52 cts. gold per ton. Ore is almost exclusively chalcopyrite and sphalerite, a little oxidized ore having been shipped under former ownership. In 1905 ore smelted assayed 2.81% copper, 14.3% zinc, 11.6% iron, 20.25% sulphur, 5.3% alumina, 7.4% barium sulphate. 5.4% calcium carbonate and 18% silica. The main working tunnel cuts a 25’ orebody in the Copper Hill mine.

Equipment includes a 115-h. p. steam plant at the mine, with 20-h. p. and 30-h. p. hoists and a 5-drill air compressor. Company owns a total of 55 buildings, including mine and smelter buildings, shops, dwellings, etc.

Survey was made, 1907, and work begun May, 1913, on a 14-mile stand- ard-gauge railway, to be known as the California, Shasta & Eastern railway, to connect the mine and works at Ingot with the Southern Pacific railway at Bella Vista.

The smelter, 1 mile north of Cow creek, and 1% miles north of the mine, connected therewith by a 30” tramline, includes a small sampling mill. The smelter, blown in March 24, 1905, has water-jacket blast furnaces of 42x96”, rated at 75 tons, and 42x150”, rated at 250 tons daily capacity. Fuel is coal, costing $4.50 per ton. Smelter has 2 brick dust chambers. Much trouble was had at first with the smelter, but under the management of Mr. Brether- ton, who took charge later, the furnaces were run with a low charge and an exceptionally hot top, on account of the excess of barium sulphate, this plan giving good results.

Production by the Great Western Gold Co., 1905-1907, is reported to have been upwards of $800,000 worth of copper, silver and gold, and Mr. Bretherton states that last ore smelted, amounting to 18,951 tons, averaged 3.4% copper, 15.3% zinc, 6.4 oz. silver and 60 cts. gold per ton.

Company early in 1913 was planning to erect a reduction plant for the recovery of'zinc, copper, silver and gold, leaching the zinc and recovering the copper from the residue.

Agate Harbor Mine. Michigan

Idle. Address: care of Mrs. Anna Scott Block, owner, 100 Washington St., Chicago, Ill. Lands, near Eagle river, Keweenaw county, Mich., were slightly prospected, many years ago, but property never was a producer. AGNES MINING CO. MONTANA

Idle. Office: Wallace, Idaho. Mine office: Saltese, Missoula Co., Mont. Chas. Buls, pres.; A. G. Kerns, sec. Capitalization $100,000, shares 10 cts. par. Lands, 6 claims, 2 to 3 miles from a railway, near Saltese, said to show an ore zone of 60’ width, carrying argentiferous lead and copper ores, with limestone gangue, developed by tunnels of 230’ and 260’. Has several ` buildings. Stock reported valueless. AGUASCALIENTES METAL CO. MEXICO

Office and mine: Asientos, Ocampo, Aguascalientes, Mex. Charles P. Doerr, pres.; Albert Doerr, vice-pres., and mgr.; Victor Hunton, sec-treas.; D. H. Harroun, mine supt.; Jesus G. Macias, engr. Organized Dec. 31, 1900, under laws of Mexico, capitalization 35,000 pesos, shares 500 pesos par.

Land, 100 hectares, in the Asientos and Tepezala districts, including the

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Merced and San Simon mines at Asientos, and a group 3 miles from Tepee- ala. Properties show 5 lenticular orebodies, between limestone and cal- careous slate and porphyry, with silicious limestone gangue, of which 4, under development, average about 5' in width, carrying ore averaging about 3% copper, 10 oz. silver and $2 gold per metric ton. The Merced-Orito, 8 kilometers west of Cobre station, on the Mexican Union railway, has 2 veins, of Y to 6 meters average width, carrying lenticular ore shoots, opened by shafts of 400’ and 700’, and the Porvenir tunnel, 500’ long, with several miles of workings. Mine is very dry, and is lighted by incandes- cent lamps. The San Simon y Anexas group has tunnels of 100 and 125 meters, and a 200’ shaft and the San Nicolas has a 300’ shaft.

Equipment is good, including a 110-h. p. De Laval steam turbine dynamo and Cameron electric triplex pump, with 30-h. p. and 50-h. p. electric hoists, good respectively for 1,000’ and 3,000”. Buildings include a 15x30’ stone machine shop, 20x40’ stone and adobe carpenter shop, 20x30’ smithy, power house, hospital, office building, etc. Fuel is West Virginia coal, costing 18 pesos per metric ton. Average cost of mining is 10 pesos per metric ton, and of smelting 10 pesos.

Annual production, 15,000 tons ore, is sent to Aguascalientes smelter of the American Smelting & Refining Co. Mine employs about 225 men. Company is a close corporation, controlled by one family, and has been well managed, accumulating a considerable surplus. Presumably idle.

AGUASCALIENTES SMELTER MEXICO Owned by American Smelting & Refining Co., at Aguascalientes, Mex. AGUILA AMALGAMATED MINING CO. MEXICO

Idle. Office: 185 Summer St., Boston, Mass. J. Burpee Neily, pres.; John P. Burlingame, vice-pres.; Eugene N. Estes, sec.; Jas. A. Floyd, treas.; Geo. C. Tabor, mgr., at last accounts. Organized practically as a recon- struction of Mazeppa Consolidated Mining Co., capitalization $6,000,000.

Property, near Cinco Minas, is said to have 1 shaft and 7 tunnels, with about one-half mile of workings, said to show ore giving assays of $100 to $160 per ton, mainly in gold and silver,

Ahmeek Mining Co. Michigan

Office: 12 Ashburton Place, Boston, Mass. Mine office: Kearsage, Keweenaw Co., Mich. Rodolphe L. Agassiz, pres.; Quincy A. Shaw, vice- pres.; Geo. A. Flagg, sec.-treas.; Clarence H. Bissell, asst. sec.-treas.; Ro- dolphe L. Agassiz, Quincy A. Shaw, Wm. A. Hodgson, Thomas L. Chad- bourne, Jr., James McNaughton, Thos. M. Perkins and Francis L. Hig- ginson, directors; Jas. MacNaughton, gen. mgr.; S. Russell Smith, supt.; ‘Thos. Rapson, mg. capt.; J. T. Reeder, purch. agt.; John G. Bennetts, chief clerk. Organized March 22, 1880, under laws of Michigan and charter ex- tended, 1910, for 30 years, capitalization $1,250,000, shares $25 par, fully issued; $17 paid in. Last assessment was $5, Feb. 5, 1904. Paid dividends of $5 in 1911, $15 in 1912, and $22 to end of Sept in 1913. Annual meeting, second Tuesday in June. American Trust Co., Boston, registrar; State Street Trust Co., Boston, transfer agent. Balance of assets was $1,013,812 at end of 1911, and $1,379,209 at end of 1912. Is controlled by the Calumet & Hecla Mining Co., through ownership of 24,796 shares.

Lands, 931 acres, lying between the Mohawk and Allouez mines, set off, 1880, by the Seneca Mining Co., to work the Kearsarge or Houghton conglomerate. Under the management of Capt. John Daniell, 2 shafts were sunk on this bed, which averages about 70’ width, with 3 paystreaks of 2 to 3’, aggregating 7’ width, each carrying copper in good quantities, but bed not payable as a whole, owing to great width of partially or wholly bar- ren rock. Boundary lines were rectified, by exchange of 11.18 acres with

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Allouez, July, 1903, and by a similar exchange of 20 acres, with Mohawk, 1909, giving straight boundary lines on the dip of the bed, permitting easier development by all mines concerned. Work on the present mine was started Dec. 2, 1902.

The Kearsarge bed, on which the present mine is opened, ranged 14 to 18’ in width, with but little poor ground encountered in the entire mine. Openings are considerably ahead of stoping requirements, and blocking out is almost entirely by drift stopes, which are carried about 9’ wide and 14’ high, to the boundary limits, where extraction is begun and brought back- ward to the shafts, thus reducing timber requirements to a minimum. The mine keeps 3,000,000 to 3,500,000 tons of stamp rock blocked out for stoping. All levels below the first are 125’ apart. A Richmond electric bell signal system connects all underground workings with the engine rooms, and un- derground stations are connected with surface by telephone. Concrete is substituted for timber in the construction of the shafts, and in other places where practicable, rendering the shafts as nearly fireproof as possible. Mules are used in tramming rock underground.

A cross fissure vein of domeykite, copper arsenide, 71.7% copper, and mohawkite, a copper-nickel-cobalt arsenide, mainly the former, that is 4 to 12” wide, was opened 300’ south of No. 1 shaft, on the 5th level, and a sec- ond vein of 2 to 12” width is found about a quarter-mile south, both cross- ing the bedded formation at practically right angles.

The mine has 4 shafts, numbered from south to north, planned to de- velop the entire tract. Nos. 1 and 2 shafts, 1,445’ apart, sunk at 42°, are each 8x17’ 4” in size, with 2 hoisting compartments and a ladderway. These shafts were 2,475’ and 2,645’ deep respectively at end of 1912. Exch shaft has, between the 9th and 10th levels, a 400-ton rock bin, equipped with æ measuring hopper holding exactly one 7-ton skip load, loaded in 20 sec- onds by one man, this system saving much time, and confining hoisting of all rock mined down to the 10th level to 1 point in the shaft. No. 1 shaft can, be sunk to about 3,000’ depth before cut off by the Allouez line, and No. 2 can be sunk much deeper.

The northern end of the mine is developed by shafts 3 and 4, begun August, 1908. These will command the 12 forties lying in the western half of Sec. 28 and eastern half of Sec. 29. Shafts 3 and 4, three-fourths mile N. E. of No. 2, have a common collar, being only 6’ apart at surface, but diverging north and south, from the surface, at an angle of 42°. These shafts are sunk through 70’ of overburden, and are concreted into the solid rock ledge for depth of 95’ from surface. Owing to the outcrop of the Kearsarge lode being owned by the Mohawk, Ameek having only the underlay at its northern end, shafts 3 and 4 are sunk in the hanging, at an angle of 80° on a plane corresponding longitudinally to the strike of the bedded formation, and bend at depth of 980’, in a curve with a radius of about 400’, bringing the shafts to 34°, to correspond with the rather flat dip at the Kearsarge bed, both shafts entering the bed, early 1911, at depth of about 1,275’. Concrete sets and stringers have been used in these shafts wherever ground would permit. Each shaft has 3 compartments, with two 8x8’ skipways and a 4x8’ ladderway. It is proposed to work out the upper portion of the bed by crosscuts, beginning at depth of 1,020’ in No. 4 shaft, which will be the 1st level in these shafts, which have 3 stations above the point where the bed intersects, from which crosscuts will be run to the Kearsarge bed, to the Mohawk line. The 2 northern shafts were approxi- mately 2,150’ deep, and showing excellent copper ground at end of 1912.

Shaft houses Nos. 1 and 2 are 26x26’ on the ground, and 80’ high, each with a 28x100 ironclad wing over the collar of the shaft.

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The main power house, between shafts 1 and 2, is in 2 parts, of brick and steel, with composition roof. Equipment of No. 1 power house in- cludes 60-drill and 50-drill Nordberg cross-compound 2-stage air compress- ors, and a 32x72” cylinder Nordberg hoist. The electrical plant consists of a 13x26” Nordberg tandem-compound engine, direct-connected to a 200-kw. 250-volt Northern Electric generator. Condenser pumps and reheaters are located'in the basement. No. 2 engine house is a duplicate of No. 1, containing a similar hoist with double conical drums with maximum di- ameter of 18’ 6”, capable of hoisting 10-ton skips in counterbalance from 1 mile depth. Nos. 1 and 2 engine houses are connected by a steel-frame boiler house, having six 200-h. p. boilers, with room for 8 equipped with feed pumps, ash sluices, coal trestles, etc. The boiler house has a self:

supporting steel smokestack, 150’ high and 7’ 6” in diameter, on a sandstone-

faced concrete base.

Shafts 3.and 4 are equipped with two 32x72” cylinder Nordberg hoists, a triple-expansion Nordberg compressor and electric-light engine, housed in a brick structure 65’ wide by 146’ long, with corrugated-iron roof; a steel boiler house 57’ wide by 84’ long with corrugated-iron roof, housing eight 200-h. p. boilers, and a steel self-supporting brick-lined smokestack, 7’ di- ameter and 140’ high. There is also a change house of brick constructic-., 39x139”. A shaft rock house designed to serve both shafts is in course of erection.

/ The central crushing plant, of brick, is 800’ north of No. 1 shaft, and 624’ south of No. 2, with which the plant is connected by a temporary frame trestle 37’ high and 14’ wide, carrying a double track for 7-ton tram cars, which are dumped by means of cradles, and rock directed by grizzlies and Chutes“ to the crusher, below which is a hopper, feeding directly into a shaker driven by a 7%4-h. p. electric motor, crushed rock thence being fed automatically into a link-belt conveyor driven by a 35-h. p. motor, going to the rock bin. The crusher building, of steel, contains 3 Farrell crushers, driven by a 12x24” Nordberg engine, and tram cars are actuated by two 35-h. p. motors, located in the 2nd story of the building. Crushed rock goes to a 1,600-ton cylindrical steel rock bin, 32” in diameter and 48’ high, set on concrete piers, with tunnel and railway track beneath, permitting the filling of cars by gravity, 1 man loading a 40-ton car in 10 seconds. Crushing costs, 1910, were only about 414 cts. per ton.

Mine buildings include a 44x46’ 2-story and basement office building, of sandstone and brick; a machine shop; a 36x160' warehouse, of structural- steel frame, connecting with railway tracks; an office for mining captains and timekeepers; smithy; 38x163’ cold-storage shed, and about 70 dwell- ings. The location is protected by a water system having 6,000’ of 6” mains with 16 Ludlow hydrants. Water is taken from an 8’ dam across the out- let of Seneca lake, This water supply probably will be adequate for several years, but is located on another company’s land. A large water supply could be developed from Ahmeek lands near the Allouez boundary, and an inexhaustible supply is available from Lake Superior, 4 miles dis- tant, but about 600’ lower.

The mine has rail connections with both the Mineral Range and Ke- weenaw Central lines, and is connected with the mill by the Mineral Range which enters the structure over a steel trestle 100’ high. !

The stamp mill, at- Hubbell, on Torch lake, went into commission June, 1910. There are 4 heads, and each stamp is breaking about 560 tons of rock daily, which is expected to be increased later to 600 tons daily. The mill site has a frontage, on Torch lake, of about 2,000’

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was!broken May, 1913, for an addition to the mill, with room for 4 heads, 2 of which are to be immediately installed, together with extensive regrind- ing machinery.

Several new ideas are embodied in the erection and equipment of this mill, The material of construction is steel and concrete throughout. Stamps rest on concrete piers, each standing on a concrete slab 4’ 6” thick that rests directly upon a hard pan of closely-cemented gravel. Each slab holds about a mile of wire cable, interlaced upward on its surface and reaching into the pier above, which is 40x40’ at the base, pyramidal in form and 38’ high, giving the stamps an elevation of about 50’ above lake level. There are four 1,000-ton rock bins. A new feature in local mill construe- tion is double-deck floors, the jigs being located on the upper or roughing floor, and sands overflowing to Evans round tables and Wilfley concen- trators on the ground floor. Wash equipment includes 88 jigs, 12 Evans round tables, 45 Wilfley tables and 4 sets of Woodbury jigs. Tests made, to end of 1910, indicate a saving of about one-half pound fine copper per ton from the Woodbury system of milling, over the old system. The jigs and tables are actuated exclusively by electricity.

The mill power house has six 200-h. p. boilers, with capacity to operate 4 stamps, and is the first unit of a power plant of double the present size. The self-supporting steel brick-lined smokestack is 170’ high and 15’ in- side diameter, with capacity for a plant of double the present size. The plant has a 300-kw. generator, and a pump of 40,000,000 gal., daily capacity, capable of supplying water for 8 heads, connected with Torch lake by a 600’ pipe intake.

Rock broken, 1909, amounted to 496,289 tons, with 18.2% or 90,244 tons discarded. In 1909 the company sold domeykite ore to the value of $3,344.86. Average yield of fine copper per ton of rock stamped was 21.1 lbs. in 1908; 22.8 lbs. in 1909, and practically the same in 1910. Copper production is marketed through the United Metals Selling Co. Cost of mining, transporting and stamping, plus taxes, was $1.78 per ton of rock in 1908, and $1.72 per ton in 1909. Cost of production, at mine, excluding construction, was 8.97 cts. per pound and cost of stamping was 32 cts. per ton in 1908, and in 1909 these costs were 7.61 cts. per pound. Construction costs were 2.4 cts. per pound in 1908, and 5.27 cts. in 1909. Gross cost, per pound of copper, was 12.66 cts. in 1908 and 15.48 cts. in 1909 owing to unusually heavy construction cost. Total cost of all copper produced, to end of 1910, was under 14 cts. per pound, including the expenditure of up- wards of $1,500,000 on construction,

Production of finished copper has been as follows: 376,687 Ibs. in 1904; 1,552,957 lbs. in 1905; 3,077,507 Ibs. in 1906; 5,510,985 lbs. in 1907; 6,280,241 lbs. in 1908; 9,198,110 Ibs. in 1909; 11,844,954 Ibs. in 1910; 15,196,127 Ibs. in 1911, and 16,455,769 lbs. in 1912.

Production for 6 months ending June 30, 1913, was 7,893,340 Ibs.; the recovery was 24.5 lbs. for a tonnage of 322,551 tons ore milled, at a total cost per pound of 10.01 cts., or $1.48 per ton. Construction work cost 2.71 cts. per ton and smelting, freight, commission, etc., 1.27 cts. per ton.

With further development and a 6-stamp mill, the Ahmeek can pro- duce about 20,000,000 lbs. fine copper yearly, and with still further develop- ment, and an 8-stamp mill, treating 5,000 tons of rock daily, the mine should have a maximum productive capacity of nearly or quite 30,000,000 lbs. of copper yearly, and, after extraordinary construction expenses are ter- minated, should be able to produce copper at a total cost of between 7 and 8 cts. per pound.

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AJAX MINE. MONTANA Mine office: Fox, Beaverhead Co., Mont. Noyes & Morse, owners; A. L. Noyes, mgr..at last accounts. Ores carry gold, silver, lead and cop- per. Equipment includes a 10-stamp mill. Letters returned unclaimed, 1913. AJO CONSOLIDATED COPPER CO. ARIZONA Office: care James Phillips, Jr., 42 Rector St., New York City. James P. Gaskill, mine superintendent, Ajo, Pima Co., Ariz. Ajo claims, show- ing copper, are developed by 200’ shaft and equipped with gasoline power. Will install power plant and concentrating mill. Employs 25 men, when operating. l A. K. R. GOLD MINING & MILLING CO. COLORADO Geo. M. Ashmore, superintendent, Rollinsville, Gilpin, Co., Colo. Owns the Smuggler mine, developing a vein of copper ore with gold and silver values, opened by a 1,200’ tunnel. Equipment includes steam and electric power, an Ingersoll compressor and a 10-stamp mill. ALABAMA MINE. NEW MEXICO Mine office: Orogrande, Otero Co., N. M. W. B. Bates, lessee and mgr. at last accounts. Property, formerly held by Alabama Gold € Cop- per Co., was taken over, 1908, by Mr. Bates, on a $75,000 bond and lease. Lands, 5 claims, patented, shortly south of Orogrande, formerly worked for turquoise by Tiffany & Co., and sometimes known as the Tiffany tur- quoise mine. The mine shows large outcrops of iron ore, and has veins carrying copper and gold values, with some turquoise. Reported reopened by leasers, 1913. ALADDIN MINING CO. ARIZONA W. A. Kent, mgr. Big Bug, Yavapai Co., Ariz. Company has 5-year lease on Paymaster mine and 8 other claims, the property of the Oriental Mining Co., in Big Bug district, near Poland. Development started April, 1913, on crosscut to tap vein. Lottie mine of same group has 4,400’ tunnel and 20-stamp mill. i ALADDIN MINING CO. MONTANA Mine office: Clinton, Missoula Co., Mont. J. F. Porter, supt., at last accounts. Was bonded about 1907, to Speculator Mining Co. Idle some years and apparently moribund. ALADDIN MINING CO. WASHINGTON Office and mine: Northport, Stevens Co., Wash. Frank Earnest, pres.; P. P. Swanson and C. A. Magney, directors. Mine is developed by 2 tun- nels, lower 400’ below upper, and management plans a third crosscut tunnel. Workings show mainly silver-lead ore, decidedly zinciferous in the upper levels. Has about 1,500’ of openings in ore. Equipment includes a 50-ton concentrator and sawmill. Presumably idle.

ALAMEDA MINING Co. WYOMING Idle. Formerly at Saratoga, Carbon Cos Wyo. Fully described Vol. X. ALAMOS MINING CO. MEXICO Idle. Mines are at Alamos, Sonora, Mex. Fully described in VOL ALASKA-CALUMET COPPER CO. ALASKA

Idle. Property in the Copper River district (under option to Benjamin Daggett, San Francisco, Cal.). Fully ‘described in Vol. AG. ALASKA CONSOLIDATED COPPER CO. ALASKA Succeeded by Alaska Copper Corporation, Nov. 1912, and property described under that title. Old company fully described in Vol. X. ALASKA CONSOLIDATED MINING & SMELTING Co. ALASKA John A. Percival, sec... Sherwood block, Duluth, Minn.; Geo. Eis Crosby, press A. L. Warner, vice-pres.; with Richard M. Sellwood and

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Henry W. Armstrong, directors. Organized Oct. 1912, under laws of Arizona; capitalization $2,500,000, shares $5 par. Company purchased prop- erty of the Alaska Copper Co. at sheriff’s sale and offered 100,000 shares to stockholders of the old company at $1.25 per share. Property consists of 18 claims, 360 acres with 40 acres mill site, known as the Copper Mountain group situated on Copper Harbor, Prince of Wales Island, Alaska.

Property covers a contact metamorphic zone between granite and lime- stone with a porphyry intrusion along the contact. Orebodies are from 3 to 50’ wide with mineralized zone 900’ wide. Three lodes, the New York, San Francisco and Indiana, are recognized. Development by tunnels ag- gregates several thousand feet, mostly poorly directed. Engineer on ground for past year has kept a few men at work waiting for company to be financed.

Equipment includes smelter, sawmill, tramway and many buildings. Property considered valuable when developed and adequately financed. ALASKA COPPER & COAL CO. ALASKA

Office: 146-45 Broadway, New York, N. Y. Mine near Copper Ceñter, Copper River distfict, Alaska. Organized under laws of West Virginia, capitalization $3,500,000, shares $10 par, as Alaska Copper Co., and name changed later to present title; capital stock decreased, May, 1910, to $350,000, shares $1 par. Lands, about 3,200 acres, patented, 180 miles N. E. of Valdez. The Kennecott group, formerly owned by this company, has been sold to the Kennecott Mines Co., and property is described under that title.

Alaska Copper Corporation. Alaska

Office: 60 Wall St., New York. Mine at Strelna, Alaska. W. F. Bay Stewart, pres.; Ambler J. Stewart, vice-pres. and treas.; Edward Barr, sec.; preceding officers, J. W. B. Bausman, Peter T. Watt, John R. Miller, Frank P. Lauer, Búlow von Ravens and Harry W. Davis, directors. Alfred B. Iles, mine supt. Organized Nov. 7, 1912, under laws of Delaware, capitali- zation $10,000,000, shares $5 par; fully paid and nonassessable; issued 1,700,000. Columbia Knickerbocker Trust Co., New York, registrar. Stock listed-on New York curb. Company is a successor to the Alaska Consoli- dated Copper Co.

Property, 40 claims, 800 acres, final receipt issued, situated in the Cop- per River-Chitina district, Alaska. Holdings comprise the Nugget Creek group of 35 claims, 18 miles from Strelna station on the railroad and the ` Rarus group 12 miles from the railroad. Elevation of both groups about 3,500’. The Nugget group shows fissure veins in greenstone which carry both oxide and sulphide copper minerals. Development mainly on Lucky Boy and Valdez claims, shows 26’ vein containing bornite and chalcopyrite ina calcite matrix averaging better than 10% copper from wall to wall, according to the manager. The parallel Copper Queen vein has an 80 tunnel cutting vein at 75’ depth. Other claims have 30 to 100’ tunnels. Across Nugget creek, the White Horse vein, 20’ wide, carries native copper in large nuggets and masses and glance in quartz.

The Rarus group on the south bank of the Kuskulana river is 7 miles from Nugget creek. Claims cover a mineralized porphyry sheet lying be- tween limestone and conglomerate, the yein said to be 20 to 30’ thick and to be traceable 5 miles. On Rarus claim the iron capping is 300’ from wall to wall. Developed by 260’ tunnel in ore for 60’, averaging 9.1% copper, $2 gold, 3%4 oz. silver, according to report. The gangue of the ore is de- composed porphyry and magnetite and pyrite accompany the copper ore. Property has been reported on by Prof. W. B. Clark, E. M. Wilkinson and Leon Bartholin. Management estimates 200,000 tons blocked out and

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1,000,000 tons of ore in sight, carrying better than 5% copper, 5 oz. silver and $1:50 gold. A shipment Dec. 10, 1912, of 19 tons yielded 56% copper. Property considered meritorious, but needs large amount of money for equipment and development.

Alaska Gold & Copper Mining Co. Alaska

Idle. Mine near Illiamna, Alaska. M. T. Hart, pres., Portland, Ores F. E. Hart, sec. Organized 1910, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $250,000, shares $1 par. Lands, 3 claims, having a 300’ tunnel and surface trenches. Apparently dead.

Alaska-Illiamna Copper Co. Alaska

Idle. Mine address: Illiamna, Alaska. Property, near Illiamna lake, said to show a 9’ vein of ore, on which a limited amount of development ' work has been done. Presumably dead. i ALASKA INDUSTRIAL CO. ALASKA

Office: 115 Broadway, New York. Mine office: Sulzer: Prince of Wales Island, Alaska. A. E. Spriggs, pres.; L. A. Sarecky, sec.; Col. A. M. Lowry, treas.; Charles A. Sulzer, gen. mer. Organized Oct. 30, 1899, under laws of New Jersey, capitalization $1,000,000,-shares $1 par. Annual meeting, second Monday in November.

Lands, the Sulzer group of 60 claims, patented, area 1,200 acres, also 60 acres in mill sites, 80 acres in homestead, and miscellaneous properties. Eight outlying claims were leased, 1909, for 5 years, to Tyee Copper Co., Ltd. Main holdings are near the head of Hetta inlet, 2 miles from the Leach and 1,500 to 2,000” above tidewater.

Mine, known as the Jumbo, has a mineralized contact metamorphic zone

up to 1,000' in width, with granite foot and limestone hanging, ore fading into the fone. Property shows 7 lenses and irregular masses, ore being mainly chalcopyrite, with some bornite and a little tetrahedrite in a gangue of magnetite, garnet, epidote and other contact minerals, together with occa- sional molybdenite. Ore averages 4 to 5% copper, with small silver values, ` and $1.50 to $2 gold per ton. Development is mainly by tunnel, with 4 shallow shafts and numerous open cuts. The tunnels are in series, lowest 500’ vertically below the high- est, all connected by winzes, and the mine has over 3 miles of workings. The Jumbo mine was opened throughout 1912, the shaft being deepened 136’, and 450’ of drifting done on the ore. The ore stands well, requiring little timbering, even in stopes up to 50’ in width.

The property carries an available water power, rated at 5,000 h. p., and this has been partially developed by a 36” Pelton wheel, taking water from Beaver creek and actuating a 6-kw. generator, and a 16” Pelton wheel tak- ing water under a 330’ head from Jumbo creek, through a 10” pipe line of 3.000" length, this actuating a 55-kw. 3-phase 2,300-volt 60-cycle generator, current being stepped down to 220 volts for lighting and power. Mine is equipped with electric fans, blowers and Temple- Tagérsol] electric drills.

A 9,000’ Riblet aerial tram has 14 wooden towers with 22 half-ton buckets, operated by gravity with a 600’ auxiliary tram. Capacity of tram line is 12 tons per hour. The main tram has small bins at the mine and 4,000-ton storage bins at tidewater, where there is a 200’ wharf. Company has a 47’ gasoline launch.

¡Equipment includes a’ Sullivan duplex air compressor, ARS PE driven. Buildings include a 35x40’ warehouse, 30x35’ power house, smithies, store, office, dwellings, bunkhouses and various smaller buildings.

Production was begun 1907, and now aggregates: 100,000 tons, netting $1,000,000. Company now shipping about 1,500 tons monthly. averaging

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414% copper with small gold and silver values. Property considered valu- able and management good. ALASKA METALS CO. . ALASKA

Idle. Mine office: Bruce, Prince of Wales Island, Alaska. Harry Cor- bin, supt., at last accounts. Property, on the west coast of Prince of Wales Island, formerly known as the Corbin mine, is. slightly developed, and a lit- tle ore has been shipped. z ALASKA UNITED COPPER EXPLORATION CO. ALASKA

Office: 551 Coleman Bldg., Seattle, Wash. Mine office: Dan creek, Copper River district, Alaska. “L: C. Dillman, pres. and gen. mer.; Jas. A. Munday, vice-pres.; E. V. Dillman, sec.; W. A. Steele, treas.; preceding offi- cers, H.: W. Swift, Thos. M: Dunn, Frank L. Huston, Maj. F. S. Clarkson, Jas. J. O'Keane and F. M. Roessler, directors; H. D. Foster, supt; C. C. Jones, mg. engr. Organized Nov. 14, 1906, under laws of Washington, capitalization $12,500,000, shares $1 par. Debentures, $150,000, 6% bonds. Annual meeting, first Monday in January. .

Lands, 68 claims, area 1,360 acres, comprising the Finch, Dillman, Westover, Porcupine, Golden Eagle, Bearpaw and Snowbird groups, all 18 to 20 miles from the Copper River railroad, on branches of the Chitina and Nizina rivers, in the Copper River district, Alaska.

Exploratory work has been done on the various groups, property hav- ing a number of small tunnels and numerous trenches and opencuts, show- ing good copper ore. The Westover group, developed by tunnel, is esti- mated to have 12,000 tons ore blocked out for stoping (see Alaska-Westover Copper Co.). :

The company is primarily a holding company, prospecting and devel- oping properties in its possession for sale to other parties.

Alaska Westover Copper Co. Alaska

Office: 551 Coleman Bldg., Seattle, Wash. Mine 18 miles from. Copper River railroad in the Chitina district. L. C. Dillman, pres.; E. M. Kennard, vice-pres.; W. A. Mears, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, Mr. Taylor and W. F. Chandler, directors. Property, the Westover group, title to which will be transferred from the Alaska United Copper Exploration Co. in Nov., 1913. Owns 24 claims, about 440 acres, covering a contact between lime-

“stone and greenstone. The contact lies horizontally and the ore. outcrop is from 6 to 14’ thick and 38 to 52’ long in a perpendicular bluff at 4,990’

elevation. A tunnel started at the south end showed 4 to 20’ of ore for 8C0’ with a depth of 215’ at.the face. Ore is reported to average 24% cop- per, 2 oz. silver and $1.60 gold for an average width of 12”, Ore blocked out estimated at 12,000 tons.

Albany Copper Co. Nevada

Idle. Office and mine: Morningstar, Lyon Co., Nev. John E: Lutz, pres., treas. and gen. mer.; E. R. Tutt, vice-pres.; Wm. G. Williamson, sec.; Ulrich Keck, supt., at last accounts. Organized June 29, 1907, under laws of Nevada, capitalization $200,000, shares 10 cts. par, non-assessable. Annual meeting, last Tuesday in November. :

Lands, 700 acres, with 400 acres miscellaneous lands, giving total hold- ings of 1,100 acres, 3 miles from a railroad, in the Buckskin district, showing 3 orebodies, carrying mainly nickeliferous malachite and melaconite, esti- mated by management to average 3.5% copper, 2% nickel, 0.2 oz. silver and

$2 gold per ton. Development includes 5 shafts, of 30’, 37’, 54’ and 253’, and

8 tunnels of 30 to 188’ length, with total underground workings of 1,400’. Equipment includes a 15-h. p. gasoline hoist, good for 800’ depth. .Man- agement planned deepening shaft to 500’.

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Albert Copper Co. Quebec

Idle many years. Office: 25 Broad St., New York. Mine office: Capel- ton, Sherbrooke Co., Que. Was promoted, for legal reasons, to take over the mining interests of the Nichols Copper Co. in Quebec and is controlled by that company. ` ;

The Albert mine, area 640 acres, at Capelton, carries lenses of chalcopy- rite and pyrite, assaying up to 5% copper and 38% sulphur. Development is by 6 shafts, 4 under 500’ depth each, with one of 800’ and one of 2,000’, the mine having upwards of 5 miles of workings.

The works at the Albert mine include a 150-ton concentrator, a smelter and an acid plant. The chemical works, completed, 1907, at a cost of about $1,000,000, with capacity of 150 tons of commercial sulphuric acid daily, are among the most complete in existence, manufacturing sulphuric, nitric and hydrochloric acids and glauber salts. The cinder remaining from the burn- ing of cupriferous pyrite for sulphuric acid is smelted in a small blast fur- nace, producing 1 to 2 tons daily of matte-assaying up to 40% copper, with small silver contents, shipped to the Laurel Hill works for refining, and cop- per production is estimated at 350,000 Ibs. yearly.

Albion Copper Mining Co. Montana

Mine near Sunday, Granite Co., Mont., but company probably defunct. Christian Reichert, pres.; Jas. M. Hinkle, sec.; Christian Jacky, mgr., at last accounts. Mine, opened by tunnels, has 3 veins, carrying auriferous and ar- gentiferous copper and lead sulphides, of concentrating grade.

Albion Mining Co. Utah

Office: Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine office: Alta, Salt Lake Co., Utah. Wm. Hatfield, gen. mgr.; Theo. Hatfield, supt., at last accounts. The Albion group is said to have yielded about $1,000,000 worth of ore under former ownership. Mine is developed by a 2,800’ tunnel, driven to drain old work- ings and open new ground, showing a 6’ vein, with a paystreak carrying about 40% lead and 50 to 60 oz. silver per ton, also a fissure vein carrying ore assaying up to 15% copper, with silver values.

Equipment includes water power and a 30-ton mill, with jigs, putting about 4 into 1, giving concentrates with small and variable assays in copper, 35 to 40% lead, 40 to 45 oz, silver and 0.15 oz. gold per ton. Company ad- vertised March 29, 1910, as delinquent in payment of Utah corporation tax. ALDER GROUP MINING & SMELTING CO. WASHINGTON

Idle. Mine office: Twisp, Okanogan Co., Wash. Lands, about 3 miles from Twisp, have 3 tunnels, of 3,000’ aggregate length, longest said to show a 60’ vein, claimed, in the press, to be solid ore, without any waste. Mine is said to have blocked out a considerable amount of silicious ore, mainly auriferous chalcopyrite. Company has shipped ore hauled 30 miles to the Columbia river.

ALEX. SCOTT MINE. MONTANA : Owned by Butte-Alex. Scott Copper Co., at Butte, Silver Bow Co., Mont.

Algoma Copper & Smelting Co. Ontario

Office: Prudential Bldg., Buffalo, N. Y. Mine office: Bruce Mine, Al- goma, Ont. Mark B. Schwab, pres.; Eugene Warner, vice-pres.; Ben New- man, sec.; Bernard J. Hillman, treas. Organized 1905, under laws of Ari- zona, capitalization $3,000,000, shares $10 par. Lands, 1,550 acres, about 9 miies from Bruce Mine, opened by a 425’ shaft and a 175’ tunnel. Has a 300-ton concentrator. Property was fully described under title Rock Lake Mining Co., Ltd., Vol. III. Presumably dead. 4 ALGOMA CUSTOM SMELTING & REFINING CO.,LTD. ONTARIO

Idle several years. Works office: Thessalon, Algoma, Ont. T. H. Pol-

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lock, pres.; Jos. H. Pickell, sec., Utica, N. Y.; W. B. Anderson, treas. Or- ganized Nov. 28, 1906, under laws of Ontario, capitalization $250,000, shares $5 par. Is closely: connected in ownership and management with Hermina Mining Co., Ltd. Property is a 200-ton custom smelter, with 1 reverbera- tory furnace of the Swindell type, completed 1908. Smelter is not a suc- cess, and will require alteration before put in commission.

Algomah Mining Co. - Michigan

Office: 60 State St., Boston, Mass. Mine office: Lake Mine, Ontonagon Co., Mich. R. M. Edwards, pres. and gen. mgr.; Albert L: Wyman, sec.; Henry Tolman, treas.; R. M. Edwards, J. H. Rice, Henry Tolman, Irving J. Sturgis, S. L. Powers and Arthur C. Paine, directors; Thos. Bennetts, supt.; Wm. Wearne, mg. capt. Organized June, 1910, under laws of Michigan, capitalization $2,500,000, shares $25 par; issued $1,750,000, paid in $12. Last assessment, June 4, 1913, $1. Of the capitalization, 60,000 shares were given land owners in full payment for property and 10,000 shares were sold to public at $10 per share. Annual meeting, third Tuesday in April. Ameri- can Trust Co., Boston, transfer agent; Federal Trust Co., Boston, regis- trar. Stock is listed on the Boston Stock Exchange.

The treasurer's statement, Dec. 31, 1912, showed a deficit of $12,299, but in June company was paying off the debts with funds derived from the last assessment, which had yielded, June 13, $15,000 out of a possible $70,000.

Lands, 480 acres, being the N. % and S. W. Y of Sec. 3, T.:50:N:, R. 30 W. Property was owned formerly by a company of the same name, which began work 1852, and did a little prospecting, with negative results, expending about $65,000.

An 8x12’ exploratory shaft, started in an amygdaloidal bed, without def- inite data as to pitch, was 315’ deep, June, 1913, and for the first 95’ con- tinued in vein material, passing into the hanging wall at about 95’ from surface. The first level, opened at 104’, has about 2,350’ of drifts, and a 90' crosscut to the eastern sandstone. The second level, 212’ from surface, has a crosscut northwest across the formation which, for more than 1,000', ex- poses almost solid trap, a small amygdaloid, 560’ from the shaft, showing some native copper in about 680’ of drifts. The Algomah orebody, in which the shaft is sunk, apparently has a dip of about 80° and a width ranging from about 40’ at the first level to about 60’ at a depth of 470’, indicated by diamond-drill borings. 3

The Algomah bed is peculiar in both strike and contents, strike appar- ently being nearly north and south, in line with the strike at the Lake mine, rext north, and the bed carrying copper oxide instead of native copper, as is the case with all of the other copper mines of the Lake Superior district opened on the bedded formation of the Keweenawan series. Ore is mainly black oxide, or melaconite, cárrying traces of native copper, and chrysocolla ot 16 to 19% assay tenor was found in a test pit near the shaft. Assays made of a small quantity of selected ore, removed in the course of shaft sinking, gave a copper value of 24.1%, this selected ore representing one- eighth of the entire body of material taken from the shaft.

Considerable diamond drilling has been done in the area west of the orebody, and to great depth, but results are conflicting and nothing definite is known concerning either the dip, strike or value of the several copper- bearing formations there encountered.

Equipment includes a steam hoist, with capacity to lift a 3-ton load from a depth of about 500’, and an air compressor. Buildings include a power plant, office and boarding houses. Property considered promising and management good.

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ALICANTE; COMPANIA MINERA EL. MEXICO Mine office: Mazapil, Zacatecas, Mex. Geo. F. Dillon, mgr., at last accounts. Land, 18 hectares, including the Socavon Principal. Mine, de- veloped by tunnel, has argentiferous and auriferous lead and copper ores. ALICE CONSOLIDATED MINING CO. UTAH Office: 513 Atlas Blk., Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine office: Callao, Juab Co., Utah, W. R. Hutchinson, pres.; W. F. Calloway; vice-pres. Organ- ized Jan., 1907, under laws of Utah, with capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par, non-assessable. Lands, 9 claims, unpatented, near the mines of the St. - George Copper Mining Co., in the Dugway section 30 miles west of Tintic. The claims show auriferous and argentiferous lead and copper ores in lime- stone and are but slightly developed by tunnels. Idle. ALICE COPPER & ZINC MINING CO. NEVADA

Mine at Good Springs, Nev. A. J. Roberts, pres.; E. B. Critchlow, vice- pres.; A. E. Thomas, sec. Property, the Alice group of 12 claims, adjoining the Yellow Pine mine on the south and in the Good Springs or Yellowpine district, 8 miles northwest of Jean, on the Salt Lake (S. P. L. A. & S. L.) railroad.

Mines are primarily zinc and lead producers from replacement deposits ín limestone, copper occurring as an occasional and minor constituent. ALICE G. MILLS CORPORATION. COLORADO

Mine office: Idaho Springs, Clear Creek Co., Colo. W. F. Shaffer, mgr., at last accounts. Organized 1910, as successor of Alice Development Co. Mine-is opened by a tunnel, said to show a vein upwards of 75’ in width, carrying ore averaging about $4 per ton in combined copper, gold and silver values. Equipment includes a 12-stamp mill.

Alice Gold & Silver Mining Co. Montana

Office: Salt Lake City, Utah. Former mine office was Butte, Silver Bow Co., Mont. John D. Ryan, pres.; Wm. D. Thornton, vice-pres.; J. W. Allen, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, Arthur C. Carson and E. S. Ferry, di- rectors. Organized May 16, 1880, under laws of Utah, with capitalization $10,000,600, shares $25 par. Total dividends paid, from March 15, 1881, date oí first, to March 15, 1888, date of last, were $1,500,000. ‘Control was pur- chased, 1906, by Butte Coalition Mining Co. Stockholders voted, May, i910, by a large majority, to sell the property to the Anaconda Copper Min- ing Co. at the ratio of 15 shares of Alice for 1 of Anaconda, and deed to property was given May 31, 1910, the company receiving in return 30,000 shares of Anaconda stock. The Alice company is to be wound up.

The mine had a 1,500’ shaft, and was operated actively, 1880-1893, and intermittently thereafter. Production, 1906, was 3,170 tons of ore, giving gross returns of $7.70 per ton, and costing $9.30 per ton to mine, mill and smelt. Ñ

Minority shareholders of the company were in litigation with Anaconda Copper Mining Co., 1912, to prevent dissolution proceedings and obtain a return of the property to the Alice Gold & Silver Mining Co.

ALICE MINE. MONTANA Owned by Anaconda Copper Mining Co., at Butte, Silver Bow oz Mont. ALLAN A’DALE MINING CO. WASHINGTON

Probably dead. Office and mine: Chewelah, Stevens Co., Wash. Was organized about 1909, capitalization $1,500,000, by H. S. Montgomery, T. L. Montgomery, Carl Montgomery, A. V. Montgomery, S. F. Sherwood and

H. C. Hastings. Property in vicinity of Chewelah. No trace of operations secured.

ALETANOE—ALLOUEZ 27 ALLIANCE COPPER CO. MONTANA Idle ¡several years. Mine. office: 3. Lewisohn Bldg., Butte, Silver Bow Co., Mont. Donald Campbell, pres. Organized May 19, 1906, under laws of Montana, capitalization $400,000, fully issued, shares $2 par. State- ment of Dec. 31, 1910, gave debts of $23,205.70. Property is very small acre- age in the northeastern portion of the Butte district, with surface rights to sundry town lots. Development is by shaft, sunk jointly by the Alliance and Farrell companies, and a little ore of good grade was shipped, 1907, from the 200’ level. ALLIE ISLAND COPPER MINE. ONTARIO Owned by F. W. Moore, Allie Island, Lake of the Woods, Ont. Prop- erty, 4 claims covering an outcrop of serpentine, or chlorite-schist carrying small pellets or crystals of native copper. Developed by 40 and 20’ shafts showing ore in bottom. Rock is an altered diabase and mine is west of French, Narrows, 14 miles from Kenora. ALLIGATOR & TIGER LEASING CO. COLORADO Mine office: Red Cliff. Eagle Co., Colo. <A. S Little, mgr., at last ac- counts. Lands, 2 claims, showing massive bornite and chalcopyrite, in fis- sure veins, traversing granite, ores assaying up to 15% copper, 5% lead, 50 oz. silver and $10 gold per ton. No returns secured. ALLOUEZ MINING CO. MICHIGAN Office: 12 Ashburton Place, Boston, Mass: Mine office: Allouez, Ke- weenaw, Co., Mich. Quincy A. Shaw, pres.; Rodolphe L. Agassiz, vice- Dress Geo. A. Flagg, sec.-treas.; Jas. MacNaughton, gen. mgr; preceding officers, Harry F. Fay, W. L. Frost, E. Li Higginson and Walter Hunnewell,

directors; Geo. G. Endicott, asst. sec.-treas.; E. W. Ridley, supt.; A. Warne,

mg. capt. Organized Sept., 1859, under laws of Michigan, capitalization $500,000, shares $25 par; reorganized and reincorporated, 1889, with capi- talization $2,500,000, shares $25 par; paid in, $22.25. Last assessment, $3 per share, was levied 1904. Annual meeting, second Wednesday in April. Old Colony Trust Co., Boston, registrar. American Trust Co., Boston, transfer agent. Owns a half interest in the Lake Milling, Smelting & Refining Co. Is controlled through ownership of 42,978 shares, by Calumet & Hecla Min- ing Co., and owes $250,000 in notes to same company.

Lands, 3,400 acres, including the main tract of 640 acres on which the mine is opened. In 1903 exchanged 11.188 acres with Ahmeek, next north.

The old mine, opened 1859, is on the Allouez conglomerate, a bed un- derlying the greenstone. The conglomerate, 30’ wide in many places, with strike of N. 39° E., and dip of 39°, averages 0.7 to 1% copper, and is very refractory under the stamps. There are 3 shafts, deepest about 3,700’. Min- ing was begun actively in 1869, and stopped in 1877, with an exhausted treasury. The mine was then leased to Watson & Walls, who made money hom it, after paying a royalty of one-eighth on gross production. In 1880 the company resumed control, to quit once more, financially exhausted, in 1885. Watson & Walls took the mine again, and once more did well; the company resumed work on its own account for the third time, and again lost money, stopping all work in 1892, The old mine has been idle for some years, except for exploratory and development work in 1898 to 1900, when a shaft was sunk 1,200’ on the Osceola lode, and nearly 4,000’ of open- ings secured thereon, with indifferent results. The shafthouse at the Osceola shaft has been demolished. The old stamp mill, on Hills creck, has 3 old-fashioned heads, and is too antiquated for use. The old Allouez made 26,051,528 lbs. fine copper, 1869 to 1892, i

The present Allouez mine is developed on the Kearsarge amygdaloidal bed, which does not outcrop on Allouez lands, though underlying the entire

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640-acre tract, hence was opened on the underlay. The mine had but one producing shaft, until late 1909. Shafts Nos. 1 and 2 are connected by cross- cuts and drift, on several levels. The Kearsarge bed, above the 14th level, is opened by crosscuts, uppermost being at the 6th level, below which plats ave been cut in the shafts at the 8th, 10th and 12th levels, for crosscuts to be run to the bed. The Kearsarge bed averages about 16' width in the Allouez mine.

No. 1 shaft, at the extreme southeastern corner of the tract, with 3 com- partments, started May, 1903, and 3,450’ deep, leaves surface at an angle of 75%, but at slight depth takes an angle of 80°, continuing thereon to about 1,435’ depth, when a curve of 60’ brings the shaft to an angle of 38° 30’, which is the dip of the bed. At the change of angle, on reaching the bed,,a single idler with a very wide flange cares for the cables passing at either end. Owing to the steep pitch of the shaft, back rails of 6x10” timber are set so close to the wheels of the skips that their flanges cannot leave the steel rails, the wooden timbers serving as guides. The first level is opened at depth of 1,264’. In order to save pumping charges on surface water, a gut- ter, cut entirely around the shaft, leads to an incline 36’ long, used as a sump. This shaft showed very fine ground in its upper levels, but deeper openings are not so good. Equipment at No. 1 shaft includes a 42x62’ steel shaft rock house having two 18x34” crushers.

No. 2 shaft, 1,500’ northeast of No. 1, is similar to No. 1 in general de- sign, but changes pitch when entering.the bed at 2,307’ from surface, from 80 to 42°. The bed above the point of intersection will be reached, to the boundary, by crosscuts. This shaft is sunk further in the hanging than No. 1, owing to the proximity of.a lake. A new record in shaft sinking was established, 1908, at No. 2, when, with 2 drills, the shaft was sunk a total of 1,275’, in addition to which 4 plats were cut, and 105’ of crosscutting was done. The collar of No. 2 shaft is of concrete, Washington fir and 16x24” steel I beams, with 14x14” square timber wall plats and 4” plank sheathing. The interior, from collar to solid rock ledge, is lined with 22” of concrete, dividers having their ends bedded in concrete, this giving an impregnable shaft, sunk through 52’ of treacherous quicksand overburden. Both shafts can be sunk to about 9,400’ before reaching the western boundary line. No. 2 shaft was 3,385’ deep, March, 1913.

Machinery equipment includes a Nordberg hoist with 32x72” duplex cylinders and 18’ double-conical drum for No. 1 shaft, and No. 2 has a 20x30” engine good for depth of 5,000”. No. 1 engine house, of mine rock, with redstone trimmings, has 12-drill and 18-drill air compressors, and No. 2 en- gine house has a 60-drill Laidlaw-Dunn-Gordon air compressor. The stone boiler house has five 125-h. p. boilers and a 120’ self-supporting steel smoke- stack. Buildings include a redstone machine shop and smithy, and a large warehouse. There is a very considerable mine location, with numerous dwellings, some remaining from 40 years ago, and some new. The mine is reached by a spur of the Mineral Range railroad.

Rock stamped, 1912, was 333,618 tons, costing $1.61 per ton, and yield- ing 16.56 lbs. fine copper per ton, giving 5,525,455 Ibs. fine copper, at a total cost of 13.52 cts. per lb. Rock discarded was 6,352 tons, or about 1.87% of amount broken. Production by years has been as follows: 1906, 3,486,000 Ibs.; 1907, 2,934,116 lbs.; 1908, 3,047,051 Ibs.; 1909, 4,031,532 Ibs.; 1910, 4,655,702 Ibs.; 1911, 4,780,494 Ibs.; 1912, 5,525,455 lbs. For 6 months ending June, 1913, mine produced 3,510,000 lbs. fine copper at a cost of 10.93 cts. per lb.; net profit, $151,500.

The Allouez, a considerable. disappointment in earlier years, earned a net profit of $171,264 in 1912, turning a deficit of $77,700 of former years into

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balance of assets of $93,564 over all liabilities, and early in 1913 was making net profits of about $30,000 monthly on 15% copper. It is regarded as a good investment.

Allport Mining Co. Montana

Mine office: Basin, Jefferson Co., Mont. Capitalization $500,000, shares $1 par. Presumably idle.

Alma Copper Mining Co. Mexico

Mine near Carbo, Sonora, Mex. Lands, 747 acres, in the Ures district, showing auriferous, argentiferous and somewhat bismuthiferous cuprite, melaconite, azurite, malachite and chrysocolla, assaying up to 37% copper and $13 gold per ton. Has gasoline power. Idle since about 1905, and moribund.

ALMA GOLD MINING Co. COLORADO

Office and mine: Idaho Springs, Clear Creek Co., Colo. Theo. Mix- sell, mgr. Ores carry gold, silver and copper. Has steam power. ALMEDA CONSOLIDATED MINES Co. OREGON

Office: 207 Board of Trade, Portland, Ore. Mine office: Galice, Jose- phine Co., Ore. O. M. Crouch, pres.; L. B. Simons, vice-pres.; R. C. Kinney, sec.-treas.; John F. Wickham, gen. mgr.; P. B. Geer, mine supt. Or- ganized July 18, 1905, under laws of Oregon, capitalization $15,000,000, shares $5 par, as successor of Almeda Mining Co. Annual meeting, sec- ond Tuesday in December.

Lands, 17 claims, area 340 acres, also 500 acres of placer ground, in Josephine county, about 22 miles northwest of Grant’s Pass, 17 miles from Merlin, nearest railway station, on the Southern Pacific, with daily stage line to Galice. Lands include a 200-acre platted town site, connected with the mine workings by bridge. Lands are well timbered, and have a con- siderable water power available from the Rogue river. Quartz claims are in 4 groups, known as the Almeda or North Side, Rocky Gulch, which is a continuation of the Almeda, and sometimes known as the Big Yank, both on the north side of the Rogue river, and the Bull Pine and Rand groups on the southern side of the river. Property was worked to slight depth, 1850-1870, for gold.

The Almeda group, including the Rocky Gulch, has 3 claims and 30 acres of placer ground, with 300’ of tunnels, showing a strong orebody, of 40 to 60’ width, with diorite foot and slate hanging, carrying 10 to 20’ of ore on the hanging, ore being strongly auriferous and slightly argentiferous chalcopyrite. While ore values are not high, they seem fairly constant and dependable, and the orebody is large. Paralleling the main vein is a body of low-grade ore of 20 to 30’ width, highly silicious, mainly chalcopyrite, with occasional bornite, giving promise of greater values at increased depth. Development is by tunnels, the longest being the Riverside tunnel having a back of about 250’, and No. 1 tunnel a back of about 500’, and Ly the Almeda 300’ vertical shaft, planned to be sunk to 500’. Mine has about 1 mile of workings, with considerable ore blocked out for production.

The Bull Pine group, of 2 quartz claims, 4 miles southwest of the Rocky Gulch group, has a 100’ crosscut tunnel, intersecting a 3’ vein. The Rand group of 7 claims, with 500 acres of placer ground, has a 900’ tunnel, the outcrop giving small-assay values in copper, silver and gold.

Equipment includes a 24-drill air compressor, and company has made plans for a steel and concrete dam, the Rogue river being estimated as capable of developing up to 8,000-h. p., under a 20’ head.

Buildings include a boarding house, bunk house, office, laboratory, smithy, and a number of dwellings. There also is a 15,000’ sawmill.

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of condition during the wet season, and company plans a motor line, with improved roads.

A smelter, completed 1910, was in operation July, 1912, after a winter's shutdown, and. overhauling while roads were bad. The plant has a 100- ton 36x72” blast furnace, for matting. The 80x110’ smelter building covers the power plant and ore crusher also, and is planned for an additional. 1C0- ton furnace. The coke bins are at Merlin. Company has made a contract with the government, by which it is to pay for damage to trees and vege- tation, the smelter being within the limits of a national forest reserve.

Company was thrown into hands of receiver, June, 1912, on the rep- resentation of minority stockholders that company had been mismanaged and that misrepresentations had been made in the sale of the stock. . Rob- ert S. Tucker, Portland, Ore., receiver.

Almoloya Y Anexas; Cia De. Mexico

Pedro. Suinaga, pres.; P. A..Babb, .cons. engr.;- M. M.;.Barney; mgr. Organized under laws of Mexico, 1909, capitalization 200,000 pesos. Prop- erty the Almoloya copper mine at Ameca, Jalisco, containing veins in diorite said to average 2.5% copper, 2 oz. silver and a few grams in gold. Com- pany began operations 1910, erected a concentrating plant with Merrill stamps and 3 Wilfley tables handling 30 tons per day and saving 75% of the copper and 25% of the silver values. Was a steady shipper of concen- trates throughout 1910 and 1911 and paid dividends of 3,000 pesos in 1910.

The Cerritos copper mine was held under option for 50,000 pesos until 1912 and was developed by a shaft 300’ deep equipped with hoist, pumps and steam power.

Mill enlarged to double capacity 1912 and run steadily.

Almoloya Mining Co. Mexico

Office: 19 Cedar St., New York. Mine office: Baca, Chihuahua, Mex. Nils O. Bagge, pres.; M. L. Graff, vice-pres.; C. E. Bernhard, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, W. C. Patterson and I. B. Newton, directors; Victor C. Joslyn, mine mgr. Organized 1903, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $2,000,000, shares $1 par, in $800,000 participating noncumulative 10% pre- ferred stock, and $1,200,000 common stock. New York Trust Co., registrar. Holds title to lands through Minas de Almoloya, S. A. a Mexican cor- poration, i

Lands, 177 hectares, including the San Enrique group adjoining the Cigarrero mine, and 4 other groups, about 4 miles from Baca, in the Allende district, with rail transportation over a standard-gauge line to the Cigarrero mune.

The Sierra de Almoloya is an isolated mountain range, about 9 miles long and 2 wide, carrying limestone beds of the Comanche series of the Lower Cretaceous, extensively fractured by several systems of faulting, with shear zones of 50 to 90 meters width, principal zones being the northeast system, of Eocene age, of which the most prominent is the San Pedro fault zone, and the N. 40° W. system of Miocene age, which are the sources of large and rich ore chambers, the most important orebodies occurring at the intersection of these faults. Lands adjoin the Cigarrero mine on the northeast, and carry the extension of the San Pedro fault, proven by diamond drilling to occur between the 800’ and 900’ levels.

Development includes a number of shafts, deepest 700’, and tunnels of 180’, 360’, 1,320’ and 1,600”. Present development is confined to the San Enrique and Exploradora groups, having 1,186’ of shafts and winzes, with 2 main and several shorter tunnels, and a total of 4,400’ of workings.

Equipment includes gasoline and air power, with one 15-h. p. and two

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60-h. p. hoists. Property will use Commercial electric current as soon as available.

Ore so far found has been in pockets, in leached shear zones, carrying low copper values, which are expected to increase at depth, with about 30% lead, 700 grams silver and 8 to 80 grams gold.

Development work has been almost entirely along the San Pedro fault which shows ore in depth. Revolutionists practically stopped all work in 1913, holding the superintendent for ransom in April and practically stop- ping mail and telegraphic service. Work will be resumed when conditions are again stable. k ALPENA COPPER MINING CO. MONTANA

Office: Wallace, Idaho. Mine office: Saltese, Missoula Co., Mont. C. W. Beale, pres.; Timothy Kelly, vice-pres. and mgr.; A. H. Featherstone, Sec.-treas.; preceding officers, Alex. Muir and A. P. Cochrane, directors. Mine in the St. Joe district, near the Monitor, and 2 miles from the Adair on the Milwaukee railroad, is developed by 2 long tunnels and shaft, showing chalcopyrite assaying up to 34% copper, with small silver and gold values. Continued development throughout 1911 and 1912, main tunnel being 1,100’ long, of which 800’ is drifting on 2’ vein, showing quartz with chalcopyrite. In April, 1913, face was 400’ from ore shoot exposed on surface, which is goal of present work. Equipment includes several buildings.

Alpha Copper Co. New Jersey

Owned 1,200 acres on Watchung mountain, 3 miles north of Somer- ville, which were sold for delinquent mortgage of $315,000 and a second of $2,500, for the sum of $5,000 on June 20, 1912, to Geo. H. Gardner of New York city, Company has no holdings and is practically dead. Described fully Vol. X. i ALPHA MINING CO. ALASKA

Idle several years. Office: Grand Rapids, Mich. Mine office: Dolomi, Prince of Wales Island, Alaska. F. L. Loomis, supt., at last accounts. Lands, 3 claims, showing a 5' orebody traceable about 2,500’, giving assays of 2.5 to 7% copper and $3 to $20 gold per ton.

Alps Mining Co. Colorado

Office: 815 Logan St., Denver, Colo. Mine office: Central City, ¿Gil- pin Co., Colo. Property, the Alps mine, leased to Jas. Williams, at last ac- counts. Has auriferous and argentiferous copper ore, steam power and em- ployed about 20 men, 1911.

Alta Central Copper Co. Arizona

Idle. Mine office: Florence, Pinal Co., Ariz. Julian P. Jones, pres.; A. R. Hueth, vice-pres. and sec.; Citizens National Bank of Los Angeles, treas:; Col. G. W. Griffey, mine supt. Organized April 3, 1907, under laws. of Arizona, capitalization $500,000, shares $1 par. :

i Lands, 7 claims, area 125 acres, carrying about one-half mile-of the -strike of a system of 5 fissure veins, having a north and south trend, in a width of about 1 mile, passing through Mineral hill, The Alta Mining & Smelting Co, lies to the north, and the Oklahoma to the south. Country rock is Pinal schist, intruded by porphyry dikes, the 5 fissure veins cutting the schist unconformably with strike or dip, sometimes cutting the porphyry dikes and occasionally running beside them. The veins outcrop 20 to 50’ in width. Several prospect, tunnels and shafts show 1 to 6’ of ore carrying copper carbonates, oxides, and chalcocite, with gangue of quartz and man- . ganiferous iron ore, carrying combined gold and silver values of $1 to $14 per ton. Geological conditions are said to be markedly similar to those at the Gibson and Live Oak mines, distant about 20 miles to the northeast.

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Company planned developing through a drift, to be run from the 400' level o: the main shaft of the Alta Mining & Smelting Co. ALTA COALITION COPPER CO. UTAH

Probably dead. Formerly at Brighton, Salt Lake Con: Utah, 7 RAR. Snow, pres.; B. F. Grant, vice-pres.; N. Y. Stringham, sec. Organized, early 1907, to develop a group of claims in the Big Cottonwood district. Advertised 1910 as delinquent in payment of corporation tax in Utah. ALTA CONSOLIDATED MINING CO. UTAH

Office: 201 Judge Bldg., Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine office: Alta, Salt Lake Co., Utah. Tony Jacobson, pres.; J. H. Winwood, E. M., vice-pres.; M. J. Dailey, mgr.; A. O. Jacobson, supt. Foregoing are all directors; V. S. Snow, sec.-treas. Organized Aug., 1911, capitalization $300,000, shares $1 par, the promoters taking 100,000 shares and 200,000 shares being placed in the treasury of which amount 100,000 shares were sold at 20 cts. per share; capitalization was increased Oct. 10, 1913, to $500,000, to provide stock for treasury purposes.

Lands, 17 claims in the Little Cottonwood district, lie between the old Emma and the City Rocks properties, and include several old mines. Ores are argentiferous lead and copper sulphides, and highly argentiferous lead carbonates, returning 5% copper, 15% lead, and 75 oz. silver per ton, with 27% lead and 56 oz. silver per ton secured from lead carbonates in 1912. Mine is developed by tunnels, the main crosscut tunnel, 300’ below the Brooklyn, cutting the Bain fissure 900’ from the portal, exposing 18 to 20’ of shipping ore. A raise on bedding planes yields ore carrying 1 to 2% copper, 20% lead and 30 oz. silver. Mine has virgin ground and 2,000’ of new openings, 1913.

Equipment includes gasoline power, and necessary mine buildings. Em- ploys' about 25 men. Shipments were made during summer of 1913. ALTA COPPER MINING CO. IDAHO Idle. Office: 6 West Second South St., Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine office: Mackay, Custer Co., Idaho. Frank M. Foote, pres.; Ernest R. Wool- ley, vice-pres. and mgr.; Fred R. Woolley, sec.-treas.; H. C. Parker, cons. engr.; L. S..Rampton, supt., at last accounts. Organized 1908, under laws of Utah, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par; issued, $600,000. Is a close corporation.

Lands, 7 claims, well timbered and watered, 22 miles from a railroad, including several good water rights on Lost river. Development is by 2 tunnels, the 250’ upper tunnel showing a vein up to 14’ in width, carrying a 2’ paystreak of high-grade argentiferous copper and lead ore, and lower tunnel is said to show a 7’ vein carrying auriferous and argentiferous lead and copper ore, mainly of smelting grade. Has secured ore assaying up to 174 oz. silver and 1.02 oz. gold per ton. Employed 12 men, end of 1908. ALTA-CORBIN COPPER CO. MONTANA

Mine near Corbin, Jefferson Co., Mont. Organized Jan., 1909, cap- italization $1,000,000. Lands, 4 claims, known as the Flambeau group. No trace of operations secured.

Alta-Idaho Gold & Copper Mining Co. Idaho

Office: Bloomsburg, Pa. Mine office: Pardee, Idaho Co., Idaho. J. B. Nuss, pres.; Geo. M. Snyder, vice-pres. and gen. mgr.; John M. Nuss, sec.; Richard A. Briggs, treas. Organized Dec., 1902, under laws of Delaware, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par, in $250,000 of 8% noncumulative preferred stock and $750,000 common stock. Delaware Trust Co., Wil- mington, Del., registrar and transfer agent. Idle many years, except for annual assessment work.

Lands, 11 claims, area 209 acres, and a 5-acre smelter site, in the Lolo

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district. Mine has several shallow pits and shafts, and has projected an 1,800’ crosscut tunnel, with about 475’ completed, showing stringers of ox- idized ores, and several small lenses of highly auriferous chalcopyrite of good copper tenor.

Alta Mining & Smelting Co. Arizona

Idle. Address: Florence, Pinal Co., Ariz. L. H. Sherman, pres.; Col. G. W. Griffey, vice-pres. amd agent; H. A. Austin, second vice-pres.; J. C. Ferrall, sec.-treas.; preceding officers and G. R. Charters, directors. Organized Sept. 8, 1905, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $5,000,000, shares $1 par. Annual meeting, first Tuesday in September.

Lands, 25 claims, area 470 acres, and a 200-acre patented ranch, including a water right on the Gila river, in the Mineral Creek district, at Superior P. O., near the Lake Superior & Arizona mine, Lands have veins in schist and contact deposits between schist and porphyry, ranging 5 to 50’ in width, opened by shafts of 96,’ 127’ and 150’, with upwards of 3,000’ of workings, showing ore giving assays of 2 to 57% copper, with gold and silver values, also a lead vein giving assays of 2 to 57% lead, 4 to 15 oz. silver and 80 cts. to $14 gold per ton.

Equipment at the Black Copper shaft includes boiler house and power house, with steam hoist good for 1,000’, 4-drill Leyner air compressor and 14,000-gal. oil tanks. There are 9 mine buildings.

A suit against H. W. Augustine, H. F. Clough and I. A. Wood, pro- moters, for money claimed to be illegally appropriated for their own use, was decided in favor of the present management, compromised by the sur- render of 1,190,000 shares of stock to the company.

Alta-Peruvian Mining & Milling Co. Utah

Office: Springville, Utah. Mine near Alta, Salt Lake Co., Utah. F. J. McAuliffe, pres.; M. W. Bird, sec.-treas. Organized 1904, capitalization $50,000, shares 5 cts. par, non-assessable; issued, $440,000. Assessments to end of 1910 were 2 cts. per share. Lands, 4 claims, in Little Cottonwood canon, near the Columbus Consolidated, developed by tunnels of 100 and 150’, upper tunnel showing argentiferous copper ore. Works during summer

. months and is idle winters. ALTA TUNNEL & TRANSPORTATION CO. UTAH

Office: 501 Newhouse Blk., Salt Lake City, Utah. F. V. Bodfish, pres. and mgr.; Jas. Owen, vice-pres.; John Cain, sec.; preceding officers, Chas. Peter and Geo. H. Rathman, directors; R. L. Mack, cons. engr. Organized Sept. 1911, under laws of Utah, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par, 700,000 issued.

Lands, 14 lode claims, include the old Alta tunnel ground. Company is driving a mile-long drainage and transportation tunnel (300’ long, July, 1913) to open its own and adjoining properties, with portal 3,500’ from Sil- ver fork on the Big Cottonwood, and 8,500’ above sea level, Equipped with 50-h. p. motor and compressor. Tunnel will be 600’ lower than any mine workings of the district and will cut all the great veins of the section. ALTA-ZOANNI MINING CO. NEVADA

Probably idle. Mine office: Hamilton, White Pine Co., Nev. Roy W. Schenk, pres. and gen. mgr.; M. T. Collins, vice-pres.; G. A. McElery, sec.- treas. Lands are near the peak of White Pine mountain.

Altamira Mining Co. Mexico

Mine near Ahualulco, Jalisco, Mex. W. W. Matthews, pres.; W. G. Farleigh, supt., at last accounts. Property is said to be controlled, through stock ownership, by the Jalisco Mining Development Co. Idle several years and letter sent to Etzatlan returned, marked “no existe.”

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ALTAMONT MILLING CO. NEW MEXICO Idle. Office: Altamont, Ills. Capt. L. H. Williams, pres. Lands include

the Cuprite mine, having a 140’ shaft, said to show 12’ of medium-grade

chalcopyrite, with limestone gangue. A small smelter shipment from the

80’ level gave net returns of $8 per ton.

Alvin Development Co. Arizona

Office: Houghton, Mich. Controlled by Tank Pass Consolidated Min- ing Cop Salome, Yuma Co., Ariz, Temporarily idle except for annual assessment work. Described Vol. X.

Alyce Mineral Co. Georgia ©

Mine office: Wells, Murray Co., Georgia. J. G. Sterchi, pres.; Joe P. Davis, vice-pres.; W. D. Haun, Gus N. Miller and N. S. King, directors. Lands are several thousand acres, about 30 miles southwest of the Duck- town mines of Tennessee, showing argentiferous and auriferous lead and copper ores. Apparently no development work undertaken. No returns secured.

Amador Cons. Mining & Development Co. Montana

In bankruptcy at last accounts. P. F. Smith, receiver. Organized March 16, 1903, under laws of Arizona, with capitalization $10,000,000; shares. $5 par. Owned entire stock issue of the Amador Copper & Gold Mining & Milling Co., but latter is alive while this company is apparently dead.

The Amador, promoted by D. E. McKinnon, was in four parts, this corporation being the holding company, with subsidiaries known as Amador Copper € Gold Mining & Milling Co., Ltd, Amador Railway Co; and Amador Smelting Co., each having full lists of officers, apparently drawing salary. Shares originally were non-assessable. See other titles. More fully described Vol. VIII. :

Amador Copper & Gold M. & M. Co., Ltd. Montana

Office: 510 Bank St., Wallace, Idaho. Mine office: Iron Mountain, Missoula Co., Mont. R. G. McIntosh, pres.; A. T. Roan, vice-pres.; A. L. Nicholson, sec.-treas.; preceding officers and P. F. Smith, directors. Or- ganized under laws of Arizona, capitalization $2,000,000, shares $1 par. Stock assessable, and a levy of 1 ct. a share was made delinquent Jan. 28, 1911. A special stockholders’ meeting was called for June 14, 1913, at Wallace. Entire stock issued formerly was held by Amador Consolidated Mining € Development Co., hopelessly. bankrupt.

Lands, 8 patented claims, 11 miles south of Iron Mountain, Mont. Also 2 groups of patented placer gold claims, area 180 acres and 450 acres mis- cellaneous lands.

Mine hasta 700’ vertical, 3-compartment shaft, with levels at 200’, 460’ and 700’, and long drifts on each level. There are also 4 tunnels of 1871 76124 632’ and.662’ The 'mine shows a small shoot of fair-grade ore, ore occurring in small bunches, very irregularly, with calcite gangue, in black slate,

Equipment includes a 2-mile flume and pipe line, delivering water under a 310 head, and steam power, with 2 hoists, air compressor, sawmill, and about 15 mine buildings. Production, under D. E. McKinnon’s management, was 5 carloads of ore, which did not pay for treatment charges.

The present management apparently 'bid in this property at sheriff’s sale for $7,297.84, and reorganized the property and put it on a decent basis, the work of reorganization being much hampered by the great confusion into which McKinnon threw this and its allied corporations by his devious meth- ods of high finance. Y

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ahead of company’s needs and property is not yet far enough developed to be a self-sustaining mine. AMADOR SMELTING CO. MONTANA

Is a subsidiary of Amador Consolidated Mining & Development Co., adjudged bankrupt.

` Amalgamated Copper Co. Montana

Office: 42 Broadway, New York, N. Y. Mine office: Butte, Silver Bow

Co, Mont. John D. Ryan, pres.; William G. Rockefeller, Benj. B. Thayer,

Wm. Rockefeller, J. Horace Harding, H. H, Rogers, A. C. Burrage and Chas. N. King, directors; A. H. Melin, sec.-treas. Organized April 27, 1899, under laws of New Jersey, capitalization $75,000,000, increased, 1901, ‘to $155,000,000, shares $100 par; issued, $153,887,900. Central Trust Co., New York, and National Shawmut Bank, Boston, registrars. National City Bank, New York, and Kidder, Peabody & Co., Boston, transfer agents. Annual meeting, first Monday in June. Company has about 17,000 share- holders. Stock is listed on New York and Boston stock exchanges.

Notes for $12,500,000, 5% due March, 1915, are outstanding, but subject to redemption at 101 and interest on 3 weeks’ notice, the company agreeing that no mortgage be placed upon the property and no other notes issued so Icng as any of these notes remain unpaid.

Net income reported by company was as follows, for fiscal years end- ing April 30: $14,154,400 in 1907; $6,680,557 in 1908; $3,663,980 in 1909; $5,- 963,967 in 1910; $6,048,896 in 1911, and for the 8 months ending Dec. 31, 1912, $6,595,610.

Fiscal year was changed, 1912, to correspond with calendar year, and surplus, Dec. 31, 1912,, was $24,000,614, with cash $1,182,881, assets other than cash, $14,500,535, and accounts and notes payable, $20,264,111.

Dividends have ranged yearly from a minimum of $2 to a maximum of

$8, latter in 1900, the second year of operation, when dividends were $10,-

500,000. To: end of 1912, dividends aggregated $72,812,600. Dividend re- turns have averaged since organization about 6% on the market price of the stock.

Production, 1912, by mines controlled by the company was 294,474,161 ibs, fine copper; 11,014,736 oz. silver, and 61,314 oz. gold.

The Amalgamated is now simply a holding corporation, not a mining company. Assets formerly consisted of ownerships, ranging from a mere control, to practically the entire stock issue, of the Anaconda, Boston & Montana and allied mines in Butte, all of which were merged, 1910, in the Anaconda Copper Mining Co., which also took over the property of the Butte Coalition, Alice, Original and Colusa-Parrot companies. By reason of this merger, the Amalgamated becomes merely a holding company for a single corporation, the Anaconda Copper Mining Co. The Amalgamated Copper Co. owns 3,185,802 shares, out of 4,332,500 shares outstanding, of the Anaconda Copper Mining Co., an interest of about 73%. No detailed in- ventory of assets is given in the company’s 1912 report but it is figured out that at the end of 1912 the company owned besides its Anaconda stock, 154,000 shares Greene-Cananea, 43,000 International Smelting & Refining Co., 150,000 shares Inspiration Consolidated, $1,000,000 bonds of Butte Ana- conda & Pacific railroad; $110,700 (out of $111,000) capital stock of the Mountain Trading Co.; the entire capital stock of the United Metals Selling Co., and $15,683,417, in cash and cash assets; a total net value, May, 1913, when stock prices were abnormally low, of $121,059,857, or about $78% per share for the stock issued. Besides these holdings its selling contracts must bring in a good revenue.

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an important factor in the copper industry, controlling the bulk of the copper produced by the various mines of Butte, Mont. Troublesome and costly litigation at Butte was settled, 1906, through the formation of the Butte Coalition Mining Co., which eliminated the almost intolerable con- ditions due to the “apex law” which had existed for years, through the activity of F. Augustus Heinze, who was thus no longer a factor either in the Butte camp or in the copper situation. P

The company has made especially notable progress since 1904, when the new managing director inaugurated important changes in the policy of the corporation. The Amalgamated does not control the copper industry and does not seem likely to ever do so. So far as an outsider can judge it appears to be a useful balance wheel in steadying copper prices and seemingly is a party to a rapprochement of all the leading copper-producing interests of North America and Europe, a “Gentlemen’s agreement” which has done much to prevent violent fluctuations in either price or output since August, 1910,

Despite popular belief that the Amalgamated Copper Co. and the Anaconda Copper Co. control the industries of Montana, we are told that the corporations own no interest in any commercial business outside of their mines, mills and smelters, with the following exceptions: They own a hardware and machinery store at Anaconda, a hotel at Anaconda, and a general supply store at Belt. They disclaim any interest in the stores. light and power plants, etc., often called “Amalgamated,” but the lighting and street railway business in Anaconda is still owned by this company. With the exceptions noted, the copyer corporation has disposed to outside parties of every business it was in any way connected with except those directly associated with the mining, smelting and making of copper.

The Great Falls Power Co. and the Great Falls Townsite Co. are fre- quently referred to as Amalgamated Copper Co. properties, but we are told that neither the Anaconda Copper Mining Co., nor the Amalgamated Cop- per Co., or any of the subsidiary copper companies, or any of their prin- cipal stockholders, with the exception of Mrs. Margaret Daly and John D. Ryan, own any shares in the Great Falls Water Power Co., or any other power company in Montana. This statement is substantially true also as regards the ownership of the Townsite Co., the New Rainbow hotel and other properties often classed as owned by the Amalgamated Copper Co,, or identical interests.

It is to be noted that in 1912 the number of employees was 13,941 and the total wages paid to these men was $16,818,284; this comes to an average wage of over $1,200 per year for the whole force. The figures are astonish- ing. We doubt if any corporation in the United States employing an equal number of men pays as high an average wage.

Though once regarded as overcapitalized, the company has prospered, under the wise administration of its Present head, until it may be said to fulfill all the hopes of its most ardent friends.

Amalgamated Gold, Copper & Silver Co. Arizona

' Office: 3 South Main St., Sapulpa, Okla. Mine office: Florence, Pinal Co., Ariz. W. A. Borah, pres.; Robt. M. Nicholas, treas.; W. M. Long- mire, sec. Organized 1911, under laws of Arizona, as successor of Okla- homa Copper Co.

Lands, 25 claims, unpatented, area 500 acres, next south of the Alta Central Copper Co., in the Mineral Hill district, said to show 5 orebodies, of which one, under development, of 10' claimed width, said to be traceable 2% miles, is estimated by company to average 3% copper and $2 gold per ton, from oxidized ores and chalcopyrite. Development is by 8 pits and

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shafts, of 20 to 200” depth, and by a 50' tunnel. Idle except for annual assessment work. AMAZON-DIXIE MINING CO. MONTANA

Office: Wallace, Idaho. Mine office: Mullan, Shoshone Co., Idaho. Wesley Everett, pres. and gen. mgr.; H. E. Chaney, vice-pres.; Herman J. Rossi, treas.; preceding officers, W. W. Woods and Hugh Toole, directors; F. W. Calloway, mg. engr. Organized under laws of Montana, capitaliza- tion $750,000, shares 50 cts. par.

Lands, 7 claims, well timbered, at Borax, Mont., near Lookout, just across the Montana line, adjoining the Leslie Copper Mining Co. Property shows a 15’ vein in quartzite, exposed by surface trenching for 2,000’, carry- ing galena, chalcopyrite and lead carbonates, associated with pyrite, with values mainly in galena. Development is by a 35’ shaft and 2 tunnels, upper giving a back of about 200’, lower planned to be 1,100’ long, with back of 700’, and to be the main working tunnel, with mouth near the Northern Pa- cific railway. Mine has about 2,000’ of openings. Equipment includes a water-power plant developing 110 h. p., a 10-drill air compressor, 20,000’ saw- mill, machine shop, smithy, carpenter shop and other necessary mine build- ings. Property is served by the Northern Pacific railway, 160’ from the mine.

Amazon Gold Co. Mexico

Mine office: Chacala, Durango, Mex. Jas. T. Dugan, pres.; Edward B. ' Sowers, mer.; J. S. Wilkinson, supt., at last accounts. Mine, known as the Candelaria, has auriferous, argentiferous and bismuthiferous copper ores. Equipment includes a Bryan mill, 6-ton chlorination plant and 10-ton smelter. Closed down and no reports received owing to Mexican revolu- tion.

Amazone Mine. Washington

Mine office: Chewelah, Stevens Co., Wash. Oppenheimer Bros., own- ers. Property, adjoining the United Copper Mining Co., on the north, is developed by tunnel. Ore is malachite and chalcopyrite, with streaks of tetrahedrite, latter running high in silver values. :

Amelia Copper Mine. Mexico

Mine office: Noria, Magdalena, Sonora, Mex. Holt Bros., owners. Mine, 13 miles west of Noria, is developed by shaft, 420’ deep, Feb., 1912, with lateral openings on the 200, 300 and 400’ levels. A crosscut on the 200’ level exposes a 20’ vein, said to average 6% copper and 8 oz. silver, the openings on the 300 and 400’ levels disclosing a gossan only.

Equipment includes a 30-h. p. gasoline hoist. Property held under lease and bond by Mexican Metals Co. in 1910-11, and work mentioned above done on the property, but failure to find ore on lower levels led to forfeiture of bond, as owners refused an extension of time.

American & Canadian Mining Co. British Columbia

Idle several years and presumably dead. Lands are in vicinity of the Tyee mine, on Vancouver Island, B. C. Organized 1907.

American Celtic Copper Co. Arizona

Office: Allen G. Shaw, sec., 504 I. W. Hellman Bldg., Los Angeles. Cal. Incorporated 1912, capitalization $3,000,000, shares $5 par; issued $2,000,000. Is a successor of the Arizona-Morenci Copper Co. and owns all its prop- erty.

ahi 98 claims, 2,000 acres, in 9 groups in Clifton-Morenci dis- trict, Greenlee Co., Ariz. Mines are adjacent to and surrounded by the Phelps-Dodge, Arizona Copper and Shannon properties. Mill and town sites are on the San Francisco river and the Morenci Southern railway crosses the ground.

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American Consolidated Copper Co: Utah

Office: Judge Bldg., Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine office: Brighton, Salt Lake, Co,, Utah. John C Barnard, pres. and mgr. Organized 1907, under laws of Utah, capitalization $500,000, shares $1 par; 455,000 shares issued.

Lands, 27 claims, in Big Cottonwood district, adjoin Tar Baby mine on the west. Property is developed by several tunnels, longest being 1,200’, Dec., 1911. Presumably idle.

AMERICAN CONSOLIDATED MINES Co. NEW MEXICO

Mine office: Twining, Taos Col N; M. J. Shumaker, presi; C. D. Weim- er, sec.-treas: Organized Nov., 1901, under laws of New Mexico, capitali- zation $3,000,000, shares $1 par. Lands, 19 claims, area 380 acres, also a 5- acre mill site and a half intereét in 380 acres of timber lands, in the Rio Mondo-and Lake Fork districts. Has secured assays of 3% copper and $16 gold per ton, from ores cut in 3 tunnels, longest 510’. Property apparently has large orebodies of low grade. Idle and apparently dead. AMERICAN COPPER CO. ARIZONA

Mine office: Globe, Gila Co., Ariz. Samuel L. Gibson, pres.; J. F. Cough- : lin, vice-pres.; John L. Alexander, sec.; Wm. Ryan, treas. Organized 1905. Owns American mine 3 miles from the Gibson mine, with 2 shaits, deepest 165’, showing chalcocite and argentiferous tetrahedrite, latter assaying up to, 76 oz. silver per ton. Idle several years.

‘AMERICAN COPPER CO. UTAH Idle several years and presumably waiting for development on its

neighbor's ground. Lands, adjoining the Last Chance Mining Co., in Big

Cottonwood canyon, are slightly developed.

AMERICAN COPPER Co. WYOMING

Idle. Thos. M. B. Hicks, pres. and treas., Williamsport, Pa. Mine near Holmes, Albany Co., Wyo. Otto C. Clinger, sec.; LeRoy Scholl, cons. ener. Organized Aug. 23, 1902, under laws of Wyoming, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par. Company owns 50,000 shares, par $10, of capital stock of Arizona National Copper Co.

Lands originally were 40 claims, unpatented, area 800 acres, including the Gold Crater group in the Douglas Creek division of the Encampment district, diminished through failure to do annual assessment work. The property, about 1 mile from the Rambler mine, has a 20’ fissure vein, in granite, said to be composed of 3 distinct layers, first being porphyritic, with width of 6 to 7’, carrying about 1.5% copper and $7 gold per ton, with a little covellite assaying 60% copper and $20 gold per ton; second layer, of 6 to 7’, is of jaspelite and diorite, carrying decomposed iron ore giving assays of $20 to $150 gold, and the third layer, said to be brecciated, carries oxide, carbonate and sulphide copper ores, with quartz gangue. The Gold Crater group has a tunnel, having a little very rich gold ore. Mine also has shafts of 50, 60 and 160’, and the 330’ ‘Albany shaft, with a total of about 1,800” of workings. Equipment includes an 80-h. p. boiler, hoist, Norwalk air compressor and electric light plant, with about 15 buildings. .Idle sev- eral years.

American Copper & Mining Co. New Mexico

Idle several years. Office: St. Joseph, Mo. Mine office: Orogrande, Otero Go.'!N= (Mi, Jas. C: Sager, pres.; J. J. Metcalf, sec. Capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par Lands, 5 claims, area 100 acres, known as the Badger group, on Granite mountain, 4 miles from Orogrande smelter, show- ing a 20' orebody and 4 smaller veins, opened by 5 shafts, deepest 140’. Has secured assays up to 12% copper and $7.20 gold per ton.

American Copper Mining & Milling Co. : Utah

Office: Lehi City, Utah. J. N. Butt, pres.; Charles Anderson, vice-pres.;

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A. O. Slade, treas.; preceding officers, Howard Murdock and Chas. Herron, directors; William Asher, sec. Organized Aug., 1912, capitalization $100,000, shares 10 cts. par.

Property is located in Tooele county. No trace of operations secured. AMERICAN EAGLE GOLD & COPPER CO. CALIFORNIA

Mine office: Needles, San Bernardino Co., Cal. W. A. Clark, owner. Lands, 17:claims, in the Whipple or Monument district, 10 miles west of the Colorado river, about 16 miles northwest of Parker. Property shows a main vein of 10 to 20’ width, traceable 2,000’, with a number of smaller parallel veins. Development includes shafts of 60’ and 300’, latter with crosscuts on the 100’ and 200’ levels, showing oxidized ores to depth of about 75’, succeeded by a considerable body of auriferous copper sulphides. Mine is said to have on the dump several hundred tons of ore of 10 to 20% copper tenor, carrying $1.50 and up in gold. The mine water has been leached, to a small extent, for copper. Equipment includes a 20-h. p. gaso- line hoist. Employs 15 men.

American Exploration Co. : Utah

Mine office: Park City, Summit Co., Utah. Frederick V. Bodfish, mgr. Property is a lease on the American Flag mine, at Park City, and company also is said to hold, presumably under option, various old mines in Little Cottonwood canyon; and, April, 1911, began driving a tunnel, planned to be 3,600’ long to drain these properties.

Property, the American Flag mine, with 300 acres, patented, adjoining the Ontario and Silver King Coalition mines, and including the Constellation group. Mine is drained by the Ontario tunnel. Is developed by shafts and tunnels, to depth of 1,100’, with about 2% miles of workings, showing values mainly in gold and silver.

Equipment includes steam power and a 60-h. p. air compressor. Pro- duction of old company, Aug., 1904, to Sept., 1910, was 8,550 dry tons of ore, yielding net smelter returns of $272,235. Present company is ener- getically developing the ground on the 1,000” level; has opened up an 18” pay-streak on the east vein, carrying 2% lead, 3.1% copper and high gold and silver values. This is stoped for a length of 150’. Property valuable and management able.

American Exploration & Mg. Co. Mexico & New Mexico

Office: 60 State St., Boston, Mass. Operating office: 518 Trust Bldg., El Paso, Tex. Mine offices: Steeple Rock, Grant Co., N: M.; Ahumuda, Bravos, Chihuahua, Mex., and Terrazas, Iturbide, Chihuahua, Mex. W. Franklin Burnham, pres., sec. and gen. mgr.; Henry A. Haile, treas.; pre- ceding officers, Jas. Duckworth, Geo. Empsall, Hinsdale Smith, Arthur Smith, Jesse W! Morton and Harry Hinckley, directors; Wm. A. Farish, cons. engr.; John A. Rice, engr.; John Searls, supt. Ahumuda mines; Frank Hickman, supt. Steeple Rock mines. Organized Sept. 28, 1907, under laws of Maine, capitalization $500,000, shares $1 par, non-assessable; issued, $275,748.

Lands, 600 acres, including 16 claims in New “Mexico and 12 different properties in Mexico, also 3 mill sites at the different properties.

Property includes mines known as the Burnham at Terrazas, San Ignacio at Ahumuda, and Hinckley at Steeple Rock. The New Mexican property has tunnels of 100’ and 313’ and shafts of 100’, 100” and 150’, with 1,223’of workings, carrying mainly silver ore. The property at Ahumuda has shafts of 25’, 100’, 160’ and 474’; giving ore assaying about 30% lead, 6% zinc and 12 to 20 oz. silver per ton. The property at Terrazas shows contact deposits between limestone and porphyry, giving assays of about 3% copper, 24% lead, 8 to 20 oz. silver and $2.50 to $12 gold per ton. De-

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velopment is by shafts of 187’ and 200. Equipment includes a 55-h. p. gasoline plant and necessary mine buildings. j

Company plans milling about 30 tons daily at Ahumuda, concentrating 6 into 1, and continuing development work at the various properties.

AMERICAN FINANCE & SECURITIES CO. NEW YORK Office: 5 Nassau St., New York. Owns majority of stock of the EI

Tiro Copper Co., which see. 5

American Flag Mining Co. Utah

Office: 815 Newhouse Bldg., Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine office: Park City, Summit Co., Utah. Geo. H. Rathman, pres., treas. and gen. mgr.; Wm. M. Curtis, vice-pres. and mgr.; John Cain, sec.; F. V. Bodfish, supt. Organized 1902, under laws of West Virginia, capitalization $500,000, shares $1 par, assessable; fully issued. A 3-ct. assessment was levied June 28, 1910. Stockholders voted unanimously to reincorporate under the laws of Nevada and increase capitalization to $1,000,000, shares $1 par, issuing new stock to retire a bond issue of $150,000 and pay for the Constellation group. The American Flag mine was leased for 5 years to the American Exploration Co, and is described under that title.

American Metal Co, Ltd. United States & Mexico

Office: 52 Broadway, New York. Mexican office: 3 Calle de San Agustin, Mexico, D. F. Also has branch offices in Denver and St. Louis. Company is American agent for Henry R. Merton & Co.. Ltd., of London; Metallgesellschaft and Metallurgische Gesellschaft, of Frankfurt am-Main; Société le Nickel, of Paris, and Balbach Smelting & Refining Co., of New- ark, N. J. Controls the Compania Minera de Penoles, of Mapimi, Mex.; Compania de Minerales y Metales of Mexico; Ohio & Colorado Smelting & Refining Co., of Salida, Colo.; Bartlesville Zinc Co., of Bartlesville, Okla.; Lanyon-Star Smelting Co., of Bartlesville, Okla., and Metallurgical Com- pany of America, of New York. Company also is an extensive dealer in copper, spelter and lead.

American-Mexican Smelting & Refining Co. Mexico

Is a subsidiary company of the Pacific Smelting Co. D.C: Kirkland, mgr., Fundicion, Sonora, Mex.

American-Mexico Mining & Developing Co. Mexico

Office: Watertown, S. D. Mine office: Velardena, Cuencame, Durango, Mex. No returns received. Is not regarded favorably. See description by Horace J. Stevens in Vol. X.

American Mine. Colorado

Wm. Mitchell, superintendent, Breckenridge, Summit Co., Colo. Prop- erty shows a fissure vein with ore shoot of gold and silver-bearing copper ore, developed by shaft. Equipment includes steam plant and air compressor.

American Mines & Exploration Co; Arizona

The entire capital stock is said to be owned by Robt. D. Grant, 1003 Central Bldg., Los Angeles, Cal.

American Mines Syndicate Utah

Office: Houghton, Mich. Mine office: Eureka, Juab Co., Utah. Walter Bitch, pres.: J. H. Rice, vice-pres.; Wm. P. Seager, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, M. M. Duncan and F. W. Denton, directors. Organized 1907, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $100,000, shares $100 par; paid in, $80 per share; issued, $86,350 Is a holding company purely controlling the Chief Consolidated Mining Co. through ownership of 361,000 shares. AMERICAN MINING CO. UTAH

Presumably idle. Office: 27 Latimer Bik., Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine office: Brighton, Salt Lake Co., Utah. I. A. Benton, pres.; A. L. Headberg,

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first vice-pres. and gen. mgr.; B. F. Nevins, second vice-pres.; Wm. Crome, sec.-treas.; David Scott, supt. Organized 1896, under laws of Utah, capitali- zation $500,000, shares $1 par, assessable; 18 assessments levied, to end of ` 1910. Lands, 16 claims, 10 patented, on Scott hill, in the Big Cottonwood district, 5 miles from a railroad. Mine, opened by shafts and tunnels, has about 1,400’ of workings, showing auriferous and argentiferous copper ore. AMERICAN MINING CO., LTD. IDAHO & MONTANA

Office: 115 Granite Blk., Helena, Mont. Mines are located in the Seven Devils district, Washington Co., Idaho. A. H. Kleinschmidt, pres.; Maria Kuphal, vice-pres.; R. H. Kleinschmidt, sec.-treas.; preceding officers are the directors. Organized Oct. 2, 1910, under laws of Montana, capitalization $50,000, shares $1 par, non-assessable; issued 11,578 shares, sold at $1. An- nual meeting, second Monday in January.

Property consists of a number of patented and unpatented claims in Montana and also a one-half interest in the Blue Jacket and Queen mines, near Landore, Washington Co., Idaho. The Blue Jacket mine, area 295 acres, has a 400’ shaft, and the Queen has a 1,500’ tunnel having a back of about 300’; these properties said to have produced about $250,000 in ore, with smelter returns up to 47% copper. The company’s half interest in this group was leased Oct., 1909, for 10 years to P. H. Miller and Franz Klein- schmidt, Landore, Idaho, on a royalty basis, giving the company 15% of the gross product of the mines.

Holdings also include a nine-sixteenths interest in the Peacock, White Mountain and Helena mines, held jointly with A. M. Holter and S. T. Houser; and a one-half interest in the Blue Jacket No. 2, Norma, Legal Tender, Copper Crescent and Calumet mines, held jointly with Messrs. Johnson and Kleinschmidt. The old American Mining Co., Ltd., whose charter expired Oct. 1, 1910, owned 9/16 of the Peacock, White Mountain . and Helena claims and one-half of the Blue Jacket claim in Idaho and various other claims in Montana. On the dissolution of the company Albert, R. H. and Ellen Kleinschmidt, holding 50% of the company’s stock, became joint owners of one-half of the company’s holdings; the above in- dividuals are in no way connected with the new American Mining Co., or- ganized by R. H. Kleinschmidt. The new company is understood to have acquired a one-half interest in Mr. C. A. Johnson’s one-half interest in the Queen and Blue Jacket groups, which with the one-quarter interest derived from the old company makes a one-half interest. These properties are also in the Seven Devils district, 20 miles west of Homestead, Ore., the nearest railway point.

The Peacock mine, discovered 1869, is the most noted property and the largest producer in the Seven Devils district, having 1,500’ of workings, said to have produced 15,000 tons of high-grade ore, and estimated to show 200,000 tons of 6% copper ore with about $5 combined gold and silver values per ton. Ten shipments, 1903, to the Bingham smelter, returned 13.3 to 18.3% copper, from 3 to 5 oz. silver and from nothing to $1.33 gold per ton; and 11 shipments to the Oregon Smelting & Refining Co. gave returns of 20.5 to 40.2% copper, 1.15 to 8.7 oz. silver and $1.20 to $3.40 gold per ton. Mine is said to have considerable ore ready for shipment, as soon as railroad transportation is available, and the Oregon-Washington railroad line, when extended down the Snake river from Homestead, will pass within 3% miles of the mine. Production, 1905, was 500 tons of ore, of about 15% copper tenor, equal to 150,000 Ibs. fine copper. Property idle since 1909, owing to litigation.

American Mining Co,, S. A. : ! Mexico

Idle. Letters unclaimed at Leon, Guanajuato, Mex. Organized Oct. 27,

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1900, under laws of Mexico, capitalization 25,000 pesos. Property is the America y Anexas mines, carrying copper and lead ores. AMERICAN SM. SECURITIES CO. UNITED STATES & MEXICO

Office: 165 Broadway, New York. Mine and works offices, at numerous points, given hereinafter. Organized March 25, 1905, under laws of New Jersey, and name changed to present title, May, 1905; capitalization $77,000,- 000, ‘shares $100 par, in $17,000,000 Series A cumulative 6% preferred stock; $30,000,000 Series B cumulative 5% preferred stock, and $30,000,000 com- mon stock Series A has preference as to dividends, and both preference series have equal rights as to assets, both having priority rights to assets and dividends over common stock. Is controlled by American Smelting & Refining Co., through the ownership of the entire issue of common stock, and the American Smelting & Refining Co. guarantees the Series B. pre- ferred stock. An issue of $15,000,000 of 15-year 6% debenture bonds, created Feb., 1911, to liquidate a floating debt of $10,816,406, and going entirely to the American Smelting & Refining Co., are convertible into common stock of that company any time before Aug., 1918, that bonds may sell at or above par. Bonds are redeemable Feb. 1, 1926, at par, or, after Feb. 1, 1915, at 105, on 90 days’ notice.

Owns in fee mines in 7 different districts in Mexico, the smelter at Ever- ett, Wash., and controls the principal copper and lead smelting and refining plants of the United States. It also owns all or a controlling part of the stock of a large number of subsidiary companies. All properties are de- scribed under the title American Smelting € Refining Ca AMERICAN SMELTING & REFINING CO. U. S. & MEXICO í Office: 165 Broadway, New York. Daniel Guggenheim, pres.; Barton Sewell, vice-pres.; Silas W. Eccles, vice-pres. in charge of operating de- partment; Edw. Brush, vice-pres. and asst. to pres.; Edgar L. Newhouse, vice-pres. in charge of smelting operations; Isaac Guggenheim, treas.; S. R. Guggenheim, chairman exec. com.; Murry Guggenheim, chairman fin. com.; Judd Stewart, gen. aud. and asst. to pres.; F. R. Raiff, traffic mgr.; John N. Steele, gen. counsel; Frank W. Hills, comptroller; Franklin Guiterman, gen. mgr. Colorado Dept.; H. R. Wagner, gen. mgr. Mexican dept.; John K. Mac- Gowan, purch. agt.; preceding officers, Jos. Clendenin, mer. copper sales dept.; W. S. McCormick, Willard S. Morse, Walter T. Page, Grant B. Schley, Karl Eilers, C. W. Whitley, Wm. Loeb, Jr., L. Friedrich, H. A. Prosser, Wm. C. Potter, Simon Guggenheim and Mahlon D. Thatcher, di- rectors; W. E. Merriss, sec.; F. R. Foraker, asst. sec. and asst. gen. counsel; Lucius A. Chapin, asst. treas.; R. P. Reese, aud.; E. A. Behr, sales agt., lead sales dept.; W. M. Drury, mer., mining dept.; Thos. H. Leggett, cons. engr.; C. W. Whitley, gen. mer. Utah dept; H. M. Moran, gen. rep. in Mexico; F. D. Aller, agt. in Chile; Chas. Beach, transfer agt.: Chase National Bank, New York, registrar.

- Organized April 4, 1899, under laws of Néw Jersey, capitalization $115,-

000,000, with $65,000,000. common and $50,000,000 cumulative 7% preferred stock; shares $100 par. Original capitalization was $54,600,000, increased to $100,000,000 and again increased Jan., 1911, by $15,000,000 common stock authorized to exchange for 6% debenture bonds of American Smelters Se- curities Co. at any time before Aug., 1918, that bonds may sell at par, An- nual meeting, first Wednesday in April. Has about 11,000 shareholders.

The American Smelting & Refining Co. controls the American Smelters Securities Co. through the ownership of the entire common stock issue of $30,000,000, and has guaranteed 5% dividends on the entire stock issue of Series B preferred stock of the American Smelters Securities Co.

Company’s statement of Dec. 31, 1912, shows assets of $189,211,705, in-

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cluding $3,809,373 cash and $5,935,873 demand loans made to affiliated com- panies. Surplus, same date, was $16,759,402.

Net earnings for fiscal years ending April 30, wére $1,979,907.85 in 1900; $3,828,441.27 in 1901; $4,861,619.01 in 1902; $7,576,785.57 in 1903; $7,905,- 572.84 in 1904; $8,898,811.36 in 1905; $10,161,358.12 in 1906; $11,509,669.20 in 1907; $7,633,286.64 in 1908; $7,664,284.20 in 1909; $7,507,916.39 in 1910; and tor calendar years ending Dec. 31, were $10,571,502.64 in 1911, and $11,- 079,675.78 in 1912.

Dividends on common stock have been as follows, 5% in 1904; 542% in 1905; 7% in 1906; 742% in 1907; 5% in 1908; 4% in 1909; 4% in 1910; 4% in 1911; 4% in 1912. Preferred dividend rate is 7% annually, in quarterly ` dividends of 134%. Total dividends to end of calendar year 1912, were

/ $66,713,053.

Following is the list of metallurgical plants of the company:

Perth Amboy plant, Maurer, “N. J., copper and lead smelting and refining.

" National plant, South Chicago, Ill., lead refinery.

Omaha plant, Omaha, Neb., lead refinery, copper smelting and con- verting.

Globe plant, Denver, Colo., lead smelting.

Pueblo plant, Pueblo, Colo., lead smelting.

Eilers plant, Pueblo, Colo., lead smelting.

' Durango plant, Durango, Colo., lead smelting.

Arkansas Valley plant, Leadville, Colo., lead smelting.

Murray plant, Murray, Utah, lead smelting.

Everett plant, Everett, Wash., lead smelting and arsenic refinery.

Helena plant, East Helena, Mont., lead smelting.

Kansas City plant, Kansas City, Mo., lead and copper smelting.

Grant plant, Denver, Colo., lead smelting.

Hayden plant, Hayden, Ariz., copper smelting.

Pennsylvania plant, Pittsburgh, Pa., lead refinery.

Aurora plant, Aurora, Ill., lead refinery.

Garfield smelter, Garfield, Utah, copper smelting.

Selby smelter, Selby, Cal., described under this title.

Tacoma smelter, Tacoma, Wash., described under this title.

El Paso plant, El Paso, Tex., lead and copper smelting.

Aguascalientes plant, Aguascalientes, Mex., lead and copper smelting.

Monterey plant, Monterey, Mex., lead smelting.

Chihuahua plant, Chihuahua, Mex., lead smelting.

Velardena smelter, Velardena, Mex., described under its own title.

Baltimore plant, Baltimore, Md., copper refining plant.

The Helena, or East Helena smelter, at Helena, Mont., of about 600 tons daily capacity, with 4 blast furnaces, treats mainly silver-lead ores, with some copper, and includes a baghouse. Frank M. Smith, mer.; G. C. Riddell, supt.

The Murray smelter, at Murray, Utah, 16 miles south of Salt Lake City, of 1,500 tons daily capacity, has 8 blast furnaces, with steam, electric and air power. A 100x216’ bag house has 4,200 cotton bags, each 30’ long

“and 18” in diameter, the cloth therein being sufficient to cover 16 acres of

ground. The bag house, in addition to saving considerable values previously lost, has greatly reduced the volume of fumes, which formerly caused much trouble and expense, through damage to a valuable farming district sur- rounding. :

The Arkansas Valley smelter, at Leadville, Colo., has 10 furnaces, with daily capacity of 1,500 tons, and handles mainly lead ores, with some

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copper. Wm. B. MacDonald, mgr.; Guy M. Kerr, supt. The other plants at Leadville have been dismantled for some years.

The Globe or Globeville smelter, at Denver, Colo., with 7 furnaces, has about 800 tons daily capacity. F. Roeser, supt.

The old Grant smelter, at Denver, Colo., was dismantled 1907.

The Durango smelter, at Durango, Colo., has 4 furnaces, with about 40C tons daily capacity, and treats both lead and copper ores. F. C. Gilbert, supt. The Omaha smelter, at Omaha, Neb., is operated under ajlease expiring 1927, The smelter, with 2 furnaces, of about 250 tons daily capacity, has a copper converting plant of abou* 35 tons daily capacity, and a 250-ton lead refinery, with steam and electric power. Wm. T. Page, mgr.

The Eilers smelter, at Pueblo, Colo., with 6 furnaces, of about 700 tons daily capacity, closed 1908, and probably will not be reopened.

The Pueblo smelter is a lead plant, securing gold and silver as by- products, having 7 furnaces, with about 800 tons daily capacity. Geo. P. Marsh, supt.

The El Paso smelter, at El Paso, Tex., has a 1,500-acre site, with 10 furnaces, and a daily capacity of about 1,200 tons, with 2 reverberatory fur- naces being built at end of 1910, to increase the daily capacity to about 1,500 tons. Matte formerly was shipped to the Aguascalientes smelter, but is to be converted in the El Paso works, and blister copper shipped to the refin- eries at Perth Amboy and Baltimore.

The Aguascalientes smelter, at Aguascalientes, Mex., has 10 furnaces, 2 lead and 8 copper stacks, with 2,000 tons daily capacity, and employs about 2,500 men. This plant includes a model townsite, with good water and sewerage. A. C. Hall, supt.

The Chihuahua smelter, at Chihuahua, Mex., is a comparatively new plant, rated at 800 tons daily capacity, having 4 blast furnaces, treating mainly lead, with steel buildings, a 370’ brick stack with inside diameter of 16’, steam and electric power, 8 miles of railroad track, a hotel, and 192 dwellings for workmen. J. R. Enlow, supt.

The Velardena smelter has an annual capacity of 324,000 tons of copper ore and 187,000 tons of lead ore.

The Monterey smelter, at Monterey, Nuevo León, Mex., has 10 blast furnaces and 15 reverberatories, with daily capacity of about 1,250 tons. J. F. Austin, supt.

The Everett plant, at Everett, Wash, has a lead smelter and an arsenic refinery.

The Perth Amboy plant, also known as the Guggenheim works, at Perth Amboy, Middlesex Co., N. J., has a copper-refining plant, built 1895, and since repeatedly enlarged. These works, having the advantages of tidewater frontage and rail connections, have copper and lead furnaces, with large lead and copper refineries, of 150 tons daily capacity each.

The National plant, at South Chicago, Ill., is an extensive lead refinery, having a yearly capacity of about 90,000 tons of finished lead and 18,000,000 oz. refined silver, .

The Baltimore copper refinery, treating 240,000,000 Ibs. of fine copper annually, is the largest refinery in the world. It is operated as the Baltimore Copper Smelting € Rolling Co., whose entire stock was bought for $4,- 000,000. Includes copper smelting plant and rolling plant as well as refinery, all at Baltimore, Md. è

The company also owns the San Bruno smelter site of 65 acres on San Francisco bay, 8 miles south of San Francisco.

The Garfield smelter of the Garfield Smelting Co. is owned through the

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American Sm. Sec. Co., which owns the entire stock issue of $1,000,000 and includes control of the Garfield a Co. and Garfield Water Co., subsidiaries oí the Garfield Smelting Co. The Garfield Co., incor- porated in New Jersey as the Silver Lake Mines Co., also owns 1,506 acres of mining and milling property in the Animas district, Colorado, yielding complex copper-lead ores carrying gold and silver. The Garfield plant treats 1,170,000 tons annually; it is described under Garfield Smelter.

In addition to the foregoing smelting plants, the company has other extensive interests, and controls the United States Zinc Co. of Pueblo, Cola.: Carbon Coal & Coke Co., of Trinidad, Colo.; Cook’s Peak Mines, of Cooks, N. M..

The company (by the American Smelters Securities Co.) owns outright the following mining properties: Dolores, Azul and Trinidad mines; also owns the La Luz and El Angel mines at Matehuala, Mex.; the Jibosa mine at Jimenez, Veta Grande at Parral and Tecolotes mine at Santa Barbara, all in Chihuahua, Mex.; the Zaragoza mine, Monterey and Bonanza at Zacate- cas, Mex. Company also controls several other properties in Mexico.

The Angangueo mine, W. H. Mitchell, supt. at last accounts, is at Angangueo, Michoacan, Mex. Lands, 12 hectares, carrying argentiferous copper ore, developed by a 150-meter shaft, and 2 tunnels, with about 1 mile of workings. This property formerly was a considerable silver pro- ducer, and includes an antiquated smelter, of about 150 tons daily capacity.

The Asientos group, at Asientos, Ocampo, Aguascalientes, Mex., Corey C. Brayton, supt., includes the Santa Francisca, Cinco ¡Senores and El Dragon mines, having silver-lead ores and employing about 700 men. The Santa Francisca, area 317 hectares, with 3 tunnels and 4 shafts, deepest 250 meters, has about 6,000 meters of workings, with a daily productive capacity of 500 metric tons of ore. Equipment includes a 1,500-h. p. steam plant, and mine employs about 700 men.

At Matehuala, S. L. P., Mex., company owns the Dolores, Trinidad and Azul mines, area 151.9 acres. Edw. Thornton, mine supt. These properties, 7 miles west of Matehuala, have 7 shafts, with gasoline hoists, and carry silicious copper sulphide ores, slightly argentiferous and auriferous, aver- aging about 4.5% copper.

The Jibosa mines, at Jiminez, Chihuahua, Mex., area 87 acres, have 3 shafts and carry basic copper sulphide ores, assaying up to 10% copper.

The Veta Grande mine, area 58 acres, at Parral, Chihuahua, Mex., has a 984’ shaft, well equipped, and produces silicious silver ores.

The Tecolotes mines, at Santa Barbara, Chihuahua, Mex., include 160 acres of mining rights, and 40 acres of surface rights. W. Maynard Drury, mgr. Mines are extensively developed, and carry auriferous and argentif- erous oxidized and sulphide ores of lead and copper, of both smelting and concentrating grades. Equipment includes a 600-ton mill, putting about 6 into 1, yielding an average of about 100 tons of concentrates daily. Prop- erty employs about 500 men.

The Bonanza mines, area 335 acres, with 13,000 acres of ranch lands, ut Zacatecas, Mex., have 7 shafts, and carry lead and zinc ores. The Zaragoza mine, at Parral, Chihuahua, Mex., area 69 acres, is developed through a 1,000’ tunnel, and has plumbiferous iron ore, zinc car- bonates and sulphides, and copper sulphides.

The Sierra Mojada mines, at Sierra Mojada, Coahuila, Mex., include the San José, San Salvador and Fronteriza mines, producing lead and copper ores, with values mainly in silver and lead. Mines have 8 shafts and 5 tunnels, with productive capacity of about 1,000 tons of ore daily, employing about 800 men. Equipment includes a 500-h. p. steam plant.

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In addition to smelting and mining properties, the company owns the exclusive. rights, in the United States and Mexico, to the Huntington- Heberlein ore-roasting patents. There also are various subsidiary corpora- tions, for ore purchasing and other purposes, copper ores being handled mainly through the American Smelters Securities Co. as follows:

Balaklala Consolidated Copper Co., Coram, Cal.

Dairy Farm Mining Co., Van Trent, Cal.

Selby Smelting & Lead Co., Selby, Cal.

A. Y. & Minnie Mining & Milling Co., Leadville, Colo.

Silver Lake Mines, Silverton, Colo. (Garfield smelter).

Western Mining Co., Leadville, Colo.

Federal Mining & Smelting Co., Wallace, Idaho.

Federal Lead Co., Federal, 111.

Central Lead Co., Flat River, Mo.

Federal Lead Co., Flat River, Mo.

Puget Sound Reduction Works, Everett, Wash.

Tacoma Smelting Co., Tacoma, Wash.

Monte Cristo Mining & Concentrating Co., Monte Cristo, Wash.

Botello Mines, Parral, Chihuahua, Mex.

Velardena Mining & Smelting Co:, Velardena, Durango, Mex.

National Metallurgical Co., Matehuala, San Luis Potosi, Mex.

Baltimore Copper Smelting & Rolling Co., Baltimore, Md.

Copper production, is merely an incident with the company. The fol- lowing figures of,production include the outputs of the American Smelter Securities Co., Guggenheim Exploration Co., Nevada Consolidated Copper Co. and Utah Copper Co.: 72,952,000 lbs. fine copper in 1905; 85,810,000 Ibs. in 1906; 94,600,000 Ibs. in 1907; 187,544,000 Ibs. in 1908, 240,000,000 lbs. in 1909, and about 250,000,000 Ibs. in 1910. Annual product of refineries in 1912 was 132,000,000 lbs. fine copper and the total value of the metal products handled is about: Copper, $46,000,000; silver, $47,000,000; lead, $27,700,000; gold, $69,800,000, or a total of $190,500,000.

The American Smelting & Refining Co. is much the largest general smelting and metallurgical enterprise in the world. There has been much complaint, throughout the mining districts of the United States and Mexico, regarding the exactions of this company, but there is much to be said on both sides.’ It seems obvious that the American Smelting & Refining Co. continues to expand and prosper, mainly because of its superior metal- lurgical and business ability, backed by large and modern works and ade- quate capital, rather than because of special advantages.

AMERICAN STAR MINING CO. p UTAH

Office: 403 Dooly Bldg., Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine office: Eureka, Juab Co., Utah. Imer Pett, pres. and gen. mgr.; Jas. B. Graves, vice-pres.; Fred R. Sands, sec.-treas.; preceding officers Geo. E. Davis and Thos. P. Billings, directors. (Organized 1909 under laws of Utah, as successor of Tintic Mines Co., capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par; issued 599,500 shares. Lands, 2 claims, 25 acres, including the Town View group and other properties lying between the Victoria and Chief Consolidated mines, and touching the Plutus on the east and Eagle & Blue Bell on the west. Mine has about 1,000’ of workings, made from the 900’ level of the Eagle & Blue Bell mine, and plans a 1,100’ shaft, about one-half mile southeast of the Chief Consolidated. Workings show an ore channel of about 60’ width. Property considered promising.

Anaconda Copper Mining Co. Montana

Ofhce: 42 Broadway, New York. Mine office: Butte, Silver Bow Co., Mont. Works offices: Anaconda, Deer Lodge Co., Mont., and Great Falls,

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Cascade Co., Mont. Benj. B. Thayer, pres.; C. F. Kelley, vice-pres.; A. H. Melin, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, John D. Ryan, H. H. Rogers, Wm. Rockefeller and Geo. H. Church, directors; Cornelius F. Kelly, counsel; J. T. Roberts, asst. sec.; D. B. Hennessy, asst. treas.; John Gillie, gen. supt.; E. P. Mathewson, mgr. Anaconda Reduction Works; C. W. Goodale, mgr. Boston € Montana dept.; A. E. Wheeler, supt. Great Falls smelter.

Organized June 18, 1895, under laws of Montana, as successor of Anaconda Mining Co., capitalization $150,000,000, shares $25 par, issued $108,312,500. Original capitalization $50,000,000, increased to present figure March, 1910. Company has a very broad charter permitting it to acquire, mortgage, lease, assign and transfer the capital stock, bonds or securities of any other corporation. Is controlled through ownership directly and indirectly of 3,158,362 shares, or 73% of the issued stock, by the Amalgamated Copper Co. Annual meeting in May. National City Bank, New York, transfer agent. Pogson, Peloubet & Co., auditors. Stock is listed on the New York, Boston and London stock exchanges, and on the New York Consolidated Stock Exchange. Dividend coupons are payable in England by the London Joint Stock Bank, Ltd., Princes St, E. C. Warrants to bearer are issued, in England, in denominations of 5, 20 and 50 shares.

Dividends have been as follows: $4,800,000 in 1900; $3,900,000 in 1901; $1,250,000 in 1902; $1,200,000 in 1903; $1,200,000 in 1904; $3,450,000 in 1905; $6,900,000 in 1906; $6,300,000 in 1907; $2,400,000 in 1908; $2,400,000 in 1909; $6,930,000 in 1910; $8,608,750 in 1911; $10,831,250 in 1912.

Regular dividend rate at present is 3%, or 75 cts. per share quarterly.

Net earnings for 1912 were $15,856,334.89, including $308,346.22 earned by various subsidiary corporations and departments, outside of regular mining operations. Net earnings for 1911 were $8,043,718.76. Company ended 1912 with a surplus of $8,695,172.45.

The increase in capitalization from $50,000,000 to $150,000,000, 1910, was made for the absorption of all of the Butte mining companies controlled by the Amalgamated Copper Co., and several other mines in Butte, also the coal mining and lumbering companies controlled by the Amalgamated. The companies so taken over, and the prices paid for each were as follows: Boston & Montana Consolidated Copper & Silver Mining Co., 1,200,000 shares, or $30,000,000; Washoe Copper Co., 380,000 shares, or $9,500,000; Trenton Mining & Development Co., 120,000 shares, or $3,000,000; Red Metal Mining Co. (Butte Coalition), 500,000 shares, or $12,500,000; Butte & Boston Consolidated Mining Co., 300,000 shares, or $7,500,000; Parrot Silver & Copper Co., 90,000 shares, or $2,250,000; Alice Gold & Silver Mining Co., 30,000 shares, or $750,000; Big Blackfoot Lumber Co., 300,000 shares, or $7,500,000; Diamond Coal & Coke’ Co., 100,000 shares, or $2,500,000. In addition to the affliated companies before named that were taken over, the Anaconda bought the entire property of the Colusa Parrot Mining & ` Smelting Co. and Original Consolidated Mining Co., controlled by Senator

Wm. A. Clark, for which $5,000,000 cash was paid.

In addition to the mining property hereinafter described, the Anaconda owns fractional interests in a number of other mining claims in the Butte camp. Mining lands in Butte are approximately 2,138 acres, in the following groups: Anaconda, 572 acres; Boston & Montana, 483 acres; Butte € Bos- ton, 261 acres; Trenton, 220 acres; Butte Coalitión, 145 acres; Alice, 340 acres; Parrot, 40 acres; Washoe, 37 acres; Original, about 40 acres. In addition to the copper mining lands, the Diamond Coal € Coke Co. owned 13,280 acres of coal land, and the Big Blackfoot Milling Co. owned upwards of 1,100,000 acres of timber land.

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the six largest copper producers of the world, and the addition of a num- ber of other mines of second and third rank in productive capacity, the Anaconda became the largest copper company in the world, employing about 12,000 men, at high wages, and with a payroll in Butte alone of over $1,000,000 monthly, with very large additional payrolls at its works in Anaconda and Great Falls. Since the absorption of the other mines of Butte has practically eliminated property lines so far as underground work is concerned and workings have been so connected as to permit the most economic mining regardless of claim boundaries, the property can be most usefully described in sections called by the familiar names used under former ownership, or by the names of the 22 operating shafts of the company.

The mines of the company produced in 1912, 4,576,289 tons of ore and 3,667 tons of copper precipitate. The Anaconda mine was opened, 1880, as a silver producer, but at about 150’ depth the oxidized silver ores were succeeded by high-grade copper ores, mainly chalcocite and bornite, while at depth there is a large amount of enargite. Net earnings of the mine, during the 15 years, 1880-1894, are unknown, but may be safely estimated as not less than $50,000,000. At a depth of about 1,600’ quartz pyrite veins of the Anaconda showed impoverished values, there being considerable pyrite, but there was an improvement at 1,800 and 2,000’ and very rich ore has been found below 2,200’, while high-grade chalcocite is found at a depth of 3,400’ in the High Ore mine, this being the deepest level now opened in the Butte camp. The various mines of the Anaconda have immense re- serves of ore of all grades, estimated at 8 years’ supply with no prospect of impoverishment in the bottom workings. The ore extracted from the various mines averages 314% copper, 2% to 3 ozs. silver and 35 cts. gold per ton.

The Anaconda mine proper has a 3-compartment shaft, 2,800’ deep,

timbered with 10x10” square sets, connected underground with the Never Sweat, St. Lawrence, Bell, Wild Bill, East Grey Rock, Buffalo and Mountain Consolidated mines. Considerable trouble has been had, at times, with gases from the adjoining St. Lawrence mine, and the fire has crept from the St. Lawrence into several of the upper levels of the Anaconda. The mine has electric locomotives for tramming, installed 1907, on several levels. Hoisting is by 8-ton skips, swung under double-deck cages and worked in counterbalance. The St. Lawrénce mine has a 2,600’ three-compartment main shaft, connected underground with the Anaconda, Never Sweat, Mountain View and Pennsylvania mines. The St. Lawrence has been on fire since 1889, in an extensive area above the 1,100’ level. The fire has been fought con- stantly, and walled off by cement bulkheads wherever possible, but cannot “be extinguished, and must be allowed to burn itself out, thought it is possible to control its progress to a considerable extent. While the fire is trouble- some, it does not result in the loss of copper, as the sintered ore remaining after the burning of the sulphur can be mined later, and the mine waters are strongly charged with copper, much of which is recovered by under- ground precipitation in concrete sumps, the water being leached again on surface. The hoist has 32x72” cylinders, raising 9-ton skips swung under double-deck cages. 2

The Never Sweat mine has a 2,500’ three-compartment main shaft, re- timbered, 1905, with false sets, allowing an 18” play for squeeze. Square-set timbering is used, with back filling. The mine is connected underground with the Parrot, Colusa-Parrot, and Moonlight mines. Some trouble has been had with fire from the St. Lawrence. Normal productive capacity is

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about 400 tons daily. The surface plant includes a 3,000-h. p. hoist with 30x72” cylinders, raising 8-ton skips swung under double-deck cages.

The Belmont mine, about 1 mile south of the main shaft of the Ana- conda, and 375’ lower, has a new 2,400’ four-compartment working shaft, the largest in the district. Connections have been made with other mines and a 5,000-ton ore bin erected. It is said that this will be the main work- ing shaft for the area now served by the Anaconda, Never Sweat, St. Lawrence and Pennsylvania shafts. Equipment includes a powerful new hoist, with capacity of 3,500’, taken from the Corra mine.

The Diamond mine has a 2,956’ three-compartment shaft, developing the Corra vein and other veins from the surface down to the 2,800’ level. Equipment includes a 32x72” Risdon hoist, operating double-deck cages with 8-ton skips.

The Bell mine has a 1,600’ three-compartment shaft, and is connected underground with the Anaconda, now used as an air shaft.

The High Ore mine is one of the deepest in Butte, having a 3,400’ three- compartment shaft with lowest level at 3,200’, producing high-grade chalcocite. Being the deepest mine of the camp, the High Ore does the pumping for a number of connecting mines of the Anaconda, handling 11 water from the Anaconda, Washoe and Parrot properties. The mine has yielded much ore below the 1,400’ level. The High Ore has 7 powerful pumps, including 3 Dixon pumps on the 2,200’ level, 2 pumps on the 1,600’ level and 3 on the 1,000’ level. The mine has electric lights and bells. Hoisting is done with two 3-deck cages.

The Modoc mine has a 2,400’ three-compartment shaft, connected with the High Ore mine. The Modoc works several veins besides the one of this name, its chief ore supply coming from the North Butte veins, which are stoped up to the North Butte Co.’s boundaries on the north and to the Ballaklava mine on the south.

The Mountain Chief mine, area 1.15 acres, lies next north of the Butte- Ballaklava, and is said to have produced about $1,500,000 worth of ore from a shallow shaft. The Mountain Chief is developed to 500’ by its own shaft but its deeper levels are worked through the High Ore mine. It is claimed by the Anaconda that the Butte-Ballaklava has mined ore from the Moun- tain Chief vein, at depth, which contention is denied by the Butte-Ballaklava, with consequent litigation.

In addition to the foregoing mines, the Anaconda group includes the Wake-up-Jim, Buffalo, J. I. C., Monitor, Henry George, Dutton, Colusa- Parrot, Nipper, Parnell and a number of smaller properties, idle or operated through other shafts.

The Parrot group of properties includes the former holdings of the Parrot Silver & Copper Co., 19 fractional claims, area 40.6 acres, embracing the Parrot, Little Mina, Bellona, Original No. 6 and the Oro Butte, Champion and Copper Reef mines, and various other small properties. Main shaft of the Parrot mine is now used as an air shaft and the ground is worked from the Original and Never Sweat shafts.

The Little Mina mine has a 1,200’ two-compartment shaft, with levels opened at 600, 800, 1,000 and 1,200’, connected with the West Steward mine. The mine is opened on a continuation of the Blue vein, showing on the 1,000’ level an orebody of 4 to 18” width, carrying 3 to 4% copper and about 6 oz. silver per ton.

The Original No. 6 mine has a shaft of 1,000’ depth, now used as an air shaft.

The Original, Steward and Gagnon shafts are on a western continuation of the Anaconda and Steward veins and in 1912 a continuous ore shoot of

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good grade, over 2,700' long, was opened in the bottom level of these mines.

The Original mine has a 2,500’ two-compartment shaft. The mine was located, 1864, in the first stampede to the new Silver Bow diggings and was the first mine patented in Butte.

The Steward mine has a 2,300’ vertical shaft, showing, in the bottom workings, a 30’ vein carrying ore of good copper tenor, with fair silver values. Equipment includes a 120’ steel headgear and a 36x72” first-motion duplex hoist, good for 2,600’.

The Gagnon mine has 2 shafts, the old 2,300’ three-compartment in- cline shaft, sunk at an angle of 74°, is only 150’ from the Original shaft and a new vertical 2,400’ shaft near the west end of the property. Equip- ment includes a 22x48” Dickson hoist, raising 3-ton skips with capacity of about 800 tons daily.

The Gagnon is the westernmost of the productive copper mines of Butte. Its ores have carried more silver than those of the mines farther east and have held a number of minerals like hiibnerite, unusual elsewhere in the camp. The mine has been reported as all but worked out at several periods in its history, but its deepest levels now look better than the upper ones ever did and a great body of high-grade ore is reported on the 2,200’ level near the west end line.

The Moonlight mine, once the principal producer of the Washoe Co., has ore averaging about 1 oz. silver for each unit of copper. The Moonlight has a 1,500’ three-compartment shaft, connected underground, with the Blue Jay, Never Sweat, Anaconda and Pacific mines.

The Clear Grit mine has an 825’ two-compartment shaft, but is worked through the Little Mina shaft, from the 1,000’ level.

The Poulin mine, formerly owned by the Washoe Co., has a 1,200’ shaft, but is operated through the 1,500’ Buffalo shaft. The Poulin mine has pro- duced a limited quantity of low-grade ore, averaging about 2% copper and 5 oz. silver per ton.

The Silver Bow No. 1 mine has a 1,000’ shaft, connected with the Penn- sylvania, Berkeley and No. 3 mines. It has been a good producer for many years.

Silver Bow No. 3 mine has a 700’ shaft, developing several pyrite veins low in copper. It has been idle some years.

The Berkeley three-compartment shaft was 1,500’ deep at the end of 1912, Production is about 350 tons daily. An 18x32” hoist raises 2 single- deck cages.

The Rarus mine has a 2,000’ three-compartment shaft, and is connected on the 1,700’ level with the Tramway mine. There are no 1,800 and 1,900’ levels, as numbers change below the seventeenth, to correspond with actual depth. Mine shows a fine body of 6% ore on 2,000’ level. The veins have divergent branches, and constitute a sort of a magnified stockwork, with an ore zone up to 300’ in width, in places.

The Minnie Healy mine, area 5 acres, is now a part of the Tramway - mine.

The Tramway mine, lying between the Minnie Healy and Rarus, for- merly owned one-third by Butte Coalition and two-thirds by Butte & Bos- ton, has a new shaft that is being made the central shaft for the Minnie Healy-Rarus group. The Tramway shaft, 2,400’ deep, has 3 compartments, each 5’x4’ 2” in the clear. The first of the new levels in the Minnie Healy is the thirteenth, about 50’ below the old 1,500’ level, in which fire was burning, 1908-1909. The Tramway has numerous bodies of ore, of 5 to 6% . copper tenor, with good gold and silver values, the really great orebodies coming in between the 1,300 and 1,400’ levels, and on the 1,700’ level there

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is an orebody up to 75’ in width, averaging nearly or quite 7% copper. In 1912 the 2,200’, now the bottom level, was opened up and a fine body of ore, larger and of as rich a grade as that on the level above, was disclosed.

Equipment at the Tramway mine includes a 92’ steel headgear with 12’ sheave wheels. A 32x72” Allis-Chalmers 2-cylinder Corliss hoist, with 12’ drums, using 114” round wire cables, has capacity to raise 7-ton skips from a depth of 3,500 One compartment has 4-deck cages, and one has 2-deck cages, an auxiliary hoist being used for sinking and handling supplies and men, through the third compartment. The main surface plant of the depart- ment, at the Tramway shaft, includes a boiler house, engine house, car- penter shop, machine shop, office building, warehouse, and changing house with hot and cold water and shower baths for 150 men.

The Nipper mine of the Red Metal group includes the Nipper, Chief Joseph, Balm and L. E. R. claims. The Nipper mine, area 15.18 acres, has 2 shafts, of 1,000 and 1,200’ depth, with 12 exits, being connected under- ground with the Parrot, Never Sweat and Little Mina mines, and has been operated to some extent through the Parrot shaft. Mine is timbered with 10x10” square sets.

The Green Mountain mine has a 2,500’ three-compartment shaft, not deepened for several years. y

The Mountain Consolidated mine has a 2,500’ three-compartment shaft, with a good ore showing on the 1,400’ level and below, and an especially good showing on the bottom level, at 2,500’. The mine has a 28x72” Union Iron Works hoist, operating 2 four-deck cages.

/ "The East Grey Rock mine of the Butte & Boston group, yielding about

"600 tons of ore daily, has a 1,600’ 3-compartment shaft, equipped with a

20x48” hoist, operating 2 double-deck cages, and a 28-drill Nordberg air compressor. The mine has developed much high-grade ore in the past 2 years.

The West Grey Rock mine, producing about 125 tons daily, ore carrying values mainly in gold and silver, with a small percentage of copper, has a 1,660’ shaft, the 1,600’ being the deepest level opened in 1913. The veins, though small, carry good ore, rich in silver.

The Corra group includes the Corra and Rock Island mines, with a ninth interest in the Silver Queen; a third interest each in the Robert Emmet I and Robert Emmet II; a seventh interest in the Snoozer of the Raven Co., and a half interest in the Blackfoot mine. Area of this group is about 30 acres, including the Corra mine of 13.15 acres, Rock Island mine of 5.15 acres, and Snoozer claim of 9.37 acres.

The Corra mine has a 2,300” shaft, with a drainage crosscut on the 1,800’ level, through the Diamond mine, to the main pumping plant of the High Ore mine. The mine shows mainly silver values above the 1,000” level, below which ore is low in copper, but higher in silver than the average of the district. Surface plant was dismantled in 1908.

The Leonard has an old 1,800’ shaft, used for men and supplies and the main or No. 2, a new shaft of 4 compartments, 2,000’ deep. Mine is tim- bered with 12x12” and 14x14” square sets, requiring monthly an average of about 1,000,000’ of mine timber, board measure, as solid bulk-heading is necessary in most stopes, owing to the great width of the vein, which carries exceptionally good gold values. The 2,000” level opened in 1912 shows equally large and good orebodies. Water from the Mountain View, East Colusa and West Colusa mines drains to the 1,200’ level of the Leonard and is forced thence to surface by 4 electric pumps. Valves are of pot form, and the entire water end is phosphor-bronze, columns being lined

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with wood, thoroughly soaked in oil, and coated on the inside with lead, to withstand the corrosive action of the mine waters.

The surface equipment at the Leonard is the show plant of Butte, and is very complete, including a 152’ steel headgear and 2,000-ton ore bins. The power plant has ten 250-h. p.,boilers, and a 32x72” Nordberg hoist, good for 3,500’ depth, raising cages with 10-ton skips swung under, with 1/4” round cable. There also is a 12x14” Risdon sinking engine. Plant includes 3 air compressors, of 3,000, 4,000 and 5,000 cu. ft. capacity per minute, respectively.

The West Colusa mine has a 2,000’ three-compartment shaft, with levels 100’ intervals to depth of 1,200’, and thereafter at 200’ intervals. Shaft was retimbered, early 1910, and cut down to 3 compartments, being given false sets, to obviate squeezing, which caused much trouble in the past. Mine is timbered with 10x10” and 12x12” square sets, and shows vein matter up to 400’ in width. Connection is had underground with the Mountain View and Leonard mines. Fire from the Minnie Healy caused trouble, 1909, but was gotten under control. Normal production is about 800 tons daily. Surface equipment includes a 60’ Nordberg hoist, operating 2 single-deck cages, and a 13x12” Iron Bay sinking engine.

The East Colusa mine has a 900” three-compartment shaft with levels opened at 100’ intervals from 300 to 700’. The mine has a vein of about 65’ width, averaging 3 to 4% copper, with streaks ranging up to 12%. Pro- duction is about 200 tons daily.

The Pennsylvania mine has a blower on the 1,200’ level, of 60,000 cu. ft. air capacity per minute. The Pennsylvania has an 1,875’ three-compartment shaft, with levels at 100’ intervals from 100 to 1,000’, and at 200’ intervals below. This property has extensive stopes above the 600’ level, ore lying nearer surface than in most of the Butte mines. Equipment includes a 350-gal. electric pump on the 1,800’ level, forcing water to a crosscut to the Leonard mine, whence it goes to the precipitating plant. Average daily production is about 1,100 tons. Surface equipment includes 2,000-ton ore bins, a 19x48” Allis hoist, operating 2 double-deck cages and a 12x24” sinking engine.

The Badger State mine, in the northwestern part of the camp, devel- ops the Badger State, Auraria, Kentucky, Silver and Silver City claims. The mine has a 2,000’ four-compartment shaft with extensive orebodies in 3 veins, which were opened up for stoping on the 1,100, 1,300, 1,400, 1,600 and 2,000’ levels in 1912. The development on the 2,000’ level shows the veins to be as large and rich as on the upper levels. The Emily shaft, auxiliary to the Badger, was deepened from 400 to 917’, or 1,000’ level of the Badger and connection made in 1912. This property is now an im- portant producer, yielding 550 tons daily.

The Mountain View mine has a 2,249’ three-compartment shaft, and a 1,800’ air shaft. The Mountain View shows 6 veins of 8 to 60’ width, ore averaging nearly 5% in copper tenor, being among the richest mines in the camp. Production about 1,400 tons daily. Equipment includes 4,500-ton ore bins, a hoist good for 3,000’ depth, and a 12x14” Risdon sinking engine.

The Blue Jay mine has a 1,075’ incline shaft, sunk at 72°, having 2 com- partments to the 600’ level and 3 compartments below. Hoist is 16x32”, operating 2 single-deck cages, with skips swung under.

The Belle of Butte mine, in Walkerville, has a 500 shaft, developing argentiferous copper ore, with values mainly in silver, and has been worked, on a small scale, by lessees, since 1895.

The Glengarry mine, having an 800’ shaft, has the mineral rights to 108 town lots in Butte.

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; Miscellaneous claims, slightly developed or practically virgin, owned in whole or part, include the Little Ida claim, area 1 acre; Nightingale, area 1.3 acres; Sweitzer, area 3.5 acres; Highland Chief, area 12 acres; Mountain Chief No. 3, Black Diamond, Wild Goose, A. J. P., Hazley, Pompey, Mon- tana, Clifton, Scottish Chief, Lioness, Kinkaid and Taffy.

The Tropic shaft on one of the most easterly claims of the company was deepened to 700’ in 1912-13, to reach ore known to exist at that point.

The Josephine mine, supposed to have a continuation of the Lexington vein, was operated, 1906-1907, by lessees, mainly for silver values, but is idle.

The Greenleaf mine, located east of the proven ore zone of Butte, has a 1,000’ shaft, with a hoist good for 2,500’. Mine has about 800’ of lateral work- ings. Work was suspended, July, 1908, but the property is by no means de- void of promise.

The Comanche mine is but slightly developed, and this department has a number of other properties with shallow shafts, on which more or less ex- ploratory work has been done, at various times.

The Southern Cross mine, situated in the Georgetown district, west of Anaconda, purchased 1912, for $370,800, is a gold property developed by a 400’ shaft, equipped, 1913, with electrical machinery, and is to be deepened to 700’. Ore is an auriferous pyrite.

Butte hill is a network of métalliferous veins, with nearly east and west strike, crossed by a number of north and south dikes, some of which are ore bearing for a short distance near their intersection with the veins. The matter of clearly defining apex and extra-lateral rights, under the archaic Federal mining laws, is one of the greatest possible difficulty, and in the past had led to litigation costing millions of dollars, all of which ultimately had to be paid out of the profits from copper produced. In 1912 the mines now owned by the Anaconda were developed by 34.1 miles of new openings, of which 4,736’ was shaft sinking.

The mine waters are highly charged with copper and leaching plants have been built at practicaily all of the big mines merged in the Anaconda. Old scrap iron, tin cans and wire rope are used as precipitating agents, these articles commanding a standard price of 1 ct. per pound. The flow of the water in the precipitation tanks and launders is much more rapid than is the case in the large Spanish lixiviation plants. The principal leaching plant, and the most modern and best planned in the district, is at the Leonard mine. This plant, costing about $20,000, and treating water from all.of the Boston & Montana mines, includes a building for drying and shipping the copper precipitate.

Originally, all of the mines in Butte were operated by steam power, and many of the mines had very extensive steam plants. About 1900, commercial electric current became available from the United Missouri Power Co., and the use of electric power has increased steadily, this offering great ad- vantages over steam in initial cost and flexibility of service. The manage- ment has substituted compressed air made in a central station by electric power for steam and uses electricity generally for haulage, lighting and power throughout the mines and works, which has effected a saving of about one-third cent per pound on finished copper—an amount that seems small, measured by the pound, but which, on the maximum productive capacity of the Anaconda, reaches the sum of about $1,000,000 yearly.

The new air compression plant at the Leonard mine is the most exten- sive in the world, and is now in full commission. The controller house at - the Leonard was doubled in size,.1910, and has transformers in fire-proof compartments. The new air compression plant, built as the first unit for a plant of double the present size, has three 1,200-h. p. Nordberg air com-

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pressors, each with a capacity of 7,500 cu. ft. of free air per minute. A building 300’ long contains 25 receivers, each 10x30’ on the ground, for the compressed air, this air-storage plant having reserve power for 8 hours. In connection with this plant is the largest steel water tank in the world, 100’ in diameter. The hoists at the Mountain View, High Ore and Diamond mines are operated by this plant, and eventually all hoists at all mines will be so operated. The present electric-pneumatic power plant cost about $1,000,000.

Electric power is brought from Canyon Ferry, near Helena, 70 miles distant, current being wired to the mine with a primary voltage of 50,000 volts, reduced to 2,000 volts in a transformer station, just outside of Butte, power being distributed to the various workings from a main station at the Never Sweat mine, the current being used at 440 volts.

Power from the plants in Broadwater county being found inadequate, ©

current was brought, June, 1910, from Great Falls, a distance of 130 miles.

The hydro-electric power installations on the Missouri river, in the vi- cinity of Great Falls, include the Black Eagle Falls and Rainbow Falls plants. The Black Eagle Falls plant has a 42 effective head, generating 8,700 h. p., except at the lowest stage of water, and also includes a 3,000- h. p. auxiliary steam plant.

The Rainbow dam, 4 miles below the Great Falls smelter, completed 1910, at a cost of about $1,500,000, is of heavy timbering, concrete and rock, 26’ high and 1,200’ in length, generating a minimum of 30,000 and a maxi- mum of 40,000 h. p., and transmits current at a voltage of 100,000. Power for Anaconda, as well as Great Falls and Butte, is furnished from this plant.

The Washoe sampler was burned July, 1910, and has been rebuilt, of reinforced concrete, with capacity of about 1,600 tons daily.

The Butte Reduction Works, formerly owned by the Colusa-Parrot Min- ing & Smelting Co., were destroyed by fire, 1912. The smelter, which was fully described Vol IX, under title of Colusa-Parrot, has been dismantled.

The Washoe Reduction Works, near Anaconda, 28 miles from Butte, cost upwards of $10,000,000, and treat 10,000 to 12,500 tons daily. The plant covers about 240 acres, 2 miles east of Anaconda. The Washoe plant was designed by Frank Klepetko, and built and equipped with the able assistance of Messrs. Mathewson, Repath and Gulberg. Smelting was begun Feb., 1902, since which time numerous modifications, improvements and additions have been made. The construction of the original plant required 20,000 tons of structural steel, 25,000,000 ft. of lumber, 1,000 carloads of brick, 15,000 cu. yds. of masonry and 300,000 cu. yds. of excavation. The annual produc-

‘tive capacity of the plant is about 225,000,000 lbs. blister copper yearly, in ,

addition to gold and silver values, the works being one of the largest silver producers in the world, although silver is merely a byproduct. In 1912, the Washoe Reduction Works treated 3,880,203 dry tons of ore and produced 222,763,670 lbs. fine copper, 9,702,604 oz. silver and 52,560 oz. gold.

The sampling mill is in 2 sections, each of 1,800 tons daily capacity. Ore from sampling bins goes to mill bins, is crushed and delivered to bucket elevators: The descending stream of ore is cut four times by Brunton auto- matic samplers, each taking 20%, giving a final sample of 3.2 Ibs. per ton of ore. The sample is reduced further by a Brunton quartering shovel, then dried on a steel dryer, ground by an Engelhart sampling grinder, bucked to pass through a 100-mesh sieve, and divided into 3 sample packages, one going to the laboratory for analysis and one to the owner of the ore, while the third is filed as a control, in case of dispute.

The concentrator power house is between the two halves of the cone

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centrator proper. It is of steel with brick walls and holds three 15-ton traveling cranes of 44’ span. Equipment is electrical, but includes a steam plant of two 4-cylinder triple-expansion condensing engines of 3,300 indi- cated h. p. at 200 lbs. steam pressure, but runs at 150-1bs. pressure, develop- ing 1,750 h. p. each, with an 1,150-h. p. 4-cylinder triple-expansion engine held in reserve as an auxiliary. Electric power is received from Helena, Great Falls and Flint Creek falls, 22 miles west of Anaconda.

The concentrator consists of 2 buildings, 255x350’, each containing 4 complete sections, or 8 in all. Each section contains a 12x24” Blake crusher, two 7x10” Blake crushers, 6 Hartz jigs for coarse concentrates, 1 set of 15x42” coarse rolls, 1 set of 15x42” fine rolls, 36 Evans jigs for fines, 1 set of 15x42” rolls for middlings, 18 Evans jigs for middlings, three 6’ Huntington mills, 18 Evans finishing jigs and 33 Wilfley tables, with a large number of classifiers, settling tanks, dewatering tanks, elevators and trommels. The crushed ore of 3” size passes through 2 sets of trommels for sizing, oversize material going thence to 2 smaller crushers, which reduce it to 114” size. Two belt elevators take this material to a series of trommels for coarse sizing, oversize going to coarse jigs which produce coarse concentrates for the blast furnaces. The waste from the coarse jigs goes to 2 sets of 15x42” rolls for crushing, and is thence elevated and rejigged. In the jigging de- partment all undersize material from crushers is treated automatically.

The jigging sections have Evans jigs in 3 double rows, with Evans hy- draulic classifiers making 3 sizes of concentrates, which go to the storage bins, while middlings go to the middling department, where 2 sets of 15x42” rolls crush the material to about 114” size, this going by belt elevators to 4 sets of trommels, from which the undersize goes automatically to 4 hydraulic classifiers, which feed 18 double Evans jigs, set in a triple row. Middlings are collected in launders, and taken by elevators to the regrinding depart- ment, where three 6’ Huntington mills are fed from V-shaped tanks, the „ground material passing through 144” screens to hydraulic classifiers, thence to the jigs, both concentrates and tailings being carried by water, in launders. The slimes department has 33 Wilfley tables, fed from the bottoms of V-shaped tanks, concentrates being washed in launders to the settling tanks, at the foot of the concentrator building. Tailings carry an average of about 0.7% copper and 90% silica.

One section of the concentrator of the Washoe Reduction Works was. remodeled, 1912, the Great Falls system of concentration supplanting that previously used and resulted in an increase in both tonnage and saving of copper. A remodeling of the entire plant is expected in 1913-14,

The tank house contains 9 settling tanks for each section, each tank being 19x19x15’, with a capacity of 420 tons. Each section has 6 tanks for the first settlement of concentrates, and 3 for the overflow, the resulting overflow going to final settling tanks whose overflow goes to a slum pond, together with all slum water from tanks and Wilfley tables. The product of the first settlement tanks is known as fine concentrates, that of the second tanks as second settlement concentrates, and that of the third series of tanks as tank slum. The fine and second settlement contentrates are treated in the roaster buliding, and the tank slum goes to the briquetting plant.

The roaster building contains 64 McDougal calcining furnaces of the Evans-Klepetko type. Each furnace is 16’ in diameter and 18’ high, with 6 hearths having revolving water-cooled shafts and arms driven by top gearing, rabbling arms being so set as to move material from circumference to center, and vice versa, on alternate hearths, until the material drops from the lower hearth into 2 calcine hoppers under each furnace, beneath which run the railroad tracks, hopper cars transporting calcines to the

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reverberatory building. No fuel is required; except occasional fine coal for charging a cold calciner. Gases are drawn through brick flues into 40x40x300’ brick and steel dust chambers having concrete inner walls, where much of the flue dust settles. The dust chamber has a series of hoppers, underneath which are railroad tracks, flue dust going direct to the reverberatory furnaces for smelting. The crusts adhering to the rabbling arms and shafts are barred off and sent to the blast furnaces. In charging the roasters, finely-crushed limestone and screenings from first-class ore are admixed, in the feed hoppers, for the purpose of producing a balanced charge for the reverberatories. The capacity of each calciner is 45 tons per day.

The reverberatory plant is in two buildings, each containing 4 coal-fired furnaces with hearths 19’ wide and from 102 to 116’ in length, with grate area of 8x16’, having a smelting capacity of 300 tons daily, on natural draft. Fuel is Wyoming coal, dumped into hoppers having 4 discharges directly above the fire-box. The flames, after leaving the furnaces, pass through two 375-h. p. Stirling boilers, in tandem, reducing the temperature of the gases to about 600° F. when reaching the main flue, and securing about 600- h. p. from the waste gases. Ashes and partly-burned coal drop from the fire boxes into launders carrying them over a grizzly, the larger pieces of ash going to the slag sluice, while the smaller pieces, containing unburned coke and coal, are sluiced to the coal washery.

Slag is skimmed from the reverberatories, at 4-hour intervals, into a stream of slum water, which granulates and sluices it, through a launder with cast-iron lining, to the slag dump. By allowing slag to accumulate until 3 or 4” above the skimming plate, it is possible to skim the furnace very rapidly, 60 tons of slag being skimmed in 20 minutes. Matte is kept some distance below the skimming plate, rendering it impossible to pull out any of the matte, thus obviating explosions. Matte is tapped from the side

of the furnace through copper tap-hole plates, and run through cast-iron -

launders, lined with silicious material, to 10-ton hot-metal ladles that go by tram to the converters. Fire brick used in the reverberatories are made by the company’s brick plant, bricks being 3x6x15” in size. Bridge walls and sides are luted with clay every 30 days, when necessary. Bridge-wall plates are kept cool by the circulation of air through pipes connecting with the main flue. Fumes from the reverberatories are taken through under- : ground flues, 1 for each row of furnaces, to the main flue. Flue dust is not briquetted, but is treated in reverberatories with fines. The reverberatory department has given exceptionally satisfactory results, effecting an increase of about one-third of the normal smelting capacity, a reduction of about one-third in fuel charges, saving about 10% of unburned fuel in the coal washery, reducing labor costs and securing about 600-h. p. of energy from the waste gases.

‘The briquetting plant occupies a 55x192’ frame building containing 4 Chambers end-cut auger-type briquetting machines, each of about 700 tons daily capacity, 2 machines usually being sufficient to handle all material. Briquettes are made of fine concentrates, fine first-class ore and pond slums, mixed with crushed coke and coal from the coal washery. Materials are brought from.storage bins by belt conveyors to a pug mill, whence they are discharged into the briquetting machines, where further mixed and forced through a former in a continuous bar, which is cut into 10-1b. bri- quettes by a revolving cutter. Briquettes are taken by a series of belt con- veyors to storage hoppers, whence loaded into charging cars for the blast furnaces.

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road tracks, the lower the main operating floor, and middle the charging floor. The original furnaces of 56x180” section at the tuyeres, and 40’ high, of about 400 tons” daily capacity each, have been made into 3 furnaces by building connections between, 2 of the 3 furnaces being 51’ in length, while the third is 87’ long, with a uniform width of 56” at the tuyeres. The two 51’ furnaces have a maximum capacity of 1,800 tons each, and the 87’ furnace has smelted 3,100 tons in 24 hours. It is possible to repair one end of any of these furnaces while frozen, with full smelting in progress at the other end.

The large blast furnaces of the Anaconda mark perhaps the most im- portant step taken in copper smelting since the invention of the bessemer process of copper conversion. The bottom of the center of each furnace is of silica brick, laid on water-cooled cast-iron plates mounted on cast-iron

columns, with a gradual slope to each discharge spout. The 87’ furnace

has 3 discharge spouts and three 16’ settlers, with 150 four-inch tuyeres, the 51” furnaces having 88 four-inch tuyeres and two 16’ settlers each. The credit for these gigantic furnaces is due to Mr. Mathewson. Among the ad- vantages are increased hearth area, with but 2 ends to hold crusts, while crusts forming on the sides can be disposed of by permitting the furnace to run down, in which case the crust will drop, or, if necessary, can be barred. The large furnace has a smaller radiating surface for the same hearth area, requires less fuel, and may be repaired rapidly while in blast. Leaking water jackets may be replaced in 6 to 8 hours. Each 51’ furnace has three 7’ 45° unlined steel flues, with 5 similar flues on the 87’ furnace.

The charging floor has railroad tracks on either side of the furnaces, side-dumping hopper cars being handled by compressed-air locomotives. The charging doors extend full length, and are opened and closed by com- pressed-air pistons, all charges being fed automatically. In front of each furnace are 16’ settlers, receiving a continuous flow of molten matte and slag, matte being drawn from the bottom into 10-ton hot-metal ladles, going thence to the converters, while the slag skims into sluices and is granulated and washed to the slag dumps by running water. Overhead steel flues carty fumes and smoke into a dust chamber, exactly duplicating that in the cal- cining department, which connects with the main flue. The product of the first fusion is a 44% matte, with slags averaging about 0.2% copper only. A charge train consists of 18 cars, receiving material by weight from the storage bins adjacent to the blast furnace building. These bins, of wood, are in 3 rows, each row being 28’ wide, 20’ deep and 786’ in length, divided into bins of various sizes, providing storage for first-class ore, coarse con- centrates, limestone, coal, silica, etc. All bin gates are operated by com- pressed air. Two charge cars carry a charge ranging from 8,400 to 11,000 Ibs., according to composition.

The converter building has two 60-ton 60’ span electric traveling cranes for handling converter shells and ladles with two 15-ton auxiliary electric traveling cranes in the casting department for general use, one of the larger cranes handling copper and slag from the converters, and one hand- ling shells for relining. Matte from both blast and reverberatory furnaces is brought to the charging floor of the converter building, which is 23’ above the operating floor, and is poured from ladles into a launder, the end section of which is so pivoted that it can be turned out of the way when the con- verter shell is filled, the shell being filled while in a nearly vertical position, with air on. The matte is blown to low-grade blister copper and poured into a sheet-steel clay-lined ladle, which is taken by crane to a hydraulic cradle, from which it is poured into the casting furnace. The 3 casting furnaces are of 95-ton and 110-ton capacity. Copper is poured in at the

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side, and when charged to 50 or 60 tons, oxidation is begun by a 90-1b. air pressure. When the furnace is full, slag is removed and oxidation is com- plete, the charge then being poled to the desired pitch, and cast ina machine with a platform conveyor having molds attached, operated hydraulically. Molten copper is run into a suspended ladle, from which it is poured by hydraulic power into anode plate moulds. When the mould is filled, the ladle is dropped to a horizontal position, and the next mould is brought into position, and the process repeated. Capacity of the casting machine is 25 tons hourly. The cast copper is chilled by a spray, and dumped from the moulds upon a platform conveyor running through a tank of water, then trucked to the scales, weighed, marked and shipped. The product assays about 97% copper and 80 ozs. silver per ton.

Coal ashes from the reverberatory department are sluiced to the coal washery, which has a complete jigging equipment that saves about 35 tons daily of coal and coke, which is ground and sent to the briquetting depart- ment, where it is mixed with other material and bricked.

The flue system is cleverly planned and highly efficient. There are 3 principal flue lines, from the roasting department, biast furnaces and reverberatory furnaces, each being 20’ wide and 15’ high, built of brick and steel. The converter department has two 7x7’ flues. The blast, roaster and converter flues connect with their respective dust chambers, while the reverberatory flue leads direct from the furnaces. Lengths of the flues are as follows: Blast flue, 1,653’; reverberatory flue, 842’; converter flue, 703’ ; roaster flue, 488’. These flues converge into one main flue, which, for the first 1,200’ of length, is 60’ wide, with side walls 20’ in height, the bottom being excavated at an angle of 30° from horizontal. The roof is of I-beam and brick arch construction. For the balance of distance to the stack, 1,122’ the main flue is 120’ wide, having a roof of No.9 sheet steel. The main flue leads to a brick stack 300’ high, with inside diameter of 33’ 4” at the bottom and 30’ at the top, with a thickness of 4 6” at the bottom, requiring 3,000,000 brick in its construction, with the top of the stack 932’ above the valley. Underneath the main flue is a tunnel 7’ high and 55’ wide. Flue-dust is drawn off through hoppers, placed at intervals of 10’, into cars operated by gravity from a set of drums located at the stack. Loaded cars are taken from the end of the main flue and elevated to 2 sets of flue-dust bins adjacent, one set taking arsenical Aue dust while the other receives flue dust that is to go direct to the reverberatories.

Arsenic is recovered from flue dust in a plant treating about 60 tons of dust daily. The flue dust is taken from the bins by inclined revolving pipes, leading to the feed hoppers of 2 Brunton revolving-hearth roasting furnaces. Fumes from these are conducted through 240’ of zigzag flue hav- ing about 40 cells, the cooling of the fumes subliming the arsenic on the walls. At intervals roasting is suspended, and the sublimated arsenic is scraped from the walls of the cells and taken to a small reverberatory fur- nace, fired by coke, and resublimed in a similar zigzag flue. The first prod- uct is a 90% arsenic sesquioxide, and the final product a 99.8% arsenic sesquioxide, which is ground, barreled and shipped.

The smelter power house has a 15-ton electric traveling crane running the entire length of the building. There are 10 Connersville blowers, direct- connected to Corliss engines, each with a capacity of 300 cu. ft. of free air per revolution, compressed to 40 ozs.; 6 air compressors with an aggregate capacity of about 2,500,000 cu’ ft. of free air per hour, compressed to 16-1b. pressure; three 90-Ib. air compressors for general use, and four 900-1b. air compressors furnishing air to the locomotives of the tram line. Four hy- draulic compressor pumps and accumulators raise water to a pressure of

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360 lbs. per square inch, for the hydraulic apparatus of the converter stands, and for various other uses. Steam is supplied from the waste-heat boilers in the reverberatory building, and from twelve 300-h. p. Stirling water-tube boilers, in a boiler room at one end of the power house. The steam plant, under normal circumstances, is merely an auxiliary to the electric power used throughout the works.

The local transportation system of the Washoe works includes 48 miles of standard-gauge railroad tracks, equipped with 17 Porter air locomotives,

“of 12 to 22 tons weight each, and 240 cars. The air receivers of the loco-

motives are charged at 900 lbs. pressure, cut to 150 lbs. pressure at the cylinders by reducing valves. There are charging stations at frequent intervals, fed by an extensive system of high-pressure pipes. Locomotives are recharged about every 20 minutes, 2 minutes being required for the work. The tram system handles about 13,000 tons of material daily.

The laboratory sampling mill, of brick, cares for all metallurgical sam- ples taken throughout the works, there being about 9,000 samples of differ- ent kinds of material monthly. :

The laboratory, of brick and stone, 2 stories high, is one of the most thoroughly equipped at any metallurgical plant. All samples taken in the works and at the sampling mill are sent to this department for analysis, there being about 15,000 actual. determinations monthly, for copper, gold, silver, iron, zinc, sulphur, alumina, silica, etc. There. are also testing and photographic departments in the basement of this building.

In addition to the departments described, there are smithy, boiler, ma- chine, carpenter and electric repair shops and large foundry and machine shops at Anaconda, about 2 miles from the smelter,, doing new work and heavy repairing, in addition to a general custom business.

The general office building, of brick, also contains a large telephone exchange, with a private system connecting all departments of the works, with long-distance connectiones for Butte, Helena, Great Falls and other Montana points, and private telegraph wires connecting with the Western Union and Postal companies at Anaconda.

The amount of water required by the Washoe works, when in full operation, is about 35,000 gals. per minute. Water is stored in Storm lake and Silver lake, about 15 miles west of Anaconda, water from both creeks and lakes being gathered by a dam, about 4 miles west of Anaconda, and diverted to the works in a 5x7’ flume, 7 miles long.

Much trouble has been experienced by the Anaconda Co. through dam- age suits, because of fumes thrown off by the smelter, and large sums have been paid to farmers in the Deer Lodge valley, in liquidation of such claims, some of which were genuine, while it is equally certain that a large number were brought by professional “smoke farmers.” The new stack, on the top of a high hill, and the installation of the arsenic plant, have greatly re- duced the percentage of solids in the smelter smoke. The Federal Forestry service also took part in the proceedings, but Judge Hunt decided, Jan. 25, 1910, that there had been some damage from arsenic, but no appreciable damage from sulphur fumes. Despite this decision the government sent experts to take samples of the soil, vegetation, grains, trees, etc., and the Anaconda Co. did similarly. The government again brought suit against the Anaconda, March 18, 1910, alleging that a tract of approximately 1,000 square miles, in 5 counties, has been damaged by fumes, placing the damage to standing timber at a figure that seems ridiculous to all who know the quality of the timber in that vicinity. The government asked a permanent injunction, and that the company be compelled to operate its plant in such manner as to end the destructive sulphur and arsenic fumes. This injunc-

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tion has been denied by the Federal court. The government also claims that damage has arisen from the pollution of water in streams by the Washoe works, and the government experts suggested that the plant turn its sulphur fumes into sulphuric acid, and make superphosphates therewith, but it is difficult to see where this suggestion offers any solution of the problem. It is commercially impossible for the Washoe works to turn its sulphur fumes into sulphuric acid, and find a market therefor, owing to the immense quantity of acid that would be made if all of the fumes were turned into that product—an output of acid that would swamp the markets of North America, if not of the world.

In concluding a description of this wonderful metallurgical plant, which is the largest in the world, it is but justice to give credit to Messrs. Mathew- son, Repath and their able assistants for the great technical skill and exec- utive ability that are manifested, in a remarkably high degree, in every department.

The Great Falls smelter, at Great Falls, Mont., 172 miles northeast of Butte, receives ore over the Great Northern railway, at a freight charge of 75 cts. per ton. This plant, opened 1891, with a capacity of 1,000 tons daily, now has a maximum capacity of nearly 5,000 tons daily. The smelter treats, nor- mally, about 400 tons daily of ore, and the concentrates from 2,500 to 3,000 tons of ore treated in the concentration mill. The works treated 1,189,039 dry tons of ore in 1912, yielding 71,710,491 Ibs. fine copper, 1,312,132 oz. silver and 8,750.576 oz. of gold.

The concentrator, second only in size to the monstrous Washoe plant, is in 6 sections, each a complete mill in itself, the 6 having a total capacity of 2,700 tons daily. The building, of wood, is equipped with six 10x20” and twelve 5x12” Blake crushers, 16 Huntington mills, 18 rolls, 317 sieves, 68 Hartz jigs, 249 Evans jigs, 5 Overstrom tables, 42 Wilfley tables, 10 six-foot vanners and 50 four-foot vanners.

The smelter equipment includes 22 McDougal calciners and five 500-ton water-jacket blast furnaces. There are seven 175-ton reverberatory furnaces. The converter department has 12 stands with a new type of cylindrical ' basic-lined shell 20’ in diameter, replacing the old 12’ Great Falls type previously used. Product is blister copper of about 99% tenor, including about 40 oz. silver and 0.25 oz. gold per ton.

The smelter being antiquated, despite frequent remodeling, an entire new plant is now in course of erection. The old stack flues and blast fur- nace will be utilized, but the rest of the plant will be dismantled.

A new smokestack, built 1908, at a cost of about $250,000, is the largest in the world, and effects a saving, in flue dust, of about $150,000 yearly. This stack is set on a foundation 38’ deep and 97’ in diameter, composed of 10,000 tons of concrete. The stack is of 506’ height, 78’ 6” outside diameter at base and 53’ outside diameter at the top, weighing 16,600 tons. Material of stack is perforated segmental brick, slightly shaped to fit the curvature of the stack, equivalent in contents to 5,700,000 common brick. The stack has a sec- tional lining, and is capable of carrying about 4,000,000 cu. ft. of gases per minute, its capacity being equal to any possible increase in the works. A new flue, connecting the smelter and stack, has a 125x175’ dust chamber and a 1,450’ flue section 48’ wide and 28’ high.

The electrolytic plant has a capacity of 70 tons of refined copper cathodes daily, gold and silver slimes being reduced in a separate refinery. Equipment includes 3 furnaces for melting cathodes and for casting refined copper into wire bars and cakes. A considerable portion of the blister cop- per from the smelter is, however, sent for refining to the Raritan works, at

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Perth Amboy, N. J. Current for the electrolytic tanks is carried by solid overlapping slabs of copper.

Extensive fuel tests, made 1910, proved that Great Falls coal was avail- able for smelting use, which was not believed formerly. In 1912, the Great Falls works treated 1,189,039 tons of ore.

Coal lands of the Anaconda are extensive, including the former holdings of the Diamond Coal & Coke Co.; 1,900 acres of coal lands on Bear creek, near Red Lodge, Carbon Co., Mont., formerly held by the Washoe Copper Co., coal lands at Sand Coulee, 16 miles from Great Falls, formerly held by the Boston & Montana, and coal mines at Belt, Cascade Co., Mont., owned for some years by the Anaconda. :

The lands formerly owned by the Diamond Coal & Coke Co., at Washoe, Carbon Co., Mont., are 13,280 acres, on which mines Nos. 1,2 and 4 have de- veloped, and partly worked, 1,220'acres. Of the remaining 11,780 acres, 1,120 acres are above the coal outcrop, and 3,000 acres are considered too deep to work, leaving 7,660 acres of coal lands yet to be developed and worked. The property is estimated to contain 73,500,000 tons of coal.

The coal mines formerly operated by the fuel department of the Ana- conda, at Belt, Cascade Co., Mont., were closed down, 1913, the acquisition of coal mines in Wyoming and eastern Montana affording a better quality of coal and at less cost. .

The lumber operations of the company include the property and busi- ness taken over from the Big Blackfoot Lumber Co., which previous to 1909 was known as Big Blackfoot Milling Co., and the timber lands and mills, owned by the Anaconda previous to the merger, at Hamilton, Mont. The timber lands taken over from the Big Blackfoot were upwards of 1,100,000 acres, estimated to contain approximately 6 billion feet of stand- ing timber. The Big Blackfoot property includes 4 mills, known as the Bonner, St. Regis, Hamilton and Hope, which, in 1912, manufactured 73,- 541,349’ of lumber, board measure, of which 1,044,856’ were used at the mills; 54,189,160’ were sold ani 65,560’ went into stock. Tributary to the Bonner plant is a broad-gauge railway, at Camas Prairie,

The Anaconda Co. owns a controlling interest in the Butte, Anaconda & Pacific Railway Co., which, in 1912, transported 265,829 passengers and 5,715,540 tons ot ore and freight, with gross earnings of $1,259,170.43, and net income of $104,432.74, from which a 3% dividend was paid on the capital stock of $1,000,000, leaving a surplus profit for the year of $74,432.74.

Miscellaneous enterprises of the Anaconda Co. include brick plants at Anaconda and Great Falls, manufacturing mainly silica brick from local ‘ma- ` terial, the refractory products of this plant ranking among the best. The company also owns the Montana Hotel at Anaconda.

The metallic production of the Anaconda is marketed through the Uni- ted Metals Selling Co., which is owned by the Amalgamated Copper Co.

In its various mines, works and other enterprises, the Anaconda Copper Mining Co. employs directly about 9,000 men, and indirectly gives employ- ment to several thousand additional, being very much the largest industrial factor in the state of Montana, and being practically the sole support of the city of Anaconda, with 15,000 people, and the city of Butte, with a popula- tion of 40,000.

Production, since consolidation, was 223,808,546 Ibs. copper, 8,053,327 oz. silver, 45,179 oz. gold in 1910; 259,407,093 Ibs. copper, 9,731,561 oz. silver, 48,949 oz. gold in 1911; 294,474,161 Ibs. copper, 11,014,736 oz. silver, 61,314 oz. gold in 1912, Production, Jan. 1 to Aug. 1, 1913, was 158,300,000 Ibs. copper, compared with 173,800,000 lbs. in 1912.

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ANCHOR MINING CO. UTAH Idle several years. Office: Calumet, Mich. Mine office: Myton, Wasatch Co., Utah. John D. Cuddihy, vice-pres.; F. W. Taylor, sec.-treas.; and Henry L. Baer, directors. Organized June, 1908, under laws of Michigan, capitali- zation $150,000, shares $25 par; issued 1,800. Annual meeting, second Tues- day in June. Lands, 9 claims, patented area 131 acres, in the Snake Creek district, one-half mile south of Daly-Judge mine, near Park City. Company is the successor of the Wolverine Mining Co. ANCHORIA COPPER MINING CO. WYOMING Idle several years. Office: 55 High St., Oshkosh, Wis. Mine office: Copperton, Carbon: Co., Wyo. Hon. David H. Craig, pres.; H. O. Granberg, sec.-treas. Organized April, 1901, under laws of Wyoming, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par. Lands, 4 claims, area 80 acres, patented, in the Battle Lake district, developed by a 200' shaft and tunnels of 45’ and 60’, showing an orebody estimated at 45’ width, giving average assays of 17% copper, and from a trace to $5 gold per ton. Has a 40-h. p. steam plant, with hoist good for 500’, 3 power drills and 4 substantial mine buildings of logs. ANDERSON-APACHE COPPER CO. NEW MEXICO Idle. Mine office: Hachita, Grant Co., N. M. Hon. Geo. H. Neale, pres.; Harry Duey, vice-pres.; Chas. H. Howe, sec.-treas.; Arthur Houle, cons. engr. Organized June 1, 1907, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $500,000, shares $5 par. Holds lands under a $100,000 bond and lease, with $20,000 paid. Lands, the Apache mine, 5 claims, area 100 acres, 5 miles southeast of -Hachita. Mine, opened 1883, was worked continuously until 1907, by leasers, producing approximately $200,000. Property shows contact deposits be- tween porphyry and Carboniferous limestone, carrying bunches of oxidized ore, chalcocite and chalcopyrite, ores being oxidized to present depth, and running 4 to 30% copper, but estimated by company to average 10%. copper and 20 oz. silver per ton, which seems high. Development is by a 300’ shaft, with 3,500’ of workings, said to show 250,000 tons of ore, with about 40,000 tons blocked out for stoping, which estimates are considered-high. Equip- ment includes a 25-h. p. Fairbanks & Morse gasoline hoist. Shipped a little ore, 1908, to Copper Queen smelter, giving net smelter returns of about $17 . per ton. ANDERSON GROUP. NEVADA Address: Luning, Esmeralda Co., Nev. Property, 5 claims, 4% miles egst of Luning and adjoining Nevada Champion Copper Co. ground. De- velopment by tunnels. Shipping 20 tons daily from glory hole, July, 1913. Property under lease and bond to Mason Valley Mines Co. a ANGLO-NEWFOUNDLAND DEV. CO. NEWFOUNDLAND Address: Grand Falls, Newfoundland. Mining properties transferred to Terra Nova Properties, Ltd., 1912. ANITA COPPER MINES CO, S. A. MEXICO Office: Fundicion, Sonora, Mex. Geo. M. Ryali, pres., Ti CaKirkhand, asst. gen. mgr. Organized 1904, under laws of Mexico, and now controlled by Pacific Smelting € Mining Co. ANNIE MINING CO. - WYOMING Mine office: Jelm, Albany Co., Wyo. L. A. Hancock, sec. Organized 1903, under laws of Wyoming, capitalization $250,000, shares $1 par. Lands, 100 acres, near Jelm, said to show two 4 contact veins between eranite and schist, opened by a 140’ shaft and a 138’ tunnel, showing copper carbonates and bornite, assaying up to 20%. copper and $10 gold per ton. Idle since 1907, except for representation work performed each year,

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Antelope Gold & Copper Co. California

Probably dead. Mine at Loyalton, Sierra Co., Cal. No trace of opera- tions secured.

Antelope Mining Co. Utah

Mine 'near Eureka, Juab Co., Utah. Lewis Pratt, owner. Organized March 31, 1909, under laws of Utah, capitalization $15,000, shares 5 cts. par, assessable. Lands, 3 claims, showing a vein said to carry copper ore devel- oped by an 80’ shaft. and tunnel. Developing, June, 1913.

Antelope Mining & Milling Co. California

Probably out of business. Mine office: Clio: Plumas Cos ¡Cal C. E. Christman, pres.; Henry Rosser, treas.; Robt. Dilworth, sec. Organized under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par. Lands, 6 claims, in 2 groups, carrying considerable timber and having a vein of 2 to 4’ width giving assay values of $15 to $22 per ton, mainly in gold and silver. ANTELOPE PEAK MINING CO. ; ARIZONA

Mine office: Wilkelman, Gila Co., Ariz. M. A. Meyers, supt., at last ac- counts. Property, opened to shallow depth by a shaft, has a small steam plant. Ores are copper, silver and gold. Was making small shipments of ore, late 1912.

Antelope Spring Mining Co. Nevada

Office: 76 Continental Bank Bldg., Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine office: Humboldt House, Humboldt Co., Nev. Wm. H. Fitch, pres.; Gust Holm, vice-pres.; John W. Geiger, sec. and mgr.; Allen C. Eakin, treas.; preceding officers, Edith M. Brounzell, Fred. Hubbard and E. R. Reitsch, directors. Organized April 11, 1906, under laws of Utah, capitalization $300,000, shares $1 par, assessable; 8 assessments levied, amounting to\13-cts. per share.

Lands, 22 claims, unpatented, 15 miles from Humboldt House, developed by an 800’ tunnel and an 80’ shaft, with about 1,900’ of workings, showing argentiferous lead and copper ores, reported by management to average 2.76% copper, 16.45% lead, 12.9% zine and 32 oz. silver per ton.

Antero Mining Co. Colorado

Idle. Office: Salida, Chaffee Co., Colo. C. W. Budd, pres.; A. R. Rose, vice-pres. and supt.; John Burmeister, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, B. E. Nefzger and W. L. McKelvey, directors. Organized under laws of Colorado, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par.

Lands, known as the Tip Top group, are on the northeast slope of Mount Antero, in the Chalk Creek district, 4 miles from the Gunnison branch of the Colorado Southern railroad, and 25 miles northwest of Salida. Property has a vein of 4 to 12’ width, with a claimed average of 6’, carrying mixed sul- phides and oxidized ores, with assay values in copper, gold and silver; up to $120 per ton. Property also has a vein 60’ from and apparently parallel with the main vein, carrying copper, lead and zinc sulphides, and also has various smaller veins.

ANTIGUA COPPER CO. j MEXICO

Idle. Office: 201 Ward Bldg., Battle Creek, Mich.-Mine at La Noria, via Alamos, Sonora, Mex. H. A. Clapp, gen. mgr.; D/H. Livingston, supt.; A. W. Davis, treas. Organized 1906, as successor of Sonora Mining Co, Lands, 261 acres, showing contact fissures between granite-porphyry and limestone, carrying copper, lead, silver and gold values, mainly in sulphide ores. Has 5 shafts, deepest 105’, and about 700’ of tunnels, longest being the Margarita, 340’, showing 4 veins, having claimed average widths of 3’, 10’, 12’ and 15’, said to give average assays of 6.8% lead, 17 to 30 oz. silver and $1 to $2 gold per ton, from oxidized ore. Company claims that its gold, silver and lead will leave the copper without cost, as:a byproduct. Was not regarded favorably by Horace J. Stevens.

64 THE COPPER HANDBOOK APACHE CONSOLIDATED COPPER co. ARIZONA Mine office: Globe, Gila Co., Ariz. Hon. John I. Mullins, pres.; DSS Pfister, vice-pres. and gen. mgr.; Chas. T. Martin, sec.; E. M. Hurd, treas.; preceding officers and Joseph Pfister, directors; Frank Pfister, mine supt. Organized May, 1906, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $2,000,000, shares $1 par; issued, $1,200,000. Lands, 15 claims, unpatented, area 300 acres, in the Richmond district, about 12 miles from Globe, showing fissure veins and contact deposits be- tween limestone and quartzite, of which 1 vein, of about 5’ width, is trace- able about 1,200’. Mine has shafts of 65’, 45’ and 20’, with 6 tunnels, longest 335’, giving 719 of workings, showing about 400 tons of ore averaging about 3.5% copper, up to 15 oz. silver, and from a trace to $2.50 gold per ton. Mine in hands of leasers, June, 1913, who are reported as shipping ore averaging 25% in copper with high iron values. APACHE MINING CO. WASHINGTON Long idle and probably dead. Mine office: Nespelem, Okanogan Cos Wash. Lands, in the Moses district, are developed by a 100” incline shaft and a 350’ tunnel, showing ore with a high-grade footwall paystreak and quartz gangue, main orebody carrying 2 to 3% copper and about 5% lead, with some antimony and zinc, and occasional high values in gold and silver, APEX COPPER CO. COLORADO Office: 304 Colorado Bldg., Colorado Springs, Colo. Mine office: Hay- man Park Co., Colo. Officers: John K. Vanatta, pres.; J. J. O’Driscoll, vice-pres. and gen. mgr., J. Vanatta, sec. Organized March, 1903, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $2,000,000, shares $1 par. Lands, 9 claims, 90 acres, on Apex hill, in the Lower Tarryall district, showing 2 nearly vertical contact veins of 3’ average width, between spar and limestone, car- rying chalcopyrite and bornite assaying 2 to 30% copper, 7 oz. silver and - $1.20 gold per ton, opened by shafts of 50’, 120’ and 250’, and by 4 tunnels of 500’ aggregate length. Has a 10-h. p. steam plant, with hoists, and a 7-drill Leyner air compressor. APEX MINING CO. NEVADA Office: Twin Falls, Idaho. Mine office: Contact, Elko Co., Nev. Robt. Rogerson, pres.; D: C. McEntyre, vice-pres. and gen. mgr.; C. B. Wilfley, treas.; preceding officers, C. O. Longley and C. C. Redford, directors. Organized Sept., 1910. Lands, 28 claims, said to give a good surface show- ing of ore, assaying up to 15% copper, with some gold. No trace of opera- tions secured. APEX MINING CO. WASHINGTON James P. Blaine, superintendent, Chesaw, Okanogan Co., Wash. Prop- erty, the Ben Harrison mine, showing fissure veins carrying gold-silver- copper ores. Developed by a shaft with gasoline hoist. Property inter- mittently operated. i APEX MINING CO. UTAH Mine at Eureka, Juab Co., Utah. Jesse Knight, pres, Provo, Utah; Elmer B. Jones, vice-pres.; R. E. Allen, sec.; M. H. Walker, treas.; preceding officers, Lafayette Hanchett, W. Lester Mangum and Amanda M. Knight, directors; Frank P. Schwindler, gen. mgr., at last accounts. Organized Oct., 1908, under laws of Utah, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par. On Feb. 10, 1909, company had $21,125.11 cash on hand. Lands, near the Grand Central mine, are developed by a 3-compartment shaft of 1,325" depth. Equipment includes a good hoist and air compressor. “APOLLO CONSOLIDATED GOLD MINING CO. WASHINGTON Idle. Mine at Republic, Ferry Co., Wash. W. A. Case, supt., at last

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accounts. Property is the California mine, carrying auriferous and argen- tiferous copper and lead ores, equipped with steam power. APRIL FOOL MINE. NEW MEXICO

Situated near Orogrande, Otero Co., N. M. JOR: Hunter, mgr. Prop- erty developed by two 50’ shafts and a tunnel with-30’ of drifting reported to show a quartz ledge 42’ wide at the surface. Shipping to El Paso and 1 carload recently said to have run 6.8% copper.

Arados Copper Co. Mexico

Address: 25 Broad St., New York. Mine office: Moctezuma, Chihua- , hua, Mex. Clarence W. Hoyt, president, 35 Congress St., Boston, Mass.

Lands, about 2,000 acres, were taken over, 1910, from Chihuahua Cop- per Co., Quo Vadis Copper Co., and include a number of adjoining claims privately owned.

The Chihuahua group has several shallow shafts, and 9 tunnels with about 1,500’ of workings, estimated by management to show several thou- sand tons of ore. Equipment includes a 25-h. p. hoist, good for 500’, and small Gardner air compressor and necessary mine buildings,

The Quo Vadis and other groups show numerous contact veins between limestone and porphyry, ranging from 2 to 40’ in width, development work said to have yielded enough ore shipped to pay for machinery in use on these properties, ore averaging better than 5% copper.

Company plans doing extensive churn drilling and erecting large reduc- tion plant, and is reported to have the backing of New York interests prom- inent in the copper industry.

Arapahoe Copper Mining Co. Arizona

Mine at Oro’ Blanco, Santa Cruz Co., Ariz. A. B: Kelso, supt. Property shows a vein with gold-silver-copper ores, developed by tun- nel workings.

Arapahoe Gold & Copper Mining Co. Colorado

Mine office: Sunset, Boulder Co., Colo. Organized 1899, under laws of Colorado. L. D. Longhi, pres. and treas.; J. S. Riggs, sec. Lands, 4 claims and a tunnel site, in the Sugar Loaf district of Boulder county, Colo. Idle since 1902, except for annual assessment work, done at the personal expense of the president.

Arcade Mining Co. Washington

Office: Chewelah, Stevens Co., Wash. A. R. Anderson, supt. Mine is developed by a 35’ shaft sunk in the Nellie S. group. Ores, mainly chalco- pyrite, are highly auriferous. ;

ARCHIPELAGO MINE. MEXICO Owned by the Minneapolis Copper Co., Cumpas, Sonora, Mex. ARCTIC CHIEF COPPER MINES. YUKON

Idle since 1910. Mines at White Horse, Yukon, are fully described

Vol. X. ARGENTA-DILLON MINING CO. MONTANA

Idle. Mine office: Dillon, Beaverhead Co., Mont. A. H. French, supt. Lands have a vein of 8 to 10’ width, giving assays of 3 to 4% copper, 1 to 8 oz. silver and $5 gold per ton, opened by shaft. The Ferdinand mine, apparently leased to Argenta-Dillon Leasing Co., is said to show a good body of lead-zinc sulphides, on the 140’ level. Has steam power. ARGO MINE. MONTANA

Office: care Peter Latsch, Helena, Mont. Mine, near Canyon Ferry, Lewis and Clark Co., Mont., is in the Scratch Gravel hills, and opened many years ago by Messrs. Martin and Canolle, shows high-grade copper ore, with iron gangue and small gold values. Equipped with concentrator and roll mill.

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ARGO MG., DRAINAGE, TRANSP. & TUNNEL CO. COLORADO Office: 79 Milk St., Boston, Mass. Mine office: Idaho Springs, Clear Creek ¿Co.,' Colo. Chas. C. Parsons, pres; H. W. Robinson, sec.; RoE Schirmer, treas. and gen. mgr.; L. S. Stewart, supt. Organized 1893, under laws of Colorado, capitalization $100,000. Is controlled, through ownership of entire stock issue, by Argo Mining & Tunnel Co., Ltd. Property is the Newhouse or Argo tunnel, described under title of Argo Mining & Tun- nel Co. ARGO MINING & TUNNEL CO. COLORADO Office: 79 Milk, St., Boston, Mass. Mine office: Idaho Springs, Clear Creek Co., Colo, F. A. Schirmer, pres.; John A. Caldwell, sec.; RATE; Schirmer, mgr. Organized 1909, under laws of Delaware, capitalization $1,250,000, shares $5 par; issued, $812,500. Debentures, $150,000 authorized; $135,000 issued. Company succeeded Argo Transportation & Tunnel Co., Ltd., which succeeded Argo Tunnel & Mining Co., Ltd. which succeeded Newhouse Tunnel Co., Ltd. Property is the entire stock issue of Argo Mining, Drainage, Transportation & Tunnel Co., which holds direct title to the tunnel.

The Argo or Newhouse tunnel, 21,968” long, with nearly 20 miles of workings, is perhaps the most celebrated mining tunnel in existence. It starts at Idaho Springs and passes under Russell gulch and Quartz hill, with terminus in the Gunnell vein. The tunnel has double tracks, of 18” gauge, laid with 30-lb. rails. For the first 12,000’ the tunnel is 9’ high and 10’ wide, balance being 8” high and 6’ wide. Grade is 5” per 100’. The tunnel was begun Jan., 1894, and completed Nov. 18, 1910.

The mines under which this tunnel passes are estimated to have pro- duced about $75,000,000 in metallic values, and the tunnel cuts sundry veins of ore carrying gold, silver, lead and copper, and several laterals have opened various orebodies of greater or less promise. The tunnel connects with the Gem, Sun & Moon, Old Town, Poso, Saratoga and Gunnell shafts at depth of 1,600'. i ARGO MINING & TUNNEL CO., LTD. BRITISH COLUMBIA

Office-and mine: Greenwood, Yale district, B. C. Ole Lofstad, pres. and gen. mgr.; A. S. Black, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, John Williamson, Jerome McConnell and Oscar Hartman, directors. Organized June 10, 1909, under laws of British Columbia, capitalization $125,000, shares 25 cts. par. Lands, 3 claims, near the British Columbia smelter. The Mayflower claim has shafts of 20 and 40’, and two 20’ tunnels, showing auriferous quartz. The Starve Out mine has incline shafts of 40, 80 and 115’, showing chalco- pyrite, galena and native silver, and there is a 300’ tunnel, planned to be driven 640”. No recent returns secured. f ARGO REDUCTION & ORE PURCHASING CO. COLORADO

Offce: Idaho Springs, Clear Creek Co., Colo. J. Meyer, Jr., pres:; R. E. Schirmer, sec.-treas. and purch. agt.; preceding officers, F. A. Schirmer, C. G. Schirmer, directors. Arthur H. Roller, gen. mgr.; Harry T. Curran, mill supt. Organized July, 1912, under laws of Colorado, capitalization $150,000, shares $100 par, fully paid and nonassessable; issued $112,000.

Property, 2 acres mill site at the portal of the Newhouse, or Argo, tun- nel, on which a 500-ton mill has been erected to treat custom ores. Process consists of amalgamation, concentration and cyanidation of ores, all. of which are purchased on their assay values from samples taken by the manager.

Argyle Mining Co., Ltd. Arizona

Probably dead. Office: 194 St. Vincent St., Glasgow, Scotland. Letter unclaimed at former mine office, Prescott, Yavapai Co., Ariz. A. Mitchell,

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sec. Organized Dec. 29, 1900, under laws of Great Britain, capitalization £100,000, shares £1 par; issued, £66,000. Lands, 2 claims, area 40° acres, known as the Examiner and Mineral Hill, near Huron, Yavapai county, Arizona.

Arichise Copper Co. Arizona

Office: 50 Btoadway, New York, N. Y. Works office: Safford, Graham Co., Ariz. C. M. Skinner, pres.; Jacob Reich, vice-pres.; H. Toensing, sec.; F. Christe, treas.; preceding officers, Hon. Edw. Lauterbach, M. J. Jackson, Chas. Bimberg, Henry Birrell and Herman Ritzau, directors; Jas. E. Car- penter, gen. mgr. Organized Jan. 30, 1907, under laws of Arizona, capitali- zation $2,500,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable; issued $1,650,000. Annual meeting, second Tuesday in October.

Lands, 20 claims, area 400 acres, known as the Arichise and Esperanza group, 10 miles abreast of Safford, in the Lone Star district, Gila moun- ‘tains. The Arichise group shows rhyolite and quartz-porphyry, carrying 3 ' veins on one of which a shaft has been sunk 200’ and drifts run in high-grade silver ore. A body of mineralized porphyry 4,000’ long has a 370’ tunnel driven in it, with a back of about 225’. This porphyry is from a few feet to 600’ wide according to report. The Esperanza group is slightly developed by shallow shafts in rhyolite and an 80’ crosscut tunnel.

Arimex Consolidated Copper Co. Arizona & Mexico

Idle some years and apparently moribund. Office: 85 Ames Bidg., Boston, Mass. Letter unclaimed at mine office, Red Rock, Pihak Co Ariz Ghas.. H: Dickey! presi! CAD. Burrage, sec. ‘Organized 1901, under laws of New Jersey, capitalization $5,000,000, shares $25 par. Property includes the Copper Prince group of 30 claims, in the Silver Bell district, Pima county, Ariz., held through Oxide Copper Co.; an 8714% stock interest in the Table Mountain Copper Co., which has 27 claims in the Bunker Hill mining district of Pinal county, Ariz, and a 90% stock interest in the Angang Copper Co., which holds about 400 hectares, known as the Chirangangueo mines, near Zitacuaro, Michoacan, Mex. Neither of the Arizona properties is of apparent promise, but the Mexican claims might be of some value, if properly developed. Company was promoted by Thomas W. Lawson.

Ario Copper Co. Mexico

Probably idle owing to political disturbances in Mexico. Office: 25 Broad St., New York. Mine office: Ario de Rosales, Ario, Michoacan, Mex. Frederick Moser, pres.; Geo. H. Walsh, Jr., treas.; A. P. Stramler, supt. Capitalization $2,000,000, shares $10 par. Holds lands through Ario Copper Co., S. A., organized April 13, 1907, under laws of Mexico, capitalization 500,000 pesos.

Lands, 126 hectares, including the Flora, Roma, Bohemia, San Antonio and San Valentin mines, old properties showing silver and copper ores, about £ miles from the Inguaran mines, on the projected line of the Morelia y Tacambaro railway, partly constructed. Principal development is on the Flora and Bohemia mines, with 7 shafts aggregating 500’ depth, and 12 tunnels aggregating. 2,600’ length. La Roma has ore assaying up to 25% copper. Equipment includes steam and gasoline power.

Patzcuaro, 70 miles distant, is the nearest railway point, but company was said, 1909, to plan an electric tramway from Patzcuaro through Ario de Rosales to the Rio Balsas, in the state of Guerrero, a distance of 150 kilo- . meters, but apparently this line remains only an idea. Equipment includes a 10-ton experimental smelter.

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ARIZONA ALPHA MINING CO. ARIZONA Office and mine: Kingman, Mohave Co., Ariz. Robert W. Hunt, pres.; Chas: E. Dox, sec.-treas.; O. F. Brinton, gen. mgr.; Thos. McGraw, supt. Lands, 4 claims, in process of patenting, area 80 acres, in the Cerbat mining: district. The mine has 2 shafts, 140 and 80” deep, and 3 tunnels, longest 1,000’, with total openings of about 1,500’. Ore is mainly chal- copyrite, associated with pyrite, sphalerite and galena, assaying 2.5% copper, 7% zinc, 10 oz. silver and about $2.50 gold per ton. Equipment includes a 10-h. p. gasoline hoist. Production, 1912, was 25,000 Ibs. fine copper. ARIZONA BELMONT MINING CO. ARIZONA

Office and mine: Silver Bell, Pima Co., Ariz. Meyer Schamberg, pres. Organized under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par; issued 700,000. Lands, 16 claims, adjoin the Imperial Copper Co. on the east and northeast.

Arizona Blue Bell Copper Co. Arizona

Mine office: Mayer, Yavapai Co., Ariz. Properties were disposed of, apparently on a royalty basis, to Arizona Exploration Co., and company is in litigation to recover certain royalties, in hands of United States court. Fully described Vol. VIII.

Arizona Bonanza Mining Co. Arizona

Mine office: McCabe, Yavapai Co., Ariz. Organized Oct., 1909, capitali- zation $1,000,000. “Lands, 2 claims, 3 miles north of McCabe, in the Big Bug district, having 140’ shaft, said to show some good ore. Equipment in- cludes a 60-h. p. boiler and a 30-h. p. hoist. No returns secured. ARIZONA-CANANEA MINES CORP. ARIZONA & MEXICO

Idle. Office: 70 State St., Boston, Mass. Mine offices: Cananea, Sonora, Mex., and Globe, Gila Co., Ariz. T. E. Otis, pres.; Robt. Brown, vice- pres.; Paul A. H. van Daell, sec.; Geo. N.-Hamlin, treas.; preceding offi- cers, Frank N. Stackpole, Harry F. Fay, Wm. Miller, W. E. Marble, Jr., Jas. Gardner and John T. Morrow, directors. Organized Aug,, 1910, under laws of Arizona, capitalization, $5,000,000, shares $5 par, nonassessable. Stock is listed on the New York and Boston curbs. Federal Trust Co., Boston, and Security Transfer & Registrar Co., New York, transfer agents; State Street Trust Co., Boston, and Security Transfer & Registrar Co., New York, registrars.

This company took over lands formerly held by the Kansas-Cananea Copper Co., Willey-Cananea Copper Co., Miller Mining Co., Ortega Min- ing Co., S. A., Southwestern Mining Co., Red Cloud Mining Co., Con- solidated Gold & Copper Co., Cananea Northern Mining & Development Co., Compania Minera Cufio y Plata and Boston-Miami Copper Co. The financing of these various corporations taken over was marked by numer- ous incorporations, mergers, holding companies and reconstructions.

Mexican lands are 4,427 acres, carrying considerable timber, located in a fairly compact block, lying 5 to 15 miles south of Cananea, some of the properties adjoining holdings of the Greene-Cananea. The property, as a whole, has about 1 mile of workings, and lands are connected with Cananea by a good wagon road. It is said that about $300,000 has been expended in development and equipment, at the various properties.

‘The Ortega group, area 1,151 acres, has an 800’ tunnel, showing an orebody claimed to be 230’ wide, assaying 2.75% copper, and another vein, of 80’ reported width, claimed to average 4% copper. No. 4 Ortega shaft is said to show, at depth of 110’, a 10’ orebody, averaging 8.8% copper. Ore is mainly chalcocite.

The Huerfano group, area 342 hectares, 6 miles south of Cananea, taken over from Southwestern Mining Co., shows quartz-porphyry, altered

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rhyolite and altered limestone, formation being somewhat similar to that of Cananea, with an ore zone of 800' estimated width, opened by shafts of 40, 90 and 410’, latter being wet. The mine has about 1,500’ of workings, and property shows outcrops of bournonite, said to assay up to 41% copper, 12 oz, silver and $1.20 gold per ton, which statement is obviously an error, 2 peer carries a maximum of only 13% copper, with about 42% ead.

The Corregidor group of 741 acres, and the Chapultepec group of 789 acres, are adjoining properties, about 6 miles south of Cananea, with forma- tion markedly similar to the Capote mines of the Greene-Cananea. The Corregidor has a 90’ shaft, bottomed in material assaying about 2% copper.

The Morita, Escotes, Pelon, Native, Blight, Elena and Residual groups are adjoining properties, having 4 shafts, of 20 to 225’, one showing ore giving assays of 11% copper and 30 oz. silver per ton, and in shaft No. 4 there is a 6” stringer of 20% copper ore. These properties have 2 tunnels, one of 1,050’ length, cutting, about 700’ from-the portal, low-grade material giving assays of 4.1% copper. The Morita group and adjoining properties were estimated, Aug., 1910, to have 20,000 tons of low-grade concentrating ore in sight.

The *Red Jacket group has an area of about 75 acres. The Refugio group has an area of about 300 acres, and the property taken over from Compania Minera Cuno y Plata was 180 acres,

The San Antonio silver property and El Cobre copper property, in the Sierra Azul, 25 miles southwest of Cananea, have a tunnel, which has yielded ore, in carload lots, returning 176 oz. silver per ton.

The ‘Boston-Miami property, 42 claims, are next south of the Live Oak and Keystone mines, and about one-half mile west of Miami. Property shows a considerable area of schist, granite and porphyry, similar to that of neighboring properties carrying porphyry ores, the mineralized zone ap- parently extending in a southwest direction through the Miami, Inspiration, Keystone, Live Oak and Boston-Miami properties. Mineralization is along the contact of schist and granite-porphyry, extending into both, and lands show conglomerate underlaid by schist. Development has ‘been exclusively by churn drilling, with 2 Star drills, boring holes up to 900’ in depth. Management gives no estimates of average percentage of ore. Buildings include an office, laboratory, warehouse and 13 dwellings. Idle. ARIZONA-CELTIC COPPER CO. ARIZONA

Office: 504 I. W. Hellman Bldg., Los Angeles, Cal, Mine office: Clifton,

i Greenlee>Co., + Ariz.. B. F.' Taylor, pres.: D: M: Lynch, vice-pres.; A. G-

Shaw, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, R. F. O'Donnell, Archibald Morrison and W. J. Webb, directors. Organized Feb. 20, 1912, under laws of Ari- zona, capitalization $3,000,000, shares $5 par; issued 400,000.

Lands, 37 claims, area 768 acres, and a 1,040-acre mill and smelter site, in the, Greenlee Gold Mountain. district, showing 3 orebodies, 1 vein of 80' width, said to average 3% copper. Property has been only slightly developed.

Arizona Central Copper Co. Arizona

Office: 514 Bryant Bldg., Kansas City, Mo. Mine office: Prescott, Yavapai Co., Ariz. J. W. Norton, pres. and mgr.; Geo. F. MacDonald, vice-pres.; W. W. Knight, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, M. M. Rumsey and J. P. Hartnett, directors. Organized May 28, 1902; under laws of Arizona, capitalization $2,000,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable; 1,689,000 shares issued. Bank of Arizona, Prescott, registrar, Annual meeting, first Tuesday in March.

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mine, 6 miles northeast of Dewey, 10 miles from Humboldt and 8 miles in an airline south of Jerome. Property, in the Yavapai schist belt, on the west- ern slope of the Black Hills, shows a contact mineral zone of 800 to 1,200’ claimed width, between schist and diorite, carrying a gossan underlaid by numerous quartz veins of 12 to 14” width, carrying cuprite, gray copper chalcocite and chalcopyrite. Development is by 6 shafts and 2 tunnels, 300’ and 80’ long; the deepest shaft is 1,053’, sunk at 62°, with a total of 3,525’ of workings. Mine also has about 20 pits, of 5 to 20’ depth, showing azurite, malachite and chalcocite. The Shylock shaft is said: to cut 9 veins, from 1 to 10’ in width, giving assays of 2%% copper, 16 oz. silver and $2 gold per ton.

Equipment includes a 52-h. p. electric hoist, good for 2,000’, Temple electric drills and a triplex electric station pump on the 900’ level. There are several mine buildings. Property closed, 1912, because of large flow of water but management plans installing pumps.

ARIZONA & CHICAGO MINING CO. ARIZONA Formerly at Cave creek, Maricopa Co., Ariz. Described Vol. VITE ARIZONA CELTIC COPPER CO. ARIZONA

Office: 504 1. W. Hellman Bldg., Los Angeles, Cal. Mines near Morenci, Ariz. B. F. Taylor, pres:; D. M. Lynch, vice-pres.; Albert G. Shaw, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, Archibald Morrison, R. T. O'Donnell and G. M. Chartier, directors.

Organized Sept., 1912, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $3,000,000, shares $5 par; $2,000,000 issued for properties, $1,000,000 in treasury; no bonds, no preferred stock, no debts.

Arizona Commercial Mining Co. Arizona

Offices: 50 Congress St., Boston, Mass., and 188 Middle St., Portland, Me. Mine at Globe, Gila Co., Ariz. Chas. S. Smith, pres.; Harry M. Stone- metz, vice-pres.; C, H. Altmiller, treas.; preceding officers, E. S. Goulston, G: T.: Rice and Fred H. Williams, directors. Wm. M. Bradley, ¢elerk; Robert R. Boyd, supt. Organized April 4, 1912, under laws of Maine, capitalization $1,500,000, shares $5 par, fully paid, nonassessable; issued, 260,000. Annual meeting July 14. Company is the successor of the Arizona Commercial Copper Co., bondholders of the old company receiving 70 shares of new stock for each $500 bond held and the stockholders being privileged to subscribe, share for share, for fully-paid stock in the new company upon payment of $3 per share. Accounts for year ending June 30, 1912, showed cash and loans on hand $153,000, securities and supplies $40,000 and accounts payable $12,600. :

Lands, 11 claims, 3 fractional, in 2 groups, known as the Black Hawk and Copper Hill groups, separated by the Iron Cap mine of the National Mining Exploration Co. Lands are in Copper gulch, 3 to 4 miles northeast of Globe, lying just north of the Old Dominion, and adjoining the United Globe and Superior € Boston mines. The property has large: bodies of low-grade carbonate ore, but principal values, as developed, are mainly in sulphide ores of medium to high grade.

The Copper Hill group, area 56 acres, carrying the Old Dominion and Copper Hill veins for about 1,500’, has 1,200’ shaft. The new company has deepened this shaft, opened ore on the 500’ level and disclosed 2’ of ore, 65’ long, between the 600 and 700’ levels, and crosscut the vein on the 1,200 level, where it is 40’ wide. A recent crosscut from a footwall drift on this vein, 100” from shaft crosscut, shows 5’ of 4.7% iron-sulphide ore, from which shipments were made late 1913.

The Black Hawk group, area 97 acres, which carries the Black Hawk and Old Dominion ledges for about 3,000’, has a surface capping of low-

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grade iron ore, above a 25 to 50’ vein, leached to considerable depth, fol- lowed by silicious ore, estimated to average about 4% copper, with excess of iron. There also is a hematite vein of 3 to 4’ width giving assays of 4.5% copper, with small silver values. The vein is stronger at depth, and carries sulphide ote of 6 to 7% copper tenor. Development is by the 1,030’ three- compartment Eureka. shaft. Diamond drilling, in advance of the lower workings, has shown good ore, including considerable chalcocite. The mine is decidedly wet, idle, and shaft abandoned.

Equipment at Copper Hill shaft includes a 72’ headgear, and a Well- man-Seaver-Morgan second-motion double-drum hoist, good for 1,500’ with a Hendrie & Bolthoff auxiliary hoist. Power for the drills and pumps is obtained through an air line and electric power line from the Old Dominion power house. Y

Buildings include a 32x70’ machine shop, well equipped, a 72x75’ ware- house, office, hospital and a number of miscellaneous buildings. A 20,000- gal. water tank affords high pressure for fire protection.

The 500-ton smelter, blown in Oct., 1909, has a furnace building and a power house, of steel, also a small sampling mill, with 2,000-ton steel bins for ore and fluxes, and 2,200-ton coke bins. The blast furnace is rated at 500 tons daily capacity, with a dust chamber 32x54’ and 28’ high, of steel, on concrete foundation, and a 125’ smokestack, 8’ in diameter. Slags are hauled out by a 10-ton General Electric locomotive, in 3 slag-cars, of 45 cu. ft. capacity each. The 72x80’ power house has two 700-h. p. Babcock & Wilcox boilers, a No. 9 Connersville blower, Nordberg air compressor, 2 - Nordberg engines and a 100-kw. General Electric generator. Fuel is petro- leum, stored in steel tanks. When in blast, the smelter treated about 250 tons ore daily.

Company ‘has a considerable area of unprospected ground near the Copper Hill shaft and the future of the corporation depends upon favorable development of this area and deeper development in its present workings. The outlook is not unfavorable.

Arizona Consolidated Copper Mines, Ltd. Arizona

Sec. and office: H. S: Blake, Throgmorton House, Copthall Ave., Lon- don, E. C., Eng. Mine office: Clifton, Graham Co., Ariz. Hon. H. A. Stan- hope, Jas. H. Hosking, and C. Ronaldson, directors. Organized June 17, 1899, under laws of Great Britain, capitalization £150,000, shares £1 par; issued, £135,007.

Land, in the Copper Mountain district, bought, 1909, from Continental Finance Syndicate, Ltd., for £135,000 in full-paid stock, are said by com- pany to be the Scioto, Lowland and Chillicothe mines. The claims are said to show a vein that is 2% to 8” and in places 30’ wide, proven for 3,500’, Development by 3 adits; No: 1 in ore for 55’, No. 2, 110’, No. 3, 100. Prop- erty includes a mill site, on the San Francisco river. Lands are said to show’ veins of 5 to 10 width, carrying a considerable variety of copper ores of different grades. Generally idle since organization, except for os- tensible efforts to raise money for a 50-ton smelter. Is not regarded favorably.

Arizona Consolidated Gold & Copper Co. Arizona

Office: Phoenix, Ariz. Mine office: Winkelman, Gila Co., Ariz. H. B. St. Clair, pres.; Eugene Brady O'Neill, vice-pres.; H. H. McNeill, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, C. F. Leonard, E. L. O'Malley and Wm. Hardwick, di- rectors. Organized June 12, 1907, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $5,000,000, shares $1 par.

Lands, 13 claims, unpatented, area 260 acres, known as the Hardwick and Copper groups, also a 20-acre mill site, in the Saddle Mountain dis-

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trict. Property shows numerous fissure veins, of which 4, under develop- ment, are said to average 30” in width. Mine has a 40” tunnel, and pits and shafts of 40’, 70’ and 100. No returns secured. ARIZONA CONSOLIDATED MINES CO. : ARIZONA ` Mine office: Wellton, Yuma Co., Ariz. Organized Aug., 1909, capitali- zation $3,000,000, shares $10 par, by Geo. R. Bentel, F. M. Prescott and Thos. F. Bentel. Lands, 56 claims, 14 miles from Wellton, including lands bought of Hecla Consolidated Mining Co., and 2 adjoining properties. Mine is said to have about 4,000’ of workings, and is claimed to have about 30,000 tons of ore on the dump, with 70,000 tons developed underground, with es- timated average value, for entire 100,000 tons, of $43.35 per ton, which figures are considered excessive. No trace of operations. secured. ARIZONA COPPER BELT MINING CO. ARIZONA

Office: 25 Broad St., New York, N. Y. Mine office: Constellation, Yavapai Co., Ariz. Wm. J. Dilthey, pres.; J. C. Maugans, vice-pres. and treas.; Alex. S. McNear, sec.; preceding officers, Albert Ullman and Samuel Bloom, directors; Chas. F. Dilthey, mine foreman. Organized Feb., 1906, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable; issued, $655,673.

Lands, 14 claims, unpatented, area 240 acres, well watered, include the Wren group of 4 claims and Texas group of 10 claims near the Hassayam- pa river, in the Black Rock district about 17 miles northeast of Wickenburg, the nearest railroad point. The property shows granite and schist, said to carry numerous orebodies. The & Texas fissure vein, having shafts of 32’, 80’ and 200’, and tunnels of 78’, 90” and 120’, shows mainly gold ore, re- ported by company to have average values of $21 per ton.

The main camp was removed to the Wren group, July, 1910. Wren vein No. 1, of 5’ estimated average width, shows mainly chalcopyrite, and occasional chalcocite, with some oxidized ores, estimated by company to average 5% copper, 2 oz. silver.and $8 gold per ton. Development includes an 80’ shaft and tunnels of 40” and 300’. A shipment to the Copper Queen smelter recently averaged $20.54 per ton in gold, silver and copper, Prop- erty as a whole has about 1,100” of workings, and is estimated by man- agement to show 20,000 tons of ore, with 2,000 tons blocked out for stoping. 4

Equipment includes 5 small mine buildings, and work was started, 1909, on a 10-stamp mill, which remains uncompleted. Management planned installing a 30-ton smelter, but has decided to wait until the ore blocked out warrants a 100-ton smelter. A letter published in a prospectus of the company, and signed R. W. Groo, was stamped as unauthorized by R. W. Groo, Bingham Canyon, Utah, April, 1911, and demand made on the president of the company that alleged letter be withdrawn.

Arizona Copper Co., Ltd. 3 Arizona

Office: 29 St. Andrews Square, Edinburgh, Scotland. Mine and works office: Clifton, Greenlee Co., Ariz. John Wilson, chairman; P. Dickson, J. P., G. Readman, W. A. Carter, Y. J. Pentland, Alex. McNab, J. P., F. L. Macleod and Lord Salvesen, directors; Norman Carmichael, gen. mgr.; Wm. Exley Miller, sec.; L. D. Ricketts, cons. engr.; J. G. Cooper, cashier and purch. agt.

Organized Aug. 5, 1884, under laws of great Britain, capitalization £755,000, originally in £40,000 of A preference shares, 5s. par, upon which no calls have been made, but with £7,480 1s., paid in advance; £320,000 authorized and £316,530 issued in full paid preference stock; £ 320,000 authorized and £316,530 issued, shares 5s: par, of fully paid preferred

stock, and £75,000 authorized, £63,444 issued, shares 5s. par, of fully paid

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deferred stock. Early 1909, a change was made by which old preferred and deferred ordinary shares were succeeded by one series ordinary shares, of 5s. par, of which 1,519,896 shares have been issued. Profits are divided as follows: 10% cumulative dividends on A preference shares; 7% cumula- tive dividends on preference stock, and balance to ordinary shares. Had £175,210 of 5% terminable debentures, redeemed, 1912, and superseded by an issue of £500,000 terminable debentures repayable at 105, May 15, 1922, or at any time after May 15, 1915. Fiscal year ends Sept. 30. Dividends on ordinary shares for recent years have been as follows: 5s. 3d. in 1906; 3s. 9d. in 1907; 2s. 6d. in 1908, 1909, 1910 and 1911; 3s. 3d. in 1912. Free profits were £480,775 in 1912. Reserves, Sept. 30, 1912, were £764,119.

Lands, about 200 claims, 4,000 acres, including 8 producing mines, at Morenci, Metcalf, Longfellow, Garfield and Coronado, in Greenlee county, Ariz. Ores, as produced, give average returns of about 2.5% copper, pro- duction being about 4% smelting ore and 96% concentrating ore. Mines, except the Coronado, are developed to a depth of about 500’ only, being opened mainly by tunnels, giving cheap extraction. Notwithstanding the comparatively shallow zone of development a large amount of ore is in sight. .

During the year ending Sept. 30, 1912, the company mined 927,116 dry tons of ore, of which amount 655,396 tons, or 70%, came from the Long- fellow mine, and 271,720 tons from the Metcalf mines. The yield of these ores was approximately 41 lbs. fine copper per ton of ore smelted.

The Humboldt mine, which is the principal producer, shows a large body of low-grade disseminated chalcocite. Contiguous to this are the Yavapai, Clay and Petaluma mines, all of which are developed by shafts and connected by tunnels with a main hoisting shaft at No. 6 concentrator at Morenci, where the ore is concentrated. The Longfellow mine of this group delivers its ore through chutes to a tunnel on the level of’the Coro- nado railroad, over which the ore is transported to the concentrators at Clifton. This group of mines is thoroughly equipped with electric haulage, Jeffrey 6-ton locomotives and cars of 5 tons capacity each being used. The main haulage level, 250’ below the main adit tunnel, is laid with 50-Ib. steel. The workings are electrically lighted throughout. Development is being carried on 200” below this level with satisfactory results.

The Metcalf group is situated 7 miles from Clifton, with which it is connected by the Coronado railroad, a 3’ gauge, owned and operated by the company, which follows the course of Chase creek on heavy grade. These mines supply the bulk of the oxide ores and are worked principally by open-cut methods, the ore being leached with sulphuric acid.

The Coronado mine, 2 miles west of Metcalf, and at an elevation of 1,500’ above it, is developed by 3 shafts, the main working shaft being 1,100’ deep, April, 1913. Ores from this mine now hoisted to surface and trans- ported over surface tramways and a long incline to the Coronado railroad, and thence to the Clifton concentrators will in the near future be handled through a tunnel now being driven from the Chase Creek side of the mountain at the level of the main haulage of the Humboldt group, with which it will be connected by an electrid railroad. This deep adit tunnel will connect with the main working shaft of the Coronado mine at the new 1,100’ level, the extension of which tunnel under the orebodies will develop them 400’ below the present workings.

All the company’s producing properties are connected by gravity in- clines with the Coronado railroad, the main artery between the mines and reduction works at Clifton. The reduction works consists of a concen- trator of 1,500 tons daily capacity, situated at Morenci. This is a fine steel

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and concrete plant, the capacity of which is now being increased to 3,000 tons per day. A concentrator of 700 tons capacity for the treatment of sulphide ores is also operated at Clifton, and a concentrator for treating oxide ores, with a capacity of 400 tons per day, is situated at the same place. The tailings from the oxide concentrator are treated in a leaching plant, with sulphuric acid from the company's own acid plant, which sup- plied 4,000 tons of acid last year made from pyrites mined at Morenci.

The company is building a complete new smelting plant on the left bank of the San Francisco river, 2 miles below Clifton. This plant will be entirely of steel and concrete and will consist of a bedding plant for re- ceiving and mixing the ores, supplementary bins also being provided; a roasting plant consisting of 8 Herreshoff air-cooled roasters; a large dust chamber fitted with No. 10 wires hanging 4” apart; 3 oil-fired reverberatory furnaces, 22’ in diameter by 100’ long; 7 waste-heat boilers, with a combined capacity of 500-h. p.; 3 converter stands with 4' converter shells of the Great Falls type 12’ in diameter. The power plant will consist of two 10,000’ capacity Nordberg blowing engines for the converters and 3 units of 2,500 kw. General Electric turbo-generators to supply electricity for the plant and also for the mines, a transmission line being built to convey the current at 13,200 volts. Well-equipped machine shops, plate shops, supply house, etc., are provided.

Miscellaneous enterprises operated by the company include foundry, machine shop, sawmill, a 30-ton ice plant, and a town lighting plant. The company also has general merchandise stores at Clifton, Longfellow, Met- calf and Coronado.

Recent productions for fiscal years ending Sept. 30, has been as fol- lows: 27,404,000 lbs. in 1907; 33,962,000 Ibs. in 1908; 31,962,000 Ibs. in 1909; 32,210,000 Ibs. in 1910; 34,584,000 Ibs. in 1911 and 38,132,000 lbs. in 1912. For 8 months fn 1913, mines produced 23,000,000 Ibs. copper.

Arizona Copper-Gold Mines Co. Arizona

Office: 1011 Pabst Bldg., Milwaukee, Wis. Mine office: Cherry, Yava- pai Co., Ariz. R. H. Burmister, pres. and gen mgr. Organized Oct. 12, 1903, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,000,000, as Arizona Gold Lode Mines Co., and reorganized, April 10, 1906, under present title, capitaliza- tion $1,500,000, shares $1 par.

Lands were 17 claims, area 340 acres, in the Cherry Creek district, 15 miles northeast of Humboldt, but the Bugler group of 4 claims was sold, 1909, to Smith & Oliver, reducing holdings to 13 claims, area 260 acres. De- velopment includes several short tunnels, and the Leghorn shaft of 600’ depth, with about 3,500’ of workings, on a 2’ fissure vein. The ore apparent- ly averages about 2% copper, with gold values.

.Equipment includes a 40-h. p. hoist, good for 1,000’ depth, and a 3-drill air compressor. A mill, at the Leghorn shaft, rated at 40 tons daily ca- pacity, has a 10’ Lane slow-speed Chilean mill, and made a test run, 1907, but, foundation proving defective, it was repaired, permitting another test run, Aug., 1909, that gave a $500 gold brick. Company was promoted by Pierce Underwood, a notorious faker, and advertised extensively, with some very untruthful statements, but apparéntly the present management ıs trying to make the best of a difficult bargain.

Arizona Copper & Gold Mining Co. Arizona

Idle. Mine near Salome, Yuma Co., Ariz. Company owns a 20% stock interest in the Savage Gold & Copper Mining Co. Lands, 5 claims unpatented, in the Harcuvar mountains, having a 55’ tunnel showing a 5 vein of auriferous copper ore, and a 320’ shaft bottomed in a vein of 20’

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width carrying malachite and chalcopyrite. Mine claimed to have about 1,000 tons of smelting ore on the dump. ARIZONA COPPER MINING CO. ARIZONA

Idle many years. Office and mine: Tucson, Pima Co., Ariz. E. C. Griffith, pres.; Louis F. Fletcher, vice-pres.; Vincent Brunner, sec.-treas.; preceding officers and P. G. Turner, directors; B. C. Brechta, supt., at last accounts. Lands, 20 claims, in the Tucson mountains, having a 400’ tun- nel, said to show an & vein carrying ore of good grade.

Arizona Copper Queen Mining Co. Arizona

Idle. Office: New York Life Bldg., Kansas City, Mo. Mine office: Mayer, Yavapai Co., Ariz. Shannon C. Douglas, pres.; Edwin Herrider, sec.; Ernest J. White, treas.; Wm. Burr Douglass, gen. mgr.; preceding officers and H. C. Crowell, directors, at last accounts. Organized July 24, 1907, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $5,000,000, shares $1 par. Lands, 6 claims, on Copper creek, 25 miles southeast of Mayer, claimed to show 10 practically parallel veins, carrying ore assaying 6 to 84% copper, 2 to 57 oz. silver and $10 to $100 gold per ton. Development is by various trenches and by shafts, 30’, 30’, 35’, 40’, 60’ and 90’. Equipment includes a power plant with air compressor. No trace of operations secured.

Arizona Copper Shipping Mines Co. Arizona

Office: P. O. Box 592, El Paso, Tex. Mine office: Dragoon, Cochise Co., Ariz. I. M. Moore, pres.; C. L. Cummings, vice-pres.; C. F. Elliott, sec.-treas. Organized 1910, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $10 par; issued $620,000.

Lands, 8 claims, in process of patenting, area 160 acres, are located 2 miles northeast of Dragoon. The property shows a limestone crossed by numerous veins, averaging 2 to 12’ width, said to carry 4 to 7% copper, 1 to 6 oz. silver and a trace of gold. Development is by several pits and shallow shafts, deepest 130’, with about 600’ of workings. Property con- sidered promising.

Arizona Empire Copper Mines Co. Arizona

Office: Bradbury Bldg., Los Angeles, Cal. Mine office: Parker, Yuma Co., Ariz. W. A. Moses, pres.; Gen. E. Bouton, vice-pres.; L. H. Knowlte, sec.; Newton Evans, treas.; preceding officers and F. X. Pfaffinger, direct- ors; C. W. Mitchell, gen. mer.; Jas. H. Watson, supt. Organized Aug. 1909, capitalization $5,000,000, shares $5 par.

© Lands, bought of Carnation Mining Co., are 41 contiguous claims; area 820 acres, about 10 miles north of Parker and 3 miles from Eagle Landing on the Colorado river, including the Eagle, Carnation, Belcher and Cyclone groups. Company also has 160 acres of ranch lands on the Colorado river, including Eagle landing, held for a smelter site. Geological conditions are markedly similar to those at the Planet and Clara mines. The property, as a whole, has about 6,000” of workings, deepest 300’, showing a large amount of copper carbonates, with sulphide zone not yet reached. The Eagle group has incline shafts of 70 and 300’, and 1,500’ of tunnels, show- ing considerable ore of smelting grade, with several hundred tons of ore on the dumps assaying 15 to 25% copper, and $5 to $20 gold per ton. The Walters crosscut tunnel, with back of 300’, has some 5% copper, ore said to hold $5 gold per ton. On the 200’ level of the Carnation shaft is an ore- body said to assay 5% copper and $5 gold per ton, carrying a 10’ paystreak estimated to average 10% copper and $6 gold per ton. Company, 1911, by location, acquired 720 claims, 10 miles up the Colorado river from Parker, but apparently is doing only assessment work on these claims, mining oper- ations being confined to the Carnation and Eagle groups, at last accounts.

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Shallow excavations show irregular areas, often 50° wide, well stained with copper carbonate; much of it could be shipped. This green carbonate ore has been carefully piled and makes beautiful patches of color on the desert scenery. Development usually reveals a sheared zone, copper-stained, but only a few feet wide. Throughout this region there are occasionally en- countered pockets of rich gold ore with the copper. These seem to be lenses interbedded in the schist and while one or two important orebodies have been found in the region, no mines of importance have been developed. ARIZONA EXPLORATION CO. ARIZONA Mine near Mayer, Yavapai Co., Ariz. Chas. Carman, supt.; Martin Heller, cons. engr., at last accounts. Is controlled, through stock owner- ship, by Consolidated Arizona Smelting Co. Property is the Blue Bell mine, connected with the Prescott & Eastern railway by aerial tram. Lands, 3 claims, having 3 fissure veins in Algonkian slates with quartzite footwall and granodiorite hanging, developed by 6 shafts, deepest 600’, and by tun- nels of 70’ and 75’, showing cuprite, malachite, chalcopyrite and chalcocite, all slightly argentiferous and auriferous, with large orebody opened on the 300’ level. Nos. 1 and 2 shafts, 1,800’ apart, are connected on the 500’ level. The orebody is claimed to be 15 to 32’ wide and to average 5.5% copper and $3.50 in combined gold and silver values per ton, which figures are considered excessive, though the property is considered valuable. Equip- ment includes an electric power plant, taking current from a 10-mile trans- mission line. No recent returns secured, ARIZONA GIANT COPPER CO: ARIZONA Probably idle. Office: 229 Byrne Bldg., Los Angeles, Cal. Mine near Ehrenberg, Yuma (A R -aM Furlong, pres.; H. Franklin Hiller, sec.-treas. Capitalization $3,000,000, shares $1 par. Lands, 320 acres. ARIZONA GOLD & COPPER co: ARIZONA Mine office: Winkelman, Gila Co., Ariz. Organized Jan., 1908, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $500,000, by Chas. Bauer and C. A. Bauer. Lands are 6 miles northeast of Winkelman, near the Saddle Mountain mine. Idle since organization and apparently moribund. ARIZONA GOLD & COPPER MINING CO. ARIZONA Office: 156 College St., Burlington, Vt. Mine office: Gleeson, Cochise Co., Ariz. Judge W. P. Smith, vice-pres.; W. R. Cheney, treas.; Hamilton S. Peck, clerk; preceding officers, T. V. Blaisdell, J. H. McLoud and J. S. Patrick, directors. Organized July 28, 1911, under laws of Vermont, cap- italization $100,000, shares $5 par, as successor of the Vermont & Arizona Copper Co. i Lands, 11 claims, area 220 acres, 4 miles from Gleeson, in the Tur- quoise district, on the western slope of the Dragoon mountains, showing 2 ssays of 23 to Dy a 230’ main shaft, veloped a large body of low-grade milling ore. Equipment includes steam power.

ARIZONA on Buckhorn are developed , planned to be sunk to depth

ARIZONA Idle several years. Office: Hancock, Mich. Mine office: Florence,

Pinal Co., Ariz. John D. Cuddihy, pres.; Alfred €. Sieboth, vice-pres.; Henry L. Baer, Sec.-treas.; preceding officers, C. D. Hanchette, F. C. May- worm and Philip Carroll, directors. Organized under laws of Arizona, as

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successor to Arizona-Hancock Consolidated Mining Co. Lands, 4 claims, patented, 2 miles south of Superior, showing a vein traversing 2 claims, parallel to the vein of the Lake Superior & Arizona, with diabase footwall and limestone hanging, opened by a short tunnel and a winze of 55’, with drifts on 2 levels, showing lead above and copper below.

Arizona Hercules Copper Co. Arizona

Office: 111 Broadway, New York, and 702 Union: Oil Bldg., Los Angeles, Cal. Mine office: Ray, Pinal Co., Ariz. W. P. Dunham, pres. and gen. mgr.; E. G. Thomas, sec.-treas. and supt. Organized Sept. 15, 1906, capitalization $10,000,000, shares $10 par, nonassessable; issued $7,127,790. Annual meeting, first Tuesday in September.

Lands, 20 claims, 10 patented. Area, 307.24 acres, of which 207.24 acres are mineral and located on the eastern side of Mineral creek in the center of the Ray district and surrounded by the claims of the Ray Consolidated Copper Co. Land shows schist, granite, porphyry and diabase.

Development in earlier years was done by 7 shallow shafts, varying in depth from 25 to 210’, with a total of 750’ of workings, exposing oxidized ores, mainly chrysocolla, varying from 2% to 20% copper. Principal de- velopment 1910-13, has been done by churn drilling, the company having used two No. 24 Star drilling machines, with which 27 holes were drilled, varying in depth from 330 to 1,225’; in all 16,148’ of drilling was done upon the property. The drill holes proved that the property carries disseminated . ores similar to those mined by the Ray Consolidated Copper Co., and that when the ore zone was reached all of the formations, namely schist, diabase and granite porphyry, were equally enriched with disseminated chalcocite. A large tonnage was proven and blocked out by the various drill holes, computed as several million tons by various prominent engineers who have examined the property. The average grade is estimated at 2.48% copper. The same methods of sampling and supervision were used in the drilling as were in use by the Ray Consolidated Copper Co.

The drilling has shown the ore to extend for 1,200’ east and west, with a length of over 2,500’. north and south. The indications are said to be favorable for its continuance to the eastern limits of the property. A num- ber of drill holes have exposed 2 distinct orebodies; hole No. 13, at the north end of the property, having cut a second orebody at a depth of over. - 800’, and hole No. 27, at the south end, having encountered the second ore- body, and still in it when stopped at a depth of 710’. Further development of this orebody should increase very materially the estimated tonnage.

Company plans development in 1913-14, with a view of opening the orebodies outlined by the drill holes, for extraction and equipping the property with the necessary plant and equipment for treating the ores. ARIZONA-IDAHO COPPER EXTRACTION CO. PENNSYLVANIA

Office: 711 Union Bank Bldg., Pittsburgh, Penn. Wm. E. Greenwalt, pres.; Ernest H. Browne, sec.-treas. Organized about 1908, capitalization $500,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable.

Owns no mines; property is a copper extraction process which the company claimed would produce copper at from 4 to 6 cts. per pound. Company was offering 50,000 shares at 50 cts. per share, to raise cash re- quired to enlarge the demonstrating plant at Denver, at last accounts. ARIZONA LEAD-SILVER-COPPER CO. ARIZONA

Mine and office near San Carlos, Gila Co., Ariz. Property, 15 claims near Copper Reef mines, is developed by tunnel and said to show ar- gentiferous and auriferous copper ore. Was developing, with small force,

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ARIZONA LE ROI COPPER MINING CO. ARIZONA Idle. Office and mine: Kingman, Mohave Co., Ariz. J. N. Turrentine, pres.; W. H. Bradley, vice-pres.; Maj. W. A. Mensch, sec.-treas. and gen. mgr.; preceding officers, W. S. Shafer, Geo. H. Craig, Francis M. Townsend and JH. Sampson, directors: Organized Nov. 17, 1906, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par; issued, $552,000. Annual meeting, second Tuesday in January. any, Lands, 7 claims, unpatented, area 140 acres, in the Maynard district, adjoining the Enterprise Mining, Reduction & Improvement Co., 18 miles from Kingman. Lands show granite exposures, with porphyry dikes, car- rying 4 veins, of which one, under development, with strike N. 20° W., is estimated by management at 18 to 60’ width, and is claimed to be traceable 3 to 4 miles, “showing oxidized ores above and sulphides below, es- timated to average 2.5% copper, 37% lead, 35 oz. silver and $3 to $12 gold per ton, which figures are considered excessive. ARIZONA MERCANTILE TRANSP. & SMELTING CO. ARIZONA Idle. Office: Leavenworth, Kans. Mine office: Casa Grande, Pinal Co., Ariz. Capitalization 1,000,000 shares, presumably $1 par. Lands, 5 claims and a mill site, near Casa Grande. Is said to have a 20-stamp mill and a 50-ton smelter. Presumably out of funds and merely keeping up taxes. ARIZONA MERGER GOLD & COPPER CO. ARIZONA Idle. Henry Rupsynder, mgr., Ferguson Bldg., Los Angeles, Cal. Mine near Mayer, Yavapai Co., Ariz. H.C. Hillwell, S. L. Herron, Henry Reef- son, Alonzo Hall, Robert M. Bazel and Geo. D. Birch directors, at last accounts. Organized 1909, under laws of Arizona, as a reorganization of the Lyon Copper Co., capitalization $5,000,000, shares $1 par. Property, 50 claims near Mayer, Yavapai Co., Ariz., show fissure veins developed by a number of tunnels and crosscuts with 250’ shaft. Property considered - promising and worthy of development. ARIZONA & MICHIGAN DEVELOPMENT CO. ARIZONA Office: Benson, Ariz. Mine office: Johnson, Cochise Co., Ariz. A. J. Pidgeon, of San Diego, Cal., pres. and gen. mgr.; P. N. Lindley, sec.; E. J. Matlock, supt. Organized 1904, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $2,500,000, shares $5 par. Lands, 7 claims, patented, area 140 acres, showing porphyry and limestone carrying 4 orebodies, 1 opened by vertical and in- cline shafts and by tunnels, showing a 5’ vein with poorly defined walls and impregnations in the limestone hanging and porphyry footwall. Has a 150’ two-compartment main shaft with 24 openings showing cuprite, mala- chite and copper sulphides said to give average assays up to 12% copper, 18 oz. silver and $1 gold per ton. Has a 60-h. p. gasoline engine with dou- ble-drum hoist, and has shipped a little good ore to El Paso smelter. Com- pany owns a short railroad connecting with the Southern Pacific railway at Dragoon. Was developing, with small force, early 1913. ARIZONA MINE. WYOMING Office and mine: care Horace E. Adams, owner, Hecla, Laramie Co., Wyo. Lands, 4 claims, area 80 acres, in the Silver Crown district, opened by a 160” shaft and tunnels of 100”, 100’ and 120’ showing native copper, oxides, carbonates, chalcocite and chalcopyrite. Has gasoline power and a small leaching plant. Idle several years, except for annual assessment work, owing to lack of funds. ARIZONA MINES Co. ARIZONA Office: 60 Congress St, Boston, Mass. Mine office: Wickenburg, Maricopa Co., Ariz. David E. Dow, pres.; Geo. W. Smith, vice-pres.; Bruce Hobbs,_sec.-treas.; Mark Bradley, gen. mgr.; preceding officers and

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Edgar S. Hill, directors; J. W. Nicholson, supt. Organized Jan. 7, 1910, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $2,000,000, shares $10 par, nonassess- able. Federal Trust Co., Boston, registrar; State Street Trust Co., Boston, transfer agent. Stock is listed on the Boston curb.

Lands, 7 clainis, area 150 acres, in the Castle Creek district of the Brad- shaw mountains, about 13 miles from Wickenburg. Property, known as the Tomboy group, shows an orebody up to 50’ in width, traced by trench- ing for nearly 1 mile. Development includes several short tunnels, and a 250 shaft, showing a 40’ vein carrying about 3’ of disseminated malachite, said to assay 14% copper and $18 gold per ton, ore being exclusively oxi- dized to depth opened. Mine as a whole has about a quarter-mile of work- ings. Company estimates average values at about 14% copper, 8 to 10 oz. silver and $8 gold per ton. Equipment includes an 18-h. p. hoist, good for 600’ depth, and necessary mine buildings. Management plans deepen- ing shaft and continuing development. A full report on the property was made Oct., 1910, by Mark Bradley, mg. engr.

Arizona Mining Co. Arizona

Mine in Yuma Co., Ariz. Organized in Lead, Lawrence Co., S. D. Property said to show a 2%” vein carrying gold, silver and copper ore aver- aging 20% copper with $70 in gold and silver. A gasoline hoist being erected, 1913,

Arizona Mining & Realty Co. Mexico

Office: 404 Burlington Bldg., St. Louis, Mo. Mine office: Nacozari, Moctezuma, Sonora, Mex. W. L. Musick, pres.; J. F. McCourtney, vice- pres.; W. N. McCourtney, sec. No trace of operations secured. ARIZONA MINING & TRADING CO. MEXICO

Idle. Office: Douglas, Ariz. Mine near Nacozari, Sonora, Mex. E. O. Wolf, gen. mgr.; H. C. Holbrook, mine supt. Organized 1906. Lands are in 2 groups, 8 miles and 16 miles southeast of Nacozari, former known as Los Angeles mine, having a 75’ shaft showing chalcopyrite of good grade. A carload of. ore shipped to the Copper Queen smeiter gave returns of 12.5% copper and 46 oz. silver per ton. Has a concentrator.

Arizona Morenci Copper Co. Arizona

This company deeded its properties back to the original owners in Sept., 1912, and is now out of business. The original owners have organ- ized the Arizona Celtic Copper Co., described under that title.

Arizona National Copper Co. Arizona

Office: 327 Pine St., Williamsport, Pa. Mine office: Globe, Gila Co., Ariz. Thos. M. B. Hicks, pres. and treas.; C. S. Messerly, sec.; LeRoy Scholl, gen. supt. Organized Feb. 1, 1906, under laws of Arizona, capitaliza- tion $3,000,000, shares $10 par. Bonds $300,000, at 5%.

Lands, 14 claims, also a 15-acre mill site and 100 acres timber lands, formerly known as the McNelly-Crowley property, on Pinto creek, carry- ing contact veins between schist and granite, said to average 14’ in width and traced 785’, showing considerable high-grade oxidized ores, including chrysocolla and native copper, with some chalcopyrite and occasional bornite. The 80’ ledge of decomposed schist is slightly impregnated with copper sulphides. Development was by shafts of 50’ and 85’, and by tunnels of 195, 250 and 300’, with a total of 2,000’ of workings. Has steam power. ARIZONA-NEVADA COPPER CO. : ARIZONA

Office: Hibernian Bldg., Los Angeles, Cal. Mine office: Hillside, Yavapai Co., Ariz. Jas. A. Snedaker, pres.; E. M. Bray, vice-pres.; E. B. Bronson, sec.; Benjamin E. Page, treas.; preceding officers, W. T. Hook, L. M. Hart, Jos. L. Giroux, Eugene L. Giroux and Ralph C. Lupton, direc-

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tors; Henry A. Geisendorfer, supt. Organized April 9, 1909, under laws of

Delaware, capitalization $5,000,000, shares $5 par; $2,650,000 issued.

Company, primarily a holding company, controls the Bagdad Copper Co. and the Atlanta Gold Mining Co., and also owns a number of copper properties at Luning, Nev., and Darwin, in the Coso mining district, Inyo Cos. Cal:

Arizona-Pacific Copper Co. Arizona

Idle. Office: 705 State Life Bldg., Indianapolis, Ind. Mine office: Florence, Pinal Co., Ariz. F. P. Jeffries, pres.; John~W. Sharpe, vice-pres. and gen. mgr.; Henry Severin, treas.; Murat W. Hopkins, sec.; Manuel Vil- lar, supt., at last accounts. Organized March 30, 1903, under laws of Ari- zona, capitalization $5,000,000, shares $1 par.

Lands, 16 claims, area 320 acres, also an 80-acre smelter site at Wooley, south of the Gila river, and about 7 miles south of Kelvin, connected by 4-mile wagon road with the Phoenix € Eastern railway. Property shows sundry minor veins, assaying 3-to 20% copper and $5 to $20 gold per ton. A much shattered quartz-porphyry dike, 1,200’ long and about 500’ in ex- treme width, running east and west, is cemented by veins carrying cuprite, melaconite and chalcocite, having average values of 114% copper, 1 oz. silver and some gold per ton. Has shafts of 80’ and 350’, also tunnels of 260’ and 342’. Has’ 2 gasoline hoists, air compressor, power drilis, and necessary mine buildings. Property is regarded as promising, owing to size of the orebody, though the ore is low in tenor, but apparently well adapted +o close and economical concentration.

Arizona-Pacific Copper Co. Arizona

Mine office: Patagonia, Santa Cruz Co., Ariz. Col. O. I. Posey, pres.; Allan G. Fraser, sec. Is an English company, organized in 1912.

Lands, 8 claims, 12 miles north of Patagonia, in the Wrightson dis- trict on the Santa Rita mountains, known as the August group, are slightly developed. Claims are said to have been bought for $50,000 cash, in in- stallments.

Arizona-Pittsburgh Mining & Smelting Co. Arizona

Letter returned unclaimed from former office, Pittsburgh, Pa. Mine office: Patagonia, Santa Cruz Co., Ariz. H. W. Graib, pres.; John H. Wil- son, vice-pres.; R. A. McDonald, sec.-treas.: preceding officers and Julius Bieler, directors; C. R. Reno, mgr.; Frank Siebold, supt. Organized June 7, 1907, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $2,000,000, shares $1 par.

Lands, 32 claims, 1 owned and 31 held under bond and lease, area 640 acres, 3 miles east of Patagonia. Development includes a 200’ shaft, show- ing a vein of 8’ estimated average width, said to be traceable 6,000’, esti- mated by company to carry ore averaging 5 to 7% copper, about 20% lead and 12 oz. silver per ton. Ores are argentiferous chalcopyrite and galena, with quartz gangue, lead decreasing. and copper increasing with depth. The mine is located on the Veta Grande, the principal of the 2 important veins on the Patagonia side of the Santa Rita mountains. Equip- ment includes a 40-h. p. hoist, good for 1,000’ depth, and a 3-drill Sullivan air compressor. Resumed operations, Jan., 1912, after several years idle- ness, and was developing, with small force, at last accounts.

Arizona Prospecting & Development Co. Arizona

Mine office: Wickenburg, Maricopa Co., Ariz. H. S. LeCompte, pres. and gen. mgr. Organized Jan., 1909. Lands include the Angel, Antler and Speculator, or Maricopa groups, latter said to show good gold ore. Fhe Angel group, 6 claims, about 2 miles from the Vulture mine, has a 200’ shaft. Properties carry argentiferous and auriferous copper and lead ores. Equipment includes gasoline power and an air compressor.

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ARIZONA RIO TINTO MINING CO. ARIZONA ; Offce and mine: San Simon, Cochise Co., Ariz. John A. Duncan, pres., treas. and gen. mgr.; John H. McClellan, vice-pres.; L. Grant Duncan, sec.; preceding officers and Geo. E. Sligh, directors. Organized March, 1911, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $5,000,000, shares $5. 3

Lands, 72 claims, known as the Duncan group, south of Paradise, and the Taylor-Cardwell group in Wood canyon, about 18 miles west of Para- dise, with adjoining claims, all slightly developed.

The property shows limestone broken and faulted by intrusive dikes of trachite and quartz-porphyry showing iron blossoms carrying a small amount of copper carbonates and sulphides. Ores are copper and lead, argentiferous and slightly auriferous, giving assays of $1.80 to $12 gold per ton. Devel- opment is by tunnels, longest 100’, on the Enterprise claim, disclosing ore estimated to average 6% copper. Mine has about one-half mile of workings. ARIZONA SMELTING CO. ARIZONA

Office: 15 Broad St., New York. Works office: Humboldt, Yavapai Co., Ariz. Organized Feb., 1905, under laws of New Jersey, capitalization $150,- 000, presumably increased later. Is controlled, through ownership of entire stock issue, by Consolidated Arizona Smelting Co. Bonds, $180,000, at 5%. Annual meeting, first Monday in December. Property is described under title of Consolidated Arizona Smelting Co. ARIZONA-SOUTHWESTERN COPPER CO. ARIZONA

Office: 18 Board of Trade Bldg., Pueblo, Colo. Mine office: Yucca, Mohave Co., Ariz. Fred Hessel; pres.; L. Hoffman, vice-pres. and gen. mgr.; J. H. Hoffman, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, C. Hoffmann, R. H. Weber, W. G. Laidley and J. E. Mischler, directors; C. J Price, engr; John Lefler, mine supt., and H. M. Postel, mill supt. Organized 1907, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $3,000,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable; issued 2,970,000. Annual meeting, held in Kingman, Ariz., in Aug., 1913.

Lands, 9 claims, patented, area 176 acres, including the Pittsburgh mine, in Crow canyon, Cedar Valley district, Hualapai mountains, 25 miles from Yucca, the nearest rail point. Property has 2 orebodies under de- velopment, estimated by company to average 30’ in width and to be trace- able 2 miles, opened by tunnels of 500’ and 682’, and shafts 225’ and 300’ connecting with the main tunnél, with about 4,500’ of workings. Mine, which is quite wet, shows chalcopyrite, galena and sphalerite, estimated by company to average 5% copper, 8% lead, 4% zinc, 15 oz. silver and $5 gold per ton, which seems too high for a large orebody of this type. Company claims 400,000 tons blocked out for stoping and 700,000 tons in sight, which estimate is high. Given a depth of 300’, a width of 30’, as stated and proven in a lateral direction for 500’, which is some ore shoot, would place only about 300,000 tons in sight.

Equipment includes an 85-h. p. electric hoist, steel headframe, a 12- drill Ingersoll-Rand air compressor, smithy and concentrator 120x50, of 150 tons daily capacity, with 14 Overstrom tables. :

Company is blocking out ore for stoping and expects to begin produc- tion in 1913. Mill was started in August, but foundations had to be strength- ened before operating steadily.

Arizona Success Mining Co. Arizona & Nevada

Idle and probably dead. Mine office: Vicksburg, Yuma Co., Ariz. B. T. Hickman, pres.; Austin E. Park, vice-pres.; Adolph Moltzen, sec. Organ- ized under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par. Lands, 8 claims southeast of Quartzite, formerly held by Apache Chief Mining Co., having nearly 800’ of workings, and a group of 6 claims in the Plomosa district, Arizona, latter said to show 5 contact veins, 2 of which, of 21'

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average width, are said to carry oxidized ores giving average assays of 15% copper, 40 oz. silver and $1 gold per ton, which figures are high. Prop- erty has shafts of 50,’ 75,” 110, and 250’, and is said to have 1,700’ of work- ings. The equipment includes a 16-h. p. hoist and several mine buildings, and company is saillxto plan a concentrator. A 15-ton ore shipment to the Humboldt smelter is claimed to have netted $1,087. Company claimed to guarantee a dividend of 11% cts. per share on all stock placed at 5 cts. per share, which places the company under suspicion.

Arizona Turquoise Mines Co. Arizona

The Turquoise mine, formerly owned by this company, was sold in 1911 to F. L. McCracken, of 536 W. 145th St, New York. Company is supposedly out of business.

Arizona United Mining Co. Arizona

Office: Pennsylvania Bldg., Philadelphia, Pa. Mine office: Johnson, Cochise Co., Ariz. Alfred S. Miller, pres.; Alfred C. Harmer, vice-pres. and sec.; David H. Ross, treas.; preceding officers, Stanley L. Conklin, John K. - Kane, Wm. M. Houston, Alfred H. Miller, J. Wesley Allison, Chas. B. Cox, John Gleeson and Robt. Mackay, directors; J. M. Libbey, mar, she eee Minard, cons. engr. Organized Aug. 12, 1910, under laws of Arizona, as successor to Arizona United Mining Co. of Delaware, capitalization $5,000,- 000, shares $1 par, nonassessable. Company is a close corporation.

Lands, 45 claims, 30 patented, area about 1,009 acres, are located 7 miles northeast of Dragoon, in the Johnson mining camp. Property includes the Mammoth, Republic, Copper King and Southern group of claims. Prin- cipal development is on the Republic claim, opened by an 820’ shaft, with about 6,000’ of workings, in ore averaging about 5% copper.

The Mammoth mine has a 350’ shaft, with about 3,000’ of workings, in argentiferous and auriferous copper ore, giving average values of about 8% copper, selected ores shipped to the smelter running as high as 40% copper.

Equipment includes a power plant, with good hoists at the Republic and Mammoth mines, and an electric plant and 4 Ingersoll-Temple electric drills and Ingersoll air compressor. Transportation is by a standard-gauge railway from Johnson to Dragoon, connecting with the Southern Pacific railway.

The 125-ton smelter, erected Oct., 1909, and run for a short time only, when in operation produced matte of about 55% copper tenor. Is idle, but is to be enlarged. Production was 245,040 Ibs. fine copper and 3,122 oz, silver in 1907; 237,600 Ibs. copper, 2,400 oz. silver and 15 oz. gold in 1909. ` ARIZONA VENTURE CORPORATION. ARIZONA

H. R. Collins, mgr., Kingman, Mohave Co., Ariz. Property, the Great Republic mine, near Kingman, formerly a silver producer and on which recent development work has shown copper ore. Mine is near the old Dia- mond Joe mine and is being reopened and will be energetically developed.

the mine as opened by a tunnel 150' long with a maximum depth of 120’ showing 5’ of $38.48 ore. The expert says, “Cut this to one-half and there is a handsome average value left to pay handsome profits,” and remarks that “by extending the tunnel about 80' further there should be encountered © +. . a tremendous body, or chamber, of ore, of unusual thickness fully 20’ wide.” As our contemporary remarks, an-expert who is able lo see into the ground to this extent possesses a valuable gift, even if he

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assists himself with a Spanish needle, a goldometer or just a plain dowsing rod. ARIZONA-VERMONT COPPER CO. ARIZONA

Office: 404 Fleming Bldg., Phoenix, Ariz. Mine office: Morristown, Maricopa Co., Ariz. D. Ainsworth, mgr., at last accounts. Property, about 8 miles from Hot Springs Junction, and 50 miles northeast of Phoenix, is de- veloped by a 100’ shaft, said to show a good body of silver-lead ore and auriferous and argentiferous copper ore. Was making small shipments Feb., 1913.

Arizota Mining Co. Arizona

Mine office: Wenden, Yuma Co., Ariz. Seth Bullock, pres., Deadwood, S. D. Organized May, 1912. Lands, 59 claims, area 1,180 acres, are in the Harcuvar mountains, 11 miles north of Wenden. Property is developed by a 125’ shaft, showing auriferous copper ore.

Arizpe Mines Co. Mexico

A. Fritsche, pres. and mgr., La Mesa, Cananea, Sonora, Mex. Organ- ized April, 1910, capitalization $6,000,000, shares $5 par, assessable; $2 paid in, as a reconstruction of Arizpe Mining Co. Is controlled by owner- ship of almost all its shares by the Mexican Metals Co. Property was 6,700 acres, described Vol. VIII under title of Arizpe Mining Co. Formerly at Cananea, Arizpe, Sonora, Mex. ]

Ark Group Mining & Milling Co., Ltd. Washington

Office and mine address: 616% Market St., Hillyard, Spokane Co., Wash. J. J. Budd, pres. and gen. mgr.; D. E. Grobe, vice-pres.; O. L. Budd., sec.-treas.; preceding officers, H, Karlsten and Mary Kneeland, di- rectors. Capitalization $250,000, shares 25 cts. par, 20 cts. paid, 5 cts. asses- sable; issued 437,595; assessments to date $3,000. Annual meeting Oct: sl;

Property, 12 claims, partly patented, in the Kootenai district, British Columbia, and Kettle Falls district, Stevens Co., Wash. Ore occurs in con- tact between granite and lime with S. W. strike and dip of 45%. Vein re- ported to be from 2 to 60” wide, traceable for three-fourths of a mile and proven to depth of 150’ and carries 10 to 20% copper with good silver values.

Developed by 3 shafts, 18, 50 and 150” deep, and 3 tunnels, longest be- ing 500’. Equipped with steam power, 1 air compressor and 2 air drills. ARKANSAS & ARIZONA COPPER CO. ARIZONA

Office and mine: Jerome, Yavapai Co., Ariz. Wm. R. Tucker, pres.; C. W. Clark, vice-pres.; J. E. Leeper, sec. and mgr., Jerome, Ariz.; Hon. W. M. Kavanaugh, treas., Little Rock, Ark.; preceding officers, Judge J. B. Jones, P. H. Reubel and Hon. J. T. Robertson, directors; James Rice, supt. Organized June 25, 1906, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,500,000; increased Jan., 1912, to $3,000,000, shares $1 par.

Property, known as the Royal Irish group) consists of 14 claims, 280 acres in the Verde district. Claims show felsite porphyry and diorite cut by olivine basalt dikes running north and south and dipping 60° to the east. Orebodies lie on each side of the basalt in the porphyry and quartz schist. Orebody said to be 85’ wide where encountered on 1,400’ level and shows chalcopyrite and some bornite. Extent of shoot not yet determined.

Development by 1,400’ shaft with 5,750’ total workings of mine. Man- agement plans development of orebody on 1,400 level and sinking shaft to 2,000’ depth. Equipment includes three 150-h. p. boilers, 1 hoist good for 2,000’, air compressors, machine shop, power house, etc. Company is pre- paring to build a mile of road to connect with United Verde Copper Co. railroad.

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ARKANSAS COPPER Co. MONTANA

Mine, on Ten Mile creek, near Helena, Mont., and about 2 miles west of the summit of Mount Helena, is developed by a 200’ shaft. Property shows a 30’ vein in diorite, traceable 800’, assaying well in copper, with small gold and silver values. Was in hands of leasers early 1913, who were shipping high-grade ore.

ARKANSAS MINE. ` IDAHO Owned by the Seven Devils Copper Co. ARLINGTON MINING CO. MONTANA

Idle. Office: Wallace, Idaho. Mine near Thompson, Sanders Co., Mont. Cyrus W. Gossert, pres.; Chas. T. Fisher, sec. Capitalization $1,500,000, shares $1 par.

centrating galena, and the 900’ lower crosscut tunnel shows a 10” stringer

ARMENDAIZ-SUCESORES; FRANCISCO. MEXICO Office: Apartado 37, Monterey, N. L., Mex. Mine office: Cerralvo, Nuevo Leon, Mex. Francisco Armendaiz, mgr. Property includes the Refugio, Barredon and Purisima mines, carrying slightly argentiferous lead ores, which are properties of merit, and the Colorado mine, carrying up to 3% in copper tenor. Mines, which have been small but fairly steady pro- ducers of argentiferous lead ores, with a little copper, are under lease to other interests. -ARMINIUS CHEMICAL Co. VIRGINIA Office: 56 Wall St, New York. Jos. “B, Clearihue, mgr., Mineral, Louisa Co., Va. Property shows a large lens of pyrite in ancient schistose

with steam hoist, Ingersoll compressor and part of output is concentrated in a 350-ton mill. ARNOLD MINE. MONTANA Office: care of Dr. G. E. Blackburn, Butte, Mont. Property, the Arnold and Snow Bird claims near Elliston, Powell Co., Montt: "Claims show 3 contact deposits between porphyry and dolomitic limestone, opened by a 70’ shaft and tunnels of 150' and 200”, showing copper carbonates to a depth of about 50’, succeeded by chalcopyrite, Idle many years, ARNOLD MINING Co. MEXICO Office: Nogales, Ariz. Mine office: Santa Cruz, Sonora, Mex. E. D. Arnold, pres.; A. JO. Koppes, mgr. Property is the Del Pilar mine, about 35 miles northwest of Cananea, developed by a 400’ shaft, showing ore said to average 10% copper, a shipment of 200 tons Dec., 1912 returning 13.1% cop- per. Company planned to erect a 50-ton concentrator early 1913. Employs about 25 men. Property was reported sold to the Manhattan Development Co., for $88,000, May, 1913. ARNOLD MINING Co. MICHIGAN Idle. Office: 62 Devonshire St., Boston, Mass. Mine office: Copper Falls, Keweenaw Co., Mich. John C. Watson, pres.; John Brooks, sec.- treas.; Capt. Wesley Clark, supt.; preceding officers, Chas. H. Weston and W. H. Currier, directors. Annual meeting, second Tuesday in May. Or- ganized 1864, under laws of Michigan, capitalization $2,500,000, shares $25 par; issued, $1,550,000,

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Lands, 3,323 acres, in T. 58 N., R. 31 W., in 2 tracts, including the Old Copper Falls mine and the Arnold mine proper, with frontage of about 3 miles oñ Lake Superior. The Copper Falls mine, worked 1850, until Aug., 1893, made 25,686,429 lbs. fine copper, mainly from the Owl Creek fissure, and paid dividends of $100,000. The Arnold mine proper, developed on the Arnold ashbed, was opened 1863, reopened 1897, closed 1901, rock stamped averaging under 0.8% copper. Has a stamp mill and 2%-mile narrow-gauge railroad, known as Arnold & Eagle Harbor, rolling stock of which has been sold. No. 1 shaft of the Arnold is about 1,000’ deep, sunk at an angle of 26° with the horizon. In Sept., 1908, employing 5 to 8 men, shipped, from the Owl Creek fissure, 32 tons of copper, including barrel work and 7 or 8 heavy masses, one weighing about 5 tons, averaging a production of about l ton of copper per man per month and producing enough metal to pay all expenses, including taxes. Total production, 1899 to 1911, inclusive, was 2,065,817 lbs. fine copper.

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Idle. Property is a group of 15 claims, unpatented, in T. 34 N., R. 4. W., Shasta Co., Cal., developed by 5 tunnels, of about 1,600” aggregate length, showing sulphide ore.

Ascot Mining Co. Quebec

Office and mine: Capelton, Sherbrooke Co., Que. Property, in Ascot township, Sherbrooke Co., shows an ore formation similar to that in the Eustis mine nearby, but not quite so high in sulphur and iron, carrying 2 to 6% copper, with small gold and silver values. Mine, first opened in 1859, is developed by shafts. Equipment includes a Rand 7-drill compres- sor, steam hoist and necessary mine buildings. Was controlled by a Mon- treal syndicate, at last reports.

Ashbed Mining Co. Michigan

Office: 62 Devonshire St., Boston, Mass. Mine office: Copper Falls, Keweenaw Co., Mich. Francis L. Maguire, pres.; John Brooks, sec.-treas.; ‘Capt. Wesley Clark, supt.; preceding officers, John C. Watson and Charles G. Lund, directors. Organized 1889, under laws of Michigan, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $25 par. Annual meeting, second Tuesday in March. Land, 1,143 acres, Peterick mine, in vicinity of Copper Falls, adjoining the Arnold mine. The last mining work was done 1905-1906. Described Vol. II. ASHBORO COPPER MINING CO. NORTH CAROLINA

Mine office: Ashboro, Randolph Co., N. C. H. D. Landers, pres.; D. M. Holliday, vice-pres.; W. C. Hammond, treas.; M. W. Parrish, sec. Organized under laws of North Dakota, capitalization $100,000, shares $1 par. Lands, 93 acres, just north of Ashboro. A carload of ore gave returns of $16.85 per ton, with 8.6% copper and small gold values. Idle from 1907 to 1913, when work was resumed and shipments made. ASIENTOS; COMPAÑÍA MINERA DE, $. A. MEXICO

Office: Tepezala, Aguascalientes, Mex. Abram Rapp, mgr. Organ- ized June 3, 1900, under laws of Mexico, capitalization 1,000,000 pesos. Probably is the Mexican incorporation of Asientos Mining Co., or property under lease to that company. ASIENTOS MINING CO. MEXICO

Address: B. Strouse, sec.-treas., Baltimore, Md. Mine office: Asientos, Ocampo, Aguascalientes, Mex. Chas. Adler, vice-pres.; Abram Rapp, gen. mgr. Organized 1898, under laws of Delaware, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $10 par, nonassessable; fully issued.

Lands, 190 acres, including the Nopensada and Alta Palmira mines, which are antiguas, and the Veta Grande and Refugio mines.

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Nopensada, said to have been a considerable producer in early days, car- ries mainly slightly argentiferous copper ore, of about $40 per ton average value. Equipment includes steam and electric power.

The Alta Palmira mine, having a 450’ shaft, produces auriferous and argentiferous copper ore, and yielded, 1910, $250,000 in gold, silver and copper. Equipment includes a 150-h. p. steam plant and hoist.

The Refugio mine shows ore carrying up to 10% copper and 1,100 grains silver per metric ton, with small gold values.

Aspen Mine Co. Colorado

Idle. Property is the old Aspen mine at Silverton, Colo., supposedly controlled by American Smelters Securities Co.

Astor Mining Co. Colorado

Mine office:*Eureka, San Juan Co., Colo. E. C. Condit, supt., at last accounts. Property includes the Surprise, Mogul and other claims. carry- ing ores of gold, silver, lead and copper. Has steam, water and electric power, and a 100-ton concentrator.

Atlanta Mines Co. Nevada

Office and mine: 406 Columbia St., Goldfield, Nev. Henry Weber, pres. and mgr.; Arthur Weber, vice-pres. and sec.; L. L. Patrick, treas.: preceding ‘officers, Thos. D. Murphy and W. E. Jeske, ¡directors EAJ. Lynch, supt. Organized March 3, 1905, under laws of Arizona. capitaliza- tion $2,000,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable; issued $1,900,000.

Lands, 5 claims, area 74 acres, patented, include the Atlanta, Black Bear and Union Jack mines. Property is developed by 11 shafts, deepest 730’, with about 5,000’ of workings. Equipment includes 9 small hoists and a 2-drill air compressor. Was in hands of leasers at last accounts. ATLANTIC MINES Co. MONTANA

Address: care Amalgamated Copper Co., 42 Broadway, New York. Ross W. Lynn, pres.; R. W. Myers, sec. Organized Jan. 20, 1913, under laws of Delaware, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $10 par; $250,000 paid. Property, the holdings of the old La France Copper Co., including the Lexington mine and concentrating plant at Walkerville, Butte, Mont. Com- pany is controlled by Amalgamated Copper Co. interests and was incorpor- ated for the purpose of purchasing the Lexington group of mines at fore- closure sale. One share of new stock was issued for each $100 bond of the La France Co. and 10% of face value of unpaid coupons, amounting to $50,000, was paid in stock. Underwriters have option on 10,000 shares at $14 a share for 12 months, 10,000 more for 18 months at $18 and 10,000 for 24 months at $22.

Lands, 8 fractional claims, area 32 acres, known as the Lexington mine, held from the French owners under a $250,000 bond and lease, running in the name of Louis Girard, assigned to La France Copper Co. Property is at Walkerville, in the northern part of the Butte camp.

The Lexington mine has a 1,450’ three-compartment main shaft, con- nected on the 600’ level with the Alice mine, with several miles of work- ings. The mine was worked many years ago for gold and silver, but ore became base with depth. The lower workings carry an argentiferous and auriferous sulphide complex of chalcopyrite, galena and sphalerite, of which about 30,000 tons milled gave an average assay of 1.2% copper, 3.5% lead, 18% zinc, 5.5 oz. silver and $1.60 gold per ton, which may be taken as a fair average assay of about 400,000 tons of ore blocked out in the lower levels. In addition there are several small bodies of chalcopyrite ore up to

3% in copper tenor, with proportionately higher gold and silver values, and’

having smaller quantities of zinc. There are electric pumps on the 650” and 1,450’ levels capable of handling 500 gals. of water per minute.

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Equipment includes a 20x60” Allis-Chalmers double-drum’ hoist raising 2 double-deck cages, a 15x30” Ottumwa auxiliary hoist raising a single- deck cage, and a 50-drill air compressor. There is a very complete surface plant, including a well equipped machine shop, carpenter shop, smithy, assay office and minor structures.

The old stamp mill, idle since 1893, has been dismantled, leaving about 100,000 tons of auriferous zinc tailings, which possibly can be handled at some future time. ;

A 200-ton experimental mill was built, 1907, near the mine, between Walkerville and Centerville, at a cost reported by the company as $301,501. This mill used the magnetic separation process of Sutton, Steele & Steele, with no water, treating about 125 tons of ore daily, and milled about 30,000 tons of ore, but made such an insufferable quantity of dust that it was closed by the courts on an injunction sued out by the city of Walkerville.

The reduction plant, at Basin, was sold to another company in 1913.

The property of the company was sold for taxes, Aug., 1908, but was redeemed. The mine has been kept open, with a little work done in the way of experimental milling, and a small production secured, 1910 to 1913, by lessees. It was hoped that a combination process, devised by the General Engineering Co., of Salt Lake, would make possible the saving of 70% of assay values of the Lexington ores. This process calls for concen- tration on Wilfley tables, the roasting of concentrates, and magnetic sepa- ration followed by reconcentration of non-magnetic minerals. The prop- erty is capable of a large zinc production, if some satisfactory reduction process can be found. Production was 2,168,975 lbs. fine copper in 1907. ATLANTIC MINING CO. e MICHIGAN

Office: 82 Devonshire St., Boston, Mass. Mine offe: Painesdale, Houghton Co., Mich. Wm. A. Paine, pres.; Frederic Stanwood, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, John R. Stanton, J. Wheeler Hardley, S. L. Smith, Frank P. Son and J. H. Blodgett, directors.

Organized Dec., 1872, under laws of Michigan, reincorporated, 1901, for 30 years, and capitalization increased, 1902, to $2,500,000, shares $25 par; fully issued; paid in, $11.80. Last assessment was $2, Oct. 11, 1909, the first in 30 years. Has paid dividends of $990,000, last in 1905. Owns $40,000 stock in Michigan Smelting Co. Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Co., regis- trar; American Loan & Trust Co., Boston, transfer agent. Annual meet- ing, second Tuesday in March. The Atlantic. Co. is controlled by Copper Range Consolidated Co., through ownership of 93,470 shares of the capital stock.

Lands, 8,217 acres, including 1,351 acres of mineral lands, 4,760 acres of timber lands, and 2,106 acres miscellaneous lands, latter including the mill site, and a valuable frontage on Portage lake. Mineral lands are S. % of Sec. 4, except S. E. % of S. E. %; N. % of Sec. 9; N. W. Y of Sec. 10 and Sec. 16, all in T. 54 N. R. 34 W. Principal holdings are the old Atlantic mine, 640 acres, including the mines known before 1872 as the South Pewabic and Adams, located about 2 miles south of Portage lake and 4 miles southwest of Houghton, and the Sec. 16 tract of 640 acres. The mines, idle since 1911, are very fully described Vol X.

Atlas Exploration & Mining Co. Arizona & Mexico

Idle. Office and mine: Douglas, Cochise Co., Ariz. R. O. Johnson, pres.; N. W. Chase, treas.; D. T. Dunlap, sec., at last accounts. Organized June 14, 1902, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $5,000,000, shares $1 par. Annual meeting, first Tuesday in January. Has undeveloped mineral lands, known as the Atlas group, in the Warren district, of Cochise county, Ariz., amd a prospect about 15 miles south of Douglas, in the northern

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part of the Arizpe district of Sonora, Mexico, latter showing auriferous —

copper ore. No trace of operations secured. ATLAS MINING Co. YUKON

Office:' Spokane, Wash. Mine office: Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada. Employs about 20 men. R. K. Neill, pres.; Wilbur D. Greenough, gen. mgr. Organized Dec., 1909, under laws of Washington, capitalization $600,- 000, shares $100 par.

Lands, 10 claims, area 720 acres, taken over from the Yukon Pueblo Mines Co., in the valley of Porter creek, 4 to 7 miles west of White Horse, including the Pueblo group of 420 acres, and the Carlisle group of 300 acres.

The Pueblo mine, mainly developed by opencast workings 215x325’ in size, has an irregular orebody about 170x300’ in extreme dimensions, with a surface section of about 33,000 sq. ft, proven depth of 100’ by a shaft. The orebody apparently is entirely enclosed in crystalline limestone, near a granite contact, and apparently the limestone replaced by the orebody was cut by granite dikes, traces of which remain. There also is a porphyry dike of 3 to 4’ width, crossing the orebody, decomposed and showing cop-

per stains. Ore is éssentially cupriferous ` hematite, varying in texture.

from>compact to coarse, with some alteration, and with irregular silicifica- tion. The copper sulphides in the hematite have been largely altered into carbonates, oxides and silicates, only a little chalcopyrite having been found to depth of 100’. Principal ore mineral is malachite, disseminated in hem- atite, with considerable chrysocolla, and some cuprite occurring in vein- lets and small masses, Ore ranges from 1 to 10% in copper, and 700 tons of roughly sorted ore sent to the Crofton smelter, carried 5% copper and 1.25 to 2 oz. silver and some gold per ton.

The Carlisle mine, 2 miles from the Pueblo, has a vein 15’ wide, with a high-grade paystreak up to 4’, of nearly solid bornite and chalcopyrite, developed by shafts of 50’ and 137’. A smelter shipment of 100 tons gave returns of 22.64% copper and 6 oz. silver per ton.

Equipment includes steam power and a 10-drill air compressor, and necessary mine buildings were erected, 1910. Mine has a spur line to the White Pass & Yukon railway, built 1910,

Production, 1910, shipped to the Tacoma smelter, was 5,000 tons of ore, estimated to have yielded about 350,000 Ibs. fine copper and 6,000 oz. silver. Property considered promising,

ATWOOD COPPER Co. NEW MEXICO

Mine near Lordsburg, Grant Co., New Mexico. E. O. Aldrich, J. S. O'Donnell, Grist Florin, H. H. Smith, J. A. Craig and E. Fush, directors, all of Johnsonburg, Pa. A. W. Morningstar, mgr., at last accounts. Or- ganized Aug., 1911, capitalization $250,000, shares $1 par. Company began business with $3,000 cash. Property, the old Atwood mine, 3 miles from Lordsburg, developed by a 310’ shaft with drifts on the 75 and 148’ levels with about 600’ of drifts and crosscuts on the 210’ level exposing 2 veins of 4 and 12’ average width, carrying copper ore with some gold and silver values. Has a small steam plant. Was shipping to the Copper Queen smelter at Douglas, 1912.

Aufeas Mines, Ltd. British Columbia

Address: Hope, B. C. Property, the Jumbo group on Silver creek, 4 miles west of Hope in the Yale district, B: C. Group comprises 3 claims, ` in steep gorge, 1,100’ above sea level, containing fissure veins in grano- diorite. Veins average 8” in width but carry arsenopyrite and chalcopyrite in quartz. Gold is the principal value and the ore varies from $10 to $60 per ton. Development is by 3 tunnels and several open cuts. A ew tun-

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nel driven in 1913 cut a vein 3’ wide 385’ from portal at depth of 450’. Ore in this face carried more copper than found in the older workings. An aerial tram is to be installed and shipments made to “the Tacoma smelter. AURELIA CROWN CO. WASHINGTON

Office: P. O. Box 187, Seattle, Wash. O. Robert Dahl, pres., treas. and gen. mgr.; A. E. Coxhead, vice-pres.; H. M. Dahl, sec.; preceding officers, Geo. C. Whipple and L. A. Sherman, trustees. Organized under laws of Washington, capitalization $10,000,000, shares $10 par, nonassessable; issued $8,137,600. z A Lands, 36 claims, area 730 acres, and 2 mill sites of about 10 acres, are

located some 16 miles west of Lucerne. Property includes gold, copper, silver-lead and molybdenite mines, having 8 tunnels, of about 1,300’ ag- gregate length, and several open cuts. The Crown Point molybdenum mine has 3 tunnels, said to develop 2,000 tons ore. The Silver Trail silver-lead mine has a 6' fissure vein. Tunnel No. 3, on the copper vein, shows 4 ore shoots, of 4 to 8 width, carrying ore said to give average assays of 15.5% copper and $8.65 gold ¡and silver per ton. Mine has an rial tram.

Equipment includes a hydraulic plant, with 2 Pelton wheels and 832’ of 10” and 11” and 472’ of 6” double-riveted steel hydraulic pipe. There is an air compressor. Buildings include a machine shop, engine house, saw- mill, warehouse and 3 cabins. The mill has 2 crushers, rolls and a Schull concentrator.

Company makes claims of large annual profits to be earned from the operation of its mines, sawmill, water power plant and in water and rail transportation, but the railroad is yet to be built, the mines are only slightly developed and the tonnages which would make annual earnings of $2,800,000 possible, are neither blocked out nor reasonably assured. The total expenditure on the property to Jan. 1, 1913, is $86,552, a small sum compared with the amount of stock issued. The company’s circulars con- sidered misleading and not liked.

Aurora Copper Mining Co. Washington

Office and mine: Chewelah, Stevens Co., Wash. Conrad Wolfle, pres. and mgr. Property is the Copper Queen mine adjoining the United Cop- per Co.’s property, 6 miles northeast of Chewelah. Is developed by tunnels, and 2 deep diamond-drill holes recently completed. Ore contains chalcopy- rite with streaks of tetrahedrite in a vein of 25’ average width. Ground was broken, early 1913, for a 100-ton concentrator, of similar design to that of the United Copper Co., to be operated by electric power supplied under 10-year contract by the West Kootenai Power & Light Co. A rope tram a mile long will carry ore to the mill. Mine employs about 30 men. AURORA GOLD & COPPER MINING CO. COLORADO

Idle. Mine office: Central City, Gilpin Co., Colo. Organized June, 1909, under laws of Colorado, capitalization $1,000,000. Property, developed by a 400’ shaft, includes the Aurora mine at Russell Gulch, and lands in Clear Creek county, Colo, Percy R. Alsdorf, supt., at last accounts. AURORA; MINA LA. MEXICO

Owned by Teziutlan Copper Mining & Smelting Co., at Aurora, Teziut- lan, Pueblo, Mex.

Aurora Y Anexas; Cia. Minera La, S. A. Mexico

The Cia. Minera Aurora y Anexas owned by late Ernesto Madero and brother has worked for several years past, the Aurora mine, with 160 hectares in the Cuchillo district, near Coyame, Chihuahua and the Justicia copper mine, 4 miles east of Marquez station on the Kansas City, Mexico & Orient railroad. These properties were purchased from Don Francisco Diaz in 1908,

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Owing to the revolution against President Madero and the confisca- tion of all the family, properties, followed by a revolt and establishment of local revolutionary government in Chihuahua, it is impossible to get re- cent information; letters addressed to the mine are returned stamped, “of- fice closed.”

Avino Mines, Ltd. Mexico

Office: 638 Salisbury House, London, E. C., Eng. Mine office: Avino, Gabriel, Durango, Mex. Lionel W. Harris, chairman: Edw. Hooper and CADUCA Willoughby Wallace, directors; F. F. Fuller, sec.; Hooper,

Speak & Co., cons. engrs.; R.-H. Jeffrey, gen, mgr. Organized March 6, .

1909, under laws of Great Britain, capitalization £100,000, in 1,000,000 prior- ity shares and 1,000,000 deferred shares of 1s. par; issued, 484,691 priority shares and 978,429 ordinary shares. Was a reconstruction of Avino Mines of Mexico, Ltd., which was reorganized Feb. 24, 1903, as successor of com- pany of same name, organized Feb. 13, 1899, which was the successor of Avino Syndicate, Ltd. Present company took possession of property Aug. 1, 1909. Stockholders of old company were given 1 ordinary share, par 182 fully paid, for each fully paid £1 share of the old company, with the right to buy priority stock at par, share for share. After payment of 200% on priority shares, they became ordinary shares. Shares are listed on the London Stock Exchange.

Accounts for year ending June 30, 1912, showed £26,495 expended in Mexico of which amount £8,484 was for mining costs and £15,324 for freight and shipping charges; ore sales £29,504 and net loss for year’s op- erations £14 10s., leaving profit and loss account £3,718,

Lands, 166 acres, and a 350-acre dam site, 10 miles from Gabriel, on the Mexican Internationa] railway, the nearest rail point. Property in- cludes El Sangre de Cristo mine, which has a 500” shaft and 1,050’ tunnel, with several large tajos or pits, 1 being nearly 400’ in width and of con- siderably greater length.

New development in 1912 comprised 294’ shaft sinking with stations cut on 10th, 11th, 12th and 13th levels, and 668’ of drifting, etc., on 4th to 9th levels. During the year 16,288 tons of ore was mined of which 9,092 tons was shipped to the smelter, 300 tons added to reserves at surface and 6,896 tons thrown on dump. Total tonnage since April, 1909, 89,680 tons extracted, and 42,600 shipped. Reserves estimated June, 1912, at 107,167 tons, with 52,500 tons blocked out for stoping; 36,500 tons probable ore and 18,167 tons on ore pile at surface.

These figures make no allowance for ore openea up below the 9th level, where recent work has shown large amounts of ore whose limits are not yet determined. Ore is aq complex mixture of auriferous and argentifer- ous lead and copper sulphides.

Equipment includes a steam and a 300-h. p. electric plant, operated by a Crocker-Wheeler gas engine. 4

A large concentrator found unsuitable, was replaced by a hyposulphite lixiviation plant, which was claimed to save 85% of the silver and 30% of the gold values. Present mill, of 150 tons daily capacity, putting about 2% into.1, has a Wood mill, installed 1909, and tailings therefrom are sized and fed to Wilfley and Deister tables.

The former management spent too much money on surface, and not enough underground, besides making a mistake in the plan of ore treat- ment, The mine has a considerable amount of ore, of low average grade and now has competent consulting engineers and managers, and ought to make money in 1913.

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ore, of which 2,397 tons was shipped to smelters, returning an average of only 16.49 pesos per ton, with working costs of about 11.84 pesos. Produc- tion, for 14 months to June 30, 1910, was 43,350 long tons of ore, of which 17,937 tons was rejected and 18,094 tons shipped, yielding 910,499 lbs. fine copper, 261,000 oz. silver and 993 oz. gold, giving a profit of £4,338. Oper ations during 1912 were seriously interrupted by revolutionary disturbances. AXLEY COPPER CO. NORTH CAROLINA & TENNESSEE

Office: 805 James Bldg., Chattanooga, Tenn. Mine office: Ducktown, Polk:Co., Tenn. W. W. Axley, pres. and gen. mgr. Organized Nov. 6, 1909, under laws of Tennessee, capitalization $100,000. Lands in Cherokee county, N. C., just over the line from Ducktown, include the Mangum mines, area 1,000 acres, of the Isabella lead, worked previous to the American Civil War, when ores were shipped, via Chareston, to Swansea, for smelting. Ores so shipped were said to average 5 to 8% from chalcopyrite and 34% from black copper oxide, which presumably was chalcocite. No trace of operations secured.

AYUTLA SMELTER. MEXICO Owned by Carrizo Copper Co., at Ayutla, Autlan, Jalisco, Mex. AZTEC COPPER CO. NEW MEXICO

Office: 712 Colorado Bldg., Washington, D. C. Mine office: Organ, Dona ¡Ana Co.,:N.:M.. Gen. H. H. C. Dunwoody, pres. and mer.; Gen. B: K. Roberts, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, Col. M. C. Wyeth, C. E, Hum- phreys, C. B. Hall and C. C. Clements, directors. Organized under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable. Lands, 7 claims, area 140 acres, located in the Organ Mountain mining district, about 12 miles by good road southeast from Las Cruces. Claims cover the mineralized limestone porphyry contact worked by the Modoc mine. De- velopments are in the Oregon claim opened by a 130’ 45° inclined shaft, sunk on a 12 to 18” vein, from which a small shipment of ore was made Dec., 1911, yielding 8.5% copper and 23 oz. silver per ton.

Aztec Copper Smelting Co. Mexico

Office: 1309 Stephen Girard Bldg., Philadelphia, Pa. Operating office: Apartado 345, Guadalajara, Mex. Mine office: Guachinango, Mascota, Jalisco, Mex. Dr. Pemberton Dudley, pres.; J. W. Tyrell, vice-pres.; Geo. J. Graham, mgr.; preceding officers, Perry H. Dudley, G. H. D. Martin, F. B. Graham, Wm. A. Young and E. J. Fithian, directors; J. F. Graham, sec, Organized June, 1901, under laws of New Jersey, as successor of the Aztec Copper Mining € Smelting Co., capitalization $300,000, shares $1 par.

Lands claimed are 10,000. acres, of which 8,000 acres are said to be well timbered with oak and pine, and to be well watered, with an available water power on the Rio Ameca, central Jalisco. Lands include 2 mines, known as La Concha and La Perla, opened by shafts and tunnels, claimed by company to show ore averaging about $30 per ton in values. Has. an 80-ton concentrator with 2 Elspass mills and 6 tables. No recent returns secured. pA AZTEC GOLD & COPPER MINING co. COLORADO

Geo. F. Bradstreet, sec., 67 Milk St., Boston, Mass. Property Shut down, company out of funds and expected to be reorganized, Described Vol. X. :

Aztec Mines Co. Arizona

Letter returned unclaimed from Chicago office: Mine office: Prescott, Yavapai Co., Ariz: Perry L. Turner, pres.; Col. Emil Rautman, sec.-treas. and gen. mgr.; preceding officers, F. N: Thompson, D. V. R. Manley and C. A. Baker, directors. Organized 1908, under laws of Arizona, capitaliza-

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tion $3,500,000, shares $1 par, practically as successor of Gold Copper Min- ing Co.

Lands, 7 claims, area 100 acres, well timbered and watered, 5 miles west of Poland and 13 miles south of Prescott, in middle of the Senator district, near the Hasayampa river, Property includes the Aztec, Peacock, Mountain View and Iron Duke claims, said to show fissure veins of 2 to 15 width. Main development on the 15' vein, by a shaft cutting auriferóus and argentiferous copper ore. A tunnel 750" long, July, 1912, is intended to open up the main vein through the 3 claims, and will have a back of about 500’. The ore from the main shaft on the Peacock claim is reported’ to average $13 in copper and $9.92 in gold. Besides 2 main veins of the group there are 8 other cross and parallel veins on the claims.

Past history of company, with Mr. Stevens’ unfavorable comments, given Vol. X.

Aztec Mines Co. Colorado”

Idle. Property is the O. K. mine at Central City, Colo. "A. EE Frost, pres., and J. R. Hastings, sec. and mgr., at last accounts. AZTEC TURQUOISE CO. ARIZONA Office: 12 John St, New York. Mine office: Kingman, Mohave Co., Ariz. John Elsey, pres.; E. R. Grant, sec.; E. J. McNulty, gen. mgr. Lands, 12 claims, patented, including the Monte Cristo mine, in the Mineral Park

quoise mine, already developed.

Mineral Park district is one of the foremost producers of turquoise in the United States. The Aztec Co. and about 6 other companies are all operating on a small hill called Ithaca peak. The gems occur as irregular seams in porphyry dikes which are generally believed to be a “blossom” of the underlying bodies of copper ore. Copper is found in small quantities in every mine in the district.

Azteca Mining Co, Mexico

Idle. Mine office: Ayutla, Autlan, Jalisco, Mex. Juan D. Isabel, pres. and gen. mgr., at last accounts. Capitalization $500,000. Property includes El Zopilote and La Trinidad mines, at Ayutla, and the San Francisco mine, near Carrizo, the former carrying copper ores and the latter carrying silver- lead ore.

Azure Mining Co. New Mexico

Office: 170 Broadway, New York. Mine office: Tyrone, Grant Co., N. M. Employs 30 men, when in full operation. Louis Kiahn, pres.; M. D. Rothschild, sec.-treas.; Wm. Rogers Wade, supt. Organized 1890, under laws of New York. Is operated as a close corporation.

Lands, 110 claims, area 1,800 acres, near the Burro Chief group of the Chemung Copper Co. Company sold 73% acres, 1909, to Mangas Devel- opment Co.

Property shows monzonite, quartz-porphyry and granite, with fissure veins in granite and disseminated ore in porphyry, there being 7 orebodies with 2 under development. The Santa Fé vein ‘is from 15 to 75 wide

cast workings, 80’ in extreme depth with width of 150” and length ‘of 750’, also having considerable stoping underneath,

Besides the Santa Fé vein, the property has disseminated ores, one orebody on the contact between granite-porphyry and monzonite-porphyry being 152’ thick, developed for 500’ in length and carrying 24% copper

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present as disseminated particles of chalcocite. Property has been ex- plored by churn drills and diamond drilling.

The mine was at one time the largest turquoise property in the world, systematic mining having begun in 1891. Gem production has practically ceased and the property is considered valuable for its copper ore alone. ` AZURITE MINING CO. NEVADA

Office: 941 W. 35th St., Los Angeles, Cal. Mine office: Goodsprings, Clark..Co.,; ‘Nev. A. G: Black, pres. and purch. agt.; James McCorkindale, vice-pres.; J. W. McFatridge, såc. -treas.; preceding officers, M. P. Erwin, T. D: Knights and Samuel Yount, directors. Organized Feb. 7, 1911, under laws of Nevada, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable; issued 415,000 shares.

Lands, 11 claims, area 220 acres, and a 3-acre smelter site, in the Yellow

Pine district near the California-Nevada boundary and near Jean on the Salt Lake railroad. Property shows several orebodies of irregular size and shape, the largest 35x40’ and 8 to 10’ thick. These replacements occur in thick bedded limestones cut by porphyry dikes. The Azurite copper mine has a 90” incline: shaft. Property has 673’ of workings, including a 450’ tunnel, estimated to block out 5,500 tons of 20% copper ore and 30% lead ore.

Company plans 100’ of tunnel work with crosscuts and upraises for 1913. Company bought the Nevada Copper Realty property, Feb. 7, 1911. The proposed branch of the Salt Lake railroad from Jean to Good Springs will open up this district and enable many of the mining companies to ship ore.’

Azurite Mining Co. Wyoming

Idle. Office: 55 High St., Oshkosh, Wis. Henry L. Larsen, pres., Green Bay, Wis.; Arthur Bishop, vice-pres.; H. O. Granberg, sec.-treas.- and gen. mer. Organized Dec. 17, 1904, under laws of Wyoming, capitali- zation $1,000,000, shares $1 par; issued, $624,650. Lands, 5 claims, area 63 acres, in the Battle Lake district, near Dillon, in Carbon Co., Wyo., show- ing 3 fissure veins, in gabbro, of 15 to-20' estimated width, opened by 305’ of work, including a 65’ shaft and 70’ tunnel, showing ore giving assays of 18% copper. Company paying ‘taxes yearly.

Baboquivari Copper Co. Arizona

At Tubac, Santa Cruz Co., Ariz. J. C. Erman, pres. and gen. mgr., in 1911. Mine 40 miles west of Amadoville and north of Tubac. Property, 60 claims prospected by 325’ tunnel on 8’ vein, has a good surface showing of copper ore; 20% of ore mined is shipped to El Paso and is said to aver- age 20% copper, 50 oz. silver and $20 gold per ton.

BACA ORTIZ; COMPANIA RESTAURADORA DE MEXICO y Mine office: Tepehuanes, Santiago Papasquiaro, Durango, Mex. Prop- erty is the Candelaria mine, carrying auriferous and argentiferous copper ore. Idle on account of revolution, in 1912-13. pS BADGER GROUP OF COPPER MINES. IDAHO

Owned by P. H. Miller, Idaho; Fred J. Acton, Mayville, Wis., and J. P. Hoffman, Pittsburgh, Pa. P. H. Miller, gen. mgr. Mine office: Cuprum, Adams Cas Idaho. Property in Seven Devils district, 12 miles from N. W. branch O. E L. railroad. “Comprises 7 claims, on Horse mountain, covering a mineralized monzonite-porphyry dike 100’ wide, cutting andesite. Eleva- tion at Badger mine 5,600’. Discovered 1898. Reopened 1907.

Badger mine has 200’ tunnel on shoot of oxide and sulphide ore, said to average 312% copper, with gold and silver values. Shipping ore from tunnel carries $11 gold, 6.3 oz. silver and 26.7% copper. On other claim,

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gossan outcrop 30” high, caps sulphide ore carrying 2.8% copper and $1.50 gold and silver per ton.

Badger No. 2 and 3 outcrop is reported as 100’ wide, 800’ long and te stand high above the suriace. Orebody consists of brecciated porphyry, whose fragments are cemented by ore. Empire outcrop, as large as last, and 100’ wide, has lime contact carrying ore. Surface said to average 2% copper.

Development by three shafts, 20’, 40’ and 90’ deep, and 4 tunnels, 20; 60’, 70’ and 300’ long. There is no positive ore, but werkings are said to be all in ore. Some 50,000 tons probable ore is said to be available by open-cut work. Property, like others in Seven Devils district, has to team ore to railroad and cannot handle low-grade ore. Regarded as a promising prospect.

Badger State Mining & Milling Co. Wyoming

Idle and probably dead. Office and mine: Saratoga, Carbon Co., Wyo. Gustav Jensen, pres. and mgr.; John H. Davis, vice-pres. and supt.;5 Ged. Jensen, treas.; A. H. McDougal, sec. Organized Dec. 26, 1901, under laws of Wyoming, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par. Lands, 8 claims, area 140 acres, on Jack creek, showing 3 fissure veins, averaging 4’ width, claimed to give average assays of 50% copper, 50% lead and from a trace up to 400 oz. silver per ton, opened by shafts of 60 and 105’, and by a 90’ tunnel.

Badger-Hall Mining Co. Arizona

Office: 1125 G Ave, Douglas, Ariz. ' Mine at Paradise, Cochise Co., Ariz. —H. C. Beumler, pres.; C. P. Harvey, vice-pres.; S. S. Badger, sec., all of Douglas, Ariz. Organized 1907, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $2 par, fully paid. Is controlled, through ownership of 60% of stoék issue, by Bisbee-Sonora Development Co. Property, 30 claims, area 545 acres, said to show an orebody 62’ wide at surface and 50’ wide at depth of 200’, opened by tunnel.

Bagdad Copper Co. Arizona

Office: 1200 Union Trust Bldg., Los Angeles, Cal. Mine at Bagdad, via Hillside, Yavapai Co., Ariz. - Capitalization $6,000,000, shares $5 par. Stock control held by Arizona Nevada Co. In May, 1911, an unsuccessful attempt was made to finance the company by the offer of 100,000 shares to the public at $4 a share. In Oct., 1912 a 2-year bond on the property was given to the General Development Co. of New York (Lewisohn), and this company at once began drilline operations to develop more ore. The re- sults of this work with 3 churn drills up to April, 1913, being unsatisfac- tory, the bond was relinquished.

Property embraces the original 8 claims of Lawlor and 158 others, 70 of which are said to be patented; total area, 3.000 acres. Claims are in the Copper Creek region, Eureka district, Yavapai Co., 26 miles by wagon road from Hillside, which is on the Santa Fe line to Phoenix. Company has spent $400,000 on the property and developed 4,324,500 tons of concen- trating ore carrying 1.9% copper. Property regarded as valuable, but de- veloped tonnage too small to warrant building a railroad and therefore a mill. Future lies in developing more ore, since it is not certain that the last work done has exhausted the possibilities of the ground.

Bagdad Mining & Milling Co. California

Presumably idle. Mine office: Bagdad, San Bernardino Co., Cal. John Denair, pres.; Norman E. Rich, vice-pres.: W. I. Coapman, sec.; preceding officers, C E. Hunter and Geo. E. Mills, ‘ditectoré: Organized Jan., 1910, as successor of Orange Blossom Mining & Milling Co. Fully described Vol. X.

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BAJA y SANTA ROSA; CIA. MINERA y BEN. DE LA. MEXICO Idle. Mine office: Trinidad, Sahuaripa, Sonora, Mex. Property is La

Azogueria mine, carrying argentiferous and auriferous copper ore, also La

Bonanza y Anexas group, carrying gold-copper ore.

Baker Consolidated Copper Co. Arizona

Idle. Letter unclaimed at former office, Tucson, Ariz.. Mine office: Cerro Colorado, Pima Co., Ariz.. Chas. E. Udall, mgr., at last accounts. Property shows mainly gold and silver ores. Equipment includes steam power and an air compressor. Has a 20-ton mill and concentrator with 5 stamps.

Baker Cons. Copper Mc. Co. California & Georgia

Office: 142 Bagg St., Detroit, Mich. Mine office: Pierceville, Fannin Co., Ga. John Baker, pres. and gen. mgr. Property, across the river in Georgia from the Tennessee mine, in operation, 1910. Company owns 1,250 acres of patented mineral land in Siskiyou county, Cal. Formerly held the United and Queen copper groups, now known as the Oregon Consolidated mine, at Copley, Shasta Co., Cal. No trace of operations secured. Is not regarded favorably.

Baker Milling, Smelting & Refining Co. Oklahoma

Office: 4 Campau Bldg., Detroit, Mich. John Baker, pres.; John E. Rolland, sec.-treas., Organized under laws of Oklahoma, capitalization $10,000,000. President claimed to be putting a plant in Detroit, to be in operation during 1906, but no such plant materialized, President Baker writes that he has never deceived anybody, and simply holds the charter, keeping it in force for the present, with no stock for sale, and would deem it a favor if no mention of the company were made in this work. Is re- earded with suspicion. Letter returned unclaimed June, 1913. BALAKLALA CENTRAL MG. & SMELTING CO. CALIFORNIA

- Address: Coram, Shasta Co., Cal. Thos. J. Barbour, pres.; J.*C. Mont- gomery, vice-pres.; W. M. Downs, sec.; preceding officers, T. M. T. Raborg and J. R. Howell, directors. Organized under laws of Wyoming, capitali- zation $5,000,000. shares $5 par; one-third of issue owned by Balaklala Consolidated Copper Co. Owns 3 claims surrounded on all sides by Balaklala Consolidated Copper Co.’s holdings and supposed to contain the extension of the Balaklala orebodies.

Balaklala Consolidated Copper Co. California

Office: 111 Broadway, New York. Mine office: Kimberly, Shasta Co., Cal. Works office: Coram, Shasta Co., Cal. Frank M. Leland, pres.; W. H. Brevoort, vice-pres.; W. A. Kerr, sec.; T. M. T. Raborg, treas.; preced- ing officers and Edgar L. Newhouse, directors; R. T. White, gen. mgr.; H. F. Wierum, metallurgist; E. H. Braden, cons. engr.; Jas. Doyle, mine supt. Organized Feb. 24, 1906, under laws of Nevada, capitalization $10,000,000, shares $25 par. Bonds were $1,500,000, but have been retired, last lot of $375,000 having been paid July, 1910. Company was a reorganization of the Balaklala Mining Co., control of which was sold simultaneously to two parties, making a snarl requiring reconstruction to untangle. Is controlled, through ownership of entire stock issue, by the First National Copper Co. Is dominated by the Guggenheim interests. Windsor Trust Co., New York, and Federal Trust Co., Boston, transfer agents; Trust Company of Amer- ica, New York, and First National Bank, Boston, registrars. For 1910 gross income was $2,521,790.

Property, 65 claims, patented, 1,169 acres, also 800 acres of miscellane- ous lands, including a smelter site, the town site of Coram and right-of-way for tram line. Mineral holdings are at Kimberly in the Flat Creek district, 4 miles northeast of the Iron Mountain mine, and adjoin the Trinity mine.

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Property reported to carry 5 orebodies, with 2 developed. Apparently 4 orebodies are portions of the same ore zone, separated by faulting. Lands carry 3,040’ of the strike of the main ore zone, developed for about 1,100’.

Country rock is rhyolite, ore occurring in lenticular masses as replacement’

of country rock, in flat bodies, with slight dip to north, and greatest exten- sion east and west, with a series of north and south step faults, causing displacement from a few feet to more than 100’. The two main orebodies are developed for lengths of 900’ and 1,100”. Ore is cupriferous pyrite, cop- per values being mainly in chalcopyrite, with a little chalcocite and covel- lite, all carrying gold and silver values, estimated by management to aver- age about 2.65% copper, 0.9 oz. silver and 50 to 60 cts. gold per ton. The larger orebody developing about 1,000,000 tons, gives a typical analysis of 2.7% copper, 0.95 oz. silver, 0.03 oz. gold, 21.4% silica, 31.5% iron, 0.3% lime, 3.4% alumina, 2.2% zinc and 35.2% sulphur.

Principal workings are known as the Windy Camp and Weil. The mine has large reserves of low-grade ore. Development is by a large glory hole, and by tunnels, with upraises, providing for open-cast mining, giving cheap extraction, there being about 20 tunnels, including the Weil tunnel of nearly 6,000’ length. Mining operations were resumed Aug., 1913; with 22 men breaking ore. f

Power equipment includes a steam plant installatión of about 1,000 h. p. and electric power. Machinery includes a number of hoists, 5 compound air compressors and about 40 rock drills. Buildings include an office, store, school, hospital, sawmill and about 75 dwellings, all but the necessary mine buildings being located in the town site at the smelter.

The mine and smelter are connected by a Bleichert aerial tram of 16,130’ length, of 75-tons hourly capacity, operated by. gravity, having 62 wooden towers, highest 85”. The 1,700-ton smelter is thoroughly modern and well equipped. Ore passes through 4x10’ revolving sizing drums, coarse material going to the blast furnaces and fines to the calciners. The 500’ bin house has bins for ore, fluxes and fuel. The roast building has four 50-ton McDougal calciners.

The furnace building, of steel frame, no wood being used, has three 600-ton water-jacket blast furnaces, each 56x240”, first blown in Oct., 1908, and a 17x96’ reverberatory furnace, of 150 tons. daily capacity, for fines, burning petroleum, the waste heat generating power in 2 Stirling boilers, the power house having 3 additional Stirling boilers, burning petroleum. The converter plant has 96x150” shells of horizontal type, and an electric traveling crane. The product when operating is 99% blister copper carry- ing 75 oz. silver and 1.5 oz. gold per ton, sent to Perth Amboy works for electrolytic refining. Power plant includes 3 Connersville blowers, each driven by a 450-h. p. tandem compound steam engine, direct-connected. The slag line has electric locomotives. The smelter stack, 275” high and 20’ in diameter, was torn down, 1913, and a new steel stack is being erected.

Although the smelter is about 14 miles from the nearest cultivated lands, the “smoke farmers” of northern California were busy and con- troversy with the Shasta County Farmer's Protective Association, led to the installation of the Cottrell electrolytic fume process which proved a failure after $120,000 had been spent for its installation. The Young proc- ess used at Campo Seco (Penn Mining Co.) was also unsuccessful and now, the Hall process will be tried. This Process extracts the sulphur as native sulphur 9914% fine, after which the ores are smelted. The cost of extrac- tion is estimated at $5 per ton and the product.saleable at $30 per ton. The

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annual reports, gives the ratio of ores smelted, as 1 ton of silicious ore to 14.1 tons of sulphide ore. The total burden to blast furnaces was com- posed of 70.6% sulphide ores; 11.3% silicious ores: 2.6% flue dust and 17.3% lime rock. The percentage of ore treated by blast furnace was 99.38%, 0.62% of silicious ores being used as converter lining. Smelting cost $3 per ton. Coke consumed equaled 1 ton for every 17.1 tons handled, or 1 ton for every 14.9 tons of copper-bearing material treated. The percentage of coke to total burden was 5.90%, and of coke to sulphides, 7.58%.

Flue dust produced equaled 1 ton for every 49 tons of copper-bearing material treated, or 56 tons of burden. Of the'total metal contents of the material treated, the flue dust contained: 1.49% of the gold, 1.21% of the silver, and 2.24% of the copper, or approximately 2.12% of the total value in dollars.

The average furnace burden per day was 453 tons, and of sulphides 352 tons. Two 52x240” water-jacketed blast furnaces were operated during the time this record was made.

The detailed estimates of costs given in Vol. VIII, have been borne out by actual results, and the estimate of a maximum extraction of 2.25% cop- per was verified by the average recovery of 214% copper and $1 per ton in gold and silver, or practically 2 cts. per 1b., effected in 1910. The man- agement estimates that copper can be laid down in New York for 10 cts. per lb. with 3 furnaces running, but only 2 furnaces have been in blast at once, and management estimates a cost of 11 cts. per 1b., delivered, with 2 furnaces, or 12 cts. per lb. with one furnace. Taking everything into consideration, the figures of Vol. VIII, of minimum cost of 11% cts., or maximum of 14% cts., seem to hold good. After 7 months’ idleness, 1 fur- nace was blown in Dec. 28, 1910. Actual recovery, 1909, was exactly 249% copper, 2.54 oz. silver and 0.078 oz. gold per ton, giving an average value of about $1.50 silver and $1.60 gold per ton, or 6.6 cts. per Ib. of copper, this including custom ore smelted. The company had some financial troubles during the panic period and has been greatly hampered by fume litigation, and after long litigation smelter was shut down by an injunction of the U. S. Court. Despite an offer by the company to set aside an indemnity fund of $250,000 to be used to pay farmers’ damages, the senseless opposi- tion of a few small farmers has kept this mine and smelter closed and lost employment for hundreds of men. As a result the company has sold its immense piles of coke and other stores. Shipments of ore to Anaconda, Mont., for treatment by the Bradley process were not successful.

Ore reserves, Dec. 31, 1910, were 1,334,013 tons of 2.83 % copper ore with 1.32 oz. silver and 60 cts. gold per ton. Production in June, 1911, was 671,168 lbs. copper with nothing sincé. Production, 1910, was 8,451,653 Ibs. fine copper, and in 1909 was 11,569,314 lbs. copper, 633,282 oz. silver and 19,289 oz. gold. f

Property considered good and capable of making money with copper at 14 cts.) provided some settlement could be made with the farmers, or a process found for elimination of the sulphurous fumes. Like Trinity Copper, it was once a member of the Thos. W. Lawson family, but has survived. Company has $450,000 in First National Copper Co. treasury and can produce 10,000,000 lbs. per year at a fair profit, if allowed to operate.

BALAKLALA COPPER CO. CALIFORNIA Reorganized as First National Copper Co. BALBACH SMELTING & REFINING CO. NEW JERSEY

Office: 580 Market St. Works: 111 Passaic Ave, Newark and on Newark Bay, N. J. Edward Randolph, pres.; Jacob Langeloth, vice-pres.; F. Schmutzer, sec.-treas.; E. E. Dieffenbach, supt.; preceding officers, C. M.

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Loeb and Jas. F. Bless, directors. Organized 1891, under laws of New Jersey, capitalization $600,000, shares $100 par, nonassessable, in $300,000 preferred and $300,000 common stock.

Property is an electrolytic refinery, having in connection a small smelting plant. The refinery has 444 tanks, in parallel, with two 360-kw. generators. Plant has a capacity of about 3,600,000 lbs. electrolytic cop- per month, employing 150 men. The metallurgical practice of the works ranks deservedly high. Production, 1912, was about 22,000 tons of electro- lytic copper. A new lead refinery, erected at the Newark Bay property to take the place of the plant on Passaic Ave., Newark, went into opera- tion July, 1913.

BALD MOUNTAIN MINING CO. WASHINGTON Idle. Mine near Clear Lake, Skagit Co., Wash. BALD MOUNTAIN MINING & SMELTING CO. MONTANA

Idle. Mine near Saltese, Missoula Co., Mont. E. W. Conrad, supt., at last accounts. Was developing, with a small force, 1907-11.

Ball Copper Co. Arizona

Office: 723 Title Ins. Bldg., Los Angeles, Cal. Mine office: Winkel- man, Pinal Co., Ariz. Chas. E. Finney, pres.; Edward W. Brooks, vice- pres.; Robt. J. Simpson, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, A. C. Finney, C. T.

Joslin, D. W. O’Carroll and C. E. Finney, Jr., directors; Harry Scott, supt., C. E. Finney, Jr., purch. agt. and assayer. Organized Feb. 1, 1908, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $3,000,000, shares $10 par; $1,250,000 issued. Bonds, $50,000 outstanding, at 6%. Annual meeting, third Tuesday in January. Company owns 40,000 shares of the London Arizona Consolidated Copper Co., and has transferred its mineral claims to that company; they are described under that title.

Baltic Mining Co. Michigan

Office: 82 Devonshire St., Boston, Mass. Mine office: Baltic, Hough- ton Co., Mich. Works office: Redridge, Houghton Co., Mich. Wm. A. Paine, pres.; Frederic C. Stanwood, sec.-treas.: preceding officers, Samuel L. Smith, J. Henry Brooks, R. Townsend McKeever and Thos. S. Dee, di- rectors; Fred W. Denton, gen. mgr.; W. H. Schacht, asst. gen. mer.; John Jolly, underground supt.; Edw. Koepel, mill supt.; O. D. Fellows, fore- man; H. T. Mercer, engr.; Wm. C. Cole, clerk; W. J. Richards, master mech.; John Wagner, purch. agt.

Organized Dec., 1897, under laws of Michigan, capitalization $2,500,000, shares $25 par; fully issued, $18 paid in. Is controlled, through practically entire stock ownership, by Copper Range Consolidated Co. Owns $80,000 stock in the Michigan Smelting Co. Annual meeting, first Monday in March. Paid dividends of $7,750,000 to end of 1912, dividends being $12.50 in 1905; $14 in 1906; $10 in 1907; $9 in 1908; $10 in 1909; $10 in 1910; $5 in 1911; $7 in 1912. Net earnings, 1912, were $697,393.85, and company ended the year with a surplus of $306,106.35.

Lands, 800 acres, near the eastern limit of the Michigan copper belt,-

about 75 acres being on the eastern sandstone and non-mineralized. Hold- ings comprise all of Sec. 21 except the S. E. %, and W.% of Sec. 20, T. 54 N., R. 34 W. Lands are bounded on the north by the Wheal Kate and Sec. 16 of the Atlantic; on the east by St. Mary's Mineral Land Co.; on the south by St. Mary’s lands, lands of Hussey, Howe & Co., and the Trimountain mine; on the west by the Trimountain. Exchanged 39 acres, 1905, with the Atlantic mine, which will enable the Baltic to sink No. 5 shaft to much greater depth than otherwise possible. To the south- ward the Trimountain and Champion mines are opened on the same bed, which has a strike of N. 63° E., from Baltic shafts 2 to 5, and to the north-

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ward is the Superior mine, on the same bed. The dip of the bed averages about 73°, being the sharpest of any developed cupriferous bed in the Lake district.

The Baltic amygdaloidal bed, taking its name from its first mine, was opened in. 1882, but abandoned at 90’ depth, because a wrongly pitched drill hole ran into the hanging wall. The Baltic is an exceptionally strong bed, ranging 15 to 60’ in width, so well mineralized that at most points it can be more or less thoroughly stoped from wall to wall. The great width of the stopes has brought about the use of a walling system, by which waste rock is built into dry walls along the drifts, thus saving tim- bering, while giving stronger walls than any timber could supply, and sav- ing the cost of hoisting lean rock. The walling system of the Baltic has proven a success under actual test, and is now in general use in the Lake district, the credit being due Mr. Denton. A little melaconite is found in

‘narrow fissures crossing the lode, these being too small to follow, but the

black oxide ore mined in the stopes is saved in the milling, carrying 35 to 40% copper:as dressed, and smelts readily with the native copper mineral. The native-copper of the Baltic is arsenical, and it is probable that some copper arsenides are mined and milled, as narrow arsenical fissure veins occur occasionally in the district south of Portage lake. While the finished copper is arsenical, it makes wire of great tensile strength.

The shafts are numbered from south to north, with a distance of 3,025’ between the extreme shafts, there being room for one additional shaft at the southern end. Mine makes about 2 miles of new openings yearly.

No, 1, the discovery shaft, located between Nos. 2 and 3, was sunk at a wrong angle, and was abandoned at depth of 219’,

No. 2, the southernmost shaft, is 2,257’ deep, and began production 1906. The surface plant at No. 2 includes a boiler house with two 250-h. p. Stirling boilers, and an engine house with a Nordberg air compressor re-

‘ducing 4,000’ of free air per minute to a pressure of 70 lbs. per square inch,

and a Nordberg hoist with double-conical drum. The shaft 10ck house has a crusher operated electrically, and the shaft has concrete stringers.

No. 3 shaft, 1,170’ northeast of No. 2 and 2,526’ deep, has a steel shaft rock house, built 1908, by the Wisconsin Bridge & Iron Co. This is of the circular type, with 1,200-ton bins, equipment including a 16x18” engine, two 18x24” Blake crushers and a large crusher operated electrically.

No. 4 shaft, 900’ northeast of No. 3 and 2,457’ deep, has a frame shaft rock house sheathed with steel, 36x71’ with 17x31’ wing, 88’ high, with 1,400- ton rock bins and two 18x24” Blake crushers.

No. 5 shaft, the northernmost, 855’ northeast of No. 4 and 1,624’ deep, has a shaft rock house duplicating that at No.-4. Stoping is in progress on the 9th and 14th levels, inclusive, and drifts have been run to the Atlantic boundary. The ground was considerably disturbed in the upper levels, but is growing more settled at the bottom. Hoist is a duplex Nordberg, good for 1,500’ depth. Shaft is to be abandoned and ground tributary thereto will be mined and hoisted through the No. 4 shaft.

Hand power cranes for handling mass copper have been installed at all shafts, and the mine has electric pumps.

The compressor house, between shafts Nos. 3 and 4, is 36x58’ in size, with concrete foundations. stone walls and steel roof, housing a compressor with capacity to reduce 4,000 cu. ft., of free air per minute to a pressure of 70 lbs. per inch. Adjoining is a boiler house of similar material, 49x76’, with wing 12x62’, having four 250-h. p. Stirling boilers and a 140’ self-supported steel smokestack. This boiler plant supplies steam for shafts 3 and 4. Ad- joining the boiler house is a 360’ coal trestle, of 5,000 tons capacity, un-

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derneath being a 5x8’ concrete tunnel, through which coal is hauled in tram cars, on a down grade, by endless cable. The mine has a complete electric light plant. A considerable town has grown up about the mine, with 100 well-built dwellings for employees, on lands owned by the com- pany. The property is served by the Painesdale branch of the Copper Range railroad, under the same control as the mine.

The mill, on Lake Superior, one-half mile west of the Atlantic mill, went into commission Dec., 1901, and was enlarged, 1907. The building is of structural steel, on stone foundation, equipped with 4 Allis simple heads of 560 to 625 tons daily capacity each, and 2 Nordberg compound heads of

about 800 tons daily capacity each, the second head having been completed.

June, 1908, giving the mill a capacity of about 4,000 tons daily. Stamp foundations are massive, with 90-1b. anvil plates set beneath the mortars. Finisher jigs and slime tables were displaced by Wilfley tables, and Wood- bury jigs have been added, also Deister concentrating tables for treating the finer slimes, both giving good results. The mill has crushing rolls and a Huntington mill for regrinding, and a settling tank for slimes. Mineral carries about 60% fine copper, and tailing, 1907, carried 0.24% copper. The mill is heated by the Coogan & Strothenke system, air being delivered from 4 blowers, after previous heating by passing over steam coils, radiation in the coils being insured by a vacuum system. Power is furnished by a 500- h. p. 14x32” Nordberg cross-compound engine, and a 180-h. p. auxiliary engine.

The>discharge at the mill is about 25’ above mean lake level, and a drop of 1 in 10 provided for wasting many millions of tons of tailings by gravity, but the tailings accumulated largely in 10 years, and the manage- ment has planned the installation of a new system of dewatering, and carrying sands to the point of deposit by a belt conveyor, the water re- moved flowing out by gravity, and assisting in laying the sands at the point of deposit, clear water falling freely with a much smaller drop than sludge.

Adjoining the mill is a boiler house with five 250-h. p. Stirling boilers and a Green fuel economizer. Draft is secured by a set of duplex fans, driven by the mill engine, with a concrete smokestack 226’ high and 8’ in diameter. Behind the boiler house is a 25,000-ton coal storage yard, for the joint use of the Baltic and Atlantic mills, coal being brought to the boilers, through tunnels, by gravity. A 1,250-kw. electrical plant, installed, 1912, at the Baltic mill, supplies power for a number of regrinding mills at this and other stamp mills of the parent company.

Water for the Baltic and Atlantic mills is furnished by a $150,000 grav- ity dam across the mouth of Salmon Trout river. The entire steel structure is anchored to a 2” steel, base plate, at the bottom of the concrete, by a large number of 1%”, 2” and 214” steel rods, of 15 to 30’ length. Water is taken from the dam about 20’ below the crest by three 38” riveted steel Pipes, one on the Atlantic and two on the Baltic side. There is a system of valves and waste weirs,’but the structure is of such a nature that it could not be injured were water to flow continuously over its crest for an indefi- nite period. Surmounting this structure is a trestle of the Copper Range railroad, built at the same time, but in nowise a portion of the dam. The center of the railroad track is 7’ above the crest of the dam, 10’ down stream. 7

Rock hoisted, 1912, was 705,281 tons, with a discard of 52,848 tons, or 7.49%, the rock stamped, 652,433 tons, yielding 22,444,810 lbs. mineral, with an average return of 20.50 lbs. fine copper per ton, comparing with 22.06 lbs. per ton in 1911; 22,46 in 1910; 21.88 in 1909; 23.19 in 1908 and 21.94 in 1907.

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Cost per ton, 1912, including taxes, was $2.05, and cost of copper, deliv- ered, including taxes, was 10.94 cts. per Íb.

Recent production has been as follows: 14,384,684 Ibs. fine copper in 1905; 14,397,557 Ibs. in 1906; 16,708,868 Ibs. in 1907; 17,724,854 Ibs. in 1908; 17,817,836 Ibs. in 1909; 17,549,762 Ibs. in 1910: 15,370,449 Ibs. in 1911; 13,373,961 lbs. in 1912.

The ultimate productive capacity of the mine cannot be predicted with safety, but the present milling capacity is equal to making nearly 25,000,000 lbs. fine copper yearly, and ultimately this output, or even a greater produc- tion, should be reached. The management is of the best.

Baltimore Consolidated Mining Co. Utah

Mine office: Eureka, Juab Co., Utah. Letters neither answered nor returned. Robt. A. Brown, pres.; C. C. Parker, vice-pres.; S. M. Simpson, sec.; John Enlund, treas. Organized Dec., 1908, under laws of Utah, capi- talization $100,000, shares 10 cts. par. Lands, just north of Big Hill, in the eastern section of the Tintic district, are being developed by shaft; 60’ of tunnel driven in Dec., 1911.

Baltimore Copper Mining Co. Montana

Mine office: Amazon, Jefferson Co., Mont. John H. Mulligan, supt. No reply to letters. Described Vol. X. Owned Baltimore mine, Boom- erang guleh, 4 miles from Boulder, having pyritic ore with sphalerite, silver- ` bearing galena and a little chalcopyrite. Was worked in small way in 1911 and 1912 by Chas. Whitcomb. See Bull. 527, U. S. Geol. Survey, p. 121, for description of mine.

Baltimore Copper Sm. & Rolling Co. Maryland

(Baltimore Copper Works), Fourth Ave. and Fifth St., Canton, Balti- more, Md. Jos. Clendenin, pres.; Wm. H. Peirce and Edw. Brush, vice- pres.; H. A. Thoman, sec.; Chas. N. Sappington, treas. Company succeeded the Baltimore & Cuba Smelting & Refining Co., which built the first American copper smelter, 1845, and is controlled, through stock owner- ship, by American Smelting & Refining Co. (American Smelters Securi- ties Co.).

Lands, 30 acres, located on one of the best harbors of the Atlantic seaboard, with direct rail connections, being very advantageously located for both domestic and foreign business. The plant is large and modern, including a smelter, bluestone works, electrolytic plant, bullion refinery and sheet copper rolling mill. The electrolytic refinery, of 500 tons daily capacity, has anodes arranged on the series plan. Material treated is entirely auriferous and argentiferous, being received in the form of blister copper from various western states, and from several foreign countries. Works employ about 1,000 men.

Bamar Copper Co. Montana

Mine office: 410 State Savings Bank Bldg., Butte, Mont. M. de Scott, pres.; F. H. Butler, vicespres.; J. B. Frisbee, sec.; M. A. R. Scott, treas. Organized Sept. 24, 1910, under laws of Montana, capitalization $1,500,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable. Annual meeting, first Tuesday in June.

en 12 claims, area 230 acres, in the Summit Mountain district, near Buxton Switch, in the foothills of Fleecer mountain, 13 miles southwest of Butte. Claims were bought of Butte & Buxton Copper Mining Co. for 150,000 shares of Bamar stock, Lands carry several veins, of which 1, of 50” estimated average width, opened on surface for 6,000’, was mined 1890, by several shallow shafts, for silver-lead ores. Country rock is granite, mark- edly similar to that at Butte, covered by 1 to 8” of wash, with a miner- alized zone of about one-half mile width carrying 4 veins, with a diorite

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dike to the northward. Shallow pits and trenches show continuity of the veins, which are leached at surface, carrying a little carbonate ore below commercial tenor. `

Development includes several shallow old shafts, and the 180’ two- compartment Linda shaft, also the 700’ Linda tunnel, with a total of about 1,000” of workings. The tunnel shows a ledge, carrying a mineralized 10’ streak along the footwall showing mainly pyrite, with some argentiferous chalcopyrite and occasional carbonate stains, and a highly silicious gangue. Property has yielded ore carrying 1 to 36% copper and 43 oz. silver per ton, with up to $2.50 gold, also galena assaying 11% lead, 24 oz. silver and $1 gold per ton.

Equipment includes a 40-h. p. boiler, 20-h. p. hoist good for 500’, 2-driil a compressor and several mine buildings. Company plans deepening shaft, drifting and crosscutting. Property considered promising. BANKERS’ MINING & DEVELOPMENT CO. MEXICO

Office: 310 Hayden Bldg., Columbus, Ohio, and 35 Nassau St. New York. Organized under laws of Arizona, capitalization $5,000,000. in $1,- 000,000 non-cumulative 7% preferred stock and $4,000,000 common stock. Reorganized with same capitalization Jan., 1910, under laws of Delaware by Wm. B. Reed and Casper H. Eicks, beth deceased; Chas. Q. Davis, pres.; P. W. Lupher and H. C. Garber, directors.

Property owned by company, consisting of various copper mines in '

Magistral district, San Juan, State of Puebla, Mexico, together with coal and timber lands, were sold to the Puebla Smelting & Refining Co., Nov., 1912, for $1,000,000 convertible debenture bonds and $3,000,000 stock of that company. Is now merely a holding company. BANNACK CONSOLIDATED MINING CO. MONTANA Idle. Office: 104 Granite St., Butte, Silver Bow Co., Mont. Mine near Bannack, Beaverhead Co., Mont. (Carl H. Hand, pres. Organized 1906, capitalization $1,250,000, shares $5 par. Lands, 312 acres, covered with alluvium of 25 to 75’ depth, opened by 2 shallow shafts, showing ores assaying up to 5% copper and $2.40 gold per ton. BANNER COPPER CO. ARIZONA Letter unclaimed at Globe, Gila Co., Ariz. Organized May, 1907, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,000,000, by W. D. Connell. J. B. Aiken and Spencer Jewell, practically as successor of the Arizona Banner Copper Co., which was a reorganization of the Pinal Copper Co. See Vol. VII. B. A. & P. GROUP. y MONTANA Situated- west of Saltese, Missoula Co.. Mont. Operated by Hall, Lusk € Co. Property, 14 claims, developed by 500’ tunnel, planned to be driven to 800’, reported to show sulphides carrying copper, silver and lead in the vein. filling. BARABA MINING Co. WISCONSIN Idle. Office and mine: Mellen, Ashlan@ Co., Wis. Nelson Baraba, Sr., pres.; Nelson Baraba, Jr., sec. Organized 1906,- capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par. Has a shallow shaft showing ore assaying.2.8% copper, with traces of gold and silver. BARE HILL MINE. MARYLAND Office: care of F. R. Van Antwerp, owner, Hornell, N. Y. Mine near Mt. Washington, Baltimore Co., Md. Is an old and slightly developed

mine, showing auriferous and argentiferous chalcopyrite and bornite. Idle many years.

BARNES COPPER CO. MONTANA Office: 91 Dearborn St., Chicago. Mine office: Philipsburg, Granite Gon Mont. TG. E: Parry, pres.; Herman O. Brunder, vice-pres.; John C.

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Thurston, sec.; preceding officers, Frank G. Wilson, Frank E. Barnes and G. Hy Savage, directors. Organized under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,500,000, shares $1 par. Lands, 5 claims, unpatented, on Gird creek, 4 miles from Northern Pacific railway, said to show a vein of 4’ average width, between diorite and slate, carrying copper ore, and 2 veins, of about 6’ width, between quartzite and sandstone, carrying silver-lead ores, former developed by a 120’ tunnel and latter. by a 110’ shaft between the silver- lead veins. No recent returns secured.

Barney Canyon Mining Co. Utah

Idle. Mine near Bingham Canyon, Salt Lake Co., Utah. Frank W. Klett, pres.; Valentine Williams, vice-pres.; H. Percy Bourne, sec. and treas.; preceding officers, Geo. Ewing and M..C. Godbe, directors; Chas. Gillen, supt., at Jast accounts. Organized June, 1909, under laws of Utah, capitalization $100,000, shares 10 cts. par, assessable. Lands, 13 claims, in the northern part of the Bingham district, having several open cuts, a short tunnel and 2 shallow shafts, one said to show a vein of 40’ width, apparently carrying about 2’ of disseminated copper carbonates on the footwall, at depth of 23’. Closed down several years.

Barney Copper Co. Arizona

Office and mine: Globe, Gila Co., Ariz. Hon. J. D. Coplen, pres. and gen. mgr.; J B. Coplen, vice-pres.; W. J. Miller, sec.-treas.; J: E. Miner, _supt. Foregoing with F. F. Green and J. N. Porter directors. Organized Aug. 27, 1910, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $5,000,000, shares $5 par, nonassessable; fully paid and fully issued, 999,995 shares being given for property. Annual meeting, first Tuesday in October.

Lands, 26 claims, partly fractional, unpatented, area 450 acres, west of the Live Oak and Keystone mines, showing Pinal schist and quartzite, partially covered by conglomerate. Property has a number of old pits and shafts, deepest 400’, in Gila conglomerate. Equipment includes a 15-h. p. gasoline hoist, and there are 7 camp buildings.

In April, 1911, Barney stock was offered for sale in Kansas City at 50 cts. per share. In Jan., 1912, an option on property was given to the General Development Co. for $600,000. This company put down 3 holes, one at the bottom of the 400’ shaft passed out of schist and into dacite and at 1,030’ into granite porphyry. Three drill holes 1,450’, 600’ and 1,015’ deep, failing to disclose any ore, the option was relinquished in July, 1912. The No. 1 drill hole encountered an artesian flow at 960’, which is a valu- able asset of the company. The surface conditions on property are un- promising, the rocks gray and unaltered and this area is not favorably regarded.

Barranca Copper Co. Mexico

Office: 170 Broadway, New York. Mine office: Barranca del Cobre, San Andres del Rio, Chihuahua, Mex. H. T. R. Cowell, the former man- ager, resigned, 1908. Lands, in the Urique district, 35 miles east of Creel railroad station, include La Purisima mine, having argentiferous and auri- ferous copper ores, developed by 750’ shaft and 2,100’ tunnel, said to show large reserves of low-grade copper ore. Equipment includes a 20-stamp mill with two 4’ Huntington mills, a 100-ton concentrator and a 60-ton smelter. Production yearly is about 2,000 tons of high-grade ore and concentrates, shipped to the Aguascalientes smelter. Property was under lease, 1910, to Mendoza & Nesbitt, and negotiations for its purchase by an English syn- dicate were in progress when stopped by the revolution.

Barstow Mine. Colorado

Office: 42 Broadway, New York. Mine office: Ouray, Ouray Co., Colo. Works at Ironton, Ouray Co., Colo. J. H. Fennessy, trustee, New York

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office; A.'R. Wilfley, cons. eng.; C. R. Wilfley, mgr., at Denver; O. W. Knous, supt.; A. C. Haskell, mill supt.; W. C. Fulton, purch. agt?) Property, 27 claims, patented, 199 acres mineral land with 5 acres mill site, in Red Mountain district. Ore found in fissure vein in andesite with northwest strike and dipping 75°, is reported as 8 wide and carries 0.75% copper, 2.5% lead, 4% zinc. Developed by 2 shafts, 425’ and 145’ deep and 2 tunnels, 3,200’ and 3,300’ long. Total length of underground workings 10,300’, re- ported to have developed 17,000 tons of ore with 8,000 tons in sight.

Property closed down in 1906 and reopened 1910 on discovery of new orebody. Equipped with 2 hoists, electric compressor, 6-drill capacity, frame stamp mill and concentrator with 2 Blake crushers, 9x15”, 40 stamps, 20 Wilfley tables, 2 slime. tables and buddles. Mine has 115 h. p., mill 175 hi ip. $ :

Mine is 11 miles from D. & R. G. R. R. and the Silverton R. R., op- erating in the summer, is 1 mile away.

Production, 1912, was 11,301 tons, yielding 34,049 Ibs. copper. Esti- mated production 1913, 45,000 Ibs. copper. Company plans extensive de- velopment and installation of electric hoist, saw mill, etc. Mill in opera- tion from June 1 to Dec. 1 only.

BARSTOW MINING Co. UTAH

Office: 34 South First West St., Salt Lake City, Utah. Letter un- claimed at mine address, Bingham Canyon, Salt Lake Co., Utah. Henry. Newell, pres.; W. L. Pickard, Sr., vice-pres.; Grace C. Glanfield, sec.-treas. Organized Feb., 1910, under laws of Utah, capitalization $10,000, shares 2 cts. par. Lands, 1 claim. No trace of operations secured. 3 BARTOLINI HERMANOS. MEXICO

Mine office: Estacion Izabal, Arizpe, Sonora, Mex. M. C. Bartolini, mgr., at last accounts. Ore carries copper, silver and gold, with values mainly in silver, sometimes up to net returns of $2,000 to $4,000 periear: Was shipping 4 carloads of ore monthly, employing about 40 men some years ago and has been intermittently active recently. :

BASIN REDUCTION Co. MONTANA

Basin, Jefferson Co., Mont. Company was controlled, through stock ownership, by La France Copper Co., which, in turn, is controlled by United Copper Co. ‘Company succeeded the Basin & Bay State Mining Co., Aug., 1907, buying the mill and smelter, also the Katie mine, at sheriff's sale, for $302,865. Mill is of about 1,200 tons daily capacity. State Savings Bank of Butte held judgment for a debt of $158,920, paid by F. A. Heinze interests and property held (Jan., 1912) by Geo. E. Shaw and F. E. O. Potts, trustees. Property belongs to Atlantic Mines Co. by pur- chase of entire holdings of La France Copper Co., which held this plant. BASLER MINING & DEVELOPMENT Co. CALIFORNIA

Letters to 904 J St., Sacramento, Cal., unanswered. Mine office: Lowry, Tehama Co., Cal. Dr. D. L. McLean, pres.; W. L. Rennie, sec.-treas.; C. M. Basler, gen. mgr., at last accounts. Organized under laws of California, capitalization $200,000, shares $1 par. Lands, 14 claims, partly patented, also a 5-acre mill site and 320 acres miscellaneous lands, opened by a 1,200' tunnel, with~ 3,000’ of underground workings, showing 3 orebodies, one, of 2 to 75’ width, giving average assays of 2% copper, 2% lead, and $1 to $3 gold per ton, from malachite, bornite and chalcopyrite. BATTLESHIP MINING & MILLING CO. NEW MEXICO

Idle many years. Office: 412 Mack Bldg., Denver, Colo. Mine near Lordsburg, Grant Co., N. M. Dr. O: L. Blachty; pres.; O. B. Crum, sec.- treas. Capitalization $100,000, shares $1 par. Lands, 2 groups of 2 claims

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connected therewith by a good wagon road. Property has no surface im- provement, but is opened by 478’ of shafts, crosscuts and open cuts, show- ing ores that are said to have given average returns, from smelter ship- ments to El Paso, of 8 to 14% copper, 1 to 20% lead, 22 oz. silver, and $10 to $20 gold per ton.

Baumann Mines Co. Arizona

Office: Prescott, Ariz. Mine office: Humboldt, Yavapai Co., Ariz. Jules Baumann, pres. and gen. mgr.; E. S. Clark, vice-pres.; J. E. Russel, sec.; Allen Hill, treas., preceding officers and Robt. E. Morrison, direc- tors. Organized March 18, 1910, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $3,000,000, shares $10 par, nonassessable; issued, $650,000. Annual meet- ing, first Monday in March. Practically was successor to Baumann Copper Co., which forfeited bond and lease to Jules Baumann, Feb., 1909, and property was bid in at sheriff’s sale. Mine examined, March, 1913, by F. A. Golden, and property is to be reopened. '

Lands, unpatented, 25 claims, 500 acres, 2 miles east of Humboldt, in the Agua Fria district, carrying fissure veins in quartz, schist and porphyry, and a contact deposit between porphyry and schist having a heavy gouge on the footwall. Ores are oxidized in the upper workings, succeeded by chalcopyrite, ore being said to give assays up to 67% copper, from a trace to 300 oz. silver, and up to $35.50 gold per ton.

The Swiss Girl mine, opened 1884, has 8 shafts, of 30’, 26’, 65’, 40’, 67’, 208’, 320’ and 900’, with a 250’ crosscut tunnel and a 305’ drift tunnel. Only assessment work is now being done on this group.

The Baby mine, 1,000’ northeast of the Swiss Girl, has a 130’ shaft, showing azurite, malachite and chalcocite.

Equipment includes a 200-h. p. steam plant, with 2 hoists and a 2-drill Sullivan air compressor. Buildings are a smithy, power house, office, bunk house, boarding house and several dwellings. Work was resumed Nov., 1910, and management plans deepening the Baby shaft and crosscutting at 100’ intervals. Like other properties in this district, ore is low-grade and difficult to concentrate but will some day be profitably mined.

B. & B. Mine. Montana

Situated in Powell Co., Mont. J. P. Brusezite, owner. Property has been taken over by the Issuing Syndicate, G. T. Brown, mgr. Developed by 400’ tunnel said to expose a well-defined orebody carrying copper and gold values.

Beacon Cons. Mines Co. Colorado & Mexico

Idle. Described Vol. X. Letters unclaimed, 1913, at Denver, Colo., and Cananea, Sonora, Mex. BEAD LAKE GOLD-COPPER MINING CO. WASHINGTON

Office: 600 Columbia Bldg., Spokane, Wash. Mine near Newport, Stevens Co., Wash. Geo. C. Geisler, pres.; W. E. Allen, sec.-treas. and gen. mgr.; preceding officers, Geo. Potter and A. M. Harris, directors. Organized Dec. 15, 1910, under laws of Washington, capitalization $3,000,000, shares $1 par, assessable. Annual meeting, first Tuesday in March.

Property, 13 claims, 267 acres, about 2 miles from Conquest landing on the Pend d’Oreille river, showing 3 veins in diorite 2 to 40’ wide. Two veins developed by a 3,000’ tunnel and 3 shallow shafts, deepest 90’, said to carry copper-lead-silver sulphides; 200 tons ore developed according to management. Mine has a fair equipment, including steam power and an air compressor. Company plans driving tunnel 250’ further.

Company bought controlling interest in Comstock mine and adjoining claims, 8 miles from Newport, in Feb., 1913, for $25,000 cash and an interest in the company.

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BEAR GULCH MINING CO. MONTANA Idle. Office and mine: Twin Bridges, Madison Co., Mont. Alex. Johnson, mgr.; Edson C. Baxter, supt., at last accounts. Property is the Mountain View group, carrying auriferous and argentiferous copper ores, opened by tunnel. Has steam power. : BEAR MOUNTAIN MINING & DEV. Co. WASHINGTON Probably dead. Mine office: Colville, Stevens Co., Wash. C. G. 'Car- ruthers, supt., at last accounts. Has argentiferous and auriferous copper ore, opened by tunnel. BEAR MOUNTAIN TUNNEL & MINING CO. COLORADO

Mine office: Crystal, Gunnison Co., Colo. H. H. Williams, supt., at last accounts. Lands, 26 claims, patented, having 300’ and 400’ tunnels. showing argentiferous and slightly auriferous copper ore. Has water power. Out-of funds, idle since 1907, and probably dead.

Bear Tooth Gold & Copper Mines Co. California

Office and mine: Quimby, Trinity Co, Cal. Frank P. Burris, pres. Organized Oct., 1907, under laws of California, capitalization $900,000. Lands, 14 claims, including 8 claims on the east side of New river, reported to carry 14 parallel veins from a few inches to several feet in width, 1 vein, of about 4’ width, being said to give average assays of 4% copper, 5 oz. silver and $15 gold per ton. Upper portions of the vein under de- velopment are oxidized, carrying copper carbonates and considerable chalcanthite associated with hematite, succeeded by chalcopyrite associated with arsenical pyrite and manganese, with quartz gangue. Vein opened has a gabbro foot and serpentine hanging walls. Development includes a shallow shaft and 3 tunnels, No. 1 of 110’, No. 2, which is about 300’ lower, of 125’, and No. 3, 100’ lower than No. 2, of 120’. Equipment includes an 8’ Huntington mill, which was treating ore for gold values, at last accounts: BEATSON COPPER CO. ALASKA

Office: 165 Broadway, New York. Mine office: Latouche, Latouche island, Alaska. Stephen Birch, pres.; E. S. Pegram, vice-pres.; E. T: Ulrich, sec.; E. S. Pegram, treas.; preceding officers, Wm. Pierson Hamil- ton, John N. Steele, Sam’l J. Clark and A. K. Beatson, directors; EF. R: Van Campen, supt.; J. K. MacGowan, purch. agt. Company incorporated June, 1910, under laws of Nevada, capitalization $3,000,000, shares $5 par, fully paid, nonassessable; fully issued. Lincoln Trust Coi, New York, N. Y., registrar. Annual meeting, October. Company is controlled, through stock ownership, by the Guggenheim interests.

Lands, 20 claims, patented, area 340 acres, known as the Bonanza mine, about 3 miles from the northern end of Latouche island, within one- half mile of tide-water, where there is a good natural harbor.. Country rock is slate, and ore is chalcopyrite, occurring in brecciated portions of the country rock. The orebody is a large lens whose limits are as yet un- known. Ore assays up to 30%, and as shipped, has returned 7 to 8% copper, and 2 oz. silver per ton. Mine was located, July 4, 1897, by Andrew K. Beatson, and began shipping, 1903. Development, is by a big quarry and tunnels of 320’ and 900’, with one underground level from which raises and stopes have been made to surface. Property. has rooming, mess and change houses, and a hospital with physician in charge.

A half-mile tram line, of 24” gauge, leads to a 300’ wharf, with ore bunkers, on the natural harbor. Freight to Tacoma, by water, is $2.75 per ton, and ore being desirable for flux is smelted at an average cost of about $1.65 per ton. Buildings include an office and store. Employs about 90 men. The mine has been a continuous and increasing shipper, since 1903, production being about 1,020,000 Ibs. fine copper and 9,000 oz. silver

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in 1907, and 5,192 tons of ore, yielding 1,264,053 lbs. fine copper and 8,820 oz. silver in 1909. Produced between 3,000 and 4,000 tons of ore monthly in 1912. Mine is located on water front and ships ore direct by steamer to the Tacoma Smelter, Tacoma, Wash. Property considered valuable and management good. BEAVER-BUTTE COPPER CO. ; 1 UTAH Probably idle. Office and mine: Beaver, Beaver Co., Utah. John M. Murdock, pres.; Albert F. Fillerup, vice-pres. and cons. engr.; John D. Pritchett, mine mgr., at last accounts.; O. F. McChane, sec.; preceding officers and John E. Pritchett, directors. Organized May, 1909, under laws of Utah, capitalization $50,000, shares 10 cts. par, assessable. Lands, 5 claims, unpatented, in the Newton district, 8 miles from a

“railroad, showing copper ore, developed by a 175” two-compartment shaft.

BEAVER CONSOLIDATED MINING CO. UTAH At Milford, Beaver Co., Utah. M. G. Cuver, mgr. A new 55-ton mill was erected Jan., 1912, and 138 men employed. Main shaft is 510’ deep with lowest level at 460. Company worked 11 air drills, Feb., 1912. BEAVER COPPER CO. UTAH

Office: 222 D. F. Walker Bldg., Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine at Milford, Beaver Co., Utah. A. D. Moffat, pres.; A. J. McMullen, vice-pres. and gen. mgr.; A. D. McMullen, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, H. P. Clarke, Chas. A. Weaver and Jas. H. Paterson, directors; D. P. Rohlfing, cons. engg, Organized 1907, under laws of Utah, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par, assessable; issued, $617,000. Annual meeting, third Monday in March.

Lands, & claims, area 160 acres, in the Beaver Lake district, carrying an ore zone for about 6,000’, with 2 veins, known as North and South, that are fissures in limestone. One vein, developed by 4 pits and a 140 shaft, with 308 of workings, estimated to show 375,000 tons of ore, which is ex- cessive, shows oxidized and sulphide ores, latter chalcopyrite, estimated by management to average 3% copper, 14 oz. silver and $2.50 gold per ton, in a vein estimated by management to be 100’ wide. A carload of surface ore, sent as a smelter test, returned 7.5% copper, 6 oz. silver and 80 cts. gold per ton. Idle some years, except for annual assessment work, as open-cut work on veins.

Beaver-Harrison Mining Co. Utah

Idle. Office: 23 Eagle Block, Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine office: Milford, Beaver Co., Utah.. J. J. Trenam, pres. and mer.; E. H. Jacobs, treas.; B. L. Corum, sec. Organized 1904, capitalization $75,000, shares 5 cts. par, as a merger of Beaver Consolidated Mining Co. and Ben Har- rison Gold & Copper Mining & Milling Co.

Lands, 21 claims, 385 acres, in the Beaver Lake district, one group being near the O. K. mine of the Majestic company, carrying sundry fissure veins, opened by 2 shafts of 300” and 534’, with about 2,000’ of work- ings, showing a 10’ orebody assaying 5 to 50% copper, and up to 10 oz. silver, and $7 gold per ton. Has steam power and an air compressor, with necessary mine buildings.

Beaver Mines Co. Utah

Office: 603 Utah Savings € Trust Co,, Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine address: Marysvale, Piute Co., Utah. A. H. Cutright, pres., treas. and mer.; W. E. Kilburn, vice-pres.; Donald McMillan, sec., and W. J. Wood- head, directors. Organized Dec. 17, 1910, under laws of Utah, capitalization $1,000,000, shares 1 ct. each; issued, $25,000. Annual meeting, second Saturday in January.

Property, 20 claims, 320 acres, in the Ohio district, 5 miles from D. & R. G. R. R. Also owns 50 acres mill site and timber land. Claims carry

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copper-bearing gold-silver. ores in fissure veins in andesitic porphyry. There are 7 veins, 2 developed by crosscut tunnels, 400’ and 72’ long, to reach the main vein. Mine has only a prospecting outfit.

BEAVER MOUNTAIN MINING co. ALASKA

Idle. Mine office: Sulzer, Prince of Wales island, Alaska. Henry Miller, pres.; George Comer, mgr., at last accounts. Lands are on the southern side of Beaver mountain, Hetta inlet. Development is by tunnels, showing ore carrying copper, nickel and cobalt. Operations confined to annual assessment work.

Beaver Tri-Metallic Mining Co. Utah

Idle. Office: 35 West Second South St., Salt Lake City, Utah. Letter unclaimed at Milford, Beaver Co., Utah. L. H. Goulet, pres.; F. J. Nichols, vice-pres.; Geo. D. Anson, sec.; W. F. Earls, treas. Organized Jan. 12, 1910, under laws of Utah, capitalization $100,000, shares 10 cts. par. No trace of operations secured.

Becker & Kuhlmann. Mexico

Mine office: Asientos, Ocampo, Aguascalientes, Mex. Enrique Becker, supt., at last accounts. Lands, 40 hectares, including El Tepozan, San Segundo and El Triunio mines, developed by a 40-meter incline shaft, pro- ducing auriferous and argentiferous copper ores. Planned installing gaso- line hoists and employed about 20 men, 1910, Presumably idle.

Beemer Consolidated Gold & Copper Co. Arizona

Owns the Stormcloud mine at Mt. Union, 12 miles south of Prescott, Yavapai Co., Ariz. Idle, 1912. ;

Belcher Mining Co. Washington

Mine office: Republic, Ferry Co., Wash. Jos. A. Anderson, pres. and mgr. Mine has 3 tunnels, the 1,000” No. 3 main tunnel showing a con- siderable body of auriferous and argentiferous chalcopyrite, of fair aver- age grade. A 1,000’ aerial tram connects the tunnels with ore bins on the railroad. Water, brought 2,000’ from Lambert creek, through a steel pipe, generates electric power, supplemented by a gasoline auxiliary plant. Equip- ment includes an air compressor and power drills.

Property, reopened May, 1911, and shipped ore to Granby smelter, A large tonnage of low-grade gold-bearing pyritic copper ore was developed on the 300’ level. Mine reported, 1913, to have opened up lenses of low- grade ore on the 1,400’ level.

Belen Mining Co. Mexico

Mine at Cumpas, Sonora, Mex. Idle since examination made by Horace V. Winchell about 1910. Mine considered of slight value, orebody being worked out. Fully described Vol. X.

Belene Copper Co. Mexico

Letters returned unclaimed from Carbo, Sonora, Mex., and former. Los Angeles office. Property at Copete, Ures, Sonora. See Vol. X. BELL-DOMINION COPPER MINING CO. ARIZONA

J. F. Hechtman, pres., writes, 1913, that company has no property and is out of business at present. See Vol. X. Formerly at Globe, Gila Co., Ariz.

Bell Mine. Colorado

Wm. Bell and associates, owners, Lyons, Boulder Co., Colo. Property, near: Lyons, shows orebodies 3 to 5’ wide developed by shaft. Equipment includes compressor, pumps, etc. Shaft being deepened, 1913. BELLAVISTA; MINA. MEXICO

Idle. Office: care Henry L. Choistry, owner, Guadalajara, Jal., Mex. Lands, 14 hectares, just east of Etzatlan, Ahualulco, Jalisco, Mex., having 7 veins, 2 averaging 1 meter in width, slightly developed by about 95

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BELLE—BENT 109 meters of workings, showing argentiferous and auriferous copper ores. Property is an antigua, formerly known as the Picachos.

Belle Springs Group. Arizona

Office: Superior, Pinal Co., Ariz. Jack McKinnon, owner. ‘Group comprises 16 claims, near Calumet-Arizona holdings. Development by crosscut tunnel -168’ long to reach main vein, whose outcrop is said to be 14’ wide. A 4 ledge is cut in tunnel and is reported to show 3% copper, $3.80 gold and 10 oz. of silver per ton.

Belmont-Banner Mining Co. Idaho

Office: Eagle Block, Spokane, Wash. Mine at Delta, Shoshone Co., Idaho. I. Waldo Murphy, pres.; J. H. Masks, sec., and D. W. Jackson, directors. Capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par. Property, 3 claims, 1 fractional, near Delta, showing a fissure vein of 3 to 4 surface width, in quartzite, carrying silver, lead and copper values. Mine has about 700’ underground workings. Company doing annual assessment work only. BELMONT MINING CO., LTD. IDAHO

Office: Wallace, Shoshone Co., Idaho. Mine in Two Mile gulch, Evo- lution district, 2 miles from Osborne. Organized 1900, capitalization $100,- ,000, shares 10 cts. par. with 200,000 shares in treasury. Reorganized 1909, 1,000,000 shares at $1.00 par, assessable; placing 500,000 shares in treasury. William Sheave, pres.; D. C. Nicholson, vice-pres.; Frank P. Hess, sec.- treas., with Ida Sheave, Crist Anderson, S. R. Moore and John Michels as additional directors (May, 1913).

Property, 9 full claims showing 2 ledges. North ledge has tunnel 45’ long and open cuts, south ledge has open cuts and 50” shaft; 617’ crosscut tunnel driven on contact shows quartz stringers with siderite, galena and copper ore; 190’ crosscut work in tunnel. Claims are in a silver-lead dis- trict and copper values incidental. Is a development proposition only. BEN HUR LEASING CO. WASHINGTON

Mine office: Republic, Ferry Co., Wash. Dr. C. M. Kingston, pres. and mgr., Grand Forks, B. C.; John Benson, supt. Property, the Little King and Queen claims on Gold hill, developed by 800’ shaft, showing gold, silver and copper ore. Equipped with steam power, compressor, etc. New plant installed 1913. Property was intermittently worked, 1911-12 and drifting done on the 200’ and 400’ levels. Shipping about 900 tons weekly, 1913. Mine was under examination, Aug., 1913.

Ben Hur Mining Co. Montana

` Address: Saltese Supply Co., Saltese, Missoula Co., Mont. D. S. Dick- son, pres.; Frank H. Bell, vice-pres. and purch. agt.; Chas. J. Luedke, sec.; C. A. Keating, treas.; preceding officers, Peter Peterson Ae Matthies- sen, directors. Capitalization $1,500,000, shares $1 par. Annual meeting, last Saturday in April.

Lands, 5 claims, adjoining the Last Chance mine, 3 miles from a rail- road, showing a fissure vein, in quartzite, of 10 to 60” width at surface. Development is by 2 crosscut tunnels, the lower, of 865”, cutting a vein car- rying silver-lead and gray copper ores, giving assays up to 51% lead and 130 oz. silver per ton. Property considered a promising prospect.

Ben Hur Mining & Milling Co. Washington

Is a reorganization of the Ben Hur Gold Mining Co. Property leased to Ben Hur Leasing Co., 1912. See Vol. X.

Bennett-Stephenson M. & M. Co. New Mexico

Succeeded, 1912, by Organ Mountain Mining Co., which see. Fully discribed Vol. X.

Bent Mine. New Mexico

Idle. Mine at Orogrande, Otero Co., N. M. Lands, on Tularosa creek,

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5 miles_below the Mescalero Indian Reservation, have been worked some years, with small ore shipments to El Paso smelter. Equipment includes a small concentrator, planned to be enlarged. Property considered promising. BERGESON MINING CO. WASHINGTON Mine office: Berlin, King Co., Wash. Lars Larson, supt:, at last ‘ac- counts, Property shows copper ore carrying gold and silver values. De- veloped by shaft, equipped with gasoline hoist. BERNOUDY-TURKEY CREEK CO. ARIZONA Probably dead. Former office: Paradise, Cochise Co., Ariz.“ Described Vol. X. BERTHA MINE, MONTANA Owned by Boston & Corbin Copper & Silver Mining Co., at Corbin, Jefferson Co., Mont. BERTONELLI LEASING Co. COLORADO Leadville, Lake Co., Colo. Property, a lease on Little Jonny. shaft No. 4.. + Producing high-grade silver-copper ore from large ore shoot. in July, 1913. BESSEMER COPPER MINES CO. 3 NEW MEXICO Mine office: Fierro, Grant Co., N. M. Lands include the Continental, Iron Head and Anson S. mines, latter said to produce ore of 7% copper tenor, opened by a 200’ shaft. Property was worked formerly for iron ore, having been leased by the Bessemer Iron Association and Colorado Fuel & Iron Co. Extraction of copper by latter was stopped, by injunction, lease calling for mining of iron ore only. Idle several years. BESSEMER GOLD & COPPER MINING Co. NEW MEXICO Office: Deming, Luna GON MARN G Peterson, pres.; N: J. Grun: wald, vice-pres.: N. E. Baxter, sec.; C. Baker, treas.; W. S; Reese, mgr. Company organized about June, 1912, in New Mexico, capitalization $500, - 000, shares $1 par. Property includes Washington (Ruebush and Tidmore) group of 6 claims on the west side of the Florida district, near the Stenson Raithel mines, also the Hachita group in Eureka district, near Hachita, N. M., 8 miles from E. P. SES. We R R; BESSEMER IRON ASSOCIATION. NEW MEXICO Idle some years. Officer Hanover, Grant Co. N. M. Mine office: Fierro, ¡Grant _Co. N. M Copper properties were leased to Bessemer Copper Mines Co., at last accounts. BEST CHANCE MINING CO-ED: IDAHO Main office: 203 Paulsen Bldg., Spokane, Wash. Mine office: Wallate, Shoshone Co., Idaho. Chas. H. Bell, pres: W. A. Cox, vice-pres.: Chas. A. Gram, sec.-treas.; Robert J. Edgren, mgr. and purch. agt. Other direc-

BEST FRIEND GROUP. z ARIZONA P. O.: Kirkland, Yavapai Co., Ariz, Property, 9 claims in Weaver dis- trict, 9 miles southwest of Kirkland, showing 40” vein. of low-grade copper ore and developed by a shaft 150’ deep, with crosscut. Ore said to carry 2 to 8% copper. BETTY ALDEN MINING CO, -MONTANA Main office: Oliver Bidg.; 141 Milk St., Boston, Mass... Mine office: Basin, Mont. P. F. Ward, pres.; Thos. C. Kelly, sec.-treas., and Thos. F. Fitzgerald, directors. Organized about April, 1913, under laws-of Arizona, capitalization $4,500,000, shares $15 par. Succeeds the Montana Mineral

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Land Development Co., and apparently has taken over its Montana hold- ings.

Lands, 19 claims, area 300 acres, known as the Eva May and Red Bird group, on Cataract creek, showing fissure veins in granite carrying sul- phide ores, mainly chalcopyrite. Mine has a 1,200’ vertical shaft and tun- nels of 525’, 1,400’ and 800’, developing a vein of 100’ claimed width, giving assays of 6% copper, 6 to 12% lead, 15 to 30 oz. silver and 20 cts. to $3 gold per ton, The property shows a considerable body of low to medium grade ore, and the management estimates 50,000 tons blocked out for stoping, which probably is an overestimate.

Equipment includes a 200-h. p. steam hoist having two 75-h. p. hoists, one being a 14x16” Vulcan hoist raising single-deck cages, and a 4-drill Ingersoll-Sergeant air compressor. Buildings include a 20x40’ log ma- chine shop, 20x30’ smithy, 24x34’ carpenter shop, and a 30x80’ power house. The concentrator, of logs, is 35x120’, with a 7x10” Blake crusher, 1 set of rolls, 8 three-compartment jigs and 2 Wilfley tables. The property pro- duced 7,000 tons of ore, sold for $166,238 about 1909.

The new company plans unwatering the mine, finishing.a tunnel now almost completed to cut the orebody and shipping ore from the King’s claim. Editor is familiar with the property and considers it can be profit- ably: worked if railroad were built to the mine. The King tunnel, which was driven to hold some unpatented claims, is drifted along a tourmalinic vein 2% to 3’ wide, carrying pyrite, arseno-pyrite, sphalerite and galena. The ore of the Eva May mine is a coarse, white quartz carrying pyrite, chalcopyrite, galena, sphalerite and gray copper with much black tourma- line. The latter caused trouble in concentration work.

Betune Mine. Nevada

Property situated in the Funeral range of Nevada, about 60 miles southwest of Beatty, Nye Co., Nev. Judge Betune, owner. There are 10 claims with good surface showing of high-grade carbonate ore. BEZANT GOLD MINING CO. COLORADO

O.. J: Duffield, supt.,. Central ‘City, Gilpin s Co., Colo, 1 Property: has a quartz vein carrying gold ore with copper sulphides developed by a 500’ shaft, electrically equipped. Operated intermittently.

Bibiana; Mina. Mexico

Office and mine: Charcas, Moctezuma, San Luis Potosi, Mex. Aurelio Hiriarte, owner and mgr., at last accounts. Mine is a small producer of silver-copper ores.

Big Blue Mining Co. Arizona

Mine, Black Rock district, 14 miles from Wickenburg, Yavapai Co., Ariz. Col. Brown, mgr., at last accounts: J. A. Caskey, supt. Owns the Big Blue and Copper Prince mines on the Hassayampa river, showing fissure veins in schist, that yield high-grade gold-copper ore.

Development by 2 shafts, connected on 200’ level, 1 shaft having been sunk in 1913. An ore shoot developed on 100’ and 200’ level is now being stoped.

Equipment includes new hoisting plant and a concentration mill. Ship- ping regularly to Douglas in 1913.

Big Butte Mining Co. Arizona

Idle several years. Office: 503 Hall Bldg., Kansas City, Mo. Letters uniclaimiéd “at Wagoner, Yavapai Co., Ariz. Jos. F. Gaume, pres.; J. B. Hamner, vice-pres. Lands are in the Walnut Grove district. Y BIG BUTTE MINING CO. MONTANA

Office: Butte, Mont. Company owns 20 acres on southwest flank of Timber Butte, south of the city and has a lease and bond on Carey claim

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west of Walkerville, Butte.. The latter claim is developed by a 287’ tunnel, which is being connected. with surface and a 65’ crosscut driven to cut vein. Sinking is planned for 1914. : BIG COTTONWOOD CONSOLIDATED MINING CO. UTAH Office: 223 Boston Bldg., Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine office: Brigh- ton, Salt Lake Co., Utah. J. M. Howell, pres. and mgr.; Fred E. Rowley, vice-pres.; Jay Eliot Johnson, sec.-treas., mine supt. and mg. engr.; pre- ceding officers, Wm. Howell and A. M. Cheney, directors. Organized Sept., 1909, under laws of Utah, capitalization $250,000, shares 25 cts. par; 800,000 shares issued; listed Salt Lake Exchange. Annual meeting, first Monday in October. Lands, 8 claims in South Fork, Big Cottonwood district, Salt Lake Co., carrying auriferous and argentiferous lead and copper on which work is being done. Driving crosscut tunnel, now 240’,

to cut fissure veins in lime and quartzite at 700’ and 1,000”. No ore re-.

serves developed, as yet. BIG COTTONWOOD COPPER & GOLD MINING Co. UTAH Office: 521 Atlas Bldg., Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine office: Brighton, Salt Lake Co., Utah. Col. Nicholas Treweek, pres. and gen. mër: W. Mont Ferry, vice-pres.; J. Leonard Burch, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, J. E. Galligher and John S. Bransford, directors., at last accounts. Organ- ized under laws of Utah, capitalization $1,500,000, increased, 1906, to $3,- 750,000, shares $5 par, nonassessable. Is operated as a close corporation. Lands, 140 acres, adjoining the Mountain Lake Consolidated Mining Co., on the southeast, and carrying same ore zone, near the head of Big Cottonwood canyon, and also in the Snake Creek district. Development is by a 30 shaft, showing ore assaying up to 8% copper, with small gold and silver values, and a 700’ tunnel with about 2,000’ of workings. Mine ap- parently has considerable bodies of sulphide ore, averaging about 5% cop- per and $2 per ton in combined gold and silver values, and has secured some ore assaying 4 to 32% copper. BIG COTTONWOOD TRANSPORTATION & TUNNEL CO. UTAH Letters returned from Alta, Utah. James A. Eakins, pres.; T. W. Bell, vice-pres. and mgr.; John W. Eakins, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, David James and Howard Marks, directors, at last accounts. Capitaliza-

BIG DIPPER MINING & MILLING CO., LTD. ONTARIO Probably dead. Office: Peterborough, Ont. Mine office: Cloyne, Ad- dington Co., Ont. TETAS Jamieson, supt., at last accounts. Lands show auriferous and argentiferous copper ores. Equipment includes a steam piant and property was under development, with a force of about 20 men, BIG EDDY MINING CO. MINNESOTA Mine near Hinckley, Minn. Organized about Jan., 1911. A. D. Wil- son, pres.; D. J. Wilson, vice-pres.; E. A. Phinney, Sec.-treas., at last ac- counts. Company has drilled lands near Hinckley mines belonging to Mr. Wilson and claims to have found payable copper values, BIG ELK MINING Co. MONTANA Office: Wallace, Idaho. Mine office: Saltese Missoula Co., Mont. E. L. Proebsting, pres.; H. J. Rossi, vice-pres.; A. H. Featherstone, sec.-treas.; Peter Peterson, gen. mgr.; preceding officers and W. S. Brown, directors; C. F. O, Merriam, mg. engr. Organized April, 1909, under laws of Idaho,

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Lands, 15 claims, area 300 acres, unpatented, on Bald mountain, in the St. Joe district, showing 3 fissure veins in St. Regis quartzite, various trenches exposing veins with 4’ thickness carrying streaks of chalcopyrite and spathic iron, in spar and quartzite. A carload shipment, to Helena, from an 18’ prospect shaft, returned 28.7% copper, 28.9% iron, 15% sulphur and 2 oz. silver per ton. A 125’ upper tunnel and a 200’ lower diagonal crosscut tunnel show chalcopyrite and bornite, carrying small gold values. The C. M. & St. P. R. R. crosses property. Former equipment, including air compressor and mine buildings, was destroyed by the great forest fire, Aug., 1910. No shipments in 1912-13. Management considered good and property promising.

Big Five Copper Co. Wyoming

Samuel Crowley, supt., Arlington, Carbon Co., Wyo. Property shows small vein of copper ore carrying gold and silver values, developed by shaft.

Big Five Tunnel, Ore Reduction & Trans. Co. Colorado

Office: 1824 Curtis St., Denver, Colo. D. A. Barry, supt., Idaho Springs, Clear Creek Co., Colo. W. P. Daniel, pres.; Ed. Large, sec., Denver. Or- ganized under laws of Colorado, capitalization $3,000,000, shares $1 par, $2,700,000 issued, balance to redeem $25,000 bond issue due Oct. 1, 1912,

Property, the Central tunnel at Idaho Springs, and the Tower Moun- tain, Galena, Red Mountain, Mastadon Gulch, Belman, Miami-Edgar, Ni Wot-Columbia and Dew Drop mines.

The Central tunnel, paralleling the Newhouse tunnel, drains and devel- opes the Clear Creek mine at 2,000’ depth and is over 9,000’ long. Equip- ment includes electric haulage, steam and electric power, compressor, and a 100-ton concentration mill. Employs an average of about 25 men when operating at normal capacity.

Big Horn Mining & Developing Co. Wyoming

Office: Thermopolis, Wyo. Mine office: Depass, Fremont Co., Wyo. Jas. Dickie, pres.; R. W. Hale, vice-pres.; A. J. Lowery, sec.; Walter Swanson, gen. mgr.; R. J. Houston, treas.; preceding officers, David Dickie, Wm. T. Wallace, Chas. Roach and Robert Huston, directors, at last accounts. Organized 1909, under laws of Wyoming, capitalization $1,- 500,000, shares $1 par, in $750,000 preferred and $750,000 common stock; issued, $830,000. Annual meeting, third Monday in June.

Lands, 13 claims, unpatented, area 193 acres, in the Copper Mountain district, adjoining the Williams-Luman mine, having 2 fissure veins in diorite, traceable 3,000”. Vein under development, of 7’ estimated average width, has 4 pits and shafts of 10 to 60’ depth, and 4 tunnels, of 40’, 75’, 300’ and 460’, showing chalcocite, malachite, azurite, cuprite and native copper, with assays up to 30% copper and $8 gold per ton. Mine has no power equipment. Management plans adding an electric air compressor, and extending tunnel to 900’.

BIG INDIAN COPPER CO. UTAH Idle. Property in San Juan Co., Utah. C. E. Loose, pres.; W. D. Loose, vice-pres.; Preston G. Peterson, sec.; preceding officers, J. T. Farrer and W. J. Stiehl, directors, at last accounts. Assessment of 1.8 cts. tevied on stock about April 25, 1913.

- Big Interior Copper Mines. British Columbia

Mine office: Alberni, Vancouver island, B. C. Lands, 7 claims, area 350 acres, at the head of Great Central lake, 12 miles from Alberni, at an elevation of 5,000’ above sea level. Property shows a brecciated zone in

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granite with considerable impregnation of copper sulphides, low in grade, ‘ut with ore in immense quantities, claimed to be available for concentra- ion, if given transportation facilities. Only development is a 31’ tunnel. \ppears to have making of a great mine. SIG INTERIOR GOLD MINES, LTD. BRITISH COLUMBIA Alvo von Alvensleben, pres.; A. J. Engvick, sec. Owns the Della sroup of 5 claims, located 9 miles above Great Central lake near Big In- ‘erior copper mine. Claims show a vein of gold-copper ore in porphyry, ‘rom 114 to 5’ wide, running north and south and proven by open cuts for a length of 1,700’. Property reported on by W.-K. Edwards, whose 2 sets of samples averaged $25 and $15.44 per ton in gold. SIG MITT MINING CO. UTAH Apparently dead. Office: Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine ‘office: Brigh- ‘on, Salt Lake Co., Utah. At last accounts, 1911, an option on controlling nterest in the stock was held by G. S. Holmes, Jr. Lands, near the mouth of Little Cottonwood canon, have a tunnel of about 100’, with a 100’ winze cutting a 4 to 6” stringer of high-grade copper-gold ore. ~IG SEVEN GROUP. ARIZONA Near Harrington, Yavapai Co., Ariz. Mine reported to have 36% copper ore, 1913. 21G SPRINGS MINING CO. ARIZONA Mine’ office: Paradise, Cochise Co., Ariz. C. W. McCoy, mete Or sanized 1907. Lands, variously reported as 7 or 11 claims, are known as the Claire group, near Wood canon. Vein has a 2” paystreak, carrying mainly, silver-lead ore, with a little argentiferous copper ore, all more or -ess auriferous, opened by a 165’ tunnel. Property shipped a little silver- ‘ead ore to El Paso, and copper ore to Douglas. Company doing assess- .nent work only. BIG THREE MINES. NEW MEXICO Situated 3 miles north of Organ,,Dona Ana Co., NaM. Property shows copper, silver and lead deposits. Workings 150’ deep, at last accounts. BIG VEIN COPPER CO. ARIZONA Formerly. at Tucson, Pima Co.. Ariz. Out of business. Operations of ‘his company fully described Vol. X. 3IGHAM MINE. 5 PENNSYLVANIA At Charmian, Pa. Is a small property in the South Mountain copper belt, showing native copper and oxides in Cambrian trap rocks. 3IGOT COPPER MINES. NEVADA Owned by Bigot Bros. and Greeley French estate, Carson City, Nev. Property, patented claims in Jacks valley, Ormsby Co., bonded Sept., 1912, for $300,000, with stipulation that property be worked within 30 days and a 500-ton Foss reduction plant be put up within a year. Developed by tunnels showing gold-silver bearing chalcopyrite and bornite ore. BILL TAFT MINING CO. UTAH Letters neither answered or returned. Mine office: Eureka, Juab Co. Utah. Geo. A. Taylor, pres.; Walter A. Harper, vice-pres:; Ralph A. Badger, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, John R. Vance, Wilford Hays and D. W. Craig, directors, at last accounts. Organized July, 1909, under laws of Utah, capitalization $10,000, shares 1 ct. par. Property is in the North Tintic district. ' l : BILL WILLIAMS MINING & DEVELOPING CO. ARIZONA Letter unclaimed at Planet. Yuma Coz“ ATiz i Lands include the Ely and M. & M. groups, the Ely, adjoining the Blue Bell on the south, having a 4 vein, said to average 9% copper and $5 gold per ton. The M. & M.

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group, of 14 claims, north of the Signal ranch, carries a vein of 13’ reported width, with ore giving assays of 3 to 35% copper. Presumably idle. BILLY BOY MINES. ARIZONA

E. Block, owner. Property on the Hassayampa river, Yavapai Co., Ariz., developed by 300’ tunnel showing 14” paystreak carrying gold, silver and copper ore assaying $20 per ton.

Bingham Amalgamated Copper Co. Utah

Office: 61 Commercial Block, Salt Lake City, Utah. Letter returnec unclaimed from former mine office, Bingham Canyon, Salt Lake Co., Utah. B. E: Grant, pres.; L. A: Marks, vice-pres.; F. R. Snow, sec.-treas.; Jos. E. Edmunds, gen. mer.; preceding officers, W. P. Davis, R. E. Miller and Dr. A. McCurtain, directors. Organized Jan. 7, 1907, under laws of Utah, capi- talization $5,000,000; shares $5 par, nonassessable; issued, $3,500,000. Shares are listed on the Salt Lake City Stock Exchange.

Property, 24 claims, 300 acres patented, known as the Illinois and Copper Glance groups, carrying 7 mineralized veins. The principal ore- bodies exposed in the Bingham Amalgamated are on the same vein as the Congor orebodies and of about the same character of ore. Vein is 15 to 40’ thick, developed for several hundred feet in depth, but the water and high cost of wagon haul has stopped further development. In a tunnel on the west side of the property, a 20’ vein shows streaks of good ore all through it. The Montana Bingham tunnel will cut this vein about 1,000 deeper and when this tunnel is completed the Bingham Amalgamated will start development and extraction of ore.

The Illinois has a 640’ shaft, with a 6 to 9’ vein carrying a 2’ pay- streak of about 5% copper ore, with occasional assays up to 40%, the average of 50 assays being 2.8% copper, 2 oz.-silver and $2 gold per ton The Copper Glance group has a 1,400’ tunnel, in McGuire gulch. Mine has a total of 2,450’ of workings, and ore, including chalcopyrite, bornite. chalcocite and cuprite, is estimated by management to average 3% copper. 2 oz. silver and 90 cts. gold per ton. Property closed down, 1912. BINGHAM-BAY STATE COPPER CO. UTAH

Idle, pending completion of work on neighboring properties. Mine at Bingham Canyon, Salt Lake Co., Utah.

Bingham Butte Consolidated Mining Co. Utah

Succeeded, June, 1910, by Montana-Bingham Consolidated Mining Co. Mine near Bingham Canyon, Salt Lake Co., Utah. Producing 1913. BINGHAM-BUTTE COPPER CO. i UTAR

Office: 419 D FE. Walker Bldg, Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine. office: Bingham Canyon, Salt Lake Co., Utah. John F. Cowan, pres.; Abram Hanauer, Jr., sec.; Geo. A. Bellinger, supt. Organized 1907, capitalization $5,000,000, shares $5 par, and apparently is a holding company for stock: of Copper Hill Mining Co. and Midland Mining Co. Is no relation to Bingham Butte Consolidated Mining Co. ;

Lands, 225 acres, patented, including the Copper Hill group, opened by 2 tunnels on the Caledonia fissure, upper’ tunnel giving ore assaying up to 25% copper, 35% lead, 26 oz. silver and $9 gold per ton. Property also has a 2’. vein, said to assay 5% lead, 54 oz. silver and $11 gold pe: ton. Equipment includes shipping bins at mouth of the lower tunnel, near railroad track. Producing in 1913.

Bingham Central Mining Co. Utah

At Bingham Canyon, Salt Lake Co., Utah. Idle. This company and the Bingham Standard Copper Co. were controlled by the Bingham Centra! Standard Copper Co., which sold this stock, 1909, to Utah Metal Mining

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Co. for stock in latter company and is now controlled by the Utah Metal Mining Co. Described Vol. X. BINGHAM CENTRAL-STANDARD COPPER CO. UTAH Office: 66 West Third South St., Salt Lake City, Utah. Former mine office was Bingham Canyon, Salt Lake Co., Utah. T. H. Quillan (Mayor of Bingham), pres.; E. W. Clark, vice-pres.; F. T. Hiatt, sec.; H. P. Clark, treas.; preceding officers, R. W. Sampson and W. E. Hubbard, directors. Organized 1907, under laws of Wyoming, capitalization $5,000,000, shares $5 par, nonassessable; issued, $4,500,000. Bonds, $375,000 at 6% author- ized; $347,000 issued. Was organized as a holding company, controlling, through ownership of practically entire stock issues, the Bingham Central Mining Co. and Bingham Standard Copper Co., and sold these subsidiary stocks, 1909, to the Utah Metal Mining Co. for 300,000

1914, to permit building by Utah Metal Mining Co. of a $150,000 aerial tramway from the western end of the big tunnel to the International smelter at Tooele. On release of escrow, 1914, company will be wound up. BINGHAM COPPER BOY MINING CO. UTAH

Address: care Walter A. Cook, 422 McCornick Bldg., Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine near Lincoln, Tooele Co., Utah. Abram Hanauer, Jr., pres: A. B. Firth, vice-pres.; J. H. Hurd, sec.; W. A. Cooke, treas. Organized Feb. 19, 1901, under laws of Utah, capitalization $1,500,000, shares $1 par. Annual meeting, first Monday in March. )

Lands, 13 claims, 11 patented, area 143 acres, on the Tooele side of the divide, also an 11-acre mill site, in Carr Fork canon. Lands are in the west- ern part of the Bingham camp, somewhat out of the developed district, ly- ing west of the Highland Boy mine of the Utah Consolidated, and ap-

of funds and idle several years, with no sale or market for the stock, so far as known. BINGHAM COPPER Co. (OF WYOMING). UTAH Dead. Went into voluntary bankruptcy March 26, 1912, and property sold at sheriff’s sale for $20,000, being bought in by H. M. Stonemetz for reorganization committee. Reorganized as Utah Lead & Copper Co., in- corporated about Feb. 1913, in Maine, with capital of $500,000, shares $1 par; $100,000 first mortgage 10-year bonds are to be issued. Stockholders of old company who paid assessment of 5 cts. a share, receive 1 share of new stock for 4 shares of old with bonds equal to assessment paid in, together with a bonus of 1 new share per dollar paid in. Property had stock exchange value of $37,000,000 in 1906. (See Vol. X; also Utah Lead ¿SY Copper Co.) BINGHAM COPPER TUNNEL Co. UTAH In Aug., 1912, this company absorbed the Bingham West Dip Tun- nel Co., and will continue its work. At that date the tunnel was 2,000' long.

total distance of 20,000”.

BINGHAM MARY COPPER Co. UTAH Office: 161 South Main St., Salt Lake City, Utah." Letter returned un-

claimed from former mine office, Bingham Canyon, Salt Lake Co., Utah.

Simon Bamberger, pres. and mgr.; J. B. Bean. sec.-treas.; Jas. Start, supt.

Organized 1905, under laws of Utah, capitalization $2,500,000, shares $5 par.

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Lands, 2 claims, patented, area 40 acres, in Carr fork, near the Utah Apex, and company brought suit against the Utah Apex, claiming illegal ore extraction. Development is by an 875’ shaft, with 2 levels opened, showing low-grade ore, said to give assays of 4.7% copper, up to 12 oz. silver and $1 to $3 gold per ton. Equipment includes a 1,500’ electric hoist, several small mine buildings, and a tramway to the Rio Grande Western railway. Mine closed down, 1913.

BINGHAM MINE. PENNSYLVANIA Now owned by the National Copper Co. BINGHAM MINES CO. UTAH

Office: 60 Congress St., Boston, Mass. Operating office: 404 Dooly Blk., Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine office: Lark and also Bingham Canyon, Salt Lake Co., Utah. Jas. P. Graves, pres.; Sydney S. Millet, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, Henry N. Sweet, Alfred B. White, Thos. S. Woods, Ar- thur W. Chesterton and Lewis B. McCornick, directors; Imer Pett, gen. megr.; J. E. Bergh and Jos. Hyland, mine supts.; Fred R. Sands, purch. agt.; Z. P. Billings, mg. engr., and J. I. Robbins, chemist-assayer. Organized, April 7, 1908, under laws of Maine, capitalization $1,500,000, shares $10 par, nonassessable; issued, $945,560. Bonds outstanding, $455,000 first-mortgage, issued by Bingham Consolidated Mining & Smelting Co., and $577,789 sec- ond-mortgage noncumulative bonds of the Bingham Mines Co., both at 6%. Is a reconstruction of the Bingham Consolidated Mining & Smelting Co., having exchanged 1 share of new stock for 1 of old, plus $3.50 cash, pay- able $1 cash and five 50-ct. installments. Controls the Eagle & Blue Bell Mining Co., of Eureka, Juab Co., Utah, and Yosemite Mines Co., of Bing- ham Canyon, Salt Lake Co., Utah, through ownership of $451,250 out of $900,000 issued stock.

Second-mortgage bonds were issued in settlement of claims against the old company. First National Bank, Boston, transfer agent. Federal Trust Co., Boston, registrar. Stock is listed on the Boston curb. Annual meet- ing, third Wednesday in April, at 57 Exchange St., Portland, Me.

The annual report for year ending Dec. 31, 1912, showed net earnings $144,022, an increase of $26,742 over 1911, which is an excellent record, es- pecially in view of a 6-weeks’ labor strike at the mines, and a 3-months’ ad- ditional shut-down of the Commercial mine owing to foul air.

Lands, 500 acres, in 2 groups, in the West Mountain district, known as the Dalton & Lark and Commercial mines. These properties have a con- siderable variety of ores, principally sulphides, carrying fair gold and silver- lead values at and near surface, with increasing copper values at depth. Combined gold and silver values average about $2 gold per ton, and some of the ores are high in iron, hence desirable for fluxing the ores of the dis- trict, which are highly silicious as a rule. The Mascotte tunnel, formerly owned, was sold to F. Augustus Heinze, for $177,000. The company now has the deepest shaft in the Tintic district, as connection is made between the Mascotte tunnel and the Yosemite shaft, a vertical distance of 2,200’, opening a large territory for prospecting. `

The Dalton & Lark group comprises 55 claims, patented, area 424 acres, with 306 acres miscellaneous lands, carrying the Brooklyn, Lark and Lead veins. Property shows contact deposits between quartzite and limestone, occurring mainly as replacements of lime at and near the contact. Average strike of veins is S. 50° W., with avetage dip of 38° with horizon. The Dalton & Lark group includes the Brooklyn mine, and produces both lead and copper ores of shipping grade, copper’ being in the form of chalcopy- ' site. The Brooklyn vein is up to 200’ in width, 8,000’ long and proven to

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depth-of 2,000’; the Lead vein up to 180’ in width, with length of 6,200’ and proven depth of 1,300’; the Lark vein, of 6’ average width, is proven for 6,200" length and 1,400’ depth. Property is now operated through the 3-mile Mascotte tunnel, and also has the 600’ Lead mine tunnel and 3,200’ Brook- lyn tunnel, both of which are abandoned,’ and the following abandoned shafts: Dalton No. 1, of 600’; Dalton No. 2, of 1,300’; Sampson, of 1,100’; Revere, of 420’; Antelope, of 700’; Revere Gladstone, of 350’; Richmond. of 300’. Lead ores of the Dalton & Lark group run up to 40% in tenor, and

copper ores are 1.25 to 5% in tenor, both lead and copper ores being more -

or less auriferous and argentiferous, with occasional streaks carrying high- grade precious metal values. Production, secured mainly between the 1,300’ and 2,000” levels, is nearly 200 tons daily, about half silver-lead and half copper ore. A large amount of low to medium grade ore is in sight.

Equipment at the Dalton & Lark includes a 250-h. p. stedm plant, with -2 hoists and a 25-drill Ingersoll-Rand air compressor. There are 10 build- ings, including a 25x50’ machine shop, 25x30’ smithy, 20x30’ carpénter shop, office and dwellings. A private rail line, with electric locomotives. connects with the Denver & Rio Grande railway.

The Commercial mine, 7 claims, patented, area 62 acres. The main orebody occurs as a contact between quartzite and limestone and replace- ment in latter, with a strike of S. 50° W. and average dip of 38° with the horizon. Ore is exclusively chalcopyrite. The 140’ Commercial No. 1 shaft and 350’ main incline shaft have been abandoned, as have the 1,550’ upper Commercial tunnel and 2,000’ lower Commercial tunnel. Commercial No. 2 shaft has a depth of 500” below the lower Commercial tunnel. The old upper and lower tunnels were abandoned, Sept., 1910, through a joint agree- ment with the Utah Copper Co., Niagara Mining & Smelting Co., and Silver Shield Mining Co., by which the Bingham Mines Co. abandons Cop- per Center gulch as dumping ground for the Utah Copper Có., and is’al- lowed the use of the Niagara Mining & Smelting Co. tunnel, which has been lengthened to cut the Commercial orebodies at a depth of about 1,400’ on the plane of the vein.

Equipment of the Cotimercial mine is exclusively electric, including a double-drum electric hoist with 52-h. p. induction motor, 75-h. p. induction motor, a 10-drill Ingersoll-Rand air compressor, and three 50-kw. electric transformers. Buildings, removed, 1910, to a new site, near the mouth of the Niagara tunnel, include an office, warehouse, sawmill, smithy, barn and ore bins. Mine is served by the Copper Belt line of the Denver & Rio Grande railway. À

The company owned a smelter at Midvale, near Murray, Salt Lake Co., Utah, closed, 1907, by order of the Federal courts. on account of alleged damage by fumes. The smelter was scrapped and the material sold in March, 1913. ,

Production, formerly shipped to Yampa smelter, is now divided, silver- lead ores going to the Murray smelter of the American Smelting & Refin- ing Co., and copper ores to the Garfield smelter. Net earnings were $55,- 774.92 in 1909, $65,902.33 in 1910, $109,248 in 1911 and $138,113 in 1912. On May 1, 1912, $81,000 first-mortgage bonds were redeemed and canceled. In 1913, there will be $145,067 available for bond redemption.

Production by present company was 1,427,770 Ibs. copper, 3,777,320 Ibs. lead, 225,763 oz. silver and 3,731 oz. gold in 1912, this not including the con- siderable production of the Eagle & Blue Bell. The present management

has made splendid progress in working out from under the great load of:

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BINGHAM NEVADA MINING CO. NEVADA Mine at Goodsprings, Lincoln Co., Nev, Idle; letters returned un claimed, 1913. See Vol K. BINGHAM-NEW HAVEN COPPER & GOLD MINING CO. UTAH Office: P: O. Box 84, New Haven, Conn. Operating office: 508 Mc- Cornick Bldg., Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine office: Bingham Canyon, Sal Lake Co., Utah. Louis E. Stoddard, pres.; E. B. Critchlow, vice-pres.; T W. Farnam, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, E. G. Stoddard and F. F. Brew- ster, directors; C. H. Doolittle, gen: mgr.; B. B. Lawrence, cons. engr.; F N. Wichman, mine supt. Organized Oct. 12, 1902, under laws of Utal capitalization $2,000,000, shares $5 par, nonassessable; issued $1,143,445. A $46,000 bond issue was paid, 1909. Dividends have been paid since 1906 amounting to $251,557 in 1911 and $68,606.70 in 1912, or a total of $434,500 to date. Union Trust Co., New Haven, registrar. Annual meeting, fire: Tuesday in May. Property, 26 claims, 500 acres, adjoining the Utah Consolidated on the southeast, includes the Zelnora mine, near the head o! Carr fork. Claims show 3 fault fissures in porphyry and a contact do- posit between quartz-porphyry and limestone. The latter of 3 to 8’ width. carries 2 to 6% copper, 10 to 22% lead, 7 to 8 oz. silver and 40 to 80 cts. gold per ton, ores being chalcopyrite, galena and sphalerite. The main ore supply is from 3 beds of limestone which strike E.-W. and dip north. I {910, a large deposit of ore averaging 41% copper and $5 in precious metals per ton, yielded large profits permitting the extraordinary dividen ` of $1.10 per share in 1911. Company now mining 2 deposits of copper, 2 oí lead and 1 of complex ore. In 1911, 85,426 tons of ore was shipped yielding $838,780. ; Development by tunnels with a blind shaft starting 900’ from the porta’ of the lowest tunnel, there being a vertical distance of 1,200’ between the highest and lowest workings. The 1,030” lower tunnel cuts a wide fissure vein, giving assays of about 3% copper, 2.3 oz. silver and $2.50 gold per ton Terminal at the upper tunnel was moved to the lower tunnel, and mine is operated through the latter. Mine has about 3 miles of workings, with an serial tram connecting with loading bins on the Copper Belt railroad. Equipment includes electric power and an air compressor. The 80-to mill was remodeled, 1912, and Isbell vanners installed. The completion o: . a connection with the main working tunnel of the Utah Consolidated Cop per Co. in Dec., 1912, permits shipments over that company’s tram line to the Tooele smelter, reducing transportation costs 20 cts. per ton. A new smelting contract made with the International smelter at Tooele in 1913 is . expected. to greatly increase the company’s earnings. BINGHAM & ORLEANS MINING CO. UTA Office: 70 Commercial Bldg., Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine office: Bing- ham Canyon, Salt Lake Co., Utah. A. W. Mente, pres. andas Dada Wenger, vice-pres.; Wade Loofbourow, sec.; preceding officers, Henry Har- ker and E. V. Benjamin, directors; R. A. Hasbrough, mgr., at last accounts. Organized Sept. 21, 1908, under laws of Utah, as successor of St. Joe Min- ing Co., capitalization $500,000, shares $1 par, assessable; issued, $178,613. Lands, 19 claims, 17 patented, area 185 acres, showing a contact ore- body between limestone and quartzite, carrying sulphide ore estimated to average 2% copper, 8% lead, 32% zinc, 12 oz. silver and $1 gold per ton. Development is by shafts of 50” and 120’, and by 10 tunnels, 2 longest 1,150 and 3,250’, with a total of 5,610” of workings. Equipment includes a 90-h. p. steam plant, 8-h. p. gasoline hoist, and 2-drill air compressor. Presum-

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BINGHAM STANDARD COPPER CO. UTAH Office: Salt Lake City, Utah. Organized 1906, capitalization $5,000,000, shares $5 par, as successor of Standard Copper Co., controlled by Bing- ham Central-Standard Copper Co., which sold control, 1909, to Utah Metal Mining Co. Stock escrowed until Jan., 1914, after which company will be dissolved and assets distributed. BINGHAM WEST DIP TUNNEL CO. UTAH Office: 1505-277 Broadway, New York, N. Y. Operating office: 120 West Second South St., Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine office: Tooele, Tooele Co., Utah. Francis M. Lyman, pres. and gen. mgr.; Frances M. Lyman, Jr., vice-pres.; Milando Pratt, sec.; F. M. Bishop, treas. Organized 1890, under laws of Utah, capitalization $2,500,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable. Lands, 30 claims, unpatented, area 520 acres, 5 miles from a railroad, said to show auriferous and argentiferous lead and copper ores. Development is by tun- nel of 2,000’, planned to be driven 4 miles from the Tooele side through the Oquirrh Mountain range, to drain the entire West Mountain district, de- velop mineral bodies, and provide water for irrigating lands. Equipment includes gasoline power, air compressors, ventilating fan and several build- ings. Apparently the plan of this company, begun more than 20 years ago, is being carried out by the Utah Metal Mining Co. Is not regarded favor- ably. Apparently dead. E BINGHAMTON COPPER QUEEN MINING CO. ARIZONA Mine at Stoddard, Yavapai Co., Ariz. Controlled by Stoddard Mines Co. Developed by a shaft, planned to be deepened to 800’ level, carrying copper ores, with values mainly in gold. Opened a new ore shoot of copper ore in 1913, Equipped with steam power. BISBEE COALITION MINING CO. ARIZONA Mine office: Bisbee, Cochise Co., Ariz. Ernest H. Clark, pres. and gen. mgr.; V. W. Marshalls, vice-pres.; R. J. Clark, sec.-treas.; Jas. Smoot, supt.; preceding officers, Oscar Zapf and W. E. Davis, directors. Organized 1909, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $3,000,000, shares $1 par. Company absorbed the North Bisbee Development Co., 1909, paying for same in stock, Property, 45 claims, in Tombstone canyon, 3 to 7 miles northwest of . Bisbee, including the Eureka group of 15 claims, near the Modern mine, taken over from the Eureka Mining Co. and the North Bisbee group of 23 claims, taken over from the North Bisbee Development Co. Development includes a 360’ tunnel and 500’ shaft, said to show veins of 2 to 20’ width, carrying ore averaging 12% copper with $15 combined gold and silver values per ton.

Bisbee & Duluth Mining & Development Co. Arizona

Mine office: Bisbee, Cochise Co., Ariz. Is controlled, through owner- ship of 60% of stock issue, by Bisbee-Sonora Development Co.

Bisbee Extension Mining Co. Arizona

Office: 200 Fifth Ave., New York. Mine office: Bisbee, Cochise Co., Ariz. F. R. Poss, pres.; R. B. Tannahill, vice-pres.; J. M. Low, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, F. C. Huston and F. J. Narin, directors; Geo. W. Long, supt. Organized Jan., 1911, capitalization $2,500,000, shares $10 par, as successor of Bisbee Extension Development Co., giving 3 shares of new stock for 1 of old; issued, $1,200,000.

Lands, 27 claims, area 603 acres, in Tombstone canyon, 8 miles north- west of Bisbee, on the porphyry side of the gulch. Property shows upper carboniferous limestone strata, with and adjacent to the northwestern end of the main disseminated porphyry stock of the district. In Bisbee, to the southeast, ore is mined mainly from the lower carboniferous lime-

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stone. Property shows fissure veins in granite-porphyry, carrying cuprite, azurite and malachite. Development is by 5 shafts, the 2-compartment main shaft being more than 800’ deep, and decidedly wet. Mine has about 2,000’ of drifts and crosscuts on the 400’ level, passing through about 600’ of leached material, markedly similar to that overlying the large orebodies of Bisbee.

Equipment includes a 10x12” steam hoist, good for 1,200’, a 22-h. p. Fairbanks & Morse gasoline hoist, good for 800’, a 60-h. p. gasoline engine and a 6-drill Sullivan air compressor. Management hopes to be able to de- velop orebodies in the Escobrosa limestone, supposedly lying in the geolog- ical horizon of the main orebodies in Bisbee. Regarded as unpromising ground. 7 as BISBEE-SONORA DEV. CO. ARIZONA & NEW MEXICO

Office: Douglas, Ariz. Mine office: Paradise, Cochise Co., Ariz. H. C. Beumler, pres.; J. P. Sexton, vice-pres.; S. S. Badger, sec.-treas. and mg. engr.; G. T. Colvin, supt. ' Organized Feb., 1907, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $2,500,000, shares $2 par, as successor of the Paradise De- velopment Co. Annual meeting, second Tuesday in March. Is a holding company only, controlling, through stock ownership of 60% of stock issue of each, the Badger-Hall Mining Co. and Paradise Mining Co., near Para- dise. Properties are described as a unit, under the title of this company, instead of separately.

Holdings, 35 claims, 595 acres in the California mining district in the Huachuca mountains, near Paradise, Ariz. Lands include the town site of Shamrock, 22 miles from Rodeo, the nearest rail point, in which some lots have been sold. The lands lying mainly between the Manhattan and Sulli- van properties, are developed by 4 tunnels, 287’, 170’, 560’ and 125’ long and by 2 shafts 240’ and 80’ depth respectively. The Badger-Hall property, 30 claims, area 540 acres, is claimed to show an orebody 62’ wide at surface and 50’ wide at 200’ depth, where cut by tunnel. The Paradise property near the Badger-Hall has a crosscut, said to show medium-grade sulphide ore. The Morning Star group of the Paradise Mining Co., lying west of the Cochise Development Co., has a 90’ tunnel, showing a little auriferous and argentiferous carbonate and sulphide ore. Ore occurs as contact de- posit running northwest-southeast and dipping at 18° southwest, that lies between limestone and porphyry. Deposit exposed for 600’ length and 100’ width and to depth of 280’, said by management to average 4% copper and 18% lead with $1.50 in gold'and 12 oz. silver per ton. Discovered in 1905 and continuously worked. Has a whim, blacksmith shop and company store.

Bitter Creek Mining Co. British Columbia

Office: Vancouver, B. C. Mine office: Stewart,-Cassiar district, B. C. J. J. Logan, pres.; J. S. Rankin, sec.-treas., at last accounts. Organized Dec., 1909, under laws of British Columbia, capitalization $200,000. Lands, 12 claims, area 600 acres, in Brown’s gulch, Bitter creek, in the Portland Canal district, developed by a 35’ tunnel showing ore giving assays up to 22.2% copper, 16.48 oz. silver and 0.12 oz. gold per ton.

Black Bear Mining Co. Colorado

Idle. Mine office: Telluride, San Miguel Co., Colo. Oscar Manttila, supt., at last accounts. Mine carries auriferous and argentiferous sulphides of lead, copper and zinc. Equipment includes an electric plant, 20-stamp mill and 75-ton concentrator.

Blackbird Copper & Gold Mining Co.,Ltd. Idaho & Utah

Office: 807 Newhouse Bldg., Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine offices: New- house, Beaver Co., Utah, and Salmon, Lemhi Co., Idaho. John E. DuBois,

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pres:; Chas. J. North, vice-pres.; F. O. Frick, sec.; B. N. Lehman, treas. and gen. mgr.; preceding officers and L. N. Morrison, directors, at last accounts. Organized under laws of West Virginia, capitalization $2,000,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable. Bonds, $500,000, at 6%. Annual meeting, fourth Tues- day in January. Is a close corporation and has neither answered nor re- turned letters sent them.

Lands include Brown Bear mine and adjoining property covering 29 claims, patented, area 482 acres, in the central part of the Blackbird district, Lemhi Co., Idaho. Development 2,500’ by 3 shafts, with drifts and numer- ous short tunnels. Orebodies are irregular replacements along fracture zones in schist and quartzite. Idaho property is in one of the best miner- alized sections of the state and is said to show wide zones of disseminated ore carrying 244% copper and 50 cts. gold for each per cent copper. This district is regarded as promising. Property shut down since patenting.

Company also owns 97 claims, 87 patented, adjoining the Cactus mine in the San Francisco district of Utah. This property has considerable de- velopment and was explored by diamond drilling in 1910. In the winter of 1911-12 mine was reopened, new machinery ordered and development of the 300’ level from an old shaft disclosed a vein of chalcopyrite ore.

BLACK CHIEF COPPER CoO. ARIZONA

Idle. Mine near Dewey, Yavapai Co., Ariz. Lands, 6 claims, known as the Uncle Sam group, having several short tunnels and shallow shafts, one 84” deep, with considerable water in the bottom, all showing ore giving as- says-up to 22% copper. Has a hoist.

Black Copper Co. Nevada

Mine near Yerington, Lyons Co., Nev. Property adjacent to Montana- Yerington group of claims, developed by 260” tunnel being driven to cut vein at 350’.

BLACK COPPER CO. NEW MEXICO Mine office: Elizabethtown, Colfax Co., N. M. Property has no copper. BLACK DIAMOND COPPER MINING CO. NEVADA

Idle. Address, care Wm. D. Thompson, pres.; 524 Monument Sq., Ra- cine,. Wis. Mine near Yerington, Lyon Co., Nev. John W. Owen. vice- pres.; Louis W. Trankle, sec; preceding officers, and Adam I. Wood, direct- ors; T. M. Hammond, cons. engr. Organized April 9, 1907, under laws of Nevada, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable; issued, $651,000.

Lands, 8 claims, 3 patented, area 120 acrés, 6 miles east of Yerington, showing granodiorite and limestone, carrying contact deposits and fissure veins, of 4 to 9’ width, of which one, under development, has several shal- low shafts and 500’ of tunnels. Principal work is on Diamond No. 2 claim, with a tunnel run to cut a considerable body of sulphide and carbonate ore shown on surface where average assays are about 3% copper.

Black Diamond-Isabel Group. Arizona

Property in Santa Rita mountains, Pima Co., Ariz. Bonded, July, 1912, by M. P. Freeman, of Tucson, to Fred Challman of Bisbee, Ariz. Ore complex, carrying argentiferous galena and copper. Property made ship- ments to El Paso smelter in 1912.

BLACK EAGLE MINING Co. WASHINGTON

Idle. Letters unclaimed at Chewelah, Stevens Co.. Wash. G. A. Mo- watt, mgr., at last accounts. Lands, 160 acres, 2 miles west of Chewelah, having a 300” tunnel showing copper ore and free gold.

Black Eagle Mining & Milling Co. Oregon

Office and mine: Gates, Marion Co., Ore. Presumably idle. See full description, Vol. X.

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BLACK FOREST MINING & SMELTING CO. NEVADA Apparently idle. Letters unanswered, 1913. Mine office: Wells, Elko Co., Nev. C. M. Spence, gen. mgr., at last accounts. Mine has a 400’ shaft, showing argentiferous and auriferous copper and lead ores, mainly silver- lead in upper workings, but at depth of 350’ the vein carries copper sul- phides giving assays of 25 to 30% copper, which it is planned developing. Equipment includes water power, and a 25-ton smelter with a lead stack. Mine has been, for some years, a small producer of silver-lead matte. BLACK HILLS COPPER CO. v SOUTH DAKOTA

Idle. Office: Benton Harbor, Mich. Mine near Rochford, Pennington Co. S. D. E. A. Hoffman, pres.; George M. Thresher, sec.; John H. Kerr, treas. Organized June 2, 1900, under laws of South Dakota, capitalization $2,000,000, shares $1 par. Lands, 27 claims, area 510 acres, in the Horn- blende district, showing fissure veins in slate, with heavy gossan capping, carrying carbonate and oxide ores. Orebody under development is said by company to average 20’ width, and to be more than a mile in length, opened by incline shafts of 800’, 40’ and 75’, with crosscut tunnels of 65” and 300’, giving a total of about 1,200’ of underground openings. Ores average 1.5 to 3% copper, with small values in gold, silver and nickel and a carload ship- ment of carbonate ore gave smelter returns of 16.31% copper. Has steam power, with 60-h. p. hoist, good, for 1,500’, and 4 power drills.

Black Hills Copper Co., Ltd. Arizona

Office:.206 Magee Bldg., 336 Fourth Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. John G. Messner, pres.; Peter Boyd, vice-pres.; J. H. Mitchell, sec.-treas.; preced- ing officers, A. G. Barnett, Wm. J. Crittenden, J. W. Renner, D. N. Rich- ards, Wm. Ruske, all of Pittsburgh, and H. B. Staver, Chicago, directors. Organized July, 1899, and reorganized May 20, 1901, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $3,000,000, shares $1 par. Issue of $250,000 of $100, 6% gold bonds authorized Feb., 1912, with 100% stock bonus, but only $18,000 sold. Union Trust Co., Pittsburgh, registrar. Colonial Trust Co., Pittsburgh, transfer agent. Company issued final appeal to stockholders, March 1, 1913, to save property from foreclosure.

Lands, 9 claims, 6 patented, area 280 acres, in the Verde district, be- tween the United Verde and Equator mines. Opened by shafts of 212’ and 675’ and tunnels of 60’ and 90’, with 2,500’ of openings. Main shaft, at 382’, cut a stringer of ore assaying up to 13% copper and 3 oz. silver. Has a 280-h. p. steam plant, with 125-h. p. tubular high-pressure boiler, duplex pump, hoist and power drills. Did some work, 1905-07; since idle, owing to lack of funds. Property well located, directorate excellent and late de- velopments in district make claims valuable. Favorably considered if put in charge of competent engineer.

Black Hills & Duluth Copper Mg. Co. South Dakota

Idle. At Custer, Custer Co., S. D. Described Vol. X.

“Black Hills Gold & Copper Mining Co. Arizona

Office and mine: Prescott, Yavapai Co., Ariz. R.-H. Burmister, gen. mgr., at last accounts. Lands, in.the Black Hills district, are but slightly developed. District favorably regarded but property idle and exact hold-* ings of company unknown. Letters unanswered.

BLACK JACK CONSOLIDATED MINING co. UTAH

Office: Provo, Utah. Mine office: Mammoth, Juab Co., Utah. Jesse Knight, pres.; H. G. McMillan, vice-pres.; W. Lester Mangum, sec.-treas; preceding officers, J. Wm. Knight and 5. D. Kimball, directors; E. F. Birch, asst. mgr. Organized 1907, under laws of Utah, capitalization $100,000, shares 10 cts. par, assessable, as a merger of the Black Jack Mining Co. and

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Star Consolidated Mining Co. Is controlled by the Knight Investment Co. Shares are listed on the Salt Lake Stock Exchange.

Development is by a 2,000’ tunnel and a 1,400’ two-compartment shaft, planned to be deepened eventually to 2,000”, The 1,000’ level shows aurifer- ous copper ore, of fair tenor, in broken ground, and the bottom level, at 1,400’, showed a 10' vein carrying silver-lead ore. Mine also has some cop- per ore high in iron, available for fluxing use. Production, 1912, was 1,468,417 tons iron ore, 771.4 tons silver-lead ore by leasers, 35 tons lead-silver ore by company, above tonnage yielding: Copper 14,197 Ibs., lead 68,976 1bs., silver 7,956 oz., gold 151.8 oz. Results to date, discouraging, although 24,988’ of work has been done’ from the 200’ to the 1,500’ level of which 640’ was done in 1912, New workings have passed from white into gray limestone, considered more favorable for ore.

Management plans continuing prospecting the southern section of the property on the 300’ and 600’ levels. Production insufficient to pay opera- tions under present conditions.

Black Jack Copper Mining Co. Montana

Mine office: Clancey, Jefferson Co., Mont. H. M. Brooks, supt., at last accounts. Organized June, 1907, capitalization $400,000. Property ad- joins-the Boston & Corbin on the east and has a 250’ shaft, with about 450’ of workings, showing auriferous and argentiferous copper ore, from which several small shipments have been made. as steam power. Plans (May, 1913) to develop by extension of 1,200’ level of Boston & Corbin mine into property; otherwise to sink shaft with electric power.

Black Kettle Copper Co. Texas

Lands are in the Quitman mountains, south of Sierra Blanca. Explora- tory work was begun Sept., 1909.

Black Prince Copper Co. À Arizona

Office: 440 Gas & Electric Bldg., Denver, Colo. Mine office: Johnson, Cochise Co., Ariz. Robt. N. Bell, pres. and gen. mgr., Denver, Colo.; John C. Thompson, vice-pres.; Julia B. Wright, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, Robt. Temple and Richard McKnight, directors. Organized May 10, 1991, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,500,000, shares $1 par; issued, 1,134, 500 shares. Annual meeting, last Wednesday in May.

Lands adjoin Peabody mine and comprise 8 claims, patented, area 147 acres, showing contact deposits in limestone, near porphyry. Mine has a 937’ two-compartment shaft, sunk in limestone and showing copper oxides ənd carbonates, bornite and chalcopyrite below 850. Small smelter ship- ments, 1907, returned 12% copper and 20 to 30 oz. silver per ton, and 1909 shipments returned 20 to 27% copper, with silver values. Shipments for 1912, 512,327 tons. Average values, copper $8.759, silver $4.903 per ton, ac- cording to the company’s secretary. Local information sto effect that leas- ing was being done on property in March, 1913, and that diamond drilling was contemplated. In 1911 U. S. Investor cautions investors against buy- ing stock. Equipment includes a 15-h. p. hoist and 3 mine buildings. BLACK RANGE TUNNEL & MINING CO. NEW MEXICO E E. D. Randolph, gen. mgr., Lafayette, Ind.; C. B. Hullinger, supt., Chloride, Sierra Co., N. M. Company presumably a reorganization of the Black Range Copper Mining Co. and Black Range Reduction Co. (see Vol. X), both now dead. Property, the Silver Monument mine, showing a vein of silver-copper ore.

Development includes a 2,300’ tunnel and a shaft. Equipped with steam plant, Rand compressor and a 25-ton concentration mill.

Black Rock Mine. Montana

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Office: Formerly at-Salton, Riverside Co., Cal. Apparently dead. See Vol. X. BLISTERED HORN MINE. COLORADO Andrew Lejune, supt., Tin Cup, Gunnison Co., Colo. Property shows a ‘vein of gold-silver-copper ore developed by tunnel work. BLOCK MINES CO. ARIZONA Ed. Block, sec.-treas.; Wickenburg, Maricopa Co., Ariz. Owns the Billy Boy and Christmas group of mines on the Hassayampa river, Yav- apai county. Company organized Aug., 1913. No further information se- cured. BLUE ACRE COPPER CO. UTAH Office: Boston Bldg., Salt Lake City, Utah. W. H. Hess, pres. and gen. mgr.; F. J. Austin, C. A. Gillette, G. H. Davis and D? F. Brayton, di- rectors, at last accounts. Capitalization $600,000, shares $1 par. Property, 17 claims, 320 acres, in the Star district, Beaver county, adjoining the O. K. property, showing 5 contact and fissure veins, of which 3 are being de- veloped, these carrying values estimated by management to be 6% copper, 5 oz. silver and $4 gold per ton from oxide, carbonate and sulphide ores, opened. by 4 shallow shafts. Working in 1911. BLUE BELL MINE. ARIZONA Owned by Consolidated Arizona Smelting Co., at Humboldt, Yavapai Co., Ariz. BLUE-BELL MINE. MONTANA Address: Blossburg, Powell Co., Mont. Property 1 mile southeast of west end of Mullan tunnel, shows 12’ vein of garnet and epidote in mon- zonite carrying copper with molybdenite. Developed by a shaft and tun- nel, 175’ below collar of shaft. Idle, 1912.

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Blue Bell Mining & Reduction Co. Arizona

Mine P.O.: Swansea, Yuma Con Ariz. W. P. Martin, pres.; E. T. Miner, vice-pres. and supt.; K. E. Newcomb, sec. Lands, 23 claims, about 5 miles from Swansea, just across the Bill William's Fork river from the Swansea pumping plant. Mine has a 200” two-compartment shaft, with 2 levels opened, and several hundred feet of tunnels, showing ore carrying up to 10% copper, with fair gold and silver values.

Blue Bird-Corbin Gold, Silver £ Copper

Mining. Co. Montana

Address: Wickes P. O., Jefferson Co., Mont. Wm. O. Ranft, owner and mgr. John W. Johns, supt. Property, about 4 miles west of Wickes, one of the old mines of the district. taken over in 1911 together with the Penn Yan claim. Claims show 2 veins of 4 to 14 in width carrying ore shoots averaging 5% copper, 5% lead, 25 oz. silver and $1.50 gold per ton. Ore occurs in a tourmalinized vein in andesite tuffs and diorite along 1 contact with a 50’ wide dacite dike that forms the footwall.

Developed by 2,248’ tunnel and 225’ shaft with levels at 100’ and 200’. Equipped with electrical power. Shipments were made in ae _returning 3 to 5% copper with gold-silver values.

Blue Bull Mine. Nevada .

Mine at Goldfield, Esmeralda Co., Nev. Geo. Wingfield; owner. K. M. Simpson, mer.; C. S Starr, asst. mgr. Property is a gold-silver mine in the Goldfield A developed by a 700 shaft with workings on the 500’ level cutting the Victor and Copper veins, the latter yielding 10 to 16%

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copper ore. The 700’ crosscut is being driven to cut the Victor vein, which is large and productive in the adjoining C. O. D. Consolidated mine. BLUE JACKET COPPER CO., LTD. IDAHO

Office: 79 Milk St., Boston, Mass. Mine P. O.: Landore, Adams Co., Idaho. J. E. Stevens, pres.; F. H. Kleinschmidt, vice-pres.; A. F Abbott, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, P. H. Miller, John O. Burque, A. J. Pitman and Edgar Hall, directors; P. H. Miller, gen. mgr., supt. and purch. agt. F. H. Kleinschmidt, mg. engr. and chemist-assayer. Organized Feb. 6, 1913, under laws of Idaho, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $5 par, fully paid; 200,000 shares issued. Annual meeting, third Tuesday in September.

Company has lease and bond.on the Blue Jacket and Mountain Queen mines, comprising 1 claim and a fraction, covering 29 acres in the Seven Devils mining district. The ore is found in a contact metamorphic de- posit between limestone and diorite. It consists of bornite with some copper glance in a garnet gangue. The deposit is said to be 75’ wide, 1,200’ long and proven to a depth of 300’.

Underground development is by 2 shafts of 125’ and 300’ depths and by various tunnels and crosscuts amounting to 6,000’ in all. The mine has steam and gasoline power and a hoist. The Oregon Short Line railroad is about 17 miles from the property.

Production, 73,073 lbs. of copper in 1911 and 360,000 Ibs. in 1912. The average grade treated in the latter year carried 31.27% copper, with 8 oz. silver and $1.50 gold per ton. Is an exceptionally rich ore' deposit which would be profitable if on a railroad. 4 BLUE JACKET MINING CO. IDAHO

Office: Baltimore, Md. Mine P. O.: Lucile, Idaho Co., Idaho. W. B, Clark, pres.; B. N. Baker, vice-pres.; J. M. Lawford, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, F. T. Homer and Frank E. Johnesse, directors; F. E. Johnesse, gen. mgr. and supt. Company organized Oct. 20, 1908, under laws of Idaho, capitalization $50,000, shares $1 par, fully paid. Annual meeting, first Mon- day in January. Company is a close corporation. Seven claims, unpatent- ed, about 132 acres, in Crooks Corral mining district, Idaho Co., Idaho.

Ore occurs as replacement along contact between diorite and andesite porphyry. Orebody is from 50 to 70’ wide, runs east and west, and dips at an average angle of 35°. It has been opened up by a 300’ shaft, numerous tunnels, crosscuts ‘and drifts, aggregating 3,395’. These workings block out 33,000 tons of ore, carrying 3.7% copper with 1.5 oz. silver and $1.80 gold per ton. The orebody is more or less oxidized down to the 700” level, though the greater part of the ore in the lower levels is original sulphide and the enriched portion lies between the Ist and 4th levels. Reserves es- timated at 542,000 tons. Property has no mill, hoist nor reduction plant of any kind and has been closed down since 1909 awaiting railroad transportation which is now 40 miles away. Property is a good one and officers able and responsible.

Blue Jay Mine. Montana

Owned by Anaconda Copper Mining+Co., at Butte, Silver Bow Co, Mont.

BLUE JAY MINE. NEVADA Mine office: Yerington, Lyon Co., Nev. A. Sommers, supt. Developed

by shaft with drifts extended on 200’ and 400 levels, 1913. Equipped with steam power and a 30-h. p. gasoline hoist. Reported sold, Aug., 1913, to M Valley Mines Co.

Slue Jim Min Washington

BLUE JIM MINING CO. J. M. Birks, sec., Spokane, Wash. Mine office: Ione, Stevens Co.,

Wash. C. S. Clute, gen. mgr. Organized July 1, 1909, under laws of Wash-

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ington. Lands, 5 claims, across the Pend d'Oreille river, and about 5 miles . from Tone, and 1 mile northeast of Box canyon, said to have a fair surface

. showing of copper, with a vein variously reported as 4 to 12’ in width at

surface. Development includes some opencuts, a shallow shaft and a 215’ crosscut tunnel, showing ore giving fair copper assays, with a little silver and gold. Lower tunnel started in 1912. Company doing assesssment work only, 1912,

Blue Lead Co. Arizona

Address: Superintendent, Blue Lead Co., 3enson, Cochise Co., Ariz. Property, the Blue Lead mine on northern side of Santa Rita mountains, southwest of Benson. Has made regular shipments since Oct., 1912. BLUE LEDGE MINE. CALIFORNIA

Mine at Hutton, Siskiyou Co., Cal. Frank H. Carnahan, supt., at last accounts. Purchased from R. S. Towne in 1913 by H. C. Russell and asso- ciates of Marquette, Mich. Property, 27 claims, patented, about 440 acres in the Blue Ledge district on Upper Applegate river, 4 miles south of the Oregon line, also a large smelter site at Seattle Bar. Property located 1889, but only slightly developed until 1909. Mr. Towne has spent over $700,000 in work since that time. [i

The vein, with strike of N. 10° E., and almost vertical dip, slightly in- clined west, traceable some 8,000’ by prominent outcrops of 50 to 250’ width, lies between a footwall of gray to black, slightly micaceous schist, and a hanging wall of soft white mica-schist, the walls not always being clearly defined, and with mineralization extending into the hanging wall. Orebodies are lenticular deposits, with clay gouge, said, by several authorities, to be in huge laminations in the schist formation, but ore apparently is persistent to depth. Ore is mainly chalcopyrite, associated with a little sphalerite and occasional native copper. The mine has 9 tunnels, with upwards of 2 miles of workings, blocking out considerable ore, and nearly 7,000” of diamond drilling showed several orebodies, said to give average assays of 5% cop- per, 2.5 oz. silver and $2.50 gold per ton.

Equipment includés a hydro-electric power plant, taking water from Elliot creek under a head of about 150’, at pressure of 85 lbs. Buildings in- clude an office, assay office, boarding house, dwellings and sawmill. The company has improved the town site with waterworks, sewers and a school house, and has built a good road between Hutton and Yreka. A 40-mile railway to connect with the Southern Pacific, at Medford, Ore., has been Projected. Property is in strong hands, and likely to become an important producer as soon as the railway line to the mine is built.

Blue Light Copper Co. Nevada

Address: care C. W. Marsh, pres., Washington, D. C. Mine office: Mina, Mineral Co., Nev. Henry L. Dollman, vice-pres.; F. M. Baker, Car- son City, Nev., sec.; Wm. C. Osborne, treas.; preceding officers, Chas. N. Van Cleave, Chas. E. Test and Richard Stegemeier, directors. Organized Oct., 1907, under laws of Nevada, capitalization $2,500,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable, as successor of Blue Light Mining Co.

Lands, 24 claims, area 480 acres, about 12 miles from Mina, in the Gold Mountain district, also 3 lots in Mina. Mine has shafts of 60’, 70’ and 700’, developing an 8’ vein of auriferous and argentiferous sulphide ore assaying about 5% copper; with 4,406’ of workings, estimated by Management to give 100,000 tons of ore blocked out for stoping. Equipment includes 30-h. p. and 100-h. p. gasoline hoists, latter said to be good for 3,000” depth. Five carloads of ore shipped, 1907, returned 15 to 23.2% copper, with small gold and silver values. Examined, 1913, by R. W. Hadden.

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BLUE LIGHT MINE. NEVADA Superintendent’s address: Mina, Nev. Property, 14 miles from Mina, consists of a group of claims developed by 600’ shaft from which several carloads of rich carbonate ore has been shipped. Shaft has just reached sulphide zone, but workings have not yet passed through leached material. Mine is equipped with hoist, buildings, etc., and appears to have earmarks of a mine. BLUE MOUNTAIN MINING CO. OREGON

Sec.-treas. and office: Joseph Grever, 17 Thoms Bldg., Cincinnati, Ohio. Mine office: Sumpter, Baker Co., Ore. Works office: Cable Cove, Grant Co., Ore. C. L. Arzeno, pres., gen. mgr. and purch. agt.; Dr. T. B. Mulloy. vice-pres.; preceding officers, F. H. Cloud, Wm. G. Parrot, Norton Stutson, Frank Gerwin, B. J. Stagge and Chas. Neblett, directors. Calvin Haines, supt.; G. W. Hewitt, mill supt.; C. A. Braunger, chemist-assayer. Organ- ized under laws of Arizona, capitalization $2,000,000, shares $1 par, fully paid and nonassessable; about 1,400,000 shares issued. Authorized $50,000 6% bonds. Annual meeting, May 17. Property, 27 claims, approximately 500 acres, 200 patented and said to be covered with timber with the excep- tion of 35 acres, situated in Cable Cove district.

Orebodies are said to be fissure veins in diorite, running slightly east of north and dipping in opposite directions. One vein has an average width ` of 4’, a proven length of 2,200’ and a proven depth of 700’. The Eagle vein is said to be 60’ wide and developed for 6,800’ in length. The concentrates carry 11 oz. silver and $53 in gold per ton. The ore carries less than 1% copper, traces of lead and 3% zinc. ¢

Development is mainly by tunnels, of which there are 8, the longest be- ing 1,900’ on the McKee claim. The Chance and Cloud shafts are 115’ and 18’ deep respectively. There is a total of 7,000’ of underground workings and the management estimates 40,000 tons of ore blocked out.

The property is equipped with a 120-h. p. steam plant with 1 hoist good for 500’, 1 six-drill compressor and all necessary mine buildings. A stamp mill is being installed, equipped with gyratory and Dodge crushers, 20 steam stamps, Huntington mill, four 5x12’ plates, 4 Wilfley tables and 8 Johnson tables. There is also a 10-ton test mill which has been running regularly for some time. The property is 12 miles from the Sumpter Valley railroad. The crude ore averages $10 per ton.

Blue Ridge Copper Co., Inc. Virginia

Office: 613-145 La Salle St., Chicago. Mine office: Stanley, Madison Co., Va. Jacob Lauth, pres.; Frank L. Race, sec.-treas.; Geo. F. Brigham, Jr., gen. mgr. -Organized April 2, 1904, under laws of Virginia, capitaliza- tion $500,000, shares $5 par. Lands, 100 acres, on the eastern slope of the Blue Ridge mountains, in one of the deepest and most inaccessible ravines of the range, about 8 miles from a railway, opened by old pits and a 200' shaft, with about 500’ of workings. Ore is variously reported as a contact vein between granite and metamorphosed slate, and as an 8 bed of green- stone, carrying native copper, cuprite, malachite and azurite. Has a 4” Pel- ton wheel, using water under a head of 500’, generating 350 h. p. Has nec- essary mine buildings, and a 50-ton Nissen mill. Presumably idle since Aug., 1909.

Blue Ridge Mining Co. Arizona

Situated near Constellation, Yavapai Co., 15 miles from Wickenburg. Claims show a large ledge crossing the Hassayampa river, carrying carbon- ate ores which company expects to treat in a 40-ton concentrating mill, finished in Aug., 1913. Mill contains Sturtevant crusher, a 5’ Bryan mill, Deister slime and sand tables, leaching tanks and precipitation well.

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BLUE VEIN COPPER MINING CO. $ MONTANA Office and mine: 17 Owsley Blk., Butte, Silver Bow Có Mont. “F. L. Melcher, pres.; Lewis A. Smith, sec.; W. F. Noyes, treas. Organized June 21, 1906, under laws of Montana, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par. Lands, 9 claims, patented, being the Little Boulder, Valentine, Bunker Hill, Biue Vein, Blue Vein No. 1, Myrahl, North Star No. 1, the Ozone and Co- lumbia lode claims in the southern part of the Butte district. Idle since Nov., 1909, BLUE WING MINING CO. NORTH CAROLINA

Office: 35 Congress St., Boston, Mass. Operating office: Virgilina, Va. F. E. Wood, pres.; T. M. Russ, vice-pres.; D. M. Hill, sec.; J. P. Sylvester, treas.; Robt. G. Lassiter, gen. mgr. Organized 1907, under laws of West Virginia, capitalization $100,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable. Property in the Virgilina copper belt, Granville and Person counties, N. C.

Lands comprise 1,488 acres, showing a 4’ fissure vein in schist, with north and south strike, traceable 1 mile, and proven to depth of 350, es- timated by management to carry ore averaging 3% copper, 1 oz. silver and 10 to 20 cts., gold per ton. Ore is highly silicious, and difficult of treatment without admixture of basic ores, which are unobtainable in the district. De- velopment is by shafts of 75’ and 350’, with 4 levels opened, the ore showing bornite and glance with quartz and occasional calcite gangue.

Equipment includes a 40-h. p. hoist, good for 500’, one 5-drill straight- line air compressor and 7 power drills. Buildings include engine house, boiler house, ore-sorting shed with picking belt, and carpenter shop. Pro- duction, 1909, was 2,900 tons of ore, yielding 157,057 Ibs. fine copper. Mine very poorly operated in the past, owing chiefly to lack of working capital and proper equipment for operating on a big scale. All ore mined thus far has been hand-sorted and shipped to smelters. Property valuable and with fine crushing and concentration by flotation process could be profit- ably operated. Mine leased March, 1913, to S. Durgy of New Haven and has been unwatered.

Bluestone Mining & Smelting Co. Nevada

Office: 43 Exchange Place, New York. Mine office: Yerington, Lyon Cosa ¡Nevs Capt:! JR. DeLamar, owner; W. O. Fletcher, sec.; Chas. A. Weck, supt. Is not incorporated.

Owns the Bluestone mine and a group of 20 claims adjoining the Mason Valley mine. The Bluestone is the oldest property in the district, claims having been patented previous to 1890. Mine has been opened to a depth of 540’ and has about 6,500’ of workings, including a '1,300” main haulage tunnel, cutting an ore shoot about 300’ wide and 500' long at a point 300’ below the apex. This shoot is said to carry an 80” paystreak of high-grade ore, ranging up to 20% in tenor, with balance of ore carrying 2.5% copper. Management estimates 1,600,000 tons of ore in sight, averaging 2.6% cop- per. Ore is mainly chalcopyrite, associated with considerable epidote, in a garnet-limestone gangue, there being practically no oxidized ores, even at the outcrop. Ore is uniform in character, and after a light roast is well pede to magnetic separation. Drill holes prove that ores extend to 750’

epth.

Equipment includes a 50-h. p. hoist and a 35-drill electric air compress- or. A 100-ton mill pulverizes the ore, in rolls, to pass an 8-mesh screen, after which ore is slightly calcined in a tower roaster, to magnetize the pyrite. Roasted ore is then passed through a Wetherill magnetic separator, which takes up the mineral, and discharges the waste, giving a concentrate of about 15% copper. Magnetic separation is claimed to have given a 95% extraction, though 85%, under working conditions, will be Satisfactory.

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The magnetic concentrating plant is reported running and the furnace has been enlarged. Company has spent $250,000 in development and equipment of property. Management is able and property considered valuable.

Boca; Cia. Explcradora Y Explotadora

De Las Minas De La. Mexico

Mine office: Ciudad La Victoria, Rio Grande, Coahuila, Mex. Antonio Quintana, pres. and gen. mgr.; C. Guerra Espinosa, sec., at last reports. Or- ganized 1905, under laws of Mexico, capitalization 30,000 pesos; issued, 18,- 750 pesos. Lands, 101 hectares, including the Bornita, Asturiana, Esper- anza and Oviedo mines. Development is by a 44-meter shaft, and by tun- nels of 26, 44, 58 and 100 meters, showing considerable ore, of which a por- tion is high grade. Mines produce about 1 carload bi-monthly of ore assay- ing about 20% copper, 800 grams silver and 3 grams gold per metric ton. Property has a water power available. Idle owing to revolution.

Boca Del Cobre Mining Co. Mexico

Letters unclaimed at San Luis del Cordero, Durango, Mex. Capt. C. Henry Thompson, pres.; J. D. Thompson, vice-pres., 481 So. Orange Grove Ave., Pasadena, Cal.; Lane C. Gilliam, gen. mgr.; A. G. Alexander, mgr.; Nelson Nyberg, supt.; Pasadena National Bank, treas. Organized 1906.

Lands, 188 hectares, 25 miles from Nazas and 45 from Pedricena, said to have been bought for $300,000, including El Rosario group of 12 hectares, San Nicolas, San Francisco, and Santa Rita mines, all with considerable de- velopment, ore reserves being valued at 12,000,000 pesos. The Santa Rita mine, 900’ deep, has a 75-h. p. hoist. El Rosario mine gave average assays from ore shipped from 4th and 5th levels, of 7.5% copper and 100 oz. silver per ton, with small gold values.

Equipment includes electric power, 2 hoists and a 12-drill air com- pressor. Ore is transported by traction engines from the mines to Ber- mejillo station. Property was a shipper, 1907-09, and is said to have earned good profits. Mine considered valuable and management good. Idle sev- eral years and region rent by revolution.

Bohemia Mining Co. Michigan

Office: 85 Devonshire St., Boston, Mass. Mine office: Lake Mine, On- tonagon Co., Mich. Operating office: Dee Bldg., Houghton, Mich. Wm. A. Paine, pres.; Chas. A. Snow, vice-pres.; Robt. H. Gross, sec.-treas.; pre- ceding officers, John H. Rice, Thos. S. Dee, Richard M. Edwards and F. Ward Paine, directors. Organized Jan. 29, 1910, capitalization $2,500,000, shares $25 par, assessable; paid in, $8; issued, $1,875,000. Of the 75,000 shares issued, 30,000 were given for lands, and 45,000 were sold to the pub- lic, at $8. Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Co., transfer agent. Stock is listed on the Boston curb. Annual meeting, third Wednesday in April.

Lands, 960 acres, originally known as the Piscataqua, in very early days, and later as the Henwood. It is hoped that the property is traversed by the cupriferous amygdaloidal bed of the Lake Copper Co, Diamond drilling was done, 1910, with 2 drills working at the end of the year. Drill holes have yielded a number of cores, from various amygdaloidal beds, more or less cupriferous, some with copper in fair quantities, but with nothing re- markably promising or that justify sinking a shaft. Suspended operations March, 1911.

Annual report, Feb., 1913, shows cash in bank, $125,193, and states that as soon as sufficiently important developments are made on adjoining prop- erties, they will resume development work.

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BOLEO; COMPAGNIE DE. MEXICO Secretary and office: M. Georges Odier, 56 Rue de Province, Paris,

France. Mine at Santa Rosalia, Sur, Baja California, Mex. M. A. Mirabaud,

pres.; Charles La Forgue, managing director; Jules Aron, William d’Eichtal, Maurice Ephrussi, Marquis de Montaigu, Henri Puerari, Ernest Tambour, Charles de Wendel, directors. Ernest Michot, director-general; M. Michel Berger and André d’Eichtal auditors.

Organized May 16, 1885, under laws of France, capitalization £12,000,000, shares f100 par. There are also 46,000 founders’ shares. Is controlled joint- ly by the French house of Rothschild and the Banque Mirabaud, and owns a considerable share interest in the Compagnie d'Inguaran. Is exempt, un- til Dec. 17, 1925, from all federal and local taxes, except stamp taxes; is exempt, until 1935, from export and import duties on fuel consumed; is exempt, until 1942, from custom duties and local duties, and employees are exempt from military and civil service.

The profit for 1912 was $1,414,024, compared with $771,246, in 1911. After allowing for amortization and general reserve, a dividend of 8%, or $7.20 per share was declared. Accounts for year to Dec. 31, 1912, submitted April 26, 1913, showed a credit balance of 6,223,068 francs: Reserve fund 7,070,120 francs.

Dividends have been as follows: 162.5 in 1901; £62.5 in 1902; £104.16 in 1903; £135.41 in 1904; £200 in 1905; £312.5 in 1906; £200 in 1907; £25 in 1911 and £36 in 1912 with £34.1 for founders’ shares.

Company owned 11 groups of copper claims, 20,000 hectares, granted by the Mexican government, also 11,920 hectares of grazing lands south of the mines. Principal groups are the Soledad, Providencia and Purgatorio. Lands include 5 known copper deposits of importance, the copper-bearing formation covering 3,000 hectares, with possibilities of further extensions.

The ore occurs in a formation of Tertiary conglomerates, sandstones and tuffs, the cupriferous tuffs overlying conglomerates of eruptive rock pebbles, and being surmounted by argillaceous tuffs, all traversed by fis- sures. The ores comprise a remarkably varied series of oxidized copper minerals in which the metal occurs in combination with silver, lead, cobalt, manganese and other metals. The prevailing oxide is melaconite, more or less mixed with manganese and iron oxides; and the prevailing sulphides below water level are covellite and copper glance. The following rare minerals are peculiar to this deposit: Boleite, an oxychloride of lead, copper and silver; cumengeite, oxychloride of lead and copper; fosgeneite, a chloro- carbonate of lead; spherocobaltite, a carbonate of cobalt. Practically every known oxidized ore of copper occurs here, as well as those of lead, manganese and iron. Gypsum is abundant-and native sulphur occurs. All minerals occur in an unctuous, decomposed tuff, locally called soap-clay. There are 3 cupriferous beds, the upper averaging about 3’ in thickness, the middle 2 to 3’, and the bottom 2 to 10”. The middle bed carries oxide and carbonate ores in oolitic concretions, known locally as boleos, hence the name of the mine. The lowest bed, partly below the water line, carries sulphide ores, as well as oxides and carbonates. This bed, No. 3, has been the chief source of ore supply of the property. It has averaged 1 meter in thickness, but varies from a few inches up to 16’ in different parts of the property. The ore is disseminated through the tuffs in thin, irregular veins, with clay gouge, and has a marked concentration toward the bottom of each bed, where the ore forms compact layers of 6 to 12”. The main workings are 15 to 200 meters above sea level, the mine being opened by numerous tunnels, and by*7 shafts of the following depths: Sombrero, 98 meters; Carmen, 53 m.; Purgatorio, 55 m.; Central, 156 m.; Amelia, 48 m.;

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Santa Rita, 86 m.; San Juan, 86 m. The mine is extensively developed, bed No. 3 having 365 kilometers of workings in 1912.

Owing to the peculiar nature of the mine, all drilling is done by hand, and the ore, not being fitted for mechanical concentration, is hand-sorted, and about half is machine-briquetted at a cost of only about f0.8 per ton, the argillaceous gangue serving as a natural binder. Average net returns from ore smelted have ranged from 4.29% copper in 1900, to 3.36% in 1906, when the high price of copper caused the smelting of ore of lower than average grade.

The mine has complete steam and electric plants, generating upwards of 2,500 h. p. from steam engines, of which 2,000 h. p. is transformed by two 500-kw. 3-phase current generators and two 250-kw. 3-phase generators. The electric plant, at Santa Rosalia, furnishes power for hoisting, traction engines and a lighting system having 50 arc lights and a number of incan- descent lamps. The company is courageous in installing new machinery, and has a “boneyard” containing much old machinery that has been scrapped. The climate is tropical, and the country extremely arid. Pot- able water is brought from a reservoir on the Yaqui plateau, through a 16.074-meter pipe line, having pumps at Santa Agueda and Santa Rita. The mines and works are connected by a 30-kilometer private railway, equipped with 9 locomotives and 250 cars.

The smelter, rebuilt 1901 and 1906, has 12 water-jacket blast furnaces, of 200 to 250 tons daily capacity each, 6 with 12 and 6 with 15 tuyeres each. There are 6 large Root blowers, driven by three 175-h. p. compound engines. Sea water for jackets is supplied by a duplex pump of 2,400 cubic meters hourly capacity, operated by a 250-h. p. engine. Electric locomo- tives on the slag line dump molten slags into moulds in rough holes in the ground, and, after cooling, the masses of slag are dumped over the end of the breakwater, serving a useful purpose in its extension. Fuel for smelting is German coke and English coal, and patented coal briquettes are used for general fuel. The first fusion product is a matte of 60 to 65% copper tenor, blown up to black copper of 93 to 94% average tenor, production being about two-thirds matte and one-third black copper. Matte and bars are shipped to England and France for refining, the man- agement believing this preferable to adding a converter plant.

The works at Santa Rosalia include a 2-story power building, of steel, concrete and brick, and extensive machine shops, capable of handling all classes of mining work, the company occupying a singularly isolated posi- tion,

The harbor of Santa Rosalia has breakwaters of 650’ and 2,500’, with a 340-meter jetty and 2 new wharves, the dock having an area of 15 hectares, with breakwaters composed of large blocks of slag. The harbor works in- clude a dredge and three 200-ton lighters used therewith. The port handles annually about 125,000 tons of freight, in addition to about 7,000,000’ of lumber. The company owns a steamer, plying between Santa Rosalia and the eastern coast of Mexico. Copper is shipped to Europe on the steamers of the Compagnie Chargeurs Reunis.

The town of Santa Rosalia has a population ‘of 9,500, of whom 200 are Europeans, dependent solely upon the mines and works, and is controlled absolutely by the company. The town is well laid out, and has 4 general stores, warehouses, -saw mill, church, 4 school houses, theater, amphi- theater and market. The company gives free medical and surgical attend- ance, medicines and an excellent hospital service to employes.

The labor question has given considerable difficulty, owing to the scant population of Lower California, necessitating the importation of workmen.

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Wages average about 2 pesos daily for miners. The importation of 500 Japan- ese workmen, 1904, proved unprofitable, only 40 men remaining at the mine by the end of the year, and tropical labor from Tepic also proved a failure. A large number of Chinese coolies were hired, 1903-04, but of the force of men now employed, only about 300 are Chinese.

In 1912 the company employed 3,000 men in their mines. Almost all hand labor is Mexican with some Yaqui Indians. Europeans are only em- ployed as foremen and for special work.

Recent production has been as follows: 304,940 metric tons of ore, yielding 22,817,610 lbs. fine copper in 1906; 319,854 tons, yielding 24,530,000 Ibs. in 1907; 342,334 tons, yielding 22,619,196 lbs. in 1908; 328,100 tons, yield- ing 31,416,550 lbs. in 1909; 29,120,000 Ibs. in 1910; 27,686,400 Ibs. in 1911 and 28,336,000 Ibs. in 1912. The production of ore mined for 1911 was 355,100 tons of 3.47% ore, and 364,850 tons of 3.51% ore in 1912. The smelter handled 356,700 tons of ore in 1911 and 360,000 tons of ore, yielding 12,650 tons of copper in 1912, an increase of 290 tons over the preceding year. The average content of the ore was 3.5%. Railway transported 652,312 tons in 1912, as against 605,661 tons, in 1911. Reserves of ore amount to 6 years’ supply.

The total production of copper to the end of 1912 was 242,088 metric tons. The property is one of exceptional merit and has been ably managed for many years.

Bolinas Copper Mining Co. California

Letter unclaimed at Bolinas, Marin Co., Cal. T. P. H. Whitelaw, pres. and mgr., at last accounts. Lands, 4 miles east of Bolinas. show several narrow veins in serpentine, on which some development work was done in the past, including a 180’ shaft, on the western vein, having levels at 100’ and 180’, with about 2 miles of workings. Ore on dumps is said to carry 5 to 10% copper. The property has a good equipment, including a mill, but has been idle some years and is apparently moribund.

Bolster Mining Co. Washington

Property, 11 claims on Copper mountain, near Chesaw, Okanogan Co., Wash., formerly belonged to Monterey Mining Co. Has been worked by shafts and a 500’ tunnel for past 12 years.

Bon Soldat Mining Co. Utah

Letters unclaimed at 647 West Forty-first Place, Los Angeles, Cal., and Frisco, Beaver Co., Utah. Edith Maida Cook, pres.; Col. J. Lee Burton, vice-pres.; Dr. J. H. Dennison Cook, sec.; Farmers € Merchants Bank, Los Angeles, treas., at last accounts. Organized June 4, 1907, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par, non-assessable. Lanas, 7 claims, 3 fractional, 5 miles from a railroad, showing argentiferous lead, copper and zinc ores, developed by shafts of 100’ and 112’.

Bonanza De Cobre. Mexico

Property owned by Elenita Development Co., which holds title through Mexican corporation, Lomita Mining Co., S. A. Controlled by estate of late Col. L. W. Powell, Los Angeles, Cal. Mine adjoins the Calumet & Sonora ground on the west and is about 2 miles north of Cananea, Sonora, Mex. ;

BONANZA DEVELOPMENT Co. COLORADO

J. Parker Whitney, president. Organized March, 1880, under laws of Colorado. Capitalization $300,000. Up to Oct. 10, 1911, had paid $1,425,000 in dividends, including 1 of $3.50 per share from the sale of the Santa Rita mine, to the Chino Copper Co. for $1,200,000, in June, 1909, Dividend No. 9 of 20 cts. a share, Oct. 19, 1911, was derived from sale of the Baca grant No. 1, Bernalillo county, N. M., for $57,126.

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Owns 16,341 acres in Cochiti grant, Sandoval county, N. M.; 4 patented full mining claims in Gunnison county, Colo., and a half interest in the Excelsior mining claim, Lake county, Colo.

Bonanza Mine. Alaska

The Bonanza mine, Copper river, Alaska, is owned by the Kennecott Mines Co.

Bonanza Mine. Alaska

The Bonanza mine at Latouche, Latouche island, Alaska, is owned by the Beatson Copper Co.

Bonanza Mine. Idaho

At Montpelier, Bear Lake Co., Idaho, on O. S. L. R. R. Property, 4 miles from Montpelier, comprises several claims covering an area of Tri- assic “Red Beds” with low disseminations of copper. Workings have large flow of water which operating company plans to use in precipitation plant. BONANZA MINING CO. IDAHO

Office and mine: Montpelier, Bear Co., Idaho. Col. E. J. Parrish, pres.; E. M. Stewart, vice-pres.; A. D. Young, sec.; H. H. Hoff, treas.; pre- ceding officers, Chas. Sweet, M. F. Whitman and Ira Chaffin, directors; R. C. Eckloff, gen. mgr., at last accounts. Organized Nov., 1905, under laws of Idaho, capitalization $5,000,000, shares $1 par, as successor of Montpelier Copper Mining & Smelting Co.

Lands, 25 claims, unpatented, area 500 acres, 9 miles southwest of Montpelier, including the Duke, Emerald and other claims. The Duke claim has a vein of 30’ width, with paystreak of about 5’, carrying auriferous and argentiferous copper ore, developed by a 400’ shaft. Presumably idle.

In 1911 company’s prospectus states: “Lands of the company extend over 4 miles of a large copper lead paralleled by a phonolite-porphyry dike which extends from wall to wall 600’, in which the copper ledge is em- bedded and can be seen and traced for the full distance of the property.” BONANZA MINING CO. MEXICO

Office: Sunbury, Pa. Mine office: Ameca, Jalisco, Mex. Geo. B. M. Metzger, pres.; Chas. A. Sidler, sec.-treas.; E. J. Callahan, gen. mgr. Or- ganized 1905, by shareholders of Amparo Mining Co., to take over the Barranca mine, bought for $30,000. Idle since Nov., 1907.

Bonanza Mining Co. Mexico

Is the operating Mexican corporation of the Superior Bonanza Mining Co., which see. Holds title to the mineral properties of that company, located near Imuris, Sonora, Mex., consisting of 197 pertenencias, or ap- proximately 490 acres. J. S. Douglas, pres.; Wm. Gmahling, vice-pres.; George Young, sec.; J. V. Montague, treas. Controlled through stock ownership by Greene Cananea Copper Co.

Bonanza Mining Co. Nevada

Mine office: Winnemucca, Humboldt Co., Nev. Company controlled by Chas. Baagoe and D. F. Shiveley of Winnemucca. Property, 5 miles from Winnemucca, on mountain of that name, shows vein in metamor- phosed mesa slates intruded by diorite. A “strike” of ore, made in 1912, resulted in a lawsuit over ownership, settled Aug., 1913.

Bonanza Mining & Development Co. California

Letters unclaimed at Vontrigger, San Bernardino Co., Cal. A. Wm. Grant, director; B. E. Webster, mgr., at last accounts. Organized Oct., 1909, under laws of California, capitalization $500,000. Mine, developed by shaft, shows auriferous and argentiferous copper and tungsten ore. Has gasoline power. Presumably idle.

Bonanza Mountain Copper Co. Montana

Mine office: Florence, Ravalli Co., Mont. Amos Buck, pres.; G. W.

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Dougherty, vice-pres.; H. C. Topping, sec., Wallace, Idaho; Thos. McCabe, treas.; preceding officers and D. J. Whaley, directors. Organized May 20, 1909, under laws of Idaho, capitalization $1,500,000, shares $1 par. An- nual meeting, May 20, yearly.

Lands, 6 claims, unpatented, area 120 acres, in the Woodchuck district, about 3 miles from the Northern Pacific railroad, carrying 4 fissure veins, in quartzite and slate, of which 1 vein, dipping to the northeast, of 4” estimated average width and traceable 3,000’, carries cuprite, melaconite, malachite, azurite, bornite, chalcopyrite and enargite, developed by a 300’ tunnel. A test shipment of 2 carloads of ore returned 32% copper, 3 oz. silver and $3.50 gold per ton. A crosscut tunnel is said to show a 6’ ledge with stringers of ore from 1 to 5” wide, carrying good copper and silver values. An assessment of 1 mill per share was levied on several occasions. BONANZA QUEEN MINING CO., LTD. WASHINGTON

Office: 2931 Portland Ave., Minneapolis, Minn. Mine near Silverton, — Snohomish Co., Wash. Elgin R. Shepard; pres.; W. R. Edwards, vice- pres.; C. F. Gordon, sec.-treas.; Angus Sutherland, gen. mgr.; preceding officers, P. D. Boutell, H. F. Warner and Mrs. S. L. Webb, directors.’ Or- ganized 1902, under laws of Washington, capitalization $2,000,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable; fully issued. Bonds, $250,000 authorized, $190,000 issued, at 7%.

Property, 19 claims, showing 4 veins, said to be proven by gorges for about 4,000’, the main vein being claimed to average about 60’ width. De- velopment by a 1,500’ crosscut tunnel, 600’ upraise, 100’ drift on 300’ level and 375’ crosscut on 600’ level, cutting orebody. Company also has 82 placer claims containing a 30’ bed of clay, said to be suitable for Portland cement, also fire clay. Shipments of 26 carloads of ore to the Tacoma smelter gave returns of $16.80 per ton. Management estimates 800,000 tons of ore averaging 5 to 6% copper, $1 to $6 gold per ton, which is too high. Mine is for sale as present owners lack necessary capital. BONNEY MINING CO. ARIZONA

Mine on upper Lynx creek, Yavapai Co., Ariz., is an old one recently reopened. The new shaft, 123’ deep, Jan., 1913, will be carried down to 250’, when drifting, to cut the face of the main tunnel 500’ distant, will begin. The ores, formerly gold-silver, are now high-grade copper, in a vein 26” wide at 123’ in depth. i BONNEY MINING CO. NEW MEXICO

O. Ryback, Lordsburg, Grant Co., N. M., manager at last accounts. Prop- erty is the Bonnie mine in the Pyramid district, 514 miles south of Lords- burg. Ore is silicious with chalcopyrite, carrying gold values found in 5 fissure veins in andesite forming the hills at the northern end of the Pyramid mountains, at an elevation of 4,500 to 5,500’. Main shaft is 300’ deep with 3 levels, said to show veins 5 to 15’ wide.

Veins of district, according to U. S. Geological Survey, are narrow and characterized by quartz with plentiful barite, rhodochrosite and other carbonates and carry ore in bands and bunches in central part of quartz. Wide silicious zones occur but are barren. Values considered superficial by authorities.

Property equipped, 1910, with 10-ton Partridge hot-blast smelter, which partly accounts for the present condition of mine, since no sane man would expect to operate profitably with this tea-pot smelter.

Border Mines Co. Arizona

Todd C. Woodworth, business mgr.; James R. Hendra, gen. supt., Oro Blanco, Santa Cruz Co., Ariz. Company had a lease on the Austerlitz mine, which expired 1912, property reverting to A. H. Noon, owner,

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BOREN GULCH MINING CO. COLORADO Office: care Henry C. Deeming, gen. mgr., 15 No. Third St., Harris- burg, Pa. Mine office: La Plata, La Plata Co., Colo. G. C. Cornell, supt. Ores are complex auriferous and argentiferous copper, lead and zinc sul- phides. Has steam power. The manager reports that only development work has been done, 1912-13, but as neighboring properties are resuming work and arranging to ship, this company may do so also. BORNITE COPPER & GOLD MINING CO. WASHINGTON Office: Bangor, Me. Mine office: Darrington, Snohomish Co., Wash. C.. W. Coffin, pres.; Wilbur E. Frank, sec.; Hon. C. G. Austin, gen mgr., at last accounts. Organized under laws of Washington, capitalization $2,500,000, shares $1 par. Lands, 11 claims, in the Stillaguamish district, showing strong outcrops of auriferous and argentiferous bornite and chal- copyrite.. Development is by a 2,689’ tunnel, cutting 3 veins. Has water power, and is said to have an aerial tram. Idle, if not dead. BORNITE MINING & SMELTING CO. WASHINGTON M. C. King, sec., 403 Rookery Bldg., Spokane, Wash. Mine office: Newport, Stevens Co., Wash. A. Hohneck, pres.; Geo. Grass, vice-pres.; preceding officers and Wm. J. Adams, directors; Fred Hecker, supt.. Cap- italization, originally $1,000,000, was increased, 1908, to $1,300,000, shares $1 par, and 700,000 preferred shares at $1 par. Annual meeting, first Wednes- day in June.

Lands, 225 acres, patented, about 414 miles north of Newport, on north side of the Pend d’Oreille river. Development includes a 30’ shaft, show- ing 12 to 24” of high-grade copper ore, and an 800’ tunnel. Two veins average 4’ in width, are proved for 250’ beneath outcrop and carry 334’ bornite ore with 40% copper and $7 gold per ton. Total underground workings 1,500’; 5,000 tons ore estimated in sight. Has 50-h. p. gasoline engine and air compressor. Mine one-half mile from Idaho and Washing- ton Northern railroad.

Boston & Alta Copper Co. Montana

Mine office: Corbin, Jefferson Co., Mont. John Joyce, pres.; Mar- cus L. Hewett, vice-pres. and gen. mgr.; Chas. H. Innes, sec.-treas.; pre- ceding officers, Walter Callender, Warren Curtis, Sr., Jas. G. Gregg, Archi- bald S. Spriggs, Wm. Tatham and Chas. B. Van Nostrand, directors; Rich- ard M. Atwater, Jr., cons. engr.; C. E. Titus, supt. Organized Nov., 1909, under laws of West Virginia, capitalization $3,000,000, shares $10 par, as successor of Alta-Montana Copper Co. to take over and work the Alta mine, whose output of $32,000,000 has made it one of the big mines of the world.

The Alta mine, passing from the original owners to the Helena Mining & Reduction Co., was shut down, 1903, and thereafter was worked occa- sionally, by tributers, until recently. The Alta Montana Co. succeeded to the ownership, and was succeeded in turn by the Kelly Mining & Reduction Co., which was succeeded by the Alta-Montana Copper Co., which was succeeded by the Boston & Alta Copper Co. The New Mexican holdings of the Kelly Smelting & Refining Co. were segregated, holdings of present company being exclusively in Montana. f

Lands, 640 acres, including the Alta group of 8 claims, carrying about 7,000’ of the Alta or mother lode of the Corbin camp, property including some placer ground near Corbin, and a townsite. The Alta lode consists of fissures in granite, with dip to the north, the main, or Alta vein, of about 20’ average width, being developed for about a mile horizontally. Values in developed workings are mainly in silver and lead, with a little copper and gold, and occasional sphalerite, the lead and zine decreasing

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and copper increasing with depth. Copper ore is mainly chalcopyrite, car- rying silver and a little gold, apparently of low average grade, and some- what refractory, though it can be mined cheaply. Mine assay records, during 1903, the last year of work by the old owners, gave an average of 1.75% copper, 4% lead, 9 oz. silver and $1.40 gold per ton.

The old Alta mine had about 17 miles of workings, developed mainly by tunnels, No. 8 being the main tunnel, and was dry, even to the greatest depth attained.

New development is by a 1,000’ three-compartment shaft, near portal of No. 8 tunnel, with about 700’ of laterals, but money gave out and opera- tions were suspended in Aug., 1910, since which date leasors have gouged the old workings near the surface, but no other work has been done. A crosscut at 665’ depth showed the Alta vein to be about 30’ wide, 560’ from the shaft, said to give a fair copper showing.

Company is said to have a hydro-electric power plant, estimated as capable of developing 1,400-h. p., on Prickly Pear creek, and there also is a small auxiliary steam plant. Equipment includes an electric hoist good for 1,200’, and a 10-drill air compressor. There is a 30x70’ boarding house, and an old mill, of little present value, but having a good site.

The Alta was a large and profitable producer for 2 decades, but ore became low in grade and refractory, hence suspension in 1893, when silver suftered marketwise. The property was reported upon favorably by Pearse, Kingston € Browne, who stated that it was “not so much a mining venture as a manufacturing proposition on a large scale,” and also stated that “mining risks are practically nil” in this venture. Company. has issued $1,400,000 out of its capital stock and in 1912 had an outstanding debt of $30,000, and at least $40,000 more is needed to put company on its feet. Company is not regarded favorably, on account of the chain of reorgani- zations, and its promotion by Marcus L. Hewett, whose record as a pro- moter includes a number of unsuccessful ventures. Idle.

BOSTON & ARIZONA SMELTING CO. (NEVADA). ARIZONA At Benson, Cochise Co., Ariz. Owned a small smelting plant, never operated and of slight value. Probably now owned by bondholders under foreclosure proceedings. See description Vol. X.

Boston-Colby Copper Mining Co. Montana

Mine P. O.: Saltese, Missoula Co., Mont. Peter Peterson, pres.; Hon. Andrew Flaig, sec. and gen. mgr.; Ole H. Linn, supt. Organized Sept. 16, 1903, in Montana, capitalization $1,500,000, shares $1 par, with 700,000 treas- ury shares, 400,000 still in treasury.

Lands, 9 claims,.area 180 acres, and a 5-acre mill site, lying next east of the Butte-Cceur d'Alene Copper Mining Co., immediately west of Saltese, in the East Coeur d'Alene, formerly known as St. Regis district. Lands have 2 copper-bearing veins, No. 1 of about 40' width, and No. 2, to the south, of about 3’ width, carrying mainly chalcopyrite, with some bornite, of good average grade, Development is by 2 crosscut tunnels, upper of 400’, lower of 900’ length with about 500’ of drifting in both tunnels. Property crossed by C., M. & St. Paul railroad. Wood and water are abundant.

Boston & Corbin Copper & Silver Mg. Co. Montana

Secretary-Treasurer’s address: 67 Milk St., Boston. Mine office: Corbin, Jefferson Co., Mont. Harry M. Stonemetz, pres.; A. B. Clough, vice-pres.; preceding officers, Charles H. Cole, Frederick L. Dabney, Ellis L. Dresel, David A. Ellis, directors; Dan Courtney, mgr. Organized Aug. 27, 1906, under Jaws of Maine, capitalization $675,000, shares $5 par, nonassessable; issued, $500,000: Federal Trust Co., Boston, registrar; Boston Safe Deposit

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& Trust Co., transfer agent. Stock is listed on the Boston Stock Exchange. Annual meeting, fourth Monday in August. Company sold 40,000 shares at $5; 10,000 shares at $7.50, and 10,000 shares at $25. Bonds $450,000, 6% convertible, of which $200,000 were sold at 90. After spending $705,000 and building a concentrator, it was found that the company was in debt and needed new financing. Reorganization was accomplished June, 1913, by formation of a new company with 200,000 shares, $5 par, which were ex- changed for securities of the old company on basis of 75,200 shares for $200,000 6% convertible bonds and 100,000 shares exchanged share for ‘share upon payment of a subscription of $1.50 per share for the old stock. This leaves 24,800 shares in the treasury.

Property embraces the Bertha mine and 12 patented claims aggre- gating 157 acres, about 1 mile west of Corbin, having about 4,500’ of the strike of the Bertha vein. Country rock is granite with intrusive porphyry rocks, carrying a vein system consisting of a number of parallel fissures. The geological conditions are often called similar to those of Butte, but ore is mainly chalcopyrite, instead of chalcocite, as in Butte, with some enar- gite and a little bornite of good grade, all argentiferous and slightly aurif- erous. Lands said to have 16 veins, of which 3 are under development. The Bertha vein is a well-defined. but narrow fissure in granite, varying from 2 to 5’ wide with strong walls. Management estimates the 3 veins under development as of 5’ average width. The shipping ore from the Bertha vein carries 4 to 6% copper. The concentrating ore is pyritic and low gradé, the concentrates running 7% copper, 8.6 oz. of silver per ton with $2.38 for excess iron; a total value of nearly $20 per ton. Manage- ment’s former estimates proved too optimistic as to values, development being disappointing, but geological conditions on 1,200’ level are said to indicate richer ore below. Property examined by Frank H. Probert in March, 1913. His report has not been made public, but he is credited with an estimate of 150,000 tons of developed ore, enough to run the mill 2% years. The mine is developed to a depth of 1,200’ and has 15,000’ of workings, not including 4 short discovery tunnels, the 102 Boston Fraction crosscut tunnel, 1,500’ Corbin crosscut tunnel and 880’ Bertha drift tunnel. The 1912 annual report states that on the 900’ level the vein for 164’ of drifting had an average width of 4’, with an average value of 3% copper and 5 oz. silver. On the 1,200’ level, 993’ of drifting developed several orebodies, whose values were not as good as on the ninth level. A lead-silver vein, 837’ west of the shaft on the 1,200’ level has been opened for 33’ with both faces in ore.

A 200-ton concentrator costing $125,000 was finished and put in opera- tion March, 1913, but proved of poor design and was remodeled in May with marked improvement in results. This mill treated 4,540 tons of ore in May. Costs were as follows: Mining, $2.80 per ton; concentrating, $1.08 per ton; miscellaneous and eastern expense, $0.57 per ton. Total, $4.45 per ‘ton. or $20,224. Returns were $17,376, or $3.82 per ton, a deficit of $2,848, -or $0.63 per ton. 3 y ¿e .

Equipment includes an electric hoist, capable of raising 5-ton loads from a depth of 2,000’, at the rate of 900’ per minute, and a 15-drill Inger- soll-Rand air compressor, direct-connected to a 150-h. p. motor. Power is bought from the Missouri Power Co., at a considerable saving over steam. There are 19 buildings, including a boiler house, engine house, compressor house, bunk house, boarding house, changing house, warehouse, office, laboratory, smithy and dwellings. Cost of wagon freight to railway is. $2 per ton on ore, Production, 1907, from test shipments of ore secured from

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development, was 157,000 lbs. fine copper. Company plans continuing un-

derground development by sinking, crosscutting and drifting.

BOSTON DOMINION COPPER CO. MANITOBA Probably idle. F. W. Thayer, pres.; J. Norton Binkly, treas., at last

accounts. Mine at Ingolf, Selkirk Co., Man. Organized 1910, under laws

of “Massachusetts, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable.

Lands, 51 acres, known as the Mineral King mine, claimed to carry a 20’

fissure vein, nearly vertical, traceable 1,500’ on this property, and for 2

miles all told, carrying auriferous copper ore, said by company to be developed by 2 shafts, which presumably are mere pits. Lands are on the shore of Hawk lake, 95 miles east of Winnipeg, and this constitutes the first attempt at a copper mine in Manitoba, the property belonging geo- logically to the extreme western part of the Rainy Lake-Rat Portage field.

The company in its prospectus omits the names of all of its officers, and claims that this mine is located in the most prolific mineral region in the world, which, unfortunately, is not true, stating that the bulk of the copper production of the United States comes from that vicinity, which is a rather remarkable claim, considering that this mine is located in Canada. The company credits its district with the entire copper and iron production of Lake Superior, the nickel and copper production of the Sudbury dis- trict, and the silver production of Cobalt. Company was endeavoring, . Feb., 1911, to sell its shares at par, and for a raw prospect, having 50

acres of daind's: with 2 pits, a selling price of $1,000,000 is absolutely un- justified. Apparently, merely a stockjobbing enterprise, and is regarded with much suspicion. BOSTON-ELY MINING CO. NEVADA

Office: 84 State St., Boston, Mass. Mine office: Kimberly, White Pine Co., Nev. Arthur L. Robinson, pres.; Chas. H. Farnsworth, vice-pres.; Jerome C. Smith, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, Geo. E. Keith and Wm. D. Elwell, directors; E. C. Chase, cons. engr.; Edw. W. Ralph, supt. Or- ganized Nov., 1907, under laws of Maine, ton $2,000,000, shares $10 par, assessable; paid in, $4; issued, $1,700,000. Was a reconstruction of Boston-Ely Development Co., and owns a two-thirds stock interest in the Ely Western Copper Co.” Company had $52,000 cash in treasury, June, 1913, and working expenses average $2,500 per month.

Lands, 22 claims, patented, area 300 acres, adjoining the Giroux on the west. Development is by the 1,260” Emma shaft, the deepest in the dis- trict, proving the existence of disseminated ores, in jasperoid and altered limestone in depth, but the average value is low. Property also has Emma and Matilda veins, the former 72’ wide in lower level, too low-grade to work, but said to carry high-grade ore, from which small shipments were made. Equipment includes a 180-h. p. boiler plant; a new Sullivan straight line compressor of 528-cu. ft. capacity, new station pump and a good sur- face plant.

Property located on contact belt outside of monzonite porphyry mass in which disseminated ores occur. May find rich ore, such as that of the Alpha shaft of the Giroux Co., but thus far, despite intelligent develop- ment and ample funds, has failed to find any large amount of commercial ore and is therefore still a prospect. Tried diamond drilling, but jasper and soft limestone proved unfavorable, and churn drilling from the 1,240’ level was proposed. When its neighbor, the Giroux Co., stopped pumping from its deep Alpha shaft, March, 1913, the Boston Ely pumps, which were taising 20,000 gals. per day, could not handle the inflow of water and the 1,245’ level flooded. The management wisely decided it unwise to install new pumps to drain not only this mine, but the surrounding area, and

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A crosscut driving west on this level is intended to show whether ore occurs in the 3 fissure veins alongside of or near a big porphyry dike, which crosses the Emma and Matilda claims. This crosscut, 425” long June, 1913, and advancing 5’ a day, is passing through a belt of limestone altered by contact metamorphism, leached, iron stained and rotted. It is similar in nature to the rock, carrying high-grade ore at the Alpha shaft of the Giroux. The porphyry dike, noted above, runs northeast-south- west, through the shell of altered limestone about the main porphyry mass and it is hoped the dike has ponded back the copper-bearing water leached from the rock and formed orebodies along the dike contact. The company plans raising a shaft to surface on this contact. The management is com- petent, honest and property a promising mining venture.

Boston Exploration Co. Washington

Dead, or ought to be. A flagrant promotion of E. E. Houghton. See Vol. X.

Boston-Idaho Mining Co. : Idaho

Office: 1137 Old South Bldg., Boston, Mass. Mine office: Ketchum, Blaine Co., Idaho. A. Mayo, Jr., pres.; Frank M. Johnson, vice-pres.; Geo. E. Burnham, sec.; W. M. Pierce, asst. treas. and local mgr.; Fred W. Smith, supt. Organized May 28, 1907, under laws of Maine, capitalization $200,000; nonassessable; capitalization was given, May, 1909, by fiscal agents, at $500,000; present capitalization unknown.

Statement filed April 1, 1912, with Secretary of State of Maine, gave: Real estate, $556,399; machinery, etc., $50,226; cash and accounts receivable, $2,434; horses and wagons, $1,386; stock in treasury, $9,616; mining costs, $82,507; total, $702,568. Liabilities were: Accounts payable, $42,124; float- ing debt, $7,840; funded indebtedness, $22,800; working capital, $129,804. The ore pile valued at $955,102 in the 1910 report has disappeared. Reports from Hailey, in 1912, stated that an issue of $25,000 6% 10-year gold bonds had been floated and overdue bills were being paid up preparatory to a resumption of work at property.

Another company of same name owns and is operating 2 gold dredges, on Elk and Moore creeks, near Idaho City, and had a bond on the Banner mine.

Company has never supplied much information about the property it claims to own. It holds, or did hold, the Ontario and Lucky Boy groups of 11 claims on Warm Springs creek, Boyle mountain, in the Bullion dis- trict, near Ketchum, Idaho. Thousands of dollars are said to have been taken from these groups in the past, the Ontario mine carrying copper and silver-lead ores, the Lucky Boy having zinc ore. Developed by 7 tunnels, aggregating 1,200’ of workings, have ore averaging 35% zinc. In May, 1909, mines were claimed to have 6,400’ of workings, with a productive capacity of more than 100, tons daily. Mines apparently have 8 tunnels, and manager reported, officially, 1909, that more than 2 years’ supply of ore had been blocked out for stoping. Mine was claimed, 1907, to have 15,000 tons of! low-grade ore on the dumps, also 800 tons of tailings. The L. Diamond Co. stated, May 28, 1909, that the company had 3 producing mines, and that the annual production from 1 mine was more than 31% times the necessary tonnage of ore for dividend requirements of 20 cts. per annum, and that the other 2 mines were equal in production, with ore of high value, but there was no annual production when these statements

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bunk house, 2 smithies, 2 stables, 2 powder houses, 2 ore houses and 8 dwellings. There also is a 5,000’ sawmill. Company was claimed, 1908, to plan a hydro-electric power plant.

An old 30-ton mill was in commission, 1907, for a short time, and a carload shipment of ore or concentrates was made Oct., 1907. The old mill was dismantled in the summer of 1908 and a new mill is supposed to have been built on the same site, in 1909, but produced nothing. ‘Property has been intermittently worked for many years. The remarkable state- ments concerning the property by its fiscal agents are described Vol. X. BOSTON & JEROME COPPER CO. ARIZONA

Office and mine: Jerome, Yavapai Co., Ariz. J. C. Scott, pres.; I. P. Nikell, vice-pres.; A. A. Macpherson, sec.-treas. Organized 1907, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,500,000, shares $1 par, increased, May, 1908, to $2,500,000, shares $5 par. Lands, 12 claims, including the Juniper group of 9 claims, area 146 acres, 2 miles south of Jerome. Development includes 2 tunnels, of 266’ aggregate length, and a 130’ shaft, sunk on a large porphyry and schist dike carrying carbonate copper stains. Idle since Feb., 1908.

Boston & Lake Superior Mineral Land Co. Michigan

Office: Leopold Bldg., Houghton, Mich. Fred W. Nichols, resident agt. Property is mineral land in the Lake Superior copper district. No mining work ever done.

Boston-Mexico Mines Co. Arizona

Organized under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,000,000, articles of incorporation filed in Cochise Co., Ariz. July, 1912. Letters sent to Tomb- stone returned unclaimed. Report made to Secretary of State Nov. 1, 1912, shows: Assets—Capital stock, $109,190; mining rights, $999,993; cash on hand, $12. Liabilities—Capital stock, $1,000,000; accounts payable, $900; profit and loss, $108,295: total, $1,109,195.

Boston & Montana Development Co. Montana

Office: State Savings Bank Bldg., Butte, Mont. Mine offices: French Gulch, Deer Lodge Co., Mont., and Elkhorn, Beaverhead Co., Mont. Hon. W. R. Allen, pres.; W. C. Siderfin, vice-pres.; L. P. Benedict, sec.; Arthur Perham, treas.; Hon. Sir Frederick W. Bowden, Ottawa, Canada, chairman of board; preceding officers, William Wallace, Jr., Helena, Mont.: Charles E. Miller, Wisdom, Mont., and Joseph J. Wall, Boston, Mass., directors. Organized 1913, in Montana, capitalization $15,000,000, shares $5 par.

Holdings are varied, including 27 lode claims and 6 placer claims in the French Gulch district, Deer Lodge county, Mont., and 26 lode claims in the Elkhorn district, Beaverhead county, Mont. It will practically control all of both these districts.

Both French Gulch and Elkhorn were opened in 1865, in the rush which followed the discovery of gold at Bannack, a few miles to the south, in 1862.

The French Gulch group of claims has been opened up by shafts and tunnels, principally upon the Spain, Lucky Strike, Golden Crown and Leo. The work on the Spain consists of a 900” tunnel and 200 shaft, with 800’ of drifting on the 200’ level. The drift tunnel is about 350’ below the apex and shows the vein to carry from a few inches to 4 of sulphide ore, averaging $17 a ton, according to estimates made by James E. Beveridge, E. M. Ore is said to be blocked out to the value of $500,000.

The Lucky Strike has a 200’ tunnel following a contact vein re- ported to be 20 to 40’ wide, and 100’ shaft with 300’ of drifting on the vein whose thickness is reported to be 35’, with a paystreak of ore running from $41.50 to $80 gold, 5 to 7 oz. silver and 24% copper.

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The vein has been opened on the 1,000’ to the west by another 100' shaft, with 600’ of drifting, showing an orebody 12’ wide averaging $18 a ton, according to the management.

Eight hundred feet of tunneling on the Golden Crown claim shows a 1 to 3’ vein said to carry $8 to $20 ore.

Besides these there are numerous smaller shafts and tunnels on the various claims in the French Gulch group.

The Elkhorn property consists of the Central group on which Tunnel No. 1, 800’ on the vein, varies from 28 to 54’ wide, according to the man- agement. The tunnel is about 300' below the apex of the mountain.

The company will drive a new tunnel about 1,000” below Tunnel No. 1 and proposes to build a railroad (Butte, Wisdom & Pacific railway) to the district.

Other tunnels, pits, trenches, etc., on the Elkhorn group expose a series of veins running through the properties, averaging from 4 to 20’ in width.

Surface equipment, improvements, including developments, timber and water rights, are estimated by the owners to have cost in excess of $500,000.

The company proposes to give both camps railroad transportation to the Butte and Anaconda smelters, and to operate through leases and sub- sidiary companies in which it will retain around 50% of its’ stock.

Company’s plans are ambitious and the properties long known, but al- most unworkable for lack of cheap transportation. They are regarded as promising.

Boston-Parry Sound Copper Co. Ontario

Mine office: Parry Sound, Parry Sound district, Ont. Organized June, 1908, under laws of Maine, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par. Lands, 200 acres, in the vicinity of the Willcox and McGowan mines. Idle some years but owners are well-to-do and expect to reopen property some day. Is a close corporation.

Boston-Sierra Madre Mine Industry Co. Colorado

Office: 430 Railway Exchange Bldg., Denver, Colo. Mine office: Co- lumbine, Routt Co., Colo. Amos Pettibone, pres.; Dr. Daniel Pease, vice- pres.; Lewis A. Pease, sec.-treas. and gen. mgr. Organized Dec., 1900, under laws of Wyoming, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par, non- assessable; fully issued. Annual meeting, second Wednesday in January.

Lands, 2 claims, patented, area 40 acres, in the Three Forks district, carrying 2 fissure veins in andesite, one of about 14’ average width, opened by several pits of 10 to 25’, and a 165’ shaft and 670’ tunnel, with about 1,200’ of workings, showing cuprite, chalcopyrite and argentiferous galena, esti- mated by company to carry a small percentage in copper, 5 to 60% lead, 5 to 50% zinc, 10 to 600 oz. silver, with an average of about 50 oz., and from a trace to $1,400 gold per ton, with an average of about $4. Pay- streak varies; when high in zinc is low in silver and lead. Equipment in- cludes several mine buildings. Idle since 1907, owing to lack of funds. BOSTON SONORA MINES CO. ARIZONA

Organized about Dec., 1911, under laws of Arizona, by Thomas Patter- son, Wm. A. Clark, H. C. Wilderson, James V. Howard and Royal B. Young, all of Massachusetts. Capitalization $1,000,000, shares $5 par. BOSTON & TINTIC MINING CO. UTAH

Office: Provo, Utah. Mine office: Mammoth, Juab Co., Utah. Jesse Knight, pres.; Wm. H. Tibbals, vice-pres.; W. Lester Mangum, sec.-treas. Organized 1899, under laws of Utah, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par, assessable; issued, $747,000. Lands, 3 claims, patented, area 46 acres, near Black Jack mine, carrying 2 fissure veins, in porphyry, of which 1,

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of 3 to 5’ average width, traceable 2,000’, has been opened by tunnels of 40’, 70’ and 120’, and by a 240’ incline shaft that followed the vein and cut bunches of good ore assaying 1 to 3% copper, 20 to 55% lead, 25 to 45 oz. silver and 80 cts. gold per ton. The ore occurs on a limestone-porphyry contact and a new 103’ shaft is said to be in shipping ore. BOSTON-UTAH MINING CO. UTAH Address: care Edgar S. Hill, 508 Tremont Bldg., Boston, Mass. Mine office: Basin, Grand Co., Utah. Was organized as a merger of the Inter- national Gold & Copper Mining Co. and Dirigo-La Sal Mining Co. Lands, 35 claims, in 2 groups, 1 of 23 claims and a mill site, on Deep creek, 12 miles from Castleton, having been taken over from the Dirigo-La Sal, and another group, of 2 claims and a mill site, on Beaver creek, was taken over from the International Gold & Copper Mining Co. Apparently the ore

carries about 3% copper, and 40 cts. to $1.40 gold per ton. Development

includes a number of shallow pits and short tunnels, 1 planned to be driven about 3,000’, to cut a number of veins at depth of 1,200 to 1,500’. Equipment includes necessary mine buildings. Presumably idle.

Boston & Wyoming Copper Mining Co. Wyoming

Office: care Col. Jas. A. Shinn, Leadville, Colo. Mine office: Ester-

brook, Albany Co., Wyo. Organized Jan., 1903, capitalization $500,000. Property, which is the oldegt in the district, includes 120 acres mineral lands, patents applied for, 1912, and 120 acres miscellaneous lands, taken over from Esterbrook Mining Co. The Esterbrook mine has a 4’ fissure vein, traversing diorite, schist and granite, carrying cuprite, chalcopyrite, cerussite and galena, estimated by former owner to average 2 to 4% cop- per, 25 to 30% lead, 2 to 4 oz. silver and $1 to $2 gold per ton, developed by 2 short tunnels and 5 shafts, deepest 335’. Company plans to sink shaft 100’ deeper in 1913.

Bowyer Gold & Copper Co. Arizona

Office: Quartzite, Ariz. Mine office: Bouse, Yuma Co., Ariz. W. L. McPeak, pres.; David L. Watson, vice-pres.; Jos. Bowyer, sec. and gen. mgr.; preceding officers, J. Delmar Bowyer and E. N. Jenkins, directors; Phoenix National Bank, treas. Organized July 15, 1909, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $5,000,000, shares $5 par, nonassessable. Annual meeting, first Monday after first Tuesday in July.

Lands, 7 claims, known as the Swastika group, also 160 acres miscel- laneous lands, in the Plomosa district, on the western slope of the Dome Rock mountains, about 20 miles west of Bouse. Property has 3 contact deposits, between schist hanging and limestone foot, showing 50 to 200’ gossans and carrying malachite and chalcocite, estimated to average 2 to 10% copper and $1 to $10 gold per ton. Company has sunk a 50’ shaft near the hanging wall, all in ore, and has reached the sulphide ore beneath the leached zone. Company plans installing a 25-h. p. gasoline hoist. BOYER CONSOLIDATED MINING CO. NEVADA

Mine P. O.: Boyer, Churchill Co., Nev. Arthur Howe Carpenter, sec. and supt. Organized under laws of Arizona, capitalization $10,000,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable. Is a reorganization of the Boyer-Nevada Copper Co. Property, 50 claims, 1,000 acres, also a 10-acre mill site and 160 acres of placer lands, at Boyer, about 30 miles from Wonder, Nev., and 75 miles south of the S. P. R. R. at Winnemucca, in the copper belt of the Piute mountains.

Claims cover a mile of the western end of a contact between whitish

andesite and an underlying greenstone, or andesite, which shows copper

pyrite peppering the rock. The ore bed has a dip of but 20° and a thick- ness of 100’ and is much altered, the footwall being a hard, silicious band.

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The lower 30’ carries 5% copper but the orebody developed was figured by Prof. Carpenter and A. H. Carpenter to assay 1.7% copper and about 70 cts. per ton in gold. High-grade ore occurs in small iron-capped veins which extend up through the porphyry and carry a breccia of rock frag- ments cemented by copper glance and bornite. ;

. Developed by i170’ shaft and 800’ tunnel, now inaccessible. Present company has done about 500’ of work on Treasury Box hill and exposed a faulted block of 200’ length, 100’ width and with 500’ depth on the dip, sre as above. Property promising when railroad facilities are pro- vided.

Braden Copper Co.

See same title in Part II.

Bradford Mine. Arizona

Near Patagonia, Santa Cruz Co., Ariz. Mine is property of Ferry estate, leased, 1912, to Messrs. Lindsey, McFarland & Gardner, who shipped 5 cars of ore to the Copper Queen smelter at Douglas.

BRANIFF y CA, S. A.; NEG. MINERA DE O. y T. MEXICO.

Office: Rosales 1, Mexico, D. F. Mine office: Caracuaro de Morelos, Tacambaro, Michoacan, Mex. Mine and works office: Cadereyta de Montes, Cadereyta, Queretaro, Mex. Thos. D. Murphy, gen. mgr. Organized Feb. 3, 1905, under laws of Mexico, capitalization 250,000 pesos.

Lands include El Doctor and La Negra mines, carrying mainly silver- lead ores, with considerable zinc and small copper values. Equipment in- cludes electric power and an auxiliary steam plant.

Works include a mill and smelter, former having 5 stamps, Huntington mills, and a 125-ton cyanide plant. The smelter, at Maconi, 50 miles from Bernal, on the main line of the Mexican National railway, is connected therewith, for greater part of distance, by good wagon roads, with 15 miles of indifferent mountain roads. The smelter has two 36x36” Colorado Iron Works water-jacket blast furnaces, and an octagonal cupola furnace taking 35-ton charges of lead bullion for refining, with a Connersville blower. Employs 250 men, normally, and is a considerable producer of lead and silver, with a small output of copper. Impossible to get returns on account of Mexican revolution and property probably idle for same reason. BRANT GOLD & COPPER CO. COLORADO

Geo. Brant, Denver, Colo. Mine: Pitkin, Gunnison Co., Colo. Organ- ized May, 1913, to acquire the Abe Lincoln and Sunnyside mines, 31% miles south of town of Pitkin. Abe Lincoln has tunnel 254” long, from which a 300’ drift has been run on a vein 3’ wide that assays up to $41 per ton in gold and copper. r BRANT INDEPENDENT MINING CO. COLORADO

P. O.: Pitkin, Gunnison Co., Colo. A. P. Nelson, pres. and mgr.; J. F. Anderson, vice-pres.; L. H. Becker, sec.; A. W Lindquist, treas; preceding officers, M. Woolley, J. W. Hickman, R. B. Anderson, T. R. L. Daughtrey and J. E. Sawtell, directors Capitalization 5,000,000 shares, par value $1, fully paid, nonassessable; 4,276,174 shares issued. Bond issue $150,000, 8% authorized; $15,000 issued. Dividends to date $8,174. Annual meeting, second Tuesday in January.

Property, 96 claims, partly patented, of about 1,056 acres, in Box Can- yon and Quartz Creek districts of Gunnison county, Colo. Four mines, the Camp Bird, I. X. L., Gold Ridge and Roosevelt, opened up and proven by Camp Bird shaft 200” deep; I. X. L. shaft 60’ and 90’ crosscut and the Gold Ridge tunnel which follows vein for 130’. Ore occurs in fissure veins 6 to 20’ wide in diorite and granite. Ore said to carry 8% copper and $20 gold per ton.

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'Crosscut tunnel, started in April, 1911, to drain and open up the entire territory at depth, had been driven 1,642’ on March 1, 1913. Steam power used to date, but plans have been made for installation of water power. Quartz creek runs through the property. Mine is only a few feet. from D. & R. G. R. R. and county road. Annual report shows that $19,531.07 was expended on property in 1912.

Brewer Gold & Copper Mining Co. Utah

Idle. Office: 202 Utah Savings & Trust Bldg., Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine office: Ibapah, Tooele Co., Utah. J. P. Gardner, pres.; S. W. Morri- son, vice-pres.; H. B. Windsor, sec.-treas.; John Martine, asst. sec. Organ- ized Feb. 16, 1907, under laws of Utah, capitalization $50,000, shares 10 cts. - par, assessable; 4 assessments have been levied. Lands, 11 claims, 6 pat- ented, on Dutch mountain, in the Clifton district, 50 miles from a railroad, having a limited amount of development work, showing argentiferous cop- per ore. Shut down several years, awaiting building of branch railway line from Wendore, on the Western Pacitic railroad.

BRIDGE CREEK MINING CO. WASHINGTON Idle. Mine: Keller, Ferry Co., Wash. Lands, 100 acres, on Bridge creek, near the Congress mine, 14 miles north of Keller, opened by a 246' tunnel, said to show ore assaying $80 per ton in combined copper, gold and silver values. BRIONES; FELIX. MEXICO Tdle. Mine office: Topia, Tamazula, Durango, Mex. Property has silver and copper ores. Employs about 30 men when active. BRISTOL AVON MINING CO. NEVADA Idle. Office: 325 Brooks Arcade, Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine office: Pioche, Lincoln Co., Nev. Jackson C. McCrystal, pres; Wm. R. Wallace, vice-pres.; Jas. E. Berkley, sec.-treas. Organized under laws of Utah, cap- italization $250,000, shares 25 cts. par, nonassessable. Lands, 13 claims, area 200 acres, patented, about 10 miles northwest of Pioche. Property includes several mines that have been considerable producers in the past, from shallow shafts, less than 100’ in depth. Property shows ore giving assays up to 23.5% copper, 16.5 oz. silver and $2 gold per ton. No reports: letters unanswered, 1913. BRISTOL CONSOLIDATED MINES & SMELTING CO. NEVADA

Secretary and office: Arthur W. Middleton, 115 Broadway, New York. F. L. Underwood, pres.-treas.: preceding, Wm. Gelder and E. F. Freuden- thal, directors. Incorporated June 4, 1906, under laws of Arizona, capitaliza- tion $4,000,000, shares $1 par; issued, $2,750,000. Company controlled by Cali- fornia Nevada Copper Co. and itself owns the Bristol Copper Co. and the Hillside Copper Co., whose properties comprise 400 acres, including 20 mines and an 80-acre smelter site in the Bristol mining district, Pioche, Lincoln Co., Nev. Mines carry copper ore, having gold and silver values, developed by 10,000’ of shafts, tunnels and drifts, from which shipments are now being regularly made.

Equipment includes power plant, hoists, compressor and electric-light plant.

The properties above mentioned, together with the Day mine of the `

Nevada Utah Co., are operated by the Day-Bristol Consolidated Mines Cos

this company owning $3,000,000 of the stock of the latter.

BRISTOL COPPER MINING CO. NEVADA At Pioche; Lincoln Co., Nev. Controlled since 1906 by Bristol Consol-

idated Mines € Smelting Co. Properties now worked since June 13, 1911,

by the Day Bristol Consolidated Mines Co. :

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Bristol Valley Mining Co. Nevada

Idle. Office: 511 Tribune Bldg., Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine office: Pioche, Lincoln Co., Nev. A. C. Ellis, pres.; W. H. Dickson, vice-pres.; C. B. Felt, sec.; Walker Brothers Bank, treas. Organized June, 1907, under laws of Utah, capitalization $250,000, shares 50 cts. par, nonassessable. Lands, 11 claims, 2 patented, 2 miles from Pioche, having 3 incline shafts, deepest 80’, with a little surface trenching.

Britannia Mg. & Smelting Co., Ltd. British Columbia

Office: care Howe Sound Co., Moore & Schley, 747 Fifth Ave., New York. Canadian office: 31 Davis Chambers, Vancouver, B. C. Mine at Britannia Beach, New Westminster district, B. C. Smelter at Crofton, Van- couver island, B. C.. Hon. Edgar Dewdney, pres.; J. W. D. Moodie, vice- pres. and gen. mgr.; G. M. White, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, D: G- Marshall and C. B- McNeill, directors. Company is. a close corporation controlled by the Howe Sound Co. of New York, in which G. B. Schley, of Moore & Schley, New York, owns control.

Organized 1908, under laws of British Columbia, capitalization $2,500,- 000, shares $25 par; issued, $1,625,000; was organized to take over the Bri- tannia mine and assets of the Britannia Copper Syndicate and the property of the Britannia Smelting Co., Ltd. Annual meeting, first Monday in March. Balance sheet for 1912, submitted March 6, 1913, showed $1,000,000 expended in year on improvements to increase output of mine to 2,000 tons per day. Net profits were $1,250,000.

The company owns the Britannia group of 7 claims, 297 acres on the east shore of Howe sound and the Empress group adjoining it on the east; last named was bought in 1912 for $150,000. The contiguous South Valley group was also purchased for $225,000, but the property is not yet trans- ferred to the company on account of legal proceedings.

The Britannia mine lies on Britannia mountain, 4 miles from and about 3,500’ above the sea, carrying approximately 8,500’ of the strike of a mam- moth mineral zone, orebody consisting of mineralized schist in lenses and large irregtlar bodies, ranging 300 to 600’ in width, the schistose silicious material being impregnated with copper and iron pyrites. The ore consists of chalcopyrite and pyrite in quartz and averages 2% copper, but as mined, 1913, runs 5.5%. There are 8 known orebodies, of which 3, more or less developed, carry an average of about 2.5% copper, 0.04 oz. silver and 50 to 80 cts. gold per ton. Development is by large glory holes and by a number of tunnels. Principal tunnels are the Big Bluff and Jane, latter, which is the main operating tunnel, having a 600’ trestle with 10-ton self-dumping cars and an automatic incline tram line. The Big Bluff tunnel has a 640’ trestle with 10-ton self-dumping cars, and a gasoline locomotive. A new low-level tunnel, 5,000’ long, completed July, 1913, gives a depth of 2,200’ on the orebody and 1,200’ below the old workings. This tunnel is con- nected with the mill at Britannia Beach by a private railway line. Devel- opment to date shows about 1,000,000 tons of ore blocked out valued at $8

er ton.

k At the mine are Blake crushers, which pass crushed ore to a sorting belt, thence to a 1,000-ton receiving bin, whence ore is taken by a 16,900’ aerial tram in 2 sections, the upper of 5,800’ and the lower of 11,100’ with an intermediate transfer station. The tram is rated at about 300-tons daily capacity, but has given some trouble in operation. The upper section has a drop of 1,400’ and the lower 1,800’.

Equipment includes 300-h. p. steam, 400-h. p. water and 500-h. p. electric power. A new hydro-electric plant of 5,000-h. p. is being installed. A 35-drill Rand air compressor, at the beach, sends air to the mine through

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an 18” pipe line. There is a 3-miie transmission line, with two 300-kw. 6,600-vo!t generators, driving the machinery plant at the mine, actuated by a Pelton water wheel, located at the beach, ‘which receives water from a creek under an effective head of about 1,900’. By the end of 1913 the entire plant will be remodeled. At the beach there is a 250’ wharf with a 90’ wing for receipt of mine supplies and shipment of concentrates.

The 300-ton- concentrator, 125x133’ in size, of wood, has 2 Blake crushers, 3 Chilean mills, 4 rolls, 34 Hartz jigs, 1 Hancock jig, 2 Cammett concentrators, 11 Wilfley tables, 11 Overstrom tables, 10 Johnson vanners and 22 Frue vanners. Mill was remodeled, 1907, changing its methods from fine to coarse crushing, trouble having been experienced in concen- tration under the fine-crushing system. In 1912 a flotation plant of the Minerals Separation Co. was successfully applied to the ores. This plant, in operation for many months, gave 94% recovery and the 600-ton unit to be put in commission in September is expected to produce 22% con- centrate and 0.2% tailings. A new mill has been built, 1913, which in- cludes five 8’ Hardinge conical mills and one 6’ Hardinge conical ball mill.

A new camp with all necessary buildings for equipment and men is built at the portal of the new tunnel. These mine buildings are the best and most comfortably equipped in British Columbia. Wages paid are $3.75 for miners and $3.25 for muckers.

The company owns a reduction plant known as the Crofton smelter and formerly shipped its ores across Howe sound for treatment at this plant. At present, however, the entire production of the mine is shipped to the Tacoma (Wash.) smelter, controlled by the Guggenheim interests with which the Britannia owners are closely associated. The company’s smelting plant is described Vol. X.

Production was suspended, Oct., 1907-1910. Production, 1906, was 4,409,650 Ibs. fine copper, 38,265 oz. silver, 5,261 oz. gold, and 65,922 tons of ore, yielding 3,011,410 lbs. fine copper, of which the Britannia mine fur- nished 1,706,734 Ibs. in 1907; for 1911, production was 102,000 tons of ore and 118,900 tons treated yielding 8,685,000 Ibs. copper, 46,000 oz. silver, the combined value being $1,074,334. In 1912, the mine produced 193,000 tons of ore, averaging 2.5% copper, 0.4 oz. silver per ton of ore and 50 cts. gold. The ore milled averaged 3.75% copper. The metal production was 14,- 300,000 lbs. copper and 76,500 oz. silver, the total value being $2,383,285.

Management changed in 1912; sweeping changes were made in per- sonnel, a policy of expansion adopted and non-recognition of labor unions decided upon. A labor strike proved abortive, but a part of the company’s force of 700 men left work.

The Britannia proved a hard problem to handle for years, but made money in 1911 and 1912. The present management is thoroughly capable, a successful future certain, and the results a tribute to the far-seeing judg- ment and persistency of Mr. G. B. Schley.

British American Copper M. & Sm. Co. British Columbia

Office: Williamson Bldg., Cleveland, Ohio. Mine at Golden, Kootenay district, B. C. Is a swindle, idle many years, and deservedly moribund. Fully described Vol. X.

British American Nickel Corporation. Canada

In Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. Dr. F. S. Pearson, J. W. Tyler, Walter Gow, Miller Lash, B. B. Lawrence, J. E. McAllister and E. R. Wood, di- rectors. Incorporated Aug., 1913, under laws of Canada, capitalization $30,000,000; $10,000,000 in 6% preferred debenture stock redeemable at $106, and $20,000,000 common; fully issued.

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Property, 17,000 acres in the Sudbury region, on which development up to May, 1912, had blocked out 6,800,000 tons of copper-nickel ore.

British Columbia Copper Co., Ltd. B. C. & Washington

Office: 42 Broadway, New York. Mines and works main office: Greenwood, B..C. Newman Erb, pres.; C. R. Starbuck, vice-pres.; Charles H. Burke, vice-pres.; R. H. Eggleston, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, Anthony N. Brady, Joseph B. Dulany, August Heckscher, Wm. T. Henry, Colgate Hoyt, C. B. Mears, C. I. Stralem and Wm. B. Thomson, all of New York, directors; Oscar Lachmund, gen. mgr.; Frederick Keffer, cons. mg. engr.; F. S. Norcross, supt. of mines; W. L. Bell, smelter supt.; R. G. Hargraves, purch. agt.; Rowland King, chemist-assayer, all of Greenwood, B. C.; F. J. Longworth, mill supt., Napoleon, Wash.; F. R. Weekes, mine supt., at Copper Mountain, Princeton, B. C.; Henry Johns, mine supt. at Nelson, B. C.; A. F. Meyers, chief of office staff, Greenwood, B. C.; Riddell, Stead, Hodges & Winter, official auditors, Vancouver, B. C.

The company was organized March, 1898, under laws of West Virginia, capitalization $3,000,000, shares $5 par. Original capitalization was $1,- 000,000, increased to $2,000,000 and in 1907 to present amount; 591,709 shares issued, fully paid and non-assessable. Dividends paid are as fol- lows: No. 1, in 1907, $201,200; Nos. 2 and 3, in 1911, $147,930; Nos. 4 and 5, in 1912, $177,512; No. 6, in 1913, $88,756; total, $615,399.

The company controls the New Dominion Copper Co., Ltd. (non-per- sonal liability), through ownership of 64% of the stock and bonds to par value of $237,675. Has about 2,000 shareholders and ended calendar year Dec. 31, 1912, with favorable balance sheet, which shows: Assets—Copper on hand and in transit, $214,769; metals and smelter products, supplies, etc., $193,054; cash, $83,601; accounts receivable, prepaid insurance and taxes, $8,686; property at cost, $3,771,444; a total of $4,271,557. Liabilities—Capi- tal stock, $2,958,545; accounts payable, $336,910; reserves, $10,365; profit and loss surplus, $965,736. The net profit for 1912 was $425,985, gut of which $177,513 was paid in dividends. Total revenues were $2,491,288; operating expenses, $1,570,205; custom ore purchased, $495,087; total paid out, $2,065,292, balance for dividends, $495,087; dividends, $177,513; surplus, $248,476; previous surplus, $717,265; surplus, Dec. 31, 1912, $965,736. New York Trust Co., transfer agt.; Empire Trust Co., New York, registrar. Annual meeting, second Thursday in March.

The lands of the company are extensive, comprising in all approxi- mately 1,900 acres, of which 80 are smelter and mill sites and the balance mineral lands. Claims are held under Crown Grant or U. S. Patents.

The company’s chief mines are in 3 distinct and widely-separated lo- calities, viz.: the Boundary, Nelson and Princeton districts. The Lone Star group just across the United States border in Washington, is. in- cluded in the Boundary district and the claims at Napoleon, Wash., are isolated. ’

The Mother Lode group of mining claims near Greenwood in the Boundary district comprises 339 acres. The copper ore occurs in a con- tact deposit between limestone and eruptive rocks, largely as altered lime- stone that has been replaced by massive garnet, magnetite, silica and alumina, together with iron and copper sulphides. Much lime is also pres- ent as calcite. All these minerals are present in such proportions as to make the ore practically self fluxing. Copper occurs exclusively as chal- copyrite, the ore carrying from 1 to 1.75% copper with from 75 cts. to $2 per ton in gold and silver. The main orebody measures about 160x1,200’ running nearly north and south, the greatest width being 260’ and the dip

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about 70’ easterly. There are other smaller and less important ore de- posits in the claims nearby. :

The ore is mined by both quarrying and underground stoping, though the first method is now almost abandoned owing to the depth of the quarries. The shaft is of 4 compartments, 2 for the 5-ton skips, 1 for a man cage, and 1 for ladders and pipe lines. On the 2 lower levels ore is hauled by electric motors and on the upper levels by horses. It is dumped into capacious pockets at the shaft and hoisted to a bin at the head of the shaft, where it is crushed by 1 of a pair of Farrel crushers, of jaw open- ing: 24x36” and 36x42”, respectively. From the crushers it passes to the railway bins over a 200 Robins belt conveyor. At the bin end of the con- veyor the ore passes an automatic sampler which cuts out the daily sample.

The transverse stope method of mining is used. Drilling of new ground ahead of requirements was done in 1912, by 5,000 holes aggregating 65,000 lineal feet, all in readiness to blast. This mine alone yielded 410,686 tons of ore in 1912, at a cost of 56.58 cts. per ton f. o. b. cars at the mine.

The Emma group of 3 claims, together with the Oro Denoro, is in Summit camp about 9 miles northeast of Greenwood, the whole comprising 200 acres of mineral lands. There are several ore deposits, the largest being that on the Emma claim. The ore is an altered limestone and the minerals similar to those of the Mother Lode, with the exception that magnetite is greatly in excess, rendering the ore decidedly basic. The copper and gold contents are similar to those of ‘the Mother Lode. The Emma orebody strikes north and south and stands vertical, its average width being 25’, with maxium of 60’. The mine is developed by a 275’ incline double-compartment shaft and has levels at 150’ and 250’. The ore, formerly quarried, is now mined solely in stopes. The mine is closed at present, the ore being held in reserve should future operations develop the need for basic ore. The other orebodies are as yet undeveloped.

The Lone Star group of 3 claims, 52 acres, is 8 miles southeast of Greenwood and is connected with the Canadian Pacific railway at Boundary Falls, by a 28,560’ aerial tram, the tram having 72 towers of from 15 to 67’ in height with 3 tension and 2 anchor stations. The ore of this mine is contained in a highly-altered, eruptive rock now largely altered to a talcose schist. The orebody, which is nearly flat at the north end of the Property, dips to the south in the southern part. Approximately 300,000 tons has been developed by drilling and other work, the major portion of the area being as yet unprospected. The mine is equipped with a 7-drill compressor driven by an electric motor, the hoist being run with com- pressed air. The average assay value of the Lone Star core is higher than that of other Boundary district ores, but it is silicious and as it carries alumina as well, it is much more refractory: For this reason the com- -pany is arranging to construct a-concentrator at Boundary Falls (2 to 2% miles from Greenwood) and until this is in operation the mine will be closed. : Meas e

The Napoleon mine, comprising about 60 acres of mineral lands, is in the Pierre Lake district at Napoleon, Wash., 7 miles from Marcus. It con-

tains a large body of auriferous copper and iron sulphides, of low aver--

age assay value, the ore being chiefly desirable on account of its high sulphur contents, since the Boundary ores as a whole are deficient in sulphur. The mine equipment includes 2 compressors of 10 drill capacity, Farrell ore’ crusher, and a 4,100° aerial tramway to the Great Northern railway. The’ sulphide ores are capped by 75 to 150’ of oxidized ore. To treat this ore a 10-stamp mill has been erected, with a 100-ton cyanide

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plant. All power is steam, the electric lines not having been extended into the district.

Production of mine in 1912 was 17,118 tons of pyritic ore. Mining and tramway costs averaged $1.59 for the year.

An energetic campaign of extension has been pursued by this com- pany for the past year. For some years past it has been drilling a group of claims on Copper .mountain, on the Similkameen river, and now holds bond and options on the following properties, all considered tributary to the smelter: (1) Ada B. group; (2) Silver Dollar claim; (3) Annie L. claim; (4) Princess Maud claim; (5) Red Eagle claim; (6) Triangle Frac- tional claim, all in Princess camp; (7) Eureka group, and (8) Queen Victoria group, both near Nelson; (9) L. H. group, near Silverton; (10) Riverside group, near North fork of Kettle river; (11) Copper Mountain district; (12) Greyhound mine, Deadwood camp. An expenditure of $57,918 on the development of the first 9 of the properties disclosed such favorable con- ditions that the company made payments of $21,000 on the bonds.

The company is actively developing a group of 13 claims at Voigt's camp adjoining Princess camp on the north. Since bonding these claims, drilline and underground work has developed about 1,500,000 tons of ore. The ores carry copper with some gold and silver, in an altered quartz-

feldspar gangue, in fracture planes. The company has bought a half

interest and acquired a mortgage on the other half of 14 claims of the Voigt group.

The Victoria mine comprises 5 claims near Nelson, B. C., about 110 miles easterly from Greenwood. The ore is an altered limestone, similar in genesis, nature and in mineral contents to the Boundary ores, but carry- ing considerably more copper and silver, with less gold. The mine is equipped with a 5-drill electrically-driven compressor and the ore is taken

to the Canadian Pacific railway, on the bank of the Kootenay river, over El

3,000’ aerial tramway. The mine ships 2,500 to 3,500 tons per montt was purchased by the company in 1912.

The Eureka mine, near Nelson, is also under bond to the company, the ore being high-grade copper-gold- River ore, occurring in a comparatively narrow vein in granite. It is described under the title Eureka Copper Mines, Ltd.

The Silverton, or L.-H. group, near Silverton, B. C., which has been under bond for over a year, has a vein 30’ wide, with a gangue of fine- grained silicified schist, impregnated with arsenical pyrite, carrying gold. The ore does not carry copper or silver in appreciable quantities.

The B. C. smelter at Greenwood, 5 miles by rail from-the Mother Lode mine, receives its ores over the Canadian Pacific-railway, and does:a gen- éral custom business also. The plant is electrically operated, requiring about 1,600-h. p. The furnace and converter buildings are of steel and the others of wood. The original plant had two 300-ton capacity furnaces, but was remodeled in 1907 to 2,000 tons ‘capacity, and still later to 2,500 tons daily capacity. A 600-ton sampling mill, 65x79’ and 3 stories high, has a custom ore bin connected with the bata ler by a belt conveyor. All ores are coarse crushed at the bins, then pass the samplers, and then go to the receiving bins over a belt conveyor. The cupola building has 3 blast fur- naces, Nos. 1 and 3 being 48x360” at the tttyeres, and No. 2, 48x240”. The ore bins have a capacity for 12,000 tons ore and 4,000 tons coke. A 12x14x620’ dust flue leads to a 12x121’ stack. There are 6 Baldwin-West- inghouse electric motors for the charging and slag lines. The slag cars have 25-ton side-dumping ladles operated ‘electrically from the locomotives.

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2 stands, with 84x126” shells, taking matte with from 35 to 55% copper and producing blister copper of 99 to 99.5% copper, carrying 20 to 50 oz. silver and 5 to 10 oz. gold. Stands are tilted by hydraulic accumulators, and shells, matte, etc., is handled by a 40-ton, 4-motor traveling crane. There is a 72” silica mill for linings. In the power house are three 300' Connersville blowers, each belted to a 300-h. p. induction motor. Also.a Nordberg air compressor for the converters, driven by 300-h. p. motor. There are 3 motor generators furnishing direct current to the railway locomotives and an air compressor for operating furnace gates, steam hammers, etc., and an electrically-operated hydraulic accumulator. In addition to other ores the works smelt 600 to 800 tons of ore from the New Dominion Copper Co., Ltd., mines at Phoenix.

Power is purchased on a watt-meter basis from the Bonnington Falls Co:, whose plant is 85 miles distant. The voltage is 40,000, transformed to 2,200 volts, 60 cycle, 3 phase at the smelter. All machinery is electric or air driven. The works have a briquetting plant handling flue dust. Smelt- ing fuel is coke, costing under $6 per ton, consumption being about 90,000 tons yearly.

The new smelter suffered in 1912 a scarcity of coke and for 2%4 months but 2 furnaces were running; 740,589 tons was smelted in 13 months ending Dec. 31, 1913, as compared with 608,945 tons for the year ending Nov. 30, 1911; 443,022 tons came from the company’s mines, the balance was custom ore. Two furnaces treat 1,700 tons of ore daily, of which 700 come from the New Dominion Copper Co.’s mines, controlled by the British Columbia Copper Co.

Production and costs per ton of ore mined, smelted, converted, refined and marketed since 1904 are shown in the following table:

Fine ; Fine. Gold, Silver, Copper. Gold, — Silver, Copper, Year. oz. OZ. lbs. Year. Oz. OZ. Ibs.

1905 26,226 95,410 5,601,309 1909 18,244 64,234 6,325,000 1906 AMAS E82. 193 1 5820651 1910 24,962 84,180 7,143,456 1907 24,967 101,114 8,643,133 1911 31,144 134,266 9,944,987 1908 13,597. 58,204 5,567,355 1912 25,863 142,025 11,146,811

Costs and recovery from ore treated for past 5 years are:

1908. 1909. 1910. 1911. 1912, Cost per pound (less gold

and silver content) $0.09996 $0.09829 $0.09048 $0.11635 $0.12855 Cost per ton, ore to metal

A A IO a TO $2.622 $2.683 $2.730 $2.882 $2.4596 Coppemeneriton. at dec 17.81b. 17.71b. 1801b. 16.4 Ib; 13.6 1b. Silver and gold, per ton $0.985 — $1.03 $1.23 $1.133 $0.762 Average price realized for

COD DEL pad Pack very cote $0.13504 $0.1308 $0.12778 $0.1233 $0.16664

Production 1913: Jan., 720,260 lbs.; Feb., 688,312 lbs.; March, 844,735 lbs.; April, 794,000 Ibs.

The British Columbia Copper Co. has an immense tonnage of assured ore, very low in average tenor, with extremely low recovery of copper, comparing in this respect with the low-grade mines of Lake Superior, but with considerable gold and silver values to serve as a sweetener.

The company cannot earn much money from its Mother Lode mine unless copper sells above 15 cts. a lb., but with its new properties is reach- ing a point where a long and prosperous career is assured. The company has a remarkably sound and able directorate and its technical staff is of the highest grade.

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BRITISH COLUMBIA EXPL., LTD. BRITISH COLUMBIA Succeeded, Jan. 15, 1904, by Kamloops Mines, Ltd. Described Vol. V. BRITISH COLUMBIA PHOENIX SYND., LTD. BRITISH COLUMBIA Secretáry and offices: H. W. Batty, 4 Throgmorton Ave., London, E. C.;.G.S: Waterlow, chairman; R. N. Crane, L. C. F. Robinson, F. A. Labouchere, C. K. Milbourne, directors. Company organized Dec. 9, 1911, in London, capitalization £5,000 in 100,000 shares of 1s. each; 62,030 shares issued and fully paid. Shareholders in the British Columbia Syndicate, Ltd., had the right of applying at par for 1 share for every fully paid £1 share held; 50,000 shares were underwritten by G. S. Waterlow for a commission of 5%, payable in fully paid shares. i f Company has taken over the assets of the British Columbia (Rossland and Slocan) Syndicate, Ltd., and sundry shares, mining and other interests in British Columbia, The consideration was £1,969 in cash. BRITISH MINING CO. WASHINGTON Office: care R. M. Richards, Inc., 509 Bankers’ Trust Bldg., Tacoma, Wash. Main office in England, but address unknown. Incorporated in ' Washington. Acquired the properties of the Puget Sound, Chelan € Spokane Railway Co., including the Skagit Queen Consolidated Mining Co. and the Thunder Creek Transportation & Smelting Co. Company is securing patent on 40 claims, comprising the Skagit Queen group. No development work at present, owing to difficulties of transportation. No securities for sale. Mining claims show 2 parallel veins, carrying bornite and other copper and lead minerals. BROADWATER COUNTY MINING CO. MONTANA Probably dead. Letters to Townsend, Broadwater Co., Mont., unan- swered. J. J. Fisher, pres.; Jas. Marks, vice-pres.; Len Jobb, sec.; John A. Matthews, treas.; preceding officers and Albert Fisher, directors, at last accounts. Organized 1910, capitalization $225,000, shares $1 par. Lands, 7 claims, about 5 miles west of Townsend, on the Radersburg road, showing good outcrops and developed by pits and shafts of 18 to 60’, cutting a vein of 4 to 12’ estimated width, carrying chalcocite assaying up to 60% copper and 6 oz. silver per ton. BROMIDE COPPER MINING CO. NEW MEXICO Idle. Office: Bloomsburg, Pa. Mine office: Tusas, Rio Arriba Co., N. M. Lands, 42 claims, including the Pay Roll mine, opened to depth of 250’, showing auriferous copper sulphides of good average tenor. X; BRONZE MONARCH MINING CO., LTD. WASHINGTON Merged in Mount St. Helens Consolidated Mining Co. Described Vol. X. BROOKLYN ARIZONA MINING CO. ARIZONA Office: 75 State St., Boston, Mass. Mine near Mayer, Yavapai Co., Ariz. Jas. A. Gerry, pres.; I. G. Miller, vice-pres.; Benj. G. Tuttle, vice- pres.; Percy B. Spofford, sec.; F. H. Knight, supt. Organized March, 1907, under laws of Maine, capitalization $2,000,000, shares $10 par, nonassess- able; fully issued. Was promoted by the American Securities Co. Annual meeting, first Wednesday in April. F. E. Small and A. Calvin Cruchet, former president and treasurer, respectively, of the company, were indicted in Boston, May, 1913, by the Federal Grand Jury for using the mails to defraud, and both were arrested shortly afterward. F. E. Small has been general manager for several years, but an investigation in April by eastern stockholders resulted in a suspension of operations and indictment on 15 counts for promoting a fraud. Property, 82 claims, about 1,600 acres, including the Brooklyn group of 14 claims, in the Squaw Creek district, about 20 miles southeast of Mayer.

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Property carries auriferous and argentiferous copper sulphides. Very fully described and suspicious character pointed out Vol. X. Property shut down. BROOKLYN MINING CO. CALIFORNIA

Idle. Mine office: Dale, San Bernardino Co., Cal. H. H. Ames, supt., at last accounts. Ores carry gold and copper. Has gasoline power and a 3-stamp mill. Closed down several years and apparently moribund. BROOKLYN MINING CoO. NEVADA

E. S. Shields, sec.-treas.; 19 W. Granite St., Butte, Mont. Mine P. O.: Contact, Elko Co., Nev. S. V. Kemper, pres.; T. M. Hodgens, vice-pres. Organized in Minnesota 1898, capitalization $500,000, shares $1 par; 213,000 shares issued. Assessment of one-half cent per share due Jan. 13, 1912. Has no debts.

Property, 7 claims, 75 acres in the Contact district, with ore deposits occurring on the contact between limestone and porphyry. This ore belt is about 18” wide, runs east-west for several thousand feet, dips at 75° and is said to contain 8% copper, with about 2 oz. of silver and $1 gold per ton.

Development is by 196’ shaft with 600’ of workings, developing 2,000 `

tons of ore. Property idle, waiting the advent of railway. Equipped with 25-h. p. boiler, 15-h. p. gasoline engine and hoist. Is 40 miles from railway.

BROOKS CONSOLIDATED COPPER CQ. MEXICO Succeeded, 1909, by Cerrito Mining Co. Described Vol. VIII. BROWN-ALASKA COPPER CO. ALASKA

Address: 817 Alaska Bldg., Seattle, Wash. Formerly owned Mamie mine at Hadley, Prince of Wales island, Alaska. In liquidation. See Vol. X. BROWN MOUNTAIN SMELTING CO. COLORADO

Office: Denver, Colo. Mine office: Ouray, Ouray Co., Colo. W. E. Kreamer, pres.; P. J. York, vice-pres.; T. B. Crawford, sec.-treas.; G. S. Love, supt.; A. E. Ackerson, mine supt. Organized 1911, under laws of Colorado, eapitalization $300,000, shares $1 par; issued, 280,000.

Property, the Hill, or Ouray smelter and the Guadalupe mine with 432 acres mineral land and 25-acre mill site in the Red Mountain district. The Guadalupe mine is reported to show an 18’ vein of copper ore averag- ing 3% copper, 5 oz. silver and $5 gold per ton in sulphide ore. Develop- ment aggregates 3,000’, including a 2,000’ tunnel and a 500' crosscut block- ing out 50,000 tons of ore. Equipment at mine 350-h. P. water power.

Smelter, 250 ton capacity, is 6 miles from Ouray, has 2 blast furnaces of the Loder type turning out 40% matte, shipped to the Garfield smelter for further treatment.

Company reported to have closed contracts with Wanakah Mining Co. and the Rico Wellington and Rico Consolidated for 25 tons of ore per day each. The smelter was blown in, Oeni BROWN WHITLOW GROUP. ARIZONA

- Mine address: Superior, Pinal Co., Ariz. Owned by J. C. Brown and

J. W. Whitlow. Property, 5 claims, in Pioneer district, near Superior.

Mine adjoins the old Silver King mine, once the richest silver property of Arizona. Development is by tunnel, which cuts a 7’ contact vein of copper ore carrying low-grade and silver values. BROWNELL-ARIZONA MINING & SMELTING CO. ARIZONA Mine office: Casa Grande, Pinal Co., Ariz. Lands, formerly held by Producer Mining & Smelting Co., are supposed to include the Jack Rabbit mine, 80 acres, in Pinal county, together with the Producer and Century- Chief group of 320 acres, and Index group of 220 acres, in Pima county, all in the Quijotoa mountains. Company sold stock, 1910, on the strength of a clever brochure written by Alfred Henry Lewis, the talented writer,

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whose statements are not hampered by a knowledge of copper mining. The Jack Rabbit mine is generally understood to be owned by the Tube City Mining & Milling Co., whose relations to this company are not re- vealed. Company not favorably regarded.

Bruce Mines, Ltd. ; Ontario

Office: St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. Mine office: Bruce Mines, Algoma, Ont. R. W. Leonard, pres.; Alex. Longwell, vice-pres. and gen. megr.; J. J. Mackan, sec.; A. B. Wilmott, cons. engr., 404 Lumsden Bldg., Toronto. Organized 1908, as successor of Copper Mining € Smelting Co. of Ontario, Ltd. Dormant.

Property is the old Bruce mines, freehold, discovered 1843, and worked extensively, 1846-76, producing copper to the value of about $3,500,000. Lands are 65 acres of surface rights, and mineral rights to 12,800 acres, or 20 sq. miles, on Georgian bay, granted, 1854, from the crown. The mine has 6 known veins, practically parallel, of which 2, of 4 to 18’, have been more or less developed, the principal vein, traceable 8,000’, having a strike of N. 23° W., and of 18’ maximum width, traversing diabase, carrying mainly chalcopyrite, with some chalcocite, and quartz gangue, estimated by former management to average 5% copper, but run-of-mine ore ranges 2.5 to 5% copper. Development is by the No. 1 or Palmer shaft of 360’, No. 2 of 450’, No. 3 of 240’, No. 4 of 244’, No. 5 of 340’, No. 6 of 270’, No. 7 of 75’, No. 8 of 200’, No. 9 of 200’, and No. 10 of 210’. Practically everything above the 360’ level is stoped out. The waste heaps carry about 117,000 tons of discarded ore, estimated to average 1.5% copper, which perhaps is too high.

The Bruce Mines & Algoma railway, formerly under the same manage- ment as the mine, is a standard-gauge line, 10 miles long, that is equipped with a locomotive and 8-ton side-dumping cars. The extension of the rail- road to Ridout on the Canadian Pacific railroad’s main line, is reported to have been financed in England.

A 200-ton concentrator, 75x192’ in size, 1% miles from the mine, has an Austin crusher, 5 sets of rolls, 12 Hartz jigs, 18 Frue vanners, 2 double- deck slime tables and 18 sizers.

Miscellaneous improvements include a coal wharf, merchandise wharf, electric-light plant and telephone system.

Production of old mine, 1846-75, was 47,593 tons of ore and concen- trates, yielding 19,125,920 lbs. fine copper. Property has changed hands repeatedly, but has secured no production since suspension, 1876, of the old company. The ore is rich but occurs in bunches and specks in a quartz gangue. The quantity is not great enough to insure large output and cheap costs. With flotation plant and economical management, property might be made to pay expenses and provide for new development.

Bruner Copper Co.; R. E. Arizona

Office: 914 Commerce Bldg., Kansas City, Mo. Mine office: Patagonia, Santa Cruz Co., Ariz. Frank C. Peck, pres.; Roland E. Bruner, sec.; Robt. W. Waddell, treas.; Jas. R. Bent, supt. Organized under laws of Arizona, 1907, capitalization $3,000,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable; issued, $2,- 320,000.

Lands, 15 claims, unpatented, area 300 acres, adjoining the Anaconda- Arizona Copper Co., and near the Mansfield mine. A 54’ tunnel, on the Mescal claim, is said to give indications of lead-copper ore, and company claimed, Aug., 1908, to have opened a vein for nearly a mile in length, pre- sumably by trenching, and then planned driving a tunnel of at least 500 length, on the Mescal claim.

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BRUNSWICK CONSOLIDATED MINING CO. NEVADA Mine office: Carson City, Ormsby Co., Nev. J. A. Yerington, pres.; Hon. R. K. Colcord, vice-pres.; E. B. Yerington, sec.-treas.; preceding offi- cers, Geo. T. Mills and A. M. Ardery, directors; J. L. Hague, supt.; Em- mett Boyle, cons. engr., at last accounts. Organized 1903, under laws of Nevada, capitalization increased, 1906, to $1,000,000, shares $1 par, non- assessable. Lands, 7 claims, 1 fractional, area 130 acres, in the Delaware district, 9 miles east of Carson City. Mine, opened to depth of about 200’, has a contact deposit between diorite and porphyry, of 5 to 6’ estimated average width, carrying auriferous and slightly argentiferous oxidized and sulphide copper ores, associated with hematite, with limestone gangue. Company financed with Montreal capital in 1910, but letters returned stamped “unknown” from former Montreal address. BRUNSWICK MINING & MILLING CO. COLORADO Mine office: Tin Cup, Gunnison Co., Colo. A. Lejune, supt., at last , accounts. Property is the Jimmy Mack mine, carrying gold, silver and copper ores. Has steam power and a 100-ton concentrator. Presumably idle. BRYAN MINING CO. MONTANA Office: Wallace, Idaho. Mine office: Saltese, Missoula Co., Mont. Hon. Harry T. Day, mgr.; Chas. Burns, supt. Organized under laws of Delaware, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par. Lands, in the Packer Creek district, show auriferous and argentiferous copper ore, developed by 2 tunnels, lower of 900’, with 3,500’ of workings; 150” raise from No. 2 tunnel to surface is said to show gray copper ore. Mine carries silver-lead ores, with some tetrahedrite, and had considerable ore developed, of prom- ising grade. BUCHANAN MINE. CALIFORNIA Idle. Office and mine: Daulton, Madera Co., Cal. -G. A. Pherson, owner. Lands, shortly south of the Green Mountain mine, and about 5 miles northeast of Daulton, show diabase and amphibolite schists, both mineralized, with 4 veins, of 4 to 9’ width, carrying oxidized ores near sur- face and chalcopyrite at depth. Development is by 5 tunnels, of 30’, 60’, 100’, 120” and 500’, and by two 200’ shafts, 1 equipped with hoist and air compressor. Old tunnels are partly caved, and in bad shape. Mine has produced considerable ore, since discovery, 1865, and shipments made by lessees are reported to have averaged about 15% copper, 12 oz. silver and $3 to $4 gold per ton. BUCHAN’S MINE. ` NEWFOUNDLAND P. O.: Millerton, N. F. Wm. Scott, supt. Property is owned by the Terra Nova Co. and described under that name. This company is a sub- sidiary of the Anglo Newfoundland Development Co., which has a timber and mineral concession over about a million acres in the center oí the island, near Grand Falls. Company has built largest pulp paper plant in the world and mining is merely a side issue. BUCKEYE & CALUMET-ARIZONA MINING CO. ARIZONA Mine office: Red Rock, Pinal Co., Ariz. Organized April, 1906, to de- velop copper claims in the Owl Head district. No trace of operations se- cured and probably defunct. BUCKEYE COPPER & GOLD MINING CO. ARIZONA Main office: New Philadelphia, Ohio. Mine office: Turkey, Yavapai Co., Ariz. Michael Siebold, pres.; Wm. Rommel, vice-pres.; Fred Graff, sec.; C. D. Grimes, treas.; other directors, A. W. Reiser, L. Hardman, Geo. Edel, M. M. Davis; Alvin Graff, mine supt. Organized July 24, 1912, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $3,000,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable;

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issued $1,790,000. Annual meeting, first Tuesday in September.

Lands, 35 claims, area 720 acres and a 20-acre smelter site, in 3 groups, 2 miles from Turkey, in Black Canyon district of Bradshaw mountains. Property shows chloritic schists and diorite, carrying fissure veins showing occasional native copper and malachite, but mainly azurite, chalcopyrite and bornite, estimated to average 4% copper, 3.5 oz. silver and from a trace to $6 gold per ton.

The mine has a 726’ two-compartment shaft on the Columbia claim, a 520’ two-compartment shaft on the Sullivan claim, with 2 other 200’ shafts and various pits of 10 to 40’ depth and tunnels of 87’ and 314’, with about 5,000’ workings. Equipment includes 15-h. p. and 40-h. p. gasoline hoists, a small air compressor and several mine buildings. BUCKLAND MINING & DEVELOPMENT CO. UTAH

Office and mine: Farmington, Davis Co., Utah. A. L. Buckland, pres.; Frank Jardine, vice-pres.; R. C. Buckland, sec.; David Moss, treas. Or- ganized Feb., 1909, under laws of Utah, capitalization $100,000, shares 10 cts. par, assessable. Owns Buckland mine, near Centerville; company also said to own 25 claims, unpatented, 3 miles from the railroad, showing 7 parallel fissure veins carrying copper and lead ore. Development by 3 tunnels, uppermost, No. 1, 300’ long, cutting a 7’ fissure vein opened by drifting for 100’; No. 2 tunnel, 90’ long, connects with a shaft 60’ below the collar; No. 3, 260’ long and about 300’ below No. 2. An old incline shaft sunk on vein is 240’ deep. Property shows fair surface ores. Press notices suspicious and letters unanswered. BUENA VISTA COPPER MINING CO. ARIZONA

Mine office: Solomonville, Graham Co., Ariz. Has a 100’ shaft, show- ing ore, and sent a sample shipment of 25% ore to El Paso smelter, 1903. Idle several years and apparently’ moribund. BUENAVISTA MINING CO. MEXICO

Letter returned unclaimed from former office, Pittsburgh, Pa. Mine office: San Francisco del Mezquital, Durango, Mex. Property is La Buena- vista copper mine and El Patrocino silver-lead mine, developed mainly by tunnel. Impossible to obtain information owing to the revolution. BUFA MINING, MILLING & SMELTING CO. MEXICO

Idle. Office: 709 Lankershim Bldg., Los Angeles, Cal. Letters un- claimed at La Bufa, Sahuaripa, Sonora, Mex. Wm. E. Richardson, pres. and gen. mgr.; Baron W. Riley, sec.; Lewis R. Richardson, treas., at last accounts. Organized 1902, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,500,000, shares $1 par. Has paid 5 dividends, last being $60,000, July, 1905.

Lands, 123 acres, also a 10-acre mill site, and 5,000 acres ranch lands, showing 6 fissure veins, of which 2 under development average 4’ width, opened by a 600’ incline, said to give average assays of 10% copper, 10% lead, 4% zinc, 150 oz. silver and $2.50 gold per ton, from argentiferous tetrahedrite and copper sulphides. Has shafts of 300’ and 600’, and a 225’ tunnel, with 8,000’ of workings and about 20,000 tons of high-grade ore blocked out, with a considerable amount of low-grade ore on the dump, for eventual treatment. E

Machinery includes a 120-h. p. plant at the mine, with 2 hoists, 2 Rand air compressors and 7 power drills. Mine buildings include several small shops, a store, sawmill and about 20 dwellings.

The 35-ton concentrator has a small sampling mill attached. There also is a 20-ton leaching plant.

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matte carrying 50% copper, 600 to 800 oz. silver and 1.5 oz. gold per ton, shipped, by burro, to Aguascalientes, via Guaymas, for refining, some rich ore being shipped also. Production, 1906, was about 750,000 lbs. fine copper. BUFFALO & ARIZONA MINING CO. : ARIZONA Letters unclaimed at Morristown, Maricopa Co., Ariz. W. H. Crandall, treas.; J. Harry Bennett, gen. mgr.; Henry G. Bennett, supt., at last ac- counts. Lands, in Bennett gulch, on lower Turkey creek, between Morris- town and Hot Springs, have a 319 shaft, bottomed in chalcopyrite assay- ing about 3% copper, 2 oz. silver and $2 gold per ton. Mine has 3 levels, with about 800’. of workings. Has steam and gas power, a 2-stamp mill with a 5,000-gal. storage tank, and 13 buildings. Shipped a $4,000 bullion bar, June, 1908. Was building a mill and developing property, Sept., 1912, but closed down and property idle in 1913, BUFFALO MINING CO. MONTANA Idle. Mine office: Saltese, Missoula Co., Mont. P. J. Conroy, pres.; Ole H. Linn, vice-pres. and mgr.; S. H. Linn, sec.; Paul Gerber, treas.; preceding officers, Michael H. Linn, J. Fleming, Geo. Dunham and Geo. W. Craddock, directors. Organized May 15,1903, capitalization $1,000,000, increased, 1907, to $1,500,000, shares $1 par. Lands, 28 claims, 3 to 7 miles east of the Monitor mine, on Big creek, near the crest of the Bitter Root mountains, between Saltese and De Borgia. Property, hoped to carry the extension of the Monitor vein, shows -2 copper veins, with good outcrops, developed by a 600” upper tunnel, showing a little silver-lead and considerable copper, and by a 1,075’ lower erosscut tunnel, with 25’ of drifting on a copper vein carrying chalcopyrite of 6 to 7% estimated copper tenor. Property considered promising.

BUFFALO SMELTING WORKS. NEW YORK Owned by Calumet € Hecla Mining'Co.; at Buffalo, N. Y. BULL CAMP MINING Co. WYOMING

Office: Buffalo, Wyo. Mine office: Hazelton, Johnson Co., Wyo. F. A. Sparhawk, pres., treas. and mgr.; W. J. Davis, vice-pres. and sec.; pre- ceding officers and Geo. Smith, directors. Organized 1903, under laws of Wyoming, capitalization $500,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable; issued, $70,000. Annual meeting, Dec. 1, each year.

Lands, 5 claims, area 100 acres, showing mica-schist and felsitic granite, carrying several veins, of which 1, of about 2 width, developed by 5 pits of 10 to 15’ and shafts of 36’, 100’ and 112’, shows cuprite and chalcocite, giving assays of 25% copper and $6 to $8 gold per ton. Equip- ment includes a 45-h. p. hoist and 3 mine buildings.

Bullard Mine. ; Arizona

P. O.: Wenden, Yuma Co., Ariz. Lands, 5 claims, in Cunningham Pass, Harcuvar mountains, are said to show considerable ore assaying 7 to 10% copper and $10 per ton in gold and silver. In Feb., 1913, mine was reported as shipping its ninth car of ore and in January, 18” of copper glance is said to have been opened.

Bullion Beck & Champion Mining Co. Utah

Office: care U. S. Smelting, Refining & Mining Co., 55 Congress St., Boston, Mass., and Newhouse Bldg., Salt Lake City. Utah. Mine office: Eureka, Juab Co., Utah. W. M. Bradley, pres.; Jos. F. Smith, vice-pres. and treas.; C. E. Allen, mgr.; L. C. Doty, supt.; preceding officers, Frederick Lyon, Geo. W. Heintz, Philo T. Farnsworth and Jas. A. Cunningham, di- rectors, at last accounts. Capitalization $1,000,000, shares $10 par. Divi- dends, to end of 1909, were $2,738,400, last dividend being 10 cts., July 11, 1908. Company is a veteran of the Tintic district and a close corporation whose stock is mostly held by the U. S. S. R. & M: Co. through its owner-

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ship of the Centennial Eureka Co., which holds a majority interest in the Bullion Beck & Champion Mining Co.

Lands, 3 claims, adjoining the Centennial-Eureka, which is under the same control, and with which sideline agreements stopping litigation were -e al 1908. Mine was discovered, 1876, and has been a producer since

Development is by a 1,300’ shaft, with a 200’ winze below the bottom level, the 1,300’ level being wet, and by the Beck tunnel. Ore is mainly carbonate and chloride carrying varying copper values,

Equipment includes a 200-ton mill, with steam and electric power. Production, 1907, was 248 carloads of ore, or 12,000 tons, secured partly through work of lessees. Annual report of U. S. S. R. & M. Co., for 1912, states that development work on this property did not disclose anything of importance, but that a small force of men continues this work. Shipments for July, 1913, were 400 tons, and the large dump of low-grade ore from which shipments were made throughout 1913, had about 1,000 tons left in September. Part of the mine is leased, there being 25 men working leases. BULLION MINE. MONTANA

¿The Bullion mine lies at an elevation of 7,400’ on the northwest side of Jack mountain, 10 miles by road from Basin. A concentrator and smelter of 200 tons daily capacity was constructed and several thousand feet of drifts and tunnels run, but the property is now idle.

Property contains fissure veins in Butte granite. Ore contains lead, zinc and copper sulphides with arsenopyrite in quartz gangue carrying tourmaline.

BULLION MINING CO., LTD. IDAHO Mine P. O.: Mullan, Shoshone Co., Idaho. William Squance, pres.; Jas. H. Taylor, sec.-treas. and mgr., Wallace, Idaho; John A. Klingman and Frank Taylor, directors. Organized 1902, under laws of Idaho, capital- ization $1,500,000, shares $1 par; issued 1,180,837 shares; in treasury 229,812 shares. with 89,351 shares in reserve; 9 assessments, one-half cent a share, levied up to Nov. 1, 1912, yielding $39,229. Receipts for year ending Novy. 1, 1912, were $5,101, including ore sales of $217 and assessment No. 9 of $3,606. Disbursements mainly for labor and equipment.

Lands, 8 claims, 3 patented, area 160 acres, near Lookout, 2 miles from the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway and 4 miles from Borax station, on the Northern Pacific line, on the Idaho slope of the Bitter Root divide, with a good wagon road to Borax. Property has a vein of 4 to 20’ width, with average of 6 to 12’, and nearly vertical dip, carrying shoots of copper ore, mainly chalcopyrite, with some bornite, associated with siderite, having a limestone gangue, ore being estimated to average 3.2% copper and 0.4 oz. silver per.ton, with a trace of gold, with some ore of better grade.

Mine is developed by 2 crosscut tunnels, one 200’ vertically above the other. The upper one has 130’ crosscut and 186’ drift on vein. Lower tun- nel cuts a 28’ vein 350’ from portal, with 4’ of solid ore. Orebody proved for 35’ upward by raise and downward by shaft. Expenditures for 1911- 1912 mainly for wagon road and equipment. Property now ready for under- ground development. ;

Equipment includes steam power, a 12-h. p. hoist and a 5-drill Ingersoll- Rand air compressor; total cost of equipment $7,903.

A trial shipment of 24 tons to the East Helena smelter, Sept., 1912, showed 56% copper and 1 oz. silver per ton. Concentration tests on 5.2% ore showed a 73% recovery, the concentrate carrying 17.6% copper. A contract for diamond drill work on the orebody was let Sept., 1913.

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BULLY HILL CAVE MINE. CALIFORNIA Idle. Address: Alden Anderson, owner, Redding Nat’l Bank, Redding,

Cal. Mine at Copley, Shasta Co., Cal., known as the Michigan group,

adjoining the Bully Hill mine. Formerly owned by Bank of Shasta County,

and leased under bond March, 1912, to Bully Hill Cave Mining Co. Sold,

Nov., 1911, to present owner.

Bully Hill Copper Mining & Smelting Co. California

Office: 30 Church St, New York. Mine P. O.: Winthrop, Shas- ta Co., Cal. John B. Keating, First Nat Bank Bldg., San Francisco, Cals pres. and mgr.; L. B. Judson, vice-pres.; M. F. Westover, sec.; Herbert R. Hanley, asst. mgr.; preceding officers, A. H. Jackson, A. W. Burchard, D. M. Riordan and G. F. Morrison, directors. Organized 1900, under laws of New Jersey, capitalization $2,500,000, shares $25 par, reduced 1905 to $1,000,000. Bonds, $400,000, issued for construction of Sacramento Valley & Eastern railroad, stock of which is owned by the Bully Hill. Is con- trolled, through practically entire stock ownership, by the General Electric Co., Schenectady, N. Y.

Owns the Bully Hill and adjacent mines, 23 claims, 18 patented, area 213-acres, in the Pittsburgh district, 25 miles northeast of the Iron Moun- tain, Balakala and Mammoth mines, and supposedly in the same general zeological horizon. Property includes the Bully Hill, Rising Star and Copper City groups, connected properties, except the Copper City, 3 miles southwest of the Bully Hill, with an unworked interval between the Copper City and Rising Star groups. The Bully Hill property was opened as a gold mine, paying well as placer ground, and afterwards working the gossan with rather indifferent results, until copper ores were developed at slight depth.

Bully Hill has a diameter of about 4,000’, rising 1,200’ above the stream levels of the surrounding country, and is composed of eruptive rocks, mainly basalt and rhyolite, with 3 mineral zones, having a strike of approxi- mately north and south, ore occurring in big lenses in shear zones in rhyo- lite and meta-diabase dikes, all of superficially slaty structure, lenses having a clay gouge of 1 to 30’ on 1 or both walls. Main lenses have stringers and feeders, ranging from a few inches to 30’ in width, the principal lenses being 20 to 300’ long and 2 to 40’ wide, with average width of about 30’, opened to depth of 1,000’, carrying ore of 2 to 30% copper tenor. The zone of secondary enrichment shows about 10’ of bonanza ore, the main ore- bodies below carrying chalcopyrite, associated with pyrite, also a little bornite and chalcocite, with occasional oxidized ores and native copper. The best orebody gives average assays of about 15% copper, 6 oz. silver and $8 gold per ton, and shows native copper and native silver in consider- able quantities on the 670’ level, the average copper tenor of the mine being about 5% with combined gold and silver values up to $25 per ton,

The Bully Hill group is opened above tunnel No. 3 by crosscut tunnels of 600’, 800’, 1,000’ and 1,200’, giving a back of about 300’. No. 3, the main working tunnel, 1,000’ long, has double tracks and a 100x100’ underground station containing powerful pumps and double-drum electric hoist for the 3-compartment 970’ blind shaft starting from this point.

The equipment includes steam and electric power aggregating 300 h. p. at the mine, and 350 h. p. at the smelter, the mine having four 100-h. p. hoists, good for 1,000’ depth each, and 3 Rand air compressors, of 14 drills aggregate capacity. Buildings, about 20 in number, include a 40x50’ iron- sheathed machine shop.

The Rising Star group of 5 claims, also known as the Anchor, Excelsior and Northern Light mine, has a 900’ three-compartment shaft, with

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double-drum electric hoist, and works the 6th and 7th levels, which show considerable good ore.

The Copper City group, 4 claims, area 70 acres, is opened by an upper tunnel of 150” and a lower 1,000’ tunnel, started about 1863, by Capt. J. R. DeLamar, and is said to show a 20” body of solid sulphide ore, strongly zinc- iferous. The Winthrop mine, of the Copper City group, has a 16' vein of ore, of fair copper tenor. Last developments, 1910, were on the Copper City group.

The smelter, about one-half mile from the mine, receives ore by the Bully Hill railroad, a 4-mile standard-gauge private line having a 65-ton Baldwin locomotive. The smelter, remodeled 1907-08, has about 250 tons daily capacity, fuel being mainly coke, supplemented by petroleum for the reverberatory. The furnace building is 39x310', with a 90’ stack, and is ter- raced throughout, handling all material by gravity. The calcining depart- ment has roast stalls, in series, with 2 McDougal circular calcining furnaces. There are two 42x120” rectangular water-jacket blast furnaces, and a 50-ton reverberatory for treating fines and flue dust. First-fusion product is a matte of 35 to 50% copper tenor, taken in ladles, by electric traveling crane, to the converter department, which has 2 stands, with 68x96” shells of barrel type, turning out blister copper of 99% tenor, shipped to the De- Lamar works at Chrome, N. J., for electrolytic refining. Limestone and iron ore for fluxing are obtained from’ quarries on the McLeod river, 6 miles distant, but there is a scarcity of suitable ferruginous copper ores for fluxing the high-grade sulphides of the Bully Hill mine.

Smelter was closed down, July 1, 1910, and forces at the mines reduced, owing to trouble over fumes, the federal forest service alleging damage to trees. Ore production is shipped, under contract, to the Balaklala smelter, the Copper City group being the principal producer.

Company built a small experimental plant at Delamar, Cal., to try out electric smelting and recovery of zinc values. The ore has also been tested by the Minerals Separation Co.’s flotation process with favorable results.

The Sacramento Valley & Eastern railway, 17 miles long, controlled by the company, completed, 1907, at a cost of $500,000, runs from Winthrop to a connection with the Southern Pacific, at Pitt, 3 miles from Kennett, running through Heroult and Copper City.

Annual production, formerly about 5,000,000 Ibs. fine copper, was about 3,250,000 Ibs. in 1908, and 4,000,000 1bs. in 1910. The Bully Hill is perhaps the highest grade copper mine in California, with an experienced and capable management. It will undoubtedly be reopened when a satisfactory solution of the “fume” problem has been found.

Bullwhacker Copper Co. Montana

Office: Suite 216, 53 Wall St., New York. Mine P. ©.: Butte, Mont. Patrick Clark, pres.; J. J. Stewart, vice-pres.; W. C. Meyer, sec.-treas.; John Bresnahan, supt. Organized March 20, 1906, under laws of Arizona, capi- talization $1,000,000, shares $1 par. Paid 2 monthly dividends of 1 ct. each per share, early 1907.

Lands, 1 claim, lying east of the Pittsburgh & Montana, have a 400’ shaft and open cut or quarry 300x500’ with incline shaft to bottom, 75’ below surface. This open pit shows the ore to be 150 to.200’ in width, aver- aging about 3.5% copper, with practically no gold or silver values. In 1906, lessees produced 6,228 tons of silicious ore, averaging 4.97% copper, extracted from depths of less than 100’, and company itself produced nearly an equal amount of ore, giving production estimated as equal to 850,000 Ibs. fine copper. Shipments ceased latter end of 1907. Work was resumed

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in Feb., 1912, and lessees shipped 12,227 tons, averaging 4.29% copper, to the Washoe smelter, in that year.

The property was explored by crosscuts and drifts at a depth of 400’ in 1911, but no payable ore found beneath the big body of chrysocolla ore mined by open-cut work. Recent work by the lessees has demonstrated this orebody to be very much larger than formerly believed and the leasers, mining 200 tons per day in 1913, blasting large tonnages to pit floor, loading into a skip and hoisting up 100’ incline shaft, were said to be making $35,000 a month.

The ore is slightly altered Butte granite (quartz monzonite), stained green throughout by chrysocolla and having seams and bunches of this and other copper minerals, especially the black oxide of copper.

A 50-ton experimental leaching plant erected in the winter of 1912-13, only in operation a few days, has been enlarged to 200 tons daily capacity, the success of the Butte-Duluth plant, one-fourth mile to the south, proving the feasibility of the method of treatment. The Bullwhacker ores require, however, a much longer digestion in acid, owing to the predominance of the copper silicate instead of the carbonates. The cost of electrolytic pre- cipitation is also as yet an uncertain factor, and not yet proven cheaper than the use of scrap iron for this purpose.

' The lease on the mine expired Sept. 25, 1913, and the company is now working the mine on its own account. According to Mr. Clark, who owns the controlling interest (80%), 1,000,000 tons averaging 314% are said to be developed; while the existing workings do not permit a measurement of this amount, there is reason to believe this tonnage may be realized. BUNKER HILL MINING & SMELTING CO. WASHINGTON

Office: 1123 “Broadway, New York. Mine office and works: Reiter, Snohomish Co., Washington. Chas. G. Reiter, pres.; Augustus M. Price, vice-pres.; John D. Campbell, sec.; Le Roy B. Sherman, treas., and Chas. W. Hendricks, mine mer.; preceding officers, J. E. Bowman, A. W. Avery, Wilbur Morris, A. G. Brinkerhoff, T. A. Mead, L. H. Nash, Eric T. Christ- ensen and Manfred Rockefeller, directors. Organized Oct. 24, 1902, under laws of Maine, original capitalization $3,000,000, shares $1 par, reduced, March 23, 1908, to $1,500,000, and afterward increased to $2,000,000, shares $1 par, in $1,500,000 common stock and $500,000 cumulative 8% preferred stock, latter to provide for payment of bonds, second mortgage notes and script notes. Annual meeting, last Tuesday in October. Was the successor of Bunker Hill-Sullivan Copper Mining Co.

Property, 18 claims, area 343 acres, known as the Copper Bell group on Bald mountain, one-half mile from Reiter station, Great Northern rail- road, and 5-acre mill site, on May creek below Lake Isabel. Mineral claims show 9 fissure veins in granite and a contact deposit between granite and diorite. On the Copper Bell group, diamond drilling was done in 1907-09, one hole going through 26’ of copper ore averaging 7%. Devel- opment is by shafts of 86’ and 600’ with about 1 mile of workings, showing orebodies of various widths carrying chalcopyrite averaging 1% copper, 0.5 oz. silver and 40 cts. gold per ton. Company also owns 3 claims, area 40 acres, located at mouth of Lake Isabel, about 11% miles northeast of the Copper Bell group. Equipment includes a 110-h. p. hydro-electric plant, taking water from Lake Isabel, 2 hoists, a 10-drill Ingersoll-Sargeant duplex air compressor, and an electric light plant. There are a number of mine buildings. The mill enlarged, 1907, 100 tons, has Blake and Austin crushers, rolls, Wilfley tables, slime tables, buddles and magnetic separator. A 50-ton oil-burning smelter was blown in, July, 1908, for a short period only.

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Production during 1906-08, inclusive, valued at $7,500. Since 1908 no work has been done except that which was necessary to hold the property by possessory rights.

Patents expected to be obtained by summer of 1913. BURLINGTON-NEVADA COPPER CO. NEVADA

Office: Yerington, Lyons Co., Nev. Property at Mason Pass, a few miles from Yerington, comprises a group of claims developed by a 100' shaft, from which ore is being shipped to the Wabuska smelter, 1913. Equipment includes a gasoline hoist.

Burro Mountain Copper Co. New Mexico

Office: 99 John St., New York. Mine office: Leopold, Grant Co., N. M. Dr. Jas. Douglas, pres.; Jas. McLean, vice-pres.; Geo. Notman, sec.-treas.; E. M. Sawyer, supt. Organized 1904 under laws of New Mexico, capitaliza- tion $50,000, increased, 1906, to $100,000, shares $1 par. Owned by Phelps, Dodge & Co. Balance sheet, Dec. 1, 1912, showed cash, etc., $74,134, mines and mining claims, $1,919,477; plant, $219,270; miscellaneous, $11,079, with deficit for 1912 of $84,105, balance of $357,414. Accounts payable, $14,242; pay rolls, $3,304. Reserve against Chemung property, $1,290,000; capital stock, $160,000. Total, $2,223,961.

Lands, 60 claims, area 1,000 acres, formerly held on bond and lease, but bought, 1906, from Southwestern Copper Co. The Newsboy and Niagara claims were added, 1909. Property shows 36 porphyry dikes, all carrying silicates giving assays of 10 to 25% copper, 5 orebodies being developed.

The old mine, 15 claims, known as the St. Louis, is said to have pro- duced upwards of $1,000,000 worth of ore, under former ownership, shipping ores ranging 15 to 25% in copper tenor. f

The property is developed by 5’ shafts, the Sampson, St. Louis, McKin- ley and Boston shafts, each more than 200’ in depth, developing the Samp- son and St. Louis veins laterally for more than 2,000’, these workings being estimated to show more than 3,000,000 tons of ore, with approximately 2,500,000 tons blocked out, assaying 3.4% copper, ore being mainly chalco- cite, without appreciable precious metal values. The 500’ Newsboy vertical shaft, started 1909, is east of the former main workings. The mine has about 5 miles of workings on the 2 veins, the Sampson orebody being 100 to 200’ in width, about 1,000’ in proven length, and of 300’ proven depth. Mine is worked largely on the caving system, obviating excessive timber requirements. Equipment includes electric hoists and pumps, and a steam hoist at the Sampson shaft. When purchased the property had 2,000,000 tons of 3% ore developed.

Lands include a town site, improved with waterworks, electric lights and substantial buildings, including a hotel and numerous dwellings.

The 1912 work consisted mainly in completing the development of ore- bodies that were already partially known. This has increased the esti- mated ore reserve by approximately 47,000 tons, averaging a little better than 2% in copper. This increased tonnage lies in the vicinity of the St. Louis fault on the 5th level? which is somewhat deeper than most of the ore previously developed.

The proportion of ground only partially explored is not more than 10% of the company’s territory, all of which possesses favorable indica- tions from a geological point of view. The ore already blocked out justi- fies the erection of a large concentrator, two 500-ton sections of which are being planned.

As preliminary work the 2 mines (formerly the Burro Mountain & Chemung), now owned by this company, are being united by the Niagara haulage tunnel between Leopold and Tyrone. Starting at the Tyrone ter-

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minus of the proposed Burro Mountain railroad, this tunnel, 8x9”, will be driven to Leopold, a distance of approximately 1 mile, and being on a lower level than most of the present mine workings and ore developed at Leo- pold, it will serve the, double purpose of drainage and haulage.

The old concentrator, built 1905 and twice remodeled, is being dis- mantled. A 10-ton smelter, of antiquated design, left by former owners, is idle and worthless. A standard-gauge 18-mile spur will be built in 1913, ata cost of $350,000, from the main line of the Santa Fe railroad to the mine and mill. Labor is almost exclusively Mexican, only the bosses being Ameri- cans. Work on the new 1,000-ton concentrator to be erected at Tyrone, will be started as soon as the railway line is completed.

Production, to end of 1907, was about 15,000,000 lbs. fine copper. Prop- erty considered decidedly promising, and management is of the best. BUTCHER BOY MINING CO. WASHINGTON

Letters neither answered nor returned from Greenwood, B. C., or Chesaw, Okanogan Co., Wash. Lands, in the Myers Creek district, slightly developed, carry auriferous copper ore of fair assay tenor. Equipment in- cludes a small steam plant. Work was being done on the 100’ level in June, 1911, under the direction of John Benson, one of the owners. Pre- sumably idle.

Butte-Alex Scott Copper Co. Montana

Office: 402 Palladio Bldg., Duluth, Minn. Mine office: Butte, Silver Bow Cò, Mont. N. F. Hugo, pres. and mgr.; W. P. Heimbach, vice-pres.; Thos. Furniss, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, Reynolds Clough, W. D. Mc- Keefrey, F. C. Laird, John Joy Edson, Jr., P. J. Bennetts, Jas. T. Fisher, Thos. A. Merritt and W. B. Chapman, directors; Chas. J. Stone, supt. and mg. engr. Organized Feb. 5, 1909, under laws of Delaware, capitalization $1,250,000, shares $10 par; issued, 74,309. Was a reconstruction of Butte Montana Mining Co., giving 50,000 shares of full-paid stock to the Butte Montana for its property and is said to have begun business with $100,000 cash. Property was taken over April 10, 1909. Fidelity Title & Trust Co., Pittsburgh, Pa., registrar; Colonial Trust Co., Pittsburgh, transfer agent. Stock is listed on the Pittsburgh, Butte and Duluth stock exchanges. An- nual meeting, second Tuesday in July. Dividends paid 1912, $74,199.50 or 50 cts. a share quarterly. Total dividends to Aug., 1913, $111,354.

Lands, 2 claims, 1 fractional, area 25 acres, known as the Little Annie and Alex. Scott claims. The Little Annie, area 20 acres, lying between the Goldsmith and Little Georgia claims, northwest of Walkerville, is a silver property having old workings, sunk many years ago, that include a 200’ in- cline shaft, with some drifting. Property is supposed to carry the northern branch of the Alice vein, which splits in going west, the Little Annie hav- ing the northern branch about 3,000’ west of the Alice Co's. westernmost claims. The Little Annie mine is filled with water, and idle some years.

Principal property is the Alex. Scott, a fractional claim of 4.52 acres area, in Meaderville, adjoining the West Colusa mine on the north. The Alex. Scott claim carries about 800’ of the strike of 4 veins and is de- veloped by a 2,000’ shaft. The 500’ level is said to show a vein 28’ wide, carrying 3 seams of ore, one of 2’ width, being high grade. Ore is blocked out on the 1,200’, 1,500’, 1,600’, 1,800’ and 1,900’ levels. Ore shoot on 1,800’ level is 300’ long. On the 2,200’, development from the West Colusa mine has proved an orebody 30’ thick of bornite and glance. Company sold that portion of its orebody surrounding the West Colusa shaft for a width of 25’ on either side and a length of 75’ to the Anaconda Copper Mining Co. They will receive $535,000 of which $30,000 has already been paid, and the Anaconda Co. has agreed to waive forever the right to bring suit on any

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apex question. Company is now shipping about 250 tons a day, most of it coming from the 500’ and 600’ levels, that averages 6% copper, 2 oz. silver, with slight gold values. ;

Equipment includes a Nordberg double 18x36” hoist, good for a depth of 3,000’, and an air compressor. Buildings include a boiler house, com- pressor house and 300-ton ore bins, smithy and office.

Production for 1912 was 55,894 tons of ore, averaging 6% copper. Esti- mated production for 1913 is 60,000 tons. Earnings for Jan., 1913, were $27,426 from 5,000 tons second-class ore yielding 468,096 lbs. copper and 1,990 oz. silver.

The Little Annie, in the zinc belt, is as yet of problematical value, but the Alex. Scott, though small, is a very rich claim, being located in the heart of the district and surrounded on 3 sides by fine mines. Is a valuable property, well managed and ought to be a dividend payer for many years. BUTTE-ARGENTA COPPER CO. MONTANA

Idle. Letters neither returned nor answered from Butte or Argenta, Beaverhead Co., Mont. J. P. Oppenheimer, pres.; John F. Cowan, mgr. J. H. Tonkin, supt. Organized Feb. 12, 1906, under laws of Montana, capit- alization $3,000,000, shares $10 par. According to statement, Jan. 1, 1910, liabilities were $25,650.

Property, 12 miles west of Dillon, known as the Iron Mountain mine, has a tunnel and 2 shafts, opened to a depth of 200’ on a wide vein of argen- tiferous silver-lead and copper ore, having streaks assaying up to 16.5% copper and 30 oz. silver per ton. Upper levels were worked, years ago, for silver-lead, which changed to copper at slight depth. Equipment includes a 125-h. p. hydro-pneumatic power plant, with Pelton wheel, and an 8-drill Ingersoll-Rand air compressor.

Butte & Arizona Copper Mining Co. Arizona

Office: 619 Hennessy Block, Butte, Mont. Mine near Hereford, Cochise Co., Ariz. B. H. Dunshee, vice-pres.; A. S. Nichols, sec.; John C. Adams, treas.; preceding officers, L. O. Evans, Chas. S. Shoemaker, A. P. Henning- son, C. B. Mosely, John E. Corette and D. M. Watts, directors. Capitaliza- tion $1,250,000, shares $1 par.

Property, 14 claims, 11 patented, costing considerably over $60,000, was exchanged for $450,000 stock. Property is in the Huachuca mountains, 35 miles southwest of Bisbee, and about the same distance north of Cananea.

Property shows an ochrous gossan of 10 to 300’ width, covering a con- tact vein between syenite and limestone carrying occasional copper oxides, carbonates, pyrite and argentiferous gray copper, and chalcocite of fair tenor, though not in large quantities. Development is by a long main tun-

nel cutting several small veins giving assays up to 18% copper with an

average of 4.5% tenor, mine having upwards of 3,900’ of workings. Main vein 350’ from mouth of tunnel is claimed to show 39’ of 6% chalcopyrite, which is an overestimate. Nearest railroad is 15 miles, with a fair wagon road. Has steam power and an air compressor. Idle since end of 1908. Company has no debts, considerable treasury stock and is being carried by the directors who are advancing the money required to pay taxes and maintain the property. BUTTE & ARIZONA COPPER MINING CO. ARIZONA Office: 826, I. W. Hellman Bldg., Los Angeles, Cal. Mine near Mayer, Yavapai Co., Ariz. Ernest A. Haggott, pres.; Emil J. Baxter, vice-pres.; Thos. C. Job, sec.; M. B. Hazeltine, treas.; preceding officers and B. O. Kendall, directors; Warren G. Davis, supt. Organized June 6, 1905, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $5,000,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable; is- sued, $2,200,000. Annual meeting, first Monday in May.

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Lands, 9 claims, unpatented, area 180. acres, also 160 acres in the Big Bug district, showing Algonkian schist, quartzite and pyrite, carrying 3 ore- bodies, 2 partly developed, occurring as replacements in chloritic schist, and as contact deposits between hornblende-schist and quartzite. The main vein, of 40’ estimated width, traceable 4,800’, is developed by shafts of 75,’ 120’, 175’ and 300’ and a 400’ tunnel, with about 1,900’ of workings, showing chal- copyrite ore, estimated to average 2.5% copper, 2 oz. silver and $2 gold per ton.

Additional shaft sinking in 1911-12, having proven that the zone of ore that might be profitably concentrated is too shallow to be of commercial importance, the property will probably be abandoned.

Butte & Bacorn Mining Co. Montana

Office: 53 Silver Bow Block, Butte, Mont. Pittsburgh office: Common- wealth Bldg. Chas. Hyde, vice-pres.; Geo. I. Whitney, treas.; H. H. Robin- son, Fulton Bldg., Pittsburgh, Pa., sec.; J. B. Finley, W. B. Shiras, D. Leet Wilson, E. M. Byers, W. H. Patterson, Chas. Hyde, H. H. Robinson, Chas. W. Brown, directors; H. C. Bacorn, mgr. Organized Feb. 12, 1906, under laws of Maine, capitalization $5,000,000, shares $1 par, fully paid, nonassess- able; 4,000,000 issued. Bonded for $50,000 at 6% of which $40,000 is issued. Union Trust Co., transfer agent, Pittsburgh, Pa.

Controlling interests were, and still are, held by strong Pittsburgh men; but the company’s fiscal agents, Whitney & Stevenson, failed during the panic of 1907, and the company lost its working capital. Work was then stopped and has not since been resumed.

Company owns in fee simple 23 claims, area 278 acres, in the north- eastern part of the Butte district, about 1 mile north of the Black Rock and Badger State mines. Has 1 shaft, the Belinda, 840’ deep.

The so-called Calumet ground, consisting of 3 claims, with an area of 46 acres, on which there is a shaft 1,000’ deep, was held by the company under contract of purchase; but in 1907, default was made in payments and ground reverted to original owners. It has lately been acquired by F. W. Bacorn, formerly president of the company and associates, whose interests are closely allied with those of the company.

No exploration was done from the Belinda shaft, but work had been commenced in the Calumet shaft and promising veins encountered, though no pay ore was struck up to the time of the shutdown. The geology is to all appearances identical with that of the producing parts of the Butte district.

Butte-Ballaklava Copper Co. Montana

Office: Sherwood Bldg., Duluth, Minn. Mine office: Butte, Silver Bow Co., Mont. I. Freimuth, pres.; A. L. Warner, vice-pres.; John A. Percival, sec.-treas.; Milie Bunnell, Gus Carlson and Geo. C. Swallow, directors; Walter Harvey Weed, cons. engr.; Chas. W. Newton, supt. Organized April 2, 1907, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $2,500,000, shares $10 - par, nonassessable; fully issued. Listed ón Boston Stock Exchange. Paid a 50-ct. dividend, Aug. 1, 1910. Boston Safe Deposit € Trust Co., transfer agent; Federal Trust Co., Boston, registrar. Has upwards of 1,200 share- holders.

Property comprises the Burke and Ballaklava claims, about 6% acres in eastern part of' Anaconda hill, adjoining Mountain Chief, Modoc and High Ore mines of the Anaconda Copper Co. Property willed to Bishop Carroll of the Catholic Church who sold it for $400,000 cash to this company.

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tem, it carries the outcrops of several veins with an aggregate of about 3,600’ of their strike. By reason of this peculiar situation, the property is as valuable for mining purposes as a tract of many times its area, the law permitting one to follow down any veins outeropping in the ground which pass through the end lines of the claim. The veins, numbered 1 to 5, include 3 veins of importance. The surface is covered by wash, but the veins have been exposed by trenching and several railroad cuts. '

The Burke vein crosses the claim of that name and has been worked in the Modoc mine. The working shaft is sunk on the Clymo vein, exposed in the shaft from the surface downward. The Ballaklava, Nelson and other veins are extensively developed.

The Butte-Ballaklava line is 640” from the North Butte mine. The Mountain Chief mine of the Anaconda, immediately to the north, was a small producer, under the management of F. A. Heinze.

The mine workings are extensive, the levels being 100’ apart and driven from the 1,600 three-compartment shaft. The mine has been connected on the 800’ level, for ventilation and safety, with the Modoc mine of the Ana- conda, and on the 1,200’ level with the West Colusa. This crosscut is used for drainage. The veins on the 100” and 300’ levels show ore carrying 5 to 8.5%: copper and 45 to 60 oz. silver per ton, from which small shipments have been made. The 500’ level shows pyrite and a little high-grade silver ore, and the 700' level shows stringers of massive bornite, pyrite, glance and some chalcopyrite, all argentiferous. Principal ore values are shown in the Ballaklava vein on the 800 to 1,400’ levels, inclusive, ore being mainly chal- cocite, carrying good silver values. This vein ranges up to 34” in width, carrying rich ore on the 800’ level; the 1,200’ level shows the vein up to 20’ in width, with ore averaging 4 to 4.5% copper, and the 1,400’ level carries 9’ of chalcocite and bornite of about 7.5% average copper tenor. This vein has been stoped westward to the workings of the High Ore mine, whose stopes are continuous with those of the Butte-Ballaklava mine.

Electric power is used throughout, an auxiliary steam plant being held in reserve for emergencies. Equipment includes a double-drum Lake Shore hoist, operated in counterbalance, driven by a 300-h. p. General Electric motor, designed to hoist an unbalanced load of 5 tons, at a speed of 800’ per minute, from a depth of 3,000’. There also are a 165-h. p. auxiliary double-drum hoist, good for 1,500’, and a 10x12” auxiliary steam hoist, 2 Ingersoll-Rand air compressors, with cross-compound air cylinders, each driven by a 100-h. p. General Electric motor, and an electric station pump. The auxiliary steam plant includes a cooling tower for water.

Buildings include an engine house, office with warehouse on the ground floor, carpenter shop, smithy, and a 30x50’ steam-heated changing house.

Production was begun April, 1910, and continued until stopped by in- junction, granted the Anaconda Copper Co., in Aug., 1910. During this period shipments to the Pittsmont smelter were about 125 tons daily, of ore assaying about 8% copper and 12 oz. silver per ton, this being the high- est average grade of ore produced by any Butte mine for that year. Pro- duction, July, 1910, was 662,838 lbs. fine copper and 44,072 oz. silver and for the second quarter of 1910 was 1,561,953 lbs. fine copper and 105,608 oz.

silver. Total production was 2,428,346 lbs. copper, 164,811 oz. silver and 42

oz. gold, giving net smelter returns of $205,000, in 1910.

The Anaconda Co. is alleged to have cast covetous eyes on this prop- erty from the time the present company acquired it, and started litigation in 1908. The first suit was brought by the Butte, Anaconda & Pacific rail- road, a subsidiary of the Amalgamated Copper Co., which had been granted right-of-way across the Butte-Ballaklava property, and claimed title to the

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ore underneath, but a flaw in the title was discovered and the railway com- pany dropped suit, being satisfied to retain the right-of-way. This was followed by action started by the Anaconda Copper Mining Co., which se- cured a temporary injunction, Aug. 22, 1910, from Judge McClernan, at Butte, which was made permanent Jan. 24, 1911, restraining the Butte- Ballaklava from extracting ore from the Ballaklava vein, formerly called the Edith May by the Butte-Ballaklava, but which the Anaconda claims to be the Mountain Chief vein, apexing on the Mountain Chief claim of the Anaconda, to the northward. The Anaconda Co. claimed that ore was ex- tracted illegally from both the Mountain Chief and Right Bower claims, and filed suit for $1,800,000 damages against the Butte-Ballaklava therefor. The defense reserved its case for the real trial of the suit. This suit was com- promised Nov. 28, 1913, by a division of the orebody in dispute, and the withdrawal of all accessory suits and charges.

Butte & Basin Copper Mining Co. Montana

A. P. Bowie, secretary, State Savings Bank, Butte, Mont. Issued capi- talization Jan. 1, 1909, $207,001; liabilities in 1913, $200. Owns 4 patented claims, fractional, covered by granite and limestone, in Jefferson county, Mont. Development sufficient to prove up for patenting. Property said to have ore in sight, but not enough to justify working it at present. Company worked a lease on adjoining claim until expiration of same, then levied as- sessments to complete work for patenting of its own claims.

The former president reports that the company has had no meeting to his knowledge for 3 or 4 years and does not know who the present officers or directors are.

Butte & Boulder Mining Co. Montana

Idle many years. Office: Butte, Mont. Mine office: Boulder, Jefferson Co., Mont. Lands, 2 claims, held under bond and lease, having a 750’ tunnel, expected to cut, at depth of 500’, a vein carrying argentiferous and aurifer- ous copper and lead ores.

Butte-Cable Copper & Gold Mining Co. Montana

Office: Anaconda, Mont. Louis Feldman, pres.; Nicholas Bossonitz, vice-pres.; preceding officers, Jas. McMasters, Wm. Henthorne and John Strasser, directors. Organized Nov. 21, 1906, under laws of Montana, capi- talization $1,000,000, shares $1 par. Lands, 6 claims, 4 patented, 15 miles west of Anaconda, near Cable Consolidated Mining Co., showing a 3 to 4’ vein carrying about 2’ of commercial ore, giving assays of 11.9% copper, 156 oz. silver and 0.6 oz. gold per ton. Property closed down. Sullivan and Peterson, of Anaconda, offering stock at 15 cts. a share, Feb., 1913, to raise money for patenting claims.

Butte Central Copper Co. Montana

Wm. G. Burns, secretary, 27 State St., Boston, Mass. Mine office: Butte, Mont. Sir Frederick W. Borden, chairman of the board; Wm. H. North, pres.; John A. Condy, vice-pres.; Joseph J. Wall, vice-pres.; Willard E. Rob- inson, treas.; preceding officers, Henry M. Pellatt, Hon. Rodolphe Forget, Wm. R. Tillinghast, Dr. Havelock H. Hanson, Jas. R. Simpson, Freeman I. Davidson, Geo. H. Cragin and Harry W. Davis, directors; John E. Roth- well, mill supt.; Samuel McConnell, supt.

Organized Dec., 1908, under laws of Delaware, capitalization $2,500,000, shares $10 par, nonassessable; fully issued. Was practically a reconstruc-

_tion of the Butte Central Copper Mining Co., which was affiliated with the Butte Central Copper Co., Butte Central Copper Mining & Smelting Co., and Butte Central & Boston Copper Corporation. Stock is listed on the Bos- ton curb. First National Bank, Boston, registrar; Federal Trust Co., Bos- ton, transfer agent. Annual meeting, second Wednesday in February.

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Company claims to have spent $240,000 for development and construc- tion in 1911 and 1912 besides $80,000 for a mill, a Canadian syndicate headed by Mark Workman, Sir Rodolphe Forget, Sir Henry Pellatt and Sir Fred- erick Borden, supplying $200,000. Company has $150,000 income bonds out- standing.

Owns the Ophir mine, 1 claim, patented, area 20 acres. Mine is in the southwestern portion of the Butte district, a few hundred feet east of the Travona. Property has several veins including the North and South, and a cross fissure, known as the Blue vein.

Mine is developed by 3-compartment shaft, 1,000’ deep, with workings on the 100’, 200’, 300’ and 500’ levels, the mine having about 314 miles of workings. On the 300’ level, 2 parallel veins have been opened up for a combined distance of 1,100’ and on the 500’ level for 700’ the veins are typical silver veins of the camp carrying a mixture of zinc, lead and iron sulphides with occasional chalcopyrite in a hard, compact gangue of quartz and manganese (rhodochrosite and rhodonite). Estimates made by W. L. Creden in 1911, gave 32,000 tons of $7 ore with values mostly in silver. Later estimates by Samuel Klaus, of 2,500,000 tons of $11 ore, prove grossly in error. Reports by management of 30 to 50’ of ore in various parts of the mine were not based on average samples. Last estimate furnished May, 1913, stated that veins were 6 to 10’ wide, opened for 1,250’ and 500’ depth, averaging 0.01% copper, 0.1% lead, 15 ozs. silver and 50 cts. gold per ton.

It is now admitted that, though the veins are wide and carry numerous lenses of high-grade silver-gold ore, these shoots are short and narrow and cannot be mined at a profit because too much low-grade, or barren quartz, is broken down with the pay ore, the resultant mill feed being too low- grade to yield a profit. 3

Equipment is excellent, including a 330-h. p. steam plant and a hoist good for 2,000” in depth and a 7-drill Rand air compressor. There are 7 buildings, including an engine house, 18x24’, carpenter shop, 18x36’, smithy and an office.

Mr. Rothwell designed and built a 125-ton mill to treat the quartz ores by concentration with subsequent cyanidation of the quartz, when freed from sulphides. Experimental tests showed a recovery of 63.9% of gold and 39.44% of silver values by concentration and an added recovery of 35% of the gold and 43.35% of silver by cyanidation, a total of 84.7% of value of the ore. Ore is broken in a Sully gyratory crusher, is reduced to 24 mesh in Chilean mill, passes to 5 Deister concentrating tables whose tailings go to Atkins classifiers. The resultant sands go to 5x22’ tube mill, grinding to 150 mesh. This product passes to sloughing-off cones, the underflow to, 8 Deister slime tables. Tails are dewatered, agitated with cyanide in Atkins Rothwell continuous agitation tanks for 30 hours and run into Port- land continuous slime filters. The filtered solution is treated in zinc boxes. This company’s operations show the folly of spending money without tech- nical advice. Mine development and mill construction were both carried on by competent men, but the essential thing—proper sampling and meas- urement of ore—was omitted. The result has been disastrous to everyone concerned except stock speculators. Press notices appearing frequently were misleading as to values and tonnage of ore and grave misrepresenta- tions, implying examination and endorsement by various well-known engi- neers, were printed in the papers. Harper and McDonald, of Butte, and Walter Harvey Weed were both wrongfully mentioned in this way, the former being made sponsor for an estimate of 479,225 tons ore reserves, when neither sampling nor ore measurements had been made. The eastern management has therefore been looked upon with suspicion, especially as

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the mine and mill reports were also used in a press and market campaign to boost the stock from less than a dollar to over $9 a share.

It is now admitted that the veins, though of unusually generous width, are not workable as a whole; that the values are spotty and the reserves cannot be profitably mined and concentrated under present conditions. The plant is a good one and the scheme of treatment sound—only the treatment costs are higher than the grade of ore will permit.

For some years Mr. Sam McConnell, the superintendent, has shown his faith in the property, keeping it unwatered for months at his own expense. No man has done so much with so little money. He has been optimistic. but he took stock for his salary and was, and is, honest in his belief in the mine.

The property itself is still a prospect. It is well equipped and its mill should, by treating custom ore, revive silver mining in the district; but it is now known that the Ophir is not a success as a silver mine despite the extravagant claims of width and values of ore given the press. Its future lies in deep development and the proving of the veins below the 1,000’ level. It is well located and worthy of legitimate prospecting.

In July it was reported that the company was being reorganized by Thos. F. Cole and that the property would be turned over to the North Butte Co.

Company petitioned into bankruptcy Aug. 28, 1913, and property shut down.

Butte Central Copper Mining Co. Montana

Reorganized, 1908, as Butte Central Copper Co. Described Vol. VIII. BUTTE CENTRAL. COPPER MINING & SMELTING CO. MONTANA

Succeeded by the Butte Central Copper Mining Co. See Vol. X. BUTTE-CHEWELAH COPPER CO. WASHINGTON

Pres.: J. O. Gillice, Paulson Bldg., Spokane, Wash.; F. M. Bell, vice- pres.; P. L. Eberhardt, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, G. B. Harrington and R. J. Davis, directors. R. J. Davis, gen. mgr. Organized March, 1913, under laws of Washington, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par, fully paid and nonassessable; 500,000 issued.

Property, 4 claims, 75 acres, in the Valley mining district Washington. Shows vein in sedimentaries close to a diabase intrusion; average strike N. 25° E., and dip 60%. Ore occurs as mixed sulphides, mainly chalcopyrite and gray copper in a gangue of quartz, calcite and spathic iron. At 100’ in depth the vein is said to be 20’ wide and the ore to average 2 to 5% copper, 1 to 5 oz. in silver and 50 cents to $1 in gold per ton.

The property is simply a prospect upon which considerable develop- ment work will be done this year to determine whether the ore values in- crease with depth. A winze will be sunk about 300’ on the ore showing, giving a total of 400’, and if property then warrants it, a large shaft will be put down. Equipment includes a hoist and air compressor, installed in Sept., 1913.

Butte Coalition Mining Co. Montana

Dissolved, 1911, and assets distributed pro rata among stockholders at rate of $4.46 cash and 52-100 of a share of Anaconda Copper Mining Co’s. stock for each share of Butte Coalition. Described Vol. X.

Butte Consolidated Copper Co. Montana

Idle. Letters to Butte, Silver Bow Co., Mont., unclaimed. Organized Jan. 12, 1906, under laws of Montana, capitalization $6,000,000, shares $1 par. Statement of Jan. 1, 1909, gave $15,764 liabilities. Lands, 34 claims, area 500 acres, including 10 patented claims, known as the Susie group, ad-

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joining the Butte & Bacorn on the north, opened by a 225’ tunnel, and a 150’ two-compartment shaft, latter very wet. BUTTE CONSOLIDATED COPPER MINING CO. MONTANA

Mine P. O.: Corbin, Jefferson Co., Mont. D. D. Tuohy, pres.; Martin Mulvahill, vice-pres.; preceding officers, C. D. McCarthy, T. J. Walsh and C. R. Gruwall, directors. Organized June 30, 1906, under laws of Montana, capitalization $600,000, shares $1 par. Lands, northeast of the Corbin- . Wickes, have a 300’ shaft, with a crosscut, seeking the Bertha vein, which has developed a little sulphide ore giving assays of 30 oz. silver. Has steam power. Idle and apparently waiting for developments in the Bertha mine of the Boston-Corbin Co. to prove this property.

Butte Copper Co. Montana

Address: care James H. Rowe, pres., 120 West Granite St., Butte, Mont. E. T. Lawlor, vice-pres., Brookline, Mass.; W. M. Hanson, sec.; preceding officers, R. L. Rhule and B. J. Keenan, M. D., directors. Organized March 20, 1906, under laws of Montana, capitalization $1,500,000, shares $1.50 par, fully paid and nonassessable. Company owns two-third interest in the Robert Emmet claim Nos. 1 and 2; the remaining third being owned by the Anaconda Mining Co. Company also owns approximately one-half of the Anselmo, Anselmo No, 2 and Trifle claims, balance being owned by the Hauswirth family. Property lies directly west of the Gagnon mine and is supposed to carry the extension of the rich veins mined in that property. The group has produced about $700,000 worth of gold and silver ore, the principal development being the 700’ Trifle shaft in which a large vein car- rying copper ore was cut at a depth of 375’. The Robert Emmet shaft, 375’ deep, is said to be bottomed in 7% copper ore.

The company has been dormant for several years and its relations to the Butte Copper Mining Co. and Butte Copper Montana are not fully understood, though the latter company is supposed to control this one through stock ownership. The management proper is responsible and is said to be beyond reproach from a business and financial point of view. BUTTE COPPER KING MINING CO. MONTANA

Address: care Beebe Grain Co., Butte, Mont. C. E. Beebe, pres.; D. Dorais, vice-pres.; A. P. Henningsen, sec.; R. H. Campbell, treas., and Henry Avare, directors, all of Butte. Organized April 19, 1906, under laws of Montana, capitalization $1,500,000, shares $1.50 par. Lands, 3 fractional claims, are 28 acres, known as the Frenchman No. 2, Rare Steak and Missouri Girl, west of the Jennie Dell mine. Company planned sinking a 1,000’ shaft, on the Missouri Girl, but no work was done. Idle since organ- ization. ` BUTTE COPPER MONTANA. MONTANA

At Butte, Silver Bow Co., Mont. C: E. Burrelle, pres.; E. H. Sherman, vice-pres.; John MacGinnis, gen. mgr.; W. L. Lawler, treas.; preceding of- ficers and W. L. Moyer, directors; Robt. Hauswirth, supt. Organized Dec.

/1, 1906, under laws of Maine, capitalization $1,750,000, shares $1 par. Trust

Company of America, New York, transfer agent. Is apparently a holding company only. See Butte Copper Co. BUTTE £ CORBIN CONS. COPPER MINING CO. MONTANA J. L. Templeman, pres.; Lee Williams, vice-pres.; J. B. Fitzpatrick, sec.- treas., at last accounts. H. Burnson, cons. engr., Salt Lake City, Utah,; H. E. Emerson, supt., Corbin, Mont. Organized May 1, 1907, under laws of Montana, capitalization $700,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable; issued $469,- 000. Annual meeting Feb., 4. Property, 5 claims, 82 acres, also 10 acres timber lands in the Corbin, or Colorado district, on the eastern side of Valparaiso mountain, The ore

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is a complex mixture of lead, copper and zinc, occurring in short shoots in fissure veins in granite. Vein reported by company to average 8 4” in width, and to carry 4% copper, 6% lead, 2% zinc, 8 oz. silver and $1 gold er ton.

$ Developed by the 500’ Rarus tunnel which cut a 10’ vem at 165 from the portal, assaying 2.5% copper, with paystreak carrying covellite, averaging 6% copper, 8 oz. silver and $6 gold per ton. A new shaft was started Oct., 1909, at the mouth of the Rarus tunnel. A body of rich ore was reported found in June, 1912, and the Great Northern railroad asked to put a siding on this property. Amount of ore on dump, 7,000 tons of $10 value, accord- ing to Ropes & McIntyre of Helena, Mont., who reported on property. Property now idle.

Butte-Curtis & Majors Copper Mining Co. Montana

W. D. Clark, vice-pres. and mgr., Butte, Mont.; Ged. D. Curtis, sec.- treas. Organized 1907, under laws of Montana, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $2 par, nonassessable; issued about 200,000 shares.

Company organized upon a lease and bond to purchase the surface and mineral rights of the Curtis and Majors addition to the City of Butte, the bond price being $125,000, payable in 18 months with 25% royalty on ship- ments for first 6 months. Property is in South Butte adjoining the Northern Pacific Co. tract and contains about 5 acres.

Development is by 300’ shaft with levels at 150’ and 300’, the latter show- ing a 4 vein with considerable zinc, from which $10,000 worth of ore was shipped. The company went bankrupt and still owes about $700 labor claims. There are no legal assets and having defaulted on bond payment past due, the company has no rights thereunder, save the sentimental cour- tesy extended by John Curtis and associates who would like to see the company rehabilitated and refinanced.

Butte-Duluth Mining Co. Montana

Office and mine: Butte, Mont. Capt. A. B. Wolvin, pres.; C. M. Ever- son, Alfred C. Kremer, L. P. Sanders, J. Bruce Kremer and W. M. Tuohy, directors. W. L. Creden, cons. engr.; C. Lorimer Colburn, mgr.; A. W. Hudson, metallurgist

Lands. comprise 2 groups, the Brundy group at the base of the moun- tains east of Butte and the Wolvin, or Stonewall-Bryan group, north of the Butte-Superior mine. At present all work is confined to the Brundy group comprising the Macarona, Montgomery and portions of the Altona, Colleen Bawn and Amazon claims. These claims aggregate 67 acres and are

crossed by the Columbia’ Gardens street car line and adjoin the Pittsmont”

mine on the southeast. ;

Development underground is mainly on the Montgomery claim on which there is a tunnel 1,200’ long and a 200’ shaft, the latter with extensive workings at 100”. The main ore supply for the leaching plant comes from open quarry work on Altona hill to the east of the street car line, but there are also several tunnels proving the downward extension of the ore on the property. Equipment is electrical throughout and includes a 75th. p. ee hoist and 750-cu. ft. Nordberg compressor at the Montgomery shaft.

A 100-ton leaching plant, designed by J. D. Fields, was erected and in operation in 1913. The ore crushed to one half inch is leached in square tanks with 4% sulphuric acid solution, passing successively through several tanks, the final copper-bearing solution going to electrolytic tanks where the copper is precipitated on thin sheets of copper by electric current. The resulting product is electrolytic copper ready for sale. The cost of pro- ducing copper with the present plant is estimated at 13.7 cts. per lb., being

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4.725 cts. for acid, 1 ct. for power and 8 cts. for mining and reduction costs. The wash water from the leaching tank will be treated with scrap iron, re- covering cement copper at an estimated cost of 4% cts. per lb. With the new plant to be erected in 1914 the cost should not be over 8 or 9 cts. per lb. The ore is peculiarly amenable to leaching and the process can be made a commercial success, but needs skilled technical handling and must be worked on a large scale to be made profitable.

The property has merit and aside from its leaching ores has a decided prospective value in the veins at depths of 1,000” or more below the surface.

The Wolvin group under option to the company, has several very large, persistent veins extensively opened by pits and open trenches, but without deep development work. The group is regarded as a valuable one, well worthy of drilling. BUTTE € ELLISTON GOLD & COPPER MINING CO. MONTANA

Office: 113 Hamilton Block, Butte, Mont. Mine near Elliston, Powell Co., Mont. Dr. P. A. Breen, pres.; Chas. M. Joyce, vice-pres.; F. H.

- Cooney, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, Chas. A. Blackburn, D. E. Bertoglio

and J. H. McOmney, directors. F. H. Cooney, mgr.; A. E, Monroe, engr. Organized 1907, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par, fully paid and nonassessable; issued, 275,000. Dividend of 1% paid 1907.

Property, 1 claim, patented, 17 acres, in the Ontario, or Elliston mining district, known as the Big Dick mine, 6 miles from Elliston on the side of Nigger mountain. Claim shows diorite having 6’ fissure vein developed by 280’ shaft and 1,000’ of workings. Ore carries lead, silver and some copper averaging about $30 per ton. A new 1,135’ tunnel now being driven, will intersect vein 200’ below bottom of the shaft. This tunnel was 600’ long in July, 1913.

Equipped with 25-h. p. hoist and surface buildings. Production from 1901 to 1908 was $73,906 net smelter returns.

Property now under lease and bond to Frank Cooney and P. J. Ben- netts, both of Butte, Mont.

Butte & Ely Copper Co. Nevada

General office: 1400 Alworth Bldg., Duluth, Minn. Principal office: Room 302, O'Rourke Estate Bldg., Butte, Mont. Mine P. O.: Kimberly, White Pine Co., Nev. Jos. Cotton, pres.; B. E. Calkins, vice-pres.; John W. Neukom, sec.; Edw, J. Maney, treas.; pneceduig officers and J. A. Heilbront ner, directors. Organized July 27, 1905, under laws of Montana, capitaliza- tion $500,000, shares $1 par; stock was made assessable, 1907. Is a sub- sidiary of the Consolidated Copper Mines Co. Jan. 1, 1913, had $240,034 in cash and cash assets in treasury. Stock is listed on the Butte Mining Ex- change. Annual meeting, third Wednesday in January.

Lands, 12 claims, patented, area 210 acres, in the Robinson district, lying between the Nevada Consolidated and Giroux. Property includes a valuable water right, 20 miles distant, said to be capable of supplying 2,000,000 gal. daily; also 80 acres irrigable land near water rights.

Developed by 3 shafts, 1 with steam hoist, 310’ deep, showing dis- ' seminated ore. Mining was suspended late in 1907, but churn drilling was carried on in succeeding years intermittently, developing several bodies of low-grade disseminated ore. In 1912, a part of the ground adjacent to the Liberty pit of the Nevada Consolidated Co., was leased to that company on a royalty basis and has been mined. During the same year, churn-drilling exploration was carried on, 100 holes blocking out orebodies which show an average of 114% copper.

The sale of control of this mine to the Giroux Co., hailed at first as a boon, has been bitterly denounced by many Butte-Ely stockholders. Stock

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prices went down, development lagged and the sale was said to have been used as a means of securing the cash in the Butte-Ely treasury, it being charged that the Giroux Co. borrowed the money back immediately after paying it.

In 1913, the Consolidated Copper Mines Co. was formed to merge the Butte & Ely with the Giroux and other companies, the Butte € Ely re- ceiving 5% of the capital stock of the new company for its entire holdings, equivalent to 614 shares of Butte & Ely for 1 of the Consolidated. Ob- jecting to this merger, certain Butte stockholders began injunction and re- ceivership proceedings, which were decided adversely by the Court

The merger is regarded as a good thing for the Butte € Ely since it gives the stockholders a valuable and marketable security whereas their own company is too small to ever become a profitable enterprise. The new company has technical skill of the highest ability and is backed by men of genius and financial strength.

Butte Gold, Silver & Copper Co. Washington

Letter returned unclaimed from former mine office, Stehekin, Chelan Co., Wash. Lands are on Bridge creek, about 25 miles from the head of Lake Chelan, Washington, showing 2 veins, one & wide, opened by tun- nels. Long idle and apparently moribund.

Butte & Great Falls Mining Co. Montana

Is developing the Genevieve group of claims near head of Dixie gulch, 3%4 miles northeast of the Butte & Superior property. Claims show wide, rusty veins carrying tourmaline and occasional specks of chalcopyrite. Has a 200’ shaft and will develop ground at that depth by crosscutting. Equip- ment includes steam hoist and 2-drill compressor. Property not regarded favorably, but management honest.

Butte Hill Copper Mining Co. Montana

Address: care Harry A. Frank, sec., Butte, Mont. Maurice Eisenberg, pres.; J. W. Murphy, vice-pres.; preceding officers, J. W. Murphy, Duncan MacRae, W. P. Cary, W. H. Hall, Thos. Driscoll and John S. Davies, di- rectors. Organized April 18, 1906, under laws of Montana, capitalization $5,000,000, shares $5 par; $2,950,000 issued. Annual meeting, fourth Satur- day in January.

Lands, 11 claims, area 173 acres, in an undeveloped district in’ granite area, north of Walkerville. Has a 200’ shaft, cutting a vein of 40’ estimated width, showing stringers and bunches of ore assaying up to 4% copper and 19 oz. silver per ton. Has not been worked for several years and power plant is dismantled. Property is well located, has strong veins and is much nearer developed ground than it was when operating. BUTTE-HOMESTAKE COPPER MINING CO. MONTANA

Idle. Mine near Homestake, Jefferson Co., Mont. Daniel Agoa, supt., at last accounts. Lands, 5 claims, patented, 98 acres, well wooded and watered, 2 miles from the Northern Pacific railway, formerly held by Home- stake Mining Co. Mine has a 185’ two-compartment shaft, on the Last Chance claim, connecting with a 270’ tunnel, showing a 5 to 7’ vein carrying ore of medium grade, with quartz gangue, assaying up to 6% copper and 38 oz. silver per ton. Mine also has an 85’ shaft, and a small vein on the Mammoth claim has given ore assaying 20% copper, 125 oz. silver and $6 gold per ton. Property is said to have, on the dumps, 1,700 tons of low- grade ore, worth about $6 per ton. Equipment includes two 80-h. p. boilers, and there are 5 buildings. Closed down several years and apparently moribund.

Butte & Idaho Gold € Copper Mining Co. Idaho

Probably dead. Formerly at Salmon, Lemhi Co., Idaho. See Vol. X.

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BUTTE LODE EXTENSION MINING CO. MONTANA Idle. Address: care C. J. Kelly, treas., Butte, Silver Bow Co., Mont.

Chas. S. Warren, vice-pres.; John M. Murphy, sec. Organized Aptil 28,

1906, under laws of Montana, capitalization $500,000, shares $1 par. Lands,

4 eG known as the St. Angus group, 12 miles northeast of Butte, hav-

ing a 150 shaft with a crosscut showing 2 veins.

Butte & London Copper Development Co. Montana

Office of mine: 46 East Broadway, Butte, Silver Bow Co., Mont. W. W. McDowell, pres.; John D. Haines, vice-pres.; W. E. Reynolds, sec.; J. W. Wallisch, treas.; preceding officers, Fred Whiteside, Guy W. Stapleton, John P. Reins, J. W. Pratt, H.. B. Byrne, E. J. Anderson and T. H. Emery, directors. Organized Jan., 1906, under laws of Arizona, as Butte & Lon- don Copper Co., capitalization $5,000,000, shares $5 par, non-assessable; $2,830,000 outstanding. Changed name to present title, April, 1906. Annual meeting, third Tuesday in January.

Lands, 113 acres, known as the Greendale placer claims, lying imme- diately north of the Pittsburgh & Montana in the valley of Silver Bow creek, east of Butte. Property claimed by the management to carry the possible extension of the Rainbow lode. Forty acres of the property is said to be valuable for town-site purposes.

The mine has an 1,130’ three-compartment shaft, 2 crosscuts on the 1,100’ level cutting 9 veins, none carrying ore of commercial value, except a streak that gave assays of 2% copper, 50 oz. silver and $2 gold per ton.

The company agreed Dec. 24, 1912, to accept a contract with Thos. F. Cole, for the transfer of all its property to a new company with a capital- ization of $200,000, to be organized by him. The terms of the contract pro- vide that in consideration of sinking the 1,130’ shaft an additional 500’, running crosscuts north and south 2,500’ the entire width of the property, and doing other stipulated development work, Mr. Cole is to receive 51% of the stock of the new company, one-half to be paid as the work progresses, the balance remaining in escrow until the work is finished. Mr. Cole an- nounced his intention of spending $300,000 on this development.

Butte Main Range Copper Mining Co. Montana

Office: care of State Savings Bank, Butte, Mont. Edward Hickey, pres.; P. J. Brophy, vice-pres.; Frank X. Giard, vice-pres.; Ray J. MacDon- ald, treas.; Edward Hickey, Jr, sec.; preceding officers, ies R. Leonard, M. Sellers Largey, Pat. Sheehan, y. J. Harrington and T. E. Murray, di- rectors. Company organized about Aug., 1912, under laws of Montana, capitalization $1,500,000, shares $1 par.

Property comprises 45 acres, claims include Sinbad Lode, Spread De- light, Rory O’More and larger fractional part of the Lillie claim, at the mouth of Horse canyon, Butte, Mont.

Contains several fissure veins and probably the extension of the Bertha fault zone, carrying green-stained granite and chrysocolla similar to the Bullwhacker. Deep developments in the Pittsmont mine of the East Butte Co. show that at 1,200’ high-grade ore may be expected in the veins of this vicinity. The Lillie claim shows a large limonite capping and the new open cut and tunnel work show a body of leaching ore. On the Sinbad, the Largey shaft, 716’ deep, developed 2 veins at 410’ and 490’ but no bodies of commercial ore were found. Extensive development is planned for 1913 and equipment, with a power plant and hoist, is expected to be installed during the summer.

Property is meritorious, ahead capable and trustworthy. In July, 1913, the Tuolumne Co. proposed taking over this property, but the project was abandoned.

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Butte-Milwaukee Copper Co. Montana

Office: 25 Broad St., New York. Mine office: O’Rourke Estate Bldg., Butte, Silver Bow Co., Mont. C. W. Peters, pres.; H. G. Bell, vice-pres.; Keith Stewart, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, R. C. Porter and E. W. O'Meara, directors. Organized March 28, 1906, capitalization $3,000,000, shares $2 par. Isa subsidiary of the Butte € Superior Copper Co., through control of Butte & New York Copper Co., which owns 92% of the Butte- Milwaukee stock. Has a $10,000 mortgage, at 8%, dated March, 1909. State- ment of Jan. 1, 1910, gave liabilities of $11,500.

Lands formerly included 6 claims near the Butte & Argenta, at Argenta, Mont., on which apparently no work was done, and which presumably have been abandoned.

Owns 4 claims, patented, known as the Pollock, Colonel Sellers, Florence and Bird, lying immediately north of the Butte € Superior.

Surface outcrop on Bird claim is 100” wide and resembles outcroppings of the typical fault veins of the district.

The Pollock mine has 4 veins, 2 more or less developed by a short tunnel and a 730’ three-compartment shaft. A silver vein has been opened on the 300’ level, and the mine is said to have produced, years ago, about $400,000 worth of ore, with values mainly in silver and gold, from above the 200’ level, and a little ore running 2% copper and 15 oz. silver per ton, with small gold values, was produced, 1906, by present company.

The Colonel Sellers claim has a promising surface showing with strong persistent quartz veins in granite. The Butte & Superior completed the sinking of the 1,200’ Milwaukee shaft on Colonel Sellers claim and connected it by crosscutting with 1,200’ level of Black Rock mine. This work is being continued beyond the Colonel Sellers shaft so as to open the Mastodon vein on the Florence claim. The Milwaukee shaft is well equipped with power plant and hoist and future exploration can be done from this point with- out regard to the Butte & Superior Co. Property valuable and likely to be worked when the Butte & Superior is able to handle the ore.

Butte Mine Exploration Co. Montana

Clinton C. Clark, pres., 408 West Granite St., Butte, Mont.; C. P. Con- nolly, sec., at last accounts. Organized 1901, capitalization $250,000, shares $1 par. Is no relation to the company of same title formerly holding the Six O’Clock property, in Butte, or to the Butte Mines Exploration Co. formerly having property at Tecoma, Box Elder Co., Utah. Property is the Pacific quartz lode claim, on which considerable work was done, 1901- 02; since idle.

Butte-Minnesota Mining Co. Montana

Peter E. Peterson, pres.; Angus McLeod, William Vuoti, J. ESPorthan, A. W. Havela, John Kukko, Emmanuel Autio, John Lampi, Ade Herranen, directors, all of Chisholm, Minn. Mines near Butte and Helena. Company organized June, 1912, capitalization $750,000, shares $1 par.

Owns 6 claims, about 1 mile south of Rocker, at the western end of the Butte district. Ground shows well-defined veins, 1 of which is traceable for 3,000’ across the surface. The country rock is granite and part of the same mass as that in which the mines of Butte occur.

Development is by a tunnel 400' long on the vein and by an incline shaft 35” deep sunk on the vein disclosing well-defined walls, 6’ apart, from which ore has been taken carrying 0.5% copper, 8% lead, 12 oz. silver and $28 gold per ton.

The property is equipped with a gallows frame, boilers and hoist.

Late in June, 1913, the company bought a group of mining claims in the Wolf Creek district, 40 miles east of Helena, Mont. Reports state that

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Butte Monitor—Butte & Rocher De Boule Ut

development on these claims show more than 100,000 tons of ore assaying 4 to 25% copper’ blocked out. A mill is to be built. BUTTE MONITOR TUNNEL MINING CO. MONTANA

Office: care C. W. Pomeroy, vice-pres., 145 La Salle St., Chicago, Ill. Capitalization $3,750,000, shares $1 par.

Lands, 7 claims, area 102 acres, near the eastern portal of the Wood- ville tunnel, on the Great Northern railway, in the eastern part of the Butte district. Development is by shafts of 40’ and 80’, and 1,412’ Schweit- zer tunnel, latter cutting a number of veins, some of considerable width, 1 being claimed to be 80’ wide. There also is a 300’ crosscut tunnel on the Burner claim, cutting a strong vein supposed by management to be a con- tinuation of the Homestake vein of the Anaconda. The Sunlight claim has 3 veins, of 10 to 20’ width. Main tunnel is said to show chalcopyrite aver- aging about 2% copper and 2 oz. silver per ton, with small gold values.

The mine was shut down, 1899, by litigation. Considered worthy of further development and under option.

Butte & New York Copper Co. Montana

Office: 25 Broad St., New York. M. M. Ferguson, pres.; R. J. Schaefer, vice-pres.; C. E. Connell, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, A. B. Wolvin, Leo Schlesinger, N. B. MacKelvie, Philip Lawrence, A. P. Ronaghan, J. B. Kremer, G. M. Minzesheimer and T. F. Nelson, directors. A. J. Ronaghan, asst. sec. Organized Oct. 17, 1906, under laws of South Dakota, capitalization $4,000,000, shares $5 par; issued, $2,768,705. Empire Trust Co., New York, registrar; B. Liddle, transfer agent. Annual meeting, second Monday in Jan- uary. Is a holding company only, controlling the Butte-Milwaukee Copper Co., through ownership of about 92%, or 1,384,355 shares of its 1,500,000 stock issue. Present management has no connection with the promoters. Property is a subsidiary of the Butte & Superior Copper Co., Ltd. BUTTE NORTHERN MINING CO. MONTANA

Office: Butte, Mont C. J. Edwards, mgr., at last accounts. Property in the mountain range northeast of Butte, Silver Bow Co.; Mont. Group of claims covering summit of the range is now being developed by a tunnel pushed from both sides, a contract being let for 300’ in Feb., 1912. The other end of the tunnel, now in about 400’, is being driven by the Butte City Mining Co. G. W. Lansing of Spokane is one of the principal owners. BUTTE & PHILADELPHIA MINE. MONTANA

Idle., Is situated at 7,800’ elevation on Three Brothers peaks, 8 miles north by wagon road of Basin, Mont. Machinery was installed and de- velopment work in progress during 1911. Three parallel veins traverse the granite, 1 developed by 250’ tunnel. The strike is N. 80° W. and the dip 65° N. The ore occupies a 7 to 10’ crushed zone in the granite. Pyrite, with small amounts of galena and sphalerite, occurs with very little quartz. Between the pyrite and the heavy zone of gouge that occurs along the hang- ing wall, there are in places slabs of galena 1” thick and from 1 to 2’ in diameter, showing a banded structure. J BUTTE & RED EAGLE COPPER CO. MONTANA

Address: care John D. Haines, sec, P. O. Box 1401, Butte, Mont. Fayette Harrington, pres. Organized May, 1907, under laws of Montana, capitalization $5,000,000, shares $5 par. Lands, 7 claims, southeast of the ; Butte & Bacorn, the Red Eagle claim having a 400’ tunnel, showing a little ore. Shut down since 1907, but company still alive.

Butte & Rocher De Boule Copper Co. British Columbia

Office: 49 East Broadway, Butte, Mont. Branch office: Hazelton, B. C. Samuel McConnell, pres.; C. J. Stone, vice-pres.; J. W. MacLane, sec.-

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treas.; preceding officers, Paul Ozanne and P. J. Jennings, directors. Or- ganized 1912, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par; fully issued and nonassessable.

Property consists of the Highland Boy group adjoining, but 1,000’ above the Rocher de Boule mine and covering 400 acres on Juniper bas'n, Rocher de Boule mountain, Omineca mining district, 3 miles from New Hazelton and 4 miles from the Grand Trunk railroad. Claims show the extension of the Rocher de Boule veins, 2 of which can be opened by tun- nels with development of shipping ore. Ore occurs in contact veins fol- lowing intrusive dikes of porphyry in granite. Samples from 3 veins 3 to 9 wide, assayed from $10 to $20 copper, with $10 to $20 silver and gold values.

Developed by 2 tunnels, the uppermost called No. 1, showing 4 of chalcopyrite ore and No. 2 tunnel, 150’ lower, 40’ long in Aug., 1913, which follows the vein.

Butte & Superior Copper Co., Ltd. Montana

Office: 25 Broad St., New York. Mine office: Butte, Mont. N. Bruce MacKelvie, pres.; K. R. Babbitt, vice-pres.; A. J. Ronaghan, sec.; GoW Peters, treas.; preceding officers, A. B. Wolvin, and D. C. Jackling, direct- ors; W. L. Creden, cons. engr.; J-L. Bruce, mgr.; Angus McLeod, supt.; F. R. Wickes, mill supt. Organized Oct., 1906, under laws of Arizona, capitalization originally $6,000,000, shares $5 par; reduced, Dec. 3, 1910, to $2,500,000, shares $10 par, nonassessable; increased Sept., 1912, to $3,500,000, outstanding, $2,712,060. Bonds $1,000,000 authorized, 10-year, 6% trust mortgage, due Sept. 20, 1920; total amount outstanding, 1913, $10,750. These bonds are convertible at option of holder into stock at par at any time on or before Sept. 20, 1915. Shares listed on Boston and Paris stock exchanges. Controls the North Butte Extension Development Co., through ownership of 80% of the stock. Also controls the Butte-New York Copper Co., through ownership of more than 55%, the latter company controlling the Butte-Milwaukee Copper Co., through ownership of about 92% of out- standing stock. Old Colony Trust Co., Boston, transfer agent; National Shawmut Bank, Boston, registrar. Annual meeting, second Tuesday in February at Duluth, Minn.

The 1912 operations show an operating profit of $146,507 despite the intermittent operations and extraordinary expenses of the year. Current assets total $844,520, including cash, $519,558; ore in transit, $187,083, and sup- plies, $136,680; current liabilities, $281,231; surplus, $1,488,664.

Property, 9 claims, 87.62 acres, including the Black Rock, Niagara, Jer- sey Blue, Dewey, Four Johns, Constitution, Laura and Enterprise, about 3 miles north of Butte. The North Butte Extension Development Co. owns 6 adjoining claims, 41.28 acres, to the east; the Butte-Milwaukee owns 3 adjoining claims to the north and 2 others nearby, covering 50.73 acres. Company also has under option and partially paid for various interests in 27 adjoining claims, covering 240 acres. Principal property is the Black Rock mine, having a 1,630’ vertical 4-compartment shaft. The property started as a copper mine, but has become a zinc mine, having in sight a large amount of zinc ore that is practically free from iron, rendering it readily amenable to concentration. The Black Rock carries an exceptional- ly strong vein, of 50 to 100’ width, showing, on the 300’ level, mainly silver values, but with ore up to 3% in copper tenor, succeeded at greater depth by zinc ore, slightly argentiferous and cupriferous. It was hoped, formerly, by the management, that the zinc would be replaced, at considerable depth, by a large body of copper ore of commercial grade, but there is no evidence as yet of this change. The Black Rock claim covers an area of 14 acres and has been developed from the 800’ level to the 1,600” “particularly the

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1,200’, 1,300’ and 1,400’ levels, the others being but partially explored. Man- agement reports ore blocked out and ready for mining, 1,200,000 tons, the major portion between the 1,000’ and 1,400’ levels. The ore is sphalerite with a quartz gangue, the zinc sulphide being mostly dark-brown blende mixed with some gray blende; it is friable, breaking into crystalline frag- ments, separating easily and amenable to concentration. The ore actually blocked out is said to have an average value of 21.7% zinc, with 7.9 oz. sil- ver per ton. Copper has been found in small quantities mixed with the zinc, but does not appear in the output. The plant at the Black Rock mine includes a full equipment of steam plant, air compressors, complete elec- tric plant and hoist good for 3,500’. Compressor plant and mill are operated with electric power. Buildings include a boiler house, engine house, com- pressor building and pumping stations. The mine is connected by spurs with 2 railroads.

The Niagara mine, last worked by lessees, 1907, produced a little high- grade silver ore. The Milwaukee mine is described under the title Butte- Milwaukee Copper Co.

A concentrating mill of 1,000 tons daily capacity was constructed in 1912, but was not in continuous operation until the close of the year. The ore is first concentrated in jigs which recover about 40% and the discard reground and treated by the oil flotation process. The mill was remodeled under the supervision of D. C. Jackling and has fully demonstrated the suc- cess of the flotation process for the treatment of these ores; 18,400 tons of ore were treated, Jan., 1913, with a recovery of 80% and making 49% con- centrate. This result is mainly due to the flotation plant of the mill. The mill is in full operation, handles 1,000 to 1,500 tons daily of 20% ore, pro- ducing monthly concentrates containing about 10,000,000 Ibs. of zinc.

There was mined in 1912, 137,517 gross tons of ore from which was ob- tained 35,529 tons of concentrates containing about 31,000,000 Ibs. of zinc. The concentrates carry about 50% zinc and are sold to the American Metal Co. and treated in the Oklahoma zinc plants. The residue containing the silver is shipped to Colorado smelters for the recovery of silver values, since the ore averages 7 oz. per ton in silver and in some parts of the mine car- ries as high as 140 oz. per ton.

Costs for 1911 are officially reported as: Mining, $2.50; development, 50 cts.; milling, $1; transportation, etc., $2.83; total, $7.33. The new plant, when handling from 1,000 to 1,500 tons daily, should have a material re- AuctOU. a

Production for May, 7,707,000 Ibs. zinc; for June, 6,714,000 Ibs.; for July, 8,892,343 lbs.; for August, 11,167,000 lbs., and for 9 days in September, 3,- 594,174 lbs.

The court decided against the company in the suit over the use of: the flotation process of concentration. There is also an amicable apex contro- versy with the Elm Orlu Mining Co. which involves considerable legal de- velopment work likely to greatly increase the ore reserves of both prop- erties. As Senator Clark is the largest individual stockholder in the Butte & Superior Co., as well as half owner of the Elm Orlu, a friendly settle- ment is probable. Mr. J. W. Finch has examined the ground in contro- versy for the Butte & Superior and Walter Harvey Weed for the Elm Orlu Mining Co.

In 1912, the controlling interests of the company passed into the hands of Hayden, Stone & Co. representing the so-called Guggenheim interests, who have been closely identified with the Utah Copper Co., Chino, Ray and other of our greatest and most successful mining companies, thus ensuring ample finances and competent direction.

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BUTTE & VERDE GOLD & COPPER CO. ARIZONA Idle. Office and mine: Jerome, Yavapai Co., Ariz. Organized April, 1909, capitalization $1,500,000, shares $1 par. Lands, 10 claims, near Allen Springs, having a 200’ tunnel, said to show a 4’ vein of sulphide copper ore. BUTTE & VERONICA COPPER MINING CO. MONTANA Formerly at Butte, Mont. See Vol. X. Organized by Michael Mc- Nulty and Mike O’Farrell to operate a location on Great Northern placer ground in South Butte. Sank shaft and mined some ore but were stopped by injunction granted to the South Butte Mining Co., a Lewisohn company, which held a 20-year lease from Great Northern railway, on the mineral rights of all its holdings in South Butte. - BUTTB & YERINGTON COPPER CO. . NEVADA

Office: care W. E. Wright, sec.-treas., 410 Phoenix Bldg., Butte, Mont. Mine at Yerington, Lyon Co., Nev. W. C. Siderfin, pres.; B. E. Calkins, vice-pres.; preceding officers, Dr. Thos. B. Moore, Dr. Donald Campbell, John D. Pope and Wm. Mitchell, directors; L. W. Trankle, supt. Organ- ized Jan. 29, 1907, under laws of Montana, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par, fully paid; issued, 351,520. Annual meeting, second Wednesday in January.

Property consists of 2 groups of claims, one of 14 patented claims, about 4 miles east of and across the valley from Yerington and south of the Copper Mountain mine. The land has very attractive surface showings, but 1s without deep development work.

The second group of 9 claims, patented, is in the heart of the camp adjoining the big Mason Valley mine and the Yerington Malachite Co.'s ground. This property is well located and has attractive showings of ore in the tunnels and on the surface outcrops. It has been idle during the past year awaiting patents from the Land Office.

Butte & Zenith City Mining Co. Montana

Office: care I. Freimuth, Duluth, Minn. Mine address: P. O. Box 6, Butte, Mont. I. Freimuth, pres.; William White, vice-pres.; Sol. Gensbur- ger, sec.; John Killorin, treas.; preceding officers, and J. A. Percival, direc- tors. Organized about Oct., 1912, under laws of Arizona, capitalization 300,- 000 shares, $10 par.

Property consists of 240 acres of patented ground and several unpat- ented claims, all in a compact group about 2 miles west of the developed section of the Butte district and a short distance south of Silver Bow junc- tion, where 4 railroads meet. Ground shows Butte granite and aplite cut by numerous strong and persistent quartz veins and also the later fault veins which in the copper district of the Butte camp have proven so productive. Development by former owners has been shallow with several 50 to 100’ shafts. This company has sunk a new shaft, now over 500’ deep with a crosscut at 460’, which was closed down in August, owing to a heavy flow of water from the vein. The veins show occasional values at the surface, but not in commercial quantities. The quartz veins are of the silver type, but the cross veins are similar to the copper veins of Butte.

By-Chance Copper Co. New Mexico

Office: Brice, via Oro Grande, Otero Co., N. M. Properties optioned

a July, 1912, under lease and bond to Jarilla Copper Syndicate and company is inactive at present.

Byrne Mining & Smelting Co. Washington

Idle. Mine office: Keller, Ferry Co., Wash. Mine, apparently devel-

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oped but slightly, carries argentiferous copper ores, and is equipped with steam power. CABABI MINING CO. ARIZONA

Secretary and address: Wm. H. Kershner, 514 Hume-Mansur Bldg., Indianapolis; Ind. Mine P. O.: Camp Cababi, via Tucson, Pima Co., Ariz. Chas. N. Wilson, pres.; Allen W. Conduitt, vice-pres.; preceding officers, H. A. Walker, E. B. Peck, E. J. Scoonover, Albert Off, Carl H. Graf and R. A. Wilcox, directors. S. G. McWade, gen. mgr., P. O. Box 464, Tucson, Ariz. C. J. Price, mg. engr.; Harry Orndorff, purch. agt.

Organized 1908, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,500,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable; issued $1,250,000. Annual meeting, third Monday in June.

Lands, 44 claims, area about 900 acres, 4 claims patented, 35 in process of patenting, also 2 mill sites of 5 acres, situated in the Cababi mountains, 69 miles southwest of Tucson.

Property, developed by numerous shallow shafts, and main shaft 222’ sunk on the Picacho claim, with total of about 1,180’ of workings, includes an antigua, reopened about 1860 by Francisco Padrea, and which, years ago, was a small producer of auriferous and argentiferous copper and lead ores, with copper and silver predominating.

Equipment includes a steam hoist good for 500’, an adobe store build- ing and several frame structures and tents utilized as dwellings. Thirty miners employed.

A full report on the property made, Oct., 1912, by C J PrO Ingest. shows 2,240 tons of ore, valued at $28,485 on dumps. Manager reports 10,000 tons high-grade ore blocked out April 25, 1913.

Caballo; Mina El Mexico

Idle. Mine office: Indé, Durango, Mex. Wm. Benton, owner. Has cupriferous silver ores and steam power.

Cabin Branch Mining Co. Virginia

Office and mine: Dumfries, Prince William Co., Va. Is controlled by the Virginia-Carolina Chemical Co.

Property has a large lenticular body of iron pyrites carrying up to three-fourths of 1% copper recovered as a by-product after roasting.

Development is by shaft, equipment including a steam hoist and air compressor. Mine employed 50 men at last accounts.

Cable Consolidated Mining Co. Montana

Office: 49 Silver Bow Blk.. Butte, Mont. Mine office: Cable, Deer Lodge Co., Mont. H. C. Bacorn, supt. Lands, 20 miles west of Anaconda, include the Cable gold mine, in vicinity of the Southern Cross mine, and apparently opened on the same orebody. The Cable mine, worked since 1870, with varying success, has produced about $4,000,000 worth of ore, with values mainly in gold, but has auriferous copper ore on the tunnel level, and shipped 541 tons of ore averaging 3.84% copper, 1906-07, to the Washoe smelter. Equipment includes steam power, air compressor and a 30-stamp mill. Reopening planned for 1913-14.

Cabrera; Epigmenio. Mexico

Office and mine: Guachinango, Mascota, Jalisco, Mex. Lands, 30 hectares, showing large orebodies, carrying values in copper, silver and gold. There are some old workings, with limited development of a recent date. Idle several years.

Cacti Group. New Mexico

W. R. Fiske, owner. Mine at Oro Grande, Otero Co., N. M. Property comprises the Cacti, Jack and Dorie Irene claims on an extension of the

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surface croppings of the By-Chance mine, carrying free gold. Developed by 140’ shaft on Cacti claim, showing sulphide ore carrying gold values and by 35’ shaft on the Jack claim cutting black ore assaying 2% copper and $2 gold. i

Cactus Copper Co. Montana

Office: 708 Lonsdale Bldg., Duluth, Minn. Mine office: Radersburg, Broadwater Co., Mont. Wm. A. Eaton, pres.; A. O. Rabideau, sec. Or- ganized about Aug., 1909, under laws of Minnesota, capitalization $5,000,000, shares $5 par; issued $2,828,345. Was a reconstruction of the Cactus De- velopment Co. Is controlled by the Lycoming Co., through ownership of 227,150 shares, or about 40% of the issued capitalization. Company has a large share interest in the Summit Gold Mining Co. and owns 51% of the capital stock of the Pinto Creek Copper Mining Co. and early in 1913 acquired the Sunday mine and other claims of the Royal Mountain Mining Co. in Granite county, Mont, paying $50,000 therefor in easy installments.

The Royal Mountain property comprises 5 patented and 3 unpatented claims, on the western slope of Royal mountain, about 11 miles from Max- ville. Development consists of about 3,000” of tunnels. i

In Sept., 1913, company also acquired control of the Duluth Toroda Co.'s property comprising 5 claims in the Myers Creek mining district, Wash. The Cactus Co. originally began operations on a copper prospect in Arizona, which early proved unsuccessful. These operations are very fully described Vol. IX.

Cactus Mine. Utah

At Newhouse, Beaver Co., Utah. Owned by Consolidated Nevada- Utah Corporation.

Cadena De Cobre Mining Co. Mexico

Address: care C. A. McDonald, sec., Bisbee, Ariz. Mine office: Sahua- ripa, Sonora, Mex. Emil Marks, pres.; C. H. Holz, vice-pres.; M. Newman, treas.; R. F. Koehler, J. Pennypacker and John Treu, directors; Arthur Houle, cons. engr. Organized Jan. 5, 1905, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par. The former directors issued to themselves 550,000 shares of stock, and when this was learned the old board resigned and suit was brought, re- sulting in the cancellation of the stock so issued, it having been a grab, pure and simple.

Lands, 84 hectares, in Los Chinos mountains, on the Yaqui river, show- ing iron outcrops up to 300’ in width. Development is by the 96’ Bisbee tunnel, showing ore assaying 4 to 25% copper, with small gold and silver values, and 2 shorter tunnels. Idle on account of revolutionary disturbances in Mexico. Property was fully reported on by Arthur Houle, E. M., Oct., 1910.

Calamont Copper Co. Montana

Office: 263 Twelfth St., Oakland, Cal. Mine office: Norris, Madison Co., Mont. Walter V. Harrington, pres.; Wm. F. Davis, vice-pres.; Mark E. Davis, managing director; Hugh J. Leonard, sec.; Thos. F. Hogan, treas.; Preceding officers, Jas. Keller and F. G. Crist, directors. Organized Nov., 1909, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $5,000,000, shares $10 par, non- assessable. Apparently is connected in management with the Montana- Hecla Mining Co.

Lands, 22 claims, area 440 acres, include the Old Colony group, adjoin- ` ing the Montana-Hecla, 5 miles southeast of Norris, carrying auriferous and argentiferous copper ore. Development includes several shallow shafts, with an old 100’ two-compartment shaft on the Big Jack claim, and a 160’ tunnel, with about 900’ of workings. Was employing about 8 men at last accounts. Not regarded favorably by late H. J. Stevens. A report on the

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property made by Reeves Davis, E. M., Sept., 1911, recommended develop.

ment of 2 surface outcrops.

CALAVERAS COPPER CO. CALIFORNIA Office: 87 Ames Bldg., Boston, Mass. Mine office: Copperopolis, Cala-

veras Co., Cal. Chas. M. Hayden, acting pres.; Herbert Goff, sec.-treas.,

preceding officers, Oliver Ames, F. Lothrop Ames, Samuel Carr, Gilmer

Clapp, Theo. Lurman, Wm. J. Maloney, John S. Ames, directors; Josiah H.

. Trerise, gen. mgr.; Nicholas Treloar, mine supt.; Thos. Cameron, mill supt.

Organized Aug. 31, 1909, under laws of Delaware, capitalization $5,000,000, shares $5 par, reduced, ‘Aide! 24, 1910, to $2,500,000, shares $5 par; issued, $1,868,750. Bonds, $450,000, 6%, $90,000 due annually, owned by the Ames estate, which formerly owned the property. State Street Trust Co., Bos- ton, registrar; Federal Trust Co., Boston, transfer agt. Stock is listed on the Boston curb. Annual meeting, second Monday in February.

Lands, 2,833 acres, including the Union, Keystone and Empire mines, and also including ranch and water power lands, bought Aug. 31, 1909, of Union Copper Co., 14 miles from Milton, the nearest rail point. Mines,

opened 1861, were considerable producers, paying fair dividends, 1861-66,

and yielded 125,739 tons of ore, said to average 10% copper, 1861-1907.

Ore occurs in amphibolite schists underlying Mariposa slates, near in- trusions of granodiorite, the ore-bearing schist ranging 100 to 200’ in width. Ore occurs as lenses of about 15’ average and 70’ maximum width, con- nected by stringers, reported by company to yield one-fifth smelting ore, of 8% copper tenor, and four-fifths concentrating ore, of 3% tenor, giving an average of about 4%. The alteration zone, about 30’ in depth only, carried rich oxides and carbonates and some native copper and is succeeded by chalcopyrite, without gold or silver values, but free from arsenic, antimony, zinc, bismuth and other undesirable elements, blister copper therefrom mak- ing good wire bars without electrolytic refining.

The strike of the vein is proven for 8,000’ by 20 shafts, mainly old work- ings of little present value. Principal development is on the Union, Key- stone and Empire mines, with about 3 miles of workings. General Manager Trerise estimates ore reserves, including probable ore, to the 800’ level, at 10,500,000 tons.

The Union mine has the 800’ main shaft, with double-drum hoist; No. 2 shaft, 500’; No. 3 shaft, 500’; No. 4 shaft, 80’; No. 5 shaft, 100’, and No. 6 shaft, 50’.

The Empire mine has the 280’ two-compartment Main shaft, without equipment; No. 1 shaft, 60’, No. 2 shaft, 50’, and No. 3 shaft, 35”.

The Keystone mine has the 500’ Main shaft, vertical to the 4th level and inclined to the 7th level, connected with the main workings, but with no equipment, and the 400’ three-compartment Discovery shaft, connected by upraises with the main workings.

The North Keystone mine has the 300’ Old shaft and the 300’ two-com-

‚partment New shaft, with a small hoist, about 2,000’ north of the Union

shaft, and on the same vein.

Equipment includes a 1,000-h. p. steam plant at the Union mine, with 3 hoists and 15-drill Nordberg and 5 drill Leyner air compressors; company also reports 500 electric h. p. at the mill and same at the smelter.

The company owns about 60 buildings, including a 2-story 10-room office building, boarding houses, bunk houses, a stone warehouse, brick warehouse and frame warehouse, a good machine shop, smithy, 3 barns and about 40 dwellings. The 600-ton mill, 75x200’, of steel frame, is connected with the mines by a 4,000’ electric tram. A dam, impounding water for the mill, is planned to have 90,000 gals. storage capacity.

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The smelter, treating about 130 tons daily in July, 1913, is connected with mill and mines by 4,000’ of electric and horse trams. A 100-ton Orford smelter, installed 1899, was burned, 1904. The present smelter, with steel frame, of 300 tons rated daily capacity, has 2 McDougal calciners, a 150-ton blast furnace and a 150-ton reverberatory furnace. The converter has 2 Allis-Chalmers stands. Smelter fuel is petroleum and coke.

Property is said to have 140,000 tons of ore mined ready for smelting, and is estimated to have blocked out 600,000 tons of ore. - Production was begun July, 1912, and to June, 1913, totalled 164 cars, approximately 7,000 tons of ore, about 100 tons of it being roasted ore from a 40,000-ton stuck pile that has been untouched for several years past, the whole averaging between 9% and 11% copper, shipped to the Selby Smelting & Lead Co. The concentrator was treating around 600 tons of 3 to 4% ore daily, June, 1913. Total output of copper from all sources at this time was at the rate of about 10,000,000 Ibs. per year. The management estimated cost of blister copper at 8.33 cts. per 1b., laid down in New York, or, if marketed on the Pacific Coast, at 7.83 cts. per 1b., which figures do not seem warranted, but the Property is by no means devoid of merit, though market manipulation of the stock has been of a flagrant nature, stock selling up to $11 and after- ` wards down to $2.50 during 1910 and again in 1913. The company was hard pressed for funds in 1913 and the manager attached the property for $18,000 unpaid salary; there is talk of receivership proceedings. The stock has been persistently praised by a prominent New York curb house, producing an unfavorable impression on conservative investors.

Caledonia Gold & Copper Mining Co. Idaho

Office: Wallace, Idaho. Mine office: Wardner, Shoshone Co., Idaho. A. B. Campbell, pres.; Chas. McKinnis, sec. and mgr. Has paid total divi- dends of $52,000. Mine, near the Bunker Hill & Sullivan, is opened by a 500” shaft, and 2 tunnels, lower tunnel 3,099’ in length giving a back of about 1,300’. Property shows a strong fissure vein with an ore shoot 1,000’ long that is in places 50’ wide, and carries cupriferous silver-lead ores, aver- aging 15 to 20% lead, 40 oz. silver, with a little native copper.

Equipment includes an electric hoist, air compressor and electric pumps. Employs about 50 men when active. Idle since 1912 and in litigation with the Bunker Hill & Sullivan Mining Co., based on the apex law. CALIFORNIA-ARIZONA COPPER CO. ARIZONA

Idle. Mine office: Wellton, Yuma Co., Ariz. F. A. Meyer, supt., at last accounts. Mine has tunnels of 100’ and 160’, with but slight development. CALIFORNIA DEVELOPMENT Co. ARIZONA

” Mine office: Wenden, Yuma Co., Ariz. W. W. Gnash, supt., at last accounts. Property is the Ranier mine. Ores are copper and gold. Mine is developed by shaft and employs about 25 men when active. Has a small gasoline hoist and air compressor. Presumably idle.

California Gold & Copper Co. California

Office: 859 Main St., Riverside, Cal. Mine office: Vontrigger, San Ber- nardino Co., Cal. A. H. Cram, pres. and gen. mgr.; C. W. Page, vice-pres.;' 'H. C. Hibbard, sec.; Citizens Bank, Riverside, treas. Organized 1904, cap- italization $500,000. Lands, 9 claims, patented, 2 miles from Vontrigger and 18 miles west of the Colorado river, known as the Vontrigger or Cram mine, carrying contact deposits between granite, quartzite and limestone, with diorite dikes.

Property is claimed to carry 8 clearly defined parallel veins of slightly auriferous copper ore, in 2 ore zones of 200 to 300’ width, with outcrops traceable 5 miles. Ore is oxidized to depth of 80’, and formerly was reporte? to range 9 to 15% in copper tenor, with fair gold and silver values, säs-

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ceeded by slightly auriferous bornite and chalcopyrite. Main vein is claimed to be 826’ wide at surface, and more than 500’ wide on the 300 level, and mine is claimed to have large bodies of 4% copper ore, with gold and silver values. Mine has shafts of 100’, 150’ and 317’, and a 350' tunnel, not having been deepened for several years, and has about 2,000’ of workings.

Equipment includes a 100-h. p. gasoline engine, 15-h. p. hoist and a small air compressor housed in a power building variously reported as 18x34’ and 30x60’. Water is brought 64% miles from Hackberry springs, through a steel pipe line, having 1,100’ fall to a 40x50x7’ reservoir, cement roofed, of 100,000 gal. capacity.

The 100-ton copper leaching plant has a Sampson crusher, 2 sets of Davis rolls, automatic mixer and grinder, agitating tank and 4 precipitating tanks, designed to extract copper electrically. There is an 1,800’ flume for wasting tailings and four 40-ton cyanide tanks. Employed 15 men when active.

The mine is claimed to have shipped carload lots of ore returning 8.7 to 10.9% copper, with small gold and silver values, and it was, claimed, July, 1909, that 30,000 tons of ore was on the dump, which may or may not have been true. Company apparently has confined operations, for several years past, to building a mill and selling stock, without continued mine de- velopment. Is not regarded favorably.

California Gold & Copper Co. California

Idle. Mine office: Spencerville, Nevada Co., Cal. C. C. Bitner, pres.; Otto Noehler, gen. mgr., at last accounts. Lands, 65 acres, 3 miles north of Spencerville, and 17 miles from nearest railway station, Wheatland, on the Southern Pacific railway, with good wagon road connection. Property shows a gossan of limonite and iron-stained diorite, underlaid by a 4 fis- sure vein, in diorite, with strike N. 48° W. and dip of 50° N. E., carrying good grade auriferous and argentiferous malachite, bornite and chalcopyrite, associated with pyrite, in quartz gangue. Mine has a 1,000’ main tunnel, with back of 225’, and about 1,600’ of workings. A little high-grade ore was shipped to Shasta county smelters.

California & Massachusetts Copper

Mines Co. California

Inactive. Property, at Red Bluff, Tehama Co., Cal., is leased, for 99 years, to Chicago Copper Refining Co. Described Vol. VIII. CALIFORNIA MOUNTAIN MINING CO. COLORADO

Idle. Mine office: Eureka, San Juan Co., Colo. A. H. Kunkle, supt., at last accounts. Has auriferous and argentiferous ores of lead, copper and zinc, developed by tunnel. Has electric power and an air compressor. CALIFORNIA-NEVADA MINING & MILLING CO. CALIFORNIA

Inactive. Property located at Bishop, Inyo Co., Cal. Described Vol. X. CALIFORNIA-UTAH GOLD & COPPER MG. CO. CALIFORNIA

Secretary and office: H. S. Stowe, 201 Boston Bldg., Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine office: Doyle, Lassen Co., Cal. J. W. McDermott, pres.; Geo. S. Hayes, vice-pres.; A. W. Long, treas.; J. R. Dumont, mgr.; preceding officers and H. S. Barnhart, directors. Organized June, 1912, under laws of Utah, capitalization $100,000, shares 10 cts. par; issued, $60,000.

Property, 7 claims, 12 miles west of Doyle, is heavily timbered and shows a 40’ fissure vein in porphyry and diorite, striking northwest and southeast, with a dip to westward of 70°, traceable for a distance of about 2,000’. Ores contain bornite, with occasional showings of native copper, averaging 7 to 10% copper, with small gold values.

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shaft, 4x8’ inside of timbers. Equipment includes a steam hoist good for 1,000’, a smithy, boarding house and other necessary mine buildings.

Property considered promising.

Calhoun Consolidated Mines Co. Colorado

Mine office: Central City, Gilpin Co., Colo. Property, under lease to Mountain State Investment Co., consists of 8 claims, on the east slope of Quartz hill, developed by 4 shafts, showing fair values in gold, silver and copper.

Calumet & Algoma Mining Co. Ontario

Secretary’s address: Lucas Hermann, 109 Fifth St., Calumet, Mich. Mine near Massey, Algoma, Ont. Christian Schenck, pres.; Jos. Vertin, vice-pres.; Lucas Hermann, treas. Organized 1905, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $5 par, assessable; issued, $100,000, paid in, $1.75. Was a reconstruc- tion of the Copper Queen Mining Co., Ltd. At last accounts had no debts, with $600 in the treasury.

Lands, 957 acres, freehold, showing a 45’ fissure vein, traceable about 3 miles, carrying medium-grade chalcopyrite ore, more or less auriferous, with occasional bornite and malchite, giving assays of 5 to 25% copper. Has 2 shafts, No. 1 being 138’ deep, and 2 tunnels, longest 195’. Lands are “heavily timbered and well watered. Idle several years. i CALUMET & ARIZONA MINING CO. ARIZONA

Office: Calumet, Mich. Mine office: Warren, Cochise Co., Ariz. Works office: Douglas, Cochise Co., Ariz. Chas. Briggs, pres.; Capt. Jas. -Hoat= son, vice-pres.; Capt. Thos. Hoatson, second vice-pres.; Gordon R. Camp- bell, sec.; Peter Ruppe, treas.; preceding officers, Thos. F. Cole, Chester A. Congdon, Chas. d’Autremont, Jr., William E. Corey and Geo. E. Tener, di- rectors; John C. Greenway, gen. mgr.; W. B. Gohring, mine supt.; James Wood, smelter supt.; J. H. Whiteley, engr.; W. B. Congdon, purch. agt.; Geo. Arnold, supt., Courtland mine; John Hooper, supt. at Superior, and J. Curley, supt. at Ajo. Organized March, 1901, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $2,500,000, shares $10 par, increased Feb. 15, 1911, to $6,500,000, shares $10 par; issued 615,008 shares; held for exchange, 29,504 shares. The company controls the Superior & Pittsburgh Copper Co., through ownership of 1,396,528 shares out of a total of 1,499,792 shares issued for which the com- pany exchanged 399,008 shares of its own capital stock, basis of exchange being 3% shares Superior & Pittsburgh for 1 Calumet & Arizona. American Trust Co., Boston, registrar; State Street Trust Co., Boston, transfer agent. Stock is listed on the Boston Stock Exchange. Annual meeting, second Monday in April.

Balance sheet of Dec. 31, 1912, gave quick assets of $1,701,987, including $281,379 cash, with accounts payable of $261,126. Has paid dividends as follows: $2 in 1903; $6.50 in 1904; $8.50 in 1905; $13 in 1906; $16.50 in 1907; $4 in 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911 and $4.25 in 1912, a total of $66.75 per share. Grand total to end of 1912, $16,231,840, Dividends, 1913, were $1.25 quarterly.

Lands include the original claims at Bisbee, the Mammoth group, bought 1907, the American Saginaw group, in payment of which the com- pany issued 16,000 shares treasury stock in 1912 and various other proper- ties in Arizona and Sonora, held under bond and lease.

The Calumet & Arizona mine proper includes 12 claims, patented, area 178 acres, adjoining the Copper Queen, side-line agreements with the Cop- ‘per Queen insuring freedom from possible litigation, and continuance of the exceedingly neighborly relations existing from the very inception of this company. The mine is opened in limestone, near a porphyry contact, with occasional porphyritic intrusions. The surface gives small indications of

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values, showing but small and infrequent outcrops, the existence of the Irish Mag orebodies having been inferred from underground work in the adjoin- ing shafts of the Copper Queen, after careful study of the general geologi- cal conditions of the district. Ore occurs in highly irregular bodies, the mine having native copper, cuprite, melaconite, malachite, azurite, chalco- cite and chalcopyrite, usually with a talcose gangue, and with considerable hematite and manganese ores, the latter carrying malachite in small dissem- inated nodules, frequently averaging 10 to 18% in copper. The ore, which is practically self-fluxing, averages about 2 oz. silver and 0.05 oz. gold per ton, as smelted. Diamond-drill borings to depth of 1,800’ have penetrated limestone strata to that depth. The orebodies are extensively developed, but are not largely blocked out, owing to the constant shifting of the ground, caused by the creeping of the mountain above, as is the case at the neighboring Copper Queen mine, requiring very heavy timbering, with fre- quent bulkheading, and constant care for all openings, which renders it prudent to keep costs down by blocking out ore but a comparatively short time ahead of actual stoping requirements. Timber is secured from a great distance, and to guard against emergencies, large stocks are carried. The mine as a whole is not especially wet. Several small mine fires have. caused trouble, but have not done serious damage. New openings were 25,346’ in 1912, and average about 5 miles yearly. The mines have electric traction on the 1,150’ level.

The 4-compartment Irish Mag shaft, sunk on a single 20-acre claim, was the original mine, and the shaft is sunk in hard limestone throughout, except where occasional orebodies were cut, rendering it unusually safe from draw- ing. The Irish Mag has yielded some of the best copper ore ever mined, including some entire stopes of 30 to 40% copper tenor. The Irish Mag shaft has a 78’ steel headgear, a 114’ ore bin and a 250-h. p. electric hoist, raising 3-decked cages. The shaft is 1,350’ deep. The Oliver shaft, 4 com- partments, 1,600’ deep, develops both of the Senator claims, cutting ore at 710’. The upper workings show high-grade oxidized ores and the lower workings carry rich sulphides, having large bodies of oxide and sulphide ores from the 950 to 1,250’ levels. Important new orebodies were cut, 1912, on the 1,250’ and 1,350’ levels. The Oliver has a 600-gal. Nordberg electric pump and is equipped with a powerful Nordberg electric hoist.

The Powell shaft, started Nov., 1908, is on the line between the Hope and Wagner claims, which lie 2,000” southwest of the Irish Mag shaft, ad- joining the Pittsburgh & Duluth mine of the Superior & Pittsburgh. This ground was explored by a crosscut from the Irish Mag that traversed 600’ of the Copper Queen ground, stopping about half way across the group, showing nothing of value. This shaft, about 600’ deep, has an electric hoist.

The Buckeye claim has been explored and slightly developed, by cross- cuts from the Oliver shaft and from the Cole shaft of the Superior & Pitts- burgh, but with little success. Considerable work was done, 1912, on the 1,150’, 1,250’ and 1,350’ levels, but disclosed little or no ore save at the east end of the claim where the 2 lower levels showed extensions of the big orebody found above.

The Gibraltar claim, which is the southernmost, wedges into the hold- ings of the Superior & Pittsburgh. The Gibraltar has several exploring shafts and trenches, showing iron and a little low-grade copper ore of prom- ising appearance, though below commercial tenor, and good ore was opened, 1910, in a drift on the 1,250’ level from the Oliver shaft.

The area below the 1,350’ and 1,450’ levels was diamond drilled, 1911, showing a downward extension of the mineral zone, several hundred feet to the bottom of the limestone, but without disclosing commercial ore.

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The Washington, Angel and Old Republic claims lie on the porphyry side of the gulch, and were secured mainly as a possible smelter site, then being considered of little promise for ore, but, in view of recent develop- ments in the camp, these claims are of possible mineral value. The Copper Queen Consolidated Mining Co. has recently found considerable ore in this formation in close proximity to this group.

The surface equipment is very complete. The original machinery plant was clustered about the Irish Mag shaft, on a steep hillside, where limited room was secured by grading, but the principal plant is now at the Oliver shaft, including five 280-h. p. marine boilers, burning crude petroleum, with storage tanks.

The principal compressor plant, at the Oliver, has a 35-drill Sullivan Corliss cross-compound 2-stage air compressor, with 17x34” steam cylinder and 20x34” air cylinder, having a piston displacement of 6,600 cu. ft. of free air per minute. There also are 3 Sullivan straight-line air compressors. Much of the ore is so soft that it can be bored with a breast auger, thus reducing requirements in the way of air for power drills. Electricity is used extensively on surface and also for pumping. The electric power plant at the Oliver shaft has 1,000-kw., 500-kw. and 300-kw. Westinghouse-Par- sons 2,200-volt 60-cycle 3-phase turbo-generators, two 220-kw. 2,200-volt 60-cycle 3-phase motors, direct-connected with the steam turbine, a 300-kw. General Electric rotary converter, transforming a 2,200-volt alternating current to a 550-volt direct current, for operating the street-car line to Warren, four 40-h. p. Buffalo vertical engines, direct-connected to four 25-kw. 115-volt Crocker-Wheeler generators for electric light and power for ventilating fans, and various minor electrical machinery.

The steel-frame machine shop is divided into two 60x48’ parts, for the machine shop and smithy. Adjoining is a plate shop, 40x128’ of steel frame, with corrugated iron roof and siding. There is a framing mill at the Irish Mag shaft, also a warehouse and office building. A 60x125’ administration building is planned to be erected at Warren, the town site adjacent to the Calumet & Arizona and Superior & Pittsburgh mines. A hospital with an efficient staff is maintained for employees, and a model changing house has hot and cold running water, tub and shower baths and lockers for 500 men. Fire protection is furnished by direct pipe lines to large storage tanks, giv- ing an effective pressure of 100 lbs., with hose houses and hose carts at each shaft, all hose couplings being made to connect with those of the Bisbee fire department. An automatic telephone system has 25 stations underground and on surface, and is connected with the smelter at Douglas.

The Mammoth group, at Copper Creek, Graham county, Ariz., includes 35 claims, known as the Scanlon or Clark-Scanlon property, 16 miles northeast of Mammoth. This property, bought Sept., 1908, has been extensively tested by diamond drills, giving good cores, and has a 600’ two-compartment working shaft, with several levels opened, and considerable medium to high-grade sulphide ore is blocked out. A 15-mile railway will be required to render this property a producer.

The American-Saginaw mine, comprising 28 claims, includes the Amer- ican group of 9 claims, lying next east of the Junction, the Saginaw group of 17 claims, area 297 acres, also favorably located, and the Muheim and World's Fair claims. Mine has an old 384’ shaft, sunk at an angle of 70° with the horizon, showing 35’ of leached ore on the 300’ level, and a new 1,100’ three-compartment shaft connected with the Denn-Arizona, which cut a 35’ body of low-grade ore on the 350’ level. A considerable body of ore was found on the 750’ level of the Saginaw, with prospects of commer- cial ore at greater depth. Development on adjoining properties indicates

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strongly that the ores of the American-Saginaw probably will lie 1,800 to 2,000’ in depth.

The Courtland mine, at Courtland, Cochise county, Ariz., about 35 miles north of Bisbee, bought for about $200,000, is developed by the April Fool, Germania and Miami shafts, 2 former of 500’ depth each. The mine, reopened July, 1912, after a short period of idleness, is again producing regularly at the rate of about 100 tons of ore daily, shipping oxide ores to supplement diminishing supplies of this class of ore mined at Bisbee. The Courtland mine had approximately 23,000 tons of 5% ore available, Feb., 1913, with possibilities of finding new orebodies rather doubtful

A bond on the Superior mine near Lordsburg, Grant county, N. M., was forfeited, 1911, developments resulting in the disclosure of ore too low grade to make the property attractive at the high price asked.

The San Felipe mine, in the Arizpe district of Sonora, Mex., includes 260 hectares of mineral lands and nearly 1,000 hectares of adjoining ground, giving total holdings of about 3,000 acres.

The Ajo property, consisting of the New Cornelia mine and several adjoining claims, in the Ajo district, 42 miles south of Gila, includes 2 claims owned outright and 41 claims held under option. Diamond drilling and test pitting, 1911-13, disclosed a large body of ore, estimated to con- tain 27,000,000 tons of 1.7% copper ore, amenable to treatment by the company’s leaching process, and a valuable steam shovel mine is promised. The New Cornelia claims, area 243 acres, taken over Oct., 1913, for a pay- ment of about $800,000. Under this option the Calumet & Arizona Mining Co. receives treasury stock of the New Cornelia Copper Co. for all money expended in development work on the property, and its interest, when the deal is consummated, will be approximately 65% of all issued stock.

The Daggs-Newman group of 63 claims, and 26 additional outlying claims, near Superior, in the Pioneer district, are held under options, re- quiring no payments to be made before 1915. The property is being devel- oped by shaft and tunnel, former 480’ deep and latter 900’ long, June, 1913, shaft and tunnel being connected at depth of 180’ below collar of shaft.

The company has 2 smelters, both located at Douglas, 25 miles from the mine, receiving ore over the El Paso & Southwestern railway, at a very favorable freight rate. The old smelter was blown in Nov. 15, 1902, the plant enlarged, 1907-08, and again enlarged, 1910, giving the old works a capacity of nearly 3,000 tons daily.

The new smelter, completed 1913 at a cost of about $2,000,000, was designed by C. H. Repath and built and equipped with the able assistance of Messrs. Greenway and Wood. The works consist of a sampling mill, crush- ing plant, calcining plant, reverberatory, blast furnace and converter depart- ments and 6 mixing beds each of 10,000-tons capacity, together with a 5,000- ton coke storage bed.

The crushing and sampling plant, 40x84 on the ground and 5 stories high, is built of steel and concrete throughout, and is divided into 2 sec- tions, operating independently of each other. Each section has a crushing and sampling department. Ore from the crushers at the receiving bins is delivered over an incline conveyor to the crushing and sampling plant, where the large sizes are screened out for the blast furnaces. The sampling department, equipped with Snyder automatic samplers, cuts the ore 4 times, making a sample weighing 1.6 or 3.2 lbs., as desired, per ton of ore passing through. The plant is flexible and ore may be crushed and screened and discharged at any desired size.

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coarse and 3 for fine ore. The coarse ore mixed with coke is conveyed directly to the coke charge bins over the blast-furnace charge floor, the fine ore going directly to the calciner, or roaster plant.

The roaster plant has twelve 258” Herreshoff roasters, having a capacity of approximately 80 tons of fine ore per day. The plant is equipped with a tile and steel dust chamber, 60x140x70’ high, equipped with baffles and wires and roofed with copper, discharging into a brick-lined steel chimney, 20’ inside diameter by 279’ high.

A 222x460’ building, of steel frame, sheathed with iron, covers the blast furnace, reverberatory, converter, and copper-casting departments. The blast-furnace department consists of two 48x40’ blast furnaces, and has a steel dust chamber, 60x180x70’ high, equipped with suitable baffles and wires. The gases from the converters will also pass through this chamber and be discharged into a brick-lined steel chimney, 25’ inside diameter by 305’ high. Ore and coke is discharged directly from the bin over the charge floor into cars resting upon platform scales, the charge car being propelled from the scales to the charge doors of the furnace by an electric motor. 3

The reverberatory department contains 4 reverberatory furnaces, 19x100 in size, with a foundation and building for a fifth furnace in place. Each furnace is equipped with two 712-h. p. Stirling boilers. The furnaces are charged directly from the calcine cars running on a track overhead. Matte is tapped into 20-ton pots, and transferred by cranes to the converters, slag being skimmed directly into 25-ton pots, running on tracks underneath and just in front of the skimming end of the furnaces.

The converter department, having a main converter aisle 55’ wide, and two 40-ton electric traveling cranes, has stands for 6 Great Falls type con- verters. There are also 2 straight-line casting machines and other necessary equipment. The converter slag is poured directly into the reverberatory furnaces.

The power house, formerly 80x160 in size, was increased, 1907, by the building of a transverse section 100x100’ in size, the new building being di- vided through the center by a row of columns into 2 bays,/each 50’ wide, and each served by a 10-ton hand-power traveling crane. Equipment in- cludes a 500-kw. 440-volt 60-cycle 3-phase Allis-Chalmers-Parsons turbo- generator, a 160-kw. synchronous motor generator set, which can be run to furnish electric energy at various voltages, and with either an alternating or direct current; an 850-h, p. Nordberg steam engine; a 400-h. p. engine running 2 Nordberg air compressors, with cross-compound steam ends hav- ing 22” and 42” cylinders and 48” stroke, and air cylinders of 48x48”, giving a 12 lb. blast pressure; 1 Murray-Corliss tandem-compound engine with 14” and 28” cylinders and 36” stroke, direct-connected to a Connersville No. 10 blower; a pump of 5,000 gal. per minute capacity; 2 Prescott compound vertical-beam condensers, having steam cylinders of 14” and 2507 with" 24% stroke; two 36x24” vacuum pumps; a direct-acting Prescott pump for cir- culating water; a 500-gal. Prescott compound duplex mine pump for fur- nishing hydraulic power for converter stands, and various minor engines, the power house having machinery with an aggregate of 3,750 h. p.

The boiler house of the power plant has 250-h. p. and 280-h. p. boilers, burning petroleum, with four 45,000-gal. oil tanks for storage. Water in ample supply is secured from flowing artesian wells, of 450’ average depth.

The smelter plant includes a machine shop and smithy, both of steel frame, and a considerable number of dwellings.

Average forces, 1912, were 1,347 men, of whom 692 were at the mine

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and 655 at the smelter. Sunday work was discontinued, Aug., 1910, at the re quest of employees.

Ore smelted gave average returns of 7.7% copper in 1904; 7.9% in 1905; 7.95% in 1906; 5.85% in 1907; 4.97% in 1908; 5.15% itt 1911 and 5.07% in 1912. Costs have ranged from the low point of 5.71 cts. per lb. in 1906, to the high point of about 10.5 cts. per Ib. in 1907.

Production has been as follows: 1,200,000 Ibs. copper in 1902; 25,535,857 Ibs. in 1903; 31,634,895 Ibs. in 1904; 31,772,896 Ibs. in 1905; 36,934,387 Ibs. in 1906; 30,039,473 Ibs. in 1907; 28,048,329 lbs. in 1908; 27,747,853 Ibs. in 1909; 28,031,924 Ibs. in 1910; 21,476,739 Ibs. in 1911, and 16,490,229 Ibs. in 1912. The combined output of this and the Superior & Pittsburgh Co. was 49,945,905 Ibs. fine copper in 1911, 53,108,628 Ibs. in 1912 and for first 8 months of 1913 was 37,650,000 lbs. copper, compared with 40,092,000 for same period in 1912.

The merger of the Pittsburgh & Superior Copper Co. in the Calumet & Arizona Mining Co., effected 1911, was logical, and to the best interests of both properties. The Calumet & Arizona had a arge cash surplus, a smelter, and a mine good for some years, though one that has passed the crest of production, while the Superior & Pittsburgh has a magnificent mine, with tremendous ore reserves, but has found its ore so deep, and its mine so wet, that the cost of development has been very heavy. The Superior & Pittsburgh also lacked smelting facilities and the large cash resources of the Calumet & Arizona. The merger plans were fixed after the appraisal of both mines by Dr. L. D. Ricketts and Jas. L. Douglas, who, with a number of assistants, spent about 2 months in careful study of the properties. After payment of dividends, the new consolidated com- pany started business, May, 1911, with a surplus of about $3,500,000 in quick assets, and with a productive capacity of at least 60,000,000 lbs. fine copper yearly. The management is excellent in all respects.

Calumet € Bisbee Development Co. Arizona

Office: Houghton, Mich. Mine near Bisbee, Ariz. Jos. Bosch, pres.; F. W. Nichols, sec.-treas. Organized Oct. 20, 1902, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $400,000, shares $10 par; issued 25,300 shares.

Lands, 4 claims, area 49% acres, at Don Luis, adjoining the Lake Superior & Pittsburgh property of the Calumet & Arizona Mining Co. The mine has a 960’ shaft, showing a little ore in the bottom. Idle since 1904 for lack of working ‘capital.

Calumet & Copper Creek Mining Co. Arizona

Address: Sanford H. Hudson, sec., Benson, Minn. Mine office: Copper Creek, via Winkelman, Ariz. R. Roy Sibley, gen. mgr.; C. S. Gelser, supt.; Col. Frank J. Sibley, pres.; Martin E. Tew, vice-pres.-treas. Other directors, Chas. H. Robinson, E. Osterholm and John B. Wright. Organ- ized March, 1910, as successor to Copper Creék Mining Co., capitalization $5,000,000, shares $10 par; issued, $3,750,000. Bonds $1,500,000, at 6%, authorized; $280,000 issued. Standard Trust Co., New York, registrar. Annual meeting, first Monday in April. f j

Lands, 2 claims, unpatented, area 400 acres, also 100 acres in mill and smelter sites, 500 acres timber lands, and 1,000 acres miscellaneous lands, giving total holdings of 2,000 acres in the Bunker Hill district, Graham and Pinal counties, Ariz. Properties lying in the Copper creek basin, on the western slope of the Galiuro mountains, 31 miles south, of Winkelman and the Arizona Eastern railway. Property includes the Sycamore Flat, Cumberland, American Eagle, Prince and Old Reliable groups. Country rock is diorite, with porphyry intrusions, showing a large number of ore- bodies, there being several different breccias and oxidized zones carrying mineral, orebodies usually being elliptical, but sometimes occurring in

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chimneys. Outcrops are very prominent. Oxidized ores, including chrysocolla, are found at and near surface, sometimes in commercial quantities, giving place, at shallow depth, to sulphides, which are chal- copyrite, bornite and chalcocite, associated with pyrite, in altered and brecciated diorite, some native copper showing in flakes and grains along shear zones. Company reports that 1 orebody 425’ wide and 300’ long has been developed to 342’ depth, in porphyry breccias. Property includes . a water right, 16 miles from the mines.

The Old Reliable mine has 2 orebodies, 1 with the largest outcrop in the district, said to have a sectional area of about 314 acres. Develop- ment is by an upper tunnel, with back of 340’, and a 650’ lower tunnel, with about 2,000’ of workings, estimated by manager to show 200,000 tons of 3.75% ore ready for stoping.

The American Eagle group has 3 prospect tunnels, a 2,500’ working tunnel, and a 300’ three-compartment shaft, with about 3,500’ of workings, showing oxidized ores at surface, with an orebody reported to be developed for about 50x100’. This mine has been estimated to have developed about 60,000 tons of ore, averaging 3.78% copper and 8 oz. silver, with a trace of gold. The mine has electric light underground, and equipment con- sists of a 75-h. p. electric hoist, good for 500’, a 3-drill and 1-drill electric air compressor, two 150-h. p. boilers, 3 small electric hoists, 2 air com- pressors, and a number of buildings, including a 20x40’ machine shop, 16x20’ smithy and 64x72’ store, said to carry a $20,000 stock. Company also has a concentrator, rated at 250 tons, and owns and operates a narrow-gauge railroad, 21%4 miles in length, connecting the Old Reliable mine and the mill. This line, the Phoenix & Copper Creek railroad, is to be extended 14 miles to Mammoth. A bond on the Blue Bird, or Cumberland mine, a silver-lead property near Florence, Ariz., was taken in 1912.

The company which, in 1913, began the construction of a 250-ton smelter, should first develop a mine. It was stated in a circular, published in connection with a bond offering, late 1912, that the mines of this com- pany had developed 1,650,000 tons of ore, averaging 3.25% copper, with more than 8,000,000 tons of probable ore, “developed in the present work- ings, but not fully blocked out for measurement and mining,” which figures are considered excessive. Management figures mining costs at $2.19 and concentration at $0.805 per ton. Production for 1912 was 6,025 tons of 2.4% ore, partly from old dumps, and yielding 192,082 lbs. fine copper.

The company’s circulars state that reports on the property have been made by F. H. Probert, Los Angeles, Prof. Chas. P. Berkey, Columbia University, New York City, and L. Webster Wickes, Salt Lake City, which is untrue as the two first named men have never seen the prop- erty, and the third did sampling work only. In an examination of the Old Reliable group made by Mr. Weed, Prof. Berkey made and examined thin sections of several rock specimens gathered in the above-mentioned examination, and his determinations are given in the report on the Old Reliable property. Company was regarded with much suspicion by the late Horace J. Stevens and the financial management of the company in the past 2 years has confirmed his opinion.

Calumet-Corbin Mining Co. Montana

Address: care J. Bruce Paton, treas., Laurium, Mich. Mine at Wickes, ‘Jefferson Co., Mont. James Wilcox, pres.; J. A. Maccauley, vice-pres.; M. E. O’Brien, sec.; preceding officers, Frank Hildebrant, F. B. Keyes, C. D. Hohl, W, J. Reynolds and C. E. L. Thomas, directors. W. C. Hos- king, supt. Organized in 1908, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $500,-

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000, shares $1 par, decreased from $1,500,000, Jan. 17, 1910; 74,000 shares in treasury with $20,000 demand notes and $4,000 cash. -

Property, 20 acres, near Wickes, developed by 240’ shaft with 1,000’ of shaft and tunnel workings, said to have cost company $26,000. Treasurer reports average assay value of $30 to $50 per ton for ore in the mine and $8 per ton for ore on dump.

Calumet & Hecla Mining Co. Michigan

Address: 12 Ashburton Place, Boston, Mass. Mine office: Calumet, Mich. Quincy A. Shaw, pres.; Rodolphe L. Agassiz, vice-pres.; Jas. Mac- Naughton, Francis L. Higginson and Francis W. Hunnewell, directors. Geo. A. Flagg, sec.-treas.; James MacNaughton, gen. mgr.; W. A. Childs, supt.; W. M. Gibson, asst. supt.; E. S. Grierson, chief engr.; E. D. Leavitt, cons. mech. engr.; John Knox, chief mg. capt.; Thos. H. Soddy, supt. of . motive power; Ocha Potter, chief efficiency engr.; Fred S. Eaton, chief clerk; E. Di Johnson, purch. agt. Mill office: Lake Linden, Michi, Henry Fisher, supt.; C. H. Benedict, mill metallurgist; Chas. Smith, clerk. Smelter offices: Hubbell, Mich., and Buffalo, N. Y. Jas. B. Cooper, supt. at Lake Linden; Morris B. Patch, supt. at No. 1 Austin St., Buffalo, N. Y.

Organized 1871, under laws of Michigan, with capitalization $2,500,000, shares $25 par; paid in, $12. Charter renewed, 1900, for 30 years, and amended, 1905, under the new laws of Michigan, making the corporation a securities-holding company, as well as a mining and smelting company. Was organized as a consolidation of the Hecla, Calumet, Portland and Scott mining companies. Stock is listed on the Boston Stock Exchange, and traded in on the unlisted department of the New York Stock Exchange. Annual meeting, second Thursday in June.

Balance sheet, of Dec. 31, 1912, gave cash and quick assets of $11,560,426, with liabilities of $844,012, leaving a balance of quick assets of $10,716,414, not including notes outstanding at this date, which were $4,134,000 at 4%, due Feb. 18, 1919, and $1,685,000 at 5%, due Feb. 18, 1919, these notes ag- gregating $5,819,000. Company carries $1,000,000 to $1,250,000 in supplies, which are not listed as an asset.

Dividends were $5,000,000 in 1905; $7,000,000 in 1906; $6,500,000 in 1907,; $2,000,000 in 1908; $2,700,000 in 1909; $2,900,000 in 1910; $2,400,000 in 1911, and $4,200,000 in 1912. Total dividend disbursements, to end of 1912, were $119,100,000, or $1,191 per share, being the largest dividends ever paid by any incorporated mining company, and, in addition, the Heela Mining Co. and Calumet Mining Co., before their amalgamation under the present title, paid dividends aggregating $950,000.

Since the change in charter, 1905, permitting the acquisition of stock in other corporations, the Calumet & Hecla has secured control of various other mines and mineral tracts, by organizing subsidiary corporations, and also by acquiring stock in companies previously organized. In 1905 the company bought the following stocks, at a cost of $8,592,129.99 in cash and notes: 9,600 shares of Osceola; 19,400 shares of Tamarack; 24,796 shares of Ahmeek; 27,507 shares of Isle Royale; 10,316 shares of Seneca; 25,000 shares of Laurium. The attempt to secure physical control of the Osceola Con- solidated Mining Co., at the annual meeting’ March, 1907, was met by determined opposition, which took the fight into the Michigan legislature and the federal courts. After nearly 2 years of strenuous litigation, the Calumet & Hecla secured control of the Osceola and other Lake Superior mining companies formerly under the management of ¡Az Ss Bigelow, through a bargain with Mr. Bigelow, by which his entire stock interests were sold to the Calumet & Hecla. ie

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were as follows on Dec. 31, 1912: 41,000 shares of Allouez Mining Co.; 41,500 shares of Centennial Copper Mining Co.; 19,400 shares of Cliff Min- ing Co.; 50,100 shares of Gratiot Mining Co.; 152,977 shares of La Salle Copper Co.; 32,750 shares of Osceola Consolidated Mining Co.; 50,100 shares of Superior Copper Co.; 37,550 shares of Laurium Mining Co.; 11,207 shares of Seneca Mining Co.; 30,500 shares of Isle Royale Copper Co.; 24,200 shares of Ahmeek Mining Co.; 19,400: shares of Tamarack Mining Co., and 6,092 preferred shares and 43,202 common shares of White Pine Copper Co. The Frontenac, Manitou, Dana and St. Louis companies have been com- pletely absorbed.

The landed holdings of the Calumet & Hecla, including property owned outright, property controlled through subsidiary corporations, mining lands under option, and timber and miscellaneous lands, in Houghton, Keweenaw and Ontonagon counties, Michigan, amounts to approximately 209,051 acres, of which 102,804 acres are in. Keweenaw county. The company, with its subsidiaries, has a water front of more than 34 miles, on the shores of Lake Superior, Lac La Belle and Torch lake, and approximately 60,000 people are supported by the operations of the company and its allied interests.

The Calumet € Hecla mine proper, area about. 2,750 acres, lies in a compact tract in Secs. 11, 13, 14, 15, 22, 23 and 24, T. 56 N., R: 33 W, in addition to which the company owns considerable tracts, west of the Tamarack mine, carrying the underlay of the Calumet conglomerate at such stupendous depths that opening would require a 2-mile vertical shaft, and it is very doubtful whether these lands ever will become available for min- ing on the Calumet conglomerate. The lands west of the Tamarack were ex- plored, 1904, by diamond drill, in search of a supposed cupriferous conglom- erate, but nothing of promise was found.

The original Calumet.& Hecla mine is opened on the Calumet con- glomerate bed, and a parallel mine has been developed on the Osceola amygdaloid, while a third parallel mine has been partly developed on the Kearsarge amygdaloidal bed.

The Calumet conglomerate has proven unprofitable both to the north and south of the Calumet & Hecla, though workable at the Tamarack mine, which has developed the underlay by vertical shafts. The conglomerate has an average strike of N. 39° E., with average dip of 37° 30’ with the horizon. The bed is of S minimum and 40’ maximum width, with an aver- age of 12 to 14’, giving about 2,400 fathoms of stoping ground, or about 43,200 tons of stamp rock, per acre. As a rule, the richer portions of the conglomerate are in the central part of the Calumet & Hecla tract. The walls of the conglomerate carry considerable copper, especially the amygdaloidal footwall, and much of the adhering trap rock formerly rejected is now milled. Pillars: of 75’ and even up to 150’ width, left on either side of every con- glomerate shaft, contain stamp rock equivalent to about 18% of the stoping ground available before the robbing of the pillars. The conglomerate mine is opened 6 to 8 years in advance of immediate requirements, and has up- wards of 200 miles of shafts, drifts, crosscuts and winzes,

Between 25,000,000’ and 30,000,000” of timber, board measure, is used in the mine annually, and to the end of 1910, fully 800,000,000’ of timber had gone underground. Iron pillars are used extensively as supports, in crosscuts connecting the Red Jacket shaft with drifts on the bed, and in various incline shafts to support the hanging wall. Iron, mainly scrap ma- terial, such as worn out skip rails, cut to, 10’ lengths and placed above I-beams, is used for lagging, to some extent. The conglomerate bed in the lower workings is not up to its average value above, being wide, but low in copper contents, and it is evident, from the results secured by the deep

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shafts in the district, that while the cupriferous stratified beds of Lake Superior may descend to tremendous depth, copper values decrease rapidly below 4,000’.

The conglomerate mine, which, until a few years ago, was the entire Calumet & Hecla, has a life, at the present rate of production, of between 10 and 15 years, followed by 5 to 10 years of scramming, with greatly de- creased output, The conglomerate is deteriorating rapidly in average cop- per contents with depth. The mine works normally 165 to 175 power drills on the conglomerate, and 115 to 125 drills on the amygdaloid, and at one time, 1907, worked 315 drills, the largest number ever in use in any mine.

The Calumet & Hecla has suffered severely from underground fires. The rock carrying native metal cannot burn, like sulphide ore, but the old timbering eventually becomes nearly as inflammable as tinder. The really serious mine fires, 5 in number, occurred in 1884, July and Nov., 1887, Nov. 30, 1888, and May 27, 1900. All possible precautions are taken against mine fires, these including’ the partial fire-proofing of all mine timber with zinc chloride solution, regular sprinkling of all shafts, the maintenance of water pipes and hydrants, fire hose, chemical engines, an electric alarm system and 18 telephones at various pump stations, from the 8th to the 51st levels, in- clusive, in 5 different shafts, so distributed as to be most readily accessible from all parts of the mines. From the first 4 fires the Calumet & Hecla suffered aggregate losses of several millions of dollars, while a number of lives were lost, and 3 valuable shafts were drawn so badly that they were abandoned. The fifth and last fire, in May, 1900, severely tested the mine’s fire system, the fire breaking out on Sunday evening, when the mine was deserted by all but a few employees, and gaining great headway before it was discovered. The burning portion of the mine was shut off by closing the fire doors, and the mine was scaled at surface, by covering the mouths of the shafts with heavy timbers, with dirt tamped tightly into the crevices between. Wherever gas escaped through holes in the earth, dirt was tamped in and luted with water. The fire was extinguished in 3 weeks, and the South Hecla portion of the mine continued working without interruption. The 5 serious fires, and sundry smaller blazes, nipped in their inception, all have been of mysterious origin, and there seem reasons for suspecting incendiarism. Great precautions are taken to prevent unauthorized persons entering the mine, and permission to go underground is given only by the president, in writing, each pass being for a single trip.

The conglomerate property of the Calumet & Hecla is worked as 2 separate mines, known as the Hecla and Calumet branches, the South Hecla being a southerly continuation of the Hecla branch, and the Red Jacket vertical shaft a part of the Calumet mine. The Calumet to the north, the Hecla in the center, and the South Hecla at the south, form one continuous mine, developing the Calumet conglomerate by incline shafts, the Red Jacket shaft opening the same bed vertically. The conglomerate, opened for 2 miles along the outcrop, has 11 shafts, 8 being known as single com- partments, which means a single hoisting compartment, with 2 shafts having 2 hoisting compartments and 1 vertical shaft having 6 compart- ments. Six shafts have auxiliary electric hoists, and the mine has electric station pumps for forcing water to surface with steam pumps actuated by compressed air for short lifts, but it is planned replacing these latter by electric pumps also.

The conglomerate shafts on the outcrop are as follows, from north to south: Nos. 6 and 5 Calumet have 2 compartments, each, both bottomed at the 60th level, 6,155’ from surface. There is a considerable stretch of lean ground from No. 6 shaft to the Centennial boundary,

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No. 4 Calumet, with 1 hoisting compartment, has a vertical depth of 4,748’ and an actual depth of 7,995’ on the incline of 37° 30', with a 200° winze from the bottom, giving a total depth of 8,290’ from the collar of the shaft to the bottom of the winze. No. 3 Calumet shaft has been abandoned.

No. 2 Calumet shaft, with 1 compartment, is 6,186’ deep, practically at the boundary, and it is to be robbed in the near future.

No. 1 Calumet shaft and No. 1 Hecla shaft have been abandoned.

No. 2 Hecla shaft, 4,400’ deep, and No. 3 Hecla shaft, 4,000’ deep, are bottomed at the Tamarack boundary. Stopes are exhausted and the mine being robbed by removal of shaft-pillars.

No. 4 Hecla shaft has been abandoned for some years. No. 6 ‘Hecla shaft, with 1 compartment, is 7,791” deep, in good ground, and can be sunk to 8,500’ depth. Nos. 7 and 8 Hecla, a double shaft of 1 compartment each, are 7,854’ and 6,102’ deep, respectively, in good ground, and can be sunk to about 9,000’ depth.

Nos. 9 and 10 Hecla, a double shaft with 2 compartments, is 7,740’ deep and éan be sunk to 8,100’ depth. The 73d level has shown a marked im- provement.

No. 11 Hecla, 2,400’ deep, showed very poor ground at the bottom, and gutting was begun several years ago, robbing all pillars from the bottom up.

No. 12 Hecla shaft, at the company’s southern line, is 6,700’ deep, bot- tomed in poor ground, and partly gutted, disclosing a formation entirély “parren of copper at depth. This shaft is practically abandoned.

The Red Jacket vertical shaft, of 1,800 tons daily capacity, permanently bottomed at 4,920’ depth, cuts the bed at 3,287. Rock temperature was 87° F., reduced to about 70° by connection with No. 4 Calumet shaft, exhaust air from the power drills aiding in cooling the mine. The Red Jacket was planned to open a mine unconnected with the older shafts, to give reserve stopes in case of fire, but owing to heat and danger, connection was made with the older workings. The Red Jacket shaft is 14 6"x24” 6” within timbers, and is built of brick and cement from collar to the solid rock, and timbered below with Georgia pine. There are 6 compartments, 2 used for hoisting, 2 for water, and 2 for men and supplies. The 2 hoisting compart- ments, at the eastern end, have cages with 9-ton Kimberly self-dumping skips swung under. The 2 western compartments have double-deck cages for men and material, and the 2 middle compartments have large cylindrical steel bailers, for raising water. Timber for the Red Jacket shaft is lowered through No. 5 Calumet, with which the Red Jacket is connected by a cross- cut. The Red Jacket shaft hoists rock from all of the northern shafts below the 56th level, at which point the conglomerate is intersected. There are 9-ton steel storage bins at the various productive levels, which aid in main- taining the uninterrupted hoisting service that is absolutely essential in a shaft of a mile depth. A ventilating chimney at the collar of the shaft does away with ice formerly caused in winter by vapors arising from the shaft. The shaft rock house of the Red Jacket is 100x100’ on the ground, and 110’ high. with 6 crushers, 1 for poor rock.

The “Five Forties” is a tract of 200 acres, a quarter-mile wide and 14 miles long, lying between the Tamarack and Tamarack Junior mines, car- rying the underlay of the conglomerate at great depth, and, to obviate sinking a deep and costly vertical shaft, this tract is opened by a blind shaft 1,588’ deep, starting 1,500’ east of the Red Jacket vertical, and near the bot- tom of Calumet No. 4 shaft, which abuts on the Tamarack boundary line at a depth of 8,100’. The blind shaft is sunk 25’ under the footwall, at the same angle as the dip of the conglomerate, thus assuring solidity of walls while saving long and expensive crosscuts to the bed on each level. A

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: : footwall lateral on the 57th level parallels the regular drift, at a distance

of 25° in the footwall, between the Red Jacket vertical shaft and the blind shaft, offering an avenue for operation that obviates the confusion certain to result were the regular mine drifts given double duty. The blind shaft Starts in the footwall drift, under and parallel with the 57th level, and eventually will be about 1 mile in depth, opening 4 of the five 40-acre tracts, leaving the Sth and last to be opened by a sub-shaft from the blind shaft, which doubtless will be sunk on the same system. The necessity for this peculiar method of development arose from the fact that the boundary lines of the property run north and south, while the strike of the bed is N. 39° E., giving a plane of dip of N. 51° W. Owing to the incline shafts being sunk on the dip of the bed, while the blind shaft must follow the section lines, the latter descends diagonally on the dip of the bed, giving the blind shaft an average dip of about 22° only, although the bed dips at 37° 30’. This unusually flat incline permits the hoisting of rock in tram cars, by an electric hoist on the 57th level, cars being hauled through the blind drift and dumped into the steel bins of the Red Jacket Shaft for hoisting, thus Saving a transfer at the mouth of the blind shaft. The workings of the “Five Forties” show the conglomerate bed to average about 14’, with about 10° carrying stamp rock, the bed as a whole being very lean at this great depth. The abandoned workings of the Tamarack Junior mine of the Osceola Consolidated, which adjoins the “Five Forties,’ are drained by holes bored by diamond drill from the blind shaft.

A drainage drift is being driven, at depth of about 5,000’, measured on

- the incline, 250’ from the conglomerate, with a length of 2 miles, extend-

ing from No, 12 South Hecla shaft, the extreme southern end of the mine, to No. 4 Calumet, the most northerly shaft but one. This drift. will drain water to No. 4 shaft, from which it will be lifted to surface by centrifugal electric pumps.

The Amygdaloid mine of the Calumet & Hecla is opened on the Osceola amygdaloidal bed, which outcrops 730’ east of the Calumet conglomerate, with parallel strike and average dip of about 40°, underlying the entire main tract of the Calumet & Hecla mine. There are 6 shafts in the Amygdaloid mine, Nos. 13 to 18 inclusive, numbered from south to north. Shafts are duplicates in size, each having 3 compartments, of which 2 are used for hoisting and 1 for pipes and ladderways. The Amygdaloid mine has nearly 35 miles of workings and has frequent connections with the conglomerate by crosscuts. The Amygdaloid mine was closed 1901, and reopened 1904. In this mine the Osceola bed runs about 35’ in width, with principal values along the foot and hanging, the middle third being lean, as a rule. Laterals in the Osceola workings are carried as drift stopes of 12’ height along the hanging wall. The Calumet & Hecla owns, on its main tract, about 11,000’ of the strike of the Osceola bed. Developed ore reserves of the Amygdaloid mine were estimated, April, 1909, at about 15,000,000 tons, and. the Osceola bed has been found to carry fair copper values, at a vertical depth of nearly 1 mile, in the Tamarack property. Production from the Amygdaloid mine, for the year ending Dec. 31, 1912, was about. 15,690,000 Ibs. fine copper, from the Osceola rock averaging 15.08 lbs. copper per ton, produced from this bed at a cost of 10.36 cts. per lb.

No. 13 shaft, the southernmost on the Osceola bed, was 3,232’ deep, Jan., 1913. No. 14 shaft, 3,200’ north of No. 13, was 2,812’ deep, Jan., 1912 No. 15 shaft, 2,600’ north of No. 14, was 3,002’ deep, Jan., 1913. No. 16 shaft, 1,800’ north of No, 15, 3,036’ deep, is the principal productive shaft of the Amygdaloid mine. No. 17 shaft, 1,800’ north of No..16, was 1,811’ deep, Jan.,

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1913. No. 18 shaft, the northernmost of the Amygdaloid mine, started 1907, was 1,460’ deep, Jan., 1913, giving a good showing of stamp rock.

The Kearsarge amygdaloid bed outerops about 2,200” east of the Osce- ola amygdaloid and 2,900' east of the Calumet conglomerate, with parallel strike and dip of about 41°, underlying the entire main tract. Work of devel- opment was begun Aug., 1903, and there are 3 shafts, numbered from north to south, each having 3 compartments and being practically duplicates oi those on the Osceola amygdaloid. The shafts are “timbered” with steel, brick and concrete, the hanging wall being lined with 3 arches of brick, laid in 3 to 5 courses, thickness being increased with depth, supported by 2 rows of I-beams, which ‘serve also as dividers for the shaft. The Kear- sarge bed, as opened by these shafts, is erratic, though showing stretches of ground that probably will yield 18 to 22 lbs. fine copper per ton, with reasonable selection.

No. 19 shaft, about 1,000’ south of the Centennial boundary line, is 1,300’ deep, and furnished some stamp rock to the mill, but was closed down Oct., 1907. No. 20 shaft, next south of No. 19, is about 1,300’ in depth, and idle also.

No. 21, the southernmost shaft on the Kearsarge bed, is 8,000’ south of - No. 20, and, at shallow depth, showed well in copper, but deeper workings were not so promising, the rock yielding only about 12 lbs. of copper per ton of rock mined. The shaft was 2,291’ deep, Jan., 1913.

"The Calumet amygdaloid, lying between the conglomerate and the Os- ceola amygdaloid, has been little opened, but might prove payable, as it shows some good ground in a crosscut on the 900’ level.

The shaft rock houses at the conglomerate incline shafts, of uniform pattern, accommodate 40-ton railroad cars. The old 5-ton skips were re- placed, 1907, by 7%-ton skips. Rock is hoisted to the top of each shaft rock house, passing thence over grizzlies that allow the finer rock to fall through, the larger masses being reduced in 24x36” crushers, going thence to 18x24” crushers on the floor beneath. Crushed rock falls by gravity into storage bins, whence it is dumped into cars that take it to the mills, railroad tracks running underneath each rock house. The standard equipment in- cludes a 50-h. p. induction motor at each shaft, for driving crushers.

The surface equipment at the Calumet & Hecla is the most complete found at any mine in the world. With few exceptions everything is dupli- cated, to prevent possible delay or suspension, by reason of fire or accident.

The power plants at the main mine, on the Calumet conglomerate, in- clude 4 large boiler plants and 6 hoisting plants. The hoists of the con- glomerate mine are very powerful, ranging in capacity from 1,000 to 8,000-h. p. each. Miners are carried to and from work, in the incline shafts, by man cars, these being long trucks having tiers of circus seats, replacing skips when needed, being shifted quickly on or off the skip tracks by large cranes. This method has proven the safest, quickest and cheapest for moving men in and out of deep incline shafts.

At No. 4 Calumet shaft there is a group of the most powerful mining machinery in existence. The 62x146’ brick engine house contains the 4,700-h. p. Corliss engine “Superior,” with 40” cylinders and 72” stroke; the auxiliary engines “Baraga” and “Rockland,” of 2,000-h. p. and 600-h. p. respect- ively; 2 Rand air compressors, of 25 and 40-drill capacity, and the engine “Mackinac,” a 7,000-h. p. quadruple-cylinder triple-expansion steel giant, operating 4 Nordberg air compressors with a combined capacity of 650 drills, or about double the requirements of the mine. There also are four 35-drill auxiliary compressors. In the old Leavitt compressor, water was injected into the compression cylinders, while the Nordberg machines de-

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liver the compressed and greatly heated air to a cylindrical steel cooler, 12 in diameter and 30’ high, into which water is sprayed from above and drawn off at the bottom, this cooling the air to 80° F. The hoist has 4 drums, each 8’ 6” wide and 20’ 6” in diameter, serving 4 different shafts, 2 of these drums carrying nearly 2 miles of steel cable each. Power is supplied by batteries of boilers in 2 boiler houses adjoining, these having a brick chimney 250’ high, with inside diameter of 12’ 6”. Locomotives haul the coal into the boiler houses, where it is fed to the grates by automatic stokers.

The 47x80’ Hecla engine house, of brick, flanked by a large boiler house, contains the 2,000-h. p. compound hoisting engine “Frontenac” and 2 auxil- iary engines, of 600 and 900 h. p., also a 30-drill Rand air compressor and a ; pair of water-plunger air compressors, with combined capacity of 144 drills, being the largest machines of this type ever constructed.

South of the Hecla plant is the “G. H: & S.” engine house, having the “Houghton” and “Seneca” engines, of 2,000-h. p. each. The Hecla boiler house has 5 large boilers and a 200’ smokestack, of 9 6” internal diameter.

The engine house operating Hecla shafts Nos. 7 and 8 contains the engines “Hancock” and “Pewabic,” each of 2,000-h. p., which operate 25’ drums by spur gearing, and a 5,000-h. p. Leavitt engine for man cars. A 50x120’ boiler house has 19 boilers and a 250’ smokestack of 12’ 6” internal diameter.

The South Hecla engine house at shafts Nos. 9 and 10 contains the engines “Detroit” and “Onota,” of 1,000-h. p. each. The South Hecla engine house at shafts Nos. 11 and 12 has two 1,000-h. p. Lidgerwood hoists.

The Red Jacket shaft has an 8,000-h. p. quadruple hoist, housed in a 70x220’ brownstone building, and in an adjoining brownstone building, 70x150', with a 250’ smokestack of 12’ 6” inside diameter, are ten 1,000-h. p. boilers. At the rear of the engine house is a 32x412’ brownstone annex, floored with cement and roofed with slate, in which is carried the fleet gear. In raising 10-ton loads perpendicularly from a depth of 1 mile, the weight of the cage and steel cable nearly equals that of the cargo of rock, but with the aid of counterbalance the engines can hoist 10-ton loads at a speed of 40 miles per hour, the regular hoisting time being about 90 seconds for the vertical distance of nearly a mile, including time taken for starting and stopping, an achievement no locomotive could duplicate on a horizontal plane. The engine operates on a system devised by S. B. Whiting, formerly manager of the company. To overcome the dangerous strain caused by unequal wearing, Walker differential rings are placed on the sheaves, the cables taking 4 complete turns around the driving sheaves.

Equipment at the Amygdaloid shafts on the Osceola bed is practically the same at shafts 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17, the new shaft, No. 18, having a com- bined engine and boiler house, with a small Lidgerwood hoist, Shafts LS 14 and 15 have large stone engine houses, with a steel engine house at No. 16. Shafts 13 to 17, inclusive, have Nordberg first-motion double conical- drum hoists, operating 10-ton skips in balance, good for 5,000’ depth each. No. 15 engine house has an electric air compressor, used as a “booster,” bringing the pressure up to 85 lbs. All engine houses have air connections with the main compressor plants at the old mine, and shafts 13, 14, ive IO) and J7 have permanent shaft rock houses of the same general design as at the conglomerate workings.

The 225x250” machine shop has an equipment excelled by only a few of the largest shops in the country, including a 25-ton electric traveling crane and mammoth planers, with electric power throughout. These shops are capable of handling anything and everything in the line of repair work, and also have complete manufacturing facilities for the making of mining,

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milling and smelting machinery, and have turned out hundreds of Wilfley tables, and other special machinery, under agreement with the owners of the patents.

The 78x96’ foundry has 2 iron cupolas, and a brass foundry, with a 20-ton electric traveling crane. The pattern shop, of brick and steel, just north of the foundry, has 2 departments, one for the shop proper and one for storing patterns...

The carpenter shops are of great size, and are equipped with as com- plete a line of labor-saving machinery as can be found in any general: wood- working establishment.

The blacksmith shops are of larger size than may be found elsewhere, except in the works of a few of the very largest manufacturers of machinery, and are equipped with steam hammers, forges, blowers, emery wheels, etc. The Calumet smithy alone sharpens upwards of 50 tons of steel drills daily, requiring the services of a small regiment of drill boys between. the shops and mines. The Hecla. blacksmith shop does general blacksmithing and forging for the entire mine, a stone addition of 66x152’ having been built to the Hecla shop in 1903. The various shops of the Calumet € Hecla employ upwards of 100 blacksmiths.

A-timber mill at the mine mortises and tenons the bed pieces, legs and stulls of the square sets that are used underground, and furnishes blocks and wedges.

The electric building at the mine is 74x74, of stone, housing the old electric. power and lighting plant, but the main electric plant now is at the mills, in Lake Linden.

Warehouses include. a very large brick building for general supplies, and special warehouses for steel and iron, oil, paint, etc., the main buildings having direct rail connections. There also are barns and a considerable number of miscellaneous structures, required in connection with the opera- tion of the mine.

The office building is a large and handsome stone structure, housing the various executive departments and the engineering force of the mine. The company’s private telephone system has an exchange with about 150 instru- ments, including a number of deep underground stations, with local and long-distance connections.

The company maintains a large hotel and a fine stone clubhouse for employees, the latter having bath rooms, bowling alleys, etc. The changing houses for the miners, at the various shafts, are well equipped with hot and cold running water, bath tubs and lockers.

The Calumet & Hecla public library, having 35,533 volumes on Sept. 30, 1911, ranks third in point of circulation in the state of Michigan, with an attendance, 1911, of 26,420, not including visitors. In addition to books in English, there are works in German, French, Italian, Swedish, Danish, Aus- trian, Finnish and Croatian, with periodicals and newspapers in a score of languages, about 30 different nationalities being represented on the com- pany’s payroll. There also is a combination branch library and club house at Lake Linden, for employees of the stamp mill and smelters

The company maintains a hospital, for employees solely, with complete surgical and laboratory apparatus. Nearly a dozen physicians on the hos- pital staff are at the call of employees and their families.

The company owns about 1,200 dwellings, furnished to employees at an average rental of 6% on actual cost, plus cost of maintenance, and upwards of 1,200 dwellings are owned by employees on lands leased from the com- pany at low yearly rentals.

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of which were built by the company, including a fine manual training school, and a truly magnificent high school building at Calumet.

On Calumet & Hecla lands there are upwards of 30 churches, of a dozen different denominations. All of these sites were donated by the company, and in most cases substantial aid has been given in their erection and main- tenance, entirely regardless of creed.

The company maintains 3 distinct systems of waterworks, one at the mines in Calumet, one at the mills in Lake Linden, and one on the shore of Lake Superior, 4 miles northwest of Calumet. The Lake Superior plant pumps water for domestic uses at Calumet against a head of 600’, with an electric centrifugal pump of 3,000,000 gals. daily capacity. This plant also furnishes water to the mill and smelter boilers, on Torch lake. At the- Calumet dam and mine there are 7 pumps, having a combined daily capacity of upwards of 45,000,000 gals.

The company maintains a complete fire department, modeled on metro- politan lines, affording protection to the mine buildings and location, and responding to calls from Red Jacket, Laurium and the other towns that go to make up the mining camp of Calumet, with 40,000 population, that has grown up around this great property.

The Hecla & Torch Lake railroad, owned by the company, connects the mines, mills, smelter and shops by upwards of 20 miles of main tracks, spurs and sidings, reaching every shaft, shop, warehouse, mill and furnace. The 5-ton wooden rock cars formerly used were replaced, 1908, by 150 forty-ton steel rock cars, and the line widened to standard gauge, by the addition of a third rail. Three new locomotives were bought, and the old narrow-gauge locomotives rebuilt to standard gauge, in the company’s shops.

The stamp mills are at Lake Linden, 4 miles from the mine, on a tract of 998 acres, having several miles of frontage on Torch lake. There are 2 mills, known as the Hecla and Calumet, each originally having 11 Leavitt steam stamps with 14x21%%” cylinders and 24” stroke. A 165x308’ steel addition to the Hecla mill, with 6 stamps, was built in 1903, and, upon its completion, the rebuilding.of the 2 old mills was begun, each being divided into 2 sections, with 1 section rebuilt at a time, each section requiring approximately 1 year for completion, remodeling being completed in 1907. Great as was the cost of this work, the new mills practically had paid for themselves upon completion, through reduced cost of operation and in- creased saving of copper. While the mills are termed rebuilt, they actually are entirely new mills, standing upon the old sites, practically nothing of the old material having been utilized. The new mills handle rock with about 60% of the wash water formerly required, effecting a double saving, inasmuch as all water used in the mills first must be pumped in, and there- after raised as sludge, by the sand wheels, for discharging.

The new mills, built by the Wisconsin Bridge & Iron Co., have heavy steel frames, with concrete foundations, cement floors, corrugated iron siding and Carey roofs of tarred burlap. Foundations are much heavier than those in the old mills, and the wash room below the heads is much greater, Foundations are of very massive piles, spaced 20” apart, with 2 and 3 tiers driven to bed-rock, and topped with 6x12” square timber, capped by a 4’ 6” bed of concrete. The mills have 29 Leavitt heads and 1 Nordberg steeple-compound head, of which 28 heads are in commission regularly, with 2 in reserve, 20 heads treating conglomerate rock and 6 crushing amygdaloid rock. Stamps are actuated by steam power, except the 6 stamps in the Hecla addition, which have independent 25-h. p. motors each, but the other milling machinery is operated electrically. The Leavitt heads have a daily

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capacity of about 400 tons of conglomerate, 500 tons of Osceola amygdaloid or 550 tons of Kearsarge amygdaloid.

The mill equipment below the stamps, includes Woodbury-Benedict jigs; ten 4-deck Evans-Rawlings round tables, from which slimes are treated by 96 Wilfley tables; Chilean regrinding mills and Averly grinders and classifiers. The 220 Wilfleys T a considerable saving of the very fine copper formerly lost, and greatly reduce the water consumption.

As the mills stand on the flat western shore of Torch lake, but little above water level, tailings speedily filled the shallow lake for some distance off shore, and to waste the sand it became necessary to secure a consider- able initial elevation, which is gained by sand wheels. The material entering the mills as conglomerate rock leaves as coarse sand to the extent of fully 8,000 tons daily. The sludge is washed through launders to the sand houses, where it is scooped up by the buckets of the wheels and dumped, high above, into launders running on trestles far out into the lake, these spout- ing forth miniature brick-red Niagaras. There are two wheel houses, one for each mill. The Calumet wheel house has sand wheels of 40’ and 50’ diameter, and the Hecla wheel house, caring for the sands from a much larger mill, has sand wheels of 40’ and 64 diameter, the latter being housed in a 3-story steel annex, 65x78’ on the ground and 94’ high. The old wheel houses are of wood, iron sheathed. The steel in the annex to the Hecla wheel house weighs 490 tons, and the building is equipped with a 45-ton Sellers traveling crane. The sand wheel is to all appearances a gigantic bicycle wheel, fitted with spur gearing where the rubber tire should be. The complete wheel weighs 500 tons, and is mounted upon massive concrete masonry. Four 25-ton iron bed plates support the pillars carrying the 21-ton Krupp forged steel axle, which is 27’ long and 32” in diameter with a hollow core of 26” diameter. Radiating from axle to rim are 2” steel spokes 32’ long. The rim is in 20 segments, weighing 10,700 lbs. each, the inner perimeter of the wheel having 550 buckets, in pairs, each 3’ wide and 4 6” long, and holding 100 gals., giving the wheel a capacity of 55,000 gals. per revolution. The completed wheel is 10’ wide and 64’ in diameter, driven by gear and pinion, power being furnished by a 700-h. p. dynamo. Nearly 2 years were required to build and adjust this monstrous wheel.

The No. 1 regrinding plant, built 1908-09, and in full commission Jan., 1910, occupies a 195x340’ building. The frame is of structural steel, resting on concrete foundations, the floor being of stamp sand, with a concrete capping , no particle of wood entering into the construction of the building. Power is furnished by eight 250-h. p. induction motors, giving about 100% excess capacity, to provide against delays through overhauling and repair- ing. The plant has cost about $400,000. Equipment, built almost exclusively in the. shops and foundries of the company, consists of 48 Chilean mills, resting on concrete piers, in 2 parallel rows, each pier being a hollow octa- gon 6 high and 7’ in diameter, with a 10” wall, the hollow being filled to a - height of 10° with stamp sand, capped by 4’ of concrete. All piers are joined by concrete ribs, in which a heavy steel cable is embedded, passing through each pier connection. There are 200 Wilfley tables, each section of the plant having 1 grinder, 18 tables for roughings, 4 tables for middlings, and 12 tables for slimes. Product from each set of 2 grinders goes to a settling tank, from whence the roughings go to the first 3 tables, and the slimes to 2 other tables, the middlings from each 15 tables going to 2 additional tables. The coarse sands from the Calumet mill go to sand wheel No. 2 and waste sands to wheel No. 1, the coarse sand elevated by wheel No. 2 running to the regrinding plant, where the amount going to each mill is regulated by feed gates, an overflow tank at the end of the launder caring

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The regrinding mill has traveling cranes, and every piece of machinery is duplicated, so that breakages can be repaired quickly. The mill is fed with tailings from the stamps treating the richer rock in the Calumet mill, sands carrying up to 12 Ibs. copper per ton. No slimes go to the regrinding plant, which treats exclusively coarse gravel and sand from the jigs and tables. The product is clean mineral, of good average tenor, which is pumped into bins, and thence loaded into cars for shipment to the smelter. Labor costs are very low, the plant being automatic throughout, and the force is only 12 men and boys per shift.

The management figures on a 50% extraction of copper values from the tailings reground, at a cost of about 4.75 cts. per 1b., on a basis of about 2,000,000 Ibs. yearly production, and, 1912, was said to be recovering about 5 lbs. of copper per ton, at a cost of about 5 cts. per Ib. for copper in the form of mineral, equal to about 6 cts. per pound for finished copper, laid down on the seaboard. Production, to end of 1912, from the tailings plant, was 7,375,438 lbs. fine copper. The regrinding plant apparently has proven its ability to treat fresh tailings at a substantial profit, but there is some question whether the older tailings in the lake have not oxidized to a point where extraction will be more difficult, though, to offset this, the older tail- ings are the richer in copper. The tailings at the Lake Linden mills are the most extensive in the world, containing about 40,000,000 tons of stamp sand, carrying an average of 8 to 10 lbs. of copper per ton in the newer sands, and 12 to 20 lbs. in the older sands, these tailings carrying about 500,000,000 Ibs. of copper—an amount greater than the total production of any but the largest copper mines of the world.

The No. 2 regrinding plant, begun 1912, is practically a duplicate of No. 1. The building is 123x432’ on the ground. This mill, equipped with 64 Hardinge conical mills instead of Chilean mills, as is No. 1, is expected to be in full commission early 1914,

Water for the mills is supplied by 4 pumps, of which the “Michigan” is the most powerful in the world, having a daily capacity of 60,000,000 gals. Auxiliary pumps are the “Huron” and “Ontario.” of 20,000,000 gals. capacity each, the “Erie” of 10,000,000 gals., and an I. P. Morris pump of 22,000,000 gals. daily capacity.

The electrification of the Calumet & Hecla was begun in 1904, and eventually will be completed, at mines, mills and smelters, except for some of the big compounded hoists and air compressors at the mine, where a change from steam to electricity would be doubtful economy, as well as necessitating enormous initial outlays. Electricity now actuates the crush- ers in the rock houses, the shops, many of the underground pumps, the Lake Superior pumping station, some of the stamps, and the milling machinery below the stamps. -

The central power station, of steel, with 12,000-h. p. capacity, is located at the mills rather than at the mine, because fuel can be delivered alongside from the largest vessels plying the ereat lakes, effecting a saving of about 10 cts. per ton on transportation cost of coal formerly burned at the mines, with a much greatér saving in the case of isolated plants lacking rail con- nections, and there also is a saving in slack, resulting from one less handling of the coal. Some of the former steam installations consumed as much as 4 Ibs. of coal per h. p.-hour, while the new electric plant requires approx- imately 1% lbs. per h. p.-hour. There are numerous other economies result-

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ing from a central electric power plant, especially in labor, the company for- merly employing 100 firemen in its various power plants, the coal consump- tion of the Calumet & Hecla, at its mines, mills and smelters, being about 250,000'tons yearly. Machinery at the power plant includes the old engines “Saginaw” and “Gratiot,” the former an Allis-Chalmers twin vertical tan- dem compound-expansion engine having 17x40x48” cylinders, each engine being direct connected to a 1,000-kw. alternating current generator, and the Leavitt engines “Owego” and “Ontonagon,” of 3,000-h. p. each, built orig- inally for hoisting purposes, direct-connected to 2,000-kw. generators. The electric equipment of the mills include 15 motors, of 20 to 250 h. p. each.

The 108x220’ boiler house, of steel frame, with two 200’ self-supporting brick-lined steel smokestacks, has twenty 500-h. p. Babcock-Willcox tubular boilers. There are coal crushers, feeding an endless link-belt system with 308 steel link buckets, of 60 tons hourly capacity, taking coal to overhead bins, whence it is fed to the grates by Roney automatic stokers. Water requirements at the boiler plant are about 750,000 gals. daily, and water for- merly was secured from a reservoir, artesian wells and Torch lake, going through a Jewell filtration plant of 500,000 gals. daily capacity, in which im-

purities were precipitated by lime, but the new plant takes water from a

750,000-gal. reservoir, fed from Lake Superior via the Calumet pipe line.

Miscellaneous buildings at the mill site include a 50x100’ steel frame smithy, 48x175’ warehouse, machine shop, carpenter shop, paint shop and sundry other shops and warehouses required in connection with the works.

The Torch Lake smelter is at Hubbell, about a mile south of the mills, on a 30-acre site having ample frontage on Torch lake, with deep water in front and 3 railways at the rear. The smelter has 4 brick furnace build- ings, each 80x130’, and a 50x70’ blister copper furnace building, both blast furnaces and reverberatories having been rebuilt within the past few years. There are 11 reverberatories, which are top-charged, having platforms above on which the mineral is thoroughly dried before charging. The reverbera- tories have 93’ stacks. The largest blast furnace is 40x96” at the tuyeres, its comparatively small size being due to the use of reverberatory furnaces for the bulk of the smelting work required in the process of reducing the native copper mineral treated. A new steel-frame smelter building, built 1911-12, houses two :150-ton reverberatory furnaces, of the so-called Jumbo pattern, modeled after the furnaces of the Lake Superior Smelting & Re- fining Co. The practice of the smelting plant is fully abreast of the times, in all essentials.

The electrolytic plant, 155x270’, partially completed, 1913, will supersede the Buffalo reduction plant, which is to be abandoned, and is fully described Vol. X.

There are 3 concéntrate or mineral houses, with a combined storage capacity of 18,000 tons, at Hubbell. Calumet & Hecla concentrate, locally called mineral, now carries less than 60% copper, being dressed much lower than formerly, to effect the saving of the very fine copper previously lost in the slimes.

The power plant at the smelter has three 125-h. p. boilers, and a fourth boiler, in the cupola building, generates steam by the combustion of waste gases from the reverberatory furnaces. A small electric plant has an 85-kw. generator, with a 25-kw. generator in reserve.

The smelting works have a 2-story assay office and laboratory, 40x42’ with a 14x14’ wing, exceptionally well arranged and complete in equipment. There also is an office and a large warehouse for supplies.

The dock system of the Calumet & Hecla is extensive, including a series of very large coal sheds at Lake Linden, 1 of 200,000 tons capacity, the

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old sheds being of wood and the new of steel. There is a series of docks at the mills and smelters on Torch lake, all with substantial wharves having at least 21’ of clear water alongside, frequent dredging being required to maintain this depth of clear water, owing to stamp sand filling in. The 750’ coal wharf has 11 Hunt hoists, and three 52’ movable derricks, 1 of wood and 2 of iron. ,

The Calumet & Hecla owns and operates the ship canal connecting Torch lake with the government waterways on Portage lake, this canal being 21’ deep and accommodating the largest vessels plying the great lakes. Tolls, ranging from 10 cts. on soft coal to 50 cts. per ton on package freight, are charged by the company, on independent cargoes entering Torch lake through this canal.

A saw mill, at the head of Torch lake, receives logs by rafts, and ships sawed lumber and timber by a branch of the Hecla & Torch Lake railway. The company owns extensive tracts of pine, hemlock and hardwood timber along the southern shore of Lake Superior, this land carrying between 400,- 000,000’ and 500,000,000’ of standing timber. The company also has a long- term timber contract with the Keweenaw Association, Ltd., and buys ex- tensively of jobbers, the requirements for underground timbering alone be- ing 25,000,000 to 30,000,000’ annually, in addition to the many million feet of timber and lumber used on surface at the mines, mills and smelters.

An aid fund for employees, instituted 1877, and managed by directors chosen by the workmen, pays sick benefits, enormous sums having been disbursed since the formation of the fund. Surplus: monies accumulated in the aid fund have been invested in the company’s shares, bought on the open market. Death and disabilities caused in the line of duty are cared for under the provisions of the Employers’ Liability and Workmen’s Com- pensation act, passed by the Michigan legislature, 1912.

The company: markets its own copper, and for many years this branch 4 of the business was looked after by Col. T. L. Livermore, who resigned as vice-president, at the close of 1910, after 4 decades of honest and efficient work, with the hearty good will and respect of everyone in the copper trade.

Beginning with the new century, the policy of the Calumet & Hecla has been one of expansion. Almost from its birth it was the greatest copper producer of the world, and the most profitable mine of any metal. The company was progressive, leading all other mines in the introduction of heavy mining machinery and modern methods, but was self-contained and self-sufficient. It was seen, however, in 1901, that the old mine, great as it was, must come to an end sometime, hence a radical change in policy, which included the reconstruction of its mills, many changes in mining practice, and, most important of all, the acquisition of mineral resources outside of the old mine, in addition to the opening of a fine new mine on the Osceola amygdaloid, upon the old tract, and the tentative opening of a mine on the Kearsarge amygdaloid. In consequence of this policy of ex- pansion, the Calumet €: Hecla, instead of being the decadent property that it would be but for this, continues well at the front, in both production and earnings. Costs have been reduced largely, and Savings effected in innumerable ways. The growth of the property, during the new century, has been well balanced, every department having been brought to a higher degree of efficiency. Operating costs have been largely reduced, without cutting wages, while charging millions of dollars for new equipment direct to operating expenses, and, despite the decreasing percentage of copper due to deepened mines, the cost of making a pound of copper was reduced, from almost 11 cts. in 1901, to the present cost of 8% to 9 cts.

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The conglomerate rock from the old Calumet € Hecla workings has shown a strongly declining tendency in values for many years past, and a rather alarming decline within the past few years. Net returns were almost 5%, or 100 lbs. of fine copper per ton in 1873; 4.75%, or 95 lbs. fine copper per ton, in 1880; 3.012%, or 60.24 lbs. per ton, in 1889; 59.93 Ibs. in 1900; 52.44 lbs. in 1902; 39.68 Ibs. in 1907; 35.96 lbs. in 1908; 33.14 lbs. in 1909; 30.12 Ibs. in 1910; 30.38 Ibs. in 1911, and 29.73 lbs. in 1912. Rock from the Osceola amygdaloid returned 18.45 lbs. per ton in 1907; 17.67 lbs. in 1908; 16.40 Ibs. in 1909; 15.82 Ibs. in 1910; 15.89 lbs. in 1911, and 15.08 lbs. in 1912. The average for all rock milled, during the calendar year 1912, was 24.18 Ibs. fine copper per ton.

Detailed figures, by years, of both production and dividends, from the organization of the company, in 1871, may be found in the statistical chapter.

Production has shown a steady decline since 1906, in which year the high mark of 100,023,420 1bs. fine copper was reached, and in 1912, was only 67,856,429 lbs. copper. A further decline in the average yield of copper per ton of rock mined, and a growing scarcity of labor cut production to 29,786,127 lbs. in the first 6 months of 1913, and a labor strike, begun July 23, has so effected production that the output for the year will probably fall under 50,000,000 lbs. copper.

Calumet & Jerome Copper Co. Arizona

Office and mine: Jerome, Yavapai Co., Ariz. G. W. Avery, pres. and gen. mgr.; Geo. H. Avery, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, J. W. Avery, Chas. F. Avery and Jos. Larson, directors. Organized May, 1907, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,500,000, shares $1 par; issued $535,964. Lands, 3 claims, area 82 acres, one-half mile south of the United Verde mine, and adjoining the Cleopatra. Property is traversed by an immense dike, of 600’ estimated width. Development consists of several tunnels, one of 115’, a / new main tunnel now 670’ long and a shaft 100’ deep, April, 1913, and

planned to connect with main tunnel at depth of about 500’. Company is a local organization, and working but few men in Aug., 1913. CALUMET & MASSEY COPPER CO. ONTARIO

Office: 732 Granite Bldg., Rochester, N. Y. Mine office: Massey, Al- goma, Ont. S. R. Snook, pres. and gen. mgr.; B. F. Freshwater, first vice- pres.; J; M. Briggs, second vice-pres.; Frank A. Beyer, third vice-pres:; M. S. Phelps, sec.; Samuel B. Williams, treas.; preceding officers, A. Miller, L. Bonneau, C. C. La Clare and E. E. Shutt, directors; E. A. Collins, gen. supt. Organized April 28, 1909, under laws of South Dakota, capitalization $5,000,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable; issued, $1,889,000. Annual meeting, fourth Tuesday in April.

Lands, 22 claims, area 880 acres, and a 12-acre smelter site. Property shows quartzite and schist, having 4 fissure veins, of 6 to 9’ estimated aver- age width, traced 1% miles, carrying chalcopyrite, bornite and chalcocite, estimated by management to average 6% copper, with a trace of gold. Mine has about 2,000’ of workings, estimated to give 50,000 tons blocked out for stoping, and company estimates a cost of 8 cts. per pound for fin- ished copper. Idle. A report on+the property was made for the company, Aug., 1910, by E. A. Collins, B. S.

CALUMET & MONTANA MINING CO. . MONTANA i Address: P. J. Driscoll, 120 West Granite St., Butte, Mont., trustee in ¿Þankruptcy. E. Olsen, sec., 518 Manhattan Bldg., Duluth, Minn. Company owned Parker group of claims midway between Elkhorn and Radersburg, Mont., and later acquired the King Solomon mine, 21% miles from Clancy station, Mont., on the Great Northern railroad. Company reorganized,

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1913, as the Calumet & Montana. Consolidated Co., on a basis of 10 for 1, with a 25-ct. assessment. Company has been persistently boomed with. wild statements in the newspapers and the reorganization is regarded un- favorably.

Calumet-New Mexico Mining Co. New Mexico

Secretary's address: Philomen Pement, 5217 S. 44th Ave., Chicago, Ill. Mine office: Magdalena, Socorro Co., N. M. Alex. McCallum, pres.; Alpheus McCallum, vice-pres.-treas.; preceding officers, Jacob Ehrenberg and Jos. Vezzetti, directors. Organized under laws of New Mexico, capitalization $1,000,000.

Lands, 12 claims, patented, area 240 acres, in Hop canyon, 2 miles from a railroad, and 5 miles from Magdalena, include the Slide Rock, Ethel and Sara claims, showing ore assaying up to 21.2% copper, 20 oz. silver and $19.84 gold per ton, with occasional lead and zinc. Development is by tunnels with about 2,500’ of openings.

Calumet-Sonora Mining & Milling Co. Mexico

Office: Sherwood Bldg., Duluth, Minn. Mine office: Aptdo. 265, Ja Mesa, Cananea, Sonora, Mex. R. P. Burgan, pres.; N. F. Hugo, vice-pres.; B. Silberstein, second vice-pres.; John A. Percival, sec.-treas.; Walter Harvey Weed, cons. engr.; preceding officers and D. T. Helm, directors.

Organized May 3, 1912, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $2,500,000, shares $10 par. Holds title to lands through a Mexican corporation, the Calumet € Sonora of Cananea Mining Co., S. A. Annual meeting, last Monday in May. Is a reorganization of the Calumet & Sonora Mining Co., purchasing the entire holdings of that company. Bonds authorized, $100,000; issued, $46,000. `

Property, 631 acres, about 21⁄4 miles northwest of Cananea, shows 17 fissure veins cutting diabase and the more recent volcanic tuffs which form the foothills and table lands of the Cananea mountains.: Many of these veins show at the outcrop, several of them widen into broad masses. of leached, silicified ledge matter, resembling the outcrop of the Duluth Cananea and occurring where several fissures intersect. Three veins have been opened by underground workings.

The Chivera mine has thus far been the chief producer of the com- pany. It has an inclined shaft, 525’ deep, with levels at 60’, 200’, 300’, 400’ and 525’, developing a well-defined fissure vein in indurated volcanic breccia, or tuff, of varying width that opens out into an orebody 300’ long and 150’ wide composed of large and small angular blocks of country rock cemented by argentiferous galena, chalcopyrite and sphalerite, with less abundant tetrahedrite, mixed with quartz. The orebody is in places a glittering mass of galena, but as a whole is a complex mixture of lead, copper and zinc sulphides, the mill feed carrying 4.7% lead, 0.4 to 0.8% copper and 9% zinc. The ore minerals disseminated through the mass of breccia above the 525’ level, appear to be concentrating in a narrower ore shoot, 300’ long and 50 to 60’ wide on this level.

The mine is equipped with a new electric hoist, a 1,435-cu. ft. electric- driven Rand compressor, General Electric motors for all machinery and a 36x24” Farrell crusher with Robins conveying picking belt and ample stor- age bins. This equipment, installed 1913, is run by electric current sup- plied by the Cananea Consolidated Copper Co. at 2% cts. per kw. hour.

Ore is sorted on the picking belt and hauled over a surface tram to the concentrating mill. Latter is an old mill brought from Missouri and altered for local conditions, but a makeshift at best. In this mill the silver-lead ore is taken out and the middlings containing zinc and copper are sent to the dry, or ‘electrostatic mill. Tailings average 0.21% lead, 0.12% copper and

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0.77% zinc. The dry mill contains Huff electrostatic separators, which separate the copper from the zinc, Concentration is 8.5 into 1, being 87.9% of the lead, 74.8% of the zinc and 70% of the copper in the ore; the lead concentrates carry 33 ozs. silver per ton, averaging 70% lead. Shipments of zinc concentrates in 1913 averaged.50% and the copper 17%.

In addition to the workings mentioned, there is the No. 2 Catalina shaft, 225’ deep, vertical, with levels at 70’, 110’, 145’ and 212’, the workings exposing an oreshoot 2% to 6 wide and as much as 60’ long, but cut by cross faults and not continuously minable. The ore shoot has been prac- tically mined out to the 145’ level, yielding about 1,800 tons of antimonial copper-lead ore carrying zinc. This ore is higher in value than that now milled. This No. 2 shaft is now dismantled and idle. The vein expands west of the mine into a large outcrop which is the most promising surface ex- posure seen on the company’s property and warrants deep exploration.

Catalina No. 1 shaft, 120’ vertical, is said to develop a vein of low- grade copper ore, 3 to 5’ wide, opened by 220’ of drifting. This shaft is now dismantled and filled with water.

The company has a large acreage, at least 2 very promising surface outcrops and a dozen or more fissure veins and should with proper devel- opment become a large producer of low-grade complex ores. The treatment problem has been solved; total mining and milling costs reduced to $4.50 per ton and the property splendidly equipped for work. Company plans sinking the Chivera shaft and is expected to open up sufficient tonnage to place property on a profitable basis.

Calumet & Yaqui River Copper Co. Mexico

Idle. Mine office: Soyopa, Ures; Sonora, Mex.. H. €. Rolfe, pres.; Geo. H. Nolte, sec.; W. J. Elliott, treas., at last report. Organized April 28, 1903, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $3,000,000, shares $10 par. Apparently is successor Santa Marguerita Mining Co., and bought lands of the Venice Copper Co., 7 miles from Soyopa, area 85 hectares, opened by a 1,200’ tunnel, showing copper sulphides of fair tenor at shallow depth. Was said to have a 50-ton smelter. Inactive several years and apparently mori- bund.

CALZONA MINES Co. CALIFORNIA

Mine office: Calzona, San Bernardino Co., Cal. A. W. Martin, gen. mgr. Property, in the Riverside district, 1/4 miles west of the Colorado river, and about 60 miles southwest of Parker, Ariz., shows a contact vein between diorite and limestone carrying mainly gold values with some silver and copper. Development is by tunnels 320’ and 600’ long, and sev- eral shafts, deepest being 196', May, 1911.

CAMAS COPPER MINING & MILLING CO. MONTANA Idle. Property near Camas, Sanders Co., Mont. Fully described Vol. X. CAMBRIA COPPER CO. NEVADA

Mine office: Aurum, White Pine Co., Nev. Owen Pritchard, supt., at last accounts. Lands, 4 claims, known as the Texas group, at Muncey creek, Spring Valley, in the Silver Canyon district, 10 miles east of Melvin on the Nevada Northern R. R. and 30 miles north of Ely; also 10 miles of water right, on Muncey creek, and 580 acres of ranch lands. Claims show veins and replacement deposits in limestone. Has shipped carload lots of ore to Salt Lake smelter returning 22.55 to 23.4% copper. Property as- sessed at $6,600 and advertised delinquent for taxes, July, 1913. CAMBRIAN MINING & DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD. ONTARIO

Office of mine: 5 Mooring Block, Port Arthur, Thunder Bay district, Ontario. C. H. Krause, pres. and mer.; Lester Cain, vice-pres.; S. John Schulte, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, Edw. A. Grocheau and ¿W. D. B.

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Turville, directors; Capt. John King, supt. Organized Sept. 10, 1909, under

laws of Ontario, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par; issued, $304,980.

Company succeeded the Jasper Copper Co., Ltd., which was a bad egg.

Annual meeting, first ‘Tuesday in September.

Lands, 49 claims, area 1,960 acres, and a 40-acre mill site, on Sturgeon and Jean Pierre bays, on the Black Bay peninsula, 13 miles from Wolf River station, on the Canadian Pacific railway. Property, 40 miles east of Port Arthur, is on the northern fold of the Keweenawan syncline, and carries various amygdaloidal strata, with average dip of about 35° S. E. Development is by tunnels of 50’ and 156’, showing native copper dis- seminated in an amygdaloidal bed, formerly claimed to average 4 to 10%, but said by Mr. Krause to average 1.5 to 2% copper. Four Cyclone core drill holes, bored 1910, cut amygdaloidal beds carrying native copper. Build- ings include log bunk houses. Frank L. Levy, the financial agent, sold stock in the worse than worthless Jasper Copper Co., Ltd., that this company succeeded, but Mr, Krause is considered competent and trustworthy. CAMP VERA GROUP. CALIFORNIA

Idle. . Office: Barstow, Cal, . W. J. Rodgers, owner. Lands, 31 claims, in the Morrow district, about.25 miles north of Barstow. Property shows a mineralized belt of iron-stone rock 50 to 500’ wide, overlying a copper- bearing formation said to carry up to 18% copper and $4 gold per ton. Development is by a 100’ shaft and numerous shallow open cuts and pits, exposing considerable copper oxide in a vein 8” to 2’ wide. CAMPECHANA o POSITIVA y ANEXAS, S. A.;

Negociacion Minera La, Mexico

Idle. Mine office: Léon, Guanajuato, Mex. Organized Jan. 12, 1907, under laws of Mexico, capitalization 300,000 pesos. Lands, 17 kilometers northeast of Léon, include the Compechana and Anexas mines. Property shows low-grade copper and lead ores, with fair silver values. Mine is said to have considerable ore blocked out, averaging 2 to 3% copper, 2 to 5% lead and about 10 oz. silver per ton. Equipment includes a 40-ton con- centrator.

Camperdown Group. Wyoming

Idle. Property, near Saratoga, Carbon Co., Wyo., on the southern slope of Coad mountain, said to have good showing of copper ore, some- what resembling that of the adjoining Cumberland group.

Campo Seco Copper Co. California

Mine office: Campo Seco, Calaveras Co., Cal. Organized April, 1910. Property is 5 claims, known as the Galligher group, near the Penn Mining Co., opened by tunnel, with considerable development and having some reserves of high-grade ore blocked out. Ore carries fair values in gold and silver. Idle and apparently moribund. No returns secured.

CAMPO SECO MINES. CALIFORNIA Owned by Penn Mining Co., at Campo Seco, Calaveras Co., Cal. CANADA DEL. ORO MINING & DEVELOPMENT CO, ARIZONA

Idle. Mine near Oracle, Pinal Co., Ariz. Eugene S. Dives, pres.; Maj. W. A. Desbrough, sec. and mgr.; Louisa M. Matoss, treas.; preceding offi- cers, A. C, Waters and Uri Embody, directors, at last accounts. Organized 1906, capitalization $1,000,000. Lands, 23 claims, in the Cañada del Oro dis- trict of the Santa Catalina mountains, showing well-defined orebodies, hav- ing 7 shafts and tunnels, with about 1,000’ of openings, carrying ore said to give assays of $51.75 to $181 per ton, in lead, copper, silver and gold. Ap- parently moribund. i CANADIAN-AMERICAN EXPL. CO., LTD. BRITISH COLUMBIA

Idle. Office: Vancouver, B. C. Mine office: Van Anda, : Texada

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island, B. C. Stock is $10 par. Lands, 3 claims, known as the White Swan group, held under bond and lease, near the Lucky Jim mine, on Valdez island, and claims adjoining the Marble Bay mine, on Texada island, latter having a 50' shaft, showing at and near surface mainly pyrrhotite, associated with pyrite, carrying a little chalcopyrite and mispickel, latter not especially auriferons. Favorable developments at 1,500’ depth in the Marble Bay mine make the property attractive as a developing proposition.

Canadian Copper Co. Ontario

Office: 43 Exchange Place, New York. Mine and works at Copper Cliff, Algoma, Ont. John Lawson, pres.; J. L. Slaughter, vice-pres.; J. L. Ashley, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, A. Monell, Andrew Squire, F. S. Whitcomb and F. S. Jordan, directors; J. L. Agnew, gen. supt.; D. H. Browne, metallurgist; Wm. Hambly, supt. Creighton mine, H. C. Meek, supt. Crean Hill mine. Organized Jan. 6, 1886, under laws of Ohio, capitalization $2,- 500,000, shares $100 par, and is licensed in Canada by special act of Parlia- ment. Controlled, through entire stock ownership, by International Nickel Co.

The Canadian Copper Co. is the owner of the world's largest nickel mine, and also is a copper producer of importance. Ore was discovered, 1882, and the first mine was opened in 1886. Lands are 17,000 acres free- hold, and 600 acres leasehold, all in the district of Algoma, in the vicinity of Sudbury. Extensive diamond-drill borings have shown large reserves of ore.

The principal orebodies are irregular contact deposits in basic igneous rocks and granite, with norite gabbro penetrated by stringers and bunches of ore that is a mixture of nickeliferous and cupriferous pyrrhotite, with dioritic gangue, copper being in the form of chalcopyrite, and nickel oc- curring mainly as a partial replacement of the iron in chalcopyrite and pyrrhotite, with small quantities of pentlandite, which is the mineralogical equivalent of chalcopyrite with substitution of nickel for copper. Ores carry 1 to 4% copper and 2 to 6% nickel, with an average of 2 to 25% copper and 4 to 5% nickel. The company employs about 2,500 men.

The Creighton mine, employing about 400 men and producing 150 tons of ore daily, 1906, has 2 shafts, but extraction is mainly from an immense open pit, about 225’ wide from foot to hanging, 520’ long and 150’ deep. The pit has 13 railroad tracks, converging to an entry on the footwall that leads to an incline shaft. Ore is broken in steps, and thrown to the bottom, where block-holed and trammed to the shaft. Drill borings prove the Creighton orebody to extend some distance west of the pit. No. 1 shaft is 320’ deep, with 4th level at depth of 300’. A new shaft, No. 2, sunk in the granite, about 500’ west of the old shaft, has 3 compartments, with walls concreted for about 40 depth from the collar, and is 390’ deep, with 4th level at 370’. No. 2 shaft has a rock house 42x46’ on the ground and 72’ high, of reinforced concrete to the bin floor, above which the walls are of 3” planks, 10” wide, spiked together. The rock-house equipment in- cludes two 18x30” Blake crushers and a picking belt 3’ wide and 50’ long.

The Creighton mine has an air compressor with piston efficiency of 1,635 cu. ft. of free air per minute, driven by a 300-h, p. 550-volt constant- speed induction motor. The Creighton mine is operated exclusively by elec- tricity for hoisting, crushing and other work. No. 2 mine, which produced 200 tons daily, 1906, was idle at last accounts.

y The Crean Hill mine, about 2 miles east of the Victoria, is opened by 2 shafts, No. 1, with 4 compartments, being 300’ deep, sunk at an angle of 57°. Production is about 300 tons daily, with stoping on the Ist, 2nd. 4th and 5th levels. A dry-walling system is used underground, and

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there are open-cast workings, operated summers only. Production is about 300 tons daily, with a force of 400 men. Extensive diamond-drill borings have shown a series of lenses from 50 to 80’ in width, carrying a larger amount of pentlandite than ore from any of the other mines, and requiring different treatment from the massive ores found at the Creighton and Stobie mines.

Miscellaneous mines include the Stobie, 4 miles north of Sudbury, hav- ing ores similar to those of the Creighton, No. 3 mine, and various other workings. A quartz quarry, near Naughton, about 15 miles northeast of Sudbury, produces about 150 tons of quartz daily, used for fluxing and lin- ing converter shells. The machine shop, smithy and foundry are under one roof. There is also a fire-proof laboratory building.

Electric power is used throughout the mine and works. A subsidiary corporation of the International Nickel Co., known as the Huronian Co., has a hydro-electric installation at High falls, on the Spanish river, utilizing an effective head of 85’, with total available energy of about 10,000 h. p. The power house at High falls is 55x106', of brick and concrete. Installa- tion includes two 3,550-h. p. turbines, with speed of 375 r.p.m., each direct- connected to a 2,000-kw. 2,400-volt 3-phase 25-cycle generator, with space for 2 additional units, of which one is under construction. The trans- mission line, of about 30 miles length, has double sets of poles, spaced at 130’ intervals, carrying 6 bare No. 1 copper. wires. At Copper Cliff there is a 100x200’ substation, where the current is stepped down to low voltage, and distributed to various motors about the mines and works.

Water for general use and fire protection is stored in a 60,000-gal. steel tank. The company's private railway line has 20 miles of track, connecting with the Canadian Pacific, and is equipped with 9 locomotives, 250 fifty-ton drop-bottom dump cars, and a brick round house.

The smelter, at Copper Cliff, 6 to 20 miles from the various mines, is of 2,500 tons daily capacity. These works were perhaps the first to use the Bessemer process for treating nickel ores. The new plant has taken some ideas from the Tennessee Copper Co., mixed charges of raw and roasted ores being a modification of the Tennessee process.

The smelting plant is served by electric locomotives and has 35x700 ore bins, of 15,000 tons capacity. The 85x375’ blast-furnace building, along- side and parallel with the converter building, has five 4x17’ 400-ton blast furnaces, set in a row down the center of the building, each furnace having 2 tiers of water jackets, the lower being of 8’ 6” and the upper of 6’, furnaces having a total height of 35’. The charge carries 11% coke; lime- stone is used as a flux particularly if the alumina content is high, as it lowers the fusion point and cleans out accretions. The product is matte carrying 6% copper, 16% nickel, 47% ‘iron and 27% sulphur, and is of 4.6 specific gravity. Slags flow into oval 19%x16’ settlers, 514’ high, and from the back of the settlers into 22-ton cast-iron slag pots, which are made in sections, with 4 side pieces and a separate bottom. Slags carry 33% silica and 55% iron with 0.04% copper and nickel.

The reverberatory building is about a quarter-mile east of former plant, and is 140x188’, of steel, with concrete tile roof, so built that it can be expanded to, the southward when necessary. The building is reached by a high-level railway track, 70’ above the yard, and has 7,500-ton storage bins for ore, coal and flux. There are electric cranes. This plant will treat flue dust, fine ores, slags and bottoms. There are two 19x112’ reverberatory furnaces with walls 27” thick and 6’ high, sending matte to the converter plant by rail. Slags are hauled, by locomotives, in 25-ton slag cars. The smokestack is 200’ high and 15’ in diameter, built of Custodis radial brick,

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on a concrete base. The reverberatories will burn coal, pulverized to 200 mesh, with the pulp blown into the furnace by compressed air, giving an intense flame, with close regulation, the coal-drying and pulverizing plant being in this building. Two steam boilers will be fired by waste gases.

The converter building is 60’ from the cupola building, and parallel -therewith, having a 60x280’ main structure, with a shed 35x280’ for matting, casting and sculling, and at one end is the relining department, 60x112’ with a 35’ shed on each side, having a continuation of the crane run of the main building, with storage for material, etc., entire length of the con- verter building being 522’. The structure is of steel frame, with corrugatéd sides and roof, having two 50-ton Morgan electric traveling cranes, of 55’ 8” span, and a 20-ton auxiliary hoist.

Matte from settlers in the blast-furnace department is poured into cast-steel molds, 5’ in diameter and 5’ deep, and taken by electric crane to the basic-lined converters, 37’ long by 10’ in diameter, using 6,500’ of free air per minute at a pressure of 10. The charge of 70 to 80 tons of matte is poured into the converter and 5,000 to 6,000 Ibs. of dry, crushed quartz added. The slag is poured off after an hour’s blow and more matte and flux added. After that, slag is poured off and a pot of matte and 5,000 lbs. quartz and waste mine rock added every 40 minutes. The entire blow lasts 70 to 80 hours. Stands are controlled: electrically from 2 pul- pits, each handling 5 stands, each stand having a 30-h. p. induction motor with solenoid brake. Blowing is precisely the same as in treatment of ordinary copper matte, except that the blast is cut off as soon as the iron is fully eliminated. The copper and nickel behave as one metal, similarly to copper alone, up to the final elimination of sulphur and iron. Slag from converters carries 28% silica, 62% iron oxide and 2% to 3% nickel. It is poured into steel slag pots, lifted by crane to slag cars and taken to the slag-casting machine, which consists of a circular steel framework, of 58’ diameter, on a circular track, carrying cast-iron molds, forming a con- tinuous flat ring. The molds, 4x12x30”, holding 150 Ibs. of slag each, are mechanically rotated under the stream of slag. The cast bricks are al- lowed to cool before the molds reach a hand-controlled tripper, which reverses the molds, dropping the bricks into a hopper, a chute from the hopper discharging the slag bricks into a skip, that carries them up an inclined track to a 500-ton steel bin above the charging tracks landing to the blast furnace, where they are resmelted.

The works include a small silver smelter, which, 1910, treated about 5,000 tons of silver ore from the Cobalt district, securing therefrom about 8,500,000 oz. fine silver with average returns of about 1,730 oz. silver per ton. Product of the silver smelter is speiss containing silver, nickel and cobalt, sent to the Bayonne works for parting and refining,

The smelter power plant, operated electrically, includes a complete steam plant, held in reserve for emergencies.

A special product of this company is Monel metal, which is a natural -

alloy of nickel and copper, being merely nickel-copper matte deprived of its sulphur, and averaging 68% nickel, 30.5% copper and 1.5% iron. This metal is noncorrosive, easily worked, and is coming into general use quite rapidly, filling a unique field. 1 ; The nickel-copper matte from the converters, carrying 25% copper, "55% nickel, 19% sulphur and one-half per cent iron, is shipped to the Bayonne Works of the International Nickel Co., where it is smelted with sodium sulphite, effecting the separation of the combined nickel and copper, and the resultant copper product is refined electrolytically.

Production was 8,010,000 lbs. fine copper, and 13,996,000 Ibs. nickel in|

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1903; 5,500,000 lbs. fine copper and 9,486,000 Ibs. nickel in 1905: 15,746,699 Ibs. copper and 26,282,991 Ibs. nickel in 1909, and for 1910 was 17,500,000 Ibs. copper and 31,000,000 Ibs. nickel. Present production is at the rate of 30,000,000 Ibs. refined nickel and 4,000,000 to 5,000,000 Ibs. fine copper yearly. This mine is the largest nickel producer of the world, and also one of the 40 leading copper mines of the world, with an excellent manage- ment.

Canadian Nickel Corporation, Ltd. Ontario

Owns property in the Sudbury district, Ontario, Canada, including the Murray mine. Company organized about July, 1913, capitalization $20,- 000,000, with $10,000,000 6% debentures. Directors, Dr. F., S. Pearson, J. Frater: Taylor; Je E. McAllister, B. B. Lawrence, E. R. Wood, Walter Gow and Miller Lash. Properties cover 17,500 acres and contain 6,800,000 tons of ore blocked out by diamond drilling and underground development. The incorporators, capitalization and holdings are the same as those of the British American Nickel Corporation, which is probably the American holding company.

Cananea-Boston Consolidated Mining Co. Mexico

Office and property: Cananea, Sonora, Mex. Harvey S. Smith, pres.; R. D. Nicholas, vice-pres.; Joseph. I.' Cohn, sec.-treas. Organized 1912, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $3,000,000, shares $5 par. Lands, 2 denouncements, comprising 100 hectares, known as the Siempre Viva and Siempre Viva No. 2, in the Cananea mining district, 1 mile from the city of Cananea and between the Greene-Cananea and Calumet & Sonora prop- erties. Development, 3 shafts, totalling 350’ and about 150’ of drifts. Land highly mineralized, ore containing silver, copper, lead and zinc. No work has been done for the past 8 months, but company plans resuming opera- tions in the fall, 1913.

Cananea-Boston Mining Co. Mexico

Reorganized, 1913, as the Cananea-Boston Consolidated Mining Co. See Vol. iX.

Cananea Consolidated Copper Co, S. A. Mexico

Office, mines and works: Cananea, Sonora, Mexico. Dr. L. D. Ricketts, pres.; James S. Douglas, vice-pres. and gen. mgr.; George Young, sec.; John V. Montague, treas.; preceding officers and S. P. Applewhite, diréc- tors. Organized Sept. 30, 1899, under laws of Mexico, capitalization 20,000 pesos, shares 1 peso par. Entire stock owned by Greene Consolidated Copper Co., the C. C. C. Co. being merely the operating company, holding direct title and right to operate the property, as is necessary under the laws of Mexico. Description of the property owned by this company is given under the title Greene-Cananea Copper Co., which corporation owns over 95% of the stock of the Greene Consolidated Copper Co.

In addition to the properties owned by the Cananea Consolidated Copper Co. previotis to the formation of the Greene-Cananea Copper Co., it now owns an undivided three-fifths interest in the properties formerly owned by the Indiana Sonora Mining Co., and it also owns a controlling interest in the Superior Bonanza Mining Co., and is at present developing the latter company’s properties, which are located near Imuris, in the state of Sonora, Mexico.

No separate financial statement of the Cananea Consolidated Copper Co. is issued, but the combined balance sheet of the Greene Consolidated Copper Co. and the Cananea Consolidated Copper Co., S. A., as of Dec. 31, 1912, shows total assets of $16,094,174, and total surplus of $3,776,320. The income account for the same period shows total income of $7,929,469, and net income, after charging off depreciation, of $2,280,799.

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CANANEA DEVELOPMENT CO, S. A. MEXICO, Dead. Formerly a subsidiary of Greene-Cananea Copper Co. All prop- erties transferred to the San Pedro Copper Co., S. A., a Mexican subsidiary of Greene-Cananea Copper Co. CANANEA-EASTERN MINING CO. MEXICO Address: Cananea, Sonora, Mex. Has a lease and bond on the Can- anea Eastern claims, which it acquired from the Charlot Mining € Smelt- ing Co., which in turn had a bond from the Fay-Cananea Copper Co. The Charlot bond is for $300,000 gold. Property, 20 miles east of Cananea. is reported to cover 500 hectares, or 1,235 acres, containing veins showing chalcopyrite ore and lead ore. In May, 1912, company was working 14 men, all in ore, but operations have been curtailed since by revolution. Property has had a varied career, starting out under the ownership of the Cananea Eastern Co., later the Fay-Cananea Co., and now being oper- ated under the above title. CANYON COPPER CO. ARIZONA Idle. Office and mine: Grandview, Coconino Co., Ariz. Jno. H. Page, pres. and gen. mgr.; H. H. Smith, sec.-treas., at last accounts. Organized 1902, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $600,000, shares $10 par, buying lands of Last Chance Mining Co. Lands, 10 claims, area 200 acrés, also a 10-acre mill site, in the Grand Canyon of the Colorado river, having contact deposits between limestone and porphyry, said to give average assays of 30% copper, from cuprite, melaconite, malachite, azurite and chalcopyrite. In 1904 produced 350,000 Ibs. fine copper and in 1907 made 80,989 Ibs. fine copper and some silver. CAPE BRETON COPPER CO., LTD. NOVA SCOTIA Office: 308-53 State St., Boston, Mass. Mine near Coxheath, Cape Bre- ton Co., N. S. John C. Watson, pres.; Isaac P. Gragg, sec.; J. Dorr, treas. Capitalization $2,000,000. Property is the old Coxheath mine and adjoining lands, 10 miles from Sidney, Cape Breton, showing several cupriferous veins, of which the principal, averaging 10’ width, traverses felsite and diorite, carrying argentiferous and auriferous chalcopyrite, in a silicious gangue, ore averaging about 4.5% copper. Deepest shaft, 420’. Idle many years. CAPE BRETON PROSP., MG. & DEV. CO., LTD. NOVA SCOTIA Office: Sidney, N. S. Letter unclaimed at former mine office, Inver- ness, Cape Breton Co., N. S. F. W. Morley, pres.; W. F. Dennison, vice- pres.; A. N. McLennan, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, C. V. Wetmore. Dr. A. McLennan, Dr. C. E. McMullen and Hon. D. McNeil, directors: H. N; Borden, mine supt. Organized under laws of Nova Scotia, capitalization $500,000, shares $1 par. Property, mineral lands, including the Scottsville mine, which shows copper ore. Idle several years and apparently moribund.

CAPE D’OR COPPER DEVELOPMENT CO. NOVA SCOTIA Mine office: Cape d’Or, Cumberland Co., N. S. Idle many years. CAPE NOME COPPER MINING CO. MONTANA

Office: 1 Dixon Bldg., Missoula, Mont. Mine office: Clinton, Missoula Co,, Mont. Edw. Donlan, pres.; F. H. Woody, vice-pres.; H. T. Wilkinson, sec.-treas. and gen. mgr.; preceding officers and A. L. Coffey. directors. Organized Nov., 1906, under laws of Montana, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par; issued, $924,400. Annual meeting, first Monday in June.

Lands, 3 claims, patented, area 40 acres, adjoining the Aladdin Mining Co., showing 4 fissure veins in granite, of which 3 are under development. 1, of 8 average width, traceable 800’, being opened by 4 crosscut tunnels, longest 340’, and 5 drift tunnels, of 75’, 850’, 620’, 430’ and 580’, with 3,750’ of workings. Equipment includes two 60-h. p. boilers, a 40-h. p. Lidgerwood

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hoist and a 12-drill Ingersoll air compressor. There are 6 buildings, in- cluding a 35x50’ machine shop and 2 small smithies. Property considered promising. Idle, but planned resumption in spring of 1913.

CAPELTON MINE. QUEBEC Owned by Albert Copper Co., at Capelton, Sherbrooke Co., Que. CAPITAL MINING & TUNNEL CO. COLORADO

Mine office: Georgetown, Clear Creek Co., Colo. Edw. C. Bauman, supt. Property is the Aetna mine, developed by 5,200’ tunnel, said to show sulphide ores running up to 18 oz. gold, 35 oz. silver, 55% lead and 5% copper. Mine was in the hands of leasors, early 1911, and is now appar- ently idle. Has electric as well as steam equipment, Leyner compressor, 200-ton concentrator and employs about 50 men.

Caracahui Mountain Copper Co., Ltd. Mexico

Office: 3222 Jefferson St., Kansas City, Mo. Mine near Llano, Magda- lena, Sonora, Mex. M. H. Greene, pres. and gen. megr.; Chas. M. Howell, vice-pres.; H. J. Sprink, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, T. McClure; J. C. Brewer, Thos. James and Wm. R. Berryhill, directors. Organized May 20, 1907, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,500,000, shares $1 par, non- assessable; issued, $964,000. Annual meeting, first Tuesday in June.

Lands, 2 groups, area 50 hectares, 9 miles southeast of Llano, between the Calumet & Sonora and Sonora Copper Co. Property is said to show 20 parallel beds in granite, 8 in a cross section of about 250’, reported as 4 to 60’ in width, and traceable 1 mile, carrying cuprite, malachite and chalcocite, said to average 10 to 40% copper, 4 to 40 oz. silver and $2 to $10 gold per ton. Development is by shafts of 50’ and 410’, and a 195’ crosscut tunnel. A test shipment of*60 tons, sent to the smelter at Fundicion, 1908, returned $14.70 per ton in copper, calculated at 9 cts. per Ib.

Equipment includes a 40-h. p. boiler and 8x10” hoist good for 1,000’ depth, with smithy, superintendent’s house and 6 dwellings for workmen. Management plans installing an air compressor, deepening shaft and cross- cutting. Idle since 1910, but company has no bonded indebtedness, pays all taxes and expects to resume work as soon as peace is restored in Mexico and financial confidence returns.

Carambola; Mina. Mexico

Office and mine: care D. Pablo Palacio, owner, Indé, Durango, Mex. Lands, 18 pertenencias, in 2 groups, opened by La Chusa shaft, of 15 meters, showing a 10’ vein of auriferous copper ore, carrying 4 to 30% copper and 30 oz. silver per ton. Average assay values range from 3.5% copper and 300 erams silver, in the silver ore, to 14.5% copper and 100 oz. silver in the best silver-copper ore. Idle on account of revolution.

Carbonate Center Mining Co. Idaho

Mine office: Mullan, Shoshone Co., Idaho. Archie Gillis, pres.; John H. Foss, vice-pres.; Thos. G. Kennedy, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, John Erickson and Hans J. Rice, directors. Organized 1912, as successor of Tombstone Mining Co., capitalization $1,500,000, shares $1 par, assessable. Lands, 8 claims, near the Carney mine, on Stevens peak, south of Mullan, showing a promising vein of 8 to 15’ surface width, carrying a little silver- lead ore. The mine has a 500’ crosscut tunnel, with about 1,000’ of work- ings, showing ore that has given assays up to 15% copper and 2.5 oz. silver per ton. Idle, but planned to resume operations late 1913.

Carbonate Chief Mine. Montana

Mine, 6 miles from Alhambra Springs, Jefferson Co., Mont., is the property of Messrs. Steinbronner, Roth and Nellinger, of Helena and Al- hambra Springs, and under lease and bond, 1911, to Capt. D. Gay Stivers, J. C. Adams and associates of Butte. Property, 6 claims, developed by

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shaft and tunnel, shaft being 200’ deep, at last accounts. Ores are mainly gold with values in silver, copper and lead. 'CARDENILLO y ARMADILLO; MINAS. MEXICO

Mine office: Tuxpam, Santiago Ixcuintla, Tepic, Mex. P. Fernando Diaz, owner; A. C. Gonzales, mgr., at last accounts. Mines have silver- copper ores, with steam power, and employs about 50 men when active. CARDIFF MINING & MILLING CO. UTAH

Office: 218 South Main St., Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine office: Alta, Salt Lake Co., Utah. Ezra Thompson, pres. and gen. mgr.; J. D. Murdock, sec.-treas. Organized 1906, under laws of Utah, capitalization $500,000, shares $1 par. Lands, 15 claims, include the Mountain Chief group, north- west of the Columbus Consolidated, and on the divide between Big Cotton- wood and Little Cottonwood canyons. The mine, developed by two 300’ shafts and several tunnels, shows a 6’ body of ore giving assays of 27.5% copper and 100 oz. silver per ton, opened in the drainage tunnel at depth of about 325”. A little ore, shipped to the Salt Lake smelter, returned up to 2% copper, about 3% lead and 55 oz. silver per ton, with small gold values, ;

Cardona; Daniel. Mexico

Office and mine: Veta Grande, Zacatecas, Mex. Property is El Refugio mine, carrying lead, copper, gold and silver ores. Equipment includes a small mill, and property was a small producer at last accounts.

Caribou Gold & Copper Co. Idaho

Office and mine: Gray, Bingham Co., Idaho, Chas. W. Knudson, mgr., at last accounts. Organized Sept., 1903, capitalization $2,500,000, shares, $10 par, to develop claims 65 miles southeast of Idaho Falls, in Bingham county, Idaho, said to have an 8’ vein, traceable 3,000’. Idle for some years. CARIDAD; COMPAÑÍA MINERA. MEXICO

Address: Frederick W. Messer, gen. mgr., Silao, Gto., Mex. Owns the Caridad mine near the city of Guanajuato, developed by 50’ shaft, sunk, 1913, showing ore carrying 1 to 2% copper with 5 grams gold and 1,377 grams silver per ton.

CARIDAD y ANEXAS; COMPAÑÍA MINERA. MEXICO

Office: care Adolph Marx, pres.; Mexico, D. F. Mine near Guachinan- go, Mascota, Jalisco, Mex. Otto Vorath, mgr., at last accounts. Capitalization 200,000 pesos. Lands, 180 hectares, on the Rancho Panuco, showing highly argentiferous and auriferous copper ores. Made small shipments, 1907, to the Aguascalientes smelter. Idle. ` CARISA GOLD & COPPER MINING CO. OF MAINE. UTAH

Office: 414 Judge Bldg., Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine office: Mammoth, Juab Co., Utah. Col. C. Edw. Loose, pres.; Edward Riggs, mgr. Organized 1907, under laws of Maine, capitalization $500,000, increased, Jan., 1909, to $600,000, shares $1 par; issued, $545,000. Was a reorganization of the Carisa Gold & Copper Mining Co., which levied assessments of $30,000 and paid dividends of $60,000.

Owns the Carisa and Spy mines with 8 claims, patented, area 57 acres, adjoining the Centennial-Eureka at Mammoth, Tintic district, Utah. Claims said to show 6 orebodies, occurring as fissures in limestone and as contact deposits between limestone and quartzite, 3 of which, more or less de- veloped, of 4’ average width, were said, by former management, to give average returns of 5% copper, 3 oz. silver and $2 gold per ton, from oxidized ores. Mine, as sampled by Newton A. Dunyon, gave average assays of 4.51% copper, 3.54 oz. silver and 0.037 oz. gold per ton. Mine is very pock- ety, though occasionally carrying rich pockets, and the estimate, by former management, of 80,000 tons of ore blocked out for stoping, was a gross ex-

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aggeration, though considerable concentrating ore is in sight. The ore channel has been opened on every level, but the grade of ore encountered is disappointingly low. Mine is opened by 3 shafts, including the 350’ Cor- nish shaft and the 800’ Spy shaft, and by a 7,000’ tunnel, with about 5 miles of workings.

Mine is worked by Orris Jarman and A. W. Prows, leasers, mining mostly above the 400’ level. Produced about 3,000 tons in 1912, partly from old dumps. Producing about 50 tons of 8% copper ore a week in 1913. CARMAN CONSOLIDATED COPPER CO. MEXICO

Office: Hibbing, Minn. Operating office: Douglas, Ariz. Mine office: Arizpe, Sonora, Mex. Thos. F. Brady, pres.; J. F. Ross, sec.-treas.; R. B. Phillips, supt.; Dwight E. Woodbridge, cons. engr. Organized 1906, capital- ization $500, 000, increased to $750,000, shares $2.50 par. Holds title to lands through Compania de Oro y Plata, S. A., organized under laws of Mexico.

Lands, 351 pertenencias, area 877 acres, in 9 groups, in the vicinity of the Pedrazzini and Chispas mines, showing several strong veins, with 1,911’ of workings. The Carman and Don Placidio groups have dumps carrying about 1,100 tons of ore, claimed to average 4.65% copper, 62.2 oz. silver and 0.21 oz. gold per ton. The Blanca Rosa group gives ore assaying up to 16.8% copper, 77 oz. silver and 0.42 oz. gold per ton. The Maria group has given ore assaying 3% copper, 107 oz. silver and 1.32 oz. gold per ton. Los Toros group has given ore assaying 4.2% copper, 29% lead, 38 oz. silver and 0.03 oz. gold per ton. Various ore shipments to El Paso smelter have given returns ranging from $82.98 to $4,575.79 per ton.

Carmen Ampliacion; Minas Del. Mexico

Mine office: Cerralvo, Cuarto, Nuevo Leon, Mex. Marciano E. Villa- real, owner and mgr., at last accounts. Ores are argentiferous copper and lead sulphides. Idle many years.

Carmen Copper Co. Mexico

Office: 52 Front St., New York. Mine office: Mineral del Carmen, El Oro, Durango, Mex. Thos. B. Bell, pres.; Stephen A. Levy, sec.-treas.; I. Wayne Von Leer, gen. mer.; F. C. Seley, supt, Organized under laws of New York, capitalization $750,000, shares $50 par. Lands include El Car- men mine, area 160 hectares, and a considerable acreage of miscellaneous lands, 45 miles from Rosario, the nearest rail point. The mine carries ar- gentiferous copper ores, with considerable development. The mill has 40 stamps, 3 crushers and Frue vanners. Property was under lease to F. C. Alley, at last accounts.

Carmen Creek Mining Co. Idaho

Mine and office: Salmon City, Lemhi Co., Idaho. J. W. F. Holcomb, mgr. Property is said to carry an oreshoot 60’ wide, which has not been verified. Ores are mainly bornite and chalcocite, with small gold and silver values.

Carnegie Copper Co. Virginia

Address: W. H. McLean, supt., R. FE. D., Box 27, Red Oak, Charlotte Co., Va. Lands, 176 acres, carrying about 2,000,000” of timber, about half fit for sawing. Property shows a vein 64” wide at surface, and 5' at bottom of shaft, with a 12” hanging wall paystreak of rich ore. Test shipment, to the Pennsylvania Lead Works, Pittsburgh, gave returns of 10.5% copper, 6.3 oz. silver and $10.80 gold per ton. Mine has a 76’ shaft. Idle since 1906, but has no debts and superintendent expects to resume work in 1914. CARNEY COPPER CO., LTD. IDAHO

Office and mine: Mullan, Shoshone Co., Idaho. a Maalil press). E. Martin, vice-pres. and mgr.; C. D, Miller, sec.-treas.; preceding officers,

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Henry Bilberg and A. P. McRae, directors. Organized 1906, under laws of Idaho, with capitalization $1,500,000, shares $1 par. In Sept., 1913, company gave an option on 600,000 shares of stock at 1% cts. per share for 60 days to Russell F. Collins, of Spokane. He also has a bond on the property for 2 years at 3% cts. per share, 5% to be paid in 4 months, 5% in 10 months, 15% in 16 months and 75% at end of 2 years. Lands, 11 claims, 4 fractional, are 175 acres, carrying a good water right, and formerly well timbered, but timber badly burned in the forest fires of Aug., 1910. Mine, next east of the Reindeer, on the northern slope of Stevens peak, about 4 miles from Mullan. Development is by 2 tunnels, the uppermost showing a body of chalcopyrite ore that has not been found in the lower tunnel. The upper, or No. 1 tunnel, is 450’ long, with 3 cross- cuts, and No. 2, the lower tunnel, 1,700’, about half crosscut and half drift. There also are several open cuts and pits, showing ore of about 3% copper tenor. Workings show up to 4 of solid ore, carrying chalcopyrite, with some bornite. No. 1 tunnel shows an ore shoot up to 40’ width, and about 175’ long, averaging about 2% copper, with small values in lead and silver, with a paystreak of 6 to 10” assaying 5 to 35% copper. Litigation with Jos. Carney, former owner of lands, was decided in company’s favor June, 1908, giving an absolute title. Former buildings, destroyed by the forest fires of Aug., 1910, were rebuilt, and operations resumed, 1912. CARNEY MINING CO. ARIZONA P. G. Carney, pres. and business mgr., Mesa, Maricopa Co., Ariz. Homer Davidson, supt. Property, the Royal Gorge mine, shows a vein with gold- copper ore. Development by 800’ tunnel and 100’ shaft. Equipment in- cludes gasoline engine and air compressor. Plans cyanide mill for 1914. CAROLINA COPPER CO. NORTH CAROLINA Office: 15 Atwater St. West, Detroit, Mich. Mine near Cullowhee, Jackson Co., N. C. Lewis C. Waldo, pres. and treas.; Thomas A. Cox, vice- pres. and supt; Hugh M. McCormick, sec.; preceding officers, Stephen H. Knight, Geo. W. Clark, Thomas W. Newton, Chas. E Bredin, David E. Thomas and Edwin P. Snider, directors. Organized Oct. 12, 1901, under laws of Michigan, capitalization $2,500,000, shares $25 par; issued, $1,585,000. Lands, 1,450 acres, freehold, including the Wayehutte mine, showing 4 veins, of 27’ estimated average width, carrying mainly chalcopyrite, with estimated average values of 3% copper, 4 oz. silver and $1 gold per ton, opened by a 55’ shaft and a 200’ tunnel. Lands also include an undeveloped water power. Idle some years, but regarded as promising if worked under proper direction. Capitalization excessive. CARP LAKE MINE. MICHIGAN Office: care Everitt S. Levitt, Ontonagon, Mich. Property, in T. 51 N., R. 43 W., Ontonagon Co., shows native copper, occurring as irregular streaks of high mineralization, ranging up to 40% in copper tenor, native metal occurring in exceedingly thin flakes, in strata ranging from fine con- glomerate to coarse sandstone. Main bed, of about 7’ width, apparently is not an extension of the Nonesuch lode, as the strata do not resemble each other physically, though carrying copper in a markedly similar manner. Lands have an excellent water power available, from Carp lake. The mine, opened 1858, has several shallow shafts, and a 1,250’ tunnel. Idle many years. CARRIZO COPPER CO. MEXICO Idle. Mine and works at Ayutla, Autlan, Jalisco, Mex., suspended oper- ations late 1912. Very fully described Vol. X. CASCADE GOLD & COPPER MINING CO. WASHINGTON " ‘Office: Ashland, Ohio. Mine near Chelan, Chelan Co., Wash. Idle and presumably moribund. Described Vol. X.

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CASCADE MINE. MICHIGAN Idle many years. Mine is in Sec. 9, T. 49 N. R. 41 W,, Ontonagon

Co., Mich. Some “gophering” was done 1853-54, but not enough to

afford any criterion as to the merits of the property.

Cash Mining Co. Arizona

Office: Prescott, Ariz. Property, the Cash mine, now leased to N. E. Getchell, Maxton, Yavapai Co., Ariz. Mine has veins with gold-silver- copper-lead ore, developed by a shaft, with extensive workings. Equip- ment includes a 10-stamp mill.

Cashier Copper Mining Co. Arizona

Mine office: Mayer, Yavapai Co., Ariz. Hon. M. P. Snyder, pres. and treas.; G. W. Bedbury, vice-pres. and gen. mgr.; Wm. A. Eckerley, sec., at last accounts. Organized Jan., 1905, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par. Is controlled, through ownership of majority of stock, by Arizona Diamond Drill Mining Development Co. Lands, 8 claims, area 152 acres, in the Agua Fria district, 5 miles northeast of Mayer, show- ing country rock of Yavapai schist, carrying lenticular veins of copper ore, with silicious gangue, lenses following the planes of schistosity.

Cashier Gold Mining & Reduction Co. Colorado

Mine office: Central City, Gilpin Co., Colo. Wm. Auger, supt., at last accounts. Lands include the Pittsburgh, Meeker and Brooklyn mines, lat- ter developed to depth of 800’, carrying auriferous and argentiferous chal- copyrite and tetrahedrite, principal values being in silver, running up to 700 oz. per ton. Has steam power and has been a small but steady pro- ducer, partly from work of lessees.

Castellanos; Antonio Gomez. Mexico

Office and mine: Compania 48, Zacatecas, Zacatecas, Mex. Property includes Cobriza and Iguana mines, carrying gold, silver and copper ores, and employing about 35 men, when working.

Castle Copper Co. Arizona

Mine office: Maxton, Yavapai Co., Ariz., Howard R. Ward, mgr. Or- ganized Sept., 1909. Lands, 11 claims, known as the Dunkirk or Mt. Tritle group, 12 miles south of Prescott, on the southern slope of Mr. Tritle, near the head of Slate creek, in the Hassayampa district, formerly owned by Dunkirk Gold & Silver Mining Co., and later by Mt. Tritle Copper Co. Property is an old mine, once worked for gold, having tunnels of 150’, 160’, 170’ and 300’, driven at vertical intervals of 100’, showing copper and lead sulphides, carrying values in copper, gold, silver and lead, in about the order named.

Equipment includes steam and gasoline power, an air compressor and an electric light plant. A 30-ton mill has 4 Nissen stamps, 3 Wilfley tables, a 100-ton ore bin and a 10,000-gal. water tank. Presumably idle.

CASTLE DOME METALS CoO. NEW MEXICO

Mine office: Deming, Luna Co., N. M. J. H. Allison, pres.; B. M. Ricketts, vice-pres.; Louis Fritz, treas.; E. Hedburg, mgr., at last accounts. Lands, 12 claims, slightly developed by tunnel, showing ore giving good assay values in copper and silver. Idle.

Castle Dome Mine. Arizona

Office: care McCormack Bros. and O. C. Scott, owners, Miami, Gila Co., Ariz. Lands, 22 claims, 6 miles west of Miami, in Lost Gulch, show schist and diorite carrying low-grade, gold-bearing chalcocite ore, probably in fissure veins. Development is by 3 shafts, deepest 125’, and several tunnels. CASTREJON; HERMANOS. MEXICO

Office and.mine: Huacana, Ario, Michoacan, Mex. Property is the

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China mine, an old and small producer of copper ore, employing about 25 men normally. CAVE CREEK MINING CO. CALIFORNIA

Office and mine: Winthrop, Shasta Co., Cal. E. J. McLaggan, super- intendent, at last accounts. Property is the Michigan mine, developed by tunnel, showing copper ore, with fair gold and silver values. Idle several years.

Cavern Gold Mining Co. New Mexico

Office: 409 W. Copper Ave., Albuquerque, N. M. Mine office: Kelly, Socorro Co., N. M. B. A. Statz, gen. mgr. G. L. Brooks, pres.; H. O. Brooks, sec.-treas. Organized 1904, under laws of New Mexico, capitaliza- tion $30,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable; fully issued

Lands, 21 claims, 400 acres, unpatented, in the Magdalen district, show intrusive granite porphyry in lime. Ores are mainly zinc, with copper con- tent under 1%.

Development is by a 200’ shaft and 250’ tunnel, with about 800’ of workings. a

Equipment includes a small hoist good for depth of 300’, smithy, board- ing house, and a small concentrator. Idle since 1903.

Cayuga Development Co. Montana

Office: 616 Lyceum Bldg., Duluth, Minn. Mine office: Divide, Silver Bow Co., Mont. C. T. Fitzsimmons, pres.; Nels Anderson, vice-pres.; E. J. O’Rourke, sec.; Max P. Shapiro, treas.; John Helehan, gen. mgr.; preced- ing officers, Jacob Stein and Jas. L. Norman, directors; Dwight E. Wood- bridge, cons. engr. Organized April 4, 1910, under laws of Minnesota, cap- italization $150,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable; issued, $65,000.

Lands, 4 claims, area 80 acres, in the Fleecer district, 15 miles south- west of Butte, near the Oregon Short Line railway. Property shows granite, with dikes of porphyry, aplite and quartzite, carrying veins with a generally E.-W. strike, main vein being estimated to range 50 to 125’ in width, traceable for 2,000’, carrying cuprite, melaconite, malachite, azurite, chryso- colla, chalcopyrite, chalcocite and bornite. Mine has a 100’ tunnel, and shafts of 45’, 125’ and 150’, showing ore assaying up to 30% copper, and from a trace to 70 oz. silver per ton. The 125’ shaft has crosscuts of 150’ and 180’, cutting the vein for an apparent width of 30’. The vein at this depth is nearly vertical. Idle, and no work done on property since 1912. There are 5 small buildings. Management plans deepening No. 3 shaft to 400’, equipping with an electric hoist, and crosscutting, when water level is reached.

C. B. S. Mining Co. Arizona

Near Globe, Ariz. Claims show several veins with 62’ shaft developing a 6 orebody, assaying 9% copper, $10 silver and $3 ¡in gold. Vein dipped out of shaft and bottom of workings show a 10” ore streak of native silver. Owned by same people as the Climax Mining Co., near Prescott, Ariz. CEDAR CANYON SMELTING & REDUCTION Co. WASHINGTON

Idle. Mine office: Springdale, Stevens Co., Wash. Wm. Sheck, gen- eral manager, at last accounts. Lands, on the Columbia river, west of SO show copper sulphides, and company was said to plan a 50-ton mill. : CENTENNIAL COPPER MINING CO. MICHIGAN

Office: 12 Ashburton Place, Boston, Mass. Mine office: Calumet, Houghton Co., Mich. Quincy A. Shaw, pres.; Rodolphe L. Agassiz, vice- pres.; Geo. A. Flagg, sec.-treas.; Jas. MacNaughton, gen. mgr.; preceding officers, H. F. Fay and Walter Hunnewell, directors; Geo. G. Endicott, asst. sec.-treas.; John Pentecost, mg. capt.; H. E. Jefferson, asst. engr.

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Organized 1896, under laws of Michigan, as successor of Centennial Mining Co., capitalization $2,500,000, shares $25 par; issued, $2,250,000; paid in, $19.50. Last assessment, 1905, was $4. Is controlled, through ownership of 41,500 shares, by Calumet & Hecla Mining Co., and is a borrower there- from. Balance sheet of Dec. 31, 1912, showed a deficit of $3,549.

Profits were $6,046 net in 1911 and $50,511 net in 1912. Balance sheet, June 30, 1913, shows assets of cash, accounts receivable and copper, $140,- 723; supplies, $34,203; total, $174,926. Liabilities for notes and accounts payable, $146,287; balance, $28,639. American Trust Co., Boston, transfer agent; Old Colony Trust Co., Boston, registrar. Annual meeting, first Tuesday in April.

Lands, 670 acres, being Sec. 12, T. 56 N., R. 33 W., and a triangular patch of about 30 acres, at the southeastern corner of the main tract, bought to secure the outcrop of the Kearsarge lode, and including about 10 acres, bought 1905, of the Old Colony, for the surface plant. The first work was done, 1863, by the Schoolcraft Mining Co., which failed to open a paying mine, and was reorganized, 1876, as the Centennial Mining Co., and again re- organized, 1896, with present title. Expenditures of upwards of $1,500,000 were made by the old companies, in unsuccessful efforts to open a paying mine on the northern extension of the Calumet conglomerate. Seven shafts, 3 of considerable depth, were sunk on this bed, No. 3, the deepest, being bottomed at 3,200. The Centennial lands are in the great mining camp of Calumet, and are available for building purposes. Two additions have been platted, and surface rights sold at good prices, mineral rights being reserved.

The present company did a little work, 1897, on the old conglomerate shaft, then turned attention to the Osceola bed, deepening 2 shallow shafts to 1,050’ and 1,150’ depth, respectively, shafts being 17x12’ inside of timbers, sunk at 38°. The Osceola bed, where: opened on the Centennial tract, aver- ages about 15’ in width, but is lean.

Work on the Kearsarge bed was begun Sept., 1899. Owing to the out- crop of the Kearsarge occurring on the 30-acre tract bought of the Osceola, with only a 100’ right-of-way connecting it with the main tract, it was nec- essary to open the mine on the Kearsarge bed in a peculiar manner, by 2 shafts. These are but 90’ apart, on surface, and continue parallel, on the dip of the bed, until the 13th level, when the main tract is reached, after which No. 2 shaft diverges from No. 1 at an angle of 15° on the plane of the bed, 300’ being taken by the curve. This method of opening gives short drifts until the shafts enter the main Centennial tract. Each shaft is 17x18’ inside of timbers, with 3 compartments, sunk at an angle of 39° with the horizon, through an overburden of about 100’ depth. The Kearsarge bed averages about 16’ in width, and showed fair copper values in the upper levels, followed by a comparatively barren zone until the 14th level, when there came a gradual improvement, which unfortunately has not been main- tained, the mine as a whole proving disappointing. No. 18 shaft of the Calumet & Hecla will soon reach the Centennial boundary line. New openings, made during 1912, amounted to 2,639’, all contributory to the No. 2 shaft.

No. 1 shaft, 3,816’ deep, can be sunk 12,000’ before reaching the bound- ary, and is idle since 1910. No.1 has a steel shaft rock house, with 3,000-ton bins and a 32x72” Nordberg duplex hoist, with double conical drum, good for depth of 6,000’, operating 5-ton skips.

No. 2 shaft, 4,000’ deep, shows fair ground from the 18th to the 31st levels, inclusive. This shaft shows poor ground to within 50’ of the South Kearsarge boundary, where drifts were stopped. The South Kearsarge drifts are in rich ground up to the boundary, which seems strange. Equip-

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ment includes a cylindrical steel shaft rock house with 1,000-ton bins, and a 32x60” Sullivan duplex straight-face hoist, with 2 drums of 14” diameter and 15’ 6” winding face, grooved for 134” cable. The hoist is fitted with de- vices to prevent overwinding, and is calculated to raise 5-ton skips at the rate of 4,000’ per minute, operating under 150 lbs. steam pressure.

The mine buildings are of redstone, and include duplicate engine houses for the 2 shafts. The new compressor house, has a 70-drill, 2-stage com- pound air compressor, and the old compressor house has 35-drill Nordberg and 20-drill Rand air compressors, with a Dean jet condenser in the base- ment. A boiler house has four 125-h. p. Burt locomotive firebox boilers, and a 125’ brick-lined self-supporting steel smokestack of 7’ diameter.

The mine is served by the Copper Range and Mineral Range railroads, and has a private line connecting the shops and shafts.

Rock is stamped by the mill of the Lake Milling, Smelting & Refining Co., which: is separately described. Average force employed, 1912, was 128 men.

The mine made a small production, 1898 and again in 1901, but began its real production July 5, 1904, since when the output has been as follows: 641,294 lbs. fine copper in 1904; 1,446,584 lbs. in 1905; 2,253,015 lbs. in 1906: 2,373,572 Ibs. in 1907; 2,196,377 lbs. in 1908; 2,583,793 lbs. in 1909; 1,572,566 Ibs. in 1910; 1,493,834 lbs. in 1911, and 1,742,338 lbs. in 1912. Rock discarded was 13.93% in 1906; 11.02% in 1907; 5.68% in 1908, and only 1.04% in 1912. Rock stamped yielded 13.58 lbs. per ton in 1906; 11.86 lbs. in 1907; 12.94 lbs in 1908; 14.15 Ibs. in 1909; 15.4 lbs. in 1910; 17.26 lbs. 1911; 16.36 lbs. in 1912 and 18.21 lbs. for the first half of 1913.

Total cost of finished copper per lb. was: 18.49 cts. in 1908; 15.61 in 1909; 14.48 in 1910; 12.69 in 1911; 13.46 in 1912 and 12.15 cts. per lb. in the first half of 1913.

Production of finished copper Jan, 1 to July 1, 1913, was 1,135,000 Ibs. CENTENNIAL DEVELOPMENT CoO. NEVADA

Office and mine: Ely, White Pine Co., Nev. E. E. Vanderhoef, pres. and gen. mgr.; D. C. McDonald, vice-pres.; G. F. Boreman, sec. and treas.; Sol Snider, supt. Organized April 20, 1911, under laws of Nevada, as sut- cessor of the Ely Centennial Copper Co., capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par; issued 400,000 shares. Has called total assessments of $15,198.46 to end of 1912. Annual meeting, first Tuesday in December.

Lands, 5 claims, about 75 acres, in the city limits of Ely, between the McDonald-Ely and Ely-Calumet, in the eastern portion of the Robinson district. Mine has two 50’ shafts and a 2,000’ tunnel shows a 400’ zone of crushed silicified limestone with low-grade copper ore. Property recently idle for lack of funds, has been leased for a year, and operators have run a drift on a 1 to 2’ streak of 25% copper ore from the bottom of the 200’ Mezger winze.

Centennial-Eureka Mining Co. Utah

Office: 55 Congress St., Boston, Mass. Operating office: Newhouse Bldg., Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine office: Eureka, Juab Co., Utah. Wm. G. Sharp, pres.; Albert F. Holden, managing director; preceding officers, B. Preston Clark, J. J. Storrow, Sidney W. Winslow and C. G. Rice, directors; F. Winthrop Batchelder, sec.-treas.: Clarence E. Allen, mgr.; A: P. May- berry, supt. Organized 1876, under laws of Utah. and reorganized, 1899, under laws of Maine, with capitalization $5,000,000, shares $25 par; issued, $2,500,- 000. Is controlled by United States Mining Co., through ownership of 99,864 shares of the 100,000 shares of issued stock, there being only 4 other share-

holders, Dividends were $7 per share in 1906, $2.50 in 1907; $11.50 in 1908;

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nothing in 1909, and $6 in 1910, 1911 and 1912, a total of $36 per share, or $3,600,000. Annual meeting, third Wednesday in April.

Property, in the Tintic district, includes the Centennial, Eureka, Tintic, Dove, Swan and Pelican group. Ores carry fair values in gold, silver, cop- per and lead. Shipments average 300 tons daily.

Development is by a 2,225’ shaft, and the 2,160” Holden tunnel, com- pleted 1909, connecting with the shaft just below the 500’ level. This tunnel permits the ore to'be delivered directly to railroad cars, eliminated the rope tramway and handles the water from the mine. During 1911-12, only a limited amount of development work was carried on. Ores are shipped to the Midvale smelter of the U. S. Smelting Co., at West Jordan, Utah. The mine is timbered with square sets, and formerly was dry, but the lower levels are wet, water being handled by a 500-gal. Sulzer-Winterthur electric pump. About 300 men are employed. Surface equipment includes steam and electric power with necessary engine houses and shops.

Production of ore during 1912 was 117,957 tons as against 108,275 in 1911; 90,375 in 1910; 109,430 in 1909; 122,855 in 1908, and 104,916 tons in 1907. CENTENNIAL MINE COLORADO

Office and mine: Georgetown, Clear Creek Co., Colo. David Kennedy, owner and megr.; S. G. Evans, supt., at last accounts. Lands, 640 acres, having cupriferous gold and silver ores in a 30” paystreak, assaying up to 24% copper, 5 to 50 oz. silver and 3 to 5 oz. gold per ton. Has steam power. CENTRAL MINING & DEVELOPMENT CO. ARIZONA

Mine office: Winkelman, Pinal Co., Ariz. C. G. Werner, pres., treas: and gen. mer.; F. G. Angeny, vice-pres. and sec.; preceding officers, Chas. E. McGee, T. C. Wells and David McClure, directors; F. B. Garden, supt. at last accounts. Organized July 13, 1906, under laws of Arizona, capitali- zation $10,000,000, shares $1 par. Property was bought for $6,000 and capi- talized at $10,000,000. The three chief promoters were convicted of fraud in connection with the company’s affairs and sentenced to Leavenworth. See Vol. X.

Lands, 9 claims, 1 fractional, area 175 acres, a mill site and a 160-acre ranch. Lands include the Two Queens mine, 7 miles from a railroad, hav- ing 4 nearly parallel veins and a cross vein, 1 vein showing surface ore claimed to assay $200,000 gold per ton, which is far too good to be true. Mine has shafts of 21’, 38’, 50’, 155’ and 184’, and a 440’ tunnel, showing ore with quartz gangue, from which selected samples have given high assay values in gold and silver, with a little copper. Had a 25-h. p. gasoline hoist and an air compressor at last reports. Despite the marvelous assays, 3 small smelter shipments, 1907, gave returns of only $36.53 per ton. Idle and presumably moribund.

Centurion Arizona Mining Co. Arizona

Office: Wilcox, Ariz. Mine office: Dragoon, Cochise Co., Ariz. J. P. Richardson, pres. and gen. mgr.; Samuel Bennett, vice-pres.; H. A. Mor- gan, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, S. N. Kemp, J. C. Page, J. W. Angle and H. E. Dunlap, directors. Organized July 26, 1906, under laws of Arizona, ‘capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable; issued, $527,000.

Lands, 23 claims, 5 fractional, area 240 acres, and a 5-acre mill site, 2 miles northwest of Dragoon, in the Dragoon mountains. Property shows a contact deposit between pre-Cambrian limestone and altered schist, aver- aging about 15’ in width, and carrying azurite and malachite, associated with hematite. Ores carry an average of 2.7% copper. Development is by a 650” incline shaft, several shallower shafts ranging from 40 to 100’ in depth, and a 3,000’ tunnel, with about 5,000’ of workings, estimated by man- agement to show 160,000 tons ore in sight. Equipment includes a 15-h. p.

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gasoline hoist, good for 800’, a small air compressor, a machine shop, smithy and other necessary mine buildings. Property considered promising. CENTURY COPPER & GOLD MINING CO. NEW MEXICO

Office: Wheeling, W. Va. Mine office: Lordsburg, Grant Co., N. M: Lands, 6 claims, area 120 acres, in the Shakespeare camp, developed: by 3 shafts, deepest 100’. Equipment includes a small steam hoist, air com- pressor and several mine buildings. Presumably idle.

Century Development Co. North Carolina

Idle. Mine office: R. F. D. 1, Greensboro, Guilford Co, N- C. + W. B. Feakins, pres.; Frank F. Hesse, sec.-treas.; Chas. E. Dickens, supt., at last accounts. Organized under laws of Maine, capitalization $300,000, shares $10 par; issued, $138,000. Bonds, $10,000, authorized, at 6%; issued, $5,000. Annual meeting, third Tuesday in December.

Lands, 92 acres, freehold, known as the North Carolina or Fentress mine, said to have produced considerable ore of 14 to 20% copper tenor, previous to the American Civil War. Property shows 3 contact deposits, between granite and diorite, of 3 to 4 width, with outcrop traceable for 3 miles, having an oreshoot of 80 to 90’ length, carrying auriferous chalcopy- rite and pyrite in quartz gangue, values being mainly in gold. Management reports average assays of 8% copper, 3 oz. silver and up to $12 gold per ton. Mine has shafts of 269, 80’, 55’, 303’ and 175’, and a 431’ tunnel, with about 3,000’ of workings. Property was opened 1840, closed 1856, reopened 1900. Mine has a 250-h. p. steam plant, with a 50-h. p. hoist and 10-drill air com- pressor. There are 7 buildings, including a machine shop, carpenter shop, smithy, etc. The mill, of wood, has 10 stamps, built by the Mecklenburg Iron Works, and a Blake crusher.

Cerrito Mining Co, S. A. Mexico

Office: care Robt. Brooks, pres., Bisbee, Ariz. Organized Jan., 1909, under laws of Mexico, capitalization 100,000 pesos, shares 1 peso par, full paid, but assessable for taxes and legal expenses only. Annual meeting, second Monday in January.

Lands, well watered and timbered, formerly held by Brooks Consoli- dated Copper Co., and previously by Cochise Prospecting, Mining & De- velopment Co., are 251 hectares, in 3 groups, in the Tordillo district of the Sierra Ajo, 45 miles northeast of Cananea, Sonora, and near Naco, Ariz. The ore zone, of 200 to 600’ width, traceable 5,800’, shows oxide, carbonate and sulphide ores, latter predominating, with occasional small pockets of high-grade lead ore, latter carrying 16 to 42 oz. silver, copper ore being esti- mated to average 8% copper, 4% zine and $5 to $6 gold per ton. Develop- ment is by tunnels of 160’ and 670'. Idle, owing to lack of funds. Property considered promising.

Cerritos Mine. Mexico

J. P. Harvey and C. E. McCormick, owners, Ameca, Jalisco, Mex. Property the old Cerritos copper mine, recently under option to the Almoloya y Anexas Co., but relinquished 1912. A body of high-grade cop- per ore averaging better than 10% was cut on the 300’ level, Feb., 1913. The option price was $25,000. i CERRO AZUL MINING CO. MEXICO

Idle. Property is the Cerro Azul mine, near Imuris, Magdalena, Sonora, Mex., carrying copper ore, with gold and silver values.

CERRO DEL COBRE MINING CO. MEXICO y Idle and presumably moribund. See Vol. X. CERULEAN COPPER MINING CO. WYOMING

Office: 10 Fox Blik., Green Bay, Wis. G. W. Youngs, pres.; H. L. Lar- sen, vice-pres.; J. S. Armstrong, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, H. O. Gran-

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berg and O. T. Gilbert, directors. Organized July 21, 1906, under laws of Wyoming, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par; issued $682,000. Lands, 6 claims, 117 acres, patented, in the Battle Lake district, near Copperton, Carbon county, showing contact deposits between limestone and quartz, opened by seven 10’ pits, and shafts of 30’, 48’ and 65'. Idle since 1907.

Chainman Consolidated Copper Co. Nevada

Office: 14° Wall -<StjaNewrWork. o ‘Mine! officer East Ely, White Pine Co., Nev. Arthur Smith, resident agent. Percy Bullard, pres.; C. Kelleher, vice-pres.; F. W. Holmes, sec.-treas.; W. F. Boland, asst. treas.; preceding officers, H. A. Gray, F. E. Windsor and L. Timmerman, directors. Organized Feb. 4, 1907, under laws of Maine, capitalization $5,000,000, shares $5 par, nonassessable; fully issued. Is controlled by Consolidated Coppermines Co., through ownership of practically entire share issue.

Lands, 12 claims, partly fractional, partly patented, 2 miles from Ely. Mine was opened, 1869, for gold, but values turned to copper in the lower workings. The old mine has a 300’ shaft, with about 3 miles of workings, showing perhaps 200,000 tons of auriferous and slightly argentiferous iron ore. There is a strong surface showing of iron oxides, carrying $1.50 to $10 gold per ton, which apparently may be underlaid by large bodies of copper ore, and the iron ore should be valuable for flux, especially as it contains very fair average gold values. Apparently the old Chainman shaft has been abandoned, and mine is opened by 2 new shafts, known as the Aultman and Chamberlain, of 200’ each. Equipment includes steam and electric power and an air compressor.

Chalchihuites; Compania Beneficiadora De

Minerales De, S. A. Mexico

Office: Mexico, D. F. Mine office: Chalchihuites, Sombrerete, Zaca- tecas, Mex. Theo. Montgomery, pres.; Adolfo Trauwitz, sec.; Paul W. Meyer, treas. Organized March 6, 1907, under laws of Mexico, capitaliza- tion 50,000 pesos, as the Mexican incorporation of the National Smelting Co., and property is described under latter title.

Chalchihuites Mining Co., S. A. Mexico

Idle. Mine office: Chalchihuites, Sombrerete, Zacatecas, Mex. Milton R. Straight, pres.; Francis E. Agnew, vice-pres.; Jose de Ranchos, sec. Or- ganized Oct., 1909, under laws of Mexico. Property includes La Florencia, San Felipe and Ampliacion de Milagros mines, near Chalchihuites, carrying values mainly in silver. Operations suspended by revolution in 1912-13. CHAMPION COPPER CO. MICHIGAN

Office: 82 Devonshire St., Boston, Mass. Mine office: Painesdale, Houghton Co., Mich. Mill office: Redridge, Houghton Co., Mich. Wm. A. Paine, pres.; Chas. J. Paine, Jr., vice-pres.; Frederic Stanwood, sec.-treas.; Frederick W. Denton,’ gen. mgr.; preceding officers, Samuel L. Smith, Geo. P. Gardner, Nathaniel H. Stone and Hon. Richard Olney, directors; John Joily, underground supt.; Edw. Koepel, mill supt.; M. L. Cunningham. asst. mill supt.; H. F. Mercer, chief engr.; E. W. Kruka, chief clerk; John Tre- varrow, mg. capt.; W. J. Richards, master mechanic.

Organized Dec., 1899, under laws of Michigan, capitalization $2,500,000, shares $25 par. Is controlled jointly by Copper Range Consolidated Co. and St. Mary’s Mineral Land Co., through equal ownership of stock, and owns $110,000 stock in the Michigan Smelting Co. Net earnings were $909,- 383.88 in 1907; $777,480.14 in 1908, $816,637.55 in 1909, company ending 1912 with a surplus of $943,875.84. Dividends have been as follows: $3 in 1903; $2 in 1904; $10 in 1905; $12 in 1906; $10 in 1907; $5 in 1908; $8 in 1909; $9 in $1910; $5 in 1911, and $11 in 1912, a total of $75 per share, or $7,500,000.

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and S. W. Y of N: E. % of Sec. 31, T. 54 N., R. 35 W., practically all on the mineral belt. Neighbors are the Copper Range and Trimountain on the north, lands of St. Mary’s Co. and Hussey, Howe & Co. on the east; Hus- sey-Howe lands and the Globe tract on the south, and Copper Range lands on the west. The tract carries 9,047’ on the strike of the bed, and, at the present angle of dip, the deepest shaft could go down to the impossible depth of 18,950’ before reaching the western boundary.

Development was begun in 1899, under direction of Dr. L. L. Hubbard, and 3 parallel amygdaloidal beds were uncovered by trenching, one of which, the Baltic, showed phenomenal copper values. The 2 amygdaloids paralleling the Baltic bed showed copper in sufficient quantities to render their future exploration advisable. A fourth amygdaloidal bed, about 1152 wide, discovered 1901, east of the Baltic bed, carries heavy copper to an encouraging extent, and there also is a fissure vein of arsenical ore, appar- ently algodonite (copper arsenide) near “C” shaft. The width of this vein at surface is slight, and mineral contents variable, but on the second level the fissure is 2’ wide, and well mineralized.

The dip of the Baltic bed at the Champion is about 70° and strike same as at the Trimountain, not the easterly trend of the Baltic mine. The bed runs 13 to 45’ and averages 24’ width, carrying more epidote than at the Trimountain and Baltic. The surface of the tract is very hilly, but the over- burden is less than is found either to the northward or southward. The stretches of lean ground in the mine are few, and the bed carries heavy copper in profusion, mostly in barrel size, but running up to masses of 10 tons in weight. Only about 60% of the rock broken is-hoisted, waste rock being sorted out and used for dry walling, packing itself.

All shafts are connected on numerous levels and about 2 miles of new workings are made yearly. The bed shows so little poor ground that nearly every level will be opened from end to end of the mine, eventually giving the longest average drifts of any Lake Superior property. The only really poor ground found in the mine was shown in “E” shaft, between the 3d and 4th levels, and the mine shows some stopes of phenomenal width and rich- ness. The ground opened, 1912, was of average value.

The mine is developed by 4 shafts, named from north to south, with room for additional shafts. There is no “A” shaft; “B” shaft, the northern- most, is 1,835” south of the Trimountain boundary, with collar 635' above mean water datum of Lake Superior and is 2,356’ deep. “C” shaft, 1,050’ south of “B”, is 1,616’ above the lake and is 2,334” deep. “D” shaft, 1,300’ south of “C”, is 631’ above the lake and is 2,168” deep. “E” shaft, 1,300’ south of “B” and 3,900’ north of the Globe boundary, is 2,388’ deep. The third level of “E” shaft has been driven 3,000’ toward the Globe boundary. “F” shaft, started 1,300” south of “B,” was abandoned’ on account of treach- erous overburden, but the Baltic bed was located, 1907, by diamond drill, at a new site, 1,800’ south of “E,” and 2,100’ north of the Globe boundary.

The shafts are practically duplicates in all essential particulars, having 40x50’ shaft rock houses, with 90-ton ore bins, enlarged, 1908, by the Wis- consin Bridge & Iron Co. Equipment at each rock house includes a steam hammer for heavy copper, and one 12x15” rock crusher, taking everything hoisted from the mine direct from chutes. The shafts have duplicate first- motion Nordberg hoists with 24x60” duplex cylinders and double conical drums of 14’ diameter, with capacity for two 3,000’ cables each, hoisting 6-ton skips. The boiler houses have Bradley and Burt boilers, with coal trestles connecting. Water for boilers is furnished from a 12,000,000-gal. dam, 30’ from hardpan foundation to crest, with a cement core, 5’ wide ‘at the bottom and 2’ at the top, reinforced by rock.

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Very extensive use is made of electric power on surface, and there are some underground electric pumps. The electric plant at “F” shaft hás a 250-kw. General Electric generator, direct connected to an Allis-Chalmers cross-compound vertical engine.

The main compressor building at “F” shaft, of steel, has a 100-drili Nordberg quadruple expansion 2-stage air compressor, with capacity to compress 9,120 cu. ft. of free air per minute to a pressure of 70 lbs. per inch. The compressor operates at a steam pressure of 280 lbs., and has a regen- erative feed-water system. Power is furnished by three 250-h. p. Geary water-tube boilers.’ At “B” shaft there is a 40-drill Ingersoll-Sergeant cross-compound 2-stage air compressor with vertical receiver inter- cooler. The electric plant, with a 100-kw. generator, is in the main com- pressor building.

Buildings at the mine include a machine shop having a traveling crane and trolley rail for its entire length, with a 30-h. p. electric motor.

The stamp mill at Freda, on Lake Superior, 2 miles west of Redridge, is 215x400’, of steel frame on concrete foundation, with floors terraced, and an addition 75x270’, built 1912, houses the regrinding machinery. An ex- perimental graded crushing plant, described Vol. VII, has been abandoned, as were cross-compounded stamp heads, in 1906. The mill has been re- modeled and enlarged at various times, and now has 6 Nordberg stamps, there being 4 compound stamps, with 1514” cylinders, each treating about 700 tons daily, and 2 simple stamps, with 28” cylinders, of about 660 tons daily capacity each, giving the mill a total capacity of fully 4,000 tons daily.

The concentration department was remodeled, 1908, and given additional tables and larger settling tanks. The wash for the heads has Hodge gradu- ated adjustable-speed jigs, with plungers working simultaneously or alter- nately, in pairs, Woodbury jigs and Deister concentrating tables. Raggings are reground by Allis-Chalmers crushing rolls having 1 roll fixed and the other in a spring bearing. The preliminary discharge from the stamp heads is treated on very large jigs, having 30x48” sieves, of punched steel, with one-eighth inch openings, installed in connection with the head. Each head has a V-shaped settling tank, 40’ long, 9’ deep, 12’ wide at the top and 6” wide at the bottom, slimes being drawn from spigots at the bottom. The flow of water through the settling tanks does not exceed 6’ per minute.

The mill is heated by hot water from a Green fuel economizer, piped at 300 to 350° F, to a steel-clad chamber, whence heated air is drawn into ducts by a Sturtevant blower, and distributed through the mills, the water being pumped back to the economizers and thence fed to the boilers,

The steel boiler house has four 200-h. p. Stirling boilers, 5 Dutch oven Scotch marine boilers and 2 Hawley down-draft furnaces. Automatic stokers were tried, but discarded. Coal is brought to the boilers by tram, and reduced to uniform size by a grinder before feeding to the grates, and ashes are washed into the lake through a launder. Exhaust steam passes through dry condensers, thence to a hot well, from which water is fed to the boilers. Power for the mill is supplied by a 500-h. p. Nordberg cross- compound engine, having 14” and 32” cylinders, with 30” stroke, with a 180- h. p. engine in reserve.

The steel pump house, with truss roof and traveling crane, has a 20,000,000-gal. Nordberg triple-expansion pump. Water for the mill and boilers comes from the lake through a 1,020’ tunnel, the shore end having a well with bottom 8’ lower than the lake level, this being the longest tunnel ever driven under Lake Superior. The intake crib has an area of 45 sq. ft, and, with a second crib, the tunnel could furnish water for 10 stamps. Water cost is less than 1% cts. per ton of rock stamped. Screens have been

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installed in the tunnel, obviating the trouble formerly caused by sand and wood pulp in the water.

Rock stamped was 708,685 tons, returning 23.268 lbs. fine copper in 1907; 794,703 tons, returning 22.38 Ibs. in 1908; 753,908 tons, returning 23.88 lbs. in 1909; 722,051 tons, returning 26.62 lbs. in 1910; 734,392 tons, returning 21.29 ibs. in 1911, and 765,306 tons, returning 22.508 lbs. in 1912. Costs for 6 years have been as follows: 9.05 cts. per 1b. for finished copper, delivered, in 1907; 8.34 cts. in 1908; 8.45 cts. in 1909; 7.85 cts. in 1910; 9.63 cts. in 1911, and 8.88 cts. in 1912. Recent production has been as follows: 16,954,986 lbs. fine copper in 1906; 16,489,436 Ibs. in 1907; 17,786,763 lbs. in 1908; 18,005,071 Ibs. in 1909; 19,224,174 Ibs. in 1910; 15,369,426 Ibs. in 1911, and 17,225,508 lbs. in 1912, The Champion is one of the largest and richest of Lake Superior mines and has been admirably managed. The mine has by no means reached its ultimate limit of output, and is capable, with the present mining and milling equipment, of producing nearly or quite 25,000,000 lbs. fine cop- per yearly.

Champion Copper Co. New Mexico

Idle. Office: 22 Congress Sq., Boston, Mass. Mine office: Rinconado, Rio Arriba Co., N. M. Samuel Littlefield; pres.; Arthur M. Gripps, vice- pres.; Thomas A. Maloney, treas.; Wm. Q. Huey, gen. mgr., at last accounts. Organized under laws of Maine, capitalization $2,000,000, shares $1 par.

Lands, 5 claims, patented, area 100 acres, also four 5-acre mill sites and a 40-acre water right, on Copper hill, in the Copper Mountain district of Taos county, 9 miles east of Embudo, the nearest railroad station, and 25 miles northeast of Taos. Property is said to have 8 practically parallel veins of 18” to 20’ width, between a schist footwall and quartzite hanging wall, carrying cuprite, malachite and chrysocolla, succeeded at depth by chalcocite and gray copper, ore all argentiferous and auriferous, with chal- copyrite beginning to show in lower workings, all with quartz gangue. De- velopment includes a small amount of work in shallow shafts and surface cuts on several claims, a 145’ shaft sunk on a 4’ vein in the Oxide mine, and ` a 300’ tunnel, property as a whole having 1,800’ of workings. Equipment in- cludes a Leyner air compressor, in the mill, which is 50x100’ in size, with a 20x30’ power house adjoining. A 1,000 ground tram leads from the mouth of the Champion tunnel to ore bins. Improvements include a 15,300’ gravity pipe line, of 7” spiral steel-riveted pipe. Was not regarded favorably by the late Horace J. Stevens. . CHAMPION COPPER MINING CO. IDAHO

Idle. Office: 311 Sprague Ave., Spokane, Wash. Mine near Mullan, Shoshone Co., Idaho. Adam O'Donnell, pres. and mgr.; Wm. J. Coates, sec.; J. H. Wourms, treas.; preceding officers, Patrick Sullivan and F. C. Robinson, directors. Capitalization $1,500,000, shares $1 par, assessable. Lands, 6 claims, south of the Reindeer mine, 3 miles from a railroad, near the head of Boulder creek, on the southern slope of Stevens peak, 4 miles south of Mullan. Property'is said to show a mineralized zone of 75 to 100’ width, with a vein ranging up to 25’, carrying chalcopyrite and occasional bornite, said to average about 5%, with quartz and calcite gangue. De- velopment is by 2 tunnels, lower of about 900’.

Champion Mining Co. Idaho

Idle. Office: Utah National Bank Bldg., Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine office: Mackay, Custer Co., Idaho. Edw. R. Hall, pres.; C. T. Mixer, vice- pres.; R. T. Badger, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, O. D. Mallory and J. E. Frick, directors; H. A. Brown, supt. Organized 1905, under laws of Utah, capitalization $100,000, nonassessable. Lands, 9 claims, unpatented, in the

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Alder Creek district, 6 miles from a railroad, Mine is developed by tunnel, with about 1,500’ of workings, showing argentiferous lead and copper ores. ‘CHANCE COPPER MINING CO. NEVADA

Office: Payson, Elko Co., Utah. Leffler Palmer, pres.; A. O. Packard, treas.; R. A. Porter, sec., at last accounts. Organized Aug., 1911, capitaliza- tion $250,000, shares 25 cts. par. Property, 7 claims, in the Ferber mining district, developed by 50’ shaft. Presumably idle.

Chase Creek Copper Co. Arizona

Mine office: Clifton, Gréenlee Co., Ariz. Clarence K. McCornick, pres.; H. G. Smith, treas.; S. S. Campbell, mgr.; Isaac N. Stevens, supt. Capital- ization $5,000,000. Lands, 52 claims, area 1,040 acres, 8 miles west of Clifton, having a 2,300’ tunnel, 6x8’, on lands adjoining the Longfellow mine, cut- ting the Longfellow orebody, of concentrating grade, at a distance of 493’, having a back of about 900’, showing low-grade sulphide copper ore. Tun- nel practically reaches the Coronado railroad, permitting advantageous shipments. Was making small shipments to the Shannon smelter, early 1913. Property considered promising.

Checap Mining Co. Washington

Organized by Spokane capitalists in May, 1913, to operate the Checap , mine, Chewelah district, Stevens Co., Wash.

Chelan Consolidated Copper Co. Washington

Office: 180 Broadway, New York. Operating office: 417 Pacific Block, Seattle, Wash. Mine office: Leavenworth, Chelan Co., Wash. Hon. Jos. A. Goulden, pres.; Frank D. Wilsey, vice-pres.; Thos. J. Higgins, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, Henry D. Bristol, Edw. W. Kuhn, Albert T. La Vallette and Louis Arndt Stein, trustees; Michael J. Corcoran, asst. sec.-treas. Or- ganized May, 1906, under laws of Washington, capitalization $12,000,000, shares $10 par, nonassessable; issued, $5,779,140. Guaranty Trust Co., New

York, registrar. Annual meeting, first Tuesday in June. Company con- trols the North Star Mining Co. and operates its properties.

Lands, 144 claims, area 2,880 acres, including 14 claims, area 280 acres at Index, Snohomish Co., Wash., and 130 claims in the forest reserve of Che- lan county. Original promoters advertised the property as 101 producing mines, which was a colossal lie, but shareholders ousted these men and took control. The Chelan county property is 48 miles northwest of Red moun- tain, with a fair wagon road and an 18-mile railway of the Lamb-Davis Lum- ber Co. connecting.

The Index property, 11 claims, between the Ethel and Bunker Hill Sullivan mines, has a 4’ vein, opened by tunnels of 600’ and 700’, with about 2,000” of workings, showing a 6” paystreak of high-grade bornite and chal- copyrite ore.

The Red Mountain lands, unpatented, 4 miles west of Phelps creek, in- clude 67 claims owned outright, and 58 additional claims held through the North Star Mining Co., which is controlled through stock ownership. De- velopment is by a 2,000’ main tunnel, supplemented by 600’ of diamond- drill borings, showing a 5’ vein carrying good assay values in copper and gold, and 2 smaller veins. Equipment includes gasoline power and an In- gersoll air compressor, and there are 6 or 7 buildings. Company plans doing further diamond drilling, and developing an auriferous mispickel de- posit, on the Nora and adjoining claims.

Chemung Copper Co. New Mexico

James Wanless, receiver. Bought out, Aug. 18, 1912, by Phelps, Dodge & Co., and in process of dissolution, paying shareholders $1,381,072, or $6.16 per share. -

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CHENOWITH BROS. MEXICO Address: Nogales, Santa Cruz Co., Ariz. Owns the Josefina copper mine, near Santa Cruz station, on the Sonora-Cananea branch of the S. P. R. R. of Mexico.

Cherokee Copper Co. Michigan

Idle. Office: Houghton, Mich. Mine office: Lake Mine, Ontonagon Co., Mich. W. A. Hodgson, pres.; Linus Stannard, first vice-pres.; Deen L. Robinson, second vice-pres.; Wm. D. Calverly, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, J. H. Rice, B. M. Chynoweth and R. M. Edwards, directors; Herman W. Fesing, supt. Organized April, 1910, under laws of Michigan, capitalization $2,500,000, shares $25 par; issued, $1,750,000, of which 49,000 shares were given for lands, 5,000 shares went to the promoters, and 16,000 shares were sold to the public at $5.

Lands, 800 acres, being Sec. 2 and S. E. % of Sec. 3, T. 51 N., R. 57 W. Lands, lying between the Bohemia and King Philip, 1 to 2 miles southwest of the latter, formerly were owned by the Penn Mining Co., and later by the ill-starred Belt Mines Co., Ltd. Property, entirely on the mineral belt, for- merly included what is now the Lake mine of the Lake Copper Co., and carries upwards of a mile of the copper-bearing formation, presumably car- rying the Evergreen belt. There are old shafts of 70’ and 90’, and a little work was done thereon 1902. Present work is by diamond drilling, begun in the southeast, working backwards to the northwestern part of the tract. No. 6 drill hole cut a cupriferous amygdaloidal bed of 32’ width, of which 5’ carried good copper.

Cherry Creek Mines Co. Arizona

Idle. Mine office: Cherry, Yavapai Co., Ariz. H. A. Ingalls, supt, at last accounts. Main shaft, 115’, shows a vein with a 3’ paystreak giving as- says of about 12.5% copper, 4 oz. silver and $9.60 gold per ton. CHESHNINA MINES COPPER CO., INC. ALASKA

Office: 2026 Colby Ave., Everett, Wash. C. E. Russell, pres. and treas.; Ella M. Russell, sec. and Bethelen von Zeipel, mgr., at last accounts. Or- ganized 1912, capitalization $1,000,000. Property is said to be located at Cheshnina river, Alaska. No trace of operations secured. Not regarded favorably.

Chestatee Mine. Georgia

Idle many years. Property, 6 miles from Villa Rica, has a bedded vein of cupriferous pyrite of 22 to 30’ width, with paystreaks on either wall, outcrops being traceable 2,000’. Ore is said to average 3%, but probably averages about 1.5% in copper tenor only. Deserves prospecting, CHESTERFIELD COPPER CO. ARIZONA

Office: 410 Brown Bros. Bank Bldg., Philadelphia, Pa. Mine office: Twin Buttes, Pima Co., Ariz. H. N. Brown, pres.; J. W. Thompson, vice- pres.; C. E. Horney, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, T. C. Cary, Thos W. Jackson, Thos. Irving, Jessie Pinder, J. W. Stone and T. P. Fisher, directors; E. A. Pike, gen. mgr. Organized April 8, 1907, under laws of Arizona, cap- italization $3,500,000, shares $1 par; $2,975,101 issued. Annual meeting, sec- ond Saturday in April. Authorized, 1912, a $150,000 3-year 7% bond issue. General balance sheet, March 31, 1913, showed: Cash and accounts receivable, $1,731; machinery, supplies, etc., $7,387; bonds and stock in treasury, $463,035. Current liabilities, $13,095; other liabilities, $4,422.

Lands, 34 claims, area 680 acres, including the Tiger and Crown King groups, 5 miles from Twin Buttes, developed by the 487’ Crown King shaft, ‘showing pockets of galena. The 197’ Tiger No. 11 incline shaft is sunk on a fissure vein, carrying galena, with a shoot of silver-lead ore assaying about 20 oz. silver and the Esperanza shaft was 700’ deep, April, 1913. Ten

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pits show copper sulphides, and there are tunnels of 40’, 63’, 110’ and 296’. Equipment includes 9-h. p. and 25-h. p. gasoline hoists. Produced 84,591 Ibs. fine copper in 1911, of which amount 54,591 Ibs. was from ore smelted.

Property is not without merit, but certain advertising, apparently in- spired by the management, is not favorably regarded. In Aug., 1913, mine was shut down and reported as about to be sold to satisfy creditors. CHETICAMP COPPER CO.,LTD. . NOVA SCOTIA

Idle. Office: 37 Sackville St., Halifax, N. S. Mine office: Cheticamp, Inverness Co., N. S. Edward Staris, pres.; John W. Regan, sec.-treas.; Milton V. Grandin, supt., at last accounts. Organized May, 1904, under laws of Nova Scotia, capitalization $3,000,000, shares $1 par, as a merger of the Eastern National Copper Co., Ltd., and 3 other corporations.

Lands, 950 acres, freehold, also a 200-acre mill and smelter site, 1,000 acres timber lands, and 200 acres water frontage, with a government license for exploring and locating mines on 50 sq. miles.

Property shows a mineralized zone, in micaceous schist, of 350’ width, traceable 1% miles, carrying 4 orebodies, of which 3 are developed by a 200’ shaft and by tunnels of 25’, 35’ and 115’, claimed by company to show 250,- 000 tons of exclusively sulphide ore, averaging 2.5 to 3.5% copper, 18% lead, 30 oz. silver and $2 to $30 gold per ton. Nearest railroad is 38 miles, but mine is 5 to 6 miles only from tidewater. Property considered promising, though estimates of tonnage and values are excessive.

Chetko Copper Co. Oregon

Idle. Office: Ashland, Ore. Mine near Kerby, Josephine Co., Ore. C. W. Evans, pres. and gen. mgr.; C. C. Hicks, vice-pres. and supt.; A. E. Shepard, sec.-treas.; J. M. Keith, mine supt., at last accounts. Organized Aug. 10, 1905, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par; issued, $730,516.

Lands, 36 claims, area 720 acres, fairly timbered, and 2 water rights, all in Curry county, Oregon, about 70 miles from Grant’s Pass, the nearest railroad point. Property is said to show 8 orebodies, with 2 under develop- ment, 1 reported by company as of 240’ average width, traceable 114 miles, carrying native copper in schist, also covellite, bornite and chalcopy- rite, claimed by company as of 9% average copper tenor, with $4.75 gold per ton. Development is by shafts of 45’, 34’ and 80’, and by 6 tunnels, of 30 to 230’ length, with 969’ of workings, estimated by company to show 600,000 tons of ore, with 115,000 tons blocked out for stoping, all of which figures are regarded as excessive.

Chewelah Copper King Mining Co. Washington

Office: 115 Wall St., Spokane, Wash. Mine office: Chewelah, Stevens Co., Wash. S. P. Domer, pres. and gen. mer.; H. H. Hebert, vice-pres.; E. W. Shively, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, J. Grier Long and W. W. Dick- son, directors. Organized 1898, under laws of Washington, capitalization $100,000, shares 10 cts. par, changed 1909, to $1,000,000, shares $1 par, and increased, March, 1912, to $1,250,000; issued 1,136,230 shares. Bonds, $30,000 authorized at 8%; issued, $10,360. Annual meeting, third Thursday in May. Company negotiating for sale of property to Granby Consolidated M. & S. Co., Aug., 1913.

Lands, 4 claims, 1 fractional, area 47 acres, patented, and a 3-acre mill site, with 80 acres miscellaneous lands, 6 miles east of Chewelah, showing 4 orebodies, estimated widths of 8 to 56’, carrying mainly chalcopyrite and gray copper, both argentiferous and auriferous, with estimated values of 3 to 5% copper, 2 to 6 oz. silver and $1 to $2 gold per ton. Development is by a 300’ shaft, and tunnels of 1,200’ and 1,350’, estimated by management to

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show 300,000 tons of ore. Shipments to the Granby smelter, 1913, returned 8.65% copper and 41.6 oz. silver per ton. CHEWELAH COPPER MINING & SMELTING CO. WASHINGTON

Idle. Mine office: Chewelah, Stevens Co., Wash. W. H. Brownlow, pres.; R. A. Gage, vice-pres.; J. R. Pritchard, sec.; Geo. H. McCrea, treas.; preceding officers, J. R. Giles and A. H. Anderson, directors, at last ac- counts. Lands, 7 claims, 2 fractional, known as the Alberta group, opened by incline shafts of 50’ and 100’, showing sulphide ore reported to average 2.5% copper, 2 oz. silver and $5 gold per ton. Mine is wet. Equipment in- cludes a 250-h. p. steam plant, and an air compressor. Feb., 1909, company was trying to raise money to install a smelter, planned to be built in two 50- ton units, at estimated cost of $25,000. No recent returns secured. CHICAGO COPPER MINING CO. NEW MEXICO

Idle. Office and mine: Oscuro, Lincoln Cos N. M. E. G. Rafferty, pres., treas. and gen. mgr.; H. H. Miller, vice-pres.; H. E. Riddle, sec.; pre- ceding officers, H. R. Rafferty and M. Louis, directors. Organized Jan. 31, 1906, under laws of New Mexico, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $100 par, nonassessable. Lands, 22 claims, unpatented, 18 miles from a railway, in the Oscuro mountains, also real estate in Oscuro. Mine has a 60’ shaft, and tunnels of 60’, 120’, 222’ and 1,550’, with about 3,000’ of workings, from which former owners shipped several carloads of ore, said to have returned $270 per ton. Has steam power and a 2-drill Sullivan air compressor. CHICAGO COPPER REFINING CO. CALIFORNIA

Office: Kesner Bldg., Chicago, Ill. Mine office: Red Bluff, Tehama Co., Cal. Wm. Wrigley, Jr., pres.; A. G. Cox, vice-pres.; N. E. Guyot, sec. and supt.; Edw. Dickinson, treas.; preceding officers and Chas. P. Whitney, di- rectors. Organized Aug., 1908, under laws of Wyoming, capitalization $2,- 000,000, shares $5 par, nonassessable. Has no connection with the other Chicago Copper Refining Co., of Illinois. :

Property is a 99-year lease on the property of the California & Massa- chusetts Copper Mines Co. Lands, 72 claims, area 1,600 acres, unpatented, well timbered and watered, on Tom Head mountain, 25 miles west of Red Bluff known as the Tom Head mine. Property shows schists, cut by rhyo- lite dikes, carrying 3 veins, with gossans of 90 to 300’ width, 1 vein, of 30’ estimated average width, carrying chalcopyrite, associated with pyrite, es- timated to assay 2 to 3% copper, 0.5 oz. silver and $1.40 gold per ton. Prop- erty formerly was reported to carry bornite and native copper, and No. 3 tunnel is said to have given ore assaying up to 18% copper, with small gold values. Mine has tunnels of 45’, 355’ and 460’, with about 2,000’ of workings, estimated by management to show 250,000 tons of ore.

Equipment includes an 80-h. p. steam plant, with a small hoist and 4- drill Sullivan air compressor. Lands carry undeveloped water power esti- mated at 3,200 h. p. There is a 4,000’ sawmill, and 10 buildings. Manage- ment is said to plan a smelter. Property, though low in grade, gives evi- dence of having large orebodies. Superintendent reports, 1913, that “while property is intact and protected, work will not be resumed until Forestry Bureau exactions cease and smoke restrictions are modified so as to per- mit smelting.”

CHICAGO COPPER REFINING CO. ILLINOIS Bankrupt. Formerly at Blue Island, Ill. See Vol. X. CHICAGO EXPLORATION & DEVELOPMENT Co. MEXICO

Address: Mina Mexico, Sonora, Mex. W. E: Pomeroy, mgr.; Geo. Squire, smelter supt.; Chas. Gercken, mine supt. Property, 45 miles north- east of Tonichi, the end of a branch line of the S. P. de M. R: R, Mines produce silver-copper ore and concentrates,

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Smelter, 75 ton capacity, blown in Aug., 1913, with charcoal, to smelt 106 tons of 100 oz. copper concentrate, stored in bins.

Chief Consolidated Mining Co. Utah

Office: Houghton, Mich. Wm. P. Seager, sec.-treas. Mine office: Eureka, Juab Co., Utah. Walter Fitch, pres. and gen. mer.; Cecil A. Fitch, supt.; Walter Fitch, Jr., asst. supt.; Howard Fitch, engr. Other directors are J. H. Rice, W. A. Hodgson, F. W. Denton, Cecil Fitch and D. L. Robinson. Organized Feb. 16, 1909, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable; issued, $876,453. Is controlled through owner- ship of $500,000 stock, by American Mines Syndicate. Houghton National Bank, registrar; Boston Safe Deposit € Trust Co., transfer agent. Has about 1,800 shareholders. Stock is listed on the Boston curb. Annual meet- ing, third Tuesday in February. Has paid total dividends of $175,290 to end of 1913, initial dividend of 10% being paid in February. Management hopes to make semi-annual disbursement of 10%.

Company controls, through ownership of 95% of stock issue, the Eureka City Mining Co. From organization to Dec. 31, 1912, total receipts were $1,047,877 and disbursements were $744,854, company ending the year with $303,023 cash on hand.

Lands are 20 claims, and company also owns the mineral rights under

the city of Eureka, giving a total of 450 acres mining ground. Holdings are contiguous, and lie in the heart of the Tintic mining district. e The lands carry about 4,000’ of the strike of the Victoria ore channel, which has an extreme width of about 400’, the Victoria ore channel being on the Mammoth-Grand Central ore zone, and parallel to the Centennial- Eureka zone. The Victoria ore channel has a practically N.-S. strike, the ore occurring in pipes and shoots in nearly vertical lime ‘beds.

Mine is opened by an 1,800’ vertical shaft with about 20,000’ of workings, principal development being on the 1,000’, 1,200’, 1,400’ and 1,600’ levels. New openings made during 1912 total 5,576’; ore shipped in this period totaling 30,038 tons, yielding 7,682 oz. gold, 895,885 oz. silver and 817,090 Ibs. lead.

The plant has three 150-h. p. boilers, with mechanical stokers, 2 hoists and 15-drill and 10-drill Nordberg air compressors. The double-cylinder hoist has 6’ balanced drums, 1%” steel cable, and operates 2 triple-deck cages in balance, carrying 1-ton cars, to depth of one-half mile. Buildings include a power plant, housing the boilers, hoists and air compressors; a machine shop, carpenter shop, and a smithy, all of steel frame, the new buildings and machinery costing $60,000. Property considered valuable and management excellent.

Chief Group. Arizona

Office: care Bracy Curtis, owner, Nogales, Ariz. Claims, 1% miles northeast of the R. R. R. mine, are developed by tunnel showing copper, lead and zinc ore.

Chihuahua Copper Mining Co. Mexico

Office: Bearinger Bldg., Saginaw, Mich. B. W. McCausland, pres.; Ross D. McCausland, vice-pres. and gen. mgr.; Norman Rupp, sec.; E. G. Rust, treas.; preceding officers, F. G. Palmerton, Geo. W. McCausland and F. R. Messinger,” directors., at last accounts. Organized 1907, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,500,000, shares $10 par; fully issued. Annual meeting, third Tuesday in February.

Lands, 104 hectares, in the Chorreros, Santa Barbara and Carizalillo dis- tricts of Chihuahua. Properties show 3 orebodies, under development, re- ported as 3 to 8' wide and traceable 4 miles, carrying chalcopyrite, bornite and nickeliferous pyrrhotite ores, averaging 5% copper, 5 oz. silver and 0.6% nickel. The Justicia mine has a 200” shaft, other shafts being the Sidney

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of 100’, Bronces of 400’, and the Carizalillo shafts of 75’ and 100’, mine hav- ing 3,500’ of workings, claimed to show 100,000 tons of ore, with 75,000 tons blocked out.

The Hathaway mine, 18 miles south of Santo Domingo and 12 miles south of Falomir station, on the Kansas City, Mexico & Orient railway, has 2 small but persistent veins carrying rich copper sulphides.

Equipment includes a 25-h. p. steam plant, a 120-h. p. Otto suction gas producer, and two 60-h. p. Otto gas engines, also 25-h. p. and 35-h. p. hoists and an 8-drill air compressor.

The concentrator, of about 30 tons daily capacity, built of stone and timber, has a No. 4 Blake crusher and 2 jigs, producing concentrates of about 20% copper tenor.

The Hathaway mine has an old smelter, of antiquated design and equip- ment, of no value for modern uses.

Company planned sinking 3 new shafts, deepening present shafts, driv- ing a tunnel, building a power plant and concentrator, and possibly a small smelter. In Aug., 1908, was producing about 16 tons daily of concentrates of 15% copper tenor, and expected to reach a daily output of about 40 tons by 1909. Idle several years, on account of Mexican revolution.

Chile Copper Co. - New York

Office: 165 Broadway, New York. Daniel Guggenheim, pres.; Albert C. Burrage, vice-pres.; preceding officers, Murry Guggenheim, Isaac Guggenheim, S. R. Guggenheim, Simon Guggenheim, Pope Yeatman, William Loeb, Jr.; John N. Steele, Albert C. Burrage, Jr., Russell Burrage and William J. Maloney, directors. C. K. Lipman, sec.; L. Friedrich, treas. ‘Organized April 16, 1913, under laws of Delaware, capitalization $110,000,000, shares $25 par; issued, 3,800,000; 600,000 shares held in treasury for con- version of $15,000,000 7% gold bonds. Company owns the entire issued capital stock of the Chile Exploration Co. of New Jersey and its Chilean properties are described ‘under that title in Part II.

China Mountain Copper Co. Nevada

Office: Hugo, Okla. Mine office: Contact, Elko Co., Nev. W. F. Klitz, supt. Lands, sundry claims, unpatented, at the base of China mountain, slightly prospected, now under development by tunnel.

Chino Copper Co. New Mexico

Office: 25 Broad St., New York. Mine office: Hurley, Grant Co., N. M. Charles M. MacNeill, pres.; Col. Daniel C. Jackling, vice-pres. and gen. mer.; preceding officers, Charles Hayden, A. Chester Beatty, Berthold Hochschild. Sherwood Aldrich, Spencer Penrose, W. Hinckle Smith and Mark L. Sperry, directors; K. R. Babbitt, sec.; Keith Stewart, treas.; K. R. Babbitt, gen. counsel; John M. Sully, mgr.; Horace Moses, mine supt.; W. H. Janney, mill supt.; R. C. Gemmell, cons. mg. engr.; F. S. Janney, cons. mill engr.: George O. Bradley, cons. mech. engr. Organized Aug., 1909, under laws of Maine, capitalization $3,500,000, shares $5 par; increased to $4,000,000 June 30, 1911; and again increased to $4,500,000 April 2, 1912; of which 100,000 shares are reserved for conversion of bonds and 30,000 shares remain un- issued. Bond issue $2,500,000, first mortgage 6%, convertible to July 1, 1917, into stock at $25 per share. Is closely connected in*management and ownership with the Utah Copper Co. and Ray Consolidated Copper Co.’ An- nual meeting, third Friday in April. Paid initial dividend of 75 cts. per share, June, 1913, and a second dividend Sept. 9, of like amount.

The company owns and controls 131 claims, 2,412 acres, patented, at Santa Rita, title to which was derived from the Santa Rita Mining Co., since dissolved; also 13 claims, 231 acres, held by location and 160 acres, patented, agricultural land, making a total at Santa Rita of 2,803 acres.

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Area of lands owned and controlled at Hurley for mill site and water rights is 7,997 acres, 6,600 acres being owned outright and the remainder leased from the state and individuals.

The property is the old'Santa Rita del Cobre ‘mine, which is the oldest copper mine in, New Mexico, and one of the oldest in the United States, -having been opened, 1804, by Spaniards, and worked 1828-35 by a French- man who was reported to have made net profits of $500,000 therefrom. In the early days only the rich streaks were mined and ore was sent by pack trains to Mexico. The mine was abondoned, 1820, owing to the Mexican revolution, and reopened 1828, closed down 1835, and again reopened 1860, since which time it has been a spasmodic producer.

The property occupies a basin at the foot of the Santa Rita mountains, showing quartz-diorite and andesite-porphyry. Diorite forms practically all of the rim of the basin on the east, north and west, dipping in a generally southeastern direction, under the extrusive flows constituting the south and southeast rims. The sedimentaries consist of a quartzite bed, overlying a series of impure limestones. The andesite-porphyry, a later intrusion, cuts both diorite and the sedimentaries, the orebodies being associated with ande- site-porphyry. Both intrusives and sedimentaries are much shattered, giving ideal conditions for secondary enrichment.

The old workings, very irregular, have considerable high-grade ore de- veloped and include No. 8 shaft, 214’ deep, with 2 compartments: the 300’ two-compartment No. 9 shaft; the 300’ No. 7 shaft, showing ore ranging from chalcocite and native copper to low-grade sulphides, principal values being developed in the latter, but having a considerable amount of high- grade ore to serve as a sweetener for the low-grade disseminated ore.

The ore deposit is a belt of horseshoe form, some 7,000’ in length, with average width of about 500’, carrying disseminated ores in the shattered country rock near the intrusives, ore being mainly disseminated sulphides, largely chalcocite, with some native copper, in andesite-porphyry and quartzite. Property is being proven by churn-drilling, about 8 holes to the acre, checkerboard fashion, holes averaging about 385’ in depth, and oc- casionally being much deeper, ore proven as a rule being low in grade, with occasional streaks of high-grade ore. The disseminated ore of commercial grade runs much deeper than in other porphyry mines developed so far, ore having been found to a depth of 1,600’ by borings in the Hearst-Carasco section. The mine was estimated Jan. 1, 1913, to have about 90,000,000 tons of ore developed, averaging slightly in excess of 1.8% copper, about 90% being available for open-pit mining by steam shovels. About 500 acres have been prospected, more or less thoroughly, with strong chances of consider- able ore remaining in the unexplored portions of the territory.

Practically all of the present tonnage is being taken in nearly equal pro- portions from what are known as the Romero-Texas, Flat-Whim Hill and Hearst orebodies, which are composed of the component ore zones described in Vol. X.

The mine has 16,000-ton ore bins and electric power is used mainly. There are 7 steam shovels, 15 locomotives and about 100 dump cars. For breaking ground, holes averaging about 30’ deep are bored by Cyclone drills and charges fired by blasting machines.

The concentrating mill is at Hurley, 9 miles from the mine, on the Santa Rita branch of the Santa Fe railway. Originally planned for three 1,000-ton units, 2 more were added during the construction and the mill now has a nominal capacity of 5,000 tons per day. The first unit went into operation in Oct., 1911, and ore was running through the 5th and last sec- tion on Nov. 28, 1912. Five sections are now completed, but only 4 have

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been running at any one time, due to taking out of operation successively the first 3 sections for slight alterations to conform to improvements made into the last 2 units. j

The plan of the mill is essentially the same as that of the mill of the Utah Copper Co., and equipment of the first 3 sections includes 1 set of 72x20” rolls, 6 sets of 16x42” rolls, 9 large Garfield Chilean mills, 9 smaller Garfield Chilean mills, 6 sets of Garfield jigs, 24 Garfield tables, 18 Wilfley tables and 450 Frue vanners. Equipment for the 4th and 5th sections is practically identical. The power plant includes three 1,250-kw. generators, direct-driven by three 1,250-h. p. Corliss engines. Water is secured from the underflow along the Lone Mountain draw, with an 85x200’ reservoir near Apache Tejo, and with available water on Whiskey and Cameron creeks. The company is said to also plan developing another water supply on the Central City draw, 8 to 10 miles from the mill, pumping water therefrom into a central station and thence to the Apache Tejo reservoir.

The town site at the mill includes an office building, store, shops and dwellings. There is also a town built up around the mines.

Production in 1912 was 29,237,966 gross lbs. of copper from 1,120,375 tons of ore of an average grade of 2.077% copper. The cost per 1b. of cop- per for the year, without crediting miscellaneous income, was 7.69 cts. per lb. The average grade of concentrates was 21.20% copper, reducing 16.56 tons of ore into 1 of concentrates, with a recovery of values at the mill of 61.63%, which will probably be considerably higher after the more oxi- dized ores, which very largely entered into 1912 output, are all mined. Dur- mg the greater part of 1912 only 3 sections of the mill were in operation, with 4 sections operating from September to December, both inclusive. The output for the first 8 months of 1913 has been 34,858,746 lbs. fine copper, with an average production of about 4,000,000 lbs. per month and an August record of 6,050,867 lbs. From the present rate of production, operating only 4 sections of the mill, it is estimated that the property is capable of pro- ducing 60,000,000 to 65,000,000 gross lbs. of copper per year with the mill at maximum capacity. Results for 1912, the first full year of Chino’s oper- ating history, have amply fulfilled expectations and prove that Chino, with its present developed tonnage, will for a great many years be in the fore- front of the large low-cost producers among the so-called porphyries. CHIRIPA y ANEXAS; MINAS LA. MEXICO

Mine office: Zimapan, Hidalgo, Mex. Leon Lamaire y Ca., owners. Properties are, La Chiripa, La Pretoria, La Mutua and El Moro mines, carrying argentiferous lead and copper ores, and there is a small smelter. Employed about 50 men at last accounts, 1911.

Chisna Consolidated Mines Co. Alaska

Office: 263 La Salle St., Chicago. Mine office: Landlock, Alaska. E. Meers, pres.; Jos. Kreis, vice-pres. and gen. mgr.: Chas. Kreis, sec.-treas.; Dr. E. T. Griffith, supt.; preceding officers, J. F. Quinn, Jas. Shaka and A. B. L. Gellermann, directors. Organized April, 1906, under laws of Wash- ington, as successor of Central Alaska Gold € Copper Co., capitalization $5,000,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable: issued, $3,500,000, in 1911.

Lands are’ 42 claims, patented, in 4 groups, on Landlock bay, near Valdez. The Steinmetz group has a 50’ shaft, formerly reported to be in a vein 150’ wide, averaging 7% copper, and now claimed to be 225’ wide, 4,500’ long, and to carry chalcopyrite averaging 5% copper, 4 oz. silver and $1.66 gold per ton, which figures are considered exaggerated. Ore is highly silicious, and development is mainly opencast.

Equipment includes a Pelton wheel, direct-connected to a 60-h. p. dynamo, and a small hoist.’ There are several buildings and a small saw-

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mill, also having a Pelton wheel. Company, 1913, reported out of funds and outlook gloomy, but property is not without promise. CHOIX CONSOLIDATED MINING CO., LTD. MEXICO

Office: 516 Grant Bldg., Los Angeles, Cal. Mine office: Choix, Sina- loa, Mex. R. A. Thomas, pres.; A. E. Pomeroy, first vice-pres.; C. J. Hey- ler, second vice-pres.; J. R: Thomas, sec.; A. M. McDermott, supt.; pre- ceding officers, Leslie F. Gay, W. W. Thomas and W. B. Simmons, direc- tors. Organized May, 1902, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $5,000,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable; issued, $3,155,534. Is protocolized under laws of Mexico. Owns 45% of the stock issue of Los Platanos Development Co. Annual meeting, first Monday in October.

Lands, 453 hectares, and a 500-acre smelter site, some distance from a railway, on both sides of the Rio Fuerte, in El Fuerte district of Sinaloa and Urique district of Chihuahua. Orebodies are claimed to measure 50 to 300’ in width, occurring as contact deposits between diorite and lime- stone, with fissure veins in granite and quartzite carrying gold and silver. Property includes several antiguas. ;

Shipments 1900-02, of 1,062 tons of ore, to the Aguascalientes smel- ter, gave returns of 19.5 to 28% copper, with gross values of $127,915.44 and net values of $47,940.61.

A smelting plant of 100 tons daily capacity, purchased 1911, has been received, but not installed owing to revolutionary disturbances in Mexico. CHOLONA COPPER CO. NEVADA

Mine in Humboldt Co., Nev. J. P. Olsen, gen. mgr. Reported to show oxide ore from which shipments are being made. Development by various old workings with 65’ winze said to be in ore. A new 2-compartment shaft, now 50’ deep, is to be sunk to 200’ and.a drift at 50” is developing an oxide seam. Mine has been working since June, 1913.

Chrisman & Globe Mining Co. Arizona

Mine office: Globe, Gila Co., Ariz. Isaac Chrisman, pres. and gen. mgr. Lands are variously reported as 7 claims and as 25 claims, northeast of the Arizona & Michigan and one-half mile east of the Superior & Globe. Prop- erty includes a mine location known as Cameron, with about 15 buildings. Mine has a tunnel, showing ore carrying a little copper, with good silver values. Property was under development, by lessees, 1910. Presumably idle.

Cieneguita Consolidated Mines. Mexico

Office: 25 Broad St., New York. Is a reorganization of the Cieneguita Copper and Cieneguita Securities companies. James F. Whitney, pres.; Frank Fritz, vice-pres.; R. C. Davenport, sec.; preceding officers, Theodore Martin, Geo. D. Christy, R. W. Campbell and David Angus, directors.

Property; 1,100\hectares, about 40 miles southwest of Sahuaripa, So- nora, is covered by rhyolitic rocks, mostly fragmental and cut by a diabase dike. The Chipiona and the Cargona groups lie close together and the Ostimuri-Tayapa group about 2 miles to the southeast. The rocks are cut by vertical veins, 1 reported to be from 3 to 50’ wide, traceable 3 miles and to carry ore shoots averaging about 214% copper and 40 oz. in silver.

Development mainly by tunnels, one of 1,200’ with 2 shallow shafts and a total of about 3 miles of workings. These workings are not sufficient to block out any large amount of ore, but show that the property has merit and may develop into a large mine. i

Equipment includes 100-h. p. steam plant, a 6-drill compressor and all necessary mine buildings and houses for employes.

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nace and two 50-ton reverberatory furnaces, burning wood. Smelting plant inadequate and poorly adapted for the ore.

The past history of the company has been decidedly crooked, and, coupled with poor transportation and lack of developed ore, caused the old company to go into bankruptcy. The relationship of the 3 old companies is fully discussed, Vol. X. The new company starts out with a good board and has the advice of a competent engineer, Frank H. Probert, which, if followed, should bring the company to a profitable stage.

Cimarron Mountain Mining Co. New Mexico

Idle. Office: 13 Dodge Blk., Lansing, Mich. Mine office: Cimarron, Colfax Co., N. M. Hon. Justus S. Stearns, pres.; C. C. Hopkins, vice-pres.; F. S. Porter, sec.-treas. Organized Oct. 24, 1904, under laws of New Mex- ico, as successor of Consolidated Verde Mining € Milling Co., capitalization $2,000,000, shares $1 par; issued, $1,800,000.

Lands, 65 acres, patented, in the Cimarron district of the Maxwell land grant, 35 miles from Springer, the nearest railroad station, with good wagon road connecting. Claims'show gossan of limonite and honeycomb quartz carrying gold values and copper stains. Has 1,500’ of workings, mainly tunnels. Practically no work has been done by present company, and property has been shut down since 1905.

Cinco De Mayo Mining & Smelting Co. Mexico

Idle. Office: San Antonio, Tex. Mine near Descubridora, Mapimi, Durango, Mex. Alfred Van der Stucken, pres.; E. Harms, vice-pres. and gen. mgr.; G. C. Carothers, sec.; Douglas Muir, gen. mgr.; Geo. B. Smith, supt., at last accounts.

Lands include the Parandera and Mimbre mines, both copper proper- ties, the former having 100’ and 300’ shafts, developing high-grade oxidized copper ores, estimated to average 8% in a limestone-porphyry contact. To Feb., 1908, company had shipped 50 carloads of ore, from development work, to the Torréon smelter, which was said to have paid costs.

City Rocks Mining Co. - Utah

Office: Leopold Bldg., Houghton, Mich. N. W. Haire, pres.; John Ed- wards, vice-pres.; Jas. P. Edwards, sec.-treas.; W. S. Zehring and Jos. Bosch, directors. Organized 1906, under laws of Utah, capitalization $1,000,- 000, shares $5 par. Has an issue of convertible bonds. Property consists of shareholdings in the Michigan-Utah Mining Co., received for lands sold in 1912.

Clara Barton Mine. Montana

Mine office: Delpine, Meagher Co., Mont. S. Southworth, mgr., at last accounts. The mine, at Spring creek, 20 miles from the Chicago, Milwau- kee € Puget Sound railroad, has a 400” shaft, with stoping in progress on the 400’ level. Mine shipped chalcopyrite ore averaging about 20% copper, after sorting, a distance of 20 miles to the railway a few years ago. Is in- active, awaiting transportation facilities.

Clara Cons. Gold & Copper Mg. Co. Arizona

Declared bankrupt, Jan. 27, 1912. Reorganized as the Swansea Con- solidated Gold & Copper Mining Co., receiving 1,500,000 shares of the total of 4,000,000 shares for the transfer of the property with its indebtedness and liabilities. A suit was filed against the Clara Consolidated in Oct., 1912, by George Mitchell, former president, for $75,000, and by Mary Mitchell for ejectment from several mining claims valued at $25,000 and the recovery of $200 a month rental therefrom. At last accounts, this suit had not been settled,

Clark Mine. Michigan

Idle. Office: care Dr. Léon Estivant, owner, 47 Ave. de Alma,

CLARK TAYLOR—CLEOPATRA 239 Paris, France. Mine office: Copper Falls, Keweenaw Co., Mich. Fred W. Nichols, agt. Lands, 2,433 acres, including mines formerly known as the Clark, Bell and Montreal, lying about 3 miles south of Copper Harbor, be- tween Lake Fannie Hooe on the north and Breakfast lake on the south, including Lake Manganese. Mine, opened 1858, for copper, had a 16-stamp gravity mill, built 1874, run by water power from Lake Manganese, mill now being dismantled.: Property also carries a promising 2’ vein of pyro- lusite, average of assays, 1900, by Duparc, of Geneva, giving 55.73% manga- nese and 1.36% copper. Has shipped about 1,200 tons of high-grade man- ganese ore. Was tested, 1905, and again, 1910, by diamond drills. Was under option, 1910, to United States Smelting, Refining & Mining Co. Fully described Vol. II. CLARK £ TAYLOR GROUP. ARIZONA Property, near Globe, Ariz., comprises about 400 acres, under option, 1913, to Arizona Commercial Copper Co. CLAYTON MINING € SMELTING CO. IDAHO Idle. Mine office: Clayton, Custer Co., Idaho. Laurence Green, gen. mgr., at last accounts. Lands, 18 claims, showing argentiferous copper and lead ores. Has water power and a smelter rated at 50 tons. Shut down several years. CLEARWATER GOLD & COPPER MINING CO. IDAHO Office: Wallace, Idaho. Mine office: Clearwater, Shoshone Co., Idaho. Samuel Seidenfeld, mgr.; Dennis Reardan, supt. Organized 1907, under laws of Idaho, capitalization $2,500,000, shares $5 par. Lands, 12 claims, in- cluding the Cunningham group, on the north fork of the Clearwater river, 20 miles south of Wallace, nearest rail point, with a wagon road connect- ing. Property shows a vein said to be traceable 5 miles, 1 mile on com- pany’s lands, carrying oxidized ores near surface, with chalcopyrite and chalcocite at depth, giving assays of 5 to 15% copper and 3 to 20 oz. silver per ton. Development is by 3 tunnels, lower tunnel, 1,400’ long, cutting the ledge 1,500’ below surface. This work is reported to have developed 300,000 tons of 5% ore carrying $2 gold and 3 oz. silver per ton. Equipment includes a hoist and air compressor. CLEOPATRA COPPER CO. ARIZONA Office and mine: Jerome, Yavapai Co., Ariz. Hon. Geo. W. Hull, pres., treas. and gen. mgr.; Mary A. Hull, sec.; H. M. Pender, supt. Organized 1902, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $4,000,000, shares $1 par. Property under bond and lease, 1913, to Frederick S. Stephen, of Glasgow, Scotland, and associates, who will reorganize company and develop mine, Lands, 13 claims, 11 patented, area about 206 acres, shortly south of the United Verde, showing fissure and gash veins carrying ores assaying 1 to 65% copper and 1 to 500 oz. silver per ton, with fair gold values. Has 6 shafts, of 25 to 150’ depth, and 9 tunnels, the Dillon tunnel, of 3,200’ length, planned to connect with the “1888” shaft, showing a 3’ vein of argentiferous and auriferous copper sulphide, of good average tenor. The Dillon tunnel passes through the Cleopatra into lands of the Hull Copper Co., and latter has permission to use the tunnel through the Cleopatra tract. Some good ore has been taken from crosscuts driven from the Dillon tunnel, but apparently no commercial orebodies have been developed thereby. New work, April, 1913, in an open cut on the top of the mountain is reported to have exposed 30’ of commercial ore. Equipment includes a steam and electric plant, with a 30-h. p. electric hoist and 12-drill air compressor. A 50-ton smelter, built 1906, was not blown in, management stating, on account of lack of iron fluxes,

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CLEOPATRA GROUP. OREGON & CALIFORNIA .Property, near Galice, Josephine Co., Ore., and sundry claims in Del Norte Co., Cal., comprises 45 claims and a 40-acre mill site. F. H. Osgood and Col. J. S. Crawford, owners. Lands are in an isolated district, diffi- cult of access, and only slightly developed, showing auriferous and argenti- ferous copper ore, and native copper in masses up to several hundred- weights. A CLEVELAND GROUP OF MINES & MILL. NEW MEXICO:

Office: care Geo. H. Utter, owner, Silver City, N. M. Lands, 6 claims, area 120 acres, patented, and a mill site, 8 miles north of Silver City, on the west slope of the Pinos Altos mountains, show limestone cut by in- trusive dikes of diorite and andesite. Ore occurs in bedding planes in the limestone, varies from a foot or two up to 50' in thickness, with a generally

northeast strike and a dip of 15”. Development is by several tunnels and pits, exposing copper carbonates and oxides, carrying up to 6% copper, 20% zinc, 3 oz. silver and $1 gold per ton, ores being complex and highly zinciferous. The mine has about 2,000’ of workings, and.is said to show 200,000 tons ore developed.

Equipment includes a 50-ton concentrating plant, installed 1911. CLEVELAND MINING CO. UTAH

Idle. Office: 409 Hooper Bldg., Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine office: Eureka, Juab Co., Utah. Samuel McIntyre, Jr., pres.; Samuel McIntyre, Sr., vice-pres. and treas.; R. M. Wilkinson, sec. Organized Jan. 12, 1892, under laws of Utah, capitalization $500,000, shares $5 par, fully issued. Is controlled, through stock ownership, by Mammoth Mining Co. Lands, 3 claims, patented, showing auriferous and argentiferous lead and copper ores, very slightly developed.

Cliff Copper Mine. - Alaska

Near Valdez, Alaska. Was operated and shipments made during 1912. Developed to 500’ depth. 5 CLIFF MINING CO. MICHIGAN

Office: 12 Ashburton Place, Boston, Mass. Operating office: Calumet, Mich. Mine office: Phoenix, Keweenaw Co., Mich. Rodolphe L. Agassiz, pres.; Quincy A. Shaw, vice-pres.; Geo. A. Flagg, sec.-treas.; Jas. Mac- Naughton, gen. mer.; preceding officers, Francis L. Higginson, Francis W. Hunnewell, Thos. N. Perkins and Clarence H. Bissell, directors. Organized Jan., 1910, under laws of Michigan, capitalization $2,500,000, shares $25 par; issued, $1,500,000, $13 paid in. Is controlled through ownership of 19,400 ‘shares, by Calumet & Hecla Mining Co. Ended 1912 with $63,074 cash, and accounts payable of only $1,046. State Street Trust Co., Boston, registrar; American Trust Co., Boston, transfer agent. Annual meeting, first Satur- day in May. Company’s report for 6 months ending June 30, 1913, shows expenditures of $9,375; balance of interest receipts of $965, leaving net ae $8,410. Balance of assets, $54,161, against $62,571 on Dec. 31,

Lands include the Cliff mine proper, and the South Cliff, connected underground on the 3d level. The Cliff mine, 2 miles northeast of the Ojib- way, is the oldest mine in the Lake Superior district, having been opened 1846, closed 1870, again reopened 1872, and abandoned 1878, paying divi- dends, 1849-79. of $2,518,620. The old mine was opened on a fissure vein crossing the bedded formation at practically right angles, and was pretty thoroughly worked out before the property was abandoned. The main fissure vein of the old mine had several feeders, and a number of independ- ent fissure veins, including the West vein, which was rich in copper near

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surface, and the East Cliff vein, about an eighth of a mile east of the main vein. The old Cliff was notably rich in native silver,

The Cliff carries the Kearsarge amygdaloidal bed for about 2 miles, and for practically unlimited depth, the shaft being a trifle less than 2 miles from the most northerly shaft of the Ojibway, which is the nearest opening on the Kearsarge lode. The Tamarack Mining Co., which owned the Cliff until 1910, secured a complete geological cross-section of the tract, by dia- mond drilling, 1903-07, the Kearsarge bed being located by 12 drill holes, the majority of which were said to show commercial values, and, in addition, the property carries about 20 other amygdaloidal beds, under the greenstone bluff, which is such a prominent. feature of the landscape, rising to a height of several hundred feet. A temporary vertical shaft, with a single com- partment, started Aug., 1910, was 217’ deep, July, 1913, entering the bed near the hanging wall of the Kearsarge, the ground being considerably disturbed at this point. Work in this shaft was abandoned during the first half of 1913, as the Kearsarge vein at this place proved narrow, dry and barren. A contract has been let to drill the beds eastward in the hope of finding a profitable vein towards the Eastern sandstone.

The Cliff was the first mine ever opened on native copper, and produc- tion, 1845, was 19,903 Ibs., which was the first commercial output of copper from Lake Superior. Total production, 1845-82, was 38,054,340 Ibs. fine copper.

The old waste burrows of the Cliff, which are extensive, were leased, on royalty, to Henry Warren, who built an 8-stamp gravity mill, but failed to make the venture pay.

Buildings include a power house, with boilers, duplex hoist, and a 5-drill air compressor. Other buildings are a smithy, changing house, combina- tion office and warehouse, boarding house and a number of dwellings. The mine is reached by the Keweenaw Central railway.

Clifton Copper Belt Mining Co. Utah

Idle. Office: 24-26 West Second So. St., Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine office; Callao, Juab Co., Utah, Clyde H. Wilson, pres.; Frank L. Wilson, sec.- treas. and gen. mgr. Capitalization $25,000, shares 5 cts. par. Lands, in the Deep Creek district, are traversed by a big porphyry dike, in which a shaft is sinking, showing argentiterous galena assaying up to 34.4 oz. silver per ton. Property carries several veins of argentiferous copper and lead ores, with quartz gangue, and has secured ore assaying up to 35. 5% copper, 9 oz. silver and $1.20 gold per ton. Property also shows ore carrying nickel, tin and bismuth, values of property as a whole apparently being mainly in silver-lead and auriferous bismuth.

Clifton Gold & Copper Co. Arizona

Idle. Office and mine: Clifton, Greenlee Co., Ariz. A. S. Rosecrans, mer., at last accounts; LaMar Cobb, cons. engr. Organized Aug., 1907. Lands include the Oregon group, having a shaft showing ore of 5 to 8% copper tenor, on the 150’ level.

Climax Group Mining Co. Washington

Idle. Office: Spokane, Wash. Mine near Baring, King Co., Wash. J. J. Browne, pres.; J. W. Douglas, vice-pres.; Frank P. Smith, gen. mgr., at last accounts. Orbanived under laws of Washington, capitalization $1,500,- 000, shares $1 par. Lands, 9 claims, area 180 acres, also a 20-acre mill site, in the Index district. Country rocks are granite and diorite, showing sev- eral contact veins, of which 2 are developed by a 37’ shaft, 2 short tunnels and a 345’ tunnel not yet in ore. Ores are bornite and chalcopyrite, giving assays of 3 to 34% copper, 20 to 70 oz. silver, and from a trace to $6 gold ° per ton. Cloted down many years.

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Idle. Mine office: Granite, Chaffee Co., Colo. B. H. Pelton, pres., at last accounts. Property is the Spondulix mine, opened by a shaft showing auriferous and argentiferous copper ore.

Coahuila Mining & Smelting Co., Ltd. Mexico

Office: 614 Penobscot Bldg., Detroit, Mich. Operating office: Apartado 72, Monterey, N. L., Mex. Mine office: Jimulco, Viesca, Coahuila, Mex. H. T. Ambrose, pres.; Frank J. Llewellyn, vice-pres.; Walter E. Parker, sec. and gen. mgr.; Archibald Cattell, treas.; preceding officers, J. Kirby, Jr., Sidney B. Cohn and C. F. Jennings, directors; J. C. Treadwell, supt.; Alex. McCormick, mine supt.; Harry Reed, mill supt. Organized Jan., 1902, under laws of Mexico, capitalization $500,000 gold, shares $1 par, nonassess- able; fully issued. Dividends have been as follows: 10% in 1902; 6% in 1904; 29% in 1905; 30% in 1907; 10% in 1909 and 16% in 1910, a total of 101%, or $505,000. Annual meeting, first Wednesday in February.

Lands include holdings in the Mapimi, Viesca and San Juan de Guada- lupe districts. Properties include the Santa Maria, Sultana and other mines at Jimulco, carrying auriferous and argentiferous topper and lead ores, opened by a 700’ main shaft, and a 1,000’ main tunnel, with steam and elec- tric-power. The Alberto mine, in the Mapimi district, was said to have made regular shipments of high-grade ore to the Mapimi smelter, 1910. Apparently the Filipinas group, at San Sostenes, Coyame, Iturbide, Chihua- hua, Mex., has been abandoned. A 250-ton smelter, with steam and elec- ttic power, connected with the mines by rail, was blown in, early 1903, but has not been operating regularly, and was idle, 1909-13. The revolution in Mexico has practically stopped all mining in Coahuila and mines closed down until peace and safety again prevail.

Coast Range Copper Co. Oregon

Office and mine: Roseburg, Douglas Co., Ore. Organized Jan. 16, 1903, by T. R. Sheridan, et al., under laws of Oregon, capitalization $25,000, shares $50 par. Idle and apparently no work ever done.

Cobre; Compañía Minera El. Mexico

Idle. Office: Calle de Santa Teresa 6, Mexico, D. F. Mine office: Jung- peo, Zitacuaro, Michoacan, Mex. Alfred Stoffel, pres.; M. Herrle, sec.; E. Albert Armour, treas. Organized March 7, 1907, under laws of Mexico, capi- talization 95,000 pesos. Property is El Cobre y Anexas mines, carrying gold, silver and copper ores.

Cobre Gold Mining Co. Oregon

Mine office: Illahe, Curry Co., Ore. Lands, 12 claims, 5 miles south of the Rogue river, having several open cuts and a shallow shaft. Pre- sumably idle.

Cobre Grande Copper Co. Mexico

Office: care S. A. Stemmons, sec., Park Hotel, Dallas, Tex. Mine near Cabulonna station, on the Nacozari railroad, about 18 miles from Douglas, Ariz. George E. Megert, pres.; Jas. W. Crotty, vice-pres.; Sam Dysterbach, treas.; preceding officers, J. I. Nichols, J. H. Whattler and H. P. McKnight, directors. Organized Feb. 1, 1907, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $3,000,000, shares $1 par; issued $1,500,000. Annual meeting, second Thurs- day in April.

Property, 28 claims, patented, 72 acres, near Fronteras, Arizpe district, Sonora, shows a 3’ vein of copper-silver ore, developed by 10 shafts, deepest 165. Idle since 1912 on account of revolution.

Cobre Grande Mines. ‘Arizona

Albert S. Cooper, mgr. Wheeler & Shaw, Boston, Mass., owners.

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Property, 14 claims, in Clark district, Graham Co., Ariz., 23 miles west of Fort Thomas in the Santa Teressa mountains, developed by open cuts and adit tunnels, is said to show a considerable tonnage of 5% ore. Machinery was to be installed and property developed, 1913. Property was sold for $100,000, payments by installments for 2 years.

COBRIZA DE COBRE; LA. MEXICO 6 See La Cobriza de Cobre. COBRIZA y ANEXAS; COMPAÑÍA MINERA LA. MEXICO

Mine office: Alamos, Sonora, Mex. D. Manuel Salazar y Perron, pres. and gen. mgr.; Dionisio Acosta, sec. Organized under laws of Mexico, capi- talization 250,000 pesos; issued, 24,000 pesos. Lands, 50 hectares, including La Cobriza mine, having a 75-meter main shaft, and a 225-meter main tun- nel, showing ore with values mainly in copper. La Continuacion de la Cobriza and La Magdalena are virgin properties. Presumably idle. COCHISE COPPER CO. ARIZONA

Mine near Johnson, Cochise Co., Ariz. Kirk L. Hart, gen. mgr.; Geo. M. Brown, supt., at last accounts. Lands carry the extension of the Pea- body mine, lying to the eastward. Mine has a shallow 2-compartment shaft, with 500’ of workings, and equipment includes a gas engine. Idle since 1909. COCHISE DEVELOPMENT CoO. ARIZONA

Office and mine: Bisbee, Cochise Co., Ariz. Lemuel C. Shattuck, pres.; Chas. L. Jones, vice-pres. and gen. mgr.; T. O. McGrath, sec.; Jos. M. Mu- heim, treas. Organized Aug. 1, 1905, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $10 par, succeeding the Cochise Copper Mining Co. An- nual meeting, second Tuesday in January.

Lands, 16 claims, area 176 acres, abutting on the Holbrook mine of the Copper Queen Consolidated, and lying north of the Dividend fault and Dubacher gulch. The mine has a 600’ three-compartment shaft, a drift on the 300’ level showing small bunches of sulphide ore. Machinery includes a 100-h. p. boiler, a 10x30” first-motion double-drum hoist, good for 1,200’, and a 6-drill Sullivan straight-line air compressor. Buildings are an engine house, boiler house, 20x40’ carpenter shop, 20x30’ smithy, and a coal trestle. Property considered promising for disseminated ore. Idle since 1907. COCOPAH COPPER CO. CALIFORNIA

Office: 1014 Central Bldg., Los Angeles, Cal. Mine and works office: Ivanpah, San Bernardino Co., Cal. Dan. Murphy, pres.; Dr. L. D. God- shall, vice-pres. and gen. mgr.; G. Holterhoff, Jr., sec.-treas.

Lands, on Clear mountain, 20 miles from Ivanpah, the nearest railway point, include the Copper World and Mohawk mines, formerly operated by the Ivanpah Consolidated Smelting Co. The Copper World group shows a broad mineralized zone, up to 300” in width, with a silicious iron out- crop carrying some malachite and occasional oxides. Mine has a 180’ vertical shaft, with about one-half mile of workings, on a 5’ vein, carrying mainly copper carbonates and oxides, in irregular masses.

The Mohawk mine, 2 miles south of the Copper World, shows a 4 orebody with nearly vertical dip, between a porphyry foot and limestone hanging, similar to that of the Copper World, but carrying more azurite. The Mohawk has several hundred feet of workings, and is idle.

The smelter, at Valley Wells, about 5 miles southwest of the mine, built by the old company, was not a success, slag losses being excessive, giving a production of about $750,000 worth of copper, produced at a loss. Ore of 6 to 10% copper tenor was hauled by teams to Ivanpah, and shipped to the Needles smelter, when working.

C. O. D. Consolidated. Nevada

See Goldfield Mines Operating Co. At Goldfield, Esmeralda Co., Nev.

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C. O. D. Leasing Co. New Mexico

Idle. Office and mine: Lordsburg, Grant Co; N. M. Thos. A. Lister, pres., treas. and gen. mgr. Organized Aug. 13, 1909, under laws of Ari- zona, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable; issued, $664,700. Annual meeting, first Monday in December.

Property, 2 claims, 40 acres, in the Pyramid district 8 miles south of Lordsburg, developed by 4 pits and a 55’ shaft, showing lead and copper oxidized ores.

Coeur D’Alene Consolidated Mining Co. Idaho

Idle. Office and mine: Osburn, Shoshone Co., Idaho. Louis Bolduc, pres.; E. M. Cornelius, vice-pres.; C. G. Johnson, sec.; Chas. Williams, treas.; preceding officers and W. G. Parks, directors. Lands, 4 claims, 2 to 3 miles from Wardner, having 500’ of tunnels and 200’ of crosscuts, de- veloping a vein of 5 to 6 width. carrying copper ore and a little lead. Equipment includes a 2-drill compressor, run by water power from Moon creek,

Coeur D’Alene Nellie Mining Co. Idaho

Mine office: Osburn, Shoshone Co., Idaho. E. C. Meiklejohn, manager, at last accounts. Property, developed by tunnels and a 70’ shaft, shows a small vein of tetrahedrite ore. Presumably idle.

Coeur D’Alene Pacific Mines Co. Montana

Idle. Office: 43 Ziegler Blk., Spokane, Wash. Dr. Jas. Sutherland, pres.; E. A. Patrick, vice-pres.; M. N. Stratton, sec.-treas.; preceding offi- cers, J. A. Reinhardt and N. E. Jesseph, directors. Organized under laws of Washington, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable. Lands, 2 claims, area 40 acres, near the Silver Cable mine, giving fair sur- face indications of lead and copper ore, with a short tunnel. COLCHESTER GOLD & COPPER M. & M. CO. COLORADO:

Office: Colchester, Ill. Mine office: Salida, Chaffee Co., Colo. M. E. Foster, pres.; T. T. Foster, vice-pres.; Geo. Sullivan, sec.; E. B. Wear. treas.; Thomas Penrose, gen. mgr., at last accounts. Organized May, 1908, under laws of Colorado, capitalization $500,000, shares $1 par. Lands, 4 claims and a tunnel site, unpatented, area 200 acres, on Cleora mountain, northeast of Salida. Development includes a 40’ incline shaft and a 165’ vertical shaft left by former owners, also new tunnels of 55’ and 110’. Prop- erty shows ore giving assays of $10 to $63 per ton in gross values from copper, gold and silver. Idle. : COLDWATER COPPER MINING CO. COLORADO

Office: Encampment, Wyo. Mine office: Pearl, Larimer Co., Golo. Z. L. Baldwin, pres.; H. N. Backus, vice-pres.; Walter Phipps, sec.; Burr Lobdell, treas. and gen. mgr. Organized May 18, 1900, under laws of Wyoming, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par. Lands, 5 claims, 52 acres, in the Pearl district of Larimer county, Colo. Property, known as the Wolverine mine, has 3 fissure veins in granite and diorite, of which 1, of 20’ estimated width, shows oxidized ores and native copper, with sulphides at a little depth, estimated to carry an average of 6% copper and 2.6 oz. silver per ton, opened by shafts of 90’ and 170’, bottom of principal shaft showing massive chalcocite and a little disseminated chalcopyrite, of high average grade. Has steam power. Idle several years.

Cole Development Co. Arizona

Office and mine: Globe, Gila Co., Ariz. P. J. Cole, pres.; P. J. Cole, Jr., sec.-treas. Organized Sept., 1909, under laws of Arizona, with capitali- zation $300,000, shares $1 par; issued, 112,000'shares. Lands, 17 claims, known as the Cole & Goodwin group, 4 claims wide and 4 claims long, ex- tending along Mineral creek, 3 miles west of the Gibson mine and about 10

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miles southwest of Miami, the nearest available rail point, and 10 miles northwest of Ray, but is separated from Ray by some extremely rugged country, through which no railway is likely to build within a generation or more. Country rock is Pinal schist, carrying the Cole & Goodwin fault, traceable about 1% miles, that cuts the schist diagonally. This property carries fissure veins in schist, and also disseminated ores in schist. De- velopment is by the 420’ Cole incline shaft, cutting several bodies of low- grade ore, and a 35’ vein carrying an 8’ paystreak, mainly of bornite, with a little chalcocite, somewhat similar to the ore in the Gibson mine. estimated to average about 8% copper. There also are several short tunnels, showing schist carrying impregnations of disseminated chalco- pyrite, there being a 135’ crosscut tunnel about one-half mile from the shaft, and a 480’ crosscut tunnel, 1,700’ west of the shaft, with portal 500’ vertically below the collar of the shaft. Equipment includes a 22-h. p. gasoline hoist. Idle since 1910, but plans to resume, 1913. Is a leasors’ proposition. COLEMAN FREE GOLD MINING CO. COLORADO Office and mine: Alice, Clear Creek Co., Colo. Wm. Coleman, megr., at last accounts. Mine, having a 250’ tunnel. shows auriferous copper ore.

Idle since 1910.

College Mine. Arizona

Idle. Mine, 15 miles from Wickenburg, Maricopa Co., Ariz., is opened by an 80” shaft, showing a 20’ fissure vein carrying gold and copper ore. COLONIAL COPPER CO. ARIZONA

Idle: Office: Chelmsford, Mass. Herbert Moseley, sec.-treas.'and gen. mer.: Geo. H. Morrill, Jr., pres.; Adna T. Denison, vice-pres. Organized April 29, 1910, under laws of Maine, capitalization $3,000,000, shares $10 par, non- assessable; issued, $1,720,000. Was a reconstruction of the Growler Copper Co. Bonds, $500,000 authorized, at 5%; issued, $41,000. Annual meeting, first Monday in June

Lands, 30 claims, 26 patented, area 516 acres, in 2 groups, also a 10-acre

mill site, apparently held under bond and lease, in the Growler mountains,

15 miles south of Ajo and about 60 miles southeast of Gila Bend, the near- est rail station. The Copper HiH group, of 18 claims, shows an ore zone up to 300’ wide, between diabase and limestone, with a gossan traceable 114 miles, reported by company to carry 3 weins, of 2 to 7’ width, having oxidized ores, silicates, bornite and chalcocite, giving assays of 2 to 46% copper, 1 to 66 oz. silver and 0.12 to 2 oz. gold per ton. Development is by the 100’ Daisy shaft, 260’ Copper Hill shaft, and 320” Yellow Hammer shaft, and the 185’ Copper Hill tunnel, with a total of 1,600’ of workings, estimated by management to show about $1,000,000 worth of ore. The company proposes deepening the main shaft to 600’ and building a 100-ton matting furnace. A little ore of good average tenor has been shipped to Douglas.

Equipment includes a 170-h. p. steam plant, with 8-h. p., 26-h. p. and 70-h. p. hoists, and + 2-drill IngersoJl-Rand alr compressor. Buildings in- clude assay office and commissary, boarding house and smithy, with 6 tent houses. Property considered promising, but handicapped by very poor transportation facilities.

Colonial Copper Co. Nova Scotia

Address: dare Harman Knapp, Ulman & Tucker, Fidelity Bldg., Balti- more, Md. Mine near Cap d’Or, Cumberland Co., N.-S. Receivers were appointed for company in May, 1910, but found no assets as property was covered by a $300,000 mortgage of Trust Co. of North America. Property

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holders’ committee. The 1,100-acre estate and entire mining and milling equipment, 37 buildings, etc., were sold Sept. 10, 1913, at trustee's sale. COLONIAL MINING CO. ARIZONA Mine office: Ehrenburg, Yuma Co., Ariz. Clifford'G. Dennis, manager, at last accounts. Has argentiferous and cupriferous cinnabar, assaying up to 7% copper, 30% mercury and 150 oz. silver per ton. Has gasoline power and a 30-ton Scott furnace. Presumably idle. COLORADO & CONNECTICUT GOLD MINING CO. COLORADO Office: Meriden, Conn. Mine office: Lake City, Hinsdale Co., Colo. Geo. S. Wilcox, pres.; Wm. C. Corves, vice-pres.; R- S. Dossin; sec.; B: F: Barnes, treas. Organized 1902, under laws of South Dakota, capitalization $400,000, shares $5 par, changed later to $1,200,000, shares $1 par. Lands, 3 claims, area 21 acres, known as the Dolly Varden mine, in the Galena district, carrying three 2” fissure veins, opened by a 150' shaft and a 738' tunnel, with 1,900’ of workings. Ore is chalcopyrite, tetrahedrite and oc- casional argentite, giving assays of 9 to 19% copper, with occasional silver values, and test shipments have given returns of 141 to 479 oz. silver and as high as $11 gold per ton. Company’s manager predicts that mine can be made a dividend payer in a year. In Jan., 1913, manager reported Ohio vein under development, showing a narrow paystreak of high-grade ore. The Varden vein will be opened by raise from tunnel to bottom of shaft.

COLORADA; MINA. MEXICO Idle. Owned by Don Carlos Yanes, San Javier, Sonora, Mex. COLORADO; MINA. MEXICO

Idle many years. Independence Grove, owner. Mine, 12 miles west of Ameca, is opened by a 700’ tunnel showing auriferous and argentiferous copper and iron sulphides.

Colorado Mining Co. Utah

Office: Jesse Knight, pres., Knight Bldg, Provo, Utah. Mine in the Tintic district, Utah Co., Utah. J. Wm. Knight, vice-pres.; W. Lester Magnum, sec.-treas.; R. E. Allen and A. M. Knight, directors. Organized 1898, under laws of Utah, capitalization $200,000, shares 20 cts. par; fully

_issued. Dividends paid quarterly; $3,000,000 paid up to 1913.

Property, 11 claims, patented, contains large deposits of low-grade ore carrying copper and silver values. Two orebodies now being developed on the 500’ level, which is 200’ below the main ore zone of the mine, and east of the old ore channel. The south deposit, 400’ north of the Sioux Con- solidated line, shows 10 to 15’ of commercial ore. Mine now shipping (Sept., 1913) 100 tons a week\averaging 15 to 20% copper and 40 to 45 oz. silver.

Property-is a famous silver-lead producer, which has in recent years shipped considerable copper ore.

COLORADO MINING LAND & INVESTMENT CoO. COLORADO

Idle. Office: Walsenburg, Colo. Mine office: Hillside, Fremont Co., Colo. E. L. Neely, pres. and mgr. Organized 1911, under laws of Colo- rado, capitalization $750,000, shares $1 par.

Lands, 110 acres, owned partly in fee and partly leased, are said to show gold, silver, copper and lead assaying up to $30 per ton. COLORADO RIVER COPPER & GOLD MINING CO. NEVADA

Mine office: Las Vegas, Clark Co., Nev. Property is slightly devel- oped by a shaft and 2 short tunnels, showing ore giving good assays in copper and gold. Idle.

Colowyo Development Co. Wyoming

Mine in Mineral Mountain district, southern Carbon Co., Wyo. W. W. Daley, Frank A. Hadsell, of Rawlins; Harry P. Hynds, Pitt Covert, C. W.

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Riner and Dr. A. W. Barber, of Cheyenne; J. F. Smith, E. H. Parkinson, W. H. Taylor, of Encampment, Wyo., directors. Organized 1913, under laws of Wyoming, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par. Property, the Copper King, Wire Gold and Verde mines, now under development by shaft, 5’ of pay ore being reported in the Copper King mine. A tunnel is being driven on the Wire Gold. In addition to the gold and copper prop- erties company owns coal lands in Routt county, Colorado.

Columbia Copper Co. New Mexico

Office: Guaranty Trust Bldg., El Paso, Tex. Mine near Santa Rita, Grant Co., N. M. Martin Fishback, M. E., pres. and gen. mgr.; Samuel W. Biggs, sec.; Eugene E. Neff, treas.; preceding officers, Jas. A. Carroll, Winchester Cooley and Geo. J. Wolfinger, directors; F. O. Wills, mine supt., at last accounts. Organized 1906, under laws of New Mexico, capi- talization $1,000,000, shares $1 par. Rio Grande Bank & Trust Co., El Paso, registrar. Annual meeting, second Monday in July.

Lands, 35 claims, area 700 acres, in 4 groups. The Gallinas group, 10 claims, 5 patented, 7 miles from Gallinas, in the Gallinas mountains, has a 200’ shaft, with 700’ of workings, showing argentiferous copper and lead ores.

The Clearwater mine, 4 claims, 2 patented, near Santa Rita, held under a 2-year bond and lease, has a 2-compartment shaft, with 1,000’ of work- ©- ings, showing considerable ore of 4 to 6% copper tenor, and a hoist good for 1,000’. ;

The Columbia group, 9 claims, in Good Fortune canyon, San Andrés mountains, about 10 miles north of Three rivers, has a 300 tunnel, showing ‘oxidized ores giving average assays of 6.45% copper and 1 oz. silver pez ton, and several carloads of ore have been shipped.

The Iron Mask group, 10 claims, in the White mountains, near the Mescalero Indian reservation, shows a limonite gossan, apparently of com- mercial grade for iron ore, carrying traces of copper and silver.

Mine shipped, 1907, a little orè, from the Santa Rita properties. Idle since 1910. i COLUMBIA COPPER MINING CO. BRITISH COLUMBIA

Office: 419 Chamber of Commerce, Spokane, Wash. E. P. Wheeler, pres. and ‘gen. mgr.; W. D. Scott, vice-pres.; R. L. Campbell, sec.; J. L. Spoth, treas.; preceding officers and A. S. De Reimer, directors. Organ- ized Feb., 1903, under laws of Washington, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par, in 600,000 shares preferred and 400,000 shares common stock; issued, $650,000. Annual meeting, second Tuesday in September.

Lands, 4 claims, area 200 acres, well timbered, in the Yale district of British Columbia, showing 2 orebodies, larger of 9 estimated average width, also a low-grade dike of 300’ estimated average width, former carrying ore, mainly bornite, estimated by company, to average 3% copper and $1 to $10 gold per ton. Mine has 'shafts of 30’ and 40’, and tunnels 60’, 110’, 150 and 300’, estimated by management to show 50,000 tons of ore, with 10,000 tons blocked out for stoping. About $15,000 has been expended on the property. Was developing in a leisurely way, 1913,

Columbia Copper Mining Co. Ontario

Idle. Office: 510 Chamber of Commerce, Detroit, Mich. Mine office: Parry Sound, Parry Sound district, Ont. Dr. A. H. Cote, pres.; Dean S. Fleming, vice-pres.; S. S. Southerland, sec.; Dr. W. P. Dick, treas.; Alex. Dick, cons. engr. Capitalization $3,000,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable. Authorized, 1910, a $10,000 bond issue. Lands, 200 acres, adjoining the McGowan claim of the Parry Sound Copper Co., 1 to 2 miles from Parry Sound, having shafts aggregating 150’.

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COLUMBIA EXTENSION MINING CO. UTAH Office: 402 Felt’ Bldg., Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine at Alta, Salt Lake Co., Utah. Frank B. Cook, mgr.; David Lemmon, supt. Property devel- oped by tunnel, opening up silver-bearing copper and lead ores. Equip- ment includes gasoline power and mine employs about 15 men. COLUMBIA MINE. ARIZONA In the Comobabi mountains, southwestern part of Pima Co., Ariz. Mine reported shipping about 6,000 tons gold-silver-copper ore in autumn of 1913. COLUMBIA MINE. NEVADA Idle. Mine office: Goodsprings, Lincoln Co., Nev. Lands, 6 claims, formerly owned by Columbia Mining Co.., said to show a 30’ vein having copper in carbonate and oxide ores carrying about 10% copper and up to $10 gold per ton. The Extension vein, 3’ wide, is opened to a depth of 230’. Mine has about 1,800’ of workings. Property considered promising. COLUMBIA RIVER GOLD MINING CO. WASHINGTON Idle. Mine office: Kettle Falls, Stevens Co., Wash. Col. J. M. Fish, pres. and gen. mgr., at last accounts. Lands, 9 claims, on Gold hill, opened by a tunnel and a 350’ shaft, with about 2,000” of workings. Shaft shows a vein 5’ wide at surface, 12’ wide at 200” depth and 43’ wide on the 350 level, at latter depth carrying a pay streak of 3’ width. Company is said to have expended about $65,000 on the mine. Equipment includes a 50-h. p. gasoline engine and a 3-drill air compressor. Small test shipments, 1905, gave returns of 22% copper, 3 oz. silver and $4.60 gold per ton. COLUMBUS CONSOLIDATED MINING CO. UTAH Office: 201 Judge Bldg.;-Salt Lake City, Utah. A. H. Cowie, pres.; Chas. A. Walker, vice-pres.; W. O. Williams, sec.-treas.; preceding offi- cers, C. H. Gibbs and Lewis A. Jeffs, directors. Organized 1902, undér laws of Utah, and capitalization increased, 1904, to $1,500,000, shares $5 _Par; issued, $1,417,690. Paid quarterly dividends, Jan., April and July, 1907, aggregating 55 cts., with total of $212,623.50, and has levied 4 assess- ments, including No. 3 of 25 cts., March, 1910, and No. 4, of 10 cts., Nov., 1910. Shares are listed on the Salt Lake Stock Exchange. Property was sold, 1913, to Wasatch Mines Co., for 160,000 shares of stock of that company, which stock is to be distributed, and company dissolved. COLUMBUS EXTENSION MINING CO. UTAH Office: 404 Felt Bldg., Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine office: Alta, Salt Lake Co., Utah. Lawrence Green, pres.; M. R. Evans, vice-pres.; F. A. Whitney, treas.; F. B. Cook, sec. and gen. mgr., and J. R. Walker, directors. David Lemmer, supt. Organized 1906, capitalization $600,000, shares $1 par; issued, $401,424. Lands, 7 claims, 5 patented, 130 acres, west of the mines of the Wasatch Mines Co., and south of the Rexall mine. The claims cover the Oxford and Toledo fissures, both heavy producers, in former years, and the Haskell and Emily fissures. Development by present company is by a 5,300’ tunnel, started in workings of the Wasatch Mines Co. and driven to cut Toledo vein at 1,800’ depth or 3,000’ on dip, and with crosscuts to reach the limestone- oe contact on the Black Jack claim. Employed about 11 men during

COLUMBUS MINING CO. UTAH Office: 228 South West Temple St., Salt Lake City, Utah. W. A. McEnery, pres.; Walter Scott, sec.-treas., at last accounts. Organized

Aug., 1896, under laws of Utah, capitalization $100,000, shares $1 par; fully paid and fully issued. Has levied 8 assessments.

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Lands, in the Snake Creek district, Wasatch county, are developed by a 700’ tunnel. Idle many years.

Colusa-Leonard Extension Copper Co. Montana

Address: Butte, Mont. Dr. O. B. Whitford, pres.; W. W. McDowell, vice-pres.; Meyer Genzberger, treas.; W. E. Reynolds, sec. Organized Oct. 1, 1906, under laws of Arizona. capitalization $5,000,000, shares $5 par. Trust Company of America, New York, registrar and transfer agent.

Lands, 5 fractional claims, patented, area 47 acres, consisting of the Maggie placer, Golden Hematite, Little MacQueen, Great Republic, Bavaria placer, Undine and Snow Bird placer, about a mile east of the Colusa and Leonard mines, and near the Pittsmont shafts of the East Butte Copper Co. There is an 800’ three-compartment shaft on the Little MacQueen claim lying about the center of the group, that has cut several small stringers of ore assaying up to 9% copper, but none of commercial size, and there is a 7’ vein of 2% ore carrying a 14” paystreak said to range 8 to 10% in copper tenor, with small gold and silver values and some lead and zinc. Judging from neighboring properties on the east, ore will be found at considerable depth, if at all.

Equipment includes a good air compressor, a temporary hoist and a 400-gal. electric pump. Property considered promising. Idle since 1907, COLUSA-PARROT MINING & SMELTING CO. MONTANA

Office and works: 503 Miner Bldg., Butte, Silver Bow Co., Mont. Hon. Wm. A. Clark, pres.; Wm. C. Siderfin, vice-pres.; W. C. Messias, sec. Or- ganized Nov. 26, 1897, under laws of Washington, capitalization $500,000, shares $50 par. Company is practically out of business, its only present property being lands, platted as an addition to the city of Butte. COMANCHE CONSOLIDATED COPPER CO. NEW MEXICO

Office: 1201 Alaska Bldg., Seattle, Wash. Mine office: Fairview, Sierra Co., N. M. J. J. Haggerty, pres.; P. D. Johnson, vice-pres.; Marcus Murray, treas.; Maurice D. Leehey, sec.; preceding officers, J. B. Taylor, Mangus McIntosh and J. C. Arkard, directors; Harry B. Johnson, gen. mgr. Or- ganized 1906. Lands, 14 claims, 10 miles from Fairview. Idle several years.

Comer Mines Co. Oregon

Office: care E. D. Brigham, pres.; 226 W. Jackson Blvd. Chicago. Mine office: Prairie City, Grant Co., Ore. D. A. McKeown, supt. Organ- ized 1907, under laws of Oregon, capitalization $5,000,000, shares $1 par, as successor to Standard Consolidated Mines Co. Lands, 26 claims, area 500 acres, on both sides of Dixie creek, in the Quartzburg district, showing auriferous ores of copper, nickel and cobalt. The mine is said to have about 2 miles of workings, and equipment includes a 50-ton concentrator. Some ore was shipped, 1906. Idle several years. : COMET GOLD & COPPER MINING CO., LTD. IDAHO

Office: care Jos. F. Whelan, sec., 408 Sixth St., Wallace, Idaho. Mine near Mullan, Shoshone Co., Idaho. Archibald McCullom, pres. and gen. mgr. Capitalization $100,000, shares 10 cts. par. Lands, 4 claims, ad- joining the Springfield, east of Mullan, on Stevens peak, and near 2 rail- roads. Property shows 2 veins, of 10’ and 15’ estimated width, about 150’ apart, carrying chalcopyrite and bornite, with iron and quartz gangue. Development is by tunnel, cutting a hematite vein, with about 1,000’ of workings.

Property was worked in a small way, 1912-13, with proceeds of assess- ments levied. Last assessment of one-half mill per share, due Oct. 20, 1913. COMET MINING & MILLING CO. MONTANA

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Mont. Dr. Max A. Dorland, pres.; Fred Eppinger, vice-pres.; J. H. Wig- gert, sec.; Louis J. Michaud, mgr., at last accounts. Organized 1909, capi- talization 1,000,000 shares. Development is by a short tunnel. Presumably idle. COMMERCIAL MINING CO. ARIZONA Office: care Phelps, Dodge & Co., 99 John St., New York. Mine offices: Prescott and Skull Valley, Yavapai Co., Ariz. Maj. A. J. Pickerell, gen. megr.; A. B. Peach, supt. Is controlled by Phelps, Dodge & Co., Inc. Property includes the Senator and Snoozer mines, producing high- grade sulphide ore from fissure veins and the Copper Basin mine with 18 claims, patented, in the Copper Basin, about 6 miles from the Santa Fé railroad. Development is by a 300’ two-compartment shaft, bottomed in good ore. Mine has been extensively developed, opening up large reserves of 3% oxidized ores according to recent reports. Employs an average of 25 men and ships 40 tons per day of 7 to 10% sulphide ore to the Douglas smelter. COMMONWEALTH MINES CO. UTAH Office: 420 Herald Bldg., Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine office: New- liouse, Beaver Co., Utah. Wm. M. Bradley, vice-pres.; W. T. Aiken, sec.- treas.; Newton A. Dunyon, gen. mgr.; preceding officers, C. H. Strevell and-Jas. H. Paterson, directors; Ralph B. Kenyon, supt. Organized Nov., 1906, under laws of Wyoming, capitalization $600,000, shares $1 par. Lands, the Commonwealth mine, 7 claims, in the Star district, adjoin- ing Lady Bryan and Progressive mines. Claims show Topache limestone with intrusive sheets of altered green porphyry, cut by fissures, with more or less mineralization along fissures and outward along certain limestone beds. Considerable lead ore was produced from surface workings in the past and the Nellie claim has copper sulphides in its bottom workings. The Beaver claim has ores giving average assays of 13.2% copper and 17.2 oz. silver per ton, with more or less lead. Mine is developed by a 1,400’ tunnel, with a back of about 300’, and has secured ore assaying up to 4% copper, 20% lead and 60 oz. silver per ton. Equipment includes gasoline power and an air compressor. Development shows but little ore, mostly low grade, and claims are not especially promising according to geological reports. COMSTOCK COPPER MINING CO., LTD. IDAHO Secretary’s office: Wallace, Idaho. Mine office: Burke, Shoshone Co., Idaho. E. S. Amsden, sec.; Otto A. Olsson, Eagle Block, treas.; John H. Nordquist, mgr. Organized under laws of Idaho, capitalization $1,500,000, shares $1 par. Lands are on Baldy mountain, east of Burke. Is develop- ing on a small scale, raising money by assessments of 1 mill per share, last one delinquent, Aug. 23, 1913. CONCEPCION y ANEXAS; COMPAÑÍA MINERA LA. MEXICO Office and mine: Catorce, San Luis Potosi, Mex. Organized under laws of Mexico, capitalization 300,000 pesos, shares 100 pesos par. Prop- erty has ore carrying values in copper, lead and silver. Idle some years and apparently moribund. ; ' CONCONULLY COPPER CO. i WASHINGTON Idle. Mine office: Conconully, Okanogan Co., Wash. Organized Nov. 1908. Lands, 11 claims, adjoining the Wellington mine, about 1 mile north of Conconully, on the eastern side of the Salmon river. Property shows 5 veins, traceable 1 mile, estimated .at 12’, 20’, 30’ and 40’ in surface width, carrying copper and silver values in about equal quantities, with small values in lead and gold. Development includes about 800’ of tunnels, CONCORD MINING Co. IDAHO Idle. Office: P. O. Box 371, Boston, Mass. Westley Jones, secretary, at

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last accounts. Organized 1902, under laws of Maine, capitalization $500,000, shares $5 par, nonassessable; issued, 44,000. shares. Lands, 18 claims, patented, in the Robbins district, Idaho county, are developed by a 300' shaft with about 2,000’ of workings, showing auriferous and argentiferous copper and lead ores. Has a small steam plant.

CONGO MINING Co. WYOMING

Idle. Property, 5 claims, in the abandoned Dillon camp, Medicine Bow range, Carbon county, developed by shallow shaft and tunnel showing low-grade copper ore.

Congor Gold & Copper Mining Co. Utah

Office: 506 Auerbach Bldg., Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine near Bingham Canyon, Salt Lake Co., Utah. Glen R. Bothwell, pres. and gen. mgr.; R. C. McConaughy, vice-pres.; Frank E. Loose, sec.; preceding officers, E. F. Jenkins and C. G. Hall, directors, at last accounts. Capitalization $1,000,- 000, shares $1 par. Property, 10 claims, area 150 acres, adjoins the Bingham Amalgamated on the north, in Bingham Canyon, Salt Lake Co., Utah. Mine reported to have about 100,000 tons of-ore exposed, running from $6 to $50 per ton and averaging $14. Company has a contract with the Montana Bingham Consolidated Mining Co., shipping its ores through the Miller Ore Transportation tunnel of that company to the Denver & Rio Grande railroad tracks at a cost of 25 cts. per ton of ore and 121% cts. per ton of waste.

CONGRESS CONSOLIDATED MINES Co. ARIZONA

Address: care T. M. Murphy, Santa Fé railroad offices, Prescott. Ariz. Mine near Wickenburg, Maricopa Co., Ariz. Property is an old and supposedly worked out gold mine that has produced copper as a by-product, last production being 2,979 lbs. in 1909, with 8,710 oz. gold and 16,176 oz. silver. Company has been owned and controlled by Development Co. of America, now bankrupt.

Congress Gold € Copper Co. Colorado

F. P. Goudy, et al., lessors, Silverton, San Juan Co., Colo. J. B. Ross, pres. and gen. mgr.; Guy W. Mallon, vice-pres.; Frank L. Ross, sec.-treas.; preceding officers are the directors; M. E. Rumery, mine supt. Organized April 16, 1908, under laws of Colorado, capitalization $500,000, shares $10 par. Bonds, $100,000 authorized, at 6%; issued, $50,000,

Lands, 3 claims, area 30 acres. Owns the Congress and Arlington mines at Red mountain, 12 miles south of Ouray in San Juan county. Com- pany also owns the Midway mine in Ouray county. The Congress is a famous old mine worked 1884-93, said to have produced about $400,000 worth of ore, averaging 18% copper and 11 oz. silver per ton, with small gold values. The mine, idle for some years, through litigation, has a 270’ shaft with about 1,500’ of workings, showing chalcocite, reported by com- pany to average about 16% copper, 6 oz. silver and $1 gold per ton. Mine has a 50-h. p. steam plant Company idle, and mine in the hands of leasers, 1912, who are reported to have opened a shoot 6’ wide of enargite ore carrying 7% copper and 40 to 120 oz. silver per ton.

Conkling Mining Co. Utah

Office: 520 Atlas Block, Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine office: Park City, Summit Co., Utah. Col. Nicholas Treweek, pres.; Wm. C. Hall, vice- pres.; Geo. A. Lund, sec.; J. Leonard Burch, treas.; preceding officers and Margaret Treweek, directors. Organized Sept. 17, 1908, under laws of Utah, capitalization $500,000, shares $1 par, assessable. Is a close corpora- tion, with 25% of stock owned by Silver King Coalition Mines Co., but has litigation pending, in the Federal courts, against the Silver King, on a charge of illegal extraction of $800,000 worth of ore.

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Lands, 2 claims, 2 miles from a railroad, carrying auriferous copper and lead ores, developed by a 1,000’ tunnel on the lands of the Silver King. Apparently no work has been done by present company.

Conquest Consolidated Mining Co. Washington

Office: care W. C. Ingalls, sec., 209 Beech St., Arlington, N. J. Mine office: Newport, Stevens Co., Wash. Organized under laws of Washing- ton, capitalization $5,000,000, shares $1 par, as a merger of Conquest Copper & Gold Mining Co. and American Eagle Gold Mining Co. Annual-meeting, second Tuesday in November.

Lands, 15 claims, area 300 acres, 6 miles north of Newport, showing 7 orebodies, of which 1, under development, 1 to 6’ wide and traceable 2,000’, is opened by a 186’ shaft and by tunnels of 200’, 700’ and 500’, with 3,000” of workings, showing slightly auriferous and argentiferous copper sulphides of concentrating grade, with considerable ore blocked out and on the dump. Has steam power, with hoist good for 1,000’, and several mine buildings. Has been worked in a small way for several years. CONSOLIDATED ARIZONA SMELTING CO. ARIZONA

Office: 15 Broad St., New York. Mine office: Middleton, Yavapai Co., Ariz. Works office: Humboldt, Yavapai Co., Ariz. Victor I. Cumnock, pres.; Frank W. Thompson, sec.-treas.; A. H. Wethey, gen. mgr.; Wm. Schall, Jr., John H. Flagler, E. S. Hooley, Thos. A. Marlow, C. A. Kittle, Frank A. Dillingham, directors. Organized Dec. 22, 1908, under laws of Maine, capitalization $9,200,000, shares $5 par, of which $974,500 is re- served for bond conversion. Bonds, $1,200,000, 5% 30-year income bonds authorized; 974,500 outstanding. Has a $255,000 mortgage on property. Acquired at foreclosure sale the properties of the Consolidated Arizona Smelting Co. (see Vol. X) and the Arizona Smelting Co. The intricate relationship of the old company and its subsidiaries is fully described in Vol. X. The most valuable mine owned by the company is the Blue Bell, a group of 3 claims, carrying 3 fissure veins, in Algonkian slates, with quartzite footwall and granodiorite hanging, developed by 6 shafts, deepest 300’, and 2 short tunnels. Property carries cuprite, malachite and chalco- pyrite, all slightly argentiferous and auriferous, with a large and promising orebody on the 300’ level. Mine is connected with the Bradshaw Mountain railway by a tram line, and has electrical machinery, taking current over an 18-mile transmission line. Mining 100 tons a day and exploratory work was in progress at last reports. The De Soto mine is also operated by this company.

The reduction plant, well located for custom business, includes samp- ling, concentrating, roasting, smelting and converting departments, with a machine shop and smithy. All buildings are of structural steel frame, with brick walls or corrugated-iron sheathing, floored with cement. The yards have 4 miles of 65-lb. railway tracks. y

The 400-ton concentrator, size 160x200’, known as the De Soto mill, has two 200-ton units, each having one 10x20” and two 7x10” Blake crushers, 1 centrifugal crusher, 3 elevators, 2 sets of rolls. one 25’ Hancock jig, 10 Wilfley tables, 8 Overstrom tables, 8 vanners, 4 trommels, 8 Callow tanks and Richards, Johnson and Anaconda classifiers. The mill has a large slum pond, and overflow water is returned to the mill for re-use.

The smelter, of 1,000 tons rated daily capacity, has three 100’ Edwards mechanical roasters, burning petroleum, each with 2 series of. rabbling arms, rotated in opposition, with 44 rabbles to each furnace, each making 1 r. p. my except the 2 end sets, which make 2 Tr. p.m. There are. three 100’ reverberatory furnaces, of the Anaconda type, rated at 400 tons: daily

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capacity, burning petroleum. Matte from the reverberatory furnaces is tapped into a launder, which delivers it to a ladle in the converter room.

The blast-furnace department has both lead and copper stacks, with a 200-ton 48x60” lead furnace, and a 250-ton water-jacket blast furnace for copper. Slags are granulated.. The stack is of reinforced concrete, 180’ high, 18’ in diameter at the base and 11’ at the top.

The converter department has 2 stands, with shells of barrel type, ro- tated electrically. Equipment includes a 40-ton Whiting electric crane with a 15-ton auxiliary crane, cranes also taking hot slag from the converters and pouring same into the reverberatories and delivering shells.

The power plant has four 345-h. p. Stirling water-tube boilers, burning waste gases from the reverberatories, steam being sent therefrom through a 10” pipe line, under 150-lb. pressure. Machinery includes 2 Connersville blowers, a Nordberg duplex cross-compound air compressor, with 40x42” air cylinder and 18x36x42” steam cylinders. There are two 300-Kkw. 480-volt 3-phase 60-cycle generators, direct-connected to two 16x32x36” Nordberg cross-compound engines, and an electric turbine pump. Electric power is furnished the Blue Bell mine, 18 miles distant, current being transmitted at 15,000 volts, stepped down to 440 volts, at the Blue Bell transformer station.

Fuel is coke for blast furnaces and petroleum for the reverberatories, with 3 steel tanks, of 350,000 gals. capacity, for oil. A pump station on the Agua Fria river has two 4-stage centrifugal electric pumps and 1 steam pump, with 8” and 10” pipe lines to the works. :

After several years’ idleness, expenditure of large sums in remodeling and several unsuccessful attempts at resumption, plant was again blown in, 1912. Operations were hampered by eonstruction work, Sept., 1913, but plant was treating 150 tons per day, mostly from the Blue Bell and De Soto mines.

Consolidated Central Butte Copper Co. Montana

Office: 70 Higgins Blk. Missoula, Mont. R. R. Jones, pres.; R. H. Wearing, vice-pres.; R. M. Cobban, sec.; D. J. Charles, treas., and E. E. Hershey, directors. Organized Oct. 29, 1906, under laws of Montana, capitalization $1,200,000, shares $1 par, assessable; issued, 446,000 shares. Has levied 3 assessments, aggregating 6% cts. per share, or about $28,000. Annual meeting, second Thursday in January.

Property is a one-third interest in the North Star, South Star and January claims, patented, and the mineral and mining rights in about 100

¿acres of patented placer claims, adjoining the Ophir claim (Butte Central - Copper) on the east. The North Star, South Star and January claims are developed by a 225’ shaft, showing an orebody 3 to 6 wide. Idle several years for want of working capital. CONSOLIDATED COPPER CO. OF PARRY SOUND. ONTARIO

Office: 705 Palladio Bldg., Duluth, Minn. Mine office: Parry Sound, Parry Sound district, Ont. Robt. Forbes, pres.; Robt. Millard, vice-pres.; J. G. Harris, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, A. C. Le Richeux, Frank Cox, PARRAEROremM Dr. je D. Budd, E Young and C.J. Jackes directors.

+ Organized Feb., 1902, under laws of Ontario. 'capitalization $5,000,000, shares . $1 par; issued, about $3,100,000.

Lands, 1,500 acres, patented, carrying considerable standing timber, in Foley, McDougall, Haggerman and Conger townships. Part of property formerly was held by Hattie Belle Gold, Copper & Nickel Co. Ores occur as contact deposits between slate and quartzite, and as fahlbands, ore being mainly chalcopyrite, with occasional bornite and chalcocite, mainly low in grade, but with occasional seams of high-grade ore. There are 18 differ-

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ent orebodies, shown by test pits and stripping, of which 2 are somewhat developed. The fahlbands are said to show a width of more than 1,000’, carrying 7 bands of fairly góod ore, of 200’ estimated aggregate width, be- tween which is low-grade ore, part of which may be amenable to concen- tration. Ores assay 1.5 to 12% copper, 3 oz. silver, and from a few cents up to $8 gold per ton. Property has a 180’ vertical shaft, and about 25 pits.of 10 to 30’ depth.

The Spider Lake mine has a shaft house, and steam hoist good for 500’, with necessary mine buildings, and a considerable orebody has been exposed by trenching.

The Lefex mine has shafts of 90’ and 40’, showing nothing of particular promise. The Lefex has an iron gossan, carrying up to 2% copper and $2 to $3 gold per ton. A 600-lb. test shipment, from the 65’ level, returned 30% copper, and various samples have shown from 0.5 to 3% nickel, and from nothing to $20 gold per ton. Company was planning, 1913, to resume development work on the Lefex property, after several years of idleness. CONSOLIDATED COPPER CREEK MINING CO. ARIZONA

Office: 707 Shubert Bldg., Kansas City, Mo. Letter returned unclaimed from former mine office, Mayer, Yavapai Co., Ariz. E. J. White, sec.-treas. and -mer., at last accounts. Organized 1906, under laws of Arizona, capi- talization $1,000,000, shares $1 par. Lands, 15 claims, known as the Sunset group, adjoining the Rosalie Copper Co.,; carrying slightly argentiferous copper ores, with a 100” two-compartment shaft, equipment including a 125-h.p. boiler, 8x10” hoist and 8-drill air compressor. Company is in bad shape financially, and is regarded with suspicion. Idle several years. CONSOLIDATED COPPER MINES CO. ARIZONA

Idle. Mine near Swansea, Yuma Co., Ariz. Thos. J. Carrigan, pres.; Frank Robbins, vice-pres. and gen. mgr.; Jas. W. Wilkinson, sec.-treas., at last accounts. Organized 1909, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $5,- 000,000, shares $1 par.

Lands, 140 claims, area 2,800 acres, in 11 groups, mainly in the Cienega district, in the western part of Yuma county, stretching for 10 to 12 miles between Swansea and Parker, from the Revenue group on the east to the Copper Dome on the west. Property includes the Revenue group of 22 claims, and Echo group of 29 claims, shortly west of the Clara Consolidat- ed; the Crescent, 1 claim; El Molino, 12 claims; Copperfields, 4 claims; Comet, 3 claims; Hottentot, 30 claims; Ogden, 8 claims; Ozone, 8 claims; Mineral Zone, 10 claims, and Copper Dome, or Dome City, 11 claims.

The properties have numerous old pits and shallow shafts, short tun- nels and open cuts, but apparently none have permanent improvements. The Revenue mine, which apparently has the most development, has a 200' incline shaft, and a 250’ tunnel. The Hottentot group is said to have smelt- ing ore developed. The Copper Dome group has a northwest series of fault fissures, in schist and limestone, carrying auriferous oxidixed copper ores, Equipment includes gasoline power only. The geologic features of this section are described by Howland Bancroft in U. S. G. S. Bull. 451. CONSOLIDATED COPPERMINES CO. NEVADA

Chas. F. Smith, sec.-treas., 71 Broadway, New York. Mine office: Ely, White Pine Co., Nev. Edwin F. Gray, gen. mgr.; Chas. F. Rand, pres.; Erastus T. Tefft, vice-pres.; Thos. F. Cole, Joseph B.' Cotton, Wm. B. Joyce, Isadore Hernsheim, R. C. Lupton, Mulford Martin, C. L. Perkins, James Phillips, Jr., W. Hinkle Smith and Wm. B. Thompson, directors. Organized 1913, under laws of Delaware, capitalization $8,000,000, shares $5 par. Debentures $2,500,000; convertible bonds bear 7% and are redeem-

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able by lot at 110 plus accrued interest, on any interest day, not later than 1928.- Guaranty Trust Co., New York, registrar.

Company was organized to secure control of the Giroux Consolidated Mines Co., Coppermines Co., Butte & Ely Copper Co., and Chainman Con- solidated Copper Co., acquiring stock in the several companies on the basis of 1 new share for 2% Giroux shares; 1 for 6% Butte & Ely; 1 for 3% Coppermines, and 1 for 25 Chainman, and will have 772,568 shares out- standing when, and if all of the outstanding stock of the four companies is finally acquired. These properties, aggregating 160 claims, in the heart of the Ely district, are separately described under their respective titles, though they will hereafter be operated as parts of one company. A con- centrator and reduction plant will be built in the ensuing year. As but $300,000 of the bond issue was subscribed for, the company has arranged to borrow $1,000,000 on the bonds as security.

Consolidated Copper Mining Co. Utah

Office: Provo, Utah. Mine office: Eureka, Juab Co., Utah. J. C. Jensen, pres.; J. W. Burton, vice-pres.; A. A. Biorn, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, H. S. Birch, Theo. Cederstrom and Cornelius Cederstrom, direc- tors. Organized 1911, capitalization $100,000, shares 10 cts. par; issued 550,000 shares. A

Lands, 6 claims, in the North Tintic district, slightly developed, show a narrow vein of low-grade copper ore, with gold and silver values, and a deposit of black marble, said to be of good quality. Idle. CONSOLIDATED COPPER M, M. & SM. CO. COLORADO

Office: 417 Temple Court, Denver, Colo. Mine office: Eldora, Boulder Co., Colo. C. C. Munson; pres.; W. H. Hoke, vice-pres.; M. P. Givens, sec.; M. L. Ericson, treas. Organized Oct. 16, 1899, under laws of Colorado, capitalization $2,000,000 shares, $1 par. Annual meeting, second Tuesday in September.

Lands, 27 lode claims, partly patented, area 150 acres, known as the Fourth of July group, 3 additional tunnel claims, a placer claim and a 160- acre timber claim, giving total holdings of about 600 acres, at the southern base of Arapahoe peak, in the Grand Island district. Property is said to have 4 contact deposits, with phonolite on one wall, of which 1, under develop- ment, 1906, was said to average about 7’ in width, and to carry up to 60’ of sulphides, of concentrating grade, including galena, chalcopyrite, bornite and chalcocite, all auriferous and argentiferous. Development is by 3 shafts, deepest 360’, and the Fourth of July tunnel, of 4,800’ length. Has steam power, a 6-drill Leyner 2-stage air compressor and necessary buildings. Company has been idle several years, and the property is being worked by leasers.

Consolidated Kansas City Sm. & Ref. Co. , Texas

Office: 165 Broadway, New York. Works office: El Paso, El Paso Co., Tex. Kuno Doerr, mgr.; Jas. J. Ormsbee, supt. Is owned by Ameri- can Smelting & Refining Co., and property is described under that title. CONS. KING DEV. & COLUMBIA COP. MG. CO. ARIZONA

Office and mine: Jerome, Yavapai Co., Ariz. Hon. Geo. W. Hull, pres.; Mary A. Hull, sec. Organized under laws of Arizona, capitalization $6,- 000,000, shares $1 par. Lands, 9 claims, area 150 acres, south of the United Verde mine, showing several bodies of oxidized and sulphide ores, carry- ing fair values in copper, gold and silver. Mine has a 100’ shaft and a 750’ tunnel, with about one-half mile of workings. Development in progress, 1913.

Cons. Mines, Smelter & Transp. Co. Arizona

Office: 1406-43 Exchange Place, New York. Geo. A. Beatson, pres.;

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Geo. O. Earhart, sec.; John W. Prout, Jr., mgr. Organized 1909, as a re- construction and merger of Alto Copper Co. and Mowry Mines Co. Owns the Alto and Mowry mines with 21 claims, area 420 acres, 8 miles from Patagonia, in the Santa Rita mountains, near the Mexican border. Com- pany has 2 veins under exploitation, 1 yielding gray copper ore, the other lead-silver. Developed by several tunnels and 3 shafts of 73’, 100’ and 150’, with 3,000’ of workings. Ores are chalcopyrite, galena and sphalerite, giving assays of 8 to 12% copper, 10 to 20% lead, 10 to 30 oz. silver and $3 to $20 gold per ton.

The Alto was closed down, 1907, re-opened, 1910, and has been worked in a modest way since then.

Equipment includes a steam plant, with 3 hoists, good for 600’ each, and an 8-drill Sullivan air compressor. There is a machine shop, smithy and about 25 other buildings. Company reported to have a 100-ton concentrator and 100-ton smelter.

Cons. Mg. & Sm. Co. Of Canada. British Columbia

Secretary and office: J. Kitto, 95 King St., E., Toronto, Ont. Works office: Trail, Trail district, B. C. W. D. Matthews, pres.; Geo. Sumner, vice-pres.; preceding officers, Walter H. Aldridge, E. B. Osler, Chas. R. Hosmer, H. S. Osler, W. L. Matthews, J. C. Hodgson and Wm. Farwell, directors; Robt. Holden Stewart, gen. mgr.; Selwyn G. Blaylock, asst. mgr.; James Bu- chanan, smelter supt.; J. F..Miller, refinery supt.; M. E. Purcell, supt. Centre Star mines; F. S, Peters, supt. Le Roi mines; C. H. McDougall, supt. St. Eugene and Sullivan mines; K. B. Carruthers, supt. Molly Gibson mine; W. A. Cameron, supt. Richmond-Eureka mine; John M. Turnbull, engr.

Organized 1905, as Canadian Consolidated Mines, Ltd., capitalization $5,500,000; name changed, Jan. 1, 1906, to present title, and capitalization in- creased, Oct., 1909, to $7,500,000, shares $100 par; issued, $5,805,200. Com- pany's fiscal year ends Sept. 30. Annual meeting, third Tuesday in De- cember.

For fiscal year 1912, net profits were $310,345.97, and surplus account showed a balance of $1,183,635. Dividends for fiscal years were $234,940 in 1906; $480,005 in 1907; $66,940 in 1908; $232,176 in 1912, with total divi- dends, to end of 1912, of $1,014,061, 8% dividends resumed July 2, 1913, when 2% was paid.

The company was formed to take over the following properties, either by direct ownership, or by stock control: War Eagle Consolidated Mining & Development Co., Ltd.; Centre Star Mining Co., St. Eugene Consolidated Mining Co., the Rossland Power Co., and the Trail smelter, formerly op- erated by the British Columbia Southern railroad. In 1907 the Iron Mask, Idaho and Enterprise mines at Rossland were purchased and the Phoenix Amalgamated Copper Mines, Ltd.; also the Keystone and Four Ace claims adjoining the Phoenix, located at Phoenix, B. C. In 1910 the company acquired the La Plata, or Molly Gibson group, near Nelson and the No. 7 group in the Boundary district. In 1911 company purchased control of the Fort Steel Mining € Smelting Co., Ltd., owning the Sullivan silver-lead mine, near Fort Steel. In 1912 company purchased all the property of the Le Roi Mining Co. at Rossland, the Virginia mine, the Abe Lincoln mine and the Iron House mine, all at Rossland, also the Silver King Mines, Ltd., at Nelson.

The Le Roi-Centre Star group, on the southern slope of Red moun- tain, at Rossland, is the principal property. Country rock is a series of effusive and fragmentary volcanics of the Paleozoic age, intruded by an elsagated mass of monzonite-porphyry. This monzonitic mass, with its -im

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rocks, has been intruded by a large number of nearly vertical dikes, from a few feet to 250’ wide, with generally N.-S. trend, the dikes being basaltic, and occasionally slickensided, larger dikes cutting off the veins completely, with the more important orebodies occurring at the points of intersection, and having a series of faults, mainly parallel to the dikes. Ore occurs in shoots of 3 to 50’ width, and 50 to 600’ length, widening at intersections of veins with dikes. Ore is strongly auriferous and fairly argentiferous chal- copyrite, associated with pyrite, with gangue of silicious altered country rock, ore ranging 0.5 to 2% copper and $8 to $20, and occasionally up to $100, gold, per ton. Pay shoots extend, in some cases, from wall to wall, and form local enrichments, walls in some cases being very indistinct, and ore shading into the country rock. There are several veins, the more im- portant being the Centre Star and War Eagle, on which the mines are opened mainly, these being shear zones, carrying chalcopyrite disseminated mainly in pyrrhotite, with some pyrite and occasional arsenopyrite.

The Rossland group includes the Le Roi, Centre Star, War Eagle, Iron Mask and Idaho mines, which are practically one, all connected by drifts and crosscuts, and the group has about 40 miles of workings. For fiscal year 1912, new openings were 12,800’, with 16,850’ of diamond drilling. Mines are worked by overhand stoping, partly on the shrinkage system and partly timbered with sqitare sets, cut from round timber. The Centre Star group has electric haulage, with 10 electric locomotives, hauling 2-ton side-dump- ing cars to the underground ore pockets of the Centre Star shaft. The ore pockets are on the hanging-wall side of the shaft, 2 on each level, 1 di- rectly behind the other, the front bin, of 70 tons capacity, being for waste, and the 150-ton back bin for ore. The Centre Star mine has a 250-gal. electric pump, and the Iron Mask mine has a centrifugal pump. The mines have electric signals throughout.

The Centre Star mine has a 2,200’ three-compartment shaft, sunk at about 68°, with 16 levels opened, at intervals of 125 to 175’, this being the deepest shaft in Canada. The Centre Star has 8 or 10 different orebodies, but mining is principally from the Centre Star vein, the ore of which aver- ages 0.6% copper, 0.3 oz. silver and $8 to $10 gold per ton.

The War Eagle mine, including the War Eagle, Richmond, Crown Point and other claims, adjoins the Centre Star and carries 3 veins, 2 of which, known as the War Eagle and Josie, are nearly parallel, and are in- tersected by the third at practically right angles. The surface plant: has Been dismantled, and the mine is now operated through the Centre Star shaft, the 1,500’ three-compartment War Eagle shaft, sunk at 50°, now being used for handling men, timber and supplies. The War Eagle mine has 11 levels opened.

The Le Roi mine has a 1,750’ five-compartment shaft, connected under- ground with the Centre Star shaft, developing a length of 4,500’ on the Centre Star vein in the area commanded by these shafts. Threatened liti- gation with Le Roi No. 2 was settled, 1913, by mutual agreement and con- cessions.

The Idaho mine, just east of the Centre Star, and practically a part of the latter, has ore of good grade, averaging better than that of the Centre Star mine proper. The Crown Point mine, at Rossland, is an occasional small shipper of fluxing ore.

The Centre Star mine has a 106’ wooden shaft house, with 11’. sheave wheels and a Vezin sampler. A 24x36” Jenckes-Farrel crusher, of 100 tons hourly capacity, driven by a 75-h. p. alternating motor, delivers ore to a link-belt conveyor which discharges into bins, there being 1 large bin for waste, 2 bins for coarse ore and 2 for fine ore, waste being sold for railway

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ballast. The Centre Star engine house has an 1,100-h. p. 28x60” Nordberg hoist, with two 10’ drums of 5’ face, good for 10-ton loads to depth of 3,000’ at a speed of 2,000’ per minute, using a 114” plow-steel hoisting rope, and there is a 14x18” Wellman-Seaver-Morgan geared auxiliary hoist. The main hoist takes cages 10” high, boxed on 3 sides and open-in front, having hinged bottoms that are turned back when hoisting ore, with 4-ton skips swung under.

The War Eagle shaft has a 300-h. p. geared hoist, run by compressed air, which is reheated before using. The War Eagle shaft house is con- nected by an 1,100’ incline tram, having a 300” drop, with railway ore bins, but is no longer used for extraction.

The Le Roi shaft is equipped with a Fraser € Chalmers hoist, good for a depth of. 3,000’, and there is also a smaller hoist having 6’ drums, two 40-drill air compressors and other necessary equipment.

Electric power is used extensively, the mine taking current at 20,000 volts from the Bonnington Falls plant of the West Kootenay Power & Light Co., 35 miles distant, stepped down at the mine to 2,000 volts for distribution and use. The compressor room has a 120-kw. direct-current generator, driven by an alternating current motor, supplying current at 290 volts for electric motors. on surface and underground, and for lighting. The Centre Star plant has two 40-drill compressors, one a Canadian-Rand Corliss duplex compound. 2-stage compressor, with 22% and 40” steam cylinders and 48” stroke, with 28x32” air cylinders, but the steam cylinders have been discontinued, and compressor is rope-driven by a 650-h. p. West- inghouse induction motor. The other compressor is a hybrid, built over from an Ingersoll straight-line into a duplex machine having 2 Canadian- Rand cylinders, rope-driven, by a 600-h. p. Canadian Westinghouse syn- chronous motor. ;

Buildings at the Centre Star group include a large carpenter shop, a / well-equipped smithy and a good machine shop doing all ordinary repairing.

The Number Seven mine, 8 claims, area 300 acres, 8 miles southeast of Greenwood and 3 miles east of Boundary Falls, has a fissure vein of 18” to 7’ width, carrying auriferous and argentiferous lead and zinc sulphides, with quartz gangue, of about $10 per ton average value. The mine had a 300’ main shaft, with 3,357’ of workings, June 30, 1912. Equipment includes elec- tric power, with a hoist and 10-drill air compressor. The mine has a 3-mile aerial tram to Boundary Falls, and a 5-mile wagon road to Phoenix, and employs about 30 men. abt

Operations at Rossland, 1913, have been extensive and the pay roll the largest the camp has ever had. New machinery has been installed at the Centre Star, War Eagle and Le Roi mines and shipments now aggregate rearly 1,000 tons daily. Production for the 6 months ending June 30, 1913, was 101,000 tons of gold-copper ore.

The Phoenix Amalgamated group at Phoenix, Boundary district, B. C., was taken over, 1909, from the Phoenix Amalgamated Copper Mines, Ltd. Lands are 11 claims, 450 acres, and the mine had about 7.500’ of workings, June 30, 1912.

The Richmond-Eureka mine, at Sandon, B. C., has argentiferous lead and zinc ores, developed by tunnels, and employs about 20 men.

The Sullivan mine, at Kimberly, is a lead-zine producer, employing about 100 men and shipping 100 tons of ore daily.

j The Molly Gibson mine, bought 1910, is a silver-lead property, formerly

owned by Molly. Gibson: Mining Co., Ltd., and later by. La Plata Mines, Ltd. The mine is equipped with a 100-ton mill and employs about 40 men.

The St. Eugene mine, at Moyie, is the largest Canadian lead mine,

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having produced about 1,000,000 tons of ore to end of 1912. The mine has about 20 miles of workings, and is equipped with a 500-ton mill, employing about 20 men.

The Silver King mine on Toad mountain, back of Nelson, purchased in 1912, was unwatered in 1913, the surface plant repaired, machinery installed and made ready for production. The mine works well mineralized fissure veins in granite, yielding high-grade silver-copper ores.

In July, 1913, the company took a bond on a group of copper claims on Howe sound, near the Brittania mine.

The Trail smelter, located near the International boundary line, treats both copper and lead ores and does an extensive custom business in addi- tion to treating the company’s ores. In 1913, seven furnaces were in blast and 600 men employed.

The sampling mills are 3 in number, equipped with crushers and Vezin samplers. No. 1 mill, for copper ores, has 1,250 tons daily capacity; No. 2, for lead ores, has 500 tons daily capacity, and No. 3, for either copper or lead ores, has a daily capacity of 750 tons with fine crushing, or 1,000 tons with coarse crushing.

The smelter has a calcining department, and blast-furnace departments for copper and for lead. Ore, coke and fluxes are delivered in dump cars, drawn by three 10-h. p. electric locomotives, from the sampling mill bins- to the charge bins, and from the charge bins to blast furnaces. The works were treating upwards of 30,000 tons of ore monthly at the close of 1912.

The copper smelter, of 1,800 tons daily capacity, has two 42x240”, one 42x263”, and two 42x300” Brückner blast furnaces, taking a 32-0z. cold blast. Ore is treated crude in the blast furnaces, making a first-fusion product of 10 to 15% copper tenor, which is granulated and given a preliminary roast in O'Hara furnaces of 9x97’ and 12x97’, with 85 tons daily roasting capacity, which reduces the low-grade matte from 25% sulphur to 10%. Final roast- ing is done in 9 Huntington-Heberlein sintering pots that are used for cop- per exclusively, giving a matte containing only about 3% sulphur. The matte from the sintering department is resmelted with low-sulphur crude ore, in another blast furnace, yielding a matte of about 40% copper tenor, which is shipped to Tacoma for conversion.

The lead smelter, of 350 tons daily capacity, has 45x140” and 45x160” blast furnaces, with mechanical feed, taking mainly calcined ores, crude lead ores being roasted in seven 26’ Godfrey furnaces, which reduce the sulphur irom the original tenor of 16% to only 8%, and these calcines are re-roasted in 15. nine-foot Huntington-Heberlein sintering pots, yielding a product carrying only about 3% sulphur. The fully sintered ore, carrying 30 to 50% lead, is smelted in the blast furnaces, each making 50 to 85 tons of lead bullion daily, with about a 4% matte fall. This matte is roasted and again put through the blast furnaces, and slags are granulated.

In connection with the smelter is an electrolytic lead refinery, handling silver-lead bullion. This plant, of 75 tons daily capacity. was the first eléc- trolytic lead refinery ever built, and uses the Betts process. There are 596 tanks, with an electric crane for handling anodes and cathodes. The lead is of exceptional purity, with average assay of about 99.997%, which means that a short ton of lead carries only about 1 oz. of impurities, which is mar- velously successful work.

The silver refinery, taking silver sludge from the electrolytic lead tanks, has a water jacket reverberatory furnace for the production of doré metal, and the necessary kettles, tanks and bluestone plant for parting the precious metals with sulphuric acid, also furnaces for melting and casting the silver and gold bullion. Products are silver 0.999 fine, and gold 0.995 fine.

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Power for the reduction works is electric throughout, brought:30 miles from Bonnington falls, on the Kootenay river, received at the transformer station at 32,000 volts, and there stepped down to 550. The installed electric capacity is about 3,000 h. p.

The works have a central heating station and well-equipped machine, carpenter and boiler shops. The assay office, which handles an unusual: variety of work, in great detail, is exceptionally commodious and well equipped,

In 1913, the smelter has had many betterments, both in the lead and copper smelting departments. These include a change of lighter crushing rolls, construction of a concrete bin for collection of roasted ore from the Huntington-Heberlein roasters, installation of 2 Wedge roasters; re- arrangement of the 36 converter pots; provision of a Niles 20-ton electric crane and of a Hayward clam-shell bucket (for handling sinter), for use in the H. & H. department; extension of building for H. & H. plant to make a total length of more than 400’ with a width of about 60’; the installation of a Farrell crusher with steel conveyor to 2 grizzlies at entrance to sinter storage bins; construction of a gas producer to provide producer gas for fuel in H. & H. roasting and converting and Dwight-Lloyd sintering proc- esses; 3 new lead blast furnaces 45x216” at tuyeres, and improvements for handling materials between sampling mill and blast furnaces. A new cop- per blast furnace, 42x65’ at tuyeres, with arched top and flat flue, to have a capacity of 450 tons of ore (exclusive of flux) a day, with mechanical center-feed arrangements, has been constructed in place of 1 of the 5 smaller copper blast furnaces. Seven-ton electric locomotives replace the 4-ton motors previously used for hauling from storage bins and stock piles to furnace-charge bins, larger cars are in use and tunnels have been built under all bins and stock piles, to facilitate loading of cars and do away with shoveling. Other, additions to plant include the installation of 1 more blower, making 7 in all in use, the new one being a No. 11 Roots, driven by two 300-h. p. induction motors. Further betterments being pre- pared for are the construction of 2 more 450-ton copper blast furnaces (in place of 3 smaller ones now used), and installation of an electric crane above the furnaces for handling purposes, for both feed and tapping floors.

The Trail smelter treated about 170,000 tons of ore for the first 6 months of 1913; 113,000 coming from the Rossland mines, 4,000 from the Boundary district, 18,000 from East Kootenay, 5,000 from Ainsworth, 12,000 from Slocan, 1,000 from Lardeau and 12,000 tons from United States mines.

Recent production has been as follows: 3,433,310 Ibs. fine copper, 20,380,083 Ibs. lead, 1,100,271 oz. silver and 69,186 oz. gold in the fiscal year 1907; 4,004,468 Ibs. copper, 32,157,139 lbs. lead, 2,224,888 oz. silver and 121,380 oz. gold in 1908; 4,637,631 1bs. copper, 43,675,077 Ibs. lead, 2,443,475 oz. silver and 114,920 oz. gold in 1909: 5,974,959 Ibs. copper, 42,368,816 lbs. lead, 2162 406 oz. silver and 137,614 oz. gold in 1910; 4,421,988 Ibs. fine copper, 24,026,- 015 Ibs. lead, 1,458,758 oz. silver and 119,067 oz. gold in 1911; 2,914,181 Ibs. fine copper, 26,072,074 Ibs. lead, 1,765,992 oz. silver and 129,789 oz. gold in 1912. Considering that the Centre Star and War Eagle mines were re- ported worked out, when taken over, the company has made a signal suc- cess. The management is enterprising and thoroughly competent. CONSOLIDATED NEVADA-UTAH CORPORATION NEVADA

Office: care Trippe & Co., 25 Broad St., New York. Mines at Pioche, Nev., and Frisco, Utah. Chas. H. Clarkson, pres.; Victor 1. Cummonck, treas.; G. H. Lippitt, sec.; Jos. W. Kay; C. A. Strouse, F. A. Dillingham, Wm. B. Randall, directors. H. R: van Wagenen, mgr. Organized 1913, under laws of Virginia, capitalization $6,000,000, shares $3 par; issued, $3,-

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315,000; in treasury, $150,000; reserved for bond redemption, $900,000; bond issue, $900,000, first mortgage, 6%; 481,000 issued.

Company is a reorganization of the Nevada-Utah Mines & Smelters Corporation, which went into bankruptcy in 1912 and whose holdings were sold under judgment proceedings for $100,000 to the new company. Stock- holders in the old company who subscribed 50 cts. in cash for each share held and deposited their old stock, received bonds for the cash paid by them and 200 shares of stock in the new company for each $100 subscribed. The new company starts out with $390,000 in the treasury after paying about $230,000 for debts and $130,000 for reorganization expenses.

Company owns 3 distinct groups of mines, through control of sub- sidiary companies. The Pioche group located at Pioche, Lincoln county, Nev., includes several productive mines that are largely developed. The Imperial group at Frisco, Beaver county, Utah, including the Comet mine and the Last Chance at Bingham, Utah, are also owned.

The Pioche property is operated by the Amalgamated Pioche Mining Co., of which Mr. W. J. Palmer, of Trippe & Co., is president; 80% of the stock is owned by the Consolidated Nevada-Utah. The Pioche Con- ‘solidated group comprises 38 claims, 33 patented, also. 51 town lots and 1,528 acres miscellaneous lands. The mines at Pioche (formerly owned by the Pioche Con.) include silver-lead properties that were large producers, 1870 to 1876, and suspended operations 1893, being popularly credited with a past production of $20,000,000 gross, which probably is a high estimate. The May Day mine of this group has a 1,100” shaft and there are 2 shafts on the Yuba mine adjoining. The Meadow Valley claim has a 400’ three- compartment incline shaft. The old Independence shaft is said to show a 40’ body of sulphide ore between the third and fourth levels. Equipment at this group includes a 700’ Leschen aerial tramway, from the May Day shaft to ore bins on the company’s railway, running from the mine to Pioche. The Pioche group has steam power and a 4-drill air compressor.

The Half Moon group of 6 claims, area 42 acres, lies 114 miles west of Pioche. It is understood to be the policy of the new company to lease the upper levels and develop the deeper workings itself. Leasers are now mining and ‘shipping about 20 to 25 cars of ore a month. The company will work the Black Ledge, sinking the No. 1 shaft 200’ and drifting 600’ to reach the orebody which shows valuable ore on the 1,200’ level. This ore- body was worked 30 years ago, but the zinc contents made it unsaleable, whereas today there is a ready market for the ore. The Jack Rabbit group is connected with the Pioche by a 20-mile narrow-gauge railway, and Pioche is connected with the San Pedro railroad by a 28-mile branch line known as the Caliente & Pioche, completed 1907.

Holdings in the Jack Rabbit district, 15 miles west of Pioche, are 5 patented claims, area 115 acres, including the Bristol, Day and Onondaga mines. The Day mine, developed by a tunnel with 1,300’ back, showing ore said to carry 2.5% copper, 2.17 oz. silver and 0.06% gold, has long been considered a valuable property, only needing development to make it a profitable producer. Both the Bristol and Day mines are operated by the Day-Bristol Consolidated Mining Co., 48% of whose stock is owned by the Consolidated Nevada-Utah.

The Imperial group near Frisco, Beaver county, Utah, is a copper prop- erty formerly owned by the Imperial Gold & Copper Mining Co. It was purchased at a judgment sale by the old Nevada-Utah to satisfy its claim of $100,000 against the Imperial Co. Property is developed by tunnels show- ing carbonate ores.. The Comet mine, belonging to the Nevada-Utah Min- ing Co., a single claim, adjoining the Cactus, is said to carry a continuation

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of the Cactus orebodies of the Newhouse Mines & Smelters Co. The mine has a single shaft of 300’ depth, sunk on gossan carrying about 1% copper. Former company planned crosscutting on the 300’ level to develop an ore- body said to carry 3.5% copper, though mainly of concentrating grade, with small silver and gold values. The adjoining Cactus mine is opened by a 6,000-ft. tunnel and the development of the Comet would necessitate an even longer tunnel or an extensive aerial tram.

The Consolidated Co. also owns all the capital stock of the Pioche- Pacific Railroad Co., and all the capital stock of the Manhattan Copper & Gold Mining Co., comprising the Manhattan group of 7 unpatented mining claims situated in the Highland mining district about 10 miles westerly from Pioche, and the Telephone claim, situated in the Ely mining district, Lincoln county, Nev.

Consolidated Sonora Mines Co. Mexico

C. P. Shaver, sec., care Bank of Thibodaux, Thibodaux, La. Operating office: Douglas, Ariz. Mine near Fronteras, Sonora, Mex. Jas. Beary, pres.; Chas. P. Shaver, sec.-treas.; Chas. McHenry, supt. Capitalization $3,500,000, shares $1 par. Is a close corporation. Lands, 1,140 hectares, slightly timbered, on both sides of the Fronteras river, about 25 miles southeast of Douglas. Property shows numerous outcrops of ore carry- ing lead, silver and gold.

Development on the Mary L. claim includes a crosscut tunnel, inter- secting a vein at 425’ and a 325’ shaft sunk at this point on the vein, is all in ore with 125’ of drifting on the 50'level and a 430’ drift on the 300’ level. Shipments to the Douglas smelter, though profitable, did not pay mining and development costs and mine was closed down, Jan., 1913, on account of repeated depredations at the property and danger to the men from the revolutionary disturbances. :

Cons. United Verde Jr. Mg. Cor. Arizona & Colorado

Office: Old Orchard, Me. Letter unclaimed at former mine office, Jerome, Yavapai Co., Ariz. Daniel L. Dean, pres.; F. A. Sidelinger, sec.- treas. Capitalization $2,000,000, shares $1 par. Lands are the Lucile group in the Wisconsin district of Gilpin county, Colo. Arizona lands were lost. In debt, idle many years and apparently moribund. CONSTITUTION CONS. COPPER MINES. NEW MEXICO

‘Office and mine: Lucero, Mora Co., N. M. Jas. R. Pitcher, pres.; R. Pitcher Woodward, vice-pres. and sec.; F. M. Andrus, treas., at last ac- counts. Organized April 24, 1906, under laws of Maine, capitalization $3,- 000,000, shares $1 par. 3

Lands, 400 acres, showing 3 parallel beds of mineralized slate or aren- aceous shale, having an approximately N.-S. strike, beds being 3 to 8’ in thickness, carrying impregnations of malachite, chalcocite and bornite, oc- casionally weighing pounds, but occurring more commonly in masses of a few grains up to several ounces in weight. Beds are nearly vertical and are interbedded with limestone and arcose sandstone, the cupriferous shales containing both calcium carbonate and organic matter in appre- ciable quantities, probably accounting for precipitation of the copper ores. - Ore is said to assay 3 to 20% copper, with net claimed average of at least 5% copper and $1 to $2 gold per ton, this estimate probably being too high. Development is by numerous pits and trenches, and by shafts of 230’ and 325’. Management is composed of men of good business and professional standing, but lacking in mining experience. New Mexico has thousands of square miles of Permian red beds, carrying small percentages of copper, mainly of unworkable tenor, Idle several years.

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CONSTITUTION MINE. CALIFORNIA Office and mine: Campo Seco, Calaveras Co., Cal. C: Borger, owner. Lands, 3 claims, also mineral rights to sundry adjoiiing property. De- velopment is by a 400’ shaft, on the Constitution claim, showing patches of good ore, also a 45’ shaft, showing a 4’ vein of ore similar to that of the Penn mine, assaying’ 15% copper, with small values in silver and gold. Idle several years. CONTACT CONSOLIDATED COPPER CO. MONTANA

Idle. Mine office: Bailey Blk., Helena, Lewis & Clark Co., Mont. H. C. Hoffman, pres.; E. T. Kemper, sec.; H. Topel, treas.; N. H. Graeniling, supt., at last accounts: Organized Aug. 19, 1907, under laws of Nevada, capitalization $500,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable. Lands, 3 claims, in Colorado gulch, having about 300’ of workings, including a 60’ shaft show- ing auriferous copper ore from surface. Equipment includes gasoline. power. Several small shipments were made, 1907.

Contact Copper Co. ' Michigan

Office: 70 State St., Boston, Mass. Mine office: Houghton, Mich. Harry F. Fay, pres.; C. J. Morrisey, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, John C. Watson, W. L. Frost and Jehn G. Stone, directora, Organized May, 1910, under laws of Michigan, capitalization $5,000,000, shares $25 par; paid in $2; issued 111,125 shares. Company is a reorganization of the Elm River Copper Co., whose shareholders were given the privilege of exchanging their stock for shares in the Contact Copper Co. on the basis of share for share, on condition that they subscribed for additional shares, at $2 each, to the extent of 50% of their holdings in Elm river.

Lands, 2,300 acres, in Sec. 6, T. 52 N., R. 35 W. Sections 1, 2, 11 and 12, T. 52 N., R. 36 W., and Sec. 36, T. 53 N., R..36 W.; also a mill sité in Sec. 30, T. 54 N.; R. 36 W., and an option on 800 acres in Sec. 12 and 13, adjoining the old Elm River tract on the southeast.

Nearly a complete cross-section has been secured by upwards of 10,- 000’ of diamond-drill borings, despite the heavy overburden on nearly all of the tract. Borings have given cores carrying copper, in variable quan- tities, from a number of different beds.

No. 1 hole, drilled vertically, in the extreme southeast quarter of Sec. 13, was stopped after penetrating the eastern sandstone for 500’. No. 2 hole is about 1,500’ northwest of No. 1 and No. 3 is near the center of Sec. 13. Nothing of value has been disclosed in the territory overlying the east- ern standstone, and it seems evident that the so-called Lake and Ad- venture beds do not cross the Elm River tract, unless at very great depth, as the last crosscut from the Elm River exploratory shaft to the eastern sandstone did not disclose these beds.

Considerable sinking and drifting was done by the old company, on several coppet-bearing beds, at different points. Shafts No. 1 of 800’ and No. 2 of 200’ are on the Winona bed. No. 3 shaft, 100’, and No. 4 shaft, 50’, are on the Shawmut bed. No. 5 shaft was sunk on an unidentified lode, located by diamond drill. No. 1 shaft, the first shaft started, was aban- doned at 100’, but was reopened, 1903. No. 1 shaft is 9x14’ in size, sunk in thé footwall ot the Winona amygdaloid, at an angle of 72°. Gréssautd and drifts on the 500’ level show a 35’ amygdaloid carrying copper in unpayable quantities. On the 800’ level north and south drifts showed a healthy bed of 12 to 16’ width, but no profitable ground was opened’ there. In cross- cutting west from the Winona bed 12 other cupriferous any gdatords were cut, but none were found of commercial value.

In 1907 the equipment was moved from No. 1 shaft to a new site, about 2,000’ east of the Winona bed, and No. 7 shaft was started, in virgin

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territory, to open an unidentified stratum, from which a core showing cop-: per had been secured, some years previously.

The vertical exploratory shaft in search of the Lake bed, begun 1908, is about 1 mile northeast of the former workings, being located north of the center of the S: E. Y of Sec. 11, somewhat west of the hypothetical horizon of the Lake bed. This was sunk vertically, 200’, and a crosscut sent 800’ to the eastward limits of the property, without finding anything of value, though a little drifting was done, 1910, on: a bed cut by the crosscut.

Equipment includes a duplex hoist good for 1,000”, 2 Burt marine boilers and a 4-drill air compressor. Water is taken from a dam by a Blake pump. Buildings include a 40x40’ carpenter shop, a 28x65’ two-story warehouse, a boarding house with accommodations for 100 men, a school house and a number of dwellings.

“The company decided, Aug: 1913, to sell the timber on its 2,400 acres to provide funds for further work. Though diamond drilling has not as yet disclosed any lode of value, the 16 holes so far put down do not by any means exhaust the possibilities of the property.

Contact Mining Co. ° Oregon

Mine office: Lostine, Wallowa Co., Ore. Lands, on the south fork of the Wallowa river, connected by wagon road with Lostine, show auriferous and argentiferous copper ore, with quartz gangue, also free gold in quartz. Idle several years.

Continental Copper & Gold Mining Co. Arizona

Office: 330 Security Bldg., Los Angeles, Cal. Jas. R. Haddock, pres.; Coyle J. Tracy, vice-pres.; Herbert T. Muzzy, sec.; Fred Knobloch, treas.; Edw. S. Osborne, gen. mgr.; preceding officers, John Breiner and JUE: Halsted, directors. Organized June, 1905, under laws of Arizona, capital- ization $1,000,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable; issued, $900,000. Annual meeting, first Saturday in November.

Lands, 6 claims, unpatented, 120 acres, in the Seneca district, showing slates, schists and limestones, with igneous intrusives, said to carry 12 fissure veins and contact deposits, of which one, of 8' estimated average width, traceable 1,500’, has been developed by an 145’ shaft, a 429’ crosscut tunnel, and 20’ and 129 drift tunnels, with 700’ of workings, showing oc- casional oxidized ores, estimated to average 10.87% copper and $4 gold per ton. Idle several years, except for annual assessment work. CONTINENTAL COPPER MINING & SM. CO. SOUTH DAKOTA

Address: care W. J. Booth, receiver, Lima, Ohio. Company organized as successor of the Continental Copper Co. and Dakota-Calumet Co., now reorganized as Dakota Continental Copper Co. and property described un- der that title. CONTINENTAL MINES DEVELOPMENT Co. CALIFORNIA

Office: 301 First National Bank Bldg., Riverside, Cal. Harwood Rob- bins, pres. Organized 1911, as a holding company, capitalization $500,000, shares $1 par. Controls the Ironwood Mountain Copper Co., elsewhere described. y CONTINENTAL MINES, POWER & REDUCTION CO. COLORADO

Office: 401-2 First National Bank Bldg., Denver, Colo. Mine office: Yankee, Clear Creek Co., Colo. Henry I. Seemann, pres. and gen. mgr.; Frank R. Baker, vice-pres.; Wm. H. Warinner, sec.-treas. Organized Nov. 7, 1905, under laws of Colorado, 'capitalization $5,000,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable; issued, $4,200,000. Annual meeting, first Wednesday in -November. E

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district, showing gneiss, schist and granite, with porphyry dikes, claimed to carry 75 fissure veins and contact deposits, with quartz gangue, with reported width of 3 to 300’, the vein system being said to be traceable 4 miles. Ores are sulphides, reported by management to carry 1 to 16% copper, 3 to 35% lead, from a trace to 6% zinc, 1 to 300 oz. silver and $5 to $500 gold per ton. Development is by shafts of 135’, 150’ and 200’, and by a number of tunnels, of 100 to 2,000’, and the Seemann tunnel of 3,636’, which is planned to be the longest crosscut tunnel in Colorado, to give a 5,000° back. The mine has about 4 miles of workings, with about 1 mile in ore, estimated by management to show 300,000 tons of ore “blocked out for stoping.

Equipment includes steam power and a hydro-electric plant, with 150 h. p. at mine and 150 h. p. at mill.’ Machinery includes a 25-h. p. hoist and 7-drill Sullivan air compressor. There are about 20 buildings, including a. 16x25’ machine shop, 5 smithies, 3 boarding houses and 12 dwellings.

The 50x150’ frame mill, with iron roof and siding, has 20 quick-drop gravity stamps, one 8x12” Blake crusher, 3 Card tables, 3 Wilfley tables and 2 sizers. Company plans continuous development, and selling com- mercial current.

Continental Mining Co. - Mexico

Office: San Antonio, Tex. Mine office: Monclova, Coahuila, Mex. Otto Koehler, pres.; Otto Wahrmund, vice-pres. and gen. mgr.; N. G. Newton, sec.; Arthur L. Tuttle, gen. supt. Organized April, 1905, as a re- construction of Continental Copper Co., capitalization $1,000,000, shares $10 par. Is closely allied in ownership and management with the Jimulco Mining Co. Owns the Panuco mine with 65 hectares, opened in 1700 and worked at intervals since. Property was bought from the Panuco Copper Co., under whom it was badly mismanaged. Ore deposit is a chimney of breccia, cemented by metallic sulphides, mainly chalcopyrite, but with a little chalcocite, in a quartz gangue, the country rock being granitic. The ore is reported to average about 314% copper.

Property includes a 40-mile railway, from Monclova to Panuco, costing $350,000, having 3 locomotives. Old company invested about $1,000,000 in the property and improvements. Largest production, under former owner- ship, was 1,466,059 lbs. fine copper in 1902, and a small production was se- cured, July-Nov., 1907, by present company, estimated at 1,250,000 Ibs. cop- per. Mine considered promising, though low in grade, and management good. Closed down, 1913, on account of danger to life and property by revolutionary bands.

Continental-Morris Copper Mining Co. Wyoming

Office: 111 East Main St., Morris, Ill. Mine near Encampment, Car- bon Co., Wyo. S. H. Matteson, pres.; J. H. Rogers, vice-pres.; Dr. G. A. Leach, sec.-treas; preceding officers, J. F. Hatcher, U. C. Davis, W. A. Thomas and E. R. Joyce, directors. Organized March 31, 1908, under laws of Wyoming, as a merger of the Continental Copper Mining Co. and Mor- ris Mining Co., capitalization $2,250,000, increased later to $5,000,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable; issued, $1,750,000. Annual meeting, first Tuesday in February.

Lands, 7 claims, patented, area 120 acres, in the Battle Lake district, carrying about 50 acres of good pine timber. Property shows schist, with 4 veins, of 13 to 40’ estimated average width, traceable 1,500 to 3,000’, car- rying carbonate and sulphide ore, estimated to average 1 to 8% copper, with small gold and silver values. Development includes discovery shafts of 10 to 30’ depth on each claim, a 165’ shaft, and tunnels of 900’, 226’, 320’ and 250’. The shorter tunnel on the Gossan Lead, shows impregnations of

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copper carbonates. Equipment includes a steam hoist, good for 500’, and 2 buildings. Idle. COOKE MINING & REDUCTION CO. MONTANA

Office and mine: Cooke, Park Co., Mont. E. C. Engelhardt, supt. at last accounts. Property is developed by tunnels, showing auriferous and argentiferous copper ores. Has a small steam plant. District is remote from transportation, being on northeast border of the Yellowstone Park, has been further handicapped by stock-selling promotions and a lack of well-planned mining development, for 25 years past. Unfavorably ‘re- garded. Presumably idle.

Copeland Mg. & Development Co. British Columbia

Mine office: Bridesville, Boundary district, B. C. Lands, known as the Le Roi group, on the West Fork, near Bridesville, are held under a 2-year bond and Jease. Property has a vein of 90’ claimed width, developed by a 65 shaft, showing auriferous and argentiferous copper ore. Presumably idle.

Copete Consolidated Copper Co. Mexico

Office: 15 William St., New York. Mine office: Francis C. Nicholas, mgr., El Copete, via Carbo, Sonora, Mex. F. C. Hanford, vice-pres.; Myra B. Martin, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, Ralph Melcer and Jas €. Bayles, directors. Organized March, 1906, under laws of West Virginia, capital- ization $1,000,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable; issued 541,17034 shares. Annual meeting, first Wednesday in March.

The company was organized to develop the property formerly owned by the Copete Mining Co., under an agreement with that company, title to the property being vested in the Melezer Mining Co., legalized in Mex- ico, and the entire stock issue of which is held by the Copete Consolidated Copper Co.

Lands, 140 pertenencias, comprising the San Miguel, Jalisco, Santiago, Good Hope, _Copperosity and El Copete claims, and sundry adjoining properties, giving a total area of about 500 acres, show an immense gossan capping, apparently tue remnant of a great bianket vein, the greater part of which has been eroded away.

Development is by several tunsels and a 615’ shaft with about:7,000 of workings.’ Ores are mainly gold*with considerable iron pyrites and some copper, giving average assay values 4f $6 per ton. The bottom of the ore zone seems to have been reached at about 300”. Company working about 5 men in summer of 1913, the new work reported to show high- grade glance ore that is sacked and shipped. ‘the Copete orebody is said to be 150x225’ and to average 3% copper, 2% 97) silvér and’ $4 gold per ton. ;

Company has been badly mismanaged in the D:st and the promotion work and financial juggling scandalous, but the Property has merit though not considered especially promising. 3 COPETE MINING CO. MEXICO

Office: 15 William St, New York. Myra B. Martin, seci “ Ore ganized 1900, under laws of West Virginia, capitalizaticy $5,000,000, shares $5 par. Property, consisting of stock of the Melczei Mining Co., was transferred, 1906, to Copete Consolidated Copper Co., under an abree- ment which practically gives both companies an undividy half in turestiña the property. Described under title of Copete Consolidate Copper Co COPPER ACRES MINING CO. NEVADA

Idle. Office: Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine office: Gsconda Hime boldt Co., Nev. Jas. T. Hammond, mgr., at last accounts Tands Heat Battle mountain, 10 miles north of Bannock, show a vein of 40’ claimed

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width at surface, said to carry 15 to 20’ of ore averaging about 8% copper and 10 to 15 oz. silver per ton, which figures are entirely too high to be credited. Ore has given assays up to 41.61% copper and 22.2 oz. silver per ton. Mine is opened by a short crosscut tunnel.

Copper Age & Edison Mining Co. Montana

Idle. Chas. J. Heidenreich, Spokane, Wash., pres.; Morton Webster, Wal- lace, Idaho,sec.-treas.; L. N. Hyde, supt. Organized 1906, under laws of Wash- ington, capitalization $250,000. Lands, 12 claims, 4 miles south of Saltese, are aneastern extension of the Richmond mines, carrying extension of copper- . bearing outcrop of that mine the vein paralleling the Monitor. The vein is exposed for some 700’ in the tunnel just east of the divide; it averages 10’ thick, is nearly vertical and carries a very little chalcopyrite and chal- cocite in a siderite gangue. a

Development includes a main 1,160 crosscut tunnel, with back of 600 showing sulphide ore assaying up to 30% copper and $14 gold per ton. COPPER AGE MINING & SMELTING CO. - WYOMING

Idle. Lands, 12 claims, about 2 miles north of Battle, on the Penn- Wyoming tram line. The 300’ Copper Blossom shaft, sunk on a quartz vein, showing a little ore at and near surface, is said to have a fair show- ing of concentrating ore below depth of 200. Equipment includes several mine buildings.

COPPER BALL MINE. y MONTANA

Office: St. Regis, Missoula Co., Mont. Gustave Wolf, Ole Nore, Wm. Linter and Charles Pfleur, owners. Property, 4 claims, 34% miles north of St. Regis, in Mullan gulch, is developed by an 850’ tunnel, with about 260’ of workings, showing an 11’ vein of chalcopyrite said to average 5 to 20% copper. Idle several years.

Copper Bank Mining Co. Utah

Mine office: Brighton, Utah. C, E. Street, pres.; J. L. Perkes, sec treas. Organized 1911, under laws of Utah, capitalization $25,000, shares 5 cts. par; issued, 250,000 shares.

Lands, 6 claims, nearly 4 miles west of the old Maxfield mine, in the Big Cottonwood district, show 4 distinct porphyry dikes carrying low- grade copper ore in veins ranging from 20 to 100’ in width. Development is by a short tunnel, showing a small quantity of ore. No returns secured. COPPER BAR MINING CO. WYOMING

Office: 206 Burr Blk., Lincoln, Neb. Mine office: Saratoga, Carbon Co., Wyo. W. J. Crane, pres.; Geo, E. Hibner, sec. and gen. mgr., at last accounts.

Property includes the original holdings, now idle, on Cow creek, near Rudefeha and the Charter Oak group of 14 claims, 5 patented, on California creek, about 16 miles southwest of Saratoga, bought, 1908.

Development on the Charter Oak mine includes 2 incline shafts of 317’ and 352’ with 6 levels opened and about 2,200’ of workings. The main shaft was sunk at right angles to the vein, which has a dip of 52°. The ore deposit has a shallow oxidation zone, succeeded by sulphides in a schistose gangue formerly claimed to average 12% copper, several ounces of silver and $6 gold per ton with upward of 300,000 tons of ore blocked out, which was a gross misstatement.

Equipment includes steam power and a little ore was shipped, 1907. Property considered promising.

Copper Basin Mining & Milling Co. Nevada

Office: D. F. Walker Bldg., Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine near Battle Mountain, Lander Co., Nev. L. G. Hardy, pres.; W. H. Brammel, sec.- treas.; preceding officers, C., W. Knudson and T. N. McCauley, directors.

268 THE COPPER HANDBOOK i Wm. Burge, supt. Capitalization $30,000, shares 10 cts par, nonassessable; issued 270,000. Annual meeting, second Monday in January. Property, 6 claims, 120 acres, in the Battle mountain district, 10 miles west of Battle mountain, shows veins in quartzite with orebodies along the line of the limestone-quartzite contact. The veins vary from 1 to 4' in width and carry 114% copper, 8 to 15% lead, 7 to 12% zinc, 5 to 15 oz. silver and $1 in gold, Vein runs northwest, with dip of 70°. Development consists of 1,200° of work including a 150’ shaft and 300’ tunnel with 2 other shafts and 2 tunnels. Management estimates 1,000 tons of ore blocked out.

Equipment as yet only a whim, but a concentrating plant is planned. , Production for 1912, 80 tons of $25 ore.

Copper Bell Mining Co. Utah

Idle. Office: 120 West Second South St., Salt Lake City, Utah. Ji We Duffield, pres. and gen. mgr.; Wim. Crabbe, sec.; Alonzo Young, treas. Or-

ganized 1907, under laws of Utah, capitalization 50,000, shares 10 cts. par. Lands, 8 claims, unpatented, in the Newfoundland mountains, 7 miles from a railroad, having a 75’ shaft, and short tunnel, showing lead and copper ores, said to carry 16.96% copper, 14.7% lead and 1.2 to 1.7 oz. sil- ver per ton. Had a small force engaged, 1911, extracting ore for shipment. COPPER BELL MINING & MILLING CO. UTAH

Tdle. Office: Springville, Utah. Mine office: Ibapah, Tooele Co., Utah. John P. Anderson, pres.; T. R. Kelley, sec.-treas., . at: last: ac- counts. Organized 1906, capitalization $50,000, shares 25 cts. par. Lands, 7 claims, patented, in the Deep Creek district, with principal development on the Paragon and Venus claims. Mine has a 150’ shaft, showing ore assaying up to 3% copper, 16 oz. silver and $4 gold per ton, and also has gold-bearing quartz, -silver-lead ores and ores of tin, nickel and moly- bdenum.

Copper Bell Mines Co. Wyoming

Office: 135 Adams St., Chicago, Ill. Mine office: Lusk, Converse Co., Wyo. Edwin Hall, pres. and mgr.; J. L. Harris, sec., at last accounts. Organized June 25, 1906, under laws of Wyoming, capitalization $2,000,000, shares $1 par. Company owns a controlling interest in the Lucky Strike Mining & Smelting Co.

Property, held under bond and lease, includes the old Michigan mine, and about 600 acres of mineral and timber lands, in the Rawhide Buttes district, 12 miles south of Lusk, latter showing 4 parallel veins, 2 traceable nearly a mile. This property is developed by a 640’ shaft, and a 525’ tun- nel, with about 4,000” of workings, showing copper carbonates and sul- phides, disseminated in limonite, giving assays of 3 to 60% copper, with small silver values, and $1.40 to $12 gold per ton.

The Michigan mine, in Muskrat canyon, has shallow workings in a wide, vein from which about $100,000 in ore was taken in earlier opera- tions and is now to be developed by a shaft planned to sink 500’.

Equipment includes a 54-h, p. Fairbanks € Morse gasoline engine, good for 1,500’, and a 5-drill air compressor, a machine shop, smithy, en- gine house and sundry mine buildings. A small shipment of copper ore was reported made, 1912, and company early in 1913 was working a small force. Not regarded favorably by the late Horace J. Stevens.

COPPER BELLE MINE. ARIZONA Owned by Leonard Copper Co., at Gleeson, Cochise Co., Ariz. COPPER BELT MINING & DEVELOPMENT CO. NEVADA

- Office: Ludwig, Lyon Co., Nev. C. W. Walker, supt.; I. H. Baird, pres. Owns the Baird mine, or group of claims in Mason Pass section of Yerington district, showing a 3’ vein of ore developed by a 200’ incline

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shaft on the vein. Plans drifting on 200’ and 400’ levels to get beneath the ore shoot shown on the 100’ level of the Blue Jay mine. COPPER BLOCK MINE. MONTANA Idle. Property, 4 miles east of Basin, Jefferson Co., Mont., in High Ore gulch, is developed by several short tunnels, showing auriferous and argentiferous copper and lead ores. COPPER BLUSH MINING Co. COLORADO Mine office: Jamestown, Boulder Co., Colo.’ S. C. Bashor, pres., at last accounts. Lands, on Longfellow hill, show milling ores claimed to carry stringers of high-grade copper telluride. Idle. COPPER BOTTOM MINING & MILLING CO. WYOMING Office: Inez, ‘Converse Co., Wyo. Henry Metz, Sr., pres.; Fred Metz, sec.-treas. Property is the Green Hope mine, in the Hartville district, Laramie county, under bond and lease until 1916, to Messers. Wm. F. Moenke and Geo. Botsford, Sunrise, Wyo. Mine has produced about 125 tons of ore. Company also owns a few copper claims in the region at the head of Broom creek, 15 miles north of Sunrise in Sec. 26, T. 29 N.,-R. 65 W., on which annual assessment work has been done. COPPER BOY MINING Co. COLORADO Office: care Clyde C. Dawson, Canyon City, Colo. Organized 1906, under laws of Colorado, capitalization $50,000. No trace of operations securable.

COPPER BULL MINING CO. COLORADO Address: Lock Box 507, Pueblo, Colo. Unfavorably regarded. See Vol. X. COPPER BULLION MINE. NEW MEXICO

J. W. Searle, owner and superintendent, Organ, Dona Ana Co., N. M. Property shows a copper deposit developed by tunnel work only. Is a prospect as yet. ; COPPER BULLION MINING CO. i UTAH

Mine office: Santaquin, Utah Co., Utah. J. N. Christensen, pres.; Robt. Anderson sec.; P. P. Hindmarsh treas. Organized 1907, capitaliza- tion $1,000,000, shares $1 par. Lands, 13 claims. Idle and apparently moribund.

Copper Butte Mines. ' Arizona

Idle. Office: 9 High St, Minneapolis, Minn. Operating office: Phoenix, Ariz. Ace P. Abell, pres.; Wm. H. Lucia, vice-pres.; Frank A. Bates, sec.; Henry A. Blume, treas.; preceding officers and Capt. Harry Roberts, directors; P. P. Parker, agent. Organized July 21, 1900, under laws of Arizona, as the Arizona Copper Mountain Mining Co., and name changed, June, 1904, to present title; capitalization $6,000,000, shares $10 par,

Lands, 16 claims, 8 patented, about 320 acres 4 miles northwest of the Ray Consolidated, in the Walnut Grove or Mineral Creek district, 2% miles north of the Gila river, with a good wagon road to the Phoenix & Eastern railway. Property was worked, 1879-81, on a small scale, for silver.

Lands lie in a mountainous tract, east of the Florence Valley, and, while near the Ray Consolidated, property more closely resembles the form of copper deposits mined by the Moctezuma Copper co. at Nacozari, Sonora, Mex. Property shows rhyolite and later dacitic lavas, rested on a surface of schist, sedimentary rocks and granite, the granite being part of a broad mass, many miles in extent, cut through by the Gila river, the Cop- per Butte property lying on the border of this granite batholith.

The ore deposit is a mineralized mass of breccia formed of rock frag- ments, being an old volcanic throat, having an abrupt contact with Ray granite on the east and west, and a nearly vertical contact with dacite. The breccia consists largely of schist, varying from dark and light gray,

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pearly sericitic schist, to silicious schist, with fragments of quartz, diabase, granite and limestone. The deposit is peculiar, being part of the breccia mass that has been altered and mineralized, the only known counterparts of this surface ore being found at the Arizona-Hercules mines, 5 or 6 miles to the eastward, and at the Black Warrior mine, near Globe. Prop- erty shows extensive red areas similar in physical character to the ore, save that they carry no copper. The eastern red area of breccia shows rude bedding, with a dip of about 25° E., away from the mountain. The most promising portions of the property are an eastern tract of about 20 acres, on Copper Butte claims Nos. 2, 6 and 12, and a western tract on about 10 acres on the Junebug and Carlisle claims. The schist areas, ex- posed show traces of copper at many points. Silicate.ore is exposed at numerous points on the property, by discovery shafts, pits and trenches. Assays, made 1910, by disinterested parties, gave from 1.5% copper in lean breccia, up to 13.6% copper from the ore dump, at the Black Oxide pit.

Development consists of a 300’ incline shaft which passes out of the ore, by numerous shallow surface workings in ore and 6 tunnels, 2 longest being 175’ and 300’, mine having a total of about 2,000’ of workings, Prin- cipal shafts are the 175” James incline, and the 2-compartment vertical Wallace shaft. The oxidized and silicate ores at and near surface could be mined economically and cheaply.

Equipment includes a 60-h. p. steam plant and several buildings. Pro- duction, 1907, was 42 carloads of carbonate ore, ranging up to 19% copper tenor with small silver values and average of about 5% copper. A wagon road was being built to Ray, 1913, and property reported to be reopened. It has considerable shipping ore in the old workings, which can be profit- ably mined. COPPER BUTTE MINING CO. UTAH

Office: Richfield, Piute Co., Utah. Wm. Johnston, pres.; George Ogden, sec.-treas., at last accounts. Property is a copper prospect, on Gold moun- tain, in the Kimberly district, Piute Co., Utah. Development is by a short tunnel, showing a 6’ vein of low-grade argentiferous copper ore. Presum- ably idle.

Copper Butte Mining Co. Washington

Mine office: Orient, Ferry Co., Wash. J. D. Gumpper, pres.; H. Ie Miller, sec.; Willis Townsend, gen. mgr. Organized Dec., 1905, under laws of Washington, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par. Owns 4 claims, patented, in the Pierre Lake district, south of Orient, showing 2 veins in open cuts, 14’ and 15’ wide respectively. Development by 300’ shaft with drifts on the 100’ level shows copper-gold ores, but not in commercial quantity. Company plans driving a 900’ tunnel, 1913, to cut the vein at a depth of 400’.

Copper Canyon Mine. Arizona

Office: Kingman, Mohave Co., Ariz.; Messrs. Connor, Lassell, Smith and Sawyer, owners. Property is in the Wallapai mountains, about 25 miles east of Yucca. Development is by short tunnel and shaft showing a vein of molybdenite, lead and copper.

Copper Chief Mining Co. Arizona

: Mine office: Jerome, Yavapai Co., Ariz. Owned by the Hayden and Midgeon estates, Torrington, Conn., Franklin Brooks, Colorado Springs, Colo., and Arthur Hendey, supt.

Property, 23 claims, 11 patented, adjoining Senator Clark's Iron King mine in the Black Hills range, just outside the Verde district propery. The orebody is 60 to 100” wide, and consists of copper-bearing iron oxide car-

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rying’ gold, silver and a little copper, the total value being about $6 per ton. Sulphide ores occur at and below 280’.

Development is by 400’ shaft, 2,225’ of work on the 100’, 160’, 220’ and 280’ levels. A crosscut tunnel, now 900’ long, is being driven to connect with the bottom of the shaft. Mine reported to have a large tonnage of low-grade oxidized ore which cannot stand transportation to a distance, but can be treated at the Clarkdale (United Verde) smelter. Future of the property depends upon development of sulplide ore in quantity.

Managment claims 400,000 tons of oxidized ore and 100,000 tons of sulphide ore blocked out, with oxides averaging about 1% copper and $10 gold and silver, and sulphides assaying 3% copper with gold and silver, giv- ing gross values of $11 per ton. Mine timbering is said to be in bad shape. Equipment includes an air compressor and a good hoist. A leaching plant, built some years ago, proved a failure, :

Copper Chief Mining Co. Montana

Office: Wallace, Idaho. Mine near Saltese, Missoula Co., Mont. J. H. Taylor, sec.-treas. Capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par Lands; nii claims, in the St. Joe district, carrying a fissure vein in quartz, supposed to be an extension of the Bullion vein, with a strong gossan showing a little copper. Property has been tested by trenches, and prospect tunnels of 20’, 30’ and 40’, and management planned reaching the vein at 700’ by a cross- cut tunnel. Idle several years. COPPER CITY MINE. ALASKA

Office and mine: Coppermount, Prince of Wales Island, Alaska. Lands are claims on the beach, at Cordova bay, 6 miles south of Coppermount. Has fair mine buildings, and shipped some good ore to the Crofton smelter, 1905.: Idle several years. ;

Copper City Mining Co. New Mexico

Office: Deming, N. M., Albert Shultz, Jos. A. Mahoney, N. A. Bolich, Chas. J. Kelly and Christian Raithel, incorporators. No trace of opera- tions securable.

Copper: Cliff Copper Mining Co. Washington

Office: 724 Peyton Bik., Spokane, Wash. Mine office: Chewelah, Stevens Co., Wash. T. F. Wilson, pres., treas. and gen. mgr.; Je OF Blair; vice-pres.; L. C. Dougherty, sec.; L. K. Armstrong, mg. engr. Organized Feb. 24, 1912, under laws of Washington, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par; issued, $62,000.

. Lands, 60 acres and 40 acres timber lands, held under bond and lease, in the Chewelah district. Property shows contact deposits between altered granite, and limestone, Ores are mainly copper, with small silver values. Development is by shafts of 332’ and 730’, and by tunnels, longest be-

ing, 455’... Ñi

COPPER CLIFF MINING & MILLING CO. UTAH Office: Springville, Utah. No trace of operations securable. Presum-

ably dead.

Copper Crown Mining Co. Idaho

Letters returned repeatedly from former office and mine, Mullan, Sho- shone Co., Idaho. F. Albert Massing, pres.; John Hendrickson, sec. Or- ganized Dec. 11, 1907, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,250,000, shares $1 par, as a reconstruction of the Iron Crown Mining & Milling Co. Lands, 9 claims, 1 mile from a railroad, just west of Lookout, on the head waters of the St. Regis river. Property shows, at surface, a 4’ vein carrying auri- ferous and argentiferous copper ore, with iron and quartz gangue. Mine hasia :30shaft and 4 tunnels, with about 1,600’ of workings. Idle several years,

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Copper Crown Mining Co. Of Michigan Michigan

Office: 3558 Lindell Ave., St. Louis, Mo. Jacob Maurer, pres.; Dr. M. J. Hopkins, vice-pres.; N. J. Cashin, treas.; preceding officers, B. L. Brown, Geo. Bridenbach, Fred Balke and J. W. Byers, directors; H. B. Kirkpatrick, sec. Organized July 18, 1902, under laws of Michigan, capitalization $2,500,- 000; increased, about 1911, to $3,000,000, shares $25 par; issued 66,200 shares.

Lands, 2,500 acres, 6 to 8 miles west of the Victoria, and 8 miles north of Matchwood, the nearest railroad point, including a number of old mines on which more or less work was done, 1850 to 1860, principal properties being the Hamilton and Norwich mines. The Lafayette mine, formerly owned, was sold, 1909, for $14,000.

The first work of the present company was on the Hamilton, where a 602’ tunnel was driven and a 270’ shaft sunk on the Meads vein, the tunnel of 602’ securing a back of only 300’, and a shaft was sunk by mistake on a drift boulder in sandstone. Later work was at the Norwich mine, which, next to the Victoria, is the most extensively developed and promising mine west of the Ontonagon river. The Norwich tunnel is 950’ long, with 1,000’ of drifts that give an encouraging copper showing. The Norwich mine, worked 1850 to 1865, produced 993,360 Ibs. fine copper, securing masses of native metal up to:10 tons in weight. The bed is bunchy, but shows con- siderable promising stamp-rock. The Meads bed was located by a series of prehistoric pits along the outcrop, the 270’ shaft thereon showing a strong bed, up to 25’ in width, with a 720’ drift to the westward, on the fourth level.

Equipment includes a power house, pump house, tool house, smithy, barn and_9 dwellings, with 250-h. p. and 120-h. p. engine, 40-kw. dynamo, 250-h. p. boiler and 6-drill-and 5-drill air compressors. Idle since 1907. COPPER DOLLAR MINING CO. ARIZONA

Idle. Property is a group of claims southwest of Miami and south of the Cole-Goodwin mine, showing veins in hard schist, developed by 1,000’ of work. Ore is bunchy, but of good grade, carrying 5 to 10% copper and $3 to $10 in gold and silver.

Copper Eagle Mining Co. Oregon

Idle. R. J. Ginn, pres.; N. P. Hansen, sec., at last accounts. Lands, in the Galice district, show a 10’ quartz vein giving assays of 10 to 30% copper, ` opened by a tunnel of 300’.

Copper George Developing Co. New Mexico

Idle. Office: 82 Wisconsin St., Milwaukee, Wis. Mine office: Santa Rita, Grant Co., N. M. Lands, 12 claims. Shut down many years. . E COPPER GIANT MINE. ‘ ARIZON

Address: Hackberry, Mohave Co., Ariz. Wm. Neagle, supt. Property in the Brownsville district, 8 miles east of Hackberry, is under bond and lease to W. A. Clark. Development is by a 260’ shaft with drifts both ways on the vein on 200’ level, showing 7 to silicious ore running 7% copper, com- pared with 4% on the 100’ level. Equipment includes steam plant, hoist, compressor, etc.

COPPER GIANT MINING CO. ARIZONA i Office: care O. Z. Kane, gen. mgr., Tucson, Ariz. Mine office: Sil- ver Bell, Pima Co., Ariz. Lands, 50 claims, in several different groups, ly- ing south of the Imperial mine, and to the eastward of the Silver Bell moun- tains, opened by about 500’ of shafts and tunnels, with a 100’ shaft on the Copper Giant claim. Property shows a contact deposit with bold outcrops, between limestone and quartzite. Ore is chalcopyrite, with occasional chal- cocite. Idle many years. COPPER GLANCE MINING CO. ARIZONA

Idle. $. W. Clawson, pres. and treas.; A. S. Barker, sec., at last’ ac-

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counts. Organized March, 1901, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $2,- 500,000, shares $1 par. Lands, 24 patented claims, area 480 acres, in the Warten district, about 7 miles ‘southeast of Bisbee. Has shafts of 50’, 100’, 140’ and 560’ and tunnels of 75’ and 150’. Very fully described Vol. IV.

COPPER-GOLD MINES CO. NEVADA W. F. Gray, superintendent, Goldfield, Esmeralda Co., Nev. Property, a lease on the Gold Bar mine near Goldfield, showing a vein with high- grade copper-gold-silver ore. Shaft 400’ deep with various levels, but chief development on 200’ level. COPPER GULCH MINING CO. CALIFORNIA Idle. Office: 723 Boston Bldg., Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine near Cima, San Bernardino Co., Cal. W. T. Vincent, pres.; Carl Wing, vice-pres. and mgr.; A. B. Irvine, sec.-treas. Organized 1907, under laws of Arizona, capi- Eaa $1,000,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable. Lands, 5 claims, unpat- ented, in the Cape Canyon district, developed by a 165’ shaft. Closed down several years and apparently moribund. COPPER HILL MINE. CALIFORNIA Office and mine: Jackson, Amador Co., Cal. W. F. Detert, owner and mgr. Lands, 2,500 acres, patented, on the Consumnes river, having a quartz- porphyry dike of 500 to 600’ width, with large gossan outcrop underlain by chalcopyrite, associated with pyrrhotite in a 50’ vein east of and parallel with the Consumnes river. The mine has the Pine Tree shaft, 90’; the Blind Pigeon shaft, 130’, showing zinciferous iron and copper sulphides. with quartz gangue; the 150’ Little Oak shaft; the 100’ Zinc shaft; the 100’ Air shaft, and the 500’ Main shaft, latter on a 50’ vein east of and parallel with the Cines river, this carrying a 2 to 4’ paystreak of fine- grained massive chalcopyrite, assaying 20 to 3070 copper, with appreciable values in gold and silver. The shaft has an 8x12” double-cylinder steam hoist. The mine has about 3,000’ of workings. Buildings include several shops ‘and dwellings. Mine was worked, 1861 to 1881, securing a considerable produc- tion, as is evidenced by extensive slag dumps. Idle since 1881. COPPER HILL MINES CO. NEW MEXICO Mine near Orogrande, Otero Co., N. M. Dr. Jacob Geiger, pres.; Ster- ling Price Smith, sec.-treas., at lasts accounts. Organized 1907. Lands in- clude the High Five and Red Hill groups, Jatter, of 4 claims, said to have a fair surface showing of auriferous and argentiferous copper ore, opened by a 140’ shaft. Inactive several years and apparently moribund. COPPER HILL MINING CO. COLORADO Office: La Plata, La Plata Co., Colo. .E..N. Beach, owner and mgr. Property is a copper and gold mine in Bed Rock gulch, showing the Esmer- alda and Copper Hill veins, developed by several tunnels and: reported to be mining and shipping copper ore, Sept., 1913. Will install power plant in 1914 and plans tram line. COPPER HILL MINING CO. UTAH Controlled through stock ownership Bingham-Butte Copper Co., ` and described under that title. COPPER HILL MINING CO., LTD. MONTANA Idle. Office: Wallace, Idaho. Mine near Quartz, Missoula Co., Mont. Morton Webster, pres.; A. T. Ryan, vice-pres.; P. L. Eberhardt, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, Howard K. Welch and Jas. Howarth, directors. Organi ized March, 1908, under laws of Montana, capitalization $250, 000, shares 25 cts. par, nonassessable. Lands, 7 claims, area 125 acres, in the Sunrise dis- trict, on the Montana side of the Montana-Idaho divide, showing an altered zone of highly silicious rocks of 25 to 50’ width, carrying fine dissemina-

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tions of copper carbonates and sulphides: Mine has a 75’ tunnel, showing

ore said to be somewhat similar to that of the Snowstorm, and assaying

about 4% copper. t

Copper Hoard Mining Co. Washington

Office: Chewelah, Stevens Co., Wash. On’A. Campbell, i: En M. Jarvis and Chas. Adams, incorporators. Property is the Lookout claim, formerly owned by Col, G. F. Belcher, adjoining the United Copper mine. Company

planned diamond drilling, April, 1913.

COPPER INDEPENDENT CONS. MG. CO. WASHINGTON Formerly, at Silverton, Snohomish Co., Wash. KELLS, Defunct. Judge Chas. B. Wheeler, Buffalo, N. Y., trustee for the bond-

holders, foreclosed on the Independent mine, near Silverton, and other

property, 1907, and is now the principal owner. The mill and Stellaguamish

River claims were previously sold to the Eclipse Consolidated Mining &

Investment .Co. Described Vol. VI.

COPPER JACK MINING CO. UTAH Office: Eureka, Utah. CT. C. Griggs, pres. and gen, mgr.; W., P. Carter,

vice-pres.; Laurence Blackett, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, J. V. N. Door,

Herman Hoesch, Geo. Hanson and A. H. Pettis, directors. Organized 1905,

under laws of Utah, capitalization $100,000, shares 10 cts, par.

Lands, 24 claims, 10 patented, area 480 acres, 40 miles west of Eureka,

in the Erekson district. Property has a 30” fissure vein in granite, with a

paystreak carrying oxidized ores, and sulphides, associated with pyrite, in

quartz gangue, giving assays of 13 to 35% copper, with small gold and sil- ver values. Mine has shafts of 30’ and 240’ and a short tunnel.

COPPER KEY MINES, INC. WASHINGTON Office: Spokane, Wash. Mine office: Republic, Ferry €Co., Wash. S'S.

Bailey, pres.; T. A. Russell, vice-pres.; J. L. Prickett, sec.-treas.; preceding

‘officers, T. E. McBroom and D. G, Russell. directors. Organized under

laws of Washington. Lands, 7 claims, 1 fractional, on Belcher mountain, adjoining the Oversight group on the north. having a 145’ shaft and 3 tun- nels, longest 571’ showing low-grade auriferous chalcopyrite, of 1 to 3% copper tenor, associated with pyrite, marcasite, hematite and magnetite. Equipment includes a 7-drill air compressor. Property, though low in grade, is considered promising. COPPER KING CONSOLIDATED MINING CO. COLORADO Office: care Milo A. Smith, Denver, Colo. Organized April, 1903, under laws of Colorado, capitalization $300,000,

‘'( Pands, in Jefferson and Park counties, have undergone considerable de- velopment, but ore, as developed, is too low in grade to be workable. Idle many years and apparently moribund.

COPPER KING GOLD £ COPPER MINING CO: NEVADA Mine office: Mizpah, “Elko Co., Nev. Made a few shipments of aurifer-

ous and argentiferous copper ore, claimed to average about $100 per ton in

value, during latter half of 1907. Inactive several years and apparently out

of business.

Copper King Mine. . Arizona

“Mine ‘at’ Bisbee, Cochise Co., Ariz.” Lands, 10) clairhs, adjoining the? Copper Queen, Calumet & Arizona, known as the Arizona King group, for- merly held jointly by Union Mines Co., which owned about a 60% undi- vided interest, and R. E. Brotherton, Peter Johnson and C. M. Henkle, et al. Mine now owned by Phelps, Dodge & Co. Property was first held by. Copper King of Arizona, which abandoned same, 1902, and was relocated, 1903. Development is by a 625’ shaft, in porphyry, with some lateral work-> ings, which have cut a number of small stringers of copper ore, and dis-

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Seminated ore has been found in the fault and shear zones traversing the porphyry mass. COPPER KING MINE. . BRITISH COLUMBIA Mine office: Kamloops, Yale district, B. C. Lands, 16 miles west of Kamloops, show ore giving assays of 5.to 20% copper, 1.to 6 oz. silver and $10 to $20 gold per ton. Was a small producer in 1902, but inactive since. COPPER KING MINE. MONTANA Property, 3 miles northeast of Basin, Jefferson Co., in Hiawatha gulch, is slightly developed. Principal workings consist of a 125’ tunnel, and a 35’ shaft, showing a quartz vein, between granite walls; carrying tetrahedrite. Product runs high in silica, with about $1.60 gold and 24 oz. silver per ton of selected ore, which is used for converter lining. COPPER KING MINE. MONTANA Mine office: Whitehall, Madison Co., Mont. Lands, 1 claim, 2 miles southeast of Parrot, showing ores assaying up to 12.5% copper, 0.85 oz. sil- ver and $2.80 gold per ton. Idle some years. COPPER KING MINE. ., PHILIPPINES Mine office: Benguet, Luzon, Philippines. Hanson & Meade, owners. Lands, on the Bued river, show refractory ores carrying fair copper and gold values. A small stamp mill was planned, at last accounts, to treat ores for their gold values. Idle.

COPPER KING MINE. WASHINGTON See Chewelah Copper King Mining Co. COPPER KING MINING CO. CALIFORNIA

Mine office: Hutton, Siskiyou Co., Cal. Lands, 4 claims, 2 fractional. known as the Blomfield group, near the Joe Creek Copper Co., and north of the Blue Ledge mine, showing a vein of 40’ estimated width, paralleling the vein of the Blue Ledge Mining Co., and markedly similar. Development in- cludes a 340’ upper tunnel and 180’ lower tunnel, showing copper ore carry- ing excellent gold values. Presumably idle.

COPPER KING MINING CO. IDAHO ai Idle: ,Office and mine: Shoup, Lemhi Co., Idaho: Earl Gilbreath, mgr., at last accounts. Is a limited partnership, not an incorporation. Lands, 11 claims, area 220 acres, also 260 acres miscellaneous lands, on Beaver creek, in the Mackinaw district, showing numerous fissure veins in the quartzite, of which 3, with average width of 10 to 12’, are opened by 2 shallow shafts and 7 tunnels, of which 3 are 300’ each in length, with a total of about one- half mile of openings, showing cuprite and malachite giving average assays of 7% copper, up to 30% lead, 1 to 30 oz. silver, and $1 to $3 gold per ton, ore, as shipped, averaging about, $43 per ton in total values. s ) COPPER KING MINING CO. MONTANA

P. O. address: Cooke, City, Park Co., Mont. Property is the King and Queen group, developed by tunnels, showing an extensive orebody, with fair values in gold.

COPPER KING MINING CO. l ) YUKON

Mine office: Whitehorse, Yukon. Henry Baxter, mgr.; T. H. Kerruish, supt., at last accounts. Owns the Copper King claim, area 50 acres, crown- granted, in the Wheaton district, near Whitehorse. Orebody is a contact de- posit. The 243’ main crosscut tunnel cutting ore 150’ from the portal, has a

-63'winze in a vein of 5 to S width, ina: garnetiferous limestone, near a granite contact, carrying chalcopyrite and bornite. Property shows high- grade ore, in small quantities, at numerous points. Equipment includes a 60-h. p. boiler, 20-h. p. hoist and a’small air compressor. Production, to end of 1906, shipped to British Columbia smelters, was 400 tons of ore, averag- ing about 15% copper and $1.to $2 per ton in combined gold and silver.

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Property considered promising, but requires further development to make a mine. Idle. COPPER KING MINING & MILLING CO. IDAHO

Office and mine: Ilo, Nez Perce Co., Idaho. Jesse L. King, supt., at last accounts. Lands, 6 claims, on the west side of Mission creek, about 7 miles from Jack Spur, and 7 miles from Culdesac. Mine, opened by tun- nel, has a vein of 18’ estimated average width, carrying ore of good copper tenor, with $1 to $2 gold per ton. Was developing, early 1909, with a small force. Idle.

Copper King Mining & Smelting Co. Idaho

Office and mine: Mullan, Shoshone Co:; Tdaho SJ. B. Elliott, pres.; E. B. Crawford, vice-pres.; Hon. Harry W. Ingalls, sec.-treas. and gen. mgr. Organized Aug. 28, 1901, under laws of Idaho, capitalization $1,500,000, shares $1 par; issued, 1,000,000 shares.

Property, 13 claims, 2 fractional, on the West fork of Deadman's creek in the Snowstorm copper belt. Claims have 2 narrow fissure veins, carry- ing galena and chalcopyrite assaying 5% copper, 28% lead and 18 oz. silver per ton. Mine has 2 tunnels on the Copper King vein, on the Burke side of the mountain and No. 3, the lower tunnel, on the West fork of Dead- man gulch, at depth of 927” below the Middle tunnel, No. 2 being 2,000’ and No. 3 approximately 5,000’ in length.

According to governmental reports, the vein is but 1’ wide, runs north- west, dips at 40° S. and shows copper-lead sulphides in a quartz calcite gangue. The work is in Newland slates and St. Regis quartzite, not having yet reached the Revette quartzite. A 2’ band of altered rock impregnated with galena and chalcopyrite has been recently developed.

Equipment includes 12” and 24” Pelton wheels, taking water under a 500’ head, with a 4-drill Franklin air compressor and a small electric light plant. Buildings include an engine house, boarding house, 27x42’ bunk house and barn. About 15 men are employed. Property considered prom- ising’and management good.

Copper Knob Mine. North Carolina

Idle. Office and mine: Hopkins, Ashe Co., N. C. Richard Eames, Jr., owner. Lands, 160 acres, freehold, also 90 acres miscellaneous lands, show- ing a 30” fissure vein in hornblendic slate, carrying carbonate and sulphide ores, mainly bornite, estimated to average 6 to 8% copper, 15 oz. silver and $12 gold per ton. Property was opened 1880. Has steam power, with hoist and 2-drill air compressor, and a 5-stamp mill. Management plans further development by an adit cutting Copper Knob mountain.

Copper Mines Co. Of California. California

J. B. Pearce, superintendent, Raymond, Madera Co., Cal. Property, the Green Mountain mine, showing a deposit of iron gossan underlain by cop- per sulphide ore. Development is by 650” tunnel. Equipment includes gasoline engine.

Copper Mines Of Newfoundland, Ltd. Newfoundland

Secretary’s address: O. Wells, 49 Queen Victoria St., London, E. C.) Eng. J. Ford and H. B. Smith, directors. Organized July 15, 1912, capi- talization £5,000, shares £1 par, to deal in copper prospects in Newfound- land.

Copper Mountain Claims California

Address: W. E. Johns, Hornsilver, Nev. Mine address: Lida, Nev. Mine at Cocumongo Springs, Inyo Co., Cal. Owned by W. E. Johns, M. F. Nichols, Frank Baird, Ben Baird, Clyde Fletcher and Fred J. Ashman. Property, 9 claims, about one-half mile west of the Nevada state line and 4 miles from Cocumongo Springs, shows gossan outcrop 400’ wide extend-

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ing the length of 3 claims and covering a contact deposit between limestone and granite. The gossan is said to carry from a trace to 14% copper. Development is by a 765’ tunnel, cutting a 14' vein carrying bunches of 6% copper ore. This vein is 500’ from the contact orebody. Goldfield, Nev., is the nearest rail point. ‘Property considered promising if a railroad is built to the Loretta mine, owned by Chas. M. Schwab, 18 miles distant. COPPER MOUNTAIN CONS. MINING CO. CALIFORNIA Idle. Mine near Redding, Shasta Co., Cal. John Pillius, pres:: KerG, King, vice-pres.; Fred Grotefend, sec.-treas. and supt., at last accounts. Lands, 17 claims, immediately northeast of the Mountain Copper Co., Ltd., on Sugar Loaf mountain, showing an ore zone, in rhyolite, with N. S. strike, carrying a gossan up to 400’ in width. Mine has 12 tunnels, aggregating 4,365’, which have cut several small detached pockets of sulphide ores. Equipment includes electric power and an air compressor. COPPER MOUNTAIN COPPER CO. ALASKA Mine office: Nome, Cape Nome district, Alaska, Property is near the head of the Nome river. A limited amount of development was done, 1907, and apparently none since. COPPER MOUNTAIN MINING CO. IDAHO Office: Mullan, Idaho. Mine office: Montpelier, Bear Lake Co., Idaho. Organized under laws of South Dakota, capitalization $1,500,000, shares $1 par. John Hendrickson, pres. and mgr.; A. B. Willard, vice-pres.; Thos. G. Kennedy, sec.-treas., at last accounts. Lands, 5 claims, unpatented, area 100 acres, known as the Blacksmith group, also a 5-acre mill site, near the Bonanza Mining Co., in Montpelier canyon, about 8 miles from Montpelier. Mine has a short tunnel, said to show copper ore carrying gold and silver values. Idle. COPPER MOUNTAIN MINING CO. OREGON Mine address: Grant's Pass, Josephine Co., Ore. C. E. Phillips, pres.; J. W. Gayetty, vice-pres.; W. R. Nipper, sec.-treas. Property is a gold mine, 40 miles from Grant's Pass, in the Takilma district. COPPER MOUNTAIN MINING CO. UTAH Office: 323 D. F. Walker Bldg., Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine near Mil- ford, Beaver Co., Utah. Lands, 6 claims, owned formerly by Copper Moun- tain Mining & Milling Co., having open cuts and shallow shafts of 5 to 60’, and a main shaft, of peculiar construction, about 250’ in depth, showing an iron ore vein of 4 to 14 width, giving assays of 18 to 28% copper. Shaft is vertical for about 100’, thence drops 100’ at an agle of 75°, thereafter has 50’ sunk at an angle of 70°, which is excellently bad engineering. Has gasoline power. Under lease to David Rees, Milford, Utah. COPPER MOUNTAIN MG. & DEV. CO. BRITISH COLUMBIA Office: 5406 Union Ave., South Tacoma, Wash. Mine office: Quatsino, Atlin district, B. C.. B. S. Cowles, pres.; Jos. Hutchinson, sec.; B. D. Hol- comb, gen. mgr.; A. T. Macaulay, supt., at last accounts. Capitalization $200,000, shares 10 ets. par. The June group, at Quatsino sound, includes 5 claims, area 250 acres, showing an orebody said to be 100” wide, with meas- ured length of 3,000’, giving assays of 6 to 8% copper, 3 oz. silver and $2 gold per ton, from chalcopyrite. A large amount of ore is shown on the surface, and the deposit has been worked opencast. British Columbian group considered promising. Company also owns 4 claims near Ryan, Stevens Co., Wash., developed by 300’ shaft and 115’ tunnel, showing a 75’ lens of low-grade ore. COPPER MOUNTAIN MINING & DEVELOPMENT CO. MONTANA Office: Mullan, Idaho. Mine near Thompson, Sanders Co., Mont. John

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Hendricksen, pres.; A. B. Willard, vice-pres.; Thos. Kennedy, sec:-treas.; D. Flynn and John Foss, directors. Organized 1906, under laws of Idaho, capitalization $1,500,000, shares $1 par. Annual meeting, second Tuesday in December.

Lands, 5 claims, one fractional, area 95 acres, with 3 adjoining claims under option, at last accounts, at the head of Copper creek. Mine has 2 tunnels, the upper a crosscut, deflected for 56’ along the vein, said to be 25" wide, ‘carrying pockets and seams of copper carbonates, with gold and silver values. The lower tunnel, of 950’,-has a back of about 350. Idle. COPPER MOUNTAIN MINING & MILLING CO. COLORADO

Office: 438 Sheidley Bldg., Kansas City, Mo. Mine office: Ward, Boulder Co., Colo. Geo. W. Barnhardt, mer., at last accounts. Property, about 1 mile north of Ward, developed by a 50’ tunnel, showing a 6 vein of gold and silver ore. Idle.

Copper Plate Mining Co., Ltd. Idaho

Mine office: Mullan, Shoshone Co., Idaho. ~A: A. Hammer, pres.; J.’ W. Hutchins, sec:-treas., at last accounts. Company owns a number of unpatented claims upon which about 2,500’ of development work has been done. Idle several years.

Copper Prince Cons. Mining & Milling Co. : Idaho

Office: Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Mine office: Herrick, Shoshone Co., Idaho. Saml. B. Holbert; pres.; Saml. R. Hite, vice-pres.; Jas. V. Hawkins, sec. and mgr.; preceding officers, Wm. Hankins, S. C. Dooley, J. T: Wood and Boyd Hamilton, directors; Frank Drummond, supt. Organized July 30, 1910, under laws of Idaho, capitalization’ $4,000,000, shares $1 par, non- assessable; issued, $2,775,000. Annual meeting, first Monday in September.

Lands, 37 claims, unpatented, area 740 acres, in 2 groups on the north bank of the St. Joe river, 6 miles and 20 miles, respectively, above the head of navigation. Property includes water rights.’ The Copper Prince group, formerly known as the Black Prince, has 13 claims, and the Idaho-Virginia, or Gold Ridge group, of about 24 claims, is about 6 miles east of the Cop- per Prince, and 3 miles from the Milwaukee railway. :

The Copper Prince group shows contact orebodies, between granite and Revette quartzite, of 20 to 30’ estimated average width, carrying chalcopyrite, bornite and gray copper, giving assays of 3 to 41% copper, and 8 to 13 oz. silver per ton. Development is by drift tunrels. of 40’, 40’, 100’ and 200’. driven from the sides of 2 canyons. The orebody has been traced by trenches and crosscut tunnels, on each claim, for the entire length of prop- erty, a distance of 7,800’.

The Idaho-Virginia group is reported to have a 15 to 20’ contact de- posit, between granite and slate, carrying argentiferous galena giving assays of 8 to 40% lead, and 14 to 46 oz: silver. Development is by 2 shafts of 50 and 250’ depth. Buildings include a smithy, boarding house and a stable.

Company plans utilizing water power from Prince Creek, by 6 miles of 3’ ditch and 1 mile of 3’ flume, also installing 4 boilers, 2 hoists, 2 six-drill air compressors, and a saw mill. Property is considered promising. COPPER PRINCE MINING CO. CALIFORNIA

Mine office: Middletown, Lake Co., Cal. E. Lobree, pres.; J: C. Rad- dock, sec., at last accounts. ' Lands, 3 claims, 4 miles northwest of Middle- town, carrying a vein of 6 to 8’ width, in limestone, with a strong gossan, developed by 2 trenches and a short tunnel, latter showing malachite and azurite, said to assay 5% copper, 1 oz. silver and $3 gold per ton. Idle many ’ years, and presumably moribund.

Copper Queen Consolidated Mining Co. ` ' Arizona

Office: 99 John St., New York. Mine office: Bisbee, Cochise Co., Ariz.

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Operating and works office: Douglas, Cochise Co., Ariz. Dr. Jas. Douglas, 'pres.; Arthur Curtiss James, vice-pres.; Geo. Notman, sec.-treas.; Stuart W. French, gen. mgr.; Gerald Sherman, gen. supt.; Joseph H. Hodgson, mine supt.; F. Rutherford, smelter supt., and C. C. Barclay, purch. agt. Organ- ized Aug., 1885, under laws of New York, capitalization $2,000,000, shares $10 par. Is controlled through entire stock ownership by Phelps, Dodge & Co., Inc: The company was operated for many years as a close corpora- tion, without making its figures public, but is said to have paid, 1888 to 1907, inclusive, dividendssranging from 10 to_115%, with an aggregate of $30,000,000 or upwards.’ Dividends were $3,000,000 in 1908; $4,025,000 in 1909; $6,300,000: in 1910; $5,200,000 in 1911, and $5,707,351 in 1912.

The company’s holdings comprise the Copper Queen and other mines at Bisbee, a large smelting plant ‘at Douglas, on the Mexican border, 30 miles from the mines and 21 claims, 19 patented, in the Central City mining dis- trict, Grant county, N: M., besides mining interests in various other locali- ties. Mineral lands in the Warren, or Bisbee district, comprise 136 claims, 127 patented, 1,450 acres. y

The Copper Queen, one of the best known copper mines of the world, was opened, 1880, on an outcrop of oxidized copper ore in massive lime- stone, opposite the Copper Queen hotel in Bisbee. The original orebody, mow ‘represented by a large ‘cave, averaged 23% copper. The ore was smelted ‘in a 30” water-jacket furnace, with English coke,’ brought via San Francisco. This orebody was exhausted in 3 or 4 years and the mine ex- perienced many vicissitudes, until additional orebodies were developed, by following seams and stringers of ore leading to further large ‘and rich de- posits.

The ore-bearing formation of the Copper Queen and other mines of the Bisbee district, consists of thickly bedded limestone beds, dipping to the southward and cut by intrusive porphyritic dikes. Until 1902, the principal orebodies were found at the base of the carboniferous limestone: beds, which are broken by igneous intrusive rocks, that evidently have a strong genetic bearing upon deposition. The ore deposits occur as pockets, lenses, chimneys, bunches, shoots, veins, stringers and ‘seams, the larger’ bodies being connected, in most cases, by small veins, or mere 'knife-blade seams. The limestone and its included orebodies have a general gentle dip to the southeast, necessitating deeper shafts as distance is made toward the south- east. Extensive bodies of high-grade ore have been found, since 1902, in the deeper levels driven in the older limestones (Cambrian), and developments prove these underlying orebodies to be persistent to great depth. The mines show beautiful caves, lined with calcite crystals and ‘stalactites and wonderfully fine crusts of azurite, malachite and cuprite; some of these caves are of considerable size. Many of the shafts are bottomed in sul- phide ores of high grade, consequently the depth of the orebodies, while al- ready proven great; is conjectural. New orebodies are developed yearly and the ultimate lateral limits of payable ore are unknown.

The mines are opened ahead for several years, the development aver- aging about 1 mile monthly of new workings, or at the rate of 1 linear foot of new work for 10 tons of ore extracted, which figure is proven by past experience to maintain practically constant ore reserves, while avoiding ex- cessive advance openings that require useless maintenance cost. The stopes are filled throughout and the mines ‘are timbered with square sets, mainly Washington fir, an average of 30’ in timber, board measure, being required for each ton of ore won in the oxidized zone. Experiments were made, 1909, with concrete and steel for timbering, 6” steel I-beams weighing 8 lbs. per foot being tried for posts and caps, but these strong beams were soon

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twisted and eventually broken. Notwithstanding numerous disadvantages of operation and menaces to life, the Copper Queen is one of the safest of mines, because of experienced and careful management.

The entire system of mine operation was changed, radically, in 1908, each of the principal shafts now being used for men, waste, timber and sup- plies, while practically all ore extraction is through the Sacramento shaft.

The underground haulage plant, installed 1908, is very extensive, with 17 miles of tracks, covering every second level from the 4th to the 16th, in- clusive, ore from the intermediate levels being dropped through chutes, and all ore hauled to the Sacramento shaft for hoisting. The haulage system includes Goodman electric locomotives and side-dumping ore cars. Chutes have been installed throughout the mine for loading the cars, which dis- charge into large storage bins at the Sacramento shaft, through which all ore is hoisted. In order to complete the underground traction system, it was necessary to open.many lateral drifts and crosscuts, which were located in solid ground, wherever possible, as the electric tram lines are the arteries af the mine.

The Czar shaft, which is the oldest, is 400’ deep, with an electric hoist. The 600’ four-compartment Holbrook shaft, located 1,100’ southeast of the Czar, replaces the old Holbrook shaft, lost, 1906, by fire and caving. The . shaft was retimbered, early 1911. The Holbrook, formerly the principal mine of the Copper Queen, having large and numerous bodies of exception- ally high-grade ore, is now second as a producer to the Lowell. The shaft has a steel headgear, and a 750-h. p. hoist, actuated by compressed air. This mine has tapped several gas pockets, but thus far, without serious results.

The Spray shaft, no longer used, is 1,400’ southeast of the Holbrook, and near the Irish Mag shaft of the Calumet & Arizona, is 900’ deep, with 3 compartments. This shaft shows rich ores from the 4th level to the bot- tom, the upper workings carrying mainly chalcocite, which changes to bor- nite on the 5th level, with oxidized ores and a continuance of sulphides on the 6th and 7th levels, ores being mainly sulphide on the 8th level. The ore- bodies are very extensive and persistent, and are found to be associated with frequent porphyry dikes. The Spray mine is now worked from the Holbrook and Gardner shafts.

The Gardner shaft, 1,450’ southeast of the Silver Spray, with 3 compart- ments, 1,000’ deep, has large bodies of high-grade ores, mainly sulphide, and is becoming an increasingly important producer. Surface equipment in- cludes a 100’ steel headgear, and a 750-h. p. 20x60” Nordberg hoist, actuated by compressed air.

The Lowell, shaft, next southeast of the Gardner, is 1,600’ deep. The Lowell shows no important orebodies above the 900’ level, but has high- grade sulphides on the lower workings, the 1,000’ level showing high-grade oxidized ores below sulphides. In the summer of 1913, a new orebody was discovered between the 1,000’ and 1,200’ levels. The Lowell has developed into a great mine, and is now the principal producer of the Copper Queen. This shaft makes about 175,000 gals. of water daily, which is forked to sur- face by a Prescott station pump on the 1,000’ level. Equipment includes a steel headgear, and a 20x60” Nordberg hoist, actuated by compressed air, raising 3-deck cages.

The 638’ Cuprite shaft, about 1,400’ west of the Silver Spray, is con- nected underground with the Czar. No large orebodies have been located by this shaft, though it should find the extension of the orebodies of the . Shattuck-Arizona. `

The Uncle Sam mine has an old shaft, and a new shaft, sunk 1908, of 224” depth. This mine is connected with the Czar, Holbrook and Sacra-

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mento shafts, and has a large orebody, discovered 1913, that compares fav- orably with the bonanza deposits of the adjoining Shattuck mine.

The White Tail Deer mine lies across the range on the edge of the mesa near Don Luis, being reached by wagon road through a detour of sev- eral miles. There is an old 100’ incline shaft, sunk 1893, and some ore was shipped, 1904, by lessees, that carried 12 to 15% copper. A new shaft, be- gun June, 1910, had some drifts on the 150’ level at the end of the year. The mine shows a deposit of low-grade ore, with prospects of developing ore of better grade. It has been unworked, save by lessees, for several years.

The 4-compartment Sacramento shaft, 1,700' deep, handles the entire output of the mine. There are loading bins on the even-numbered levels from 400 to 1,600’, reached by the electric haulage lines from all other work- ings of the mine. The shaft was sunk in rock for practically its entire depth, insuring as great a degree of immunity from drawing as is possible in this district. The Sacramento is showing some rich ore, discovered 1913, on the 1,500’ level near the Hoatson claim line. Exploratory work, 1912, in the porphyry stock of Sacramento hill, which is the geological keystone of the Bisbee ore deposits, has shown up a large tonnage of concentrating ore.

The hoist at the Sacramento is a powerful Nordberg tandem-compound engine, having 7’ drums with 5’ face, operated by steam, with 6 auxiliary en- gines, actuated by oil, under 150 lbs. pressure. Hoisting is done in 3-ton skips, and the hoist can raise a skip each minute, giving the shaft a capacity of fully 4,000 tons daily.

The Sacramento shaft has perhaps the most elaborate and ingenious system for mixing and loading ores to be found at any copper mine. The mine skips dump automatically upon a Stephens-Adamson belt conveyor, which carries the ore about 150’ down the hill to the loading tracks. The loading shed is of steel, with 4 railroad tracks running beneath, cars being loaded from 2 conveying belts running lengthwise between the 4 tracks, ore being scraped off the belts by dumping carriages moving continually back and forth, the motion mixing the ore thoroughly. Every skipload is weighed automatically, and 10% is loaded into a special car, for sampling and checking.

Two monstrous slag dumps near the Czar shaft, remaining from the old smelting plant, originally contained about 1,000,000 tons, of about 2% average copper tenor. These are being broken up and shipped to the Doug- las works, from time to time, for resmelting, as opportunity offers.

The central power plant is near the Sacramento shaft. The buildings, of steel frame, are a boiler house, having four 400-h. p. Stirling water-tube boilers, furnishing steam direct to the hoists at the nearby Sacramento and Gardner shafts, the hoists at the other shafts being operated by compressed air. Equipment of the engine house includes three 500-kw. Curtis turbo- generators, 3 Ingersoll-Rand air compressors, of about 100 drills aggregate capacity, a 70-drill Nordberg air compressor, the largest in the Southwest, and a 7,000 cu. ft. Nordberg compressor, installed in 1913, in 20 days’ work, a record-breaking time. Fuel is Texas and California petroleum, with large tanks for oil storage. All of the shafts, and the principal mine buildings, are reached by spurs of the El Paso & Southwestern railway.

In addition to the Copper Queen mine at Bisbee, the company has in- terests in several other districts.

The Great Western mine at Courtland, in the northern part of Cochise county, is about 30 miles north of Bisbee, has 2 shafts, deepest 650’, and is owned jointly with the Great Western Copper Co. It is understood that considerable ore has been developed, which is being mined and shipped at

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the rate of 100 tons daily. Mine has a steam plant generating electric cur- rent for its own use and sold to the neighboring mines.

The company owns mineral lands in the Old Hat district, in the Cata- lina mountains, north of Tucson, Pima county, Ariz.; also holds the Hanover mine at Fierro, Grant county, N. M.

The Douglas smelter, known as the Douglas Reduction Works, is at Douglas, Ariz., 28 miles from the mine and one-half mile from the Mexican border. This plant treats 3,000 tons daily, handling the output of the Cop- per Queen mines and that of the Moctezuma Copper Co., as well as doing a general custom-smelting business. The works occupy a site of 320 acres and are served by a very complete standard-gauge railroad system, reach- ing every building. The plant was blown in March, 1904, since which time there has been almost continuous enlargement, the works costing fully $4,000,000, smelting about 3,000 tons daily, there being no concentrator to eliminate part of the tonnage from the final furnace charges.

Water for the works is secured from artesian wells, of about 300’ aver- age depth, the water rising nearly to the surface, with 1 well, of about 1,000’ depth, flowing 200 gals. per minute. A large reservoir and cooling tower have been built in connection with the water supply.

The ore-bedding system consists of 5 pits, each 40x800 in size, and 11’ deep, having an aggregate storage capacity of 90,000 tons. Ore, received from the mine in side-dumping steel cars, is discharged into the pits, which are lined with white tufa rock. The pits are filled with the different grades of ore required to constitute a normal furnace mixture, and the ores mixed by a mechanical plow. Ore is removed, as required by the furnaces, with steam shovels, running on permanent tracks laid upon the floors of the pits.

The blast furnace building, 150x900’ in size, of steel frame, also covers the converter department. Three 60-ton traveling cranes, of 60” span, run the entire length of the building. There are ten 400-ton blast furnaces, each 44x240” with forty 4” tuyeres, and 16’ in height from the tuyeres to the charging floor. The 10 furnaces are set 15’ apart, in a single row, with a 10x20’ settler between each pair, the lower half lined with chrome brick and the upper half with ordinary fire brick. Ore is charged on either side, al- ternately, charging being done from trains of twenty 2,500-Ib. cars, hauled by 13-ton electric locomotives. Slags flow from the settlers into 18-ton slag cars, hauled by electric locomotives. The slag dump is 1,700” long, and is kept trim by a special leveling machine, operated by electric power. The blast furnaces consume 350 to 400 tons of coke daily.

The dust chamber is of steel frame with brick and tile walls, roofed with reinforced concrete supported by steel trusses and has a bottom of tiled hoppers.

Molten matte is taken from the blast furnace to the converters by 60-ton electric traveling cranes, each having two 15-ton auxiliary hoists. The converter department has 8 stands, operated hydraulically, with 36 shells, of the well-known Copper Queen barrel type, 96x126” in size. Cop- per is poured in a Walker casting machine, and product is blistered copper of about 99% tenor, with considerable gold and silver values. The con- verter plant has a new flue, taking the gases from the 8 stands to a dust flue 11” in diameter at the hoods and 13’ at the dust-chamber. The lining de- partment has 3 grinding pans, with pneumatic tamping machinery.

The 260’ steel stack of the blast furnace building is 30'/in diameter at the base and 25’ at the top.

The calcining and reverberatory plant is 100x850’ in size, of steel frame. Ore is brought in over an elevated railway track on steel trestles, 400’ in

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length, and dumped into concrete storage bins, and drawn, from the bins to the roasters by belt conveyors. There are four 100’ reverberatory fur- naces and twelve 75-ton McDougal calciners, planned to be increased to 16 eventually. A slag tunnel, 30’ wide, 15’ deep and 276’ long, has electric cars, connecting with the slag tracks. The tunnel is lined with 4’ concrete walls, with a 2’ separating wall in the center. The reverberatory furnaces are next to the old building, succeeded by the slag tunnel, on top of which there is a battery of four 400-h. p. water-tube boilers, followed by a dust chamber; the McDougal roasters occupy the northern end of the building. The re- verberatory department has a separate 300’ stack, of 22’ inside diameter, built of special hollow bricks, with walls 42” thick at the bottom and 12” at the top, requiring 1,250,000 brick and standing on a base of 60’ diameter requiring 1,100 cu. yds. of concrete.

The power house, of steel and brick, was enlarged to transmit electric energy 72 miles to El Tigre mine, in northern Mexico. The power plant has about 20 units, of various sizes and types, aggregating more than 6,000

-h. p. Equipment includes 4 Nordberg cross-compound blowing engines, each direct-connected to a 400-kw. 250-volt direct-current generator; Nos. -9- and 10 Connersville blowers, set staggering; a cross-compound 2-stage condensing air compressor, with piston capacity of 2,000 cu. ft. of free air per minute, at 100 lbs. pressure, for running the pneumatic tamping devices, operating charging doors of the blast furnaces and pumping water; 3 tri- plex motor-driven pumps, delivering water into compression tanks, at 350 lbs. “pressure per square inch, with automatic regulation; four 400-kw. 250- volt direct-current generators, supplying power for cranes, slag locomotives and electric lights; two 750-kw. turbo-generators and a number of minor en- gines and dynamos. The power plant is equipped with a complete set of

à gauges and meters, keeping exact record of the distribution of power to every department and subdepartment.

The ‘steel boiler house has six 500-h. p. and four 1,000-h. p. Stirling water-tube boilers, with a Green fuel economizer, and a Foster superheater with capacity of 90,000 Ibs. of steam per hour. The stack of the boiler house is of brick, 177’ high and 13’ in diameter at the base. Boilers are ar- ranged to burn either coal or petroleum, but latter is used exclusively, con- sumption of California and Texas petroleum, at the mine and works, amount- ing to about 500,000 gals. monthly. Oil for fuel is at present cheaper in first cost, easier and cleanlier to handle, and effects a great saving in the wages of 3 daily shifts of stokers, formerly required at every boiler plant.

The plant has splendidly equipped saw mill, planing mill, machine and boiler shops, smithy and foundry, capable of manufacturing anything in the way of machinery.

“© A limestone quarry, at Lee station, 7 miles east of Douglas, has a large crusher and storage bins, the smelter requiring 400 to 500 tons of limestone daily, for flux. A saw mill is operated, in the forests of the Chiricahua mountains, though the bulk of the timber and lumber requirements of the mine and works are met by the importation of timber from the Pacific coast.

An employees benefit association was inaugurated, 1909, and has ex- clusively voluntary membership, open to any employee, regardless of grade. The finances are administered by a joint board, composed of officers and employees, the company subscribing $7,500 annually if half of the employees Join... Beneficiaries are given half wages if sick or injured, with 1 year’s wages to heirs if the employee dies through sickness, and 2 years’ wages if death is met-accidentally, with other payments for loss of limbs, total dis- ability, etc.

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Production for recent years has been as follows: Tons Mined. Lbs. Copper. Oz. Silver. Oz, Gold. Lbs. Lead.

A A O RN oe 79,536,416 332,723 7,573

AS to o 66,916,972 238,123 4,197 ste cas AE AI Ad LEN 82,533,145 530,492 8,352 182,677 Gaui EPA Se A, 84,802,147 601,828 8,674 437,601 Fe Oi 596,193 76,428,908 608,096 12,430 696,118 FIR AOI EES E 619,132 74,489,728 1,227,453 16,895 5,658,930 A N S 786,368 88.280.908 1.027.130 18,023 2.953,685

Smelter production, including custom ores, was 123,876,100 lbs. copper, 1,689,152 oz. silver and 27,687 oz. gold, in 1912, -

Cost of finished copper delivered, 1912, was about 8 cts. per Ib. after deduction of included gold and silver values and including the reduction in cost of copper bought through the profits from the very considerabie custom business at the smelter.

The mine is one of the best in existence and within the past decade has been given thoroughly adequate mining and reduction plants. The management is exceptionally capable and far-sighted and deserves high commendation for the friendly and helpful spirit shown in dealings with employees, neighbors and general public.

Copper Queen Consolidated Mining Co. New Mexico

Office and mine: Fierro, Grant Co., N. M.; S. L. Landon, supt. Prop- erty, in the Fierro district, about 10 miles west of Hanover, shows Pale- ozoic sediments cut by quartz monzonite porphyry. Ores are mainly iron with some copper. Development is by the 300’ Emma shaft.

Copper Queen & Copper King Group. New Mexico

Mine near Steins, Grant Co., N. M. Dr. Hamilton, of El Paso, Texas, owner. Property reported to show a monzonite porphyry dike, 100’ wide impregnated with copper sulphides and averaging about 3% copper. De- velopment by shaft. Mine east of the San Simon valley and 5 miles from die Sig lee Wate COPPER QUEEN GOLD MINING CO. ARIZONA

Office: Mayer, Yavapai Co. Ariz; Louis Goldman, pres. and mgr. Lands, 12 claims, patented, and a mill site on the Agua Fria river, 6 miles east of Humboldt. Additional lands, held -in trust, comprise 11 claims known as the Martin group. These are under a 3-year option to purchase.

The property shows great dikes of black, silicified schist, cut in places by rhyolite dikes. Development is by 3 tunnels of 280’, 628’ and 540’, with about 2,000’ of workings showing a 17’ vein carrying chalcopyrite, chal- cocite and tetrahedrite ore with some gold and silver.

Equipment consists of a 3-drill air compressor and 32-h. p. gasoline engine located at No. 2 tunnel. Was developing with small force at last accounts.

Copper Queen Group. Nevada

Office: Lovelocks, Nev. EME Connell and J. T. Perry, owners. Prop- erty, 10 claims, unpatented, in the Dixie district, Churchill county, 65 miles by road south of Lovelocks, is said to show an outcrop ranging from 100 to 150° wide and traceable across the entire group. The outcrop occurs over a porphyry dike with granite walls. Samples show bornite and chal- copyrite besides oxidized ores, carrying 2 to 10% copper With small gold and silver values. Property only slightly prospected and idle except for

annual assessment work. ‘Claims are 1,400’ above Dixie valley, or at 6,000’ elevation.

COPPER QUEEN MINE. ARIZONA Office: Stoddard, Yavapai Co., Ariz. Mine is opened by a 350’ tunnel

showing auriferous copper ore. Was developing with small force at last accounts.

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Copper Queen Mine. California

In Mariposa Co., Cal. Leased, Nov., 1912, by Feltz, Bradtord €: Ives and developed by 125’ shaft. Ore shipped to the Kennett smelter is re- ported to have carried 15% copper.

COPPER QUEEN MINE. CALIFORNIA Office: Portola, Plumas Co., Cal.; Jack Daly, lessee. Mine is opened

by tunnel, showing a vein of auriferous copper ore said to give assay values

of 23.9 to 27% copper.

COPPER QUEEN MINE. CALIFORNIA There are copper mines of this name at Bridgeville, Humboldt Co.,

Deep Springs, Inyo Co., Nipton, San Bernadino Co., and ‘at Pitt river,

Shasta Co., noted in former volumes of this book, but of which recent

returns are lacking,

COPPER QUEEN MINE. IDAHO T. E. Lynch, owner, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada. Mine near Sunfield,

Lemhi Co., Idaho. Property, 3 claims, patented, 59 acres, known as Cop-

per Queen, Gold Finch, and Blue Bird, 8 miles from Tenday station, on

the Gilmore € Pittsburgh railroad, in the McDevitt district. Developed by a 250’ shaft and 3 tunnels of 375’, 200’ and 75’ length. This mine has yielded very rich ore, in which the bornite shows free gold. The ore oc- curs in irregular shoots and bunches in a vein of white quartz in quartzite

and silicious slate. The vein conforms to the rocks in strike and dip (40

to 70°) for 150’ below the surface, but changes below.

The mine is erroneously reported to be the property of the Copper Queen Gold Mining Co., in a Geological Survey report (Bull. 528, p. 120) but has belonged to T. E. Lynch since 1907. The Copper Queen Mining & Smelting Co. leased the Queen of the Hills mine, 40 miles away. The Copper Queen mine was leased, 1911, to A. B. Bennett of Toston, Mont., who sorted and shipped 448 tons of ore to Salt Lake City that averaged 29.4% copper, 5.2 oz. silver and 0.81 oz. gold per ton.

COPPER QUEEN MINE. MEXICO Owned by Velardena Mining & Smelting Co., at Velardena, Cuencame,

Durango, Mex.

COPPER QUEEN MINING Co. WASHINGTON Mine office: Chewelah, Stevens Co., Wash. Lands, 6 claims are re-

ported under bond and lease to the United Copper Mining Co.

COPPER QUEEN MINING & MILLING CO LTD: : IDAHO Former office: Mullan, Shoshone Co., Idaho. See Vol X. Company was amalgamated with the Reindeer Copper € Gold Mining

& Milling Co., Ltd., and reorganized under title of Reindeer Queen Mining

Co., 1913. Property described under latter title.

COPPER QUEEN MINING € SMELTING CO. IDAHO Office: 608 Lonsdale Bldg., Duluth, Minn. -Mine office: Salmon,

Lemhi Co., Idaho. Geo. H. Crosby, pres. and gen. mgr.; Emerson Hill,

vice-pres. and supt.; A. J. McLennan, sec.-treas. Organized June 12, 1905,

under laws of Arizona, capitalization $500,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable;

issued, $282,000. Absorbed 1908, the Copper Queen & Crescent Mining &

Smelting Co., giving 1 share for 8.

Property, the Queen of the Hills mine, with 17 claims, 320 acres, in the Eureka district, 7 miles northwest of Salmon, having 3 nearly vertical fissure veins in granite and schistose quartzite, with a generally northeast strike. The Eva, or westernmost vein, shows an 8 to 14” quartz band on the wall of a brecciated zone 5’ wide. The central, or Queen, and the Nellie veins show 12 lodes of granite breccia partly cemented by quartz. The ore is coarsely crystalline quartz, carrying pyrite, chalcopyrite and

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some galena, with $3 to $5 in gold. This ore occurs in 5 known oreshoots,’ 2 in the Nellie, 2 in the Queen and 1 in the Eva vein.

Development is by shafts of 105’ and 400’ with 5 levels and by 7 tun- nels, longest 450’ with 4,700’ of workings.

Equipment includes a 100-h. p. electric plant, a 24-h. p. hoist, good for 700’ and a 5-drill air compressor. There are 10 buildings, including a 50- ton log mill, having 15 Allis-Chalmers stamps, a gyratory crusher and 2 Wilfley tables. Property considered promising.

Copper Ranch Gold Mining & Milling Co. Colorado!

Office: 1711 Tremont St., Denver, Colo. Mine office: Ward, Boulder Co., Colo. W. E. Alexander, pres.; Thos. Fielding, sec., at last accounts. Organized under laws of Colorado, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par. Lands, 170 acres, patented, in the Grand Island district of Boulder county, Colorado, opened by a 218’ shaft, with 350’ of drifts: Property is’ under bond and lease, for $30,000, to J. G. Clarke, of Boulder, Colo.

Copper Ranch Mining Co. Utah

Office: 323 D. F. Walker Bldg., Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine near Milford, Beaver Co. Utah. Moses Thatcher pres.; C. L. Rood vice-pres. Organized under laws of Utah, capitalization $500,000, shares 50 cts. par.

Lands, 17 claims, 340 acres, in process of patenting, including the Jewel mine, between the Old Hickory and O. K. mines of the Majestic Mines Co., carrying 2 miles of the strike of a vein of about 100” claimed width, opened at intervals for a mile, showing ores, assaying up to 43% copper, 10 oz. silver and $8 gold per ton. Management estimates that en- tire vein will average 4 to 7% copper, with fair gold and silver values, which is a serious overestimate. Ore carries 5 to 25% iron, rendering it desirable for fluxing purposes. The mine has but slight development, with a shaft poorly planned, 32’ deep on the incline and 43’ farther vertically, mainly in ore. In 1910 shipped 8 tons of ore, returning 13.5% copper and 16.5 oz. silver per ton. Idle some years, except for annual assessment work. : COPPER RANGE & ARIZONA MINING CO. ARIZONA

Idle. Francis Flint, pres.; Hon. Wm. E. Ludden, vice-pres.; Frank S. Wright, sec.; Geo. S. Saville, treas., at last accounts. - Organized Nov., 1904, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $2 par. Lands, 15 claims, 5 patented, area 300 acres, with 3 mill sites and water rights, in the Santa Catalina mountains, about 25 miles northeast. of Tucson, the nearest rail point. Mines, known as the Homestake and Silver Reef, carry 5 contact deposits, between limestone and quartzite, with 2, under develop- ment, estimated at 8’ average width, traceable 1,500’, carrying chalcopy- rite, galena and sphalerite, estimated by management to average 6% cop- per, 20% lead, 17% zinc and 5 oz. silver per ton. Mine is developed mainly by tunnel, with 1,700’ of workings, and is said to have considerable ore blocked out.

Copper Range Co. Michigan

Office: 82 Devonshire St., Boston, Mass. Mine office: Painesdale, Houghton Co., Mich. Wm. A. Paine, pres.; Chas. A. Snow, vice-pres.; Frederic Stanwood, sec.-treas.; Frederick W. Denton, gen. mgr..

Organized 1899, under laws of Michigan, capitalization $2,500,000, shares $25 par. Is controlled, through ownership of 99,699 shares, by Cop- per Range Consolidated Co. Owns 50,000 shares of Champion Copper Co., which is one-half the total issue, and 26,051 shares of the Copper Range Railroad Co. Income, practically all from dividends on stocks held, was $502,913.97 in 1907; $254,338.65. in 1908; $665,646.98 in 1909; $533,173 'in 1910; $331,199 in 1911 and $582,404 in 1912, company beginning 1913 with a

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cash balance of $127,188. Dividend rate is $1.50. Dividends have been as follows: $3 in 1905; $6 in 1906; $4.50 in 1907; $3 in 1908; $6 in 1909; $4.50 in 1910; $3 in 1911, and $4.50 in 1912.

Lands, 9,360 acres, in a compact tract south of the Baltic mine, in Tt S4°N., R.-34 W., and 'T.-54 N., R. 35 W., upwards of 5,000 acres being on the mineral belt. Miscellaneous lands include 441 acres, with nearly 4 miles frontage on Lake Superior, near the mouth of the Graveraet river, 3 miles southwest of the Champion mill, at Freda, sufficient to give sites to 3 new’ stamp mills. “The mineral tract was explored, 1907, by 1,535’ of dia- mond drilling, without results.

Considerable diamond drilling was done, 1908-1909, giving a complete cross-section of a tract comprised of Sec. 7 and 8, which were under bond from St. Mary’s Mineral Land Co., but the lands were surrendered, Sept. 22, 1909, after boring 7,600’ of drill holes. at cost of $27,500.

Copper Range Consolidated Co. Michigan

Office: 82 Devonshire St., Boston, Mass. Mine office: Painesdale, Houghton Co., Mich. ‘Wm. A. Paine, pres.; Frederick W. Denton, and R. T. McKeever, vice-presidents; Frederick Stanwood, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, Chas. J. Paine, Jr., Frank McM. Stanton, Samuel L. Smith, F. Ward Paine and John R. Turner, directors; John M. Wagner, purch. agt.; C. E. Cleaves, mech. engr.

Organized :Nov., 1901, under laws of New Jersey, capitalization in- creased, 1903, to $38,500,000, and again increased, 1907, to $40,000,000, shares $100 par; issued, $39,369,200. American Trust Co., Boston, transfer agent;! Old Colony Trust Co., Boston, registrar. Annual meeting, first Wednesday in May, in Jersey City, N. J.

Balance sheet of Dec. 31, 1912, included $455,498.97 cash assets, with liabilities of $1,100,000 notes payable, and deposits by the United Metals Selling Co., Atlantic Mining Co., Trimountain Mining Co., Copper Range Co. and Copper Range Railroad Co., aggregating $743,408.04. Stock assets were 99,659 shares! Baltic Mining Co., 99,699 shares Copper Range Cox 99,345 shares Trimountain Mining Co.; 93,470 shares Atlantic Mining Co.; 16,392 shares Copper Range Railroad Co., and $870,000 of Copper Range Railroad Co. bonds. Assets included notes receivable, of the Baltic Mining Co., $174,637.80, and the company held in its treasury 791 shares unissued, to exchange for outstanding shares of Baltic Mining Co. and Copper Range Co. The Copper Range Consolidated Co. controls, through prac- tically entire ownership, the Copper Range Co., Baltic Mining Co., Tri- mountain Mining Co., and Atlantic Mining Co., and owns a half interest in the Champion Copper Co.

‘Receipts were $4,384,315 and disbursements $4,128,502.82 in 1907; $2,- 641,936.97 and $2,574,021.74 in 1908; $2,386,456.39 and $2,347,330.65 in 1909; $2,099,261.15 and $2,193,717.28 in 1910; 1,395,601.30 and $1,542,973.23 in 1911, and $1,979,719.42 and $1,839,772.37 in 1912.

Dividends have been as: follows: $1,536,086 in 1905; $2,300,064 in 1906; $2,304,810 in 1907; $1,536,740 in 1908; $1,536,930 in 1909; $1,537,340 in 1910; $1,357,104 in 1911 and $788,428.50 in 1912, total dividends to end of 1912 hav- ing been $12,902,248.50. The dividend payable Oct. 1, 1913, was reduced from 75 cts. to 50 cts., making total dividends in 1913, $2.75.

The Globe mine, south of the Champion, was extensively developed, for several years, to a depth of 900’ at a cost of about $600,000, but was abandoned, 1909. This property is separately described.

While the Baltic, Trimountain and Champion mines are fully described under the titles of their respective owners, the consolidated figures of the 3‘mines are as follows: Rock stamped, 1,914,331 tons in 1907; 1,893,749 tons

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in 1908; 1,891,576 tons in 1909; 1,820,769 tons in 1910; 1,779,072 tons in 1911 and 1,784, 402 tons in 1912, with average returns per ton, in fine copper, of 21.62 lbs. in 1907, 21.94 Ibs. in 1908, 21.73 Ibs. in 1909, 23.32 Ibs. in 1910, 20.87 lbs. in 1911 and 21: 07 lbs. in 1912, Production of the 3 mines was 41,385,015 lbs. fine copper in 1907; 41,546,525 lbs. in 1908; 41,105,311 Ibs. in 1909; 42- 468,754 lbs., in 1910; 37,130,292 lbs. in 1911 and 37,584,647 lbs in 1912.

Average cost of copper produced by the subsidiary companies of the Copper Range is about 10.5 cts., and the Champion is one of the cheapest cost producers of the entire Lake Superior district, and among the cheapest in the world. Recent production, through subsidiaries, has been as follows: 32,714,859 lbs. fine copper in 1905; 32,382,983 Ibs. in 1906; 33,- 140,297 lbs. in 1907; 32,653,143 lbs. in 1908; 32,102, 780 lbs. in 1909; 32,856,- 692 lbs. in 1910; 29,310,579 lbs. in 1911; 28,967,428 lbs. in 1912.

As the company's principal mine, the Baltic, has had lessening output and higher costs for several years past, the company's income has sui- fered, but the Trimountain mine is increasing its earnings and will prob- ably in the future offset any further decline of the Baltic. The Champion is holding its own.

The fact that Copper Range paid dividends in excess of earnings of subsidiaries in 1908-1911, necessitated a curtailment in 1912, but the work- ing capital is now restored and but for labor troubles, the company would be able to maintain its $3 dividend rate. The future should show an im- provement in operating profits of the company. Management is progres- sive, able and highly efficient.

Copper Range Railroad Co. Michigan

Office: 82 Devonshire St., Boston Mass. Operating office: Houghton, Mich. Wm. A. Paine, pres.; R. Townsend McKeever, vice-pres.; Frederick Stanwood, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, JohnH. Rice, Frederick W. Den- ton, Frank McM. Stanton, Thos. S. Dee, Wm. D. Calverley and Samuel L. Smith, directors; F. R. Bolles, gen. mgr. and A. H. Ehlers, supt.

Organized 1899, under laws of Michigan, capitalization $5,000,000, shares $100 par; issued, $4,244,300. Debentures outstanding, $2,280,000 first- mortgage 5% bonds. Company is authorized to issue bonds to extent of $20,000 per mile of completed main line, and $15,000 per mile of completed branch lines and ‘sidetracks. Is controlled, through ownership of entire stock issue, by Copper Range Co. and Copper Range Consolidated Co. Balance sheet of Dec. 31, 1912, gave cost of road at $5,983,948, with equip- ment inventoried at $816,220. Gross earnings were $659,252.86 in 1905; $860,434.84 gross and $111,298.51 net in 1907; $768,808.98 gross and $16,- 379.09 net in 1908; $754,393.75 gross and $170,261.80 net in 1909; $721,127.88 gross and $75,167.65 net in 1910; $717,069.92 gross and $53,531.70 net in 1911, and $754,921.06 gross and $103,775.44 net in 1912. The first dividend, of 10%, was paid 1909. About 75% of the gross income is derived from transpor- tation of ore, mineral and freight.

The railroad has upwards of 100 miles of trackage, the 65-mile main line running from Calumet to McKeever, and connecting with the Ke- weenaw Central at Calumet; the Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic, Hancock & Calumet and Mineral Range railways at Hancock and Houghton, and the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway at McKeever. The company also has trackage rights over 19 miles of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway, between McKeever and Ontonagon, and operates a daily passenger service between Calumet and Ontonagon, with additional track- age rights of 73 miles over the same line, over which fast freights are oper- ated between Calumet and Channing, Mich. -Trackage rights have been given the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul over the Copper Range be-

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tween McKeever and Houghton, and a direct passenger service, with ex- ceptionally good equipment, is operated jointly by the Chicago, Milwau- kee & St. Paul and Copper Range lines, between Chicago and Houghton. Wooden bridges and trestles are being replaced with steel. Spurs connect the main lines with all of the principal mines along the right-of-way. Train dispatching is by telephone. ,

The company owns a half interest in a bridge crossing Portage lake, between Houghton and Hancock. An extensive water frontage on Portage lake, in the western part of Houghton, is improved by a 2-story stone and brick general office building, shops, roundhouse, warehouses and wharves for merchandise and coal. The coal wharf is equipped with modern un- loading machinery, and has deep water alongside, capable of accommodat- ing the largest freighters plying the great lakes. The Copper Range rail- way is.a model small road.

Copper Reef Consolidated Mines. Arizona

Office: 1409 Park Bldg., Pittsburgh, Pa: Mine office: Stanley, Gra-

ham Co., Ariz. M. J. Kennedy, pres.; H. S. Paul, vice-pres.; W. A. Griffith,

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sec.; E. H. Myers, Jr., treas.; Ralph A, Meyer, gen. mgr. and mg. engr.; Chas. F. Martin, financial agent; preceding officers E. M. Gross, W. H. Williams, W. F. Wegley and Wm. H. Parks, directors; D. S. McDonald, supt. Organized Feb. 19, 1910, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $5,- 000,000 shares $5 par; issued 632,000 shares. Union Trust Co., Pittsburgh, transfer agent. Annual meeting, first Monday in February.

Property, 125 claims, 2,500 acres, including 600-acre mill site, in the Stanley Butte district, 15 miles southwest of San Carlos, and west of Stan- ley P..O.: Claims are on the western slope of a high mountain ridge whose eastern face shows granite overlaid by 600” of quartzite capped by lime- stone, while the western slope is plated with massively bedded gray lime- stone. On the claims these rocks are carboniferous and cut by numerous fractures carrying small replacement bodies of silicious copper ore. The rocks dip down the slope at 35° and most of the orebodies are either in gash veins or occur along fractures conformable to the bedding. In the many older pits and shallow shafts, the narrow gash veins were not over 2’ wide and the ore pinched out at 20: to 30’ in depth.

Development said to aggregate 3,600’, is mainly by tunnel, but includes the 575’ North Star and 125’ Jessie shafts.” The California No. 1 tunnel, 1,360” long with 776’ drift, 20’ and 226’ raises, 50’ and 100’ winzes, consti- tutes the chief underground workings. The 83’ Queen tunnel also shows ore. The manager estimates 80,000 tons developed by this work, which is too liberal an estimate. Ores average about 5.4% copper and 68% silica, the copper being partly in the form of chalcopyrite and bornite, mixed with chrysocolla, malachite and azurite, etc. Management reports average value of 8.65% copper with varying gold and silver values up to $12 per ton.

Equipment includes two 40-h. Pp. gasoline hoists, an Ingersoll-Rand 4-drill air compressor and all necessary mine buildings. Company plans installing much new machinery during the next year, including a 100-ton electric furnace, two 1,000-kw. electric generators, and steam turbines. COPPER RESERVE MINING & REDUCTION Co. UTAH

A. H. Tarbet, pres.; Henry T. McEwen, sec., at last accounts. No. trace of operations securable. Not favorably regarded.

Copper Ridge Mining & Milling Co. Colorado

Idle. Mine office: Steamboat Springs, Routt Cos4Colozsi Wi: HDi field, pres.; Clinton E. Bivens, vice-pres.; W. C. Shaw, sec.-treas.; Burt Goldsworthy, gen. mgr., at last accounts. Organized 1907, under laws of Colorado, capitalization $300,000, shares $1 par. . Lands, 2 claims, known as

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the Democrat and Republican, 5 miles north of Steamboat Springs, carry- ing a fissure vein opened by a shaft of 100’, showing ore assaying up to 18% copper, 2.5 oz. silver and $10 gold per ton.

Copper Rock Gold M. & M. Co. Colorado & Wyoming

Idle many years. Mine office: Sunset, Boulder Co., Colo. Mine near Encampment, Carbon Co., Wyo. H. Lee Servoss, pres.; Dan G. Kirsh- baum, sec. and mgr.; John Wessels, supt., at last accounts. Capitalization $1,500,000, shares $1 par. f

The Colorado property, known as the Lee S., area 60 acres, in the Sugar Loaf district, near Sunset, has a 300” shaft, claimed to show a large vein having occasional paystreaks up to 20” in width, carrying high-grade auriferous copper ore. Some work was done on this property, 1908. The Wyoming property, 6 claims, area 20 acres, known as the Copper Link, has shafts of 50’, 100’ and 285’, showing some leached copper ore carrying up to $4 gold per ton. Probably out of business.

Copper Run Copper Co. New Jersey

Idle and presumably moribund. Is said to own lands in Hunterdon county. No trace of operations securable.

Copper Shield Mining Co. Nevada

Office: 45 W. Second St., Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine office: Contact, Elko Co., Nev. Dr. C. I. Douglas, pres.; U U. Hiskey, vice-pres.; C. R. Strock, sec.-treas.; H. M. Shields, mgr., and J. A. De Valley, directors. Organized, 1907, under laws of Nevada, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par; issued 608,000. Annual meeting, second Tuesday in April. Lands, 11 claims, 200 acres, in the Salmon River district. Development is by 4 shallów shafts, deepest 73% and several tunnels, with a total of 646’ of

` workings, showing 4 veins in monzonite porphyry dikes in grano-diorite, said to carry up to 56% copper and 2 to 6 oz. silver per ton. Oregon Short Line railroad is 37 miles distant. COPPER-SILVER MONTANA MINING CO. MONTANA

Office of mine: Diamond Block; Helena, Lewis and Clark Co., Mont. Edw. Brennan, pres.; Sanford McKusie, vice-pres.; A. P. Heywood, sec.; Walter P. Stellmach, treas.; E. R. Purnell, gen. mgr.; preceding officers, C. W. Dresser, M. A. Kearney and Frank Bortos, directors. Organized May Sj 1906, under laws of Montana, capitalization $400,000, shares $1 par, non- assessable; issued, $300,000.

Lands, 7 claims, area 130 acres, adjoining the Lexington and Saca- jewea, in the Scratch Gravel district, 1 mile from Great Northern railway and 5 miles north of Helena. Property shows granite and monzonite, re- ported to carry numerous fissure veins, several dipping northwest and others dipping southeast. All veins are reported mineralized at surface, carrying melaconite, azurite and malachite. Mine has a 500’ shaft, cutting at 300’, a vein estimated to average 4.5% copper, 12 to 100 oz. silver, and '$1 to $55 gold per ton. A crosscut will be driven from the 500’ level to cut the 6 veins known on the property. Equipment includes a 30-h. p. steam hoist and a gasoline engine.

Copper & Silver Zone Mines. . Arizona

W. R. Martin, owner; Union Depot superintendent, El Paso, Texas. Mine near Globe, Gila Co., Ariz., adjoining the Old Dominion and Globe Consolidated mines and near the Boston & Superior. Property, 25 claims, about 500 acres, in diabase area, 1 mile east of Globe, was originally worked for its silver ore, found near the surface, but development has proven the existence of copper at depth and owners expect to encounter the extension of the Gladiator vein of the Old Dominion mine.

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Ironsides claim, from which ore shipped has returned 1.25 to 3.5% copper, $19 to $236 silver, or an average of $21.60 per, ton. COPPER STATE MINING CO. MONTANA

Mine address: Martinsdale, Meagher Co., Mont. . Geo. S. Wells, pres. and gen. mgr. Lands, 30 miles north of Martinsdale, have a 200’ two-com- partment shaft, with crosscuts said to show a 12’ vein of ore assaying 5% copper and 16% zinc, with small silver and gold values. Has a hoist and planned installing an air compressor. Developing, with a small force, 1912. COPPER TOP MINE. ARIZONA

H. H. Uddel, supt., Phoenix, Ariz. Mine, formerly owned by the Kentucky-Arizona Copper Co., now dead, is in the Rogers Spring district, 20 miles north of Phoenix. Property comprises the Copper Top mine with about 60 claims, developed by 1,000’ of workings, showing several small veins of copper ore, treated in a 25-ton smelter on the property. COPPER & URANIUM MINING CO. IDAHO

Office: Rexburg, Idaho. Mine office: Clyde, Blaine Co., Idaho. Henry Flamm, pres. and gen. mgr.; M. H. James, vice-pres.; Alfred James, sec.- treas.; preceding officers and James Shail, directors. Property, known as the Automatic mine, in the Hamilton district, has a 125” shaft on a 10' contact vein between limestone and quartzite, said to show copper and uranium ores. Company planned driving a 600’ tunnel. Presumably. idle. COPPER WEALTH MINING CO. MONTANA

Address: care Louis Dahn, Sand Coulee, Cascade Co. Had bond on copper claims in Yogo district, near Neihart in 1911. Idle at last accounts. COPPER WORLD EXTENSION MINING CO. WASHINGTON

Idle. Mine office: Loomis, Okanogan Co., Wash. Walter A. Boyle, pres.; Edw. H. Caylor, vice-pres.; Alfred F. Carman, seci treas: Ro J. Thomas, supt., at last accounts. Organized Jan. 11, 1904, under laws of Washington, capitalization $1,500,000, shares $1 par.

Lands, 8 claims, area 160 acres, on Palmer mountain, in the Wannicut lake district, showing an orebody about 25 to 30” wide, opened by a 300' 2-compartment shaft, with crosscut on 210’ level said to show 17’ vein of chalcopyrite, assaying 8% copper, 4 oz. silver and $1.40 gold per ton. Equip- ment includes steam plant, with 2 small hoists and 5-drill air compressor. COPPER WORLD GOLD MG. & SM. CO. WASHINGTON

Idle. Office: 401 Columbia Bldg., Spokane, Wash. Mine office: Loomis, Okanogan Co., Wash. Jerome L. Drumheller, pres. and mgr.; John Wentworth, vice-pres. and supt.; S. A. Child, sec.-treas. Organized under laws of Washington, capitalization $3,000,000, shares $1 par, non- ` assessable. Lands, 2 claims, patented, lying between the Copper World — Extension on the east and the Leadville mine on the west, on Palmer mountain, 4 to 5 miles northeast of Loomis. Property shows a gossan of 100” width, traceable 2,000”. The mine has several short tunnels and shallow shafts, and a 135” two-compartment incline shaft, having a 125' crosscut, reported to be in ore, without reaching the hanging wall, ore ‘being reported to give average assays of 4.5% copper, 2 oz. silver and $1 gold per ton, with excess of iron.

Copper Zone Mining Co. Utah

Office: Logan, Utah. Preston A. Thatcher, J. R. Edwards, Edward Edwards, L. J. Goodrich and John Perry, incorporators. Organized 1906, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par. No trace of operations securable. COPPERFIELD CONSOLIDATED COPPER CO. COLORADO

Mine near Copperfield, Fremont Co., Colo. Idle and moribund. Very fully described Vol. X.

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Copperfield Mines. Vermont

Office: 820 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. Mine office: West Fairlee, Orange Co., Vt. Geo. Westinghouse, owner. The Ely, or, Copperfield nine, once the largest copper mine in the United States, is situated near the village of West Fairlee, and was profitably worked 1870-1890, yielding 7,500,000 Ibs. copper in the latter year, but has been idle for many years past. The ore is a mixture of pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite with small amounts of sphalerite and pyrite in a quartzose gangue. It occurs in 2 interbedded lenses in gray schist, the orebodies being 8 to 10’ thick, 300

to 400” wide and dipping at about 23°, the 2 lenses together having a.

length of 3,400’, Development is by a 3,386’ shaft, 1,500’ vertical, sunk on a 23° incline with various levels. Earlier workings were by tunnel. Reduction plant includes a combined mill and smelter, connected with the mine by a gravity tram. The smelter has 2 water-jacket blast furnaces, 1 reverberatory furnace and 1 converter stand. Property was worked on a considerable scale, previous to 1860, and was reopened, 1900, by present owner, who spent large sums thereon, but met with disappointing results,

the best ore having been stoped, ore growing markedly leaner with depth. .

The mine has perhaps 20,000 tons of low-grade ore in sight. COPPERFIELD MINING CO. UTAH Office: Hotel Utah Bldg., Salt Lake City, Utah. B. F. Grant, pres.; Jas. Chipman, vice-pres.; Thos. M. Wheeler, sec. Organized 1906, under laws of Utah, capitalization $100,000, shares 10 cts. par, assessable. Lands, 9 claims, in the Silver Island district, 20 miles from a railroad, having several shallow shafts and short tunnels aggregating about 250’. Idle several years. COPPERMINES CO. NEVADA Office: 14 Wall St., New York. Mine office: East Ely, White Pine Co., Nev. Frank W. Holmes, pres.; H. F. J. Knobloch, vice-pres.; Theo. L. Herrmann, sec.; John Josten, treas.; L. Timmermann, asst. treas.; preceding officers, Ralph C. Lupton and E. N. Skinner directors; Arthur Smith, agt. Organized June, 1907, under laws of Delaware, capitalization $50,000, - 000, as Consolidated Copper Co. and name changed, 1907, to present title, and capitalization increased, April, 1908, to $60,000,000 and decreased, Dec. 31, 1909, to $5,000,000, shares $5 par., Is controlled by Consolidated Copper- mines Co., through ownership of practically entire stock issue. Lands, 46 claims, about 525 acres, in the Robinson district, taken over Aug. 8, 1907, from Ely Mines Co., also 3,085 acres of ranch lands and mill

sites, in the Steptoe valley, and a number of water rights. Equipment,

includes steam power. COPPEROPOLIS MINING & LEASING CO. WASHINGTON

Idle. Mine office: Keller, Ferry Co., Wash. H. Hibschman, pres.; Geo. P. Garwood, sec. and mgr., at last accounts. Organized 1907, under laws of Washington, capitalization $3,000,000, shares $10 par. Lands, 6 claims, 3 fractional, 90 acres, 5 miles west of Keller, opened by a 60” tun- nel, showing low-grade chalcopyrite ore. No trace of recent operations se- cured. Probably out of business. COPPERROX MINING COMPANY OF ARIZONA. ARIZONA

Office: 96 Harris Ave., Providence, R. I. Mine near Courtland, Co- chise Co., Ariz. T. F. Gilbane, pres.; Geo. F. Wordley, first vice-pres.; Thomson E. Going, second vice-pres.: Hon. G. W. Esterbrooks, sec.-treas. Organized Jan. 17, 1910, under laws of Arizona, as successor of the Ari- zona Copper Syndicate of Providence, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par. ve

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mountains, 3 miles from Courtland. Property is slightly developed, hav- ing a 236 shaft and about 500’ of tunnels on a contact said to be traceable 3 miles, with surface ores carrying gold and copper, said to assay up to 16.5% copper. Company is merely a holding company and will lease or sell controlling interest.

Coppersmith Mining & Milling Co. Montana

Office: 107 Second St., Moscow, Idaho. Mine office: Lothrop, Mis- soula Co., Mont. F. W., E. Schmitz, pres. and gen. mgr.; Benton S. Mer- win, vice-pres.; Chas. E. Merwin, sec.-treas,; preceding officers, L. N. Tracy and Wm. Schmitz, directors. Organized Jan. 23, 1909, under laws of Idaho, capitalization $3,000,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable; issued $2,200,000.

Lands, 8 claims, unpatented, area 160 acres, being the Coppersmith group of 6 claims and the Inverness group of 2 claims, also a water right and mill site, about 6 miles up Petty creek from Lothrop. Property carries some good timber. The Coppersmith claim shows limestone and quartzite for an estimated width of about 400’, and length of about one-half mile, with outcrops yielding 3 to 20% copper ore, that has given assays of 2 to 17% copper. Development is by a 50’ prospect shaft and 280’ crosscut tunnel said by management to cut merely 300’ of silicified limestone aver- aging but 1% copper. Property also has a number of open cuts and pits, and a 50° shaft, bottomed in ore estimated to average better than 6% copper, with small gold and silver values. The Coppersmith was formerly reported to show 3 main veins, one reported to be over 100’ wide at sur- face, giving ore assaying 2 to 3% copper. The Exty vein, parallel with and 500’ from the Coppersmith, is reported as 15’ wide.

The Inverness group, 3 miles from Lothrop, has a vein of 3 to 4’ width, in quartzite and slate, carrying malachite, chalcopyrite and chalcocite, giy- ing assays of 15 to 17% copper and $10 to $12 per ton in combined gold and silver values. Property has 4 buildings, but no power plant, owing to development by tunnel. Idle except for annual assessment work, and prop- erty not considered encouraging.

Coram Smelter. California

Owned by Balaklala Consolidated Copper Co., at Coram, Shasta Co., Cal: :

Corbin Copper Co. Montana

Office: 60 Congress St., Boston, Mass.. Mine office: Butte, Mont. R. M. Edwards, pres. and gen. mgr.; Henry Tolman, treas., Newton, Mass.; preceding officers, Jos. C. Walker, S. L. Powers, I. J. Sturgis and H.B. Byrne, directors.; Thos. A. Varden, supt.; R. A. Tregonning, engr. Or- ganized Dec. 24, 1908, under laws of Michigan, capitalization $3,750,000, shares $25 par, assessable; issued, $3,250,000, $7 paid. Company sold 15,000 shares of treasury stock, early 1910, at $10. Federal Trust Co., Boston, registrar; American Trust Company, Boston, transfer agent. Stock is listed on the Boston curb. Annual meeting, third Tuesday in April. An assessment of $1 per share was levied, Jan., 1913, and 58,435 shares de- linquent stock were bid in by the company and 275 shares sold to individuals at 90 cts. a share. With the stock thus bid in, there will be outstanding 70,000 shares, or $1,750,000.

The company owns 57 mining claims, 45 patented, near Corbin in Jeffer- son county, and is exploring under lease and bond 6 claims at Rochester, Madison county, and is now working under an option to purchase the Gambrinus, Belcher and Welch claims at Butte, Mont.

The Corbin group lies at the head of Clancey creek, a few miles west of Corbin, on the western side of an andesite hill across from the Boston & Corbin mine. This property carries several strong fissure veins in

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andesite on which considerable exploration work has been done with dis- appointing results. A vein opened for 800’ in the Rosalie tunnel carries up to 20 oz. silver and 7% copper, but is only 18” wide.

The Montana tunnel shows a pyritized conglomerate with andesite, dacite and aplite cobbles, the matrix containing small silver values in the upper tunnel, while the winze in the lower tunnel shows considerable pyrite. The Bonanza tunnel is driven on a tourmalinized granitic dike in andesite, and in places the tourmaline rock carries galena and chalcopyrite with small amounts of zinc-blende and pyrite. The Corbin property is not considered favorably.

Equipment includes steam and electric power, commercial current be- ing taken from the Missouri River Power Co. Buildings include a general office, laboratory, warehouse, three smithies, barn, boarding house, 6 bunk houses and 6 dwellings.

A 100-ton mill, near the portal of the Bonanza tunnel, at Wickes, planned as the first unit of a larger mill, was completed July, 1910, and is idle for lack of ore.

The Butte property lies about 800’ west of the Gagnon shaft of the Anaconda Co. and is believed to carry the extension of the vein worked m that mine. Development work on this group is now being actively pushed and a shaft, sunk on the Gambrinus, was 200’ deep in September and sinking at the rate of 5’ a day. Ata depth of 85’, a crosscut was driven south 35’ to prove the apex of the vein and found it to consist of 2’ of quartz and 10’ of vein matter, carrying silver-lead ore. This property is held under a $150,000 option, all paid save final payment of $105,000 due Jan., 1914.

The Rochester group of 9 claims, is held under bond and lease for $65,- 000, payable Feb., 1914. The property shows a strong quartz outcrop, the vein being developed by a 523’ shaft in which a crosscut at the bottom level has encountered 2 parallel veins, 15’ apart, that assay 3 to 7% copper, Property is locally known as the Blowout mine.

Corbin-Copper King Mining Co. Montana

Office: State Savings Bank, Butte, Mont. Mine address: Corbin, Jef- ferson Co., Mont. W. H. Hall, pres.; W. D. Gibson, vice-pres.; R. M. De- peu, sec.; R. B. Nuckolls, treas.; preceding officers, I. A. Heilbronner and M. H. Schultze, directors. Organized 1911, under laws of Montana, as suc- cessor to the Montana-Corbin Copper Co., capitalization $1,000,000, shares $5 par; issued 100,000 shares. Stockholders of the Montana-Corbin Co. received a new share for old on payment of 25 cts. a share.

Lands, 2 claims, area 26 acres, about 1 mile from Corbin, in Picnic gulch, show 4 well-defined veins carrying auriferous and argentiferous bor- nite and chalcopyrite averaging about 10% copper, 20 oz. silver and 50 cts. gold per ton. Principal development consists of a 2-compartment shaft, 400’ deep, with about 500° of workings, on the Hidden Treasure claim, and several pits and shallow shafts on the Copper King claim. There are also several short tunnels.

Equipment includes two 60-h. p. boilers, a 15-h. p. hoist, and a 5-drill electric air compressor. Idle since organization.

A full report on this property was made, 1911, by Alfred Frank, E. M., supplementing earlier reports by E. P. Jennings, E. M., and L. S. Ropes, E. M.

Corbin Metal Mining Co. Montana

Office: Pittston, Pa. Mine office: Corbin, Jefferson Co., Mont. J. H. Foye, pres.; John Hoy, vice-pres. and gen. mgr.; Thos. McLaughlin, sec.; M. W. O'Boyle, treas., at last accounts. Organized 1907, under laws of

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Montana, as Corbin-Montana Copper Co., changing name, Jan., 1910, to present title, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable; issued, $400,000. Company apparently is a twin of the Jefferson-Montana Copper Mines Co. Windsor Trust Co., New York, registrar and transfer agent. Stock is listed on the New York curb. Annual meeting, second Tuesday iri April.

Property, 11 claims, 176 acres, known formerly as the Baldwin mine, 2 miles southeast of Corbin, in the Colorado district. Claims show 5 fissure veins ranging from a few inches to about 8’ in width, cutting granite. Ores carry chalcopyrite, bornite and galena, estimated by company to average 4% copper, 8% lead, 5 oz. silver and $2 gold per ton. Development is by a 500’ two-compartment incline shaft with considerable drifting on 500’ level, cutting a small orebody carrying lead-zinc-copper sulphides, and by several short tunnels.

Equipment includes an 8x10” electric hoist, good for 1,000’ depth and a 10-drill air compressor, taking current from the Missouri River Power Co. There are 6 buildings including curpenter shop, smithy and change house.

Corbin-Pennsylvania Mining Co. Montana

Idle. Mine office: Corbin, Jefferson Co., Mont. Frank E. Richards, pres.; H. M. Brooks, sec.-treas.; H. E. Emerson, supt. Organized May, 1910, capitalization $500,000. Lands, 6 claims, 2 patented, east of the Alta mine, including the Flambeau mine, an old property with a 120’ two-com- partment shaft, having a little crosscutting on the 100’ level, and the Alta Extension mine, having a 150’ shaft. Property is said to carry chalcopyrite ore assaying 6% copper and 12 oz. silver per ton. CORBIN-VALPARAISO COPPER MINING CO. MONTANA

Idle. Mine office: Corbin, Jefferson Co., Mont. A. G. Grosso, H. J. Dewey, Thos. F. Casey, J. P. Daly, Frank W. Richards and G. P. Paul, di- rectors. Organized 1907, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par. Mine, on Big Valparaiso mountain, has tunnels of 600’ and 800’, latter with back of about 780’ cutting 4 veins, showing ore assaying 3 to 8% copper, with average assays of 26 oz. silver and $3 to $9 gold per ton. Mine made small ore shipments, 1885, under former ownership.

Corbin-Wickes Copper Mining Co. Montana

Office: 19 East Broadway, Butte, Mont. Mine office: Wickes, Jefferson Co., Mont. I. N. Symons, pres.; W. C. Dierks, vice-pres.; J. L. Meixell, sec.; Edwin L. Mayo, treas. Organized Sept., 1904, under laws of Montana, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par; issued, $550,000.

Property, sundry claims, in Picnic gulch, near Wickes, developed by several tunnels, principal work being the Bunker Hill tunnel No. 4, 900’ long. Claims show a gray-blue andesite intruded by granitic rocks and showing leaching and other evidence of thermal metamorphism. The main tunnel exposes disseminated grains and films of sulphides, carrying galena, sphalerite, chalcopyrite and pyrite, all of primary character. The 300” band of leached rock seen on the surface has not been cut below. Property considered unpromising.

Cordonera Mining Co. Mexico

Mine office: Suaqui Grande, Sonora, Mex. W..S. Morrow, mgr., at last accounts. Has argentiferous copper ores, with steam power and a 5-stamp mill. Idle, on account of unsafe condition of country, due to revolution.

Cordova Copper Co. Arizona

Office: 500 Lonsdale Bldg., Duluth, Minn. Mine office: Globe, Gila Co., Ariz. Henry B. Hovland, pres.; Hoval A. Smith, vice-pres.; David L.

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Fairchild, treas.; Harvey P. Smith, sec. Organized May, 1909, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $3,000,000, shares $10 par; issued, 100,704, fully paid; 77,069 outstanding, $2 paid. Company owed about $63,000 at last reports. Annual meeting, second Tuesday in September. Company was formed to take over the property and options of the Globe Consolidated Copper Co., now owning 98% of the stock of that company and also an option on the Eureka group of 130 acres, adjoining the Miami Copper Co.’s mine. Churn drilling and other work on this group proved disap- pointing and the option was given up. The Globe Consolidated had op- tions on 1,075 acres, of which 800 acres have reverted to the original owners.

The Globe Consolidated property includes the Globe-Boston group of 21 claims, the Mallory group and other holdings aggregating 270-acres, north of the Old Dominion mine and west of the Arizona Commercial. Development is by the 1,225” three-compartment Gem shaft with extensive crosscuts on the 1,100’ and 1,200 levels, cutting the Gem and Future veins, which have shown a little ore occasionally, but nothing of commercial size.

Shipments were made in 1909-10 coming from a vein 5 to 8’ wide on the 1,200’ level, whose average value was 3.35% copper, 33% iron, 35% sulphur with $1.30 in gold and silver.

Equipment includes a good hoist and a 12-drill air compressor. Man- agement has struggled faithfully to make a mine, both east and west of Globe, but is out of funds and the property idle since 1910, with rather poor prospects.

Cornelia Mining Co. Montana

Mine address: Sheridan, Madison Co., Mont. Daniel Argo, supt. Property on Wisconsin creek, 12 miles from Sheridan, known as the Roach group, is developed by several tunnels showing gold and silver-bearing copper ores. Equipment includes a small mill, 2 miles from the mines. Company employs about 10 men.

Cornell Mine. British Columbia

Address: Van Anda; Texada island, B. C. Property originally opera- ted by Texada Consolidated Mines, transferred to the Northern Texada mine and held under option in 1911 by the Tyee Copper Co., has reverted to its original owners. The mine carries high-grade bornite ore in mar- morized limestone near a granite contact, the geological conditions greatly resembling those of the near-by Marble Bay mine. - It is developed to 500’ level and equipped with steam hoist and compressor.

CORNWALL COPPER MINING & SMELTING co. MISSOURI

Mine office: Sainte Genevieve, Mo. Property in Sainte Genevieve county, shows numerous ore deposits in fissure zones, dipping, as a rule, about 5%. Ores are mainly chalcopyrite, giving average assay values of about: 8% copper. Company owns and operates a 3-mile railroad, connect- ing with the Illinois Southern railway, and employs about 80 men. CORONA COPPER CO. ARIZONA

Office: Pittsburgh, Pa. Mine office: Wenden, Yuma Co., Ariz. Js El: McClaren, pres.; Samuel A. Butler, mer.; Geo. E. Pressler, supt., at last accounts. Organized under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,500,000, shares $1 par. -

Property, 54 claims, unpatented, 23 miles northwest by wagon road from Wenden, in the Bill Williams district. The Chicago, Mammoth and Copper Glance claims are the only ones developed. The Chicago has a 400” tunnel and 125’ shaft on a vein a few inches wide in gneiss. The vein filling is barite with .chrysocolla, hematite and a little fluorite, The

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Copper Glance 60° inclined shaft, 200’ deep, is sunk on a vein a few inches wide in a shear zone. The vein proper carries hematite and magnetite with copper silicate and chalcopyrite. The Mammoth claim has a short, inclined shaft sunk on the contact between erosion breccia and gneiss and showing traces of copper. Property considered unpromising.

Corona Queen Mining Co. New Mexico

Idle. Office: 21 Great Winchester St., London, E. C., Eng. Mine office: Corona, Lincoln Co., N. M. Hon. Miguel A. Otero, pres.; W. R. Amis, sec., at last accounts. Organized Jan., 1907, capitalization $2,000,000, shares $5 par, fully issued. Apparently control is owned in England. Lands, 41 claims, area 820 acres; in the Red Cloud district of the Gallinas mountains, 12 miles west of Corona, the nearest rail point. Property is said to have a considerable surface showing of iron ore, apparently of commercial grade, and copper specimens assaying up to 67% have been found.

Coronado Gold % Copper Mining Co. Arizona

Office: Prescott, Yavapai Co., Ariz. W. T. Sawyer, supt. Lands, 14 claims, area 285 acres, including the Black Warrior group, in the Black Hills district, 15 miles south of Jerome, are said to show considerable ore. CORONADO MINE. ARIZONA

Mine address: Price, Pinal Co., Ariz, Property in the Mineral Hill district, 10 miles from Price, developed by a 300’ shaft, shows a lens of copper ore at depth of 260° in the shaft, said to carry up to 70% copper. Ore is mainly bornite. Equipment includes a 25-h. p. gasoline hoist, and an air compressor. í : CORONADO MINING CO. ARIZONA

Mine office: Clifton, Graham Co., Ariz. K. D. Brown, supt. Organ- ized July 12, 1902, under laws of Maine, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par. Is controlled through ownership of a stock interest of about 53%, by the Shannon Copper Co., and the remainder of the stock is held prin- cipally by Phelps, Dodge & Co. Officers and management are the same as those of the Shannon Copper Co.

Lands, 23 claims, 400 acres, patented, near Metcalf and adjoining the mines of the Detroit Copper Mining Co. and the Coronado mine of the Arizona Copper Co., Ltd. Mine has a 2-compartment shaft, on the Garnet claim, showing a fair body of auriferous and argentiferous chalcopyrite on the 200’ level. The Emerald mine shows a considerable body of ore, claimed to give average assays of 9% copper, which probably is too high. The mine also has several other shallow shafts, and short tunnels. Was in the hands of leasers, at last accounts.

Corpus Christi Nueva; Compania Minera De. Mexico

Mine office: Matehuala, Catorce, San Luis Potosi, Mex. W. B. A. Dingwall, pres. and mgr., at last accounts. Mine has auriferous copper and argentiferous silver ores, developed by an 1,800’ tunnel. Idle several years. CORRALES MINING & MILLING CO. MEXICO

Mine office: Rodeo, San Juan del Rio, Durango, Mex. Mine carries auriferous copper ore. Equipment includes a small steam plant. Was a small producer, about 1909. Presumably idle.

Cortez Associated Mines. Mexico

Office: 53 State St., Boston, Mass. Mine office: Jacala, Hidalgo, Mex. Joseph S. Fay, pres.; Olof Wenstrom, vice-pres.; Freeman Hinckley, sec.- treas.; preceding officers, Wm. R. Fay, Robt. A. Manning and Philip W. Wrenn, directors. Organized Jan. 3, 1910, under laws of West Virginia, capitalization $1,500,000, shares $3 par, nonassessable; issued, $825,000. Company began business with $275,000 cash, and Dec. 31, 1911, had on hand

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$35,038 cash loans and accounts receivable. Boston Safe Deposit & Trust

Co., transfer agent. Stock is listed on the Boston curb. Annual meeting,

first Tuesday in March.

The Cortez Associated Mines is primarily a development and holding company formed to explore and develop mining properties until they are ready to produce, and then to promote an operating company. Lands, 1,684 pertenencias, area 4,160 acres, in 4 groups, principal holdings being in the Jacala district, with lesser holdings in the districts of Zimapan and Ixmiquilpan, about 20 miles distant. The lands include the entire old mining camp of Jacala.

Zimapan is 85 miles north of Mexico City and Jacala is 35 miles north- east of Zimapan, this place being 43 miles from Sayula on the National railroad. A new railroad is expected to reach the town within the next year.

The Jacala property shows thickly bedded blue limestone intruded by granular monzonite with alteration along the contact and mineralization of the metamorphosed limestone by copper and silver-lead sulphides. The intrusive mass is 114 miles long and 700’ wide. The contact zone carries numerous orebodies showing chalcopyrite and magnetite below the 300’ zone of oxidation.

Careful exploration has shown that most of the ore shoots are low in copper and carry but 1 to 3 oz. in silver. At the Santa Maria ore shoot, the copper ore is found in a narrow chimney of 4 or 5% ore; in the Hum- boldt and Abeja, there are a few thousand tons of 4% ore. The main development is by the Cortez 1,770’ tunnel, which has opened up about ‘35,000 tons of pyritic ore containing magnetite and chalcopyrite, the aver- age copper contents being 1.72%. Several hundred thousand tons may possibly be developed here, and as the ore contains 50% iron, it will be valuable for a flux.

The Humboldt, Cortez, Abeja and Santa Maria show promise of mak-

ing producing mines. The Humboldt has a magnetite-garnet outcrop, explored by the 1,304’ Humboldt tunnel with drifts and a 130’ incline winze, mostly in ore. The Santa’ Maria 394’ shaft has developed. a body of soft, leached copper-bearing gossan of 6,000 sq. ft. area. This shaft will connect with the Humboldt tunnel. i

The Abeja shaft, 50’, sunk 1912 through altered limestone to porphyry contact, shows massive, porous magnetite with chalcocite and oxidized copper minerals. This work will connect with the Cortez tunnel. The Gallo mine, east of the Humboldt, has a 350 shaft, connecting with the ‘Humboldt tunnel, 1,055’ from the portal.

Small silver-lead replacements in limestone also occur at Jacala, but the Carmen mine is the only one of promise. This is a well-known old producer, 114 miles north of’ Jacala, that yielded 40 oz. silver-lead ore for many years. The mine workings are on the contact between limestone and porphyry and have developed a replacement chimney of silver-lead ore in limestone, worked by an incline shaft to a depth of 900’. The com- da new work has not yet cut the downward continuation of this ore shoot.

The San Nicolas group, including the Soledad mine, Ensino Largo and

Maravillas, has been reopened. The Ensino Largo, 6 miles from Jacala shows irregular replacements of rich silver-lead ore in crystalline lime- stone developed by a 900’ tunnel. This tunnel will also develop the Soledad mine. The Maravillas tunnel, 1,039’ long, at the end of 1912, was opening up another low-grade orebody.

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canyon 9 miles west and the 3,000’ deep Tolima canyon 6 miles west. The

‘mines lie in the Tolima canyon and on the, ridge between it and the

Moctezuma river. The ore deposits appear around a small intrusion of monzonite porphyry either as contact deposits carrying copper, or silver- lead deposits in the surrounding limestone, especially along fissures and intrusive dikes. The latter form pipes, or chimneys, either vertical or in- clined. The silver-lead properties have little value under present condi- tions of transportation. The copper properties at this place are practically undeveloped, but a contact deposit showing disseminated copper pyrite, zinc blende and galena, promises to develop a large tonnage.

The Sirena lead-antimony mine lies 9 miles northeast of Zimapan. The ore occurs: as a bedded deposit in flat-lying Cretaceous limestone, cut by a porphyry dike. The ore is massive and consists of pyrrhotite, arseno- pyrite and jamesonite, forming an orebody 700” long and 30' thick. It is estimated that it contains 1,000,000 tons of lead-antimony ore averaging 7.8% lead. This deposit is considered very valuable and could be easily mined by a shallow shaft and workings.

Costs for development in 1912 averaged $5.59 per foot for all under- ground work. New work averaged 662’ per month with 263 men em- ployed. Total of new work in April, 1913, was 21,458, with 2,465’ of core drilling.

Property is ably managed and with the erection of a smelter, now proposed at Zimapan, promises to have a successful career.

Cove Land & Mining Co. Michigan

Office: 122 Winder St., Detroit, Mich.” Li O. Broadwell, pres.; H. A. McPherson, sec. Lands are on Isle Royale. Idle many years. CRANDALL COPPER MINING CO. WYOMING

Office: Red Lodge, Mont. R. J. Fleming, pres.; Walter Alderson, sec. Property, 13 claims, in the Clark Fork district, developed by a 150’ tunnel and shallow shaft, shows low-grade gold and silver-bearing copper ore. CRESCENT COPPER CO. 2 ARIZONA

Mine near Patagonia, Santa Cruz Co., Ariz. Organized Dec., 1910, by California interests. Lands, in the Washington camp, Patagonia moun- tains, developed by tunnel, showing copper ore.

Crescent Copper Mining Co. Washington

Office: 516 Peyton Bik., Spokane, Wash. Mine office: Twisp, Okano- gan Co., Wash. DC. McFee, pres:; Frank R! Creighton, mer., at last accounts. Lands, 42 claims, unpatented, near the headwaters of the Twisp river, about 100 miles southwest of the Granby, show ores carrying chalco- pyrite, bornite and quartz.

Development is mainly by tunnels, and equipment includes a Samson turbine, electric plant and saw mill. Company plans driving a-+1,600’ adit tunnel to crosscut the vein on the 1,300’ level. A large compressor and hydro-electric plant will be installed next spring.

Creston Copper Co. Mexico

Mine office: Suaqui de Batuc, Ures, Sonora, Mex. I. N. Kellogg and G. B. Floyd, directors. Lands, 10 groups, area 1,236 hectares, near Campo Santo Niño, in very rugged hills in the Ures and Sahuaripa districts. Prop- erty shows contact deposits between limestone and quartz porphyry and granite, carrying auriferous and argentiferous copper ore, with quartz- porphyry gangue, opened by shafts and tunnels, Presumably idle. CRESUS GOLD & COPPER MINING CO. IDAHO

Office: Beatrice, Neb. Mine office: Hailey, Blaine Co., Idaho. F. H. Plummer, sec.; Henry Olander, supt. Mine, 4 miles west of Hailey, has an 800’ three-compartment vertical shaft, on a 20 to 60’ fissure vein of

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nearly vertical dip, in granite, having pay streaks on both walls, carrying chalcopyrite, with values mainly in gold. There also is a nearly vertical blind vein, apparently joining the main vein at depth, carrying silver-lead ore at depth of 600’. Equipment includes steam and electric power, anda 12-drill electric air compressor. The 100-ton concentrator has 10 stamps, crusher, rolls and Huntington mills. CROWN BUTTE MINING & SMELTING CO. ARIZONA Organized Sept., 1913, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $3,000,000. Property, the Birch-McNulty group of 150 claims, on Big Copper creek, a branch of the Hassayampa river, 10 miles from Prescott, Yavapai Co., Ariz. CRYSTAL GROUP. MONTANA Address: care Alex. J. Johnson, Clarke Bank, Butte, Mont. Mine in Cataract district, Jefferson Co., Mont. G. D. Beattie, of Helena, owner. Property is said to be under lease and bond to A. C. Ray and Alexander J. Johnston, of Butte. The mine is opened by a 100’ tunnel, showing an orebody said to be 30’ wide and opened for 500’, carrying gold and silver- bearing copper ore with about 6% copper, 15 to 20 oz. silver and $5 to $8 gold per ton. CUARTAS MINING CO. MEXICO Office: Railway Exchange, Chicago, Ill. Mine office: Ayutla, Autlan, Jalisco, Mex. Harry McIntosh, pres.: Wm. T. Sheffield, sec.-treas.; Robt. S. McIntosh, supt. Capitalization £300,000. Property is the old Cuartas mine, in the Bautista district, area 250 acres, also sundry adjoining timber lands. Mine is an antigua, worked by the Spaniards, and abandoned, A. D. 1745, at. depth of 275’, on account of water and base ore. The veta madre of the Cuartas is about 30’ in average width, carrying mainly silver and gold values. Idle several years and presumably moribund.

CUATRO GRANDE MINING CO, S. A. MEXICO Is the Mexican incorporation of the Pittsburg & Sonora Dey. Co. CUBA COPPER CO. . CUBA

Office: 2401-60 Wall St., New York. Mine office: El Cobre, Santiago de Cuba. Benj. B. Lawrence, pres.; Colgate Hoyt, vice-pres.; I. W: Hunter, sec.; W.-T. C. Carpenter, treas.: Edw. H. Emerson, gen. mgr.; Edw. B. Nagle, supt.. Organized Jan. 5, 1907, under laws of West Virginia, as suc- cessor of El Cobre Mines, capitalization $2,000,000, shares $100 par, in $1,500,000 non-cumulative 6% preferred and $500,000 common stock. Annual meeting, first Tuesday in March.

This was the first copper mine in the new world worked by white men, having been opened A. D. 1532 by the Spanish, the first copper from El Cobre mines having been used for casting Spanish cannon. The properties were taken over, about 1832, by a Hispano-English company, and ore mined was shipped to Swansea for reduction. The custom-house records of San- tiago are said to show exports of 610,210 tons of ore, 1851-69, valued at $50,186,225, probably in depreciated Spanish currency, the ore shipped assaying from 12.69% upwards, and probably averaging about 16% in cop- per tenor. In 1844 El Cobre railway was built, the Queen of Spain being the principal shareholder. The property shows the remains of an old stamp mill, remaining from former operations. During the revolt of 1868- 1878, the big Cornish pump was burned, flooding the mines, which re- mained idle until taken over, 1902, by the, predecessor of this company. Immediately after the Spanish-American war, the property was denounced by F. D. Pagliuchi and financed by Wm. Astor Chandler and associates. who had much trouble handling the great amount of water and in opening up the orebodies. ‘

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Lands are extensive, lying 8 miles west of Santiago bay, and showing a mineralized zone of 200’ width, traceable 6,500’, carrying 3 parallel veins with much altered intervening rock. Ore carries chalcopyrite, associated with pyrrhotite, in a quartz gangue, the grains of chalcopyrite frequently being coated with covellite. Ore occurs in lenticular shoots, along fracture planes, in serpentine, the largest lenses being about 30’ in extreme width, with length of 200’, lenses averaging about 7’ width with occasional widen- ings to 20’ and even 30’. The oxidized zone is of 50 to 75’ depth only, suc- ceeded by sulphide ores averaging 4 to 5% in copper tenor, without either gold or silver in important quantities.

The old workings were extensive, including some 40 old shafts, with. numerous remains of old hoists and boilers. The 4 deepest old shafts were about 1,200’ each, with 17 miles of workings, timbered mainly with ma- hogany, and the mine was found in bad shape, requiring heavy retimbering, as many of the old stopes, up to 20’ and 30’ in width, had caved. A very serious cave, 1906, shut off the lower workings for some time. During the rainy season the mine makes 500 to 1,200 gals. per minute of strongly acid water, requiring pumps of bronze, with lead or wood-lined pipes. The mine has pumps with a combined capacity of 5,000 gals. per minute, and the water, from the mine was formerly run over scrap iron, producing con- siderable cement copper, but this has been discontinued, owing to cost and because the mine water formerly carrying 400 grams copper per ton now carries only 50. Owing to water and bad timbering, only the upper por- tions of the mine were worked’ for some years, but the workings are now below the 1,200’ level and open virgin orebodies. The mine has consider- able ore blocked out, averaging about 4% copper, and the old waste dumps contain about 250,000 tons of 2% discarded material.

El Cobre railroad, 9 miles long, connects the mine with Punta Sal, on Santiago harbor, and is equipped with 2 locomotives and 40 cars.

The reduction plant, at Punta Sal, includes a 440-ton concentrator with 4 largest size Hardinge mills for grinding the ore for the new flotation plant, and a 250-ton smelter, latter idle for several years. Forces are about 450 men. Ore of about 4.5% average copper tenor is shipped for smelting to the Norfolk smelter.

Property produces about 5,000,000 lbs. of copper annually and now after many years of difficulty, is attaining good results.

Cuba Mining & Development Co. Washington

Office: 3 Wolverton Blk., Spokane, Wash. Mine office: Kettle Falls, Stevens Co., Wash. H. Yake, mgr. Organized Nov., 1908, under laws of Washington, capitalization $1,500,000, shares $1 par. Lands, 12 claims, area 240 acres, in the Covada district, 10 miles south of Kettle Falls, and 1 mile west of the Columbia river, nearest railway point being Myers Falls, 14 miles northeast. Property is in 2 groups, one, of 5 claims, being a tunnel site, near the Columbia river, and one, of 7 claims, carrying about a mile and half-mile, respectively, of the strike of 2 veins, of 12’ and 24’ estimated average width, in porphyry. The mine has a 142’ incline shaft, a 275’ tunnel, and an open cut. The vein, of 24 estimated average width, carries argentif- erous and slightly auriferous galena, and the 12’ vein carries argentiferous copper ore. No report received, 1913.

Cubana Consolidated Copper Co. Mexico

Idle. Mine office: Arizpe, Sonora, Mex. Geo. H. McLean, mgr., at last accounts. Organized Jan. 6, 1903, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $500,000, shares $1 par. Lands, 244 hectares, bought for $20,000, showing 6 orebodies, of 4 to 20’ width, of which 3, carrying estimated values of 12% copper, 10 oz. silver and $2 gold per ton, are opened by 6 shafts, deepest

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102’, and by a number of tunnels, longest 250” and 575, with a total of

1,415’ of underground openings. Mine is about 30 miles from Cananea, the `

nearest railroad point, and is connected therewith by a good wagon road. Sample carload smelter shipments returned 23% copper, with fair gold and silver values. Property considered promising.

Cuchara; Compañía Minera. Mexico

Mine office: Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mex. Lands show gold, silver, copper and lead ores. Idle several years. j CUCHARAS MINING CO. MEXICO

Mine office: Acaponeta, Tepic, Mex. J. M. Winston, mgr., at last ac- counts. Lands are the San Juan y Anexas mines, in the municipality of Huajicori. The San Juan mine, opened by shaft and tunnel, has argentifer- ous copper ore. Equipment includes steam power, and a smelter, having a 40-ton wood-burning reverberatory furnace.

CULLOWHEE MINING & REDUCTION Co. NORTH CAROLINA

Office and mine: Cullowhee, Jackson Cos: Ni Git-SAlB? Ezell, pres.; D. D. Davies, vice-pres.; Thos.. A. Cox, sec. and managing director; Chas. Davies, smelter supt., at last accounts. Organized 1905, as successor of Cullowhee Copper Co.

Lands, 1,300 acres, 12 miles from Sylvia, nearest rail point, showing a considerable body of sulphide ore, claimed to average about 5% copper and $4 gold per ton, with occasional assays of 15% copper, which figures are probably correct for small lots of ore, but cannot be realized from a large tonnage.. Equipment includes hoists and a Sullivan air compressor, with steam and water power, latter with a plant 3 miles from works. The smelter, near Sylvia, of 30-tons daily capacity, blown in Jan., 1909, with semi-pyritic smelting, suspended operations late 1910, and probably will remain idle until rail connections are secured.

Cunningham Pass Copper Mining Co. Arizona

Mine office: Wenden, Yuma Co., Ariz. Harold Baxter, pres. and gen. mgr.; J. W. Boone, vice-pres.; H. G. Mayer, sec.-treas., at last accounts. Organized Feb. 11, 1908, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable; issued, $600,000.

Property, in the Harcuvar mountains, 12 miles north of Wenden, shows granite, diorite and schist, carrying ribbons of quartz with several small orebodies, of which one, under development, ranges 3 to 26” in width and is traceable 2,000’ carrying chalcocite, estimated by management to average 12% copper and 1 oz. silver per ton.

The old workings of the Critic shaft show stopes on an orebody 70° long, 40’ high and 214’ thick that was a mixture of quartz and chalcopyrite with some glance. Beyond the stope, the vein narrows to a few inches. In the bottom level, 400’, the vein is lean and shows but 12” of lean primary sulphide ore for a few feet in length. The conditions are unpromising. The Gold Hill vein is 4’ wide and developed by a 100' shaft showing a strong vein with small gold values.

In 1912-13 two sets of leasors have tried in vain to pay expenses by working these narrow veins. The Property was taken over by a young engineer with more enthusiasm than judgment.. It is without merit, even as a development proposition.

Cupric Mines Co. Utah

Office: 17 Battery Place, New York. Operating office: 206 Templeton Bldg., Salt Lake City, Utah. F. A. Bishop, sec.; M. C. Morris, mgr. Organ- ized May 11, 1908, under laws of New York, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par, assessable; issued, $500,000. Is affliated in finances and is managed by the Horn Silver Mining Co. 4

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Owns the Cupric, or Iron Devil mine, with 16 claims, unpatented, in the Frisco district, Beaver county, adjoining the Peacock mine. Property is at the east end of White mountain and 2 miles southeast of Newhouse. The mine is near the igneous contact, dikes and tongues of monzonite invading the limestone; there are numerous mineralized fissures carrying chalco- pyrite, pyrite, specular hematite and magnetite with garnet, tremolite, muscovite, etc.

Developed by 2 old incline shafts and a new 425’ two-compartment vertical shaft, sunk near the main tunnel of the Cactus mine. Property has good ore, but not in large enough quantity to make mine profitable. CUPRITE COPPER CO. ARIZONA

Inactive: Mine near Clifton, Graham Co: Ariz: : N. W. Lord, pres.; Isaac N. Stevens, vice-pres.; L. B. Kauffman, sec.; Geo. B. Kauffman, treas.; Frank A. Ray, engr.; preceding officers and Frank B. Laine, directors. Organized March, 1904, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par.

Lands, 26 claims, area 490 acres, in the Copper Mountain district, opened by shafts of 30’ and 320’ and by tunnels of 150’ and 260’, showing orebodies of 5 to 100’ width. Work has been done in the leached zone, which carries isolated pockets of rich ore, from which sundry small shipments have given returns of 15 to 30% copper, and up to $5 gold per ton. Company also owns about 2,000 linear feet of strong hematitic outcrops, ranging 5 to 100’ in width. It is likely that the copper veins, which are parallel with and similar to the Big Coronado vein of the Arizona Copper Co., are leached to very considerable depths, but prospects for developing large bodies of low and medium-grade sulphides at depth seem good. Property considered promising, but company inactive, awaiting developments on adjacent prop- erties.

Cuprite Copper Mining Co. Montana

Mine near Marysville, Lewis and Clark Co., Mont. P. L. Reece, pres. and mgr. Lands, 6 claims, about midway between Helena and Marysville, show copper and lead ores, carrying gold and silver values. Development is by a shaft, 200’ deep, May, 1913.

Curlew Mine. Montana

Office: care A. M. Holter, owner, Butte, Mont. Mine office: Victor, Ravalli Co., Mont. Mine, formerly a silver producer, also shows zinc ores, and a vein claimed to be 12’ wide, is said to show ore carrying 10% copper, with lead, silver and gold ores, opened 1906. Idle several years.

Curtz Consolidated Mines Co. California

Office: 233 Bacon Bldg,, Oakland, Cal. Mine office: Markleeville, Al- pine Co., Cal. J. G. Hanschildt, pres.; B. A. Snedker, vice-pres.; H. H. Jamison, sec.; Peter Curtz, gen. mgr.; preceding officers and H. F. Sack, directors. Organized April, 1906, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par; issued, 915,000:

Property, the Curtz and Morning Star mines with 20 claims, 320 acres, including a 20-acre mill site, in the Mogul, or Loope district, 10 miles east of Markleeville and 28 miles from the Virginia & Truckee railroad. Claims cover disseminated or “porphyry” copper deposits in porphyry with rhyolite and andesite near by. The ore zone is 40 to 60’ wide, runs northeast and dips at 45° and is traceable 3,600’. Two orebodies under development ex- tend to deepest workings, 350’. A large amount of ore blocked out is said to average 3% copper, 20 oz. silver and $2 to $20 gold per ton. Develop- ment is by a 300’ shaft and 4 tunnels, with about 7,520’ of workings, esti- mated to block out 2,000,000 tons of concentrating ore.

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Equipment includes a 30-h. p. steam hoist, 20-stamp mill of 100 tons daily capacity, operated by 220-h.. p. water power and several mine build- ings.

Custer Consolidated Mining Co. Idaho

Mine office: Wallace, Shoshone Co., Idaho. Harry L. Day, pres.; Jerome S. Day, vice-pres., sec. and treas., at last accounts. Organized July, 1910, under laws of Nevada, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par. Prop- erty, near the Tamarack € Chesapeake mine, has been acquired by stock control by the Day Bros. and combined with the Tamarack € Chesapeake, is being prepared for active development and ore extraction. Property a good one and management excellent.

Custer Peak Mining Co. South Dakota

John O'Brien, supt., Albany, Lawrence Co., S. D. Owns the Jungle mine at the southeast, base of Custer peak, showing a porphyry dike cutting schist with 5’ of copper ore on both walls. Development includes 65’ and 90’ shafts, latter showing an 8” streak of nearly solid malachite on the 60’ level. New work in 1913 disclosed high-grade gold ore. The older hold- ings of the company, 1%4 miles from the Jungle mine and southwest of Deadwood are said to carry average values of $6 per ton in oxidized ore to depth of 100’, changing below to pyrite and chalcopyrite, showing on the 200’ level, a vein of 85’ width, assaying about 1% copper with very little gold, but increasing at slight depth, to 3% copper.

Cymru Copper Co. Alaska

Idle. Office: 11714 South Tenth St., Tacoma, Wash. Mine near Bald- win, Prince of Wales island, Alaska. J. M. Miller, Jr., pres.; F. P. Hicks, vice-pres.; Frank D. Nash, sec.-treas; J. Cuthbert Welch, mer.: A. I. Jones, supt., at last accounts. Organized 1905, under laws of Washington, capital- ization $50,000, shares $1 par.

Property, 6 claims, 100 acres, on Moira sound, showing 3 lenticular orebodies, reported by company as of 40’ aggregate width, assaying 6 to 10% copper, 4 to 6 oz. silver and $2 gold per ton, mainly from chalcopyrite ores. Mine has a 100’ shaft and a 187’ tunnel, with hoist and 6-drill air compressor. A 4,000’ surface tram conveys ore to a 1,000-ton ore bin. DAILEY ARIZONA COPPER CO. ARIZONA

P. O. address: Oracle, Ariz. Mine at Apache camp, Old Hat district. Company purchased 13 copper claims from Dailey Bros. in May, 1913, land lying between the claims recently bought by the Copper Queen Copper Co. The district is 38 miles north of Tucson in the Santa Catalina mountains, near Oracle.

Dailey Copper Mining & Smelting Co. Montana

Office and mine: Wickes, Jefferson Co., Mont. Wm. W. Dailey, pres.; NER Robertson, vice-pres.; C. H. Dailey, sec. Organized Feb., 1907, under laws of Montana, capitalization $1,500,000, shares $1 par; issued, $850,000.

Property, the Atlas group of 5 claims, patented, area 25 acres, having well-defined fissure vein of 12’ estimated average width, carrying malachite, chalcopyrite, bornite and chalcocite, estimated by management to average 4% copper, 12 to 60 oz. silver, and 80 cts. to $3 gold per ton, without lead or zinc. Mine has a 300’ shaft, with 1,000’ of workings on vein, estimated by management to show 60,000 tons of ore blocked out. Mine water, in small quantities, carries copper sulphate strongly in solution. Former own- ers shipped about $30,000 worth of ore. An independent source estimates ore to average about 3% copper, 7 oz. silver and 80 cts. gold per ton. Equipment includes a 40-h, p, boiler and 8x10” hoist, good for 500’, with 2 buildings, and a 30-ton test concentrator,

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Dairy Farm Mining Co. California

Idle. Mine office: Van Trent, Placer Co., Cal. E. B. Braden, pres.; Edward Brush and H. B. Underhill, Jr., vice-presidents; Corey C. Brayton, mgr., at last accounts. Organized 1903, under laws of California, capitaliza- tion $200,000, shares $1 par; issued, $143,500. Is controlled by American Smelters Securities Co. through ownership of $96,927 stock.

Lands, 160 acres, on the Southern Pacific railway, show a miner- alized fracture zone of 25 to 50’ average and 80’ extreme width, in rhyolite and andesite, having a N.-S. strike, with dip of 60°, and a hematite gossan carrying a little gold and silver.“ Upper workings at shallow depth show about 50,000 tons of oxidized ores, amenable to cyaniding, these changing, at depth of 85’, to chalcopyrite associated with pyrite, estimated to average about 3.25% copper, and occasionally carrying as high as $30 gold per ton. Apparently the lens does not extend below a depth of about 500’,

Equipment includes a 750-h. p. electric plant, with a 140-h. p. electric hoist, good for 1,000” depth, and a 20-drill electric air compressor. Build- ings, about 25 in number, include a 20x40’ wooden machine shop, 30x50’ carpenter shop, 20x30’ smithy, office, store, boarding house and dwellings.

A small concentrator has Chilean mills, and there is a 100-ton cyanide plant, to treat the auriferous gossan. Survey was made, several years ago, for a railway from Lincoln to Van Trent. Property apparently has proven somewhat disappointing.

Daisy Bell Gold & Copper Development Co. Montana

Office: 91 Owsley Block, Butte, Mont. Mine P. O.: Renova, Jefferson Co., Mont. Dr. Renish, pres.; Malcolm Gillis, vice-pres.; W. E. Carroll, sec.; J. H. Dickson, treas. and gen. mgr. Capitalization $600,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable; 200,000 in treasury. Lands, 3 claims, in Bone Basin mining district, Madison county, Mont., 2 miles southeast of Renova. Has a 160’ shaft and 450’ underground workings, showing ore giving assays up to $350 gold per ton, with fair copper and silver values, with indications of increasing copper values at depth. The ore occurs as oxide, copper glance and native copper in fissure veins in schist near porphyry contact. Mine has 4 buildings, including blacksmith shop and boarding house. Property, 2 miles from the Northern Pacific railroad, is considered promising with the making of a small mine.

Dakin Mine. California

Now patented under title of Gray Eagle mine, located near Ft. Jones, at Happy camp, Siskiyou Co., Cal. Is being worked and opened by an adit tunnel and drifts, said to show some good ore.

Dakota Calumet Co. South Dakota

Succeeded by Continental Copper Mining & Smelting Co., which went into receiver’s hands, 1913 and has been reorganized as the Dakota Con- tinental Copper Co. Property described under latter title.

Dakota Continental Copper Co. South Dakota

Company is a reorganization of the Continental Copper Mining & Smelting Co. Mine near Sheridan, Pennington Co., S. D., in the Black Hills, known as the Dakota-Calumet, or Lilian, with 52 claims, patented, 179 acres, showing quartz schist cut by igneous dikes and having veins traceable one-half mile. Veins show copper ore said to average 7% with low values in' gold and silver. Development by an 825’ shaft and 1,170’ crosscut tunnel and 9 drift tunnels. Equipment includes 300-h. p. steam plant, with hoist good for 1,200’, 7-drill compressor, all necessary shops and an old smelter of no present value. New company plans sinking shaft and developing mine at depth,

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DAKOTA HEIGHTS CO. MICHIGAN Absorbed by Naumkeag Copper Co., 1912. DALTON & LARK GOLD, SILVER & LEAD M. & M. CO. UTAH

Dissolved by order of court, 1911. Bingham Consolidated Mining & Smelting Co: owns most of the claims of this company.

Daly Judge Mining Co. Utah

Office: 1022 Kearns Bldg., Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine P. O.: Park City, Summit Co., Utah. H. Otto Hanke, pres.; M. C. Fox, vice-pres.; G. M. Lambourne, sec.-treas. and mgr; W. M. Bradley and A. C. Wall, directors. R. T. Mason, gen. supt Geo. D. Blood, cons. engr. Capitaliza- tion $300,000, shares $1 par. Company has valuable holdings in Park City district, adjacent to the Daly West mine. It is a large producer of silver- lead ores with much zinc and a small amount of copper, the average value of the shipping ore for the year 1912 being 34.8 oz. silver, 0.045 oz. gold, 19.7% lead, 19.9% zinc, 11.3% iron and 1.75% copper per ton, with a total value of $30.23 per ton. The concentrates amounted to 13,419 tons and carried 1.6% copper with approximately the same contents as the shipping ore and a sale value of $35.09. The output since incorporation has been 1,720,411 lbs. copper, of which 513,646 lbs. was made in 1912.

Development for first 6 months of 1913 was 9,000’, being mostly towards the Bonanza Flat section from the 500’ to the 2,300’ level. Produc- tion for the first 6 months in 1913 was 25,514 tons concentrating and 2,155 tons shipping ore; monthly earnings, $15,484 and available balance, July 1, 1913, $527,385; average mining costs, $3146, and average milling costs, 72 cts.

Property is a regular dividend payer and the unexplored portion of the mine is promising.

Daly Mines Co. Arizona

Idle. Office: 534 Byrne Bldg., Los Angeles, Cal. Mine office: Bouse, Yuma Co., Ariz. Carroll J. Daly, pres.; Henry E, Daly, vice-pres.; Jos. A. McBride, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, E. C. Daly and J. H. Clancy, direc- tors; Ernest A. Haggott, engr. Organized March, 1909, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable; issued, $438,700. Annual meeting, first Monday in March.

Lands, 16 claims, unpatented, area 270 acres, known as the Vulcan group, adjoining the Mudersbach mine on the north and west, in the Plo- mosa district, 8 miles south of Bouse. Property carries 3 contact deposits, in pre-Cambrian limestone, near contacts of altered andesite. Property shows old workings, with opencuts and pits and shafts of 10 to 35’, devel- oping oxidized surface ores. One orebody has new shafts of 30’, 50’ and 100’, with 400’ workings, showing oxidized copper ores and chalcopyrite, estimated by management to average 3% copper, 2 oz. silver and $1 gold per ton. The Vulcan No. 2 claim has a 50’ shaft, and a 100’ iron gossan, traceable 900’, carrying disseminated copper carbonates at several points. DALY WEST MINING CO. UTAH

Office: 163 South Main St.i; Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine office: Park City, Summit Co., Utah. J. Ernest Bamberger, pres.; H. G. McMillan, vice- pres. and gen. mgr.; Herbert S. Cohen, sec.; W. S. McCornick, treas.; pre- ceding officers, Frank J. Hagenbarth and John Dern, directors: P. L. Williams, Jr., gen. supt.; Edw. L. Talbot, mine supt.; Frederick W. Sher- man, mill supt.; F. I. Williams, ener.

Organized Feb.-14, 1902, under laws of Colorado, capitalization $3,600,- 000, shares $20 par, and has been once reconstructed. Owns a 20% stock interest in the Little Bell Mining Co., an adjoining property. Corporation Trust Co., New York, North American Trust Co., New York, and McCor- nick & Co., Salt Lake City, registrars; American Loan & Trust Co., Bos-

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ton; North American Trust Co., New York, and McCornick & Co., transfer agents.

Company is a large silver-lead producer, copper being a by-product, though the annual production is about 800,000 Ibs.

The gross income to the end of 1912 totals $15,058,185, out of which 44%, or $6,579,000, has been paid in dividends. Net earnings for 1911 were $278,259 and for 1912, $134,883. Dividends have been 30 cts. quarterly in recent years, reduced to 15 cts. in 1913. Company’s report for year ending Dec. 31, 1912, shows ore sales of $587,961 and dividends paid, $216,000, as against ore sales of $821,689 in 1911; cash on hand, $109,869. During the year company purchased new ground for $117,734.

Copper production since 1898 aggregates about 16,000,000 Ibs., being 521,273 lbs. in 1909; 574,506 Ibs. in 1910; 877,414 lbs. in 1911 and 711,694 Ibs. in 1912.

Property consists of the Daly West and Quincy mines with 50 claims, patented, area 250 acres, in the Uintah district. Extensive orebodies carry gold and silver-bearing chalcopyrite, galena and sphalerite, with silicious gangue, values being mainly in silver and lead, with small copper values, and still smaller gold values. Ores are declining in value with depth. Pro- duction formerly equally divided between smelting and concentrating ore, is now mainly the latter. The property has 3 principal veins, of 4 to 6' minimum and up to 40’ maximum width. Upper workings are practically worked out, lower workings show concentrating ore. The main shaft is 2,200’ deep, and the mine has about 15 miles of workings, an average of nearly 1 mile of new ground being opened yearly. Connection was made, Oct., 1909, with the 3-mile Ontario drainage tunnel, on the 2,100' level, for the use of which company pays $750 monthly rental.

Ore mined in 1911 came mostly from the 1,700 to 1,900’ levels, the aver- age value being $9.28 per ton. In 1912, the ore milled averaged 5.5% lead, 8 oz. silver, 5.2% zinc, 3.9% iron,770.4% silica: The copper in the lead con- centrates averaged 1.1%. Development for 1912, mainly on 1,550’, 1,700’ and 2,100” levels. Development for 1913 will be nearly double that of former years, being done by contract with Macllwee interests of Colorado.

The 350-ton concentrator has crushers, rolls, automatic sorting belt, two 5” Huntington mills, and Wilfley tables, putting about 6 tons into 1, with an average extraction of 98% lead and 70.5% silver, the practice being exceptionally advanced and successful. The management will build a new mill if development work, 1913, proves up ore in the lower levels sufficient to warrant it.

The tailings mill, 56x82’ in size, 400’ northeast of the concentrator, has a 5’ Huntington mill for regrinding, two 2-compartment jigs, 6 concen- trating tables, 1 Wilfley table and 7 slime, settling and classifying tanks, treating tailings at a cost of about 20 cts. per ton, when in operation. Water supply for both mills is secured, under contract, from the Daly-Judge mine.

‘Costs for 1912, producing 55,850 tons from 1,700 to 2,100’ levels, were: $6.05 per ton for mining, including 7,131’ exploration and development at $17.60 per foot; general expenses, $0.547 per ton; ore sorting, $0.026 per ton, or 85 cts. per ton for 1,369 tons of waste; milling cost, $1.45 per ton of ore fed.

Property, though an old one, has much new territory yet to be pros- pected and the known ore shoots give indications of going to greater depths.

Dan Creek Gold & Copper Co. Alaska

Letters neither answered or returned from 1143 Sixteenth Ave. North,

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Seattle, Wash. Mine office: Nizina, Copper River district, Alaska. J. W. Range, pres.; John F. Jury, sec., at last accounts. Organized 1907, under laws of Washington, capitalization $1,000,000. Lands, 28 claims, 1 frac- tional, area 550 acres, with 6 placer claims, area 560 acres, and two 5-acre mill sites, on Dan and Copper creeks and Nikolai gulch. Lands, known as the Rosebud group of 11 claims, show a vein of 2 to 10” width, carrying bornite and chalcopyrite ore, and 16 other claims elsewhere along Dan creek, 9 miles from Nizina and about 8 miles east of the Bonanza mine. DANA COPPER CO. MICHIGAN Absorbed, 1912, by the Calumet & Hecla Mining Co., and corporate existence terminated. Lands, 640 acres, being the E. % of Sec. 25, T. 58 N., R. 31 W., bounded on the north by Arnold and on the other 3 sides by the Central, in Keweenaw county, Mich. Mine, opened 1851, never was a producer, and has been idle since 1857. DANE MINING CO. ONTARIO P. O.: Dane Station, Lebel township, Ontario. Alexander McKinnon, sec.-treas.; G. O. McMurtry, mgr.; Alex. D. McPhe, supt. .Property con- sists of 1,200 acres in northwest corner of Teck township. Has 2 orebodies, 1 with quartz gangue, the other massive chalcopyrite. A shipment of 60 tons of 15% ore, from No. 4 vein was made, Sept., 1913. Manager estimates reserves at 116,600 tons with 314% copper content. Developed by 2 shafts to depth of 200. Diamond drilling was contracted for and will prove up the property. Reported to be preparing to build a 100-ton concentrator March, 1913. Owing to long haul to railroad and high freight rates, com- pany cannot expect to become an important producer until development proves up a large tonnage, since ore in bottom of shaft No. 2 is low-grade. DANES LEA MINING CO. CALIFORNIA Letters neither returned nor answered from Encinitas, San Diego Co., Cal. See Vol. X. DARBY MINING & MILLING CO., LTD. MONTANA Letters neither returned nor answered from Mullan, Idaho. Mine near Superior, Missoula Co., Mont. C. A. Pooley, pres.; M. J. McHugh, sec.; preceding officers, Jas. A. Bean, S. C. Bean and Jas. Gormley, directors, at last accounts. Lands, 3% miles north of Spring gulch, in the Carter camp, have 2 tunnels, lower 720’, and a 50’ incline shaft, on a 5’ vein carry- us a little copper and galena, assaying 5 to 7% lead, with good silver values. DARGIN & RICHARDSON. MEXICO Former owners Santa Edubijis mine, Union de Tula, Autlan, Jalisco, Mex. DAVIS-DALY COPPER CO. MONTANA Office: 79 Milk St., Boston, Mass. Mine: Butte, Mont. H. M. Burton, pres.; F. A. Schirmer, vice-pres.; Charles G. Schirmer, sec.-treas.; Wm. Bloom, asst. treas., and Gen. Hugh Bancroft, directors; W. L. Creden, gen. mgr.; Wm. Frazier, mine supt. First National Bank, Boston, transfer agent; Federal Trust Co., Boston, auditors. Organized Sept. 14, 1908, under laws of Maine, as successor of Davis-Daly Estates Copper Co., capitaliza- tion $6,700,000, shares $10 par, assessable; issued, $6,000,000; paid $9. For the earlier chapters in the history of the company, readers are referred to description of the Davis-Daly Estates Copper Co. in Vol. VIII and to a spicy account by Stevens in Vol. X of the Copper Handbook. The present directorate is in no way responsible for the company’s past and appears likely to make the property a successful one. Income and expense account for 1912 was: Balance working capital, 1911, $346,147; additional income accrued (ore sales $104,600), $113,329; de-

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duct cost of. development and expenses (Colorado mine, $193,450; Silver King mine, $500,578); total, $199,029, general expenses, Butte office, $19, 291; New York $8,721, Boston office $1,707; legal and accident costs, $11,918; total, $240,667; dencit for year, $127,338.

General balance sheets up to June 30, as follows: Mining property— 1909, $4,186,877; 1910, $4,135,476; 1911, $4,129,051; 1912, $4,125,620. Equip- ment—1909, $79,323; 1910, $108,309; 1911, $114,789; 1912, $125,683. Develop- ment—1910, $644,653; 1911, $844,639; 1912, $971,978. Stockholders’ liability— 1909, $1,800,000; 1910, $1,200,000; 1911 and 1912, the same. Current assets— 1909, $46,020; 1910, $21,003; 1911, $95,444; 1912, $70,371. Cash on hand—1909, $291,106; 1910, $83,759; 1911, $250,703; 1912, $143,873. Liabilities—Capital stock, 600,000 shares, $8 per share paid and uncalled for subscription of $2; total, $600,000. Taxes, accounts payable and wages pay etl te $41,252; 1910, $157,248; 1911, $18,579; 1912, $20,513.

In April, 1911, a change in the directorate was made and in October Mr. Heinze was deposed as president and New England interests became dominant. Under the new control, the money loaned to the Ohio Copper Co. was collected with interest at 6% and a $5,000 bonus. Also the money invested in the Porcupine property was returned to the company with a stock bonus. Immediately after assuming control, the new board of direc- tors had an independent examination of the property made by W. H. Wiley and a new manager was appointed to carry out Mr. Wiley’s recom- mendations. The result:was favorable and the property placed upon a shipping basis of 50 tons a day, although the large amount of development prevented profitable operations.

After a year’s operations, Mr. W. B. Fisher resigned as manager and was succeeded by Mr. W. L. Creden, whose development, carefully planned from geological studies, opened up an exceedingly valuable orebody, so that in May, 1913, the company for the first time in its history, made an

. operating profit of about $6,000, shipping 200 tons daily. This development

indicates a continuance of this satisfactory condition for at least another year.

Property consists of a small surface area and of the mineral rights ot 320 acres under the city of Butte, adjacent to, but south and west, of the known productive area. The development consists of the Colorado shaft, 2,035’ deep, with about 20,000’ of drifts and crosscuts. The chief workings are on the 1,000’, 1,200’, 1,400’, 1,500’, 1,700’ and 1,900’ levels. Two main veins have been developed, running in northwest-southeast direction cor- responding to the Blue Vein system to which the Jessie, Edith May and other very productive fault veins belong. There are also several east and west veins on which but a small amount of development has been done until recently. The first ore developed was on the “Fisher stopes” on the 1,400’ level, 350’ west of the Colorado shaft, showing an orebody 400’ long, 7%4’ thick and 100’ high, averaging 2.9% copper and 5.6 oz. silver per ton. The same vein has been extensively developed down to the 1,700’ level, development in July, 1913, showing 7’ of 4% copper.

The veins are frequently faulted and a careful study of geological conditions is necessary to successful recovery of veins beyond the faults. During 1912, considerable development work on the 1,400’ and 1,700’ levels and some diamond drilling, failed to disclose any new orebodies. The shaft was sunk to its present depth in that year and new crosscuts showed ore in several small fault veins, barren on the 1,700’ level. In 1913, the new manager drove a crosscut 85’ south from the old Heinze workings on the 1,400’ level and encountered a 12’ vein of high-grade ore beneath the Hes- perus claim. Drifting on this, the Hesperus vein, together with crosscuts

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at other points, has proven an orebody 12 to 14’ wide, averaging 4.43% copper and 7 oz. silver per ton, for 325’ in length. As both faces are still in ore and the company owns about 2,200’ along the vein, there is a pros- pect of a very large orebody being opened up. The same orebody is now being developed on the 1,200’, 1,500’, 1,700’ and 1,900’ levels. On the 1,900’ level, a 3’ vein carrying 2’ of 50% ore was also found far distant from any other-vein. This has proven to be persistent and likely to prove a source of much high-grade ore.

The Hesperus orebody and old stopes on the 600’ and 1,200’ levels are maintaining a production of 300 tons of ore daily, July, 1913.

The Western half of the property is practically undeveloped. A long crosscut from the Original mine explored the ground, but failed to develop commercial ore. Upon the Silver King claim, 2,500’ northwest of the Colo- rado shaft, the Sutton shaft, 310’ deep, developed ore; shipments of 489 tons carried 3% copper, 21% oz. silver and 86 cts. gold. As this western half of the property was entirely undeveloped, an arrangement was made with the Anaconda Co. to drive a crosscut south from the West Gagnon mine at a depth of 1,900’. It is expected to cut the Silver King vein, 1,000’ from the Gagnon.

Besides the 2 shafts already mentioned, there are several old openings on the company property. The Smokehouse shaft, across the street and south of the Thornton hotel, is 700’ deep and lost the vein on the 500’ level. The Mount Moriah mine has a 640’ three-compartment shaft and the ground is explored by a crosscut 2,000’ long from the 1,800’ level of the Original mine. When seen by the writer, the veins cut in this crosscut showed no payable ore, but not a foot of drifting had been done to dis- close conditions along the strike of these veins. There are various other shallow workings on the property held by this company, which it must be remembered, is a tract 114 miles long by one-half mile wide. These old workings yielded considerably over $1,000,000, principally in silver from ' the enriched surface ore.

Equipment is quite extensive and includes electric-driven air com- pressor, a fine hoist and a large battery of boilers ready for action, in case electricity is cut off. The ground around the shaft being limited, the output at the mine is conveyed several blocks over a narrow-gauge surface tram to the ore bins alongside the Northern Pacific railroad. For the year end- ing June, 1912, company mined 16,823 tons, realizing $7 per ton, costing $3.63 to mine, development $2.44 and fixed charges of $4.34. It is at present spending at the rate of about $1,000 daily and making a profit of about $300 daily, shipments now averaging 300 tons daily.

The Davis-Daly ground has been generally considered to contain only low-grade and base, zinc-pyrite ores and to be outside the copper section of Butte camp. Recent developments indicate, however, that good copper ores and large orebodies exist and that the extensive area of unexplored ground may make this property a profitable one. Management good and company affairs now handled by men who it is believed will endeavor to make the property a dividend payer and not a stock gamble.

Day Bristol Consolidated Mines Co. Nevada

Office: 80 Broadway, New York. Mine office: Pioche, Lincoln Co., Nev. H. F. Widdicombe, gen. mgr.; Wm. Tullock, supt.; Thos. Tullock, asst. supt.; M. M. O’Boyle, pres. Capitalization $10,000,000, shares $10 par; issued, $6,000,000. Company is a consolidation of the Hillside Copper Co. and the Bristol Consolidated Mines & Smelting Co., which owns the Bris- tol Copper Co. and is itself owned by the California-Nevada Copper Co.; $3,000,000 more was paid to the Nevada Utah Co. for its Day mine. Com:

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pany is now a subsidiary of the Nevada-Utah Corporation, organized 1913.

Property includes the May Day mine and the Gypsy, Vesuvius, Na- tional, Inman, Tempest, Oregon Short Line, Iron aud Day mines. The Day mine comprises 5 claims on the opposite side of the mountain and was needed in order to drive a tunnel through the mountain, giving direct access to the railroad.

Mines, opened in 1880, produced about $500,000 worth of ore with values mainly in silver, ores changing at depth to copper. Developed by the 300” Iron shaft, 700’ Gypsy and 500’ May Day shafts, with 7 or:8 other old shafts, with about 2 miles of workings. The Gypsy mine shows good ore on the 300’, 400’ and 450’ levels, opened in 1913 and 500’ level was being driven to cut same orebody in April. Ore is a mixed sulphide carry- ing lead, copper and silver.

Equipment includes a 50-h. p steam plant, with 12-h. p. and 20-h. p.

hoists, a 2-drill Durkee air compressor, and an electric light plant.

Mine has been shipping about 100 tons daily of silver-copper ore to the Garfield smelter, the Gypsy mine furnishing 50 tons, the Iron mine 20, and the May Day mine the balance. The production from the Day mine for 1911 was 420 carloads, this ore being taken out from above the 900’ level and being mostly a silver manganese ore, whereas the ore from the Bristol group is a silver-copper ore.

Death Valley Copper Glance Mining Co. California

Mine near Greenwater, Inyo Co,, Cal. Probably dead. See Vol. X. DEATH VALLEY COPPER MINES & SM. CO. CALIFORNIA

Letters unclaimed at Greenwater, Inyo Co., Cal. Probably dead. De- scribed Vol. X.

De Borgia Copper Mining Co. Montana

Letters neither returned nor answered from Mullan, Idaho, or mine office: De Borgia, Missoula Co., Mont. Lands, on Goat mountain, show a 6’ fissure vein carrying argentiferous cuprite, melaconite and bornite, with quartz gangue. Development is by a 320’ shaft and 2 tunnels, upper 350’, with back of 350’, lower having a 400’ back. Idle.

Decatur Copper Mining Co. Arizona

Letter unclaimed at Jerome, Yavapai Co., Ariz. Idle since 1904, and probably dead. Described Vol. X.

Decker Canyon Mining Co. Utah

Letters neither answered nor returned from Provo, Utah. Mine near Heber, Wasatch Co., Utah. Jesse Buckner, pres.; John E. Peay, vice-pres.; P. P. Hindmarsh, sec.-treas, at last accounts. Organized March, 1909, under laws of Utah, capitalization $50,000, shares 5 cts. par, assessable. Stock is listed on the Salt Lake exchange. Lands, 12 claims, unpatented, in Decker canyon, south of the Mountain Lake mine, 3 miles from Heber, having a 75” shaft and 1,100’ of tunnels, showing argentiferous and aurifer- ous lead and copper ores, in small quantities. Idle. DECORAH MINE. IDAHO

Owned by Seven Devils Copper Co. at Landore, Washington Cos

Idaho.

DEEP CREEK CONSOLIDATED MINING CO. UTAH Office: Provo, Utah, care Andrew J. Allen, sec.-treas. Mine in Deep

Creek district. Harvey Cluff, pres.; Mrs. Elon L. Allen, vice-pres. Incor-

porated 1913, under laws of Utah, capitalization $10,000. Lands contain ex-

tension of Gold Hill vein, Deep Creek section, and ore contains copper, lead

and silver.

DEEP RIVER GOLD MINING CO. NORTH CAROLINA Mine near High Point, Guilford Co., N. C. Opened many years ago,

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said to show gold and silver-bearing copper ore. No trace of recent opera- tions secured. DEER CREEK DEVELOPMENT CO. UTAH Address: John Cleghorn, pres., room 625, Boston Blk., Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine at American Fork, Utah Co., Utah. Organized 1903, capitalization $125,000, shares 25 cts. par. Property, 7 claims, in the Deer Creek district, showing a fissure vein in granite of 3 to 6 width, carrying ores assaying up to 22% copper and 7 oz. silver per ton. Mine closed down in 1910 and present status of company unknown. i DEER CREEK MINING & MILLING CO. IDAHO Office: Forest, Lewis Co., Idaho. W. J. Orr, gen. mgr. Property, 17 miles southwest of Winchester, in the Salmon River district, shows ore- bodies 10 to 20’ wide carrying copper ore with gold values. One vein has 4’ of chalcopyrite ore developed by a tunnel; $150,000 reported to have been spent in development and equipment, latter including 2,000” of flume, water wheel and compressor. Company plans 1,500’ tunnel to tap vein at 1,000’ and the erection of a concentrator. DEERFLY MINING CO. WASHINGTON John B. Davidson, superintendent, Lucerne, Chelan Co., Wash. Prop- erty shows fissure veins carrying copper and lead ores. Developed by tun- nels, Company operating intermittently for several years.

DEER TRACK COPPER CO. ARIZONA At Mayer, Yavapai Co., Ariz. Idle and no trace of operations secured. DEERLODGE CONSOLIDATED MINES, LTD. MONTANA

Was liquidated, voluntarily, 1910. Formerly at Anaconda, Deer Lodge Co., Mont. Described Vol. VIII.

Del Monte Cons. Mining & Refining Co. Nevada

Situated 6 miles west of Luning, Mineral Co., Nev. Consists of Lake View and other claims, covering the Julia “ore belt.” On the Lake View, a shaft 100’ deep is reported as having disclosed ore assaying 8% copper, $2 gold and 8 oz. silver per ton in a fissure vein lying between limestone and porphyry. The Julia “ore belt” has been developed to depth of 200’ and 1,000 tons of silver-gold ore carrying lead has been shipped. Company said to be planning an addition to its mill to cyanide the ores,

Del Verde Tunnel Co. Utah

Office of mine: 2411 Washington Ave., Ogden, Weber Co., Utah. Francis L. Woods, vice-pres. and gen. mgr.; C. H. Hussey, sec.-treas.; pre- ceding officers, M. S. Poulter, B. F. Critchlow, W. L. Porter and Jas. A. Bingham, directors. Organized Jan., 1908, capitalization $200,000, shares 10 cts. par, assessable, with assessments limited to one-half cent yearly. Is a merger of the Utah Buckhorn Mining Co. and Weber County Mining 8 Milling Co.

Property consists of 1 claim, patented, 20 acres and a 5-acre mill site in Weber mining district, on which silver-bearing copper sulphides occur in a contact deposit between lime and quartzite running north 20° west and dipping at 55”. Mine, 1 mile from Ogden Rapid Transit Street railway and from Oregon Short Line.

Developed by 425’ tunnel, showing 2 orebodies, 6 to 20” wide, said to carry 2% copper, 2 oz. silver and 40 cts. gold per ton. Deposit discovered 1869, worked 1870-72, reopened 1907 and idle since 1908. May do some work this year. F DELANO MINE NEVADA

At Contact, Elko Co., Nev. Owned by Seattle Contact Mining Cos which see.

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Delaware Mine. Michigan

Owned by Manitou Mining Co., Keweenaw Co., Mich. Allouez con- glomerate was worked, but was too lean for profit.

Delta Consolidated Mining Co. California

Office: Redding, Shasta Co., Cal. Mine on Dog creek, near Delta, Cal. Dr. Sherman T. White, pres.; S. D. Furber, sec. Company owns the Preacher mine and has built' a narrow-gauge railway connecting with the Southern Pacific tracks at Delta. Ships fluxing ores to Mammoth smelter at Kennett.

Delusion Mine. New Mexico

In the Jarilla Mountain district, Otero Co., N. M., west of the Lucky and By-Chance mines. Messrs. James Parker, of E] Paso, Texas, and Arm- strong, of Parral, owners. Property opened up in Aug., 1913, and said to be shipping copper-gold ore to the El Paso smelter. Ore is similar to that in the By-Chance mine, carrying chalcopyrite and pyrite in gold.

De Mier Copper Co. New Mexico

Letters neither returned nor answered. Mine near Alamogordo, Otero Co., N. M. John R. De Mier, pres.; O. G. Cady, vice-pres:; E. D. McKin- ley, sec.-treas. Organized Aug. 4, 1910, under laws of New Mexico, capital- ization $600,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable.

Democrata Cananea Sonora Copper Co. Mexico

Office: Fourth National Bank Bldg., Cincinnati, Ohio. Mine at Cana- nea, Sonora, Mex. H. H. Hoffman, pres. and treas.; C. E. Hoffman, vice- pres. and gen. mgr.; Herbert H. Hoffman, sec.; W. B. Hughes, mine supt.; J. J. Williams, smelter supt.; H. S. McKay, mg. engr.; Ray Wolf, purch. agt. Organized May 8, 1905, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $3,000,- 000, shares $10 par; issued $2,800,000. Bonds authorized $271,000, but none issued. Central Trust Co., registrar. Annual meeting, last Tuesday in May.

Property, 18 hectares, 44.5 acres, lying between the Capote and Veta Grande, in the heart of the Greene Cananea mines. Orebody is of contact metamorphic origin, consisting of a breccia of fragments of altered lime- stone, cemented by quartz, bornite and copper pyrite, in a fracture zone 50’ wide in limestone. The orebody lies about 300’ north of the Demo- crata shaft and also outcrops in 2 patches of garnet rock surrounded by diorite porphyry, good carbonates being mined at the surface.

Development comprises a 500’ shaft and 2,200’ tunnel, with 2 other shafts of 90’ and 180’, together with 3 tunnels of 300’, 110’ and 60’, aggre- gating 4 miles of underground workings. Recent exploration has shown a new orebody on the 200’ level, giving 714% copper and 5 oz. silver for a width of 40’ with a face still in ore. On the 500’ level, the known orebody is proven to be larger than previously estimated and the stopes are yielding 8% ore. The East orebody near the Kirk mine, developed by tunnel work- ings, has also materially increased the proven ore reserves.

Equipment includes new electrically-operated hoist and air compressor, power being obtained from the Cananea Consolidated Copper Co.

Smelter contains 2 blast furnaces of 150 and 300 tons daily capacity, making 33% matte, sold to the local market.

Property was closed down Sept. 1, 1907, to Sept., 1912, since which time the mine operations have been interrupted by a strike and the stop- page of rail communication for several weeks as a result of fighting be- tween the Sonora state troops and the Federal soldiers, but smelter and mine have been running continuously since traffic was reopened in April, 1913,

Ore reserves at beginning of the year were estimated at 300,000 tons, averaging 414% copper, 3 oz. silver and 25 cts. gold per ton. Production,

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1912, 1,102,000 lbs. fine copper, 36,000 oz. silver and $6,000 in gold for 4 months’ operations. Property is a valuable one. DENN-ARIZONA COPPER CO. ARIZONA

Office: Sellwood Bldg., Duluth, Minn. Mine office: Bisbee, Cochise Co., Ariz. Martin Pattison, pres.; Lemuel C. Shattuck, treas.; Byron. M. Pattison, Thos. Bardon, Archibald M. Chisholm and Maurice Denn, direc- tors; John G. Williams, sec. Organized Jan. 14, 1907, under laws of Min- nesota, as successor of Denn-Arizona Development Co., capitalization $3,- 500,000, shares $10 par fully issued.

Lands, 13 claims, patented, area 200 acres, immediately east of the Junction shaft of the Superior & Pittsburgh. The Dividend fault traverses the company’s ground for about 4,000’, and big orebodies have been found on adjoining properties near this fault. Mine has a 1,600’ shaft, started in conglomerate but penetrating limestone at 840’, with upwards of a mile of workings. The 1,000’ and 1,100’ levels show considerable leached ore, with little commercial ore, though carrying occasional small bodies of rich cuprite. The 1,250’ and 1,350’ levels also show large areas of leached ore, with some low-grade sulphides on the 1,250’ level, and a little native copper on the 1,350’ level. The lower level has a little ore of 12 to 15% copper tenor. Management estimates the average tenor of ore developed, almost exclusively oxides and carbonates, at 8% copper. Apparently some good orebodies may be developed at 1,800’ or deeper, though the ore is erratic. Work was resumed March, 1909, after nearly 18 months idleness, but the pumps were pulled Dec., 1910, and mine again rendered idle. The mine is wet, and has two 1,000-gal triple-expansion pumps on the 1,000” level, and five 800-gal. sinking pumps. Some diamond drilling was done, 1908, from the 1,100’ level, apparently with negative results.

Equipment includes a 1,600-h. p. steam plant, with 6-drill and 25-drill Sullivan air compressors, and an 18x36” Ottumwa Corliss first-motion hoist, raising double-deck cages. ‘Buildings include an 18x24’ carpenter shop, 18x24’ smithy and several other structures. There is a railroad spur to the mine.

Production, 1909, was 99,222 lbs. fine copper and 41 oz. gold.

Development work was energetically carried on despite very heavy pumping expenses until 1912, when an unusual influx swamped the pumps and the mine was shut down.

The Denn has an excellent chance of making a big mine, the claims covering an extension of the big ore zone of the camp, but the ore horizon at this point is lower than on the other properties. The deep development of the Junction, C. & A. and Saginaw properties will drain this ground as well as prove it, and further exploration will be easily and cheaply done. There is strong probability that this company and the Shattuck will be merged at some future time. Property is a splendid prospect. It may be several years before it makes a mine, but eventually, we believe, will be a valuable one.

Dennemora Gold & Copper Mining Co, Ltd. Montana

Is a dormant corporation owning 6 lead-copper claims, one-half mile from N. P. R. R., near Taft, Missoula county, Mont. Described Vol. X. DENNY DULIN GOLD & SILVER MINING CO. NEVADA

Office: 223 Mohawk Block, Spokane, ‘Wash. Fred N. Davis, pres.; A. E. Grant, vice-pres.; Thos. R. L. Harris, sec.; A. B. Railton, treas.; pre- ceding officers and E. D. Doan, directors. Organized Nov., 1910, capitali- zation $1,500,000, shares $1 par, assessable; 18 assessments already called. T. R. L. Harris, transfer agent and auditor.

Lands, 5 claims, 100 acres, unpatented, in Morning Star mining district,

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Nevada. Ore occurs in fissure veins in rhyolite, traversed by numerous porphyry dikes; vein runs east and west, dip 55° north, average width 4, proven depth 160’, average assays, 12⁄4% copper, 5 oz. silver, trace to $12 gold per ton. Developed by shafts, 175’ and 160’ deep, and 150’ tunnel. Company has let contract to continue shaft No. 2, 100’, hoping to cut ledge dipping toward the shaft. Nearly 1 carload of ore blocked out. DENVER SONORA MINING & MILLING CO. MEXICO

Office: Denver, Colo. Mine in the Arizpe district, Sonora, Mex. E. J. Wilcox, pres.; H. W. Peebles, vice-pres.; F. W. Webber, sec.; C. H. Parker, treas., at last accounts. Organized 1907, under laws of Colorado, capital- ization $100,000, shares $1 par, later increased to $1,000,000.

Property consists of the Arremesia mine, with claims aggregating 40 acres on Aconche mountain, east of Ures. Development by 4 tunnels, 2 on each side of the mountain, reported to show orebody 23’ wide, 300’ long of commercial value. Total development, 800’.

DESCUBRIDORA: COMPAÑÍA MINERA y FUNDIDORA. MEXICO

Is the Mexican incorporation of the Descubridora Mining & Smelt- ing Co.

Descubridora Mining & Smelting Co. Mexico

Office: 17 Battery Place, New York. Mine office: Conejos, Mapimi, Durango, Mex. H. L. Albridge, gen. mgr.; D. Gough, supt. Property is the Mina Descubridora, an antigua, carrying large quantities of very low- grade basic silver-copper carbonates, requiring silicious ore for fluxes not produced by the company’s mines. Mine has a 500’ shaft. Equipment includes steam and electric power. A former 600-ton smelter was dis- mantled, and equipment sold. Property was leased for several years, until 1908, to the Guggenheim Exploration Co. Forces are about 75 men, and ore is sent to the Torreón smelter. Production was 4,964,272 lbs. fine cop- per in 1903, but thereafter became much smaller, and production, 1909, is estimated at 750,000 lbs. fine copper.

Deseret Island Mining Co. Utah

Idle. Office: Deseret National Bank Bldg,, Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine office: Wendover, Tooele Co., Utah. John C. Sharp, pres. and treas.; L. L. Larsen, vice-pres.; Oscar W. Moyle, sec., at last accounts. Organized 1907, under laws of Utah, capitalization $25,000, shares 5 cts. par, assessable; issued, $16,000. Lands, 5 claims, unpatented, 8 miles from Wendover, carrying argentiferous lead and copper ores. Mine, slightly developed, has several shallow shafts.

DESERT QUEEN COPPER MINING Co. ARIZONA

Mine near Quartzite, Yuma Co., Ariz. Organized May, 1907, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,000,000. Lands, 11 claims, in 2 groups, opened by crosscut tunnels, intersecting veins at 300 to 500’ depth, with 600’ of drifting on the orebodies. Has a 40-h. p. gasoline engine, air com- pressor and power drills. Mine has been under development since 1902. Ores have given smelter returns of 10% copper, 25 oz. silver and $12 gold per ton. No returns secured, probably closed down.

Desert Queen Gold Co. Arizona

Office: 451 Marquette Bldg., Chicago, Ill. Mr. Voigtman, pres.; W. P. Nelson, vice-pres.; Will Nelson, sec. Owns 11 claims, patented, in Plo- mosa mining district, Yuma Co., Ariz. Ores containing chalcopyrite, said to average 7% copper, 10 oz. silver and $12 gold per ton, occur in shear zone between schist and quartzite. Developed by 1,700’ tunnel with about 30,000 tons blocked out.

Detroit & Colorado Mining Co. Colorado

Addtess: care L. W. Partridge, gen. mgr., 327 Railway Exchange Bldg.,

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Denver, Colo. Organized Nov. 10, 1903, under laws of Colorado, capitaliza- tion $1,000,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable. Properties consist of the Champion and Aletha groups, 5 claims, 4 patented, situated 114 miles S. W. of Silverton, 9,700” elevation. Ore is a mixture of copper and iron sulphides with tetrahedrite, but Aletha ore is a silver-bearing galena with chalcopyrite. The Champion vein is a gold-silver quartz carrying copper Pyrite. Ores are said to average 31 oz. silver, 4.5% copper and $5 gold, with increasing values in gold as depth is attained. The main development is by tunnel, but extent of present development is not reported, Property now idle because of litigation. DETROIT COPPER MINING CO. OF ARIZONA. ARIZONA Office: 99 John St., New York. Mine and works office: Morenci, Ariz. Employs about 1,000 men. Dr. Jas. Douglas, pres.; Cleveland H. Dodge, vice-pres.; Geo. Notman, ‘sec.-treas.; A. T. Thomson, gen. mgr.; M. H. McLean, mine supt.; E. W. Honeyman, smelter SS Schroeder, chief chemist.; W. A. Staab, assayer; D. J. Kelly, chief electrician; Chas. Legrand, cons. mech. engr../'and C. A. Austin, purch. agt., 99 John St., New York. Organized under laws of Michigan, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $25 par. Is controlled, through ownership of entire stock issue, by Phelps, Dodge & Co., Inc. Net earnings in recent years have been as follows: $543,456 in 1903; $603,340 in 1904; $532,684 in 1905; $973,456 in 1906; $814,874 in 1907; $1,074,296. in 1908; $1,153,269 in 1909; $1,406,170 in 1912. Company ended 1912 with a surplus of $2,763,138. Paid $1,464,610 in dividends in 1912. Dividends, 1897-1909, of 334 to 110% yearly, aggregated $4,817,500. Lands are extensive, including the Ryerson, Arizona Central, Copper Mountain, Yankee, W. Yankee, Montezuma and Santa Rosa mines, at and near Morenci. The purchase of the mining properties of the New England & Clifton Copper Co., Standard Consolidated Copper Co., Standard Copper Mines, and Clifton Copper Mines, Ltd., adds a large area of undeveloped, but

or in large masses of altered, impregnated, shattered porphyry. The geo- logic relations are fully treated in a monograph by Waldemar Lindgren, Tror Pager 43. US: Geol Surv., and in “Copper Mines of the World,” page

Ores are mainly sulphide with slight gold-silver values and high silica and alumina contents. The oxidized and limestone ores are still produced in small quantities’ but 98.8% of the ores mined consists of small particles of chalcocite, associated with chalcopyrite and Pyrite, in a leached and whitened, decomposed porphyry, averaging 3.08% copper, or about 47.67 lbs. of fine copper recovered. The high-grade ore from fissure veins carries 6 to 18% copper.

Mine development is very extensive, with numerous shafts and long cross-country connections. The workings -have thus far been shallow, 400’ being for many years the greatest depth. In 1912, development on the 600 and 700° levels of the Yankee mine, north of the Yankee fault, opened up 194,939 tons of 2.36% ore and ‘similar deep exploration in the Arizona Central mine upset previous ideas that ores would not go deeper. Ex- tensive deep development is planned for 1913-14, :

About 90.55% of the output, or 460,340 tons, is now mined by the slicing system, costing 81.6% of the Square set and fill cost, which is necessarily

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still used in some parts of the mine. Block caving is still cheaper, uses but little timber and costs but 54.8% of the square set and fill method, but like the Gopher and fill method which is slightly cheaper, can only be used where favorable conditions prevail. In 1912, 11,061 tons were mined by un- derhand and square set back fill method, costing 27% more than square set. E

The economy of these methods is shown by a reduction of timber used pom 1712” board measure per ton ore in 1906 to 12.8 in 1910 and 9.75 in

For several years past gas producers and gas engines have been used for practically all machinery except hoists and locomotives; this equipment is described, Vol. X. In 1912, it was decided to substitute steam for all purposes except the engines operating the blowers. The boilers from the pumping plant were installed and 2 large steam turbines will furnish power for the entire plant.

The 64x200’ power house, of steel frame on concrete foundations. has three 100-h. p. Crossley gas engines driving blowers that are connected with the furnaces by a 300’ blast main; a 500-h. p. air compressor furnishing converter blast, at 8 lbs. pressure only, and two 200-h. p. 250-volt electric generators furnishing current that is stepped up to 2,500 volts at the power house, and carried by 4 feed wires to a second set of transformers at the West Yankee mine, there stepped down to 250 volts, and distributed to the various mines. There also is a complete electric lighting plant.

The concentrator, designed by H. Kenyon Burch, has proved re- markably successful, running 95% of the time. It consists of two 650-ton units, is 166x240’ in size, and cost about $1,000,000. Equipment includes Chilian mills, 6 sets of 16x42” rolls, 28 revolving screens, 80 Frue vanners, 40 Wilfley tables, and Deister tables, the mill putting about 7 tons into 1.

In 1912, the mill treated a daily average of 1,442 tons, putting 7.1 tons into 1, with a saving of 76.12% of the assay values, tailings averaging 0.8% copper and concentrates assaying 16.69% in tenor, 1 ton of ore being con- centrated with 511.2 gals. of water, which is a very reasonable figure. A pumping station 6 miles distant raises water from wells on the San Fran- cisco river to a height of 600’, whence it is fed by gravity to the mill, which uses about 4,400 gals. per minute, with a consumption of new water of only about 80 gals. per minute, new water being supplemented by clarified water from an ingenious and highly efficient settling system, designed by Mr. Hunt, that includes concrete tanks and settlers, a steel dam, and a pond for tailings. A 14,000’ laund& was built, 1909, along Chase Creek cañon, to convey tailings from the mill to impounding reservoirs on the slopes below the mouth of Morenci canyon. The tails form a solid compact mass almost as strong as cement and successfully solves the tailings problem.

The 100-ton sampling mill is connected with the concentrator by a 400’ belt conveyor. Experiments with oil concentration did not lead to the. adoption of that process.

The smelter has one 42x264” and four 54x144” blast furnaces, and a con- verter department. Flue dust is briquetted for resmelting. The smelter has 2,000-ton ore bins, surmounted by a steel railroad trestle.

In 1912, 160,649 tons were smelted, using 75,783 tons of ore and con- centrate, 24,286 tons of limestone, 18,450 tons of coke and making an output of 24,802,789 lbs. of copper bullion with a saving of 93.86%. The coke con- sumption was 584 tons less than in 1911, though the charge was 9,596 tons larger. f ;

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3.5%, with 4 complete loops within an air-line distance of 1% miles, near Morenci. A tunnel through Longfellow hill, completed 1909, gives direct rail connection with the mill.

In 1912, taxes were increased from $15, 973 to $58,490 and an increase in wages added 10 cts. per ton to cost of mining, while reduction of working hours under new state law from 8 to 7% cut quantity mined per man from 3.95 to 3.68 tons.

The company operates a large department store, and an a cient hotel, and maintains a library, gymnasium and club room for its 1,414 employees.

Production in 1912 was 519,632 tons of ore, producing 24,802,789 Ibs. of copper bullion. The property is managed with great skill, in all depart- ments, and is an exceptionally fine example of a RES low-grade mine.

The New England Clifton Copper Co. holdings now owned by the De- troit Company comprise 78 claims, area 1,006 acres, lying mainly near the Shannon, 5 miles northwest of Clifton, on the northern side of the San Francisco river, including the New England, Clifton, Antietam and Copper King mines. Development on former shows a fissure vein in granite of 5' width, with an ore shoot 400’ in length, carrying silicious sulphide ores, with chalcocite, chalcopyrite and occasional oxides and carbonates, all slightly auriferous and argentiferous, said to average 12% copper to depth of 350’, the ore shoot declining rapidly in grade below 350’, running to silicious sul- phides of about 2.5% copper on the tunnel level. Ore bunkers, about 2 miles below the mines, receiving ore by wagons and aerial tram, are connected with the Arizona railway by a 3-mile surface tramline.

Development at the New England mine includes 2 shafts, deepest 750’, and a 2,000’ tunnel. The Clifton mine has 7 shafts, of 70, to 315’ depth, with tunnels of 220’, 450’, 700’, 800’, 1,000’ and 1,700”.

The eee mine, of 3 claims, has a 2-compartment shaft, developing an orebody of 15 to 35 width, carrying chalcocite and chalcopyrite, giving assays of 4 to 10% copper, 1 to 7 oz. silver and $2 gold per ton, and has been said to have about 40,000 tons of ore in sight.

The Copper King mine is as yet but slightly developed, but has been claimed to show about 40,000 tons of ore. An aerial tram from the Copper King mine was completed 1909.

Equipment includes steam, gasoline and electric power, with hoists, an air compressor, and a number of mine buildings.

Detroit & Lake Superior Copper Co. Connecticut

Office and works: Waterbury, New Haven Co., Conn. Is a half owner of the stock of the Lake Superior Smelting Co., which bought the plants of the Detroit & Lake Superior Copper Co. at Hancock and Dollar Bay, Houghton Co., Mich. Built a smelter at Detroit, 1850, and shortly after ‘built another at Hancock, being the pioneer in Michigan smelting. DETROIT-OROVILLE EXPLORATION CO. WASHINGTON

Office: 406 Gladwin Bidg., Detroit, Mich. Mine office: Oroville, Okanogan Co., Wash. F. A. Kelsey, pres.; Chas. E. Kanter, vice-pres.; Milton T. Watson, sec.-treas. Organized June 1, 1908, under laws of Mich- igan, with capitalization $3,000, shares $10 par. Lands, 15 claims, area 300 acres, with a smelter site, showing carboniferous limestone resting on graywacke slates, carry chalcopyrite ore giving assays up to 15% copper. Property has been partially explored by diamond drilling, last work, 3 holes, of about 1,000’ aggregate depth, having been done, 1910. No returns secured. Probably idle.

Development Company Of America. Arizona

Secretary’s address: J. J. Wratgovich, 11 Pine St, New York. Reor-

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affairs are in the hands of a bond and stockholders’ committee. (See Vol. X for officers and organization.) Organized Nov. 23, 1901, in Delaware, as a holding company to finance and promote a group of mining enterprises in Arizona,-controlling, through stock ownership, the Tombstone Consoli- dated Mines Co, Ltd., Imperial Copper Co., Congress Consolidated Mines Co., Ltd., and Poland Mining Co. Company also owned large stock in- terests in the Gila Copper Sulphide Co.; the Lookout Copper Co.; controlled the Southern Arizona’ Smelting Co. through Imperial Copper Co., and owned a large block of stock in the London-Arizona Copper Co. which company has a large interest in the London Range Copper Co. Company organized the Arizona, Mexico & Gulf of California Railroad Co., 1910. planning to build a railway from the Arizona Southern railway, which is owned by the Imperial Copper Co., a subsidiary, to Port Lobos on the Gulf of California, a distance of approximately 200 miles. The authorized bonds and stock of the Arizona, Mexico & Gulf of California Railroad Co. were never issued. l

The Tombstone Co. owned, or controlled practically all the mines of Tombstone, Ariz., that once wonderful camp, whose mines were closed down in the 80's when a heavy influx of water drove the miners from the workings: The new company installed enormous pumps and for 7 years made a brave attempt to develop the properties, though the mines were never reopened to an extent permitting of thorough prospecting. The Development Co. supplied nearly $2,500,000 to its Tombstone subsidiary in addition to funds realized by the Tombstone Co. from the sale of its special contract bonds, before it came to the end of its resources, when, with $1,670,716 of its notes protested, the collateral security for these notes was sold at auction. The Tombstone expenses practically caused the downfall of the Development Co.

The most promising subsidiary of the Development Co. was the Im- perial Copper Co., which worked out its high-grade smelting ores, and though possessed of a fine plant, railroad and model smelter (see Imperial Copper Co.) could not operate profitably when copper fell below 13 cts., because development work had not been carried sufficiently in advance of extraction.

This ambitious corporation which was for 10 years a big factor in the mining development of Arizona is now dead. The company controlled, either through entire or partial stock ownership, a number of famous mines in Arizona, though it was itself a holding corporation and operated only through its subsidiaries.

In 1911, the company being unable to meet the interest on its bonds, a bondholders’ and stockholders’ committee was formed and the securities behind these bonds were sold at public auction on April 17, 1913, and pur- chased by Wallace Fairbank, Frank M. Murphy and Thomas W. Synnott, acting as the committee of bondholders and stockholders of the company. The securities bought in included 250,000 shares of the Imperial Copper Co. and 400,000 shares of the Tombstone Consolidated Mining Co., Ltd. The stock of both companies is without value as they are bankrupt. The stock of the Poland Co. and $1,211,340.91 certificates of indebtedness, control that company, and the Congress Co., having no bonded debt, is controlled by its stock.

On June 25, 1913, the committee issued a circular letter to the bond- holders stating that $28,500 was required to pay off taxes, labor liens, etc., and that maintenance on these two companies would cost about $8,000 per year. As this property is all that is left to recoup the bondholders each one has been requested to loan, on a 7% promissory note, 2% of the face

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of his bonds. In default of receiving $40,000 in this manner the commit- tee wili have to find other means of meeting the situation or incur a total loss-of the only assets remaining. The stock of the company is of course valueless.

Devine Mining Co., Ltd. Washington

Office: 704 New York Block, Seattle, Wash. Mine office: Cle Elum, Kittitas Co., Wash. C. P. Devine, pres. and gen. mgr.; F. A. Pontius, vice- pres.; Henry S. Noon, sec.; Wm. T. Kipp, treas.; Clancy M. Lewis, engr: . Organized 1904, under laws of Washington, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par. Annual meeting, second Monday in April.

Lands, 2 claims, area 40 acres, also two 5-acre mill sites and a water right, in the Gold Creek district, 12 miles north of the Northern Pacific railroad, claims showing andesite and rhyolite, with veins having lenticular shoots, of 45’ estimated average width, carrying sulphide ores, reported to average 5% copper, 25 oz. silver and $4 gold per ton, with traces of lead and zinc. Apparently values are mainly in a 40” footwall paystreak, balance of vein carrying concentrating ore of 2.5 to 5% copper tenor, with small gold and silver values. Development is by tunnels of 75’, 125’, 300’, 320’ and 800’, the longest tunnel giving a back of about 700. The mine had 1,520’ of workings, 1908, estimated by company to show 100,000 tons of ore, with 50,000 tons blocked out for stoping. Inactive, 1912, but further development planned as soon as new capital is secured.

Dickey Copper Co. Alaska

P. O. address: Ellamar, Alaska. W. A. Dickey, mgr.; C. W. Harring- ton, supt Property comprises the Dickey group, on Copper mountain, on the shores of Landlock bay, 4 miles southeast of Ellamar. Contains copper ore in lenses along shear zones, in greenstone. Shipments of 400 to 600 tons monthly of 12% ore were made to the Tacoma smelter in 1912. Com- pany also has option on Mason-Gleason group, on Fidalgo bay and was developing on the property in 1912. The latter group shows high-grade ore, but nearest shipping point is Irish Cove, 3 miles distant.

DISPATCH MINING CO. MEXICO : Owned by Bisbee-Sonora Development Co., which see. DIVIDEND MINING & MILLING CO. NEW MEXICO

Idle. Office: 65 Journal Bldg., Boston, Mass., at last reports. Mine office: Estey, Socorro Co., N. M. J. M. Bryson, pres. and gen. mgr.; J. E. Simpson, vice-pres.; B. F. Coburn, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, F. B. Street, J. Wm. Rice, Samuel Porter, A. B. Spear, Jas. B. Putnam and’ Hal bert E. Parkhurst, directors; W. E. Morong, supt. Organized Sept., 1902, capitalization $3,000,000. Has authorized a $150,000 five-year 7% bond issue.

Lands, 2,000 acres, also coal lands about 16 miles distant. It. is claimed that about $250,000 has been expended on the mine, which shows a fair body of sulphide ore, carrying good values in copper, with a little lead, and with small values in gold and silver.

A 250-ton concentrator and a small smelter were inherited from the Estey Mining & Milling Co., previous owners, and company is supposed to have begun milling July, 1907, but did not continue long.

The company has been very free with “estimates” and promises that by merely producing 14,400,000 lbs. of copper yearly, millions of dollars could be earned. Company's advertising was indefensible, and the state- ment that “there has been no such opportunity for investment since the Calumet & Hecla and United Verde were first put on the market” leads to the conclusion that the promoters of the company are sadly lacking either in sense or truth. At last accounts was endeavoring to settle with bondholders by giving them the Property. No recent returns received.

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Dividend Mining & Smelting Co. Mexico

Letter unclaimed at Kansas City, Mo. Mine office: Suaqui de Batuc, Ures, Sonora, Mex. Organized Oct., 1904, under laws of Arizona, capitali- zation $1,000,000, increased later to $2,000,000, shares $1 par.

Lands, 195 acres, some distance from a railway, having a 75’ shaft, planned to have been sunk to 500’, and a 230’ tunnel, planned to have been driven 2,000’, latter showing argentiferous and slightly auriferous lead and copper ores, giving assays up to 23% copper and 170 oz. silver per ton. Probably closed down.

Dixie Queen Copper Mining Co., Ltd. Idaho

Mine address: Sandpoint, Bonner Co., Idaho. Wm. C. Ames, pres.; Chas. Edwards, vice-pres.; B. S. Bennett, sec.-treas.; E, C. Christeson, gen. megr.; preceding officers and Ignatz Weil, directors; A. W. Nash, engr., at last accounts. Organized April 2, 1909, under laws of Idaho, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par; issued, $600,000. Lands, 6 claims, area 120 acres, and a 40-acre mill and tunnel site, in the Lakeview district. Lands show a vein estimated by management to average 11’ 4” in width, carrying sulphide ores estimated to average 13.5% copper, 20 oz. silver and $1.20 gold per ton, developed by an 80’ shaft and tunnels of 85’ and 320”. There are sev- eral small buildings. Management planned continuing development and shipping ore. No returns secured.

Dixon Copper Co. Arizona

Letter unciaimed at Globe, Gila Co., Ariz. Fred Newmeyer, pres.; J. W. Meeham, sec., at last accounts. Capitalization $1,000,000, shares $2 par. Lands, 20 claims, about 9 miles northwest of Globe, near the Sleeping Beauty mountains, having a 390’ crosscut tunnel with a 30’ winze, showing auriferous and argentiferous copper ore. Lands were bonded, Sept., 1910, to Globe, Arizona & El Paso Copper Mining € Smelting Co., bond being said to have been for a small cash payment, and 750,000 shares of Globe, Arizona & El Paso stock. Probably idle. a DOANE-VERDE MINING CO. WYOMING

Idle. Office: 1204, 37 Wall St., New York. Mine near Rambler, Car- bon Co., Wyo. John T. Clarke, pres.; Oliver S. Brown, vice-pres. Organ- ized June, 1902, under laws of Wyoming, capitalization $1,500,000 shares $1 par. Lands, 7 claims, patented, the main tract of 60 acres lying between the Doane-Rambler and Battle Lake, the other tracts being 40 acres about a quarter mile from the Ferris-Haggarty, and 40 acres near the Hidden Treasure mine. A little work was done in an effort to strike the extension of the Doane-Rambler orebody.

Dolly Hyde Mine. Maryland

Owned by the Linganore Copper Co., Frederick Co., Maryland. Property worked as a farm.

DOLORES MINE y ANEXAS. MEXICO

Owned by American Smelters Securities Co. at Matehuala, Catorce, San Luis Potosi, Mex.

Dolores Mining & Development Co. Mexico

Address: care J. E. Dawson, pres., Oakland, Cal.; J. F. Torney, sec. Organized Jan., 1910, to take control of the Empire Mining Co., S. A., a company protocolized in Mexico, which owns the Major Domo claim, 5 miles from Cananea, Sonora, Mexico, and 7 other properties, including the Golden Cross silver mine, Magdalena district, Sonora, Mex. See Empire Mining Co.

Dominion Fairview Copper Co., Ltd. British Columbia

Office: 6 Holborn Viaduct, London, E. C., Eng. Mine office: Fairview Boundary district, B. C. John P. Spencer, Jas. Wm. Bryan, and Capt. John

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Houston, directors; Wm. J, Spratling, sec. Organized Dec. 22, 1897, under laws of Great Britain; reorganized Sept. 22, 1901, as Dominion Fairview Klondike Syndicate, Ltd., and name changed to present title March, 1907, capitalization £130,000, shares £1 par; issued £66,077. Property consists of 4 mines known as the Wanita, Favorite, Hiram Waiker and Golden Gate, each claim 1,500” square, situated in the Fairview mining camp, Okanagan district, British Columbia, about 4 miles from the United States border. Property has not been thoroughly developed, but shallow shafts and a short tunnel show a small amount of good copper ore. Property closed down. During 1910, an oil-bearing property in Roumania was acquired by company.

Dominion Mining & Smelting Co. Nova Scotia

Works office: Pictou, Pictou Co., N. S. Property is a 70-ton furnace, blown in May, 1907, making matte of about 35% copper tenor, when in com- mission.

Dominion Nickel-Copper Co., Ltd. Ontario

Head office: Ottawa, Canada. Main office: Sudbury, Ont. Mine: Nickelton & Murray mine, Ontario.. J. R. Booth, pres.; M. J. O’Brien, vice- pres.; Wm. Anderson, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, J. F. Booth, F. B. Chapin, J. J. McFadden, J. M. Glidden, C. A. Mastin and J. A. Holmes, di- rectors; J. A. Holmes, gen. mgr.; J. N. Glidden, asst. mgr.; A. L. Winkler and Frank Eager, mine supt.; C. H. Hitchcock, mg. engr.; J. H. Roe. purch. agt.; H. L. Roscoe, chemist-assayer. Organized 1910, under laws of the Dominion of Canada, capitalization $10,000,000, shares $1 par, fully paid, nonassessable. Company is a close corporation with all stockholders repre- sented on the board of directors. i

Property 17,533 acres, including 10,800 acres mineral land, with 5,000 timber, 1,500 mill and smelter ground and 283 acres townsite in the Sudbury mining district, Ontario. Includes the following mines: Whistle, Wild Cat, Jackson, Nickel Lake group, W. D. 16, Elsie, Gertrude, Victor, Murray, Lady Violet and Falcon Bridge. Lands contain 21 known'orebodies, 7 of which have been developed. Company has spent about $250,000 on diamond drilling, 1907-12, principally on the North Range properties around Nickel lake and in the township of Bowell and Joe lake in the township of Wisner. The Whistle mine has been opened underground and is now ready for production. The town of Nickelton has been built at this mine.

Company has purchased several properties from the Lake Superior Corporation and now has the largest holdings of ore reserves in the Sud- bury district next to those of the International Nickel Co. The diamond drilling at the Murray mine disclosed a large orebody, reported to contain over 4,000,000 tons of ore. Development will be centered at this mine.

At the Murray mine, a 1,200’ three-compartment shaft is being sunk and extensive underground development is planned. Further diamond drilling will be carried on at various properties in 1913.

Smelter now being constructed in Snyder township, about 5 miles northwest of Sudbury, 1% miles from the Murray mine, will have 3 blast furnaces of 500 tons daily capacity, 1 reverberatory furnace of 300 tons daily capacity, a converting plant with 3 basic-lined converters and will treat 1,500 tons of ore daily, turning out 80% copper-nickel matte, which will be refined at the company’s own works. Mines are connected with the Cana- dian Pacific, Canadian Northern, Ontario and Algoma Eastern railroads by a private railroad, 6 miles long, known as the Nickel Range railway, equipped with a 75-ton locomotive and 21 cars. Company has appropriated $3,500,000 for construction of mine and smelting plants and electrolytic refinery, all of which are expected to be completed and in operation by Sept., 1914.

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Property was examined by B. B. Lawrence, of New York, on whose advice the Murray property was purchased. Property regarded as a formidable competitor of the Canadian Copper Co. in foreign markets; is amply financed and regarded as a sound mining proposition. See British-American Nickel Corporation.

Donna Dora Mining Co. New Mexico

Mine P. O.: Organ, Donna Ana Co., New Mexico. Geo. S. Courtney, mgr, at last accounts, when management changed. Property consists of claims on the eastern slope of the Organ mountains, about 7 miles north- east of Organ. Shows a 5’ fissure vein carrying a complex ore, showing galena and chalcopyrite with $4.50 to $50 per ton in gold and silver. Mine examined, 1911, by E. E. Chase and Jas. E. Douglas. Has 400” tunnel and shallow shaft. Equipped with hoist, 10-drill Rand compressor and a 150-ton concentrator.

Donnelly Mining & Reduction Co. Colorado

Idle. Mine office: Lake City, Hinsdale Co., Colo. Property carries auriferous and argentiferous lead and copper ores. Equipment includes water power and an air compressor. No report obtainable, 1913,

Dos De Abril Mining Co. Mexico

Mine office: El Dorado, Jimenez, Chihuahua, Mex. Heffron & Piper, lessees, at last accounts. Mine has auriferous and argentiferous lead and copper ores, with steam power and a 7-stamp mill. Idle owing to revolu- tionary disturbances.

Douglas Copper Co. Arizona

Office and secretary: Fred L. Mason, P. O. Box 421, Globe, Ariz. T. C. Hendricks, pres.; H. M. Foster, vice-pres.; Chas. Davis, supt. Organized Aug., 1910, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,125,000.

Lands, 35 claims, about 30 miles from Globe on the wagon road, about midway between the towns of Ray and Superior, Pinal county, Ariz. Prop- erty is traversed by several northwest-southeast fissure veins of limestone and quartzite, carrying gold, silver and copper in oxidized ores or as bornite and chalcopyrite. Developments by 2 tunnels, a shallow shaft and a number of open cuts, all on one large vein. In Feb., 1913, work was begun on 3- compartment shaft which cut a silver vein at 40’ in depth and on which development was being done on the 100’ level in May. Management ex- pects. to sink shaft to 500’ in depth. Property lies west of the limestone uplift in which the Newman group is located. From personal inspection, the claims are regarded as a long chance. ; DOUGLAS-ELY MINES CO. NEVADA

Apparently dead, letters being returned from both office and mine. De- scribed Vol. X.

Douglas, Lacey & Co. New York

Company was notorious promoter of numerous mining and oil propo- sitions and is now in hands of a liquidating organization, known as the Amalgamated Properties, Inc. Mr. Steven’s opinion of this firm and their clever scheme for obtaining money from small investors is fully described in Vol. X, under the title given above and that of the Amalgamated Gold & Copper Co. of Arizona.

Douglas Smelter. Arizona

Owned by Copper Queen Consolidated Mining Co., at Douglas, Cochise Co., Ariz.

Douglass Copper Co. Michigan

Office: Sears Bldg., Boston, Mass. Property’ north of Allouez and west of Ahmeek holdings in Allouez township, Keweenaw county, Mich. Charles J. Paine, Jr., pres.; George P, ‘Gardner, vice-pres.; Arthur E. Coe,

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sec.-treas.; preceding officers, R. S. Sheldon, C. C. Douglas, Woirb01S. Chrimes and A. S. Knight, directors. Organized 1913, under laws of Michigan, capitalization $2,500,000, shares $25 par; 50,000 shares given for land, marked $10 paid in value.

Property consists of 440 acres in a compact tract, being E.1%4 of Sec. 30 and W.% of Sec. 29, embracing eleven 40-acre tracts formerly owned by the Sheldon Douglas and the Northey estates, and the St. Mary's Mineral Land Co. This tract covers the underlay, or deep extension of the Kear- sarge lode into which the rich oreshoot now worked in the Ahmeek, pitches. To open this ground a 3,300’ vertical shaft must be sunk.

The company is currently regarded as merely a convenient holding corporation to acquire title to ground desired by the Calumet & Hecla. DOYLE CONSOLIDATED MINES CO. COLORADO

Office: 507 E St. N. W., Washington, D. C. Mine office: Mancos, Montezuma Co., Colo. Hon. Jas. Doyle, pres.; Earl P. Hopkins, vice-pres.; E. R. Marden, sec.; D. T. Thompson, treas.; preceding officers, Wm. W. Fry, and J. J. Butler, directors; R. J. Doyle, mine supt.; R. C. Morrison, mill supt.; C. F. Doyle, engr. Organized Oct. 21, 1907, under laws of Arizona, as consolidation of the Mancos Mining & Development Co., the Chiff Dwellers Gold Mining Co. and the White Quail Copper Co., capital- ization $10,000,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable; issued about $3,000,000.

Property, 31 claims, in 3 groups of about 300 acres in Rush basin, part of the California mining district, Montezuma and La Plata counties, in “southeastern Colorado. Claims are in a high part of the Sierra La Plata, 314 miles from La Plata city and 4 miles from the Colorado Southern rail- road. The White Quail group shows a copper-bearing “dike” of monzon- ite porphyry, said to be 150’ across and to average 214% copper and $4 gold across its entire width. Other claims cover about a mile of the apex of the Sundown (or North Star) vein, a flat, dipping fissure in red quartz- ite, carrying milling ore with gold and silver values. Company developed properties for several years. Had 10-stamp mill in 1910 and erected a new 150-ton mill, operated July, 1912.

Dragon Consolidated Mining Co. Utah

Office: care Knight Bros., Provo, Utah. Mine near Tinte, Jabr Oo., Utah. Jesse Knight, pres.; J. Will Knight, vice-pres.; W. Lester Magnum, sec.-treas.; R. E. Allen and A. M. Knight, directors; E. R. Higginson, supt. Organized about April, 1911, under laws of Utah, capitalization $2,- 000,000, shares $1 par; issued 1,750,000; 250,000 in treasury.

Property, 40 claims, patented, comprising the Dragon and Governor groups in Tintic district. The Governor group has 2,000” or more of the big Iron Blossom fissure in limestone, from which the great production ot that and the Sioux mines has come. The Dragon group shipped 100 tons per day of iron ore to the U. S. smeltery, for a long time. The Governor ground has a rich orebody of copper-silver ore developed by drifts from the Iron Blossom on the 300’, 600’, 800’ and 1,000’ levels, showing a 20’ vein with 0.5 to 10% copper and 20 to 50 oz. silver. Part of the property is worked through the Black Jack shaft and in 1913 the new work in the porphyry area showed stringer veins carrying lead and copper ore. Pres- ent output is about 125 tons per day from the Iron Blossom shaft. Prop- erty produces considerable copper, but is generally and rightly regarded as a silver mine. /

DRUID GOLD MINING Co. COLORADO

Office: 418 Boston Bldg., Denver, Colo. Geo. E. Collins, E. M., man- ager, Central City, Gilpin Co., Colo. Property has a vein of complex lead-.

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copper ore carrying silver and gold,’ that is developed by a-1,500” tunnel and a 500’ shaft. Equipped with steam plant. DRY CANYON MINES CoO. UTAH

C. F. Wagner, sec., Stockton, Utah. Mine near Ophir, Tooele Co., Utah. Lands, 25 claims, known as the Kearsarge mine, said to have been large producer of high-grade silver-lead ore in 1870-80. Shipped, June, 1910, a carload of ore assaying about 3% copper and $7 gold per ton, with values mainly in silver-lead, netting $47 per ton. Probably closed down. Has 2,500’ tunnel.

Dubuque Mining & Tunnel Co. Colorado

Idle. Office: Coburn Bldg., Denver, Colo. Mine near Idaho Springs, Clear Creek Co., Colo. E. A. Colburn, pres.; W.-W. Kirby, vice-pres.; J. A. Wright, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, B. L. Gorich and D. C. Waugh, directors. Organized Dec. 4, 1905, under laws of Colorado, capitalization $2,000,000, shares $1 par. ‘Lands, 2 claims, known as the Dubuque mine, opened by a 460’ tunnel, said to show a 6’ vein carrying a 3’ paystreak carrying copper carbonates and melaconite, with good gold values. DUCKTOWN SULPHUR, COPPER & IRON CO., LTD. TENNESSEE

Office: 1 Gresham House, Old Broad St., London, E. C., Eng. Mine office: Isabella, Polk Co., Tenn. J. G. Gordon, chairman and managing director; L. G. Mortimer, vice-chairman and managing director; preced- ing officers, Col. J. Le G. Daniell, H. G. Palmer, Edward Dexter and Col. H. B. Mortimer, directors; Windsor Berry, sec.; William Young Wester- velt, New York, cons. engr. Executives at the mine: C. W. Renwick, gen. mgr.; W. EF. Lamoreaux, asst. gen. mer.

Organized under the laws of Great Britain, Feb. 16, 1891, capitalization £75,000, shares £1 par, in £74,800 ordinary shares and £200 founders’ shares. Increased 1907, to £200,000 shares, increase subscribed to by the old stockholders at par, except £48,799 ordinary shares sold to the public at 25s. Stock is fully issued and fully paid. Profits are divisible on the basis of 7%, plus, one-half of the net remaining profits, to ordinary shares, balance of profits going to founders’ shares. £130,000, first mortgage, 614%, debentures outstanding, against which special redemption fund of £10,000 was set aside during 1912, in addition to a general reserve fund of £45,000, previously accumulated.

Recent dividend payments shave been: In 1906, 8214% on ordinary shares, £249:3 per founders’ share; in 1907, 55% on ordinary shares, £108:18 per founders’ shares; in 1908, 10% on ordinary shares, £16:0:8 per founders’ shares; in 1909, 10% on ordinary shares, £21:17 per founders’ share; in 1910, 10% on ordinary shares, £28:4:5 per founders’ share; in 1911, 10% on ordinary shares, £29:19:5 per founders’ share; in 1912 124% on ordinary shares, £54:18:11 per founders’ share; total dividends, includ- ing 1912, paid to all classes of shares, £438,183. Of this, £282,628, amount- ing to 33514% on shares outstanding at the times of payment, was paid to the ordinary shares, and £155,555, amounting to 77,778%, was paid to the founders’ shares, the latter constituting the world’s record for profit- able copper-mining investment.

Property consists of nearly 7,000 acres of land, bought for £68,057, in- cluding the Mary, East Tennessee and Isabella mines, which are active, and the Calloway and Cherokee mines which are idle. Country rocks consist largely of very tough highly metamorphosed, silicified mica schists, of ancient origin. The ores are exclusively sulphide, averaging about 214% copper and containing minute quantities of gold and silver, sufficient however to be appreciable to the matte.

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heretofore yielded largely through the 3-compartment 350’ Baxter shaft, and from the 2-compartment 375’ No. 2 shaft. The new Gordon, 3-com- partment 860’ shaft is at present, however, and will continue to be, the principal producer. The greater part of the Gordon shaft was sunk, 3 years since, in 12 months’ time, by the employment of 5 upraises made on the line of the shaft from various levels. Diamond-drill borings prove the ore to continue to a depth of at least 1,000’ beneath the surface, with a steadily increasing copper content. The ore actually blocked out in the Spring of 1913 was in excess of 580,000 tons, averaging over 214% copper and 17% sulphur.

The East Tennessee mine, which had laid idle since early days, did not commence to produce un‘il 1910. The Thomas, or operating shaft, is 700’ deep, has 2 compartments and yields from 50 to 75 tons per diem of ore containing about 314% copper and 10% sulphur. Reserves of nearly 50,000 tons of average ore had been proven in “the spring of 1913.

The Isabella mine has thus far yielded but a few thousand tons of ore a year, from open-cut workings left on the removal of the gossan as iron ore. The ore, averaging about 0.8% copper and'29% sulphur, has as yet been used for little else than experimental purposes. 5,600’ of systematic diamond drilling, however, has already revealed over 2,500,000 tons of average ore with excellent prospects beyond, so that doubtless the prop- erty will, eventually, be worked on a considerable scale for acid and iron manufacture.

The power plant at the smelter was enlarged in 1910 and changed from direct to 440-volt, 60-cycle, 3-phase, alternating current, two 500-kw. Westinghouse-Parsons turbine generator units being installed, including air compressor for acid plant, etc., about 1,500 h. p. The smelter, which is located at Isabella on the company’s . private, standard-gauge railway, about 214 miles from the Mary mine, consists primarily of two 500-ton, sectional water-jacket blast furnaces. These furnaces are operated by in- duction motor Connersville blowers of 300 cu. ft. per revolution aggregate capacity, charged with Freeland patent electrical charges and served with electrical traveling crane for the mattes and belt bucket elevators for the granulated slag. Since 1905, when heap-roasting was abandoned, semi- pyritic smelting, introduced into this country from Tasmania by this com- pany, has been employed. The first fusiow gives a matte containing from 15 to 20% copper and disposes of the bulk of the non-valuable material of the ore in a slag containing from 0.2 to 0.3% copper. This coarse matte is then raised to 50% copper content by a second fusion in the same furnace, usually undertaken once a week. A small percentage of coke, with cold blast of from 20 to 30 oz. pressure is used in both fusions. The 50% matte is sold to the American Metal Co., of New York, and treated for them at the Laurel Hill, L. I., or the Carteret, N. J., smelters.

In 1905, investigations were undertaken to determine the possibility of making sulphuric acid from the smelter fumes. In 1906, an experimental contact plant was erected but proved unsuccessful, and in 1908, work on the present chamber acid plant was commenced. This plant, which cost over $600,000, was put into operation in less than a year from the time of break- ing the ground for its erection and has since been producing at the rate of from 40 to 50 thousand tons per annum of 60° Beaume sulphuric acid. It was the first acid plant to successfully convert sulphuric gases from pyritic smelting into concentrated acid.

The credit for the successful development of the company is dué pri- marily to the chairman and managing director, Mr. Gordon, himself a technical man, to the consulting mining engineer, Mr. Westervelt, who

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developed the mines, to the former manager, Mr. W. H. Freeland, assisted by the present manager, Mr. Renwick, who developed the pyritic smelting process employed, and to Mr. N. L. Heintz, chemical engineer, who de- signed and erected the present acid plant.

Recent production has been as follows: In 1910, 4,409,000 lbs. of fine copper and 46,800 tons of 60° B. sulphuric acid; in 1911, 5,040,000 lbs. of copper and 45,600 tons of sulphuric acid; in 1912, 5,213,000 lbs. of copper and 48,100 tons of sulphuric acid. The company is managed with com- mendable financial probity, technical ability of a high order, and is heartily endorsed as worthy of confidence and investment.

Dugway Copper Mining & Smelting Co. Utah

Office: 301 Felt Bldg., Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine office: Clover, Tooele Co., Utah. O, P. Peterson, pres. and gen. mgr.; P. C. Kittle, vice- pres.; A. V. Peterson, sec:; O. F. Peterson, treas.; preceding officers, A. E. H. Peterson and H. B. Windsor, directors. Organized June 13, 1902, under laws of Utah, capitalization $30,000, shares 10 cts. par, assessable; issued, $22,506.20. Annual meeting, third Tuesday in July.

Lands, 6 claims, area 118 acres, in the Dugway district, 43 miles from a railroad. Property shows an ore zone, reported by company to be 300’ wide on the 325’ level, carrying a number of orebodies, 3 under develop- ment, that carry chalcopyrite, bornite and argentiferous galena, giving as- says of 1 to 15% copper, up to 30% lead, up to 7% zinc, up to 66 oz. silver, and $1.60 gold per ton. Development is by a 333’ shaft, and tunnels of 60’, 117’ and 460’, with about 1,000’ of workings, showing considerable ore of good average assay tenor. Mine has no power equipment.

Duke Mine. North Carolina

Office: care Brodie, L. Duke, owner, Durham, N. C. Mine office: Roxboro, Person Co., N. C. Lands, 470 acres, formerly known as the Tin- gen mine, showing fissure veins carrying copper ores, with gangue of epidote, calcite and quartz. Has 4 shafts, deepest 200% Mine has pro- duced some high-grade ore, the last carload shipped averaging about 17% copper, and netting $1,100. Ore is high in grade, but occurs in narrow veins, like the other mineral deposits of North Carolina. Equipment in- cludes steam power. Work was resumed, on a small scale, Jan., 1911, but mine now probably closed down.

DULUTH & CHIRICAHUA DEVELOPMENT CO. ARIZONA Reorganized, 1912, as Sullivan Development Co., which see. DULUTH-LEMHI MINING CO. IDAHO

Office: 416 Lonsdale Bldg., Duluth, Minn. Mine office: Baker, Lemhi Co., Idaho. Capt. J. H. Lanyon, pres. and gen. mgr.; A. R. Anderson, vice-pres.; W. H. Locker, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, C. H. Bird. H. P. Gill, and P. J. Blais, directors. Organized Aug., 1910, under laws of Min- nesota, capitalization $250,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable; issued, $130,- 000. Annual meeting, first Tuesday in August.

Lands, 6 claims, area 120 acres, said to carry 1,000,000” of standing white pine, also a 7-acre mill site, 3 miles from a railroad, in the Wimpey Creek district. Property shows diorite-porphyry carrying 2 orebodies, of 4' and 16’ estimated average width, traceable 1,800”, carrying cuprite, azurite, malachite, and chalcopyrite, estimated by the Duluth office to aver- age 8 to 12% copper, 33.68 oz. silver and $60 gold per ton, and estimated by Capt. Lanyon, on the ground, to average 6% copper, 4 oz. silver and $8.50 gold per ton. Property is independently reported to have a 2’ vein giving assays of $25 to $75 gold per ton, and a large orebody assaying about 3% copper. The mine has a 140’ tunnel, planned to be driven 427”, Work was

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begun July, 1910, and management plans continuous development by a main tunnel, to have a back of 1,200’ by 1914.

Duluth-Moctezuma Mining Co. Mexico

Office: Room 610, Lonsdale Bldg., Duluth, Minn. Geo. H. Crosby, pres.; Cassius Bagley, vice-pres.; A. Rabideau, sec.; A. J. McLennan, treas., all of Duluth. Company owns various undeveloped copper and silver prop- erties in the Moctezuma district, Sonora, Mex., but lost the Monte Cristo mine, on which a payment of $50,000 had been made, its only producing property. In 1910, company began with quick assets of $75,350 and liabil- ities, exclusive of bond, of only $8,225, but bought the Comet mine at Hailey, Blaine Co., Idaho, in June,. 1910, and was badly stung, sinking its surplus funds therein and this loss, together with the faulting of the vein, has put the company in rather hard circumstances, badly clouding its for- mer bright prospects.

In 1912, company took a lease on a 30 ct. royalty basis, on 40 acres of iron land in the Cuyuna range, Minn. Drilling has proven about 1,000,000 tons commercial ore and 500,000 of 40% ore on a small part of this tract. At a stockholders’ meeting held Oct. 28, 1913, the company granted a 40-day option on an assignment of the above lease to the Moctezuma Iron Co., capitalization $50,000, shares $1 par. If $10,000 or more of its stock is subscribed for, this company agrees to pay off the Duluth Moctezuma indebtedness of $7,500 in full payment of the transfer of the lease. As this company is in debt, has no funds and its only asset of value is the iron land lease, whose royalties must be paid, the Duluth Moctezuma Co. must cease business and its stock is valueless.

Duluth-Sonora Copper Co. Mexico

Office: 312 Sellwood Bldg., Duluth, Minn. Mine: Cananea, Sonora, Mex. James W. Norton, pres.; B. Silberstein, vice-pres.; R. P. Burgan, second vice-pres.; W. D. Underhill, sec.; Theron H. Hawkes, treas.; pre- ceding officers, Geo, M. Tallant and A. F. Norton, directors. President reports himself as general manager, mill superintendent, mining engineer and chemist-assayer, and Mr. P. C. Probert, as mine superintendent, smelt- er superintendent and purchasing agent,

Property consists of 1,466 hectares, or about 3,621 acres, embracing a part of the former holdings of the Calumet & Sonora Co., and the South Cananea, or Mitchell, property. The latter shows a strong vein with wide silicious outcrop and has been developed by a 400’ shaft and some underground work, but an examination of dumps fails to show ore. Norton shaft, one-fourth mile distant, now filled with water, is said to be 293’ deep and to show good ore, but none is seen and outcrop is unpromising. Re- mainder of property not considered worth taxes. Company holdings con- sidered valueless except for grazing purposes, or to sell stock to confiding investors. Property has been examined by Verne A. Hart, M. E., Cananea, and Walter Harvey Weed. Has been idle since 1910. DULUTH & UTAH DEVELOPMENT CO. UTAH

Idle. Office: 503 Utah Savings & Trust Bldg., Salt Lake City, Utah, E. J. Raddatz, pres. and treas.; Peter Porter, vice-pres.; Harvey J. Jones, sec. Organized under laws of Utah, capitalization $500,000, shares $10 par, as successor of No-U-Dont Mining € Milling Co.

Lands, 4 fractional claims, area about 50 acres, near the Honerine tun- nel and next north of the Honerine mine, which carries copper, at consid- erable depth. Mine has 2 shafts, deepest 500’, with about 3,000’ of work- ings, and, under former ownership, produced silver-lead ore from above the 500’ level, shipments being said to have returned 35 to 60% lead and 20 to

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30 oz. silver per ton, and to have aggregated $250,000 in value. Copper ore 1s expected at depth. DUNLAP COPPER MINE. NEVADA

Address: Mina, Mineral Co., Nev. R. W. Hadden, cons. engr., 220 Higgins Bldg., Los Angeles, Cal. Property, 10 claims, 200 acres and mill site in Silver Star mining district, 10 miles east of Mina. Claims show quartzite and quartzite breccia with mineralized zone 700’ wide and 2,000’ long, carrying ore-bearing reefs with oxides, carbonates, and native cop- per, values ranging from 1% to 20% copper.

Development by several thousand feet of tunnel, open cuts and winzes, mostly in ore, but none showing sulphide, as water level is not reached. Concentration test on 10 tons yielded product with 44% copper, $8 gold and 8% oz. silver. Equipment includes compressor, blacksmith shop, etc. 250,000 tons of ore said to be available, but not blocked out. DUPLEX MINE. NEVADA

Address: Searchlight, Clark Co., Nev. G. F. Coulton, owner and mer. Property is a well-known gold mine, showing veins in quartz mon- zonite, carrying gold-silver ores, changing to copper at depth. The Frac- tion, or New Year’s Gift vein, shows 7’ of 10% ore with $12 in gold on the 700’ level. A 28-ton carload of picked ore shipped in Aug., 1913, yielded 3 oz. gold, 30 oz. silver, 11% copper and 18% lead, this being the first cop- per ore mined in commercial quantities in the camp. Property equipped with stamp mill, in which operations will be resumed when property is opened up between 500’ and 700’ levels.

Duquesne Mining Co. Arizona

Address: care T. A. Luckhart, sec, DuBois, Pa Mine near Globe, Gila Co., Ariz. ‚Geo. M. Luckhart, pres. and mgr. Organized 1909, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par.

Lands, 12 claims, in Gold gulch, about 3 miles south of the Arizona National and 15 miles west of Globe, in the Pinal mountains. Mine has a 10’ vein, carrying mainly silver-lead ore with copper expected at depth, opened by 3 tunnels, 2 of 200’ and 300’, showing ore assaying well in gold, and a 50’ shaft on the East End claim showing ore giving assays of 5% cop- per, 3 oz. silver and $4 gold per ton. Equipment includes a 25-h, p. gaso- line hoist. Mine was shipping, 1912.

Duquesne Mining & Reduction Co. Arizona

Main office: Westinghouse Bldg., Pittsburgh, Pa. Mine office: Du- quesne, Santa Cruz Co., Ariz. Geo. Westinghouse, pres.; W. D. Unter- graff, sec.-treas.; Chas. A. Bankerd, agt.; H. T. Herr, vice-pres. and gen. mer. Lands, 84 claims, patented, area 1,000 acres, near the Pride of the West and several miles south of the Mowry, in the Washington camp, Patagonia mining district, Ariz. Property shows a contact deposit between limestone and granite-porphyry, carrying argentiferous and auriferous chalcopyrite, sphalerite, galena and pyrite, opened by a shaft 650° deep. Ores being complex sulphides, are very refractory. Property sometimes called the Washington mine, is said to have large bodies of complex ore which have been the subject of numerous experiments in wet, electrolytic, magnetic, dry and other systems of concentration for many years past. At present the workings on the Bonanza mine are 650’ deep and the Duquesne shaft 120’ deep. The Bonanza shaft is equipped with a 50-h. p. steam hoist and an Ingersoll compressor. The Duquesne shaft has a 12-h. p. gaso- line hoist.

The mine is shipping to the Douglas-Arizona smelter since Aug., 1912. Ore is hauled by wagon 23 miles to Patagonia, the shipments at present running about 14% copper and 5 oz. in silver per ton. Production for 3

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months in 1912 was 466 tons averaging 15% copper, producing 157,707 Ibs. fine copper. DURANGO SMELTER. COLORADO

Owned by San Juan Smelting & Refining Co., which is controlled by the American Smelting & Refining Co., at Durango, La Plata Co., Colo. DURANT MINING & SMELTING CO. MONTANA

Address: Spring Gulch via Martinsdale, Meagher Co., Mont. C. M. Durant, supt. Property 14 miles from Martinsdale, shows fissure veins car- rying copper sulphide ore with gold values. Developed by 200’ two-com- partment shaft sunk in 1912.

Duraznito; Compania Minera El. Mexico

Office: Apartado 102, Durango, Mex. Mine office: Tejamen, Durango, Mex. Edw. Williams, pres.; Alejandro Tagle, sec.; J. L. Asunsolo, treas.; F. D, Davis, mgr., at last accounts. Organized March, 1906, under laws of Mexico, capitalization 60,000 pesos, shares 10 pesos par. Lands, 8 hectares, carrying 1 silver-lead and 1 silver-copper vein, former having ore said to average 10% lead and 6 kgs. silver per metric ton, and latter said to aver- age 6 to 8% copper and 8 kgs. silver per ton. Development is by 2 shafts, of about 60 meters depth each, and a 180-meter tunnel. No returns se- cured and property probably closed down owing to revolution. DUSTON COPPER GROUP. MONTANA

Located in Sanders Co., Mont., 6 miles north of Perma, on the N. P. R. R., on the Flathead reservation. Property, 5 claims, unpatented, only-1, the Duston, being developed. Vein occurs along contact be- tween granite and porphyry, is developed by a 100’ tunnel showing an ore- body 50’ long, 414’ wide, carrying 16% copper, 2 oz. silver and good gold values. Only annual assessment work is being done. Property adjoins the Camas Copper Mining & Milling Co..

D. & W. Mining Co. California

Office: Johnston Bldg., Los Angeles, Cal. Mine office: Parker, Yuma Co., Ariz. John W. Flink, pres. and gen. mgr.; Sylvester Marshall, vice- pres.; Jas. S. Roche, sec, Lands are in the Whipple Mountain district of San Bernardino county, California, about 5 miles from'the Santa Fe rail- road, 17 miles north of Parker and about 40 miles south of Needles. Mine reopened Sept., 1911. Property developed by a 700” shaft with levels at 100’, 200’, 300’ and 700’, opening up a vein said to be 18’ wide carrying milling copper ore with gold values. On 700’ level vein is opened by drift for 325’, said to be all milling ore. At 400’, an east crosscut cut a second vein showing copper ore with free gold, the tunnel cutting vein at 100’ depth. President claims 3,500’ underground work.

Equipment consists of 18-h. p. gasoline hoist, Ingersoll-Rand com- pressor driven by 42-h. p. gasoline engine. Company plans installing 100- ton mill plant consisting of a Lane mill, 4 Johnson tables and a 40-h. p. engine. F

Company acquired the Eagle American group in 1912, which is re- ported to have 7% copper ore on 300’ level.

EAGLE AMERICAN GROUP. E CALIFORNIA Property sold, 1912, to D. € W. Mining Co., San Bernardino, Cal. EAGLE € BLUE BELL MINING CO. UTAH

Office: 60 Congress St., Boston, Mass. Operating office: 404 Dooly Block, Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine office: Eureka, Juab Co., Utah. Jas. P. Graves, pres.; Henry N. Sweet, vice-pres.; Imer Pett, gen. mgr. and asst. treas.; preceding officers, Fred H. Williams, Duncan MacVichie, Fred R. Sands and Geo. E. Davis, directors; Sidney S. Millett, sec. and treas.; Wm. Owens, mine supt.; Fred R. Sands, purch. agt.

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Organized Sept., 1898, under laws of Utah, capitalization $250,000, in- creased, March, 1910, to $1 000,000, shares $1 par; issued 893,146 shares. Dividends paid Feb., 1913, at 5 cts. per share, $44,657. 30 and on April 1, 1913, $44,657.30. In March, 1910, issued 644,347 Shares of ‘new stock at 50 cts. to take up a floating debt of $269, 925 and put $50,000 in the treasury, for working capital. Is controlled, through stock ownership, by Bingham Mines Co. First National Bank, Boston, registrar; Federal Trust Co., Bos- ton, transfer agent. Stock is ea on the Boston curb. Annual meeting, first Saturday after first day of October. Net profits for first 7 months of 1913 have been $120,000. In August, company is reported to have taken an option on the adjoining Victoria property.

Lands, 17 claims, area 83 acres, including a 9-acre mill site carrying the water right to a spring having a flow of about 50 gals. per minute. Lands lie between the Centennial-Eureka, Victoria and Chief Consolidated mines, on the Victoria-Grand Central ore zone, in the Mammoth Limestone. The lime is cut by numerous fissures, at all angles, with mainly vertical dip, carrying pipes, shoots and erratic deposits of ore at the intersections of fissures and bedding planes, in massive blue limestone, the main orebody being a system of pipes, roughly continuous, with a rake of about 30° S. The mine has considerable bodies of silicious copper ore and lead sul- phides. A new orebody, cut 1913, on the 700’ level, possibly is in a new ore channel. Development originally by tunnel, with a 1,200’ blind shaft, show- ing, on the bottom level, an orebody up to 66’ in width, said to assay $10 to $20 per ton in copper, silver and gold.

Development in the last 3 years has been extensive; the shaft is now 1,350” deep, or 116’ below the 1,300’ workings. On 700’ level a large body of silver-lead has been opened up. On the 1,300’ an orebody, 10 to 70’ wide and 20 to 50’ high has been developed for 600’ north and south, occur- ring in a fractured zone as replacement of country rock and has yielded silicious ore carrying gold and silver. On 1,350’ level, the deepest in the mine, good ore has been encountered and followed down 170’ by a winze, in 1913. The development for the year 1912 amounted to 2,579” besides the sinking of the shaft.

Equipment includes a steam plant with a 180-h. p. Hendrie & Bolthoff double-drum hoist, good for 2,000’ depth, a new 100-h. p. tubular boiler and a 4x6’ electric Triplex pump.

Production for 1912 was 22,341 tons, netting $207,411 and containing 50,913 lbs. copper, 1,303,294 lbs. lead, 341,164 oz. silver, 5,833 oz. gold, bome larger than any preceding year.

Property in favorable condition, physically and financially, and man- agement able. ; EAGLE COPPER CO. CALIFORNIA

Address: Taylorville, Plumas Co., Cal. Owns group of claims cov- ering low-grade pyritic deposit with limited development. Company built small smelter, 1912,

Eagle Copper-Gold Mining Co. : Arizona

Dormant. Mine near Wickenburg, Maricopa Co., Ariz. Wm. F. Kuder, pres.; Henry Wehner, vice-pres.; A. L. Motts, sec.; J. L. Zesiger, treas.; preceding officers, Henry Biddle, J. W. Lowe, E. L. Motts and C. A. Schettler, directors, at last accounts. Organized Sept. 8, 1902, under laws of South Dakota, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par.

Lands, 7 claims, 1 fractional, area 130 acres, known as the Profusion group, in the Blue Tank and Black Rock districts, in the foothills of the Bradshaw POAT IAMS, 12 miles east of Wickenburg, with connection by 10 miles of good and 2 miles of bad wagon roads. Lands are reported to

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show 5 orebodies, of which 2 are partially developed, 1_of 12’ average re- ported width, traceable 3,000’, carrying native copper, cuprite, malachite and chalcopyrite, giving average assays of 4% copper, 2 oz. silver and $3.10 gold per ton. Development is by tunnels of 35’ and 193’, and by shafts of 50’, 60’, 100’ and 150’. Has a 16-h. p. gasoline hoist and 4-drill air compressor, with 7 mine buildings. Not favorably regarded.

Eagle Copper Mining Co. Utah

Mine office: Santaquin, Utah Co., Utah. Armon Cravens, pres.; C. W. Higginson, vice-pres.; C. E. Snell, sec.-treas.; J. T. Openshaw, supt. Or- ganized May, 1907, under laws of Utah, capitalization $1,000,000, shares 10 cts. par. Mine, on Mount Nebo, east of Santaquin, has shipped a little high-grade lead and copper ore. Developing with a small force June, 1913. EAGLE GOLD COPPER & MINING CO. ARIZONA

Address: care W. J. Riley, First National Bank, Clifton, Ariz. Mine near Morenci, Greenlee Co., Ariz. Wm. M. McCoy, pres. and mgr.; E. V. Horton, J. R. Hampton, J. R..McRea, M. H. Kane and E. C. Bunker, all of Clifton, directors. J. J. Hall, mine supt. Property, 20 claims, 4 miles northwest of Morenci, carries veins with copper, lead and gold ores, de- veloped by a 40’ shaft on 114’ vein of rich silver lead ore. Shipped 7.4% copper ore, 1912, to the Shannon smelter. Equipment includes 5-stamp gold mill, running in 1912,

Eagle Metallic Copper Co. Pennsylvania

Address: care -H: BD, Deschler; “Belvidere, N. T. Branch” office: 208-Haas Bldg., Allentown, Pa. Mine office: R. F. D. 3, Fairfield, Adams Co, Pax=F. H. Ctyle- pres Dr. P. A. Stem, vice-pres.; A. L. Wickert, sec.; Thos. Zellner, treas.; Owen H. Nagle, gen. mer.; preceding officers and A. V. Diefenderfer, directors. Organized 1903, under laws of New Jersey, capitalization $500,000, shares $1 par, and reorganized, Dec. 9, 1910, under laws of Pennsylvania; $150,000 in treasury after raising $60,000 to build a smelter in 1911.

Property, 500 acres in Jacks Hollow, on the Maryland border, one- half mile from and crossed by the Western Maryland railroad, near Char- mian. Claims show a mineralized zone in trap rocks said to be of 400’ average width, carrying native copper, chalcocite, bornite, chalcopyrite and tetrahedrite, averaging about 214% copper, 2 oz. silver and a trace of gold per ton. Development is by open-quarry work from pit 200’ across con- nected with smelter by 750’ aerial rope tram.

Equipment includes a 250-h. p. steam plant, 150-h. p. engine and a 25%” core drill, with a 24x30’ office and laboratory. Smelter built in 1911 with 10x12’ dust flue, 78’ long with 104’ stack, for 175-ton blast furnace. Re- garded as a poor investment. a EAGLE MINE. CALIFORNIA

- G. H. Goodhue, owner, Indian Falls, Plumas Co., Cal. Property at Genesee, Plumas county, consists of 15 claims, 300 acres, covering 8 out- cropping orebodies, discovered, 1908, and occurring at contact between lime- stone and porphyry and as lenses in schist. Ore zone runs N. 27° W. dips S. W.- Ores contain chalcopyrite and bornite and are said to average 2% copper, 11% oz. silver and $2.40 gold per ton.

Development, 342 of workings, including 9 shallow shafts, 12 to 18 deep and a 210’ tunnel, all in ore. Property 20 miles from Western Pacific railroad. Tunnel will be extended, 1913.

Eagle Mine Colorado

Property on Siegel mountain at Animas Forks, San Juan Co., Colo., shows strong fissure vein in which an 18” pay streal of gray. copper ore car- ries very high silver values.

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EAGLE MINING CO. MONTANA Office and mine: Butte, Silver Bow Co., Mont. Hon. Patrick Mullins, Arthur V. Corry and Thos. Bryant, directors. Organized March 10, 1906, under laws of Montana, capitalization $150,000, shares $1 par, and is sup- posed to have increased capitalization, April 29, 1907, to $250,000, shares 50 cts. par. Lands, north of La France, have a 250’ shaft, showing a 5’ vein. Property formerly was a silver mine, shipping ore running up to 1.7% cop- per and 186 oz. silver per ton. Idle several years. EAGLE MINING & SMELTING CO. WASHINGTON

Idle. Mine office: Chewelah, Stevens Co., Wash. Mark Mitchell, mer., at last accounts. Lands, 6 claims, 3 miles from Chewelah, including the Eagle group of 4 claims, formerly owned by Eagle Consolidated Gold Min- ing & Milling Co., and later by Blue Star Mining Co. Mine has a 240’ two- compartment shaft, and an 800’ tunnel, showing a 4’ vein of silver-lead ore, said to parallel the copper vein of the United Copper Co., at a distance of 400”. Equipment includes a steam plant.

Eagle Mountain Copper Co. Arizona

Mine office: Kelvin, Pinal Co., Ariz. Col. P. T. McGrath, gen. mgr., but his whereabouts are unknown there. Lands, 27 claims, known as the Cop- per Queen group, in the Riverside district, having small development, with several mine buildings. Idle several years and lands of doubtful value. EAGLE PEAK COPPER MINING CO. WASHINGTON

Mine office: Longmire, Pierce Co., Wash. Main office: Tacoma, Wash. R. H. Wheelock, pres., Ashford, Wash.; Bakier Long, vice-pres. and mgr.; M. A. Long, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, G. W. Anderson and Chas. Metz- ler, directors. Organized 1908, under laws of Washington, capitalization $150,900, shares $1 par, fully paid and nonassessable; issued, 130,000. An- nual meeting, April 21.

Property, 2 claims, 40 acres in Cascade mining district, 14 miles from railroad, in the heart of the Tatoosh range, near Mt. Tacoma. Claims show fissure veins in granite with ore carrying bornite and chalcocite and said to average 17% copper, $4 in gold and some silver. Development by shaft and tunnel. Equipment includes 25-h. p. power plant, air compressor and 4 buildings. EAGLE VALLEY MINING & MILLING CO. NEVADA

Mine near Carson City, Ormsby Co., Nev. Jas. E. Sellers, pres.; Milan A. Moffatt, mgr., at last accounts. Lands, 3% miles from Carson City, show outcrops of auriferous copper ore, said to give assays up to 45% in copper tenor. Mine has a drift tunnel, and was developing with a small force, at the end of 1910. No returns secured.

East Butte Copper Mining Co. Montana

Office: 85 Devonshire St., Boston, Mass. Mine and works office: Butte, Silver Bow Co., Mont. Robt. H. Gross, pres.; Hon. Jas. H. Reed, vice-pres.; Wm. P. Everts, sec.; Frank P. Son, treas.; Oscar Rohn, gen. mgr.; preced- ing officers, F. Ward Paine and Daniel C. Noble, directors; Horace V. Win- chell, cons. engr.; Andrew J. Ray, mine supt.; F. Pratt, mill supt.; Julian Vivian, smelter supt.; Julius H. Warner and Daniel J. Williams, engrs.

Organized Oct. 14, 1905, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $3,000,000, shares $10 par, increased, May 11, 1909, to $6,000,000, shares $10 par, non- assessable; issued $4,110,000. Has about 2,500 shareholders. State Street Trust Co., Boston, registrar; American Trust Co., Boston, transfer agent. Stock is listed on the Boston Stock Exchange. Annual meeting, first Mon- day in April.

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the Pittsmont Copper Co., all the preferred stock of the same company, amounting to $1,000,000, par value and four-fifths of the common stock, amounting to $4,000,000 par value. The East Butte operates the property of the Pittsmont Copper Co. under an operating agreement. On May 1, 1913, company paid off the last installment of the $500,000 borrowed Dec., 1912, to make full payment to the Pittsmont Copper Co. The indebtedness is now $700,000. Annual report for year ending Dec. 31, 1912, shows a net surplus on operations for year of $983,701, compared with $256,643 in 1911.

A few years ago the management realized that the Dutton group, the original East Butte holdings, would not make: a big mine and bought the Pittsmont property, thus saving the East Butte stockholders from loss and resuscitating what threatened to be a big mining and metallurgical fizzle. Besides giving 110,000 shares of East Butte stock for this mine and smelter, which has been rebuilt, it has paid $2,500,000 cash, all realized out of the Pittsmont mine.

The Dutton group, 134 acres, is in the southeastern part of the Butte camp, near the Pennsylvania mine. The various original properties were said to carry nearly 20 veins, of more or less promise, with 11 shafts of 50 to 1,000’ depth.

The Dutton claim is a placer patent, and apparently the principal ore- body is cut off by the southern side line, at depth of 900 to 1,000’. The Dut- ton has 2 shafts, 16x4’ 6” in the clear, being.the largest in Butte. No. 1 shaft, 1,300’ deep, is at the extreme north, and No. 11 shaft, 500’ deep, at the extreme south of the property. Considerable ore was developed on the 200’, 400’, 600’ and 800’ levels, and the mine was claimed, Sept., 1907, to have blocked out, on the 400’ level and above, 597,404 tons of ore, with an esti- mate of 1,000,000 tons of ore of 3 to 4% copper tenor blocked out in the entire property; these figures, made by the original management, proved too high, both as to tonnage and value. The 400’ level shows a 6’ vein assaying up to 5% copper. The Dutton carries 3 veins having more or less commer- cial ore, and a long crosscut from No. 1 shaft, on the 900’ level, cut the Glen- garry vein, about 20’ in width. The mine was flooded, after cutting the Glengarry vein, and work was suspended, Aug., 1909. In Sept., 1913, the No. 1 shaft of the mine was equipped with electric hoist and unwatered; ore was hoisted from the 400’ level. The shaft will be deepened and the ground thoroughly explored.

The Pittsmont claims cover 280 acres of flat valley bottom, about 1% miles east of Butte and extending outward from the footslopes of the conti- nental divide mountain ridge. The ground is a filled-in valley, the sandy wash and debris being in places several hundred feet deep, so that no out- crops of any kind exist on the ground. The underlying rock is the-normal Butte granite (quartz monzonite) which is cut by 3 systems of veins: North- west, corresponding to the Blue Vein series of Butte; northeast, and an east- west fault vein series. Ore shoots occur in veins of each series.

The veins are worked by 2 shafts, Nos. 2 and 3, 1,240’ and 1,500’ deep, No. 1 shaft being idle. These 2 shafts are connected on the 1,200’ level by a half-mile crosscut in black granite. Deeper development by a 300’ winze opened up several good orebodies on the 1,500’ level. Development in for- mer years disclosed ore shoots in the Donner, Rossell and Motherill veins, all northeast fissures, and the Reed, a northwest vein. The Rossell shoot, 400’ long, 1 to 11’ thick, averaging 3’ and mined from the 800’ level down, is smelting ore. The Donner is a lean quartz pyrite vein, 1 to 12’ thick, with a shoot of enargite-chalcocite ore 5 to 7’ thick, 135’ long and of un- known depth, averaging 5% copper and 13 oz. silver per ton. The western part of the property is developing finely. An orebody 3 to 30’ wide is al-

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ready developed for 1,600’ in length on the 800’ level and cut on the 600 and 1,200’ levels. It is said to average 10% copper. Vein No. 2 also shows very rich ore at the west end of the 1,200' stope. Ore reserves are said to be as large as they were 1 year ago and the deeper development, which shows such excellent orebodies, is shallow cómpared with the older mines of Butte.

The old holdings of the East Butte also include the Oneida mine, which has yielded some rich ore, up to 16% in copper tenor; the Lassen mine, which also has produced a little ore carrying up to 16% copper and 10 oz. silver per ton, and the Yankee Boy mine.

The Pittsmont property, still technically owned by the Pittsmont Cop- per Co. and the Pittsburgh & Montana, Copper Co., but operated by the East Butte, comprises 1,384 acres, of which 46 claims, area 850 acres, are in the eastern part of the Butte district. The main mine is a tract of 260 acres, lying on the flat east of Butte, including the McQueen placer and adjoining claims, formerly owned by Franklin Farrell.

Development for 1912 consisted of 7,130’ of drifts and crosscuts mostly on the 1,000’ level to open up veins worked on the 800’ and 1,200’ levels.

Ore mined amounted to 110,968 tons of a gross value of $2,148,796, or $19.36 per ton for the year ending June 1, 1913. This compares with 94,532 tons in 1912 and 89,888 tons in 1911, with values of $16.51 in 1912 and $15.31 in 1911,

Mining costs are reported as $3.79 in 1911; $4.31 in 1912 and $4.84 in 1913, with smelting costs of $5.33, $4.91 and $4.91 for corresponding years.

Equipment is very complete, including a 2,000-h. p. steam plant and 600- h. p. electric plant, with about 1,900 h. p. used at the mine and 700 h. p. at the mill and smelter, a 500-h. p. hoist good for 1,300’ depth, and a 600-h. p. hoist good for 1,600’ depth, with 25-drill Nardberg and 40-drill Rand air compressors, and 20 power drills. Electric power is used for practically all purposes except hoisting. There are about 20 buildings, including a 38x70’ brick carpenter shop, frame smithy, 2 engine houses, 2 boiler houses, changing house, laboratory and office, latter having a library, reception room and café. The mine is served by the, Northern Pacific railway, which makes connec- tions at Butte with other lines, and the company has about 3 miles of private track, connecting the shafts, shops, mill and smelter, with 1 locomotive for switching. The lands, in 2 tracts, were surrounded by high board fences by the former management.

A limestone quarry, area 275 acres, bought, 1910, at Lime Spur, east of Whitehall and about 40 miles east of Butte, in Jefferson county, furnishes flux for the smelter.

The Pittsmont reduction plant is the only operating smelter in Butte and does a considerable amount of custom business, treating ore from sev- cral independent mines. The furnace building has two 250-ton blast fur- naces, with room for 3 additional cupolas of the same size. A new dust chamber has increased the earnings by $100,000 yearly and the installation of Dwight-Lloyd sintering machines, by another $50,000 annually. The con- verter department has 2 stands, with 96x156” shells, and there also are 2 experimental Baggaley converters, of smaller size, not in use. Product is blister copper, averaging about 96% copper, 200 oz. silver and 3.5 oz. gold per ton, shipped to the Nichols Copper Co., New York, for refining.

The concentrator, near the smelter, is fully equipped with crushers, jigs, tables, etc., and about two-thirds of the ore produced is of concentrating grade. A precipitation plant, completed early 1909, includes a high dam around the tailings pile, and mine water is run through the tailings for en- richment before going into the leaching ‘launders. ;

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plant, remodeling and rebuilding the concentrator to have a capacity of 600 tons per day, enlarging the smelter to double its former capacity and electrifying the entire plant.

Miscellaneous holdings, 634 acres; include the Swissmont mine, near Elkhorn, Jefferson county, Mont., bought for $60,000, which shows a large body of low-grade sulphide ore, of 1.5 to 3% copper tenor. This is idle. The Chamounix mine, near Austin, Lewis € Clark county, Mont., includes the Christina group of 6 claims, and the Fannie Parnall group of 33 claims. This property has considerable development and shipped scme argentiferous copper ore, but has been idle for some years. There also are mining claims at Pittsburg, 4 miles from Helena, Lewis € Clark county, Mont., little de- veloped and idle.

The company's annual report for year ending Dec. 31, 1912, shows 99,458 tons of ore mined, averaging 5.78% copper, of which 73%, or 72,865 tons, was first-class, holding 6.98% copper and 26,593 tons milling ore containing 2.48% copper. Production of the Pittsburgh & Montana was 790,600 Ibs. fine copper, 81,911 oz. silver and 1,422 oz. gold in 1905, and 4,753,500 lbs. cop- per in 1906. Production of the East Butte Copper Mining Co. has been as follows: 3,000,000 Ibs. fine copper in 1906; 3,965,480 Ibs. in 1907; 1,756,000 Ibs. in 1909, and 10,362,976 lbs. in 1910; 12,167,363 lbs. copper, 396,524 oz. silver and 17,959 oz. gold in 1911; 14,709,460 lbs. copper, 370,675 oz. silver and 16,920 oz. gold in 1912. Gross value of metals produced in 1912 was $2,841,204; profit, $1,279,737. Cost of copper is figured by company at 9.698 cts. per lb., but this figure seems low and the cost as calculated by us is 10% cts. Pro- duction for Jan., 1913, was the largest in the history of the company, being 1,469,000 lbs. copper.

In the past 4 years, the company has practically paid $3,000,000 for the Pittsmont properties out of operating earnings. In 1914, it ought to be able to pay off all floating debts and accumulate enough working capital to per- mit paying dividends. Itis a big property, of proven worth, with prospects of deep extension of orebodies; the management is able and the company rated high from every standpoint.

East Butte Extension Copper Mining Co. Montana

Idle. Office of mine: 113 Hamilton St., Butte, Silver Bow Co., Mont. Chas. J. Schatzlein, pres.; Philip A. Breen, vice-pres.; Frank H. Cooney, sec. and gen. mer.; Dr. C. E. Blackburn, treas.; preceding officers and Chas. N. Joyce, directors; A. F. Munroe, engr. Organized April 10, 1906, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par; issued, $550,000. Paid, Oct. 1, 1906, a 1%. dividend, amounting to $2,486,

Lands are various fractional claims, area 4 acres, lying between the Bel- mont, Pennsylvania and Ground Squirrel mines of the Anaconda. On these 4 acres there are 6 shafts, deepest being the 250’ two-compartment No. 6 shaft, begun 1909, with about 500’ of crosscuts. The Westlake and Wall mines are said to have produced, under former ownership, about $300,000 worth of ore. The 2-compartment No. 1 shaft is 170’ deep, and the 200’ No. Z shaft shows ore assaying up to 13% copper and 1 oz. silver per ton. No. 3, formerly known as the Westlake, has a small precipitation plant. A little ore was produced, 1907, by lessees, shipments reaching 40 tons daily, with net smelter returns of $37,360.21, yielding the company a net royalty of $12,881.83 in 1907. Company also owns a divided one-half interest in the Centerville clainy, and undivided interests as follows: one-half in Malone; eleven-sixteenths in Little Evelyn; one-sixth in Valley Forge; one-half in Gregory; one-fourth in Simon; one-eighth in Eureka First; three-fortieths in Lost Fraction, and three-fortieths in Katy T. Inactive since July 20, 1909,

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East Canada Smelting Co., Ltd. Quebec

‘Office: Sherbrooke, Province of Quebec, Canada. Mine office: Weedon, Quebec, Canada. C. E. Force, pres. and gen. mgr.; J. S. Ferguson, vice- pres. and treas.; Charles D. White, sec., and Charles H. Maxcy, directors; Leland D. Adams, mg. engr. and supt.; A. M. Baker, chemist-assayer. Or- ganized Jan. 8, 1909, under laws of Canada. Capitalization $1,000,000, shares $100 par; issued, 3,000.

Company owns 375 acres in Wolf county. Ore occurs as 2 lenses in schist. Veins 4 to 18 wide, strike N. 37° E., dipping 45°, has been proven to 400’ depth and carries chalcopyrite in pyrite which is mined for sulphur as well as copper. Average assays: 3.65% copper, trace lead, 0.77% zinc, 0.5 oz. silver and 20 cts. gold per ton.

Developed by 2 shafts, 100’ and 350’ deep, and by 4 tunnels, 530’, 570’, 330’ and 100’, with 300’ of crosscutting. Underground work totals about 3,000’. Ore blocked out estimated at 30,000 tons; probable ore 150,000 tons.

Equipment includes two 70-h. p. hoists, two air compressors, machine shop, smithy and general shop on property. Company has private tramway 31% miles long, known as Weedon Mine tram, which connects with the Quebec Central railroad. :

Production 1912 was 1,957,241 lbs. fine copper, making a total of 3% million lbs. Ore treated was 31,300 tons, averaging 3.62% copper, and mined at an average cost of $2.12 f. o. b. Weedon. Estimated production for 1913 is 3,000,000 Ibs.

Company plans new shaft and 2 new underground levels, with new head- gear and electric-driven 1,600-cu. ft. compressor, new shops and dry house in 1913. ,

East Coeur D'Alene Mine. Montana

Address: care Walter Hughes, Haugan, Missoula Co., Mont. Property, a group of claims a few miles north of Haugan, showing a 30’ vein carrying a 2’ pay streak of copper ore reported to carry 8% copper and good gold values. Development by short tunnels.

East Columbus Mining Co. Utah

Office: 201 Judge Bldg., Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine office: Alta, Salt Lake Co., Utah. Tony Jacobson, pres.; A. O. Jacobson, vice-pres.; Valen- tine S. Snow, sec., at last accounts. Organized Nov. 28, 1908, under laws of Utah, capitalization $500,000, shares $1 par, assessable. Lands, 100 acres, partly patented, 16 miles from a railroad. Property, known as the Silver King mine, is opened by tunnel, with about a mile of workings, showing auriferous and argentiferous lead and copper ores, and is said to have pro- duced, under former ownership, several hundred thousand dollars worth of ore, from shallow workings and reported to be producing 1912-13. No re- turns secured.

East Snowstorm Mining Co. Idaho

Former office: Spokane, Wash. Mine office: Larson, Shoshone Co., Idaho. A fraud order was issued, 1911, by the postal authorities against C. E. Mitchell, promoter of this company, and also against the company. The title was changed, 1911, to “The Snowstorm Deep Mines, Ltd.,” which has also been branded fraudulent. Property described Vol. X.

East Tintic El Ray Mining Co. Utah

Mine near Eureka, Juab Co., Utah. No trace of operations secured and company probably defunct.

East Yerington Copper Co. : Nevada

Mine near Yerington, Lyon Co., Nev., adjoining the Contact group, shows a little high-grade copper ore, No returns secured, Probably idle,

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EASTERN CANANEA DEVELOPMENT CO. MEXICO Mine about 18 miles northeast of Cananea, Sonora, Mex. John Martin, supt., Cananea, Sonora, Mex. Property said to show copper sulphide ore developed by shaft with drift cutting 32” of ore in which there is a winze sunk about 25” in ore, reported to average 10% copper. Property is held under lease and bond from M. L. Fay, of Duluth, Minn., who controls the Fay Cananea Copper Co., which owns the mine through the-Cananea East- ern Mining Co., S. A., a Mexican corporation. ; ECLIPSE-ARGO MINING CO. MONTANA

Address: E. G. Hoffman, sec.-treas., New Britain, Conn. Mine near Argo, Broadwater Co., Mont. Bondholders have foreclosed and in April, 1913, deeds had been given to trustee for entire property.

Eclipse Cons. Mg. & Investment Co. Washington

Address: John E. Newell, supt., Silverton, Snohomish Co., Wash. O. Robert Dahl, pres., Seattle, Wash.; S. Hilmar Dahl, vice-pres.; H. M. Dahl, sec.; preceding officers, Andrew Chilberg and John E. Newell, directors. Or- ganized 1906, under laws of Washington, capitalization $3,000,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable; giving $2,000,000 in stock for the property.

Lands, 10 claims, unpatented, and a mill site, in 2 groups, including the mill and claims on the Stillaguamish river, formerly held by Copper Inde- pendent Consolidated Mining Co.

Mine has 5 tunnels, longest 1,100’, on a fissure vein in slate, carrying a little copper, but mainly gold and silver values. Water power from the Stillaguamish river develops 830 h. p. by turbine. The 52x133’ frame concen- trator, rated at 300 tons daily capacity, has tank room for cyanide treatment. ECLIPSE MINING CO. IDAHO

Idle. Letters unclaimed at former office, Mullan, Idaho. Arthur A. Hale, supt., at last accounts. Lands, 4 claims, surrounded by the Lucky ‘Calumet, Missoula and Snowshoe mines, said to carty 2 veins, one traceable

2 miles, through the Missoula and Copper King properties, developed by a

100’ tunnel.

ECONOMIC MINING & MILLING CO. NEW MEXICO George Hopkins, pres. and mgr., Carrizozo, N. M; Ed. Monroe, sec-

A. V. Swearingin, treas. Property in White mountains, 8 miles east of Car-

rizozo. Ore carries copper with silver and gold values in iron gangue, aver-

aging $12 per ton. Company sinking shaft and driving tunnel in 1912. An

orebody 2,200’ long said to have been found on new ground in 1911.

- Eddy Gold, Silver & Copper Mining Co. Arizona

Idle. Removed and left no address at Glendale, Ariz. F. L. Eddy, pres. and gen. mgr.; J. R. Aich, wice-pres.; S. P. Donnell, sec.-treas., at last ac- counts. Organized Aug. 22, 1902, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par. Lands, 10 claims, area 200 acres, also a 5-acre mill site, in the Frog Tank mountains, Old Baldy district. A 3’ fissure vein in porphyry, opened by six 10’ pits, a shaft of 65’ and tunnels of 55’ and 105’, carries oxide and carbonate ores, assaying 4 to 6% copper, 12 to 60% lead, 10 to 62 oz. silver and $5 to $32 gold per ton.

Edison Mining & Milling Co. New Mexico

Idle. Property, near Red River, Taos Co., N. M3 carries auriferous and

argentiferous copper ores. Equipment includes a-steam plant and 10-stamp

E. & F. MINING CO. f NEVADA

Idle. Address: care Walker Bros. Bank, Salt Lake City, Utah., Mine office: Pioche, Lincoln Co, Nev. A. C. Ellis. Sri, pres. Ac a Levy;osec:: Walker Bros. Bank, treas. Organized March 17, 1902, under laws of Utah capitalization $100,000, shares 50 cts. par, assessable. Lands, 12 claims, 11

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patented, in the Bristol and Jackrabbit districts, 14 miles from a railroad. Mine has a 450’ incline shaft and 2 tunnels, one of 350’, with several hundred feet of lateral workings. Equipment includes a 25-h. p. gasoline hoist and necessary mine buildings. Mine produced a little copper ore, with excess of iron, but has been shut down since 1907.

85 (Eighty-Five) Mining Co. New Mexico

Office: Moline, Ill. Mine P. O.: Lordsburg, Grant Cos N: M. Jas. Barclay, pres., Hot Springs, Ark.; C. H. Warner, sec.; A. P. Warner, treas.; Wm. H. Kinnon, managing director. Organized Sept. 23, 1909, under laws of New Mexico, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par. Annual meeting, second Wednesday in December.

Company purchased the Superior mine of the Superior Mining Co. in 1912. Lands, 6 claims, in Shakspeare camp about 4 miles from Lordsburg, in the Virginia district. Property includes a mine, in rhyolite, developed by a 600’ tunnel and a 300’ blind shaft, with a 300’ air shaft to surface. Vein is estimated by company to average 10’ in width and to carry 3.5% copper, 6 oz. silver and 0.1 oz. gold per ton.

A shaft has been sunk to a depth of 570’ and there is about 900’ of drift- ing said to expose 200,000 tons of silicious ore, continuous from the surface down and carrying gold, silver and copper.

Equipment includes 100-h. p. electric motor, hoist and an 85-h. p. Fair- banks-Morse crude-oil engine, as an auxiliary, and an Aldrich electric pump. Company employs about 100 men and ships 3,000 to 4,000 tons per month to the smelter at Douglas, Ariz. Management competent and property promising.

El Cliff Mining Co. New Mexico

Mine P. O.: Hermosa, Sierra Co., N. M. Mine, in the Lower camp, has an 85’ shaft, and about 1,200’ of tunnels, showing ore carrying values mainly in silver and lead. A small smelter has a 35-ton wood-burning Partridge hot-blast furnace. Company changed management and board of directors in 1912, and present officers are unknown.

EL EDEN; COMPANIA MINERA y BENEFICIADORA. MEXICO

Idle, owing to revolution. Mine at El Eden, Zacatecas, Mex. Francisco Llamosa, pres. and gen. mer.; Enrique Gutierrez, sec.; Luis Colina, supt. Organized 1905, and reorganized 1907, under laws of Mexico, capitalization 600,000 pesos, shares 100 pesos par. Lands, 102 hectares. Is a silver-gold property with incidental copper. Mine has 8 shafts, deepest 210’, and 2 tun- nels aggregating 1,120’ in length, with considerable underground workings, developing ores of gold, silver, copper, lead and zinc. .

The mill has 40 stamps, 2 Krupp tube mills, 6 Wilfley tables and 6 John- son tables, and it is planned installing a cyanide plant, to treat a large amount of tailings accumulated, the dump being estimated to average 400 to 500 grams silver and 3 to 5 grams gold per metric ton.

‘El Globo Mining & Milling Co. Mexico

Mine near Nacozari, Sonora, Mex. Chas. A. Romadka, pres. and mgr.; C. P. Romadka, vice-pres.; W. S. Dixon, sec.-treas.; Rolla Romadka, supt., at last accounts. Organized 1905, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $400,- 000, shares $10 par.

Lands, 8@ hectares, about 20 miles east of Nacozari, the nearest rail point. Mine has a shallow shaft and a, 1,600’ crosscut tunnel, cutting a vein with a back of about 1,000’. Ore values are mainly gold and silver. Equip- ment includes a 25-h. p. electric plant, with a 15-stamp mill having 2 Wilfley tables and a small cyanide plant.

El Magistral Copper Co. Mexico

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Mex. H. L. McNair, pres.; Hon. C. F. Wright, vice-pres.; A. G. Nash, sec.- treas.; preceding officers, Hon. W. S. Lieb, Thos. H. Carvin, H. R. Wood- ward, John J. Dowdle, John P. Fiebig, John G. Whitmore and Hon. G. E. Green, directors. Organized June 15, 1906, under laws of Maine, capitaliza- tion $1,000,000, shares $10 par. Property is the entire capital stock of San Lucas Copper Co. No returns secured. Probably closed down owing to revolution.

El Mayo Mines Of Mexico, Ltd. Mexico

Sec. and offices: A. Caillat, 6 Great Winchester St., London, E. C., Eng- land. J. K. Pollock, chairman; W. A. Landan, H. Breedon, Viscount F. de Montmorency, directors. S. G. Burn, gen. mgr.; W. W. Mitchell, mine mgr. Organized April 9, 1902, as the Mechaco (Mexico) Mining & Milling Co., Ltd., title being changed in Jan., 1910. Capital £100,000, shares 10s. par; issued 160,000.

Lands, 200 gold, silver and copper mining claims, 500 acres, known as Waterloo, Alamos district, Sonora, Mex. Not being developed owing to revolutionary disturbances in Mexico. '

El Tiro Copper Co. Arizona

Office: The American Finance € Securities Co., 5 Nassau St., New York. Mine office: El Tiro, Pinal Co., Ariz. Edward B. Kurtz, vice-pres.; Wm. J. Smith, sec.; C. J. Schlaechter, treas.; W. H. Buehman, acting gen. mgr.; preceding officers, G. W. Barnes, William Greif, L. O. Bailey, H. D. Moore, C. D. Bouton, directors. Organized May 22, 1907; under laws of Arizona, as successor of the Cleveland-Arizona Mining Co., capitalization $4,500,000, shares $10 par; fully issued. Funded debt outstanding May 31, 1913, $1,034,500 (authorized $1,500,000) first mortgage 6% 10-year $500 and $1,000 gold coupon bonds. Dividends 6% per year until all bonds are re- tired. Company controlled by American Finance & Securities Co., through ownership of majority of stock issue. Annual meeting, third Thursday in April, at Tucson, Ariz.

Property, 14 claims, 255 acres, including a 5-acre mill site in the Silver Bell district, adjoining the Imperial mine, 70 miles west of Tucson. Claims show contact deposits between quartz porphyry and limestone, carrying cuprite, melaconite, chalcocite and chalcopyrite with a gangue of decom- posed porphyry and limestone. Two orebodies under development are ir- regular in shape, of about 10 acres in combined area and proven to depth of 400’. :

The mine has several shafts, including the 200’ Daisy shaft, 120’ Burtis shaft and the 283’ three-compartment Kurtz shaft, and a 432’ transportation tunnel connecting the Kurtz shaft with the railroad. There are other tun- nels of 750’, 350’, 250’ and 200’, the mine having about 6,000’ of workings, estimated to block out 270,000 tons of concentrating sulphide ore. Mine is said to have considerable 3% ore on the dumps.

Equipment includes a 600-h. p. steam plant, 150-kw. electric plant and a' 120-h. p. gasoline plant, with a 16x20” 250-h. p. double-drum hoist, good for 1,000’; 3 gasoline hoists, and Nordberg and Sullivan air compressors of 18 drills aggregate capacity. There are 18 buildings in all.

A 50-ton concentrator, built for experimental purposes, and increased later to 100 tons daily capacity, is equipped with a 7x10” Blake crusher, 30- ton Huntington mill, 2 rolls, a Vezin automatic sampler, 1 vanner, 5 Wilfley tables and 1 Richards pulsator and hydraulic sizer. Extraction of better than 75% of assay values is reported.

El Triunfo Consolidated Mining Co. Mexico

Office: 115 Broadway, New York. Mine office: Bacoachi, Arizpe, So- nora, Mex. A. C, Charlot, pres. and gen. mgr.; Dr. S. Newton Leo, vice-

EL VAN—ELENITA 341 pres.; A. L. King, treas.; preceding officers, T. B. Johnstone, Albert Reine- man, Julius G. Miller, Henry Stern, Wm. H. Freystadt, I. Neuberger, A. H. Wand, D. Powdermaker, Dr. Moritz Gross, Adolph Oltmann and John H. Brown, directors; John Martin, supt. Organized under laws of Arizona, capitalization $2,000,000, shares $1 par. Property is held through a Mexican corporation having a capitalization of 10,000 pesos, shares 100 pesos par, en- ` tire stock issue of which is owned by El Triunfo. Annual meeting, first Monday in October.

Lands, 55 pertenencias, area 136 acres, in 12 different groups, principal property, about 4 miles from the Picacho mines, lying about 8 miles south- west of Bacoachi, 2 miles from the Sonora river and about 75 miles by wagon road from Cananea. Properties carry 5 orebodies, under develop- ment, of 2 to 5’ average claimed width, said to be traceable 2 miles, and said to carry argentiferous azurite, malachite, bornite, chalcopyrite and chrysocolla, all silicious, and occasional native silver, with a claimed aver- age value of 5% copper, 25 to 600 oz. silver and $3 gold per ton.

The mines were said, 1910, to have about 7,000’ of workings, main shaft being 400’ deep, connecting with a tunnel, for extraction. There are 5 shafts, 6 tunnels and various open cuts. The main vein is a fissure of 4 to 5’ width, and practically vertical dip, carrying oxidized ores to shallow depth, suc- ceeded by sulphides.

Equipment includes a 90-h. p. steam plant at the mine, and a small saw mill, with 26 buildings. Wells provide water for boilers and potable use.

A 50-ton mill has a 25-h. p. steam engine and 4 Behrend tables, with a 3-mile pipe line to the Sonora river, where there is a small pumping station. In 1912 a 50-ton wood-burning reverberatory furnace was installed.

Smelter was blown in in 1908, but only made intermittent runs of a few days, though said to have worked well; was blown in again in 1911. Trans- portation facilities are poor, nearest railroad station being at Cos, 38 miles distant by mule trail.

Company paid a dividend of 1% in Aug., 1911. During 1912, company operated its smelter (reverberatory), shipping matte to El Paso, running $625 per ton. Closed down in 1913 on account of unsettled political condi- tions and insecurity of property rights during revolution.

El Van Copper Co, S. A. Mexico

Mine near Nacozari, Sonora, Mex. R. I. Van Dusen, pres. and gen. mgr.; Fritz Kohlmeyer, supt. Organized under laws of Mexico. Mine, about 3 miles from the Pilares, and 12 miles from Nacozari, carries streaks of rich ore, of about 10% copper tenor, and is said to have considerable concentrating ore carrying 3 to 4% copper Mine has 4 tunnels. Company inactive, property not operated for several years and several claims for- feited to government for non-payment of taxes.

Eldorado Gold Mining & Milling Co. Utah

Office: 549 25th St., Ogden, Utah. Mine near Hot Springs, Box Elder Co., Utah. Don Maguire, mgr., at last accounts. Ores said to carry copper, silver and lead. No returns secured.

Electric Mining & Smelting Co. Oregon

Mine at Idanha, Marion Co., Ore., in the foothills of the Cascade range, said to show chalcopyrite and bornite ore, associated with pyrite with high values in free gold. Property controlled by Hugh Freeland, through ownership of 85% of the capital stock. No trace of operations secured. ELENITA DEVELOPMENT CO. MEXICO

Office: 1400 Alworth Bldg., Duluth, Minn. Operating office: Warren,

Cochise Co., Ariz. Former mine office: Cananea, Sonora, Mex. Louis W.

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Henry B. Paull, treas., and.Thos. F. Cole, directors. Capitalization, orig- inally $200,000, was increased, 1907, tó $400,000, shares $10 par; paid in, $5. Property is the entire stock issue of the Lomita Mining Co., S. A., a Mex- ican corporation that holds direct title to the lands.

Property, the Bonanza de Cobre, at Cananea, purchased from company of that name.

The Bonanza de Cobre mine, 1,628 acres, lies north of the smelter and extends to a point nearly opposite the Puertecitos mines of the Greene Cananea. Development is by 2 shafts and 5 tunnels, mine being wet at slight depth and giving, as far as developed, mainly silver-lead and zinc ores with a little copper. Company abandoned its San Felipi property in March, 1913.

Elephant Head Mining & Milling Co. Arizona

Address: Ben Daniels, pres., Nogales, Ariz. Copper-lead property near Mt. Hopkins, Santa Cruz Co., Ariz. Organized 1910. Lands are about 40 miles from Tucson, and 6 miles from the Calabasas railroad, near Elephant Head Butte, in the Santa Rita mountains. A vein, said to have a 40’ out- crop, carries a complex of argentiferous lead, copper and zinc sulphides, of low average grade, and there also is a 20’ vein of quartzite, said to give surface assays of $10-gold per ton. Reported to be working a force of 25 men in May, 1913, and to have struck good ore in tunnel.

Elizabeth Gold Hill Mining Co. Washington

Office and mine: North Yakima, Yakima Cos Wash. L. L. Matterson, pres.; P. J. Eschbach, vice-pres.; Frank X. Nagler, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, Jos. Feser, Thos. Hope, E. P. Sanford and Rudolph Mayer, direc- tors. Organized 1900, under laws of Washington, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable. Annual meeting, second Monday in. March.

Lands, 14 claims, unpatented, area 200 acres, adjoining the Blue Bell mine on the north, about 65 miles northwest of North Yakima, in the Sum- mit district. Property shows a number of orebodies in granite, 4, of 7 to 15’ reported width, carrying auriferous and argentiferous lead and copper ores, with 1,600’ of workings, estimated by management to show 150,000 tons of- ore, with 100,000 tons blocked out for stoping, averaging $40 per ton, which figures are excessive. f y

Equipment includes steam and water power, and a small saw mill, with material for a 10-stamp mill on the ground. Idle.

Elk Mountain Mining Co. Nevada

Idle. Letters neither returned nor answered from former office, Boise, Idaho. Mine office: Three Creek, Owyhee Col, Idaho. M. S: Estes, pres. and gen. mgr.; Neil Beaton, vice-pres.; C. W. Robinett, sec.-treas., at last accounts. Capitalization, $500,000, shares $1 par. Lands, 5 claims, in Elko county, Nev., 8 miles from the Idaho line, about 16 miles northwest of Con- tact, Nev., and connected therewith by a good wagon road. Has a 14’ contact vein, between limestone and granite, of silicious sulphide ore, said by company to average 6% copper, 7 oz. silver and 0.04 oz. gold per ton, apparently from a paystreak, opened by a 40’ tunnel) JA i ELK MOUNTAIN MINING & MILLING CO. i WYOMING

Letters unclaimed at former office: Encampment, Carbon Co., Wyo. J. B. Tillou, pres. and gen. mgr.; E. E. Hanna, vice-pres.; S. E. Phelps, sec.- treas.; preceding officers, M. L. Phelps, F. S. Bash, G. B. ‘Gunnison and E. W. Silver, directors. Organized 1900, under laws of Wyoming, capitali- zation $1,000,000, shares $1 par.

Lands, 640 acres, patented, 200 acres of which are well timbered, on

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Elk mountain, in the Medicine Bow range. Property carries contact de- posits between limestone and schist, opened by an 80’ tunnel and 3 shafts, deepest 200’, showing a vein up to 20’ estimated width, carrying chalcocite in the upper workings, succeeded by chalcopyrite, estimated to average 2 to 4% copper. Test shipments of 15 tons of ore, to the Encampment smel- ter, some years ago, gave returns of 13% copper. Has steam and electric power and necessary, buildings. In Nov., 1911, secretary reported $33 in the treasury, no debts or bonds. Property idle.

ELKHART MINE. WYOMING Owned by Walcott Copper Mining Co. ELKHORN COPPER MINING CO. WYOMING

Idle several years. Letter returned unclaimed from former mine office, Encampment, Carbon Co., Wyo. Ray Campbell, gen. mgr.; W. W. Petty, supt., at last accounts. Lands, on Elk mountain, carry a7’ vein of sulphide ore, giving assays of 6 to 20%, and claimed, June, 1910, to average 7 to 8% copper, with considerable ore in sight. Mine has a shaft and a 460’ tunnel. ELKHORN GOLD & COPPER MINING CO. UTAH

Mine near Ogden, Weber Co., Utah. S. W. Cragun, pres.; Moroni S. Poulter, vice-pres.; Walter J. Hoyt, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, F. E. Kinman, Willey Cragun and J. W. F. Volker, directors. Organized Nov. 9, 1907, under laws of Utah, capitalization $50,000, shares 10 cts. par, non- assessable; issued, $26,500. Annual meeting, third Wednesday in March.

Lands, 8 claims, unpatented, area 160 acres, in the Sierra Madre dis- trict, 10 miles north of Ogden, showing granite, quartzite and limestone, with 7 orebodies, 1, under development, reported by company as of 11’ average width, and traceable 2,100’, carrying cuprite, chalcopyrite and bor- nite, having 50’, 65’ and 145’ tunnels. Management planned continuing 65’ No. 3 tunnel, and adding an air compressor. No returns secured. ELKHORN MINING CO., LTD. BRITISH COLUMBIA

Mine P. O.: Greenwood, Boundary district, B. C. Jas. Sutherland, pres. and gen. mer., at last accounts. Mine under development, 1910, has auriferous and argentiferous lead and copper ores.

Elkhorn Mining Co. Montana

Office: Butte, Mont. Mine P. O.: Elkhorn, Jefferson Co., Mont. C. C. Largey, pres.; H. H. Frank, sec.; J. E. Higgins, gen. mgr.; C. L. Gluyas, supt.; R. G. Zimmer, mg. engr.; H. F. Edwards, chemist-assayer. Organ- ized Jan. 15, 1913, under laws of Montana, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable; issued 250,000. Properly formerly belonged to Gold- en Curry Consolidated Mining Co.

Lands, 9 claims, 162 acres, in Elkhorn district, Mont. Orebody shows oxidized iron cap, lying between limestone and granite and dipping at 45°. Property said to show 5 orebodies, 2 now being developed. Principal ore shoot has a width of 30’, length of 295’ and a proven depth of 180. Ore contains chalcopyrite and tenorite in oxidized iron ore, the average con- tents being: 1.9% copper, 4 oz. silver and 0.35 oz. gold per ton, with 48% excess iron. i

Development by 2 shallow shafts and 4 tunnels of 680’, 400’, 230’ and 80’; total underground work said to be 8,200’. Ore blocked out estimated at 20,000 tons; probable ore 100,000 tons. Average cost of mining $2.20, smelting charges $2.10. Production 1912, 150,000 Ibs. of copper from 8,000 tons of ore averaging 0.98% copper. Management plans 1,250’ tunnel cut- ting ore at 450’ depth in 1913. Geology and history of property given in Bull. No. 527, U. S. Geol. Surv., “Helena Mining Region,” by Adolph Knopf, pp. 136 to 139.

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Ellamar Mining Co. Alaska

Office: 211 American Bank Bldg., Seattle, Wash. Mine office: Ella- mar, Prince William sound, Alaska. F. M. Jordan, pres.-treas.; C. S. Pack- er, sec.; L. L. Middlekamp, supt.; preceding officers, W. R. Rust and Chas. de Steigure, directors. Organized 1900, under laws of Washington, capi- talization $10,000,000, shares $100 par. Is reported to have paid over $300,- 000 in dividends. Property changed ownership April, 1909.

Lands, 14 claims, patented, known as the Ellamar mine, on Virgin bay, 28 miles south of Valdez. The mine has a 600’ three-compartment vertical shaft, with levels at 100’ intervals, and has about 2 miles of workings, said to block out about 250,000 tons of ore for stoping.

Ore occurs in a lens 80x200 and lies wholly within the slate, pinching out 30’ below the 500’ level. Ore is mainly chalcopyrite associated with pyrite, pyrrhotite and sphalerite in a gangue of slate, graywacke and quartz, assaying from 3 to 25% copper, 3 oz. silver and up to $50 gold. Mine was the first copper producer in Alaska, beginning shipments in 1901. Some diamond drilling was done, 1909-1910, on surface; 2,000’ done in 1912. A coffer dam has been built to permit mining orebody outcropping on the beach, below the ocean level.

Equipment includes a 300-h. p. steam plant, with 3 boilers, a 3-drill Ingersoll-Rand air compressor, Nordberg compressor, a 12x24 Nordberg engine and a 60-h. p. hoist. Buildings include a machine shop, smithy, lab- oratory, mess house and 12 other buildings. A 40x150’ wharf has 2,000-ton ere bunkers, about 250’ from the main shaft.

Costs are said to be about $3 per ton, for ore loaded on vessels, with about $3 transportation charges to the Tacoma smelter. Production, for 6 years ending 1908, said to have been about 80,000 tons of ore. Property considered valuable.

Production: 1911, over 16,000 tons, averaging 0.24 oz. gold, 0.80 oz. silver and 6% copper; 1912, 22,000 tons, averaging 0.30 ozs. gold, 0.90 oz. silver and 214% copper.

Elliston Copper Mining Co. Montana

Letters neither returned nor answered from office at Elliston, Powell Co., Mont. J. J. Delaney, pres.; J. E. Shattuck, vice-pres.; Allan McNaugh- ton, sec. and mgr., at last accounts. Organized Oct. 12, 1908, under laws of Montana, capitalization $500,000, shares $1 par.

Owns the Flagstaff mine, with 4 claims, and a fractional interest in 6 additional claims, in the Snowshoe district, 11 miles northwest of Elliston. Mine shows a deposit of ore in limestone, that is claimed to be 70’ wide, giving assays of 5 to 70% copper and $10 per ton in combined gold and silver values, obviously from selected samples. Development by several tunnels from 200 to 400’ long. Shipments to Tacoma smelter have returned 21.35% copper and 2.66 oz. silver per ton with traces of gold.

Elm Orlu Mining Co. Montana

Office: Miner Block, Butte, Mont. Hon. W. A. Clark and W. A. Clark, Jr., owners. J. W. Pyle, cons. engr.; H, C. Mangum, agt.* Or- ganized 1907, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par. Statement filed with assessor of Silver Bow county, June, 1913, showed assets, $143,823 and debts, $80,000.

Company owns the Elm Orlu mine and the claim of that name ad- joining the Butte & Superior holdings, the Badger State mine of the Ana- conda Copper Co. and the Pilot Butte mine, all in the northeast section of the Butte district. The Poser claim is owned by a separate company.

The Elm Orlu covers part of the Rainbow lode and several other veins containing large bodies of copper ore and immense bodies of zinc ore. The

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copper occurs as copper glance, both in secondary fault veins and in , veins of the Rainbow lode, and also as chalcopyrite mixed with zinc ore. The mine has a 1,400’ shaft and several miles of workings, principally be- low the 900’ level.

The report of the company filed with the county assessor June, 1912, showed 47,194 tons, yielding $10.19 per ton, as compared with 87,793 tons mined in 1911, yielding $8.15 per ton. Cost of mining is given as $6.14 and of smelting at $2.34. :

The output of the mine, 1914, will be handled in a new 250-ton mill in course of erection by the Timber Butte Milling Co., also owned by Sena- tor and W. A. Clark, Jr.; the zinc concentrates of this mill will go to the National Zinc Co.’s plants at Bartlesville, Okla., Kansas City and Spring- field, Ill. The copper ore is shipped direct to the Anaconda smelter, the mine yielding from 50 to 100 tons a day during 1913.

The Minerals Separation Co.'s process of concentration by froth flotation will be installed at the new concentrator, as a year’s very thorough tests of this process made in competition with practically all other methods has shown it to give the best results.

Elm River Copper Co. Michigan

Office: 70 State St., Boston, Mass. Mine near Winona, Houghton Co., Mich. Company dissolved and now in process of liquidation. Final divi- dend of 19 cts. per share now being paid to stockholders. Property has been acquired by Contact Copper Co., which see.

Ely Amalgamated Copper Co. Nevada

Company controlled since 1911 by Jesse Knight, pres., Provo, Utah, who owns 51% interest. Mine office: McGill, White Pine Co., Ney. Or- ganized 1907, under laws of Utah, capitalization $100,000, shares 10 cts. par. Is no relation to the other company of same title.

Lands, 6 claims, and a townsite, about. 1 mile from the Steptoe smelter, of the Nevada Consolidated Copper Co., at McGill, carries silver- lead ores, and several carloads of ore have been shipped. Mr. Knight is developing the property.

Ely Arch Copper Co. Nevada

Mine near Ely, White Pine Co., Nev. Fred L. Small, pres.; F. M. Lee and Oscar J. Smith, vice-pres.; J. B. O’Sullivan, sec.; D. P. Bartley, supt., at last accounts. Nixon National Bank, treas. Organized March, 1907, under laws of South Dakota, capitalization $5,000,000, shares $5 par; is- sued, $3,200,000. Company patented 110 acres near Ely, Nev., in 1912,

- Ely Bell Mining Co. Nevada & Utah

Letters unclaimed at former mine office, Ely, White Pine Co., Nev., and Salt Lake City, Utah. F. O. McFall, pres. and gen. mgr.; W. T. Bin- ford, vice-pres.; J. E. Hanway, sec.-treas. Organized April, 1907, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par.

Lands formerly were 3 claims unpatented, in the Ely district, and 15 claims, area 300 acres, in the Draper district, adjoining the Little Cotton- wood district of Salt Lake county, Utah, held under bond and lease, said to show a 12’ vein. j

Company was “merged,” 1908, in the Corona Consolidated Mines Co., but the consolidation, not proving a success, individual shareholders of the Ely Bell were requested, early 1910, to send in their certificates, inas- much as the property was lost, through foreclosure, on account of non- performance of assessment work, and was relocated, 1908, the Ely Bell Mining Co., is merely a shell, and its stock utterly worthless, unless new property be secured.

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Ely-Calumet Copper Co. Nevada

Office and mine: 'Ely, White Pine Co., Nev. Al. D. Myers, pres.; J. K. Turner, sec.-treas. and gen. mgr.; preceding officers, G. L. (Tex.) Rickard and Thos. Rockwell, directors. Organized under laws of Nevada, capital- ization $5,000,000, shares $5 par. A stock control is said to be under op- tion to Thos. F. Cole and associates. Stock is listed on the Salt Lake Stock Exchange.

Property consists of 32 claims, unpatented, 600 acres, said to have cost $75,000, about a mile north of Ely, at the extreme eastern end of the known copper belt. Claims cover a high hill of limestone, traversed by E.-W. fault veins of ferruginous quartz, much crushed and brecciated, with replacement bodies of ironstone carrying copper. Mine has a 450’ two- compartment shaft, and 500’ of tunnels, with about a quarter-mile of work- ings, showing a 4’ vein carrying auriferous and argentiferous chalcocite. Management was said to plan sinking the shaft to 1,000’ and drifting at 100’ intervals. Several sets of lessees, working on the Wildcat and ad- joining claims, have shipped a little ore, one shipment, 1910, by Strelke Bros., returning 42.6% copper and 3 oz. silver per ton. Sunday shaft in limestone cut lead ore at 120’, passed into ironstone, 40’, carrying 24% copper. Property leased, 1913.

Ely Consolidated Copper Co. Nevada

Office: 414 Judge Bldg., Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine: Ruth, via Ely, White Pine Co., Nev., and Elko, Nev. S. M. Levy, pres. and gen. mgr.; Gideon Snyder, sec.-treas.; Grant Snyder and Daniel B. Shields, directors; R. M. Kellogg, supt. Organized Oct. 2, 1906, under laws of Utah, capital- ization $10,000,000, shares $10 par, of which 300,000 shares were donated to treasury by incorporators, Last assessment 5 cts. per share, levied Nov. 13, 1912, delinquent Feb. 28, 1913. Stock is listed on the Salt Lake Stock Exchange and the New York curb. Registrar and transfer agent, United States Corporation Co., 34 Nassau St., New York.

Property consists of 3 groups, 1 in the Ely district, also a lease and bond on the Copper Queen mine, Elko, Nev., and the Baltimore, an ad- joining property.

The Ely property consists of a group of 15 claims, about 300 acres, on the south side of the mineral belt, near the Ruth and Jupiter groups of the Nevada Consolidated, bought for about $100,000. The group has 3 vertical shafts, and, during the first 5 months of 1910, made 1,348’ of new openings. The 625’ Brilliant shaft has silver-lead ore on the 400’ level, and near the bottom is said to show a 100’ bed of disseminated copper ore, below commercial grade. The American shaft was 500’ deep, at last accounts,

Principal development in recent years has been at the 800’ Zack shaft in the western end of the group. Orebody on 500’ level reported to be 100° wide with 2 to 6% copper and $1 to $4 gold and silver, with another vein 5’ wide averaging 3.8% copper and $1 gold-silver. From 500 to 700’ levels, ore flattened, being 264’ further south on the 6th than on the 5th level. Ore consists of bunches of copper glance with some oxide and carbonate in white clayey gouge and decomposed rock. Crosscut on 700’ cuts monzonite, but too deep for pay ore.

The company’s report for 11 months ending Sept. 30, 1911, showed general expenses $42,690, mine development $130,603, surface improvements $34,082, Annual report for 1912 shows $51,459 spent for mining machinery with a cash balance on hand of $15,000. ;

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under existing conditions and the policy of the company was changed and new properties sought. In March, 1913, the Copper Queen mine, near Elko, Nev., was purchased, for $50,000. In May the Peterson group in Pine Valley was bonded and-in June the property of the Pacific Consoli- dated Mining & Smelting Co., near the Copper Queen, was taken over on $30,000 bond and lease.

The Copper Queen group consists of 18 claims in the Merrimac dis- trict, 22 miles northwest of Elko, Nev. Property shows a gossan out- crop, 500x600’, carrying 40 to 50% iron; also 2 veins, one of them traceable a mile, showing surface exposures of shipping ore. Work was begun on this property in March, 1913, and shipments in May and June averaged 100 tons per week, smelter returns showing 7.4% copper, 7.9 oz. silver per ton, 40 cts. gold, 28% iron and about 35% silica. The ore is hauled by auto- mobile trucks.

The Baltimore group, 12 claims, 6 patented, includes the Cuag and Morgan mines, taken under bond June, 1913, on 15% royalty with no cash payment until 1914, appears to be a valuable acquisition. The Cuag workings contain ore blocked out and the shaft has been enlarged, re- timbered and is now reported to show high-grade bornite ore. The Morgan mine shows 2’ of 12% ore and recent shipments have carried from 3 to 10% copper, a varying percentage of lead and 12 to 15 oz. silver.

The Peterson group, also bonded in 1913, is located at Lone moun- tain, midway between Elko and Tuscarora, 8 miles from Hale Crossing, a station on the railroad with which it is connected by good wagon road. Property shows veins with oreshoot carrying high-grade copper ore and old workings carry 5% copper ore from which shipments were being made. The’ Pacific Consolidated Mining and Smelting Co. property, also held under lease and bond, consisted of a 300-acre group of claims on which shipping ore was also found.

This company is fortunate in having a practical business man looking after its affairs and it seems now.to be operated on safe lines. For several years past, extravagant statements concerning the company were issued by brokers and misleading assays were published of the value of the ore developed in the Zack shaft. It is now known that the orebody is low grade and cannot be profitably mined. Assessments have been levied and stockholders’ spirits kept up by optimistic statements. The company has a large capitalization but the new management and new properties appear likely to bring the property to a self-supporting, if not a profitable basis. ELY COPPER CO. NEVADA

Office: 815 Ernest & Cranmer Bldg., Denver, Colo. No representa- tive at Ely, White Pine Co., Nev. Geo. F. Fry, pres.; Frank P. Berchy, vice-pres.; R. J. Grant, sec.; E. C. Newcomb, treas.; preceding officers and F. J. Shipman, directors, at last accounts. Organized Sept., 1906, under laws of Wyoming, capitalization $5,000,000, shares $5 par.

Lands, 8 claims, 2 fractional, area 125 acres, in limestone area, lying northwest of the Giroux Consolidated: Mine has some open cuts, and a shaft, reported by company as 405’ deep, with a 25-h. p. hoist. Stock was placed by the General Finance Co. of Denver, on a 25% commission. Is not regarded favorably. Idle, since 1907, but planned sinking shaft near east boundary of group in 1912.

Ely Giroux Copper Co. Nevada

P. O. Kimberly, White Pine Co., Nev.. Windsor Trust Co., of New York City, trustee. Company incorporated, 1909, by B. W. Coleman, Gra- ham F. Putnam, and Roswell S. Nichols. Capitalization $5,000,000, shares $5 par. In Nov., 1912, majority holdings were pooled, and $75,000 shares

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Ely Hidden Treasure Cons. Mining Co. Nevada

Idle. Office: Carson City, Nev. Mine office: Ely, White Pine Co., Nev. W. J. Harris, pres.; D. C. McDonald, vice-pres. and gen. mgr.; Geo. T. Mills, sec.; Eugene Howell, treas. Organized Jan. 5, 1907, under laws of Nevada, capitalization $1,500,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable.

Lands, 6 claims, patented, area 63 acres, covering monzonite-limestone contact, lying between the Federal Ely, Chainman and Nevada Consolidat- ed properties, carrying irregular replacement orebodies in limestone and deposits in porphyry. Shows 4 mineral outcrops, 4 to 20’ long, having silver-bearing lead and copper ores.

Mine has shafts of 115’, 75’, 40’, 60’ and 102’, and tunnels of 400’, 110’ and 68’, with about 1,000’ of workings. Produced a small tonnage of silver- lead ore in 1909.

Ely Majestic Copper Co. Nevada

Letter returned from Ely, White Pine Co., Nev. Lands, about 9 miles north of Ely, carry a vein of about 20” width, slightly developed, ore assaying 7 to 9% copper. Idle for several years and presumably dead. ELY-MIZPAH COPPER CO. NEVADA

Idle. ~Letters unclaimed at former mine office, 10 Ely Trust Bldg., Ely, White Pine Co., Nev., and Denver, Colo. Geo. D. Wilson, pres.; Jas. D.-Conway, vice-pres.; A. M. Kearns, sec., at last accounts. Organized June 28, 1907, under laws of Arizona, capitalization, $2,000,000, shares $1 par. Lands, 7 claims, 140 acres, known as the Modoc group, near the Vulcan-Ely, 4 miles southeast of Ely. Management claimed, 1911, to have done necessary assessment work. Probably closed down.

Ely National Copper Co. Nevada

Idle. Mine near Ely, White Pine Co., Nev. Max Straus, pres.; Hon. Jas. B. Grant, vice-pres.; Edw. B. Morgan, sec.; Thos. Keeley, treas.; G. L. Rickard, resident mgr.; John D. Murphy, mine mgr., at last accounts. Or- ganized 1907, as successor of the Ely Jumbo, Mizpah Verde and Anaconda companies, capitalization $5,000,000, shares $2.50 par; issued, $3,750,000. Ad- vertised delinquent for taxes, 1913.

Lands, 24 claims, patented area 480 acres, including the Cowen group ‘of 4 claims, adjoining the Nevada Consolidated on the south, property being located southwest of the Nevada Consolidated, and immediately south of the Manhattan & Ely Copper Co.

Ely-Nevada Copper Co. Nevada

Idle. Address: care Hamilton H. Durand, 60 Wall St., New York. Mine near Ely, White Pine Co., Nev. Volney D. Williamson, pres.; F. L. Under- wood, vice-pres.; Chester S. Bonham, second vice-pres. and sec.; R. H. Eggleston, asst. treas.; preceding officers, G. L. Rickard, E. A. Davidson and J. Markham Marshall, directors. Organized May 17, 1906, under laws of Maine, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par. Lands, 9 claims, area 170 acres, near the Cumberland-Ely, considered fairly located.

Ely Revenue Copper Co. Nevada

Idle. Office: Denver, Colo. Mine near Ely, White Pine Co., Nev. C. E. McConnell, pres. Organized Jan., 1907, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par. Lands, known as the Revenue group, are near the Chainman and Altman mines.

Ely Silver Lead Copper Co. Nevada

Idle. R. L. Bixby, sec., Union, Hardin Co., Iowa. Nearest P. O.: Ely, White Pine Co., Nev. H. J. Benson, pres.; F. K. Long vice-pres.; H. H.

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Barnes, treas.; preceding officers, J. D. Cundiff, H. Cundifí and R. Baven- der, all of Union, lowa, formed directorate at last accounts; C. R. Fuller, gen. mgr. Organized Nov. 21, 1908, under laws of Nevada, capitalization $1,500,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable, in $500,000 preferred and $1,000,000 common stock; issued, $500,000.

Property, the Tamerlane mine, in Tamerlane district, Schell Creek range, across Steptoe valley from Ely, was a small silver-led producer, many years ago. Surface shows quartzite dikes of 450’ and 600’ estimated width, separated by about 500’ of limestone, with a porphyry cross-dike. Mine has a 360’ tunnel, planned to be driven 1,200’ with a number of shal- low pits. Selected samples have assayed up to 27% copper with good silver values. The company states that $250,000 of silver ore was mined, 1880-84, just above the tunnel now being driven.

Ely Star Mining Co. Nevada

Office: Columbus, Ga. Letter unclaimed at former mine office, Cherry Creek, White Pine Co., Nev. J-F. Weathers, pres.; W. S. Anderson, vice- pres.; A. C. Chancellor, sec.-treas., at last accounts. Capitalization $1,000,- 000, shares $1 par. Lands, 3 claims, known as the Black Metal group, and a mill site, in Silver canyon, about 5 miles north of Cherry Creek, de- veloped by a 195’ shaft and a 675’ tunnel. Probably closed down.

Ely Valley Mining & Milling Co. Nevada

Office: Pioche, Lincoln Co., Nev. George Weddell, pres.; W. E. Har- rison, vice-pres.; Edward Thomarson, sec.-treas. and gen. mer.;-C. L. War- ren, supt.; James W. Abbott, mg. engr. Organized Jan. 6, 1908, under laws of Nevada,\ capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par, fully paid and nonasses- sable; 600,000 promotion stock and 400,000 treasury; 10,196 issued. Annual meeting, second Tuesday in May.

Property, 200 acres, 16 claims, part patented and balance held by loca- tion, in Ely mining district, Lincoln Co., Nev. Ore occurs in vertical con- tact veins between limestone and quartzite. Vein reported to be 7’ wide, to strike northwest and to be proven to a depth of 500. A vein of 10% copper ore was cut in shaft at 480’ depth. Average assays, 1911, were 20% lead, 20 oz. silver and $2 gold per ton.

Developed by 4 shafts, 500’, 80’, 50’ and 60’ and a tunnel 400’ long, Planned sinking shaft to 750’ level, 1911, and crosscutting to the north, east and west fissures. Equipment includes gasoline hoist, air compressor, pump and air-circulating plant. S. P. L. A. & S. L. R. R., 214 miles from property.

Ely Verdi Copper Co. Nevada

Geo. Wingfield, pres., care Goldfield Consolidated Co., Goldfield, Nev. Mine P. O.: Ruth, via Ely, Nev. S. R. Roberts, John Berry, of Ely; A. P. Sawyer and Leslie L. Savage, of Goldfield; M. R. Brown and H. S. Ander- son, of Pierre, S, D., directors. Organized May, 1912, under laws of South Dakota, capitalization $5,000,000, shares $5 par. Is a reorganization of company of same name that was listed on New York curb in 1909.

Property consists of a large group of claims south of the Copper Flat ' steam-shovel pit of the Nevada Consolidated. Only assessment work being done in 1912.

ELY WITCH COPPER CO. NEVADA Idle. Mine near Ely, Nev. J. E. Bamberger, pres., 161 Main St., Salt Lake City, Utah.; D. M. Hyman, vice-pres.; J. L. Tilton, sec.; Ernest Bam- berger, treas. and gen. mgr.; preceding officers and W. W. Armstrong, .di- rectors. Organized Nov. 22, 1906, under laws of Maine, capitalization $5,000,000, shares $5 par. f Lands, 7 claims, 1 fractional, area 54 acres, patented, bought for $275,-

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000, lying in the porphyry zone between the Ruth and Cumberland-Ely mines of the Nevada Consolidated, showing large blowouts of iron-stained porphyry. Development by a 300’ shaft, with levels at 100’ intervals, and by tunnels of 1,200’, 600’ and 1,050’, with 3,500’ of workings. Development of property was disappointing, for, while claims cover the main monzonite belt of the district, the underground work on 300’ level showed values too low to work. Drilling by Nevada Consolidated Co. is the logical thing to do and that company can probably work this property since it is now han- dling 1.6% ore at a profit. Company was a speculative promotion at time Nevada Consolidated was floated, and proving lean on development, has been idle since. : EMERALD MINING CO. UTAH Office: Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine office: Mammoth, Juab Co., Utah. W. E. Earles, pres.; H. C. Hoffman, vice-pres.; J. E. Oglesby, sec.-treas.; ag Yurd gen: mgri; preceding officers and E. E. Hoffman, directors. Organized 1896, under laws of Utah, capitalization $300,000, shares $1 par, assessable, fully issued; last assessment one-half cent a share, delinquent Dec. 15, 1913. Is a silver-lead property, with incidental copper, like most Tintic properties. Lands, 4 claims, and additional property was bought, 1910. Mine has 1,100’ shaft, with about 4000’ of workings, on a narrow but rich vein, carrying auriferous and argentiferous copper and lead ores In May, 1913, it was reported that 22’ of ore cut on the 2000’ level of the Opex mine extended into this property. In July, 1913, company started a drift on the 1,100’ level to be driven 1,200’ north, to open up the ore for- merly worked on the 2,000 Opex, the latter company having withdrawn permission to use the workings. i Company has levied assessments for years and been regarded as the “wildest of wildcats,” but is now in favor, and may repay stockholders for their blind faith and yearly contributions. Company filed suit Aug., 1913, against the Centennial Eureka Mining Co., for $100,000 damages for alleged wrongful extraction of 2,000 tons of ore from Emerald lode. EMERALD MINING CO. WYOMING Idle. Office and mine: Wheatland, Laramie Co., Wyo. Lands include the Cooney Hill mine, formerly owned by the Cooney Hill Gold & Copper Mining & Milling Co., and the Emerald mine, on Slate creek, the properties showing a prominent gossan outcrop in schist. The Emerald has a 60’ shaft in ore, and a 100’ shaft bottomed in a gossan showing traces of cop- per sulphides. No recent report received. EMMA COPPER CO. UTAH Idle. save for leasers’ work. Office: care W. J. Bateman, sec., Salt Lake City, Utah. Owns Emma mine at Alta, Salt Lake Co., Utah. Is a silver-lead, not copper producer. Last assessment one-half cent a share, delinquent Sept. 19, 1913. See Vol. X. EMMA H. MINE. COLORADO i Address: Major H. Stephens Ehrman, owner, Pitkin, Colo. Mine on South Gold hill, Siegel mountain, above timber line, in Quartz Creek min- ing district, Gunnison Co., Colo., 3 miles north of Pitkin. District shows fissure veins-in Paleozoic sediments underlain by pre-Cambrian schists, The mine is a recent discovery with a 25’ shaft showing 2’ paystreak of solid chalcopyrite and galena in a 6’ vein of milling ore. Owner plans driv- ing 2 tunnels and shipping ore by auto trucks this winter. / EMMA MINE. BRITISH COLUMBIA

Owned and worked by British Columbia Copper Co. EMMA MINE. MONTANA

“Tdle. Owned by Butte Copper & Zinc Co., at Butte, Mont.

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EMMA MINE. i NEW MEXICO S¿sL.. Landon, -supti Mine at Fierro, GrantCo., Ni M. Owned by

Phelps, Dodge & Co. Property under development, 1913, at the 400’ main

shaft, where heavy flow of water and thin mud has hindered operations.

Employs 25 men. Mine is operated by the Copper Queen Consolidated

Mining Co.

Empire Copper Co. Idaho

Address: care Wm. A. Kerr, sec.-treas., 111 Broadway, New York. Mine address: Mackay, Custer Co., Idaho. Frank M. Leland, pres., gen. mer. and purch. agt.; Ralph R. Osborn, vice-pres.; Stanford Leland, cons. engr. and chemist-assayer. Organized June 6, 1907, under laws of Maine, capi- talization $6,000,000, shares $5 par, reduced, July 16, 1908, to $1,200,000, shares $1 par; issued $1,000,000. Stock listed on the New York curb. An- nual meeting, third Tuesday in May. Equitable Trust Co., New York City, registrar; Corporation Trust Co. of N. J., transfer agt. /

Company bought the Mackay property of the White Knob Copper & Development Co., Ltd., taking over also a 5-year lease on the property from the MacBeth Lease, Inc., giving 250,000 shares of stock to the White Knob and 750,000 shares to the MacBeth. and began business without any cash in the treasury, but with 200,000 shares of stock,

The property consists of the White Knob Copper mine, 3 miles south of Mackay, on Salmon river branch of the Oregon Short Line, with 39 claims, 6 fractional, 6 patented, 700 acres, also mill and smelter sites of 480 acres, and a railroad right-of-way, in the Alder Creek district, Custer county, Idaho. Property carries a large number of lenticular contact de- posits, in granite-porphyry between limestone and granite. The property is remarkable for its peculiar ore deposits. These are cylindrical, pipe- like masses of a branching, treelike form, found in garnetized altered por- phyry lying between limestone and granite. The geology has been care- fully studied and is described by Kemp in the Transactions Am. Inst. of Mg. Eng., 1907. The ore is largely a cupriferous pyrite with much chrys- ocolla derived from its alteration. The average assay of the 26,200 tons of ore mined in 1912 was 5.8% copper, 3 oz. silver per ton and $1.36 gold per ton.

The mine was opened 1884, and worked at various times. For years it was controlled by:a succession of White Knob corporations, each making a failure of the mine, until the property was leased, July 1, 1905, to the Mac- Beth Lease, Inc., which worked the mine on'a business basis, at a profit, something the old owners never succeeded in doing.

The mine has a glory hole of 125 to 200’ width, but mining is mainly by tunnel, the 700’ main shaft connecting with the Albert tunnel, 1,500’ long, the mine having about 6 miles of workings, estimated to show 20,000 tons of ore, blocked out for stoping. The mine is dry. :

Equipment includes steam, electric, gasoline, water and air power, with a total of 152 h. p. at the mine and 125 h. p. at the smelter. There are 6 small hoists and 2 and 5-drill air compressors. Buildings include about 20 structures, with a saw mill, carpenter shop and smithy, there being a 40x100' machine shop at the smelter.

The mine is reached by a 96-mile branch of the Oregon Short Line rail- way, running from Blackfoot to Houston, and is connected with the smelter by the 734-mile Empire railroad, owned by the company, of 36” gauge, equipped with two 23-ton Shay mountain-climbing locomotives and 33 cars. The line has a maximum gradient of 6%, with a rise of 2,000’, and has one 6% grade on a 34° curve. i

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the tuyeres, with Connersville blowers, making matte carrying about 40% copper, 26 oz. silver and 1 oz. gold per ton, sent to the Murray smelter for conversion, and treating 100 cars of ore in Aug., 1913.

The Empire Copper Co. was promoted just in time to be caught in the 1907 panic, but every share of stock sold to the public was redeemed; at subscription price, for which the promoters deserve credit. The property is considered valuable, notwithstanding its bad record under the various White Knob companies. While the mine proper was idle from 1907 to 1911, some of the outlying properties were leased and shipments from these leases were made, to the Garfield smelter. Production, 1906, was 3,200,000 lbs. fine copper, under the old management; 2,750,000 1bs., in 1907; 834,000 lbs., in 1910, and 26,200 tons of ore, yielding 3,000,000 lbs. copper, in 1912. Present management good, Mr. Leland having made the property pay from the time he took hold of it.

Empire Copper Co. New Mexico

Idle. Mine near Santa Rita, Grant Co., N. M. Geo. O. Hilzinger, pres. and treas.; John Ashcroft, vice-pres.; F. C. Knolenberg, sec., at last ac- counts. Organized July, 1909. Lands, 14 claims, near the Chino, previously worked under bond and lease by the Columbia Copper Co. No trace of op- erations secured.

Empire Copper Syndicate, Ltd. British Columbia

Liquidated voluntarily in Dec., 1912. Formerly at Rainy Hollow, Atlin division, Cassiar district, B. C. Described Vol. VIII.

Empire Copper & Gold Mining Co. Arizona

Office: 510 Bradbury Bldg., Los Angeles, Cal. Mine address: Dragoon, Cochise Co., ‘Ariz. P. E. Johnson, pres. and treas.; Seth Merrill, vice-pres and gen. mgr.; Chas. R. Van Tilburgh, sec.; preceding officers, M. J. Gress, H. Hermanson, N. J. Nordquist and L. V. Shaw, directors. Organized Jan. 31, 1905, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,500,000, shares $1 par, non- assessable; issued 950,014. Annual meeting, second Monday in January.

The company owns 3 separate groups of claims, all near Johnson and Dragoon, 2 stations on the Southern Pacific! railway in Cochise county. Ariz. The Empire group, on which all the company’s work has been con- centrated for some years past, consists of 16 claims, 2 miles southeast of Johnson. The ground shows limestones and quartzite cut by porphyry and traversed by N. W. fissures carrying ore. Principal development is on the Empire group, which has the 380’ Empire 2-compartment incline shaft, with about 500’ of drifts, so wet that it was abandoned, temporarily; also the 125’ Bridge, 158’ Copper Whale and a 2,000’ tunnel-shaft started. Mine shows auriferous and argentiferous copper ore. ,

In May, 1913, the machinery and supplies were:moved from the Em- pire group 6 miles south to the Princess group, where development work will be prosecuted in the future. These claims have attractive surface showings of iron gossan and copper carbonate and have heretofore been opened only by shallow shafts, the deepest 160’. The company also owns the Cowboy group of 8 claims, also partly developed and having veins in limestone near porphyry contacts. .

Equipment includes a 25-h. p. hoist and 1-drill Fairbanks & Morse air compressor. Buildings include an engine house, 14x16’ smithy, bunk house and boarding house. The company has moved the hoist to the Princess group and plans to deepen the old Bridge shaft to 500’. A “strike” of rich ore made early in 1913, said to average 30% copper, will be developed and shipments made in 1913-14. The S. P. railroad is said to cross the Princess

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EMPIRE MINING CO. MEXICO Address: Dolores Mining € Development Co., P. O. Box DOE E Oakland, Cal. Mine address: care Ben Bound, supt., Cananea, Sonora, Mex. Company is the Mexican holding company of the Dolores Mining & Development Co. Capitalization 10,000 pesos. Owns 95 hectares. 30 in the Cananeas, including the Major Domo copper mine, a few miles from Cananea. A 200’ shaft is reported to show a northeast-souttiwest vein, 214 to 3’ wide. In a drift on the 100’ level, the paystreak averaging about 18” wide, carries about 30% copper, 80 oz. silver and 2 oz. gold per ton. Com- pany also owns the Dolores, Empire, Bonanza, Spanish, Golden Cross and Providencia, silver-gold properties, amounting to 65 hectares, in the Magda- lena district, Sonora, Mex. Plans erecting a 3-unit Pittman mill at the Golden Cross property, 14 miles southwest of Cananea. EMPIRE MINING & DEVELOPMENT Co. ARIZONA

This company endeavored unsuccessfully to reopen and find a new ore- body in the Total Wreck mine, 9 miles south of Pantano, Pima CoseAriz.. and has therefore paid its debts and gone out of business. Described NBOUEX,

Empire-Nevada Copper Mining & Smelting Co. Nevada

Office: 42 Broadway, New York. Mine: Yerington, Nev. Wm. Gelder, pres.; G. B. Garrison, sec. Organized under laws of Arizona, capitalization $5,000,000, shares $5 par. ;

Owns about 500 acres on Copper Flat in 2 groups; 1 about 1 mile west of Yerington, Nev., the other 21% miles northwest of Yerington. Ore occurs in bunches and dissesminated throughout a body of monzonite- porphyry, said to be opened for 3,000’ long and 1,000’ wide, carrying copper in the form of silicates, carbonates and oxides, a considerable part of it averaging 2.65% copper.

Development by 5 shafts, from 80 to 160’ in depth and by several tun- nels and open cuts and also by drilling, but had just reached water level in July. Mine is said to have produced about $150,000 from surface workings, shipped 6,000 tons of 6% ore to Mason Valley smelter, 1912, and is now making monthly shipments of from 500 to 600 tons of ore to the Mason. Valley smelter at Thompson, Nev. Property has small smelting plant, assay office, hoist, boarding house, etc.

Empire State Mining Co. Arizona

Office, Utica, N. Y. Mine office: Bisbee, Cochise Co., Ariz. R. E. King, pres.; F. L. Guillaume, vice-pres. and treas.; E. M. Penny, sec.; W. A. Fenn, Geo. P. Langford, John A. Losee, John A. Urschel, directors; John A. Collins, gen, mgr. and purch. agt; O. P. Zane, cons. engr. and supt. Organized June 27, 1904, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par. Annual meeting in June.

' Lands, 11 claims, area 230 acres, near the Modern mine, about 9 miles northwest of Bisbee, having a 1,000’ tunnel, said to show about 150’ of low- grade copper ore, slightly auriferous and argentiferous, estimated to aver- age about $8 per ton in values, and formerly claimed to average $14 per ton. Ore is found in small stringers, typical of the district, and property is not considered well located. Development by a 1,300’ tunnel. EMPIRE ZINC CO. ARIZONA

Owns San Xavier group of claims in Pima district, 20 miles south of Tucson, Ariz. Claims show copper ores, but company was working silver- gold veins, employing about 40 men and shipping 40 tons daily) June, 1913. ENAVILLE SMELTER. IDAHO

Owned by North Fork Smelting € Mining Co., at Enaville, Shoshone Co., Idaho.

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Engels Copper Mining Co. California

Office: 823 Foxcroft Bldg., 68 Post St., San Francisco, Cal. Mine office: Lights Canyon, via Taylorsville, Plumas Co., Cal. Henry Engels, pres.; Landon, A. Bell, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, Richard Spreckels, I. J. Truman, Jr., and F. Klamp, directors. Lands, 2 groups, 2 miles apart, well timbered, on Iron Cap mountain, being the Superior group, near Taylorsville, and the Engels group, 12 miles north of Taylorsville and about 20 miles by good wagon road from Keddie, the nearest railway sta- tion on the Western Pacific line.

The Engel group, at 5,000’ elevation, is in Sec. 3, 4 and 9 of T. 27.N., R. 11 E. The “copper belt” is 1,800’ wide at this place and the gossan out- crop 300’ across and 2,000’ long, running northeast and dipping west. Ore- body is a huge lens, lying in porphyry alongside of a diorite dike and well adapted for development by tunnel. Underground workings, made in the past 5 years, amount to 4,108” and prove ore for 250” in depth with upraise of 150’ and shaft of 80’.. The ore is a mixture of chalcopyrite and bornite with barite and altered country rock and is said to average from 2 to 14%, but it is not believed that the whole deposit will average over 4%. Com- pany claims 70,000 tons carbonate ore and 350,000 tons chalcopyrite and bornite ore blocked out, this estimate probably being based on the assump- tion that the whole deposit is minable above the tunnel level. Fifteen thousand tons of bornite ore are reported on the dump, ready for smelting.

The Superior group of 8 claims, area 164.8 acres, is located 2 miles southwest of the Engel group. The ore deposit is like that of the other group in both character and occurrence and is said to be 200’ wide, to run north and south, and dip 65° W. Development is meagre, being only a 400’ tunnel and 60’ shaft, but said to show 10,000 tons of ore on the dump and 25,000 in mine. j

The smelter will be blown in when a process for eliminating sulphur fumes is perfected. The ore gives a 95% recovery by froth flotation proc- ess and a mill of this kind will be erected. Work for past 2 years has been centered on development, but property expected to become a producer within the next year.

Improvements consist of 114 miles rope tram way, steam power plant, 5-drill air compressor, 110-ton smelter, brickyard, sawmill and all necessary buildings.

Ensley Giant Mining & Development Co. Arizona

Idle many years. Office: 1712 Ave. F, Ensley, Ala. Letter unclaimed at mine office, Florence, Pinal Co., Ariz., W. L. Clark, press John Aner wine, vice-pres.; Walker Ward, sec.; J. F. Echols, treas.; R. T. McCloud, chairman; Jas. Merriman, gen. mgr., at last accounts. Organized May, 1908, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $16,500, shares $50 par. Lands, 420 acres, known as the Durham group.

Enterprize Mg., Reduction & Improvement Co. Arizona

Idle. Last address: Kingman, Mohave Co., Ariz. Maj. W. A. Mensch, pres, and gen. megr.; J. N. Turrentine, sec., at last accounts, Organized July 15, 1900, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,500,000, shares $1 par. Annual meeting, first Tuesday after first Monday in January.

Lands, 15 claims, area 300 acres, in the Maynard district of the Hual- apai. mountains, adjoining the Arizona Le Roy Copper Mining Co., 30 miles southeast of Kingman and about 13 miles from the Santa Fé railway, “with a good wagon road connecting, lands well watered. Property shows 7 orebodies, in granite and porphyry, the American vein, being estimated at 30’ average width, opened by a 300’ shaft, with 1,410’ of workings, es- timated to show 70,000 tons of ore, with 40,000 tons blocked out, carrying

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bornite, chalcopyrite and tetrahedrite, averaging 7% copper, 25% lead and 206 oz. silver, and from $4 to $8 gold per ton, which estimates are high. Has a 35-h. p. steam plant, with 8 mine buildings. No returns secured.

Equator Mining & Smelting Co. Arizona

Idle. Office: 20 Exchange Place, New York, N. Y. Mine office: Jerome, Yavapai Co., Ariz. Hon. Wm. A. Clark, pres.; Jas. A. Macdonald, vice-pres.; Harry H. St. Clair, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, Chas. W. Clark and Jas. H. Anderson, directors. Organized March 19, 1900, under laws of West Virginia, capitalization $500,000, shares $5 par; issued, $250,- 000. Annual meeting, third Monday in February.

Property, the Iron King mine, on Equator hill, in the Agua Fria dis- trict, is 4 miles by trail, or 6 miles by wagon road, south of Jerome. Prop- erty shows a mineralized zone up to 600’ in width, with north and south strike, traceable for upwards of 1,000”. It was feared that the otebody was a blanket vein, but diamond-drill borings proved it to hold to depth, carry- ing auriferous and argentiferous copper ores. Mine has a 300’ main shaft, and a 5,000’ gravity tram line, connecting the portal of the upper

tunnel with the roast yard of the reduction plant.

There was a 250-ton smelter, and production, 1904, was 800,000 Ibs. fine copper, but operations were suspended Aug., 1905, smelter dismantled and machinery removed.

Equity Copper & Gold Mining Co. Oregon

. Office: Rev. W. J. Hughes, pres. and gen. mgr., 2441 Center St, Baker City, Ore. Mine P. O.: Prairie City, Grant Co., Ore. F. M. Sax- ton, vice-pres.; Mrs. Kate Palmer, sec.; G. J. Bowman, treas.; preceding officers, Hon. T. E. Johns and Rev. R. W. Hughes, directors. Organized 1901, under laws of Oregon, capitalization $150,000, shares 10 cts, par, non- assessable. Paid a dividend of $3,000.

Lands, 16 claims, unpatented,. 320 acres, with a 5-acre mili site, in the Quartzburg district, 7 miles north of Prairie City, reported to show 11 ore- bodies, with 3, under development, traceable one-half mile, developed by tunnels, showing sulphide ore estimated by company to average 2 to 3% copper, 2% lead, 2% zinc, 4 oz. silver and $18 gold per ton.

The 80x120 frame mill has 5 stamps, a 9x12” Blake crusher, New Standard tables and 3 slime-tables. Presumably idle.

Erie Mining Co. Utah

Idle. Mine at Newhouse, Beaver Co., Utah. G. D. Anson, sec. Or- ganized Jan. 14, 1910, under laws of Utah, capitalization $60,000, shares 10 cts. par. :

Lands, 10 claims, adjoining the Utah Gold & Copper Co. on the north, in the Washington district of the Needle range. Mine, on which work was begun 1910, has a 50’ two-compartment shaft, and a 100’ drift tunnel on No. 3 vein, showing streaks of ore carrying copper, lead and zinc sulphides. A copper vein is shown on the surface. See Vol. X.

Esmeralda Copper Co, Mexico.

Has no representative at former mine office: Llano, Magdalena, So- nora, Mex. F. C. Emery, pres.; W. D. Fredericks, mgr., at last accounts. Lands, 88 hectares, said to have surface outcrops of ore assaying 10 to 25% copper, 15 to 20 oz. silver and $6 to $20 gold per ton, undoubtedly from selected samples. Mine, on which work was begun Jan., 1907, has about 300’ of workings, showing argentiferous’copper ore, with silver said to in- crease at depth.

Esmeralda Copper Mining & Smelting Co. Mexico

Idle, Mine near Santa Catarina del Norte, Baja California, Mex. Fred

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W. Burns, supt., at last accounts. Mine, known as La Esmeralda, is opened by shaft, with considerable development. ESMERALDA; NEGOCIACIÓN MINERA. MEXICO

Idle. Mine at Chalchihuites, Sombrerete, Zacatecas, Mex. Property includes the Anaconda, Esmeralda and La Luz mines, developed by shafts and tunnels, carrying argentiferous and auriferous lead and copper ores. ESPERANZA COPPER CO. ARIZONA

Idle, Mine near Twin Buttes, Pima Co., Ariz. Capitalization $600,000, shares $1 par. Lands, 6 claims, area 90 acres, in the Cañada del Oro district of the Sierrita mountains. Mine, with about 1,000” of workings, was worked formerly for silver, copper sulphides coming in at depth of 100”. Workings above 100” depth carry lead, copper and zinc sulphides. Has steam power, and shipped about 200 tons of ore, of good grade, in 1909. No returns secured.

Esperanza Mining Co. Mexico

Sec. and office: E. W. Nicholson, 801 Land Title Bldg., Philadelphia, Pa. Operating office: P. O. Box CCC, San Diego Cal. Mine near Ensena- da, Baja California, Mex. Geo. P. Brown, gen. mgr.

Lands, 83 hectares, and 40 acres miscellaneous lands, on Cedros island, on the Pacific coast. Country rock is diorite, with veins having 3 lenticular ore shoots carrying carbonate and sulphide ores, estimated by company to average 40’ width, 300’ depth and 1,100’ length, and to contain an aver- age of 2.5% copper, 3% zinc, 2 oz. silver and $3.50 gold per ton. Mine has been extensively developed, having about 8,500’ of workings, showing 150,000 tons of low-grade ore, with about 100,000 tons blocked out for stoping, surface gold ores changing to basic copper ores at depth. Prop- erty has produced about $450,000 in values, from shipments of high-grade ores to the Denver, Pueblo, San Francisco and Tacoma smelters. Exten- sive development being done in opening up and blocking out ore, in 1913. ESPERANZAS MINING CO. ; ; MEXICO

Idle. Mine at Estación Symón, San Juan de Guadalupe, Durango, Mex. Joseph Steel, gen. mgr., at last accounts. Capitalization $200,000. Property includes the Montaña de Cobre, Esperanza and other claims. ESQUER y CA; ALEXANDER. MEXICO

Idle. Mine at Baroyeca, Alamos, Sonora, Mex. J. J. Esquer, mgr., at last accounts. Property, the Mexicana, Esperanza and other mines, developed by shafts and tunnels, carrying auriferous and argentiferous copper ores. ESTELLE MINING CO. CALIFORNIA

Office: 320 So. Main St., Los Angeles, Cal. H. C. Troger, superintend- ent, Keeler, Inyo Co., Cal.. Property, the Morning Star group of claims, shows a fissure vein carrying complex lead-copper ore with gold-silver values. Development is by a 500 shaft and a 4,400’ tunnel. Company actively developing with 25 men at last report. Equipment includes gaso- line power and air compressor.

Eureka Copper Mines, Ltd. British Columbia

Office and mine: Nelson Kootenay district, B. C. J. J. Malone, pres.; A. B. Ritchie, vice-pres.; L. B. Reynolds, sec.-treas. Organized March A 1906, under laws of British Columbia capitalization $250,000, shares 25-cts. par, nonassessable; issued, $231,250. - Property under bond and lease to B. C. Copper Co., Ltd.

Lands, 7 claims, 2 iractional, all except 1 crown granted, approxi- mately 250 acres. Situated 21% miles from the Canadian Pacific railway and about 9 miles westerly from Nelson. Property contains several meetin! partly along contacts between limestone and granite, and partly along fracture planes in the granite. But one of these veins is being developed,

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this vein varying from a few inches to 15’ or more in width, with an average of about 3’, and traceable along the surface for several thousand feet. It is developed by shaft, winzes, raises and a 900’ crosscut tunnel, the main development being along the 270’ level of the shaft. Deepest working is 375’ beneath collar of shaft.

On the 270’, or crosscut tunnel level, the vein is developed for nearly 1,000’. Above the tunnel level the ore for the most part consists of copper carbonates contained in a lime-silica gangue, with more or less alteration products of granite. Below the tunnel level the ore, where explored, car- ries copper as chalcopyrite, bornite, chalcocite and tetrahedrite. Consid- erable native silver accompanied the secondary copper sulphides.’ Copper contents of ore shipped average 5%, 1 to 100 oz. silver per ton and 50 cts. to $10 gold per ton.

The mine is equipped with hoisting and steam-compressor plant, but will later be provided with an electric-driven mining plant, and an aerial tramway to the railway, the latter now on hand ready to be erected. An average of 25 men are employed. The ore will be shipped to the Green- wood smelter of the B. C. Copper Company, 110 miles to the west. EUREKA EXPLORATION CO. COLORADO

Idle. Office: 217 Magoun Bldg., Sioux City, Iowa. Mine at Eureka, San Juan Co., Colo. Theodore Ivens, mgr., at last accounts. Prop- erty, known as the Ridgeway group, carries lead and copper ores, devel- oped by tunnels Has steam and water power, an air compressor, 10-stamp mill and a small concentrator. No returns secured.

Eureka Gold & Copper Mining Co. Arizona

Mine office: Jerome, Yavapai Co., Ariz. Dr. A. J. Murietta, pres.; A. A. Macpherson, sec.-treas.. Lands, 8 claims, 7 miles south of Jerome, near the Iron King mine, opened by 2 tunnels, showing a 30’ vein with an 8’ paystreak carrying auriferous bornite and chalcopyrite, with occa- sional visible gold, but has not developed ore in commercial quantities. Mainly idle, for some years, excepting necessary annual assessment work. EUREKA HILL MINING CO. UTAH

Office: Deseret National Bank Bldg., Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine office: Eureka, Juab Co., Utah. Moylan C.-Fox, pres.; Geo. W. Riter, sec., managing engr. and supt. Organized Nov. 12, 1875, under laws of Utah, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $100 par. Is a close corporation, and has paid considerable dividends, but accounts are not published. Annual meeting, third Tuesday in February.

Lands, 3 claims, area 27 acres, patented, also a 25-acre mill site and 100 acres miscellaneous lands, in the Tintic district. The Eureka Hill mine, extensively developed, has a 1,500’ main working shaft and about 30 miles of workings. Orebodies are lenticular deposits, carrying cuprite, malachite and enargite, with average values of about 1.4% copper, 6% lead, 25 oz. silver and $3 gold per ton. Mine worked for 45 years but shut down, 1911, and only old workings mined by leasers since then. Produced many millions of silver-lead ore from above 1,000’ level. Deep development in future will be from adjacent mines. Adjoins Bullion-Beck and Centennial Eureka. Leasers working through latter ground, 1912, marketed many carloads of very high-grade ore.

Production, formerly treated at the mill, has been shipped to smelters in Salt Lake valley, since 1904, and is mainly silver-lead ore. Latest reported copper production was 134,000 lbs., and presumably is now trivial. EUREKA MINES CO. CONSOLIDATED. NEW MEXICO

Property sold to Jarilla Consolidated Copper Co., Dec., 1912. Was fully described Vol. X.

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EUREKA MINING, SMELTING & POWER CO. OREGON Idle. Office: P. O. Box 53, Clarkston, Wash. Mine office: Imnaha;

Wallowa Co., Ore.: W. E. Howard, sec, Lands, 40 claims, patents applied

for, but secretary reports, 1913, property idle for several years, awaiting

railway facilities.

Eureka Ophir Mine. Utah

At Dry Canyon camp, via Stockton, in Rush Valley district, Tooele Co., Utah, on the S. P. L. A. & S. L. R. R. Property shows veins with replacement orebodies in Paleozoic limestones at and near dike contact and is\shipping 50 tons a month from the 200’ and 375’ levels, averaging 8% copper, 15 oz. silver, 10% lead.

Eustis Mining Co. Quebec

Mine office: Eustis, Sherbrooke Co., P. Q., Canada. W. E. C. Eustis, 131 State St., Boston, Mass., pres., sec.-treas.; L. M. Adsit, supt. Organ- ized 1878, under laws of Quebec, and operated as a close corporation.

Lands, near Sherbrooke, carry 4 parallel interbedded lenses of cuprifer- ous pyrite, in talcose schist crossed by diorite dikes, the cupriferous belt being traceable for 2 miles. The orebody ig worked through an inclined shaft to a depth of about 3,450’ on the incline, with an average dip of 45". Lenses are 3 to 60’ in width, averaging about 2.5% copper, up to 60 cts. per ton in combined gold and silver values, and 40% sulphur, but with considerable variations, ore occasionally carrying up to 50% sulphur. Footwall vein, or lens 4 to 20’ thick, 50 to 100’ long. Main vein 20 to 60’ thick,-100 to 120’ long. Shaft vein, 3 to 15’ thick, 50 to 100’ long. No. 1 vein 2 to:25” thick, 20 to 120’ long. Footwall and shaft lenses richest in copper, averaging 4 to 8%, while others carry 214% copper with 42 to 48% sulphur. Property is primarily a producer of pyrite, for the sulphuric acid trade.

The mine, opened 1870, and producing for 30 years, has a 7x7’ crosscut tunnel, 1,000’ in length and a shaft of 3,000’, sunk at 20 to 45°, with double skip tracks. The mine is dry, most of the water coming from surface and the upper stopes, but the limited quantity of mine water is very acid, and contains copper in solution, which is precipitated as cement copper on scrap iron as it leaves the tunnel, through which it is conducted by a launder. Mine is served by the Boston & Maine railway. About 150 men are employed in the mine and mill.

There is a 400 kw. hydro-electric power plant on the Coaticook river, 2 miles from the mine. The main plant has 2 alternators mounted on the same shaft and run in parallel, driven by turbine water wheels. There is one 150 and one 200-kw. generators, direct-connected to the water wheels running at 500 r. p. m. The power is generated at 2,200 volts The electric efficiency is 90 to 93% and efficiency of water wheels is 60 to 80%, accord- ing to load.

Equipment includes a 150-h. p. Westinghouse electric hoist, with 6’ drums, raising 8-ton loads, good for 3,500’ depth. There are two 8-drill 2-stage Rand air compressors, 1 run by steam and 1 by electricity.

The 200-ton mill, three-fourths mile from the mine, is connected there- with by an electric tram, equipped with three 3-ton cars. The mill has a 150-h. p. electric equipment. Ore is dumped onto grizzlies, coarse ore fall- ing to the sorting floors and conveyor belts, where hand-picked and cobbed. Ore sufficiently rich for shipping is reduced to 214” size, and concentrated ore is reduced to 1” size, by crushers and 3 sets of rolls, going thence to a 6-compartment classifier, which sends each size to one of 8 Wilfley tables, middlings from the tables being sent back through the classifiers

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there burned for sulphur, the cupriferous cinder remaining then being

shipped to the Norfolk smelter; where treated for copper. Production 1s

about 30,000 tons of cupriferous pyrite yearly, and copper production is

estimated at 1,500,000 lbs. for 1912.

EVA MAY MINE. MONTANA Near Basin, Mont. Owned by the Montana Mineral Land Develop-

ment Co.

EVALENE MINE. ARIZONA B. F. Daniels, owner, Helvetia, Pinal Co., Ariz. Alvan D. Dailey, supt.

Is a copper mine developed by shaft and tunnels, employing about 15 men

and equipped with gasoline hoist.

EVANGELINA COPPER MINING CO. MEXICO Idle. Mine near Santa Catarina del Norte, comprises 150 acres, carry-

ing a fissure vein of 3 to 6’ width. Has steam power.

EVANSTON MINING CO. MEXICO Idle. Mine near Gabriel, San Juan del Rio, Durango, Mex. J. B.

Davis, mgr.; F. Boland, supt., at last accounts. Property, known as La

Purísima group, carries auriferous copper and argentiferous lead ores.

EVERGREEN BLUFF MINING CO. MICHIGAN In liquidation. Property owned by Mass Consolidated Copper Co. EVERGREEN GOLD & COPPER MINES CO. COLORADO

Office: 205 Empire Bldg., Denver, Colo. Mine office: Apex, Gilpin Co., Colo. J. S. Tapp, pres.; Geo. E. Bell, vice-pres.; Wm. C. Hollister, sec.-treas.; Etienne A. Ritter, gen. mgr.; Shad Reid, supt. Organized March 8, 1904, under laws of Colorado, capitalization $500,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable.

Property comprises the Evergreen mine with 6 claims, 3 patented, area 33 acres, also a 10-acre placer claim, and a quarter-acre mill site, in the Pine Creek district. .

The property shows Archæan gneiss and crystalline schists, cut by pegmatite, with an eruptive rock called “evergreenite.” This dike is 3 to 12’ in width, bounded on either side by ore-bearing contact zones of about 50 to 80” width. The ore deposit is unusual, carrying secondary (?) bornite as chief constituent. Development is by tunnel and 350’ shaft with levels at 100’, 150’, 200” and 350’. Two ore shoots were found on the 100’ level, 1 on the 200’ and a new one south of this on the 350’ level. Main orebody is 15 to 18’ thick, consisting of heavy sulphides, bornite with some copper pyrite and covellite. Recent development all on 350’ level. There are 4 known ore shoots, carrying chalcopyrite, bornite and covellite, estimated by management to average 3.5% copper, 2 to 8 og. silver and 50 cts. to $4 gold per ton. The upper workings show some malachite and tetrahedrite. Carload shipments, 1905, gave returns of 31% copper and 24 oz. silver per ton from first-grade ores, and 15% copper and 12 oz. silver from sec- ond grade ores.

Equipment includes steam power, with a 45-h. p. hoist and 4-drill Ley- ner air compressor. A 60-ton mill has one 9x15” Blake crusher, 2 sets of rolls, 1 Richards classifier and 2 Card tables, making a concentrate con- taining 26% copper, 0.15 oz. gold and 4 oz. silver per ton, the tailings carrying 0.75% copper, being a saving of $80 of the assay value of the ore.

Management good and property promising. ; EXCELSIOR MINING CO. IDAHO

Idle. Mine office: Burke, Shoshone Co., Idaho. Chas. Chriswell, supt. Lands, 6 claims, carrying a 15’ vein showing, at surface, copper carbonates and galena. Development is by 2 tunnels, upper 150’, and lower planned to be driven 625’. Employed 5 men, at last accounts.

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EXCELSIOR MINING & DEVELOPMENT CO. NEW MEXICO Idle. Mine near Orogrande, Otero Co., N. M. Lands include the

Nashville and Three Friends claims, said to carry a 4 vein of 4% silver-

copper ore, also lead carbonate up to 50% in tenor.

Excelsior Mining, Milling & Electric Co. Colorado

Office: 401 Continental Bldg., Denver, Colo. Mine address: Edw. F. Bonnel, superintendent, Frisco, Summit Co., Colo. Property, the Excel- sior mine with 2,600’ tunnel, developing a vein carrying lead-copper ore, with gold-silver values. Equipment includes Leyner compréssor driven by water and electric power. Has a 50-ton concentrator mill. EXCELSIOR MOUNTAIN COPPER CO. NEVADA

Mine office: Hawthorne, Mineral Co., Nev. Frank D. Qualey, pres. and gen. mgr.; J. H. Suits, sec.-treas.; George Brodigan, W. R. Jackman, W. B. Tait, directors; George O. Brown, supt. Organized June, 1905, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par. Annual meeting June 7. Lands, 13 claims, area 260 acres, in process of patenting, 16 miles southeast of Hawthorne, in Whiskey Flat district, Mineral county, Nev., giving promising surface showings of copper for a distance of several thousand feet along a contact between granite and limestone. Has 4 shallow shafts and 2 tunnels, with one 1,500’ tunnel showing ore averaging 4% copper and $2 gold per ton. Total of underground workings about 3,000’ said to prove ore to a depth of 600’.

Equipment includes 50-h. p. gasoline engine and 6-drill compressor, which will be replaced this year by electric power. Development planned for 1913 includes a connection between No. 1 and No. 2 tunnels with shaft No. 1 which, with stope development, will, it is hoped, block out sufficient tonnage to warrant building 18 miles of railroad to connect with the Southern Pacific railroad at Sodaville.

EXPECTATIVA MINING CO. y MEXICO

Idle. Former address: care of W. R. Ramsdell, mer., Guadalajara, Jal., Mex. Mine near Ameca, Jalisco, Mex. Lands, 10 miles southwest of Ameca, show auriferous and argentiferous copper and lead Ores, assaying up to 27% copper.

Exploration Co. Of England & Mexico., Ltd. Mexico

H. F. Wreford, sec., 11 Cornhill, London, E. C., Eng. R. M. Raymond, resident managing director in Mexico Citys ROTO Bayliss: chattman:, P D Foster, J. R. Maguire, H. Mosenthal, John E. Dudley Ryder, G. D. Smith, O, E. Warburg, and J. H. M. Shaw, directors. Organized March 8, 1909, under laws of Great Britain, capitalization £250,000, shares £1 parital the shares are issued, 38.5 6d. paid, and are held by the Exploration Co., Ltd. A dividend of 8s. per share, payable in fully paid Buena Tierra min- ing shares, was declared, Aug., 1912. Company is a subsidiary of the Exploration Co., Ltd. It has acquired and sold to Operating companies bearing these names, the Buena Tierra and Santa Rosa properties. Owns no copper mines at present.

EXPOSICION MINING CO., LA. ARIZONA See La Exposicion Mining Co. FAIRVIEW GROUP. WASHINGTON

Situated near Chewelah, Stevens Co., Wash. Developed by 300’ tunnel which recently uncovered a 5’ vein of copper and silver ore. FAIRVIEW MINING CO. ARIZONA Idle., Mine near Dragoon, Cochise Co.. Ariz. W. E. Wright, sec.- treas, and gen. mer., at last accounts. Organized Dec. 3, 1909, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $400,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable; $200,000 preferred and $200,000 common stock: issued, $100,000. Property, 17 claims,

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unpatented, with a 15-acre mill site, in the Dragoon district, 5 miles south of Dragoon. Claims show a gossan outcrop over a replacement deposit in limestone, developed by shafts of 20’ and 145’ depth, showing malachite and sulphide ores, estimated to average 0.8% copper, 0.3 oz. silver and $1.60 gold per ton. Has 2 mine buildings.

Fairview Mining Co. California

Mine office: Relief Hill, Nevada Co., Cal. Eleanot E. Hoeft, pres., and Elbert E. Boyd, treas. Lands, 8 claims, area 160 acres, 21 miles north- east of Nevada City, nearest rail point. Property has 5 to 12’ vein with schist hanging wall and serpentine foot wall, capped by an iron-stained schistose gossan. Development is by a 375’ tunnel on the vein, with a back of about 170”, showing chalcopyrite, with some gold, in a gangue of quartz- ite and iron oxide. The ore averages 1.1% copper, 16 cts. silver and $4 gold per ton. An open cut on the outcrop was worked for gold, by sluicing, some years ago.

Fanny Fern Mining Co. Colorado

Mine office: Lake City, Hinsdale Co., Colo. A. O. Egbert, supt., at last accounts. Property carries copper and silver-lead ores, developed by a 200’ tunnel. Was developing with a small force, at last accounts, 1911. FARRELL COPPER CO. MONTANA

Idle. Mine at Butte, Silver Bow Co., Mont. W. C. Lewis, pres.; Carlton H. Hand, vice-pres.; J. D. Slemons, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, A. T. Morgan, Walter C. Lewis, Donald Campbell, W. H. Hall and Daniel Tewey, directors. Organized July 24, 1906, under laws of Montana, capi- talization $1,000,000, shares $2.50 par. Lands, 17 acres, in the southeastern part of the Butte district, having a 200’ shaft, sunk jointly with the Alliance Copper Co., with a crosscut on the 200’ level showing a little ore carrying copper, lead, zinc and silver values.

Farwell Mountain Copper Co. Colorado

Office: 112 St. James St., Montreal, Canada. Mine in Routt Co., Colo. J. A. Ouimet, pres., 301 Essex St., Lawrence, Mass. J. R. Simpson, vice- pres.; W. H. Moisson, sec.; J. U. Emard, treas.; preceding officers, and J. E. Lemay, A. B: Sutherland and T. J. Buckley, directors. Geo. Me- Fadden, gen. supt.; C. D. McFadden, mine supt., engr. and purch. agt. Organized March, 1907, under laws of Colorado, capitalization $5,000,000, shares $5 par.

Property, 42 claims, 434 acres, 30 claims patented and 560 acres placer ground, in the Hahn’s Peak district; Routt county, Colo. Ore occurs in vertical fissure veins, running northeast along quartz porphyry dikes in granite. Veins carry values in gold and silver with some copper, the one under development is said to be 8’ wide, proven to a depth of 351’ and carries a total value oí $14 per ton.

Development by crosscut tunnel has cut 2 well defined veins and sev- eral smaller’ ones, but the big vein noted above is not yet cut. There are also 10 shafts, 10 to 94’ deep and 20 tunnels, longest 625”. Total length of underground workings 2,320’. ad

Equipment includes gasoline engine and blower with 10 buildings. Company plans erection of treatment plant on property, completion of crosscut tunnel, blocking out of orebody and development of hydro-electric power on the Elk river, 7 miles distant. The U. S. Government has given a permit for the use of 2 reservoir sites. Property is 27 miles from the Denver, Northwestern & Pacific railroad.

Favorite Gold & Copper Mining Co. Washington

Office: Nelsonville, Ohio. Mine at Nighthawk. Okanogan Co., Wash. W. R. Calkins, pres.; Henry Loudenslager, vice-pres. and treas.; A. E.

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Faine, sec.; preceding officers, Alois Thurn, E. R. F. Peterfish, J. E. Baldridge, Calvin Essex, John T. Meredith and Wm. F. Bort, directors; Edw. Williams, supt., at last accounts. Organized Dec., 1902, under laws of Washington, capitalization $2,000,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable.

Lands, 28 claims, 14 fractional, area 300 acres, adjoining the Night- hawk mine, in the foothills of Mount Ellemeham, in the Wannicutt Lake district, 34 miles from the Canadian Pacific railway.

The property has 3 veins, one, of 7’ width, carrying copper, and 2 carrying silver-lead, with values mainly in lead. The principal silver-lead vein, of 1 to 5’ width, has a 963’ upper tunnel, and a 650’ lower tunnel. FAY-CANANEA COPPER CO. MEXICO

Office: 2105 East Superior St., Duluth, Minn. Former mine office: Cánanea, Sonora, Mex. Marcus L. Fay, pres. and gen. mgr.; G. A. Daugherty, vice-pres. and treas.; Geo. M. Fay, sec.; preceding officers, Wm. J. Schulze, John McDaniels and Leo Kannaple, directors. Organized Sept. 4, 1904, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $3,000,000, shares $5 par. Company holds title to its lands through the Cananea-Eastern Mining Co., S. A., organized under the laws of Mexico. Mr. Fay is said to own a majority of the issued stock.

Property, originally aggregating 2,127 acres, about 2 miles apart, has been greatly reduced, company retaining only the Cananea Eastern group. Former holdings were described fully Vol. VIII.

The Cananea Eastern property was acquired on a bond in 1912, by A. C. Charlot and associates, of New York, on behalf of the Charlot Min- ing & Smelting Co., which in turn transferred the bond to the Eastern Cananea Development Co., who-did extensive development work and made necessary repairs. j The Sulphide group has a strong vein, claimed to average about 150’ in

width, but it is improbable that the full width will be found workable. This property has an antigua mine, with two 100’ shafts, from which more or less high-grade silver ore was stoped in the past. New work includes 2 permanent shafts, deepest 162”, at last accounts, and the beginning of a tunnel, planned to be driven 6,000’, to cut 20 or more veins. A 26’ shaft on the Azurite claim shows ore giving average assays of 6% copper, 10% lead and 30 oz. silver per ton. Property considered promising. ;

Federal-Ely Copper Co. Nevada

Office: 26 Stock Exchange Bldg., Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine office: Ely, White Pine .Co:, Nev. J. A. Cunningham, pres.; Adrian C. Ellis, Jr., vice-pres.; C. T. Strong, sec.; L. L. Farnsworth, treas.; Wm. J. Craig, mgr.; preceding officers, R. J. Evans, John T. Hodson and W. M. Bradley, di- rectors; Geo. W. Kessler, supt. Organized 1906, and articles of association amended, 1908, to render the stock assessable, and a 5-ct. assessment was levied. Assessments levied in 1910, 1911 and 1912.

Lands, 21 claims, 3 fractional, 400 acres, also the’ Huesser ranch of 600 acres, 15 miles north of Ely, in the Steptoe valley, bought 1906. Min- ing lands are the Panama claim, bought, 1909, for $10,000, lying about one- half mile north of the Star Pointer shaft of the Nevada Consolidated; 8 claims north of the Nevada Consolidated; 3 claims between the Cumber- land-Ely and Turner-Ely, and the Queen of the West group, in Robinson cafion. Company is said to have paid $225,000 for its lands.

The property north of the Nevada Consolidated shows limestone beds dipping to the east, said to be underlaid by cupriferous monzonite, and to carry 3 parallel shear zones, each about 400’ in width, about 600’ apart, showing a little copper and lead ore. The limestone capping on the Savage claim is said to carry lead ore. Churn-drill borings are said to have given

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a satisfactory showing of ore, and there also was some test-pitting and suríace trenching.

Development is by tunnels aggregating about 1,000’ length and 4 shallow shafts, 3 said to show copper sulphides at depth of 100’, the main shaft be- ing said to be near the contact of 3 ore zones, which seems peculiar, if the ore zones are parallel, as claimed.

The Queen of the West shaft shows, at depth of 110’, a sulphide ore- body of considerable size, averaging 3% copper, 1 to 2 oz. silver and 40 to 50 cts. gold per ton. No development work has been done for 4 years past. The Kessler shaft, about 100’ deep, near the tunnel, shows lead carkonates of fair tenor. The mine has a small steam plant.

Company is in disrepute as it has done little save levy assessments for several years, doing barely enough work on the claims to meet annual assessment requirements. Their claims were surveyed for patent in 1912, but no application for patent had been made July, 1913. Company’s stand- ing and credit are not regarded favorably. ` FEDERAL LEAD CO. MISSOURI

Subsidiary of American Smelters Securities Co. Organized under laws of Delaware, capital $2,000,000, shares $10 par. The lead-smelting and refining plant is situated at Federal, Ill., near Alton, and comprises 302.5 acres.

The plant is a custom, smelter. Mining property consists of 13,427 acres in the Flat River district, southeastern Missouri. The smelting plant is modern and mining properties in high state of development, fully equipped and producing. Operated 3 shafts during 1912, mining and milling 1,000,000 tons crude ore and producing, besides lead concentrates, a small tonnage of copper concentrate, recovered as a byproduct, holding 32,534 lbs. copper and 1,346 oz. silver. Described fully in Mineral Resources, U. S. Geol. Surv:.- 1912; 68:

Federal Mines Corporation. Colorado

Idle. Mine at Idaho Springs, Clear Creek Coss Colo. H. A. Moore, supt., at last accounts. Has argentiferous and auriferous lead and copper sulphides, and is equipped with steam power.

FELIX BASIN COPPER MINES. MONTANA W. J. Harris, owner, Coram, Mont. Property consists of Proserpine, Big Elk, Iroquois, and Big Copper claims, situated 30 miles south of Coram and 5 miles south of the junction of Felix creek with the South fork of the Flathead river. Property shows 2 veins said to be 10 to 20’ wide, traceable 2 miles, to carry concentrating ore with bunches of ore carrying 14 to 58% copper and good silver values. The U. S. Geol. Survey warns investors against this copper district as unworthy of the favorable notices appearing in the press. FERN CLIFF MINING CO. f IDAHO

Idle. Mine address: Coolin, Bonner Co., Idaho. Malcolm J. McLeod, pres. Lands, 4 claims, formerly held by the Cabinet Range Mining Co., near the Priest Lake. Mining Co. holdings, on the western side of Priest river, property, lying only 4 miles south of the international boundary, be- ing difficult of access. Lands carry 6,000’ of the strike of a mineralized zone of about 25’ estimated width, proven by 2 open cuts, and trenching at the extreme ends. A 120’ crosscut tunnel, with a back of about 100’, shows lead and copper bres, selected samples carrying 87 oz. silver per ton, and up to 20% copper. A good water power is available.

Ferris-Haggarty Copper Mining Co. Wyoming

Is an inactive company that actually owns, or did own, the copper mine

of this name at Rudefeha, Carbon Co., Wyo. Company also owned $375,-

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000 of the Penn Wyoming bonds, but as its stock is practically all owned by the Penn Wyoming, its corporate officers and affairs are of no public interest, save as the only valuable mining asset of the chain of bankrupt corporations, controlled by the Penn Wyoming and its alleged and equally rotten successor, the United Smelters, Railway & Copper Co. The mine itself has been idle for many years. See Penn Wyoming Co. FIDALGO-ALASKA COPPER CO. ALASKA

Mine office: Ellamar, Alaska. Thos. Donahue, pres.; L. A. Levensaler, megr.; W. G. Kelly, supt. Property, 24 tlaims, about 15 miles from Ellamar and oge-half mile east of Irish cove, on the southern side of Fidalgo bay, an inlet of Prince William sound. Mine has a little stripping and trench- ing and several short tunnels, the 450’ main tunnel following a well-defined fracture zone, in slate, carrying 2 lenticular ore shoots, said to be 5x50’ in cross section, cut at 200’ and 300’ from portal, with many small stringers. Ore, mainly chalcopyrite, said to give average assays of about 10% copper, occurs as cementing material of fractures, irregular stringers, disseminated grains and as lenticular replacements of country rock, the fracture zones being very erratic in size and extent.

Equipment includes 1,000’ aerial tram, ore bins and wharf, besides several mine buildings. Company employing 16 men and figures on ship- ments averaging 300 tons a month; 400 tons were shipped in April, 1911, to Tacoma. Operations were continued throughout 1912.

Fidelity Copper Co. Idaho

Idle. Letters neither answered or returned from office: 541 Umatilla Ave., Portland, Ore., and mine: Homestead, Adams Co., Idaho. Jos. M. Healy, pres.; L. B. Reeder, sec.; R. A. Proudfoot, treas.; T. J. Senfurth, mgr.; R. A. Chipman, supt., at last accounts. Organized under laws of Oregon, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par.

Lands, 17 claims, area 340 acres, near the Iron Dyke mine, 5 miles below Homestead, in the Seven Devils district, having a contact vein be- tween granite-porphyry and limestone, carrying native copper, azurite, malachite and chalcocite, mainly the latter, claimed to give assays up to 60%, with an average of 8% copper tenor. Mine has a 700’ main tunnel, pianned to be driven to give a back of about 1,000’, showing ore assay- ing 8% copper, 5 oz. silver and $4 gold per ton. Mine has about 1,500’ of workings.

Fidelity Copper Co. Ontario

Owns property 12 miles north of Sturgeon Falls, Ont., showing cop- per ore. W. G. Colwell, Buffalo, N. Y., pres. Company plans to resume work in 1913.

Fife Mines, Ltd. British Columbia

Mine office: Rossland, B. C. Chas. Dempster, gen. mer. Property con- sists of the Hattie Btown claim at Rossland and the Dykehead, Ben Hur, Three Bells and Fife claims at Fife, near Christina lake, 12 miles east of Grand Forks, Boundary district, B. C. Claims show a vein up to 30’ in width, carrying about 6’ of smelting ore, with balance of concentrating grade, developed by a glory hole, an 80’ shaft and a main tunnel having a 235” winze. Ore.is mainly chalcopyrite, carrying gold and silver values, claimed to average 3 to 6% copper and $4 to $8 gold per ton. Company did 1,000’ of work in 1909, a large amount of diamond drilling in 1910 and resumed development in 1911-12. Average of 30 assays of ore from the dump gave 5.3% copper and $4.20 in gold per ton. Some ore was shipped, 1909-12, to the Trail smelter. Equipment includes necessary mine build- ings and a 5-drill Rand air compressor. Property considered promising.

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FIFTY GOLD MINES CORPORATION. COLORADO Liquidated. O. B. Thompson, former mgr., Blackhawk, Colo. Owned 50 patented claims, including the Gregory, Bobtail, Fiske and other mines, which have produced several million dollars worth of gold and silver-bear- ing ¢opper ores since 1859. Has 80-stamp mill and other equipment. Prop- erty placed in receiver’s hands 1910 and sold June 17, 1913, for $61,500 to a Kansas City syndicate. Company now dead. 56 (FIFTY-SIX) COPPER MINE. NEVADA J. P. Turner, operator, Winnemucca, Nev. Is the first quartz mine located in Nevada, being staked out in 1856, by L. D. Vary. The mine is in the southern end of the Eugene mountains, not far from the Humboldt river and southwest of Mill City. Was reopened in winter of 1912. FINANCE MINING CO. NEVADA Idle. Office and mine: St. Thomas, Lincoln Co., Ney. Levi.Syphus, pres.; Robert O. Gibson, sec. Organized Oct. 23, 1906, under laws of Ne- vada, capitalization $500,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable. Lands, 4 claims, unpatented, in the Gold Butte district, 60 miles from a railroad, having a 120’ shaft, with hand whim, showing ore carrying complex ores with cop- per, lead, silver and gold values. FINDLAY COPPER CHIEF MINING CO. NEVADA Idle. Office: Findlay, Ohio. Mine office: Las Vegas, Clark Co., Nev. John,.N. Dotz press P: M. Cox, sec. R.. E. Taylor, treas.; Ji E. Klern; supti, at last accounts. Organized 1907, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par. Lands, 2 claims, in the Yellow Pine district, about 25 miles southwest of Las Vegas, having a 30’ shaft and a 60’ tunnel, said to show ore. FINLEY MINES. UTAH Chas. A. Finley, owner, Castleton, Grand Co., Utah. Located 45 miles south of Cisco on Denver € Rio Grande railroad, 24% miles northwest of the Miners Basin and about same distance from Castleton, in north .end of the La Sal mountains. Property, 9 claims, shows gold-bearing copper ores in fissure veins and stock works in monzonite porphyry; also 2 claims 14% miles from Castleton, showing a “blanket” deposit on a porphyry-lime contact. Geology described in U. S. Geol. Surv. Bull. 530, p. 113. FIRST CHANCE MINING & MILLING CO. UTAH Idle. Office: Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine office: Ibapah, Tooele Co., Utah. Wilkins Goodrich, pres.; Soren Nielsen, vice-pres.; John Jensen, sec.- treas., at last accounts. Organized Nov. 17, 1909, under laws of Utah, capi- talization $100,000, shares 20 cts. par. Lands, 7 claims, unpatented, in Paleozoic limestones cut by porphyry, in the Dugway district, 76 miles southwest of Center on the Salt Lake railroad, are slightly developed. FIRST NATIONAL COPPER CO. CALIFORNIA Wm. A. Kerr, sèc., 111 Broadway, New York. Mine and works office: Coram, Shasta Co., Cal. Thos. W. Lawson, pres.; Wm. A. Kerr, vice-pres.; S. M. T. Raborg, treas.; Edgar L. Newhouse, director; Frank M. Leland, director and gen. mgr. Organized Jan. 20, 1908, under laws of Nevada, capitalization $3,000,000, shares $5 par, assessable; paid in $3.75. Is said to have 5,500 shareholders, including American Smelters Securities Co., owning 80,000 shares. Stock is listed on the New York and Boston curbs. Empire Trust Co., New York, and State Street Trust Co., Boston, regis- trars; Registrar and Transfer Co., New York, and International Trust Co., Boston, transfer agents. Annual meeting, last Thursday in October, at Carson City, Nev. Cash on hand June 30, 1911, $115,787. This corporation is a holding company, owning the entire capital stock of the Balaklala Con- solidated Copper Co., which in turn owns the entire capital stock of the

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Balaklala Copper Mining & Smelting Co., Coram Water Co. and other sub- sidiaries.

The mining property is described under the above titles. The smelter was shut down in 1909 by fume litigation in the California courts, and will not, and cannot resume operations until the Hall process or some other device is successful in eliminating the damage from fumes emitted in the operation of the company's smelter. Mine operated, Sept., 1913, shipping 50 to 100 tons of 4% ore daily to the Mammoth smelter of the U. S. Smelting Co.

The Balaklala Consolidated Copper Co. had a bond issue of $1,500,000, which was paid by the First National, in 4 annual installments of $375,000 each. The First National authorized, 1909, a $1,000,000 bond issue, flota- tion of which was a failure, but pledged some of these bonds for a loan of $375,000, which loan presumably was paid by the proceeds of the last assessment. The company also was reported to be earning about $20,000 per month, in 1910, and immediately thereafter an assessment of $1.25 per share was levied. The stock was manipulated to $8 per share by Boston interests, but since Lawson’s loss of popularity, has been scarcely saleable. The property is fully described under the title of its owner, the Balaklala Consolidated Copper Co. FIRST NATIONAL MINING CO. NEW MEXICO

Reported out of business by post office at Orogrande, Otero Co., N. M., described Vol. X. Property includes the Forest Queen mine, said to show a 20-vein, opened by tunnel and a 50’ shaft, said to show ore having good assay values in lead, copper and silver, with a little gold. A shaft on the Monte Cristo claim is sunk on a fissure vein, and there is a tunnel on the Ruby claim.

Fitzsimmons Group. British Columbia

P. O.: Newport, B. C. Property consists of Alf-Up and Yellow Jacket claims, located on Fitzsimmons creek, Howe Sound district, 38 miles from Newport, of which 26 miles is by trail. Mine is in the Greenlake country, tributary to the Pacific & Great Eastern railroad. Claims show a miner- alized zone, 150’ wide, with an orebody 10’ wide, traceable for 250. Out- crop forms a bluff 60’ high with chalcopyrite in epidote and garnet gangue. Outerops show values of 60 cts. to $4 gold, one-half to 11% oz. silver and 5 to 12% copper per ton. Property examined by F. W. McCready, who reports very large quantities of payable ore on outerop.

Five Bears Mining Co. California

Office: 15 N. 40th Ave., Chicago, Ill. Mine office: Genesee, Plumas Co., Cal. F. A. Meidinger, pres,; A. Vermaas, sec.; J. D. Meidinger, treas.; preceding officers and E. C. Goeckel, directors. Organized April-10, 1903, under laws of South Dakota, capitalization $2,500,000, shares $1 par, non= assessable; issued, $2,428,174.

Lands, 10 claims, patented, area 200 acres, well timbered, 21 miles from the Western Pacific railway. The property shows 6 orebodies, occurring as fissure veins in talcose schist, and as contact replacement deposits be- tween schist and porphyry, of which 2 have been developed, to some extent. The gossan was worked, 1876-93, for gold. Main vein, of 14’ estimated average width, carries chalcopyrite, associated with pyrite, estimated by management to average 6% copper, 1.5 oz. silver and $1.40 gold per ton. There are 2 tunnels, of 380’ and 1,250’, latter a drift tunnel, following the vein fault-fissure, showing low-grade chalcopyrite for an average of about 12’ width. Mine has 3,484’ of workings, estimated to show 80,000 tons of ore, with 9,500 tons blocked out for stoping.

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“pressor, and electric light plant. There are 11 buildings. A 50-ton mill

has ten 850-tb. stamps. Property is now being operated under lease by Allison & Bluett of Los Angeles, Cal. It is reported that a copper-bearing deposit is being opened at a vertical depth of 900’, ranging from 10 to 20’ in width with high-grade ore. Two tons of concentrates produced daily. FLAGSTAFF COPPER MINING CO. UTAH Merged in Wasatch Mines Co., 1912. Address: Paul D. Durant, sec. and organizer, 902 Wells Bldg., Milwaukee, Wis. Company sold stock on statement that it owned 240 acres of mineral land in the Little Cottonwood district, Alta, Utah, but most of the money so raised was used to pay for ground and amount available for development was not sufficient for extensive development. Work was directed toward exploration beneath the old stopes that produced several millions in silver in the 70’s, expecting to find copper ores,, which hope was not realized. Company has consoli- ` dated with the Columbus Consolidated, owning adjoining claims, and the Superior Alta, owning site for new Crain tunnel, under name of Wasatch Mines Co. Described Vol. X. FLAGSTAFF MINE. MONTANA Owned by Elliston Copper Co. Located on Snowshoe creek, 10 miles north of Elliston and developed by 200 to 400’ tunnels. Ore occurs in lime- stone and carries gold and copper values. FLAGSTAFF MINING CO., LTD. IDAHO. Idle. Letter unclaimed at former mine office, Osburn, Shoshone Co., Idaho. Capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par. Lands, 4 claims, 3 miles from a railroad. Development includes a 25’ shaft and a 350’ tunnel. Traces of lead, copper, silver and gold ore have been encountered. FLATHEAD DEVELOPMENT CO. MONTANA Address: care Gen. Chas. S. Warren, Butte, Mont. Mine at Coram, Mont. L. O. Evans and John M. Murphy of Butte, Fred Oliver and V. D. Williamson of Spokane; Dr. W. H. Campbell and A. Ingraham of Kalis- pell, organizers. Property comprises the Big Copper, Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4 and Noble Copper claims covering veins 10 to 20’ wide on Felix creek, a tributary of South Flathead river, 30 miles south of Coram, a station on the G. N. R. R. ; FLATIRON MINE. MONTANA Office: Adolph Lewisohn & Sons, 42 Broadway, New York. Is owned jointly by Adolph Lewisohn and the Leonard Lewisohn Estate. Lands are about one-half acre, being a triangular fraction just east of the Moun- tain Chief mine of the Anaconda Copper Mining Co. Property, though small, is considered well located and promising, but is best developed by the workings of the High Ore mine, now beneath it. FLEMING-FOX MINING & SMELTING CO. NEW MEXICO Office: 3 Exchange Ave., Chicago, Ill. Mine at Jicarilla, Lincoln Co,, N. M. W. G. Fleming, pres.; Edwin Fox, mgr, at last accounts. Lands known as the Honey Bee group. Equipment includes a small steam plant. No trace of operations secured. FLORENCE COPPER MINING CO. ARIZONA Address: Jas. C. Tharp, supt., Florence, Pinal Co., Ariz. Property is a copper-gold prospect that is intermittently operated and is developed by several shallow shafts. FLORENCE MINING CO. IDAHO Address: John B. Steffes, Kellogg, Idaho. Property, a group of claims due east of the Alhambra and southeast of the Sherman and Roanoke mines. Developed by 45’ crosscut tunnel, cutting vein carrying gray cop- per with galena in quartz gangue.

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FLORENCE-RAE COPPER CO. WASHINGTON Mine office: Index, Snohomish Co., Wash. N. Rudebeck, mgr. Lands, on Copper mountain, about 4 miles east of Index, have a tunnel showing a 10’ paystreak of chalcopyrite in the Margurite vein and an assay of 400 lbs. taken across 6’ of the vein averaged 12 oz. silver, 18.5% copper, 29.6% iron, 7.2% silica and 35,8% sulphur. Was surveying a line, 1912, to connect with the Great Northern or Milwaukee railroad and was working a force of 20 men. FORD MINING CO. ARIZONA

Address: Geo. O. Ford, supt., Junction, Yavapai Co., Ariz. Property is a copper-gold-lead prospect in the Black Hills district, developed by shaft and prospected, 1913, by diamond-drill work.

Forest Home Mining Co. California

Idle many years. Mine near Forest Home, San Bernardino Co., Cal. Property, about one-half mile north of Forest Home, has four 75’. shafts, showing indications of copper.

Forest Queen Copper Co. New Mexico

Address: Deming, N. M. H. F. Kettler, pres. and treas.; W. H. Sloss, sec., both of Deming, N. M. Annual meeting Jan. 12. Lands, Red Cloud and one other claim, 40 acres, in the, Pinas Altas mining district of Grant county, N. M. Country rock is limestone cut by diorite intrusives. Ore- bodies occur in bedding planes of limestone with ore zone running north- east and dipping about 15° southeast into the mountain. There are said to be 4or 5 thick orebodies in contact metamorphic deposits said to extend

through for 3,000’ across. the claims; the ore consists of hematite, marcasite and chalcopyrite.

Development consists of only two 50’ and 35’ shafts, both in ore, and a 60’ tunnel. Claims have been relocated many times. Property adjoins the Cleveland group and carries extension of the orebodies of that prop- erty. The A. T. € S. F. R. R. is 8 miles from the property. Rumors about consolidation of above company with the Cleveland and Utter groups are denied by Mr. Utter.

Fort Hall Mining & Milling Co., Ltd. Idaho

Idle. Office and mine: Pocatello, Bannock Co., Idaho. Geo. W. Derr, “pres.; W. A. Hyde, vice-pres.; W. H. Witty, sec.; L. Fargo, treas.; pre- ceding officers and A. Fitzgerald, directors; H, M. Palmer, supt. Lands, 7 miles from Pocatello, are said by R. N. Bell, state mine inspector, to show big, low-grade deposits of copper-iron-sulphide ores, not as yet profitably mined. Equipped with steam power. No returns secured.

Fort Henry Mining Co. Arizona

Idle. Address formerly care of R. G. Hourtienne, pres., Pasadena, Cal. Mine at Constellation, Yavapai Co., Ariz. John R. Dobler, supt., at last accounts. Lands in the Black Rock district, have a 55’ shaft in a 2’ vein of ore assaying up to 25% copper, with some gold values.

Fort Pitt Copper Co. New Mexico

Address: care W. H. Staley, pres.; 633 Beechwood Ave., Carnegie, Pa. Mine near Clayton, Union Co., N. M. Organized Jan. 22, 1907, under laws of Delaware, capitalization $2,500,000, shares $5 par. The Fort Pitt Cop- per Co. succeeded the Sater Copper Co., which succeeded the Copper Chief AA which in turn succeeded the Old Hickory Copper Mining Co., all dead.

‚Lands, 27 claims, area 540 acres, also a 5-acre mill site, in the Black Mesa district, said to show 7 fissure veins in sandstone, of which 2, slightly developed, are claimed to be of 6’ average width, and to carry melaconite malachite, azurite and chalcopyrite, averaging 14% copper and 15 oz. silver

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per ton, and mine to show 60,000 tons of ore. Development is by shafts of 85’ and 225’, and by tunnels of 25’, 50” and 300. Equipment is claimed to include a 190-h. p. steam plant, with 2 hoists, and the mine to have 4 buildings and an 18x70’ mill. The original prospectus of the company, written by a cheerful liar, states that not one of the great mines of the United States has as great a percentage of copper as the Fort Pitt, and that there is a greater value back of this stock than any stock on the market, and that it is as safe as real estate, with 10 times the earning power, all of which statements are unmitigated prevarications. Present

“president of company writes in March, 1913, that steps are being taken to

obtain government title, and the standing of the company at the present time is such that “the least said the better.” FORTUNA, S. A.; COMPAÑÍA MINERA LA. MEXICO Office: Aguascalientes, Ags., Mex. Mine office: Tepezalá, Ocampo, Aguascalientes, Mex. Geo. B. Wardman, pres. and gen. mer.; O, F. West- lund, vice-pres.; De Witt Crevelling, sec.-treas.; Alberto Pez, supt. Or- ganized 1902, capitalization 200,000 pesos, shares 100 pesos par. Lands, 20 hectares, including La Fortuna and adjoining mines, having 2 tunnels and a 100-meter blind shaft, mines having a vertical depth of 200 meters and greatest horizontal length of 600 meters of workings, showing mainly oxi- dized argentiferous copper ores of good average tenor in both metals. Has animal power and employs 200 men normally. Probably idle owing to revo- lution. FORTUNA COPPER CO. CALIFORNIA Idle. Mine at Fortuna, Humboldt Co., Cal. P. J: Mulley, pres. and gen. mgr.; Frank Legg, vice-pres.; C. A. Eastman, sec.; Fortuna Merchan- dising Co., treas.; A. E. Purdy, supt., at last accounts. Organized June 8, 1901, under laws of California, capitalization $70,000, shares $5 par. Lands, 19 claims, unpatented, area 380 acres, in Trinity county, Cal., opened by tunnels di 60’ and 270’, showing ores that have assayed 28% copper and $3 gold per ton, in veins of 12 to 16” width. FORTUNA GOLD & COPPER CO. , ARIZONA Idle. Address: care Nathan Sturdy, supt., Phoenix, Ariz. Mine near Cave creek, Maricopa Co., Ariz, C. M. Clark, press Maj. R; N: Whitney, vice-pres.; Wm. H. Simpson, Jr., sec.; F. E. Miller, treas., at last accounts. Organized under laws of Arizona, capitalization $500,000, shares $1 par. Lands, 12 claims, including the Scarlet mine, 28 miles north of Phoenix, said to have a promising surface showing and developed by a 500’ tunnel showing a vein with gold-copper ore. Equipment includes gasoline hoist and an air compressor, and there is said to be a 50-ton concentrator. Work suspended, 1912, pending installation of stamp mill and concentration plant. FORTUNA MINING CO. ARIZONA Address: care Judge D. A. Richardson, Douglas, Ariz. Mine address: care Johnson € Marvel, Superior, Pinal Co., Ariz. Organized Jan. 27, 1908, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $10 par. Prop- erty, a group of claims near Superior, now under lease and bond to John- son & Marvel, showing copper ore with high gold and silver values. Devel- oped by the 250’ Richardson tunnel following a vein carrying a 2 to 6” pay streak of 10% copper ore, assaying up to several thousand ounces silver and $25 gold per ton, but cut off by a cross fault in face. Tunnel now being con- tinued to cut the Fortuna vein at 750’ from portal. FORTUNA MINING CO. UTAH Idle. Office: 161 South Main St., Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine office: Bingham Canyon, Salt Lake Co., Utah. Simon Bamberger, pres.; J. B.

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Bean, sec.; Jas. Start, supt. Organized March 10, 1904, under laws of Utah, capitalization $300,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable; fully issued.

Lands, 23 claims, mainly fractional, area 175 acres, adjoining the Ohio, in Keystone gulch. Property shows monzonite porphyry, quartzite and limestone, with a series of 4 nearly parallel veins following the strike and dip of the quartzite bedding, occasionally cutting across, and with some fracturing and crushing. The veins, of 2 to 5’ width, carry films and vein- lets of native copper, with occasional chalcocite. The mine carries silver- lead ores in the upper workings, with argentiferous and auriferous copper sulphides at depth, giving good assays. Mine has shafts of 150’, 300’, 200’ and 1,100’; 2 crosscut tunnels of 400’ each, and drift tunnels of 1,700’, 4,200’, 1,900’, 900’ and 400’, with about 16,000’ of workings. Mine was opened 1875 and closed 1908. 7

Equipment includes electric power, with 2 hoists, good for 1,500’ depth, and an air compressor. The 50-ton mill was sold, 1910, to the Little Bell, and removed to Park City.

FORTUNE MINING CO. ARIZONA ` Address: 19 Lawler Block, Prescott, Ariz... A. W. Davis, pres. and gen. mgr.; H. J. Marshall, vice-pres.; J. P.. Dillon, sec.-treas.; preceding officers. J. E. Russell, A. E. Broas, J. L. Dennerlein, M. Collins, directors. W. W. Lewis, cons. engr. Property, the Wizard mine and other claims in the Big Bug mining district, Yavapai county. Is a gold mine in which high- grade copper ore was found Oct., 1913. Development by 900’ tunnel on the vein shows 4 to 6’ of ore in a shoot 800’ long. Oct. 14, 1913, company re- ported a 2’ body of copper sulphide with black oxide of copper in the face of the tunnel. Company plans extending tunnel 350’ further and then sinking. FOSS RIVER CONSOLIDATED COPPER CO. WASHINGTON

Idle. Office: Everett, Wash. Mine is 8 miles from nearest railway station, Berlin, King Co., Wash. Hon. Albert W. McIntire, pres. and gen. mgr.; E. A. Nickerson, vice-pres.; E. P. Smith, sec; Leighton Howard- Smith, treas. Organized Dec. 10, 1901, under laws of Washington, capitali- zation $2,000,000, shares $1 par.

Lands, 18 claims, area 328 acres, also a 30-acre mill site and 40 acres timberlands, in the Foss River district, opened by a 55’ shaft and tunnels of 35’, 45’, 65’ and 310’, showing several veins, of which the largest, esti- mated at 180’ width, carries bornite and chalcopyrite giving assays of 3 to 54% copper, 2 to 40 oz. silver and 80 cts. to $44 gold per ton. Manage- ment planned installation of water power and a 4-drill air compressor. Owners exhausted their means and shut down mine, 1910.

Four Ledge Mining Co. Idaho

Mine address: Osburn, Shoshone Co., Idaho. W. C. Reeder, pres.: John Hall, vice-pres.; Henry King, sec.; Ben E. Hervey, gen. mgr. Prop- erty, a silvertlead proposition, with 5 cine. on the eastern fork of Two Mile creek, about 2 miles north of Osburn, shows 4 veins of 10 to 50’ esti- mated average surface width, carrying copper and lead ores. Mine has about 900’ of tunnels, including a 160’ drift tunnel and a 180’ crosscut tunnel.

Four Metals Mining Co. Arizona

Reorganized as Red Mountain Mining Co. Owns the Four Metals mine near Patagonia, Ariz. Described Vol. VITI.

Four Metals Mining Co. Colorado

Probably dead. Post office-at Telluride, San Miguel Co., Colo., advises no such company there, and letters are unclaimed at company’s St. Louis and Silverton addresses. W. Frank Carter, pres.; R. M. Scruggs, sec,-treas.

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Organized Jan. 17, 1899, under laws of Colorado, capitalization $2,000,000, shares $1 par. Lands were 47 claims, area 516 acres, at Silverton, San “Juan county, and claims, known as the Andrus mine, in Ingraham basin, near Telluride. Hada mill at the Palmyra mine, and a steam plant at the Andrus. :

Four Metals Mining Co. Utah

Idle. Letters unclaimed at Salt Lake City, and Callao, Juab Co., Utah. H. Hugo Brandeis, pres.; R. P. Hill, sec., at last accounts. Lands, in the Dugway district, carry auriferous and argentiferous copper, zinc and lead ores. Mine is opened to depth of 400’ and has a small concentrator. FOUR METALS SMELTER & MINING CO. CALIFORNIA

Office: San José, Cal. Mine and works office: Keeler, Inyo Co., Cal. Henry T. Welch, pres.; A. R. Short, sec.; E. O. McGrath, mer. Property, the Cerro Gordo silver-lead mines with 35 claims, 8 miles from Keeler, in- cluding the Union mine, on Cerro Gordo hill, and a water-power on Lone Pine creek. The reorganization, 1912, gave creditors 90 cts. on the dollar. but stockholders said to have lost their investment.

The Union mine is an antigua, worked by Mexicans in early days, and is opened to a depth of 900’, carrying ore with chalcopyrite, galena and sphalerite, occasionally with sonic very high-grade silver ore, values being in silver, lead, copper and gold in about the order named. There is a large tonnage of discarded ore and‘slag, from former smelters, said to assay up to $25 per ton. !

Development by 900’ shaft and tunnel. This new tunnel cuts the deposit 400’ below the surface. The old tunnel, 125’ higher, shows 500’ of low- grade copper ore. The zinc ore comes from the Union tunnel and the 200’ and 400’ levels; the silver-lead ore from between the 600’ and 900’. Transportation between the mine and smelter is by a 27,000’ Montgomery aerial tram, with drop of 4,850’.

The Swansea smelter, built at Keeler, and removed later to Swansea, 3 miles to the north, has one 50-ton furnace, and was blown in, 1909, doing a little custom business when in blast, but rana short time Gain and has been idle since 1909.

Mine production, 40 to 50 tons of silver-lead ore each week, shipped to the United States Smelting Co., at Salt Lake, and 30 tons a day of 30% zinc ore. L. D. Gordon holds a lease on the zinc-yielding part of the

- mine: Property considered promising.

FOURTH OF JULY MINING € MILLING CO. COLORADO Idle. Mine at Eldora, Boulder Co., Colo. J. B. Johnson, supt., at last accounts. Mine is opened by shafts, and a 220’ tunnel, planned to cut the Olympic and Fourth of July veins, from which assays of 25 to 45% copper, occasional lead, 50 to 125 oz. silver, and $30 to $80 gold per ton, have been secured. i FOX COPPER MINING & MILLING CO. IDAHO

Letters neither answered nor returned from Mullan, Idaho, or Saltese, Missoula Co., Mont: O. W. Carter, pres.; Wm. Schierding, vice-pres.; Wm. G. Newbury, sec.-treas., at last accounts.

Lands, 9 claims, 6 miles east of Saltese, having a vein of 15’ estimated width, carrying chalcopyrite, giving assays up to 27% copper, 17 oz. silver and $5 gold per ton. Lands also show lead ore, occurring as galena im- pregnations in quartz porphyry. Development is by 2 tunnels, lower said to show good values in copper and lead, and a 64’ shaft, planned to be sunk 500’, near the portal of the lower tunnel. A one-mile flume furnishes water, under a 230’ head, to a water wheel actuating a 4-drill air com-

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FRANCIS, CHAS. ARIZONA Owns a producing copper property near Morristown, Maricopa Co., Ariz. FRANK HOUGH MINING CO. ` COLORADO Office: 830 Equitable Bldg., Denver, Colo. Mine: Lake City, Hinsdale Co., Colo. A. E. Reynolds, mgr.; J. D. Fisher, supt. Organized 1907, under laws of Colorado. Mine, on Engineer mountain, has a 2,500’ tunnel, devel- oping a large body of slightly argentiferous and auriferous copper sul- phides, including bornite, with assays up to 27% copper, 47 oz. silver and $5 gold per ton. Mine shipped several hundred tons of high-grade argenti- ferous copper ore, under former ownership. Equipment includes 800-ton shipping bins. Production, 1909, was about 450 tons, shipped to the Durango smelter, claimed to have averaged about 35% copper, with fair values in silver ,and small gold values. Mine was shipping, July, 1910, about 10 tons of ore daily, to the Durango smelter. Production is estimated at 250,000 Ibs. fine copper in 1909, and 600,000 Ibs. in 1910. Property consid- ered promising, but was closed down in 1912 because of destruction by fire of tts surface equipment. No recent returns secured.

FRANKLIN JUNIOR MINE. MICHIGAN Owned by Franklin Mining Co., at Demmon, Houghton Co., Mich. FRANKLIN MINING CO. MICHIGAN

Office: 60 Congress St., Boston, Mass. Mine office: Demmon, Hough- ton—Co., Mich. Mill office: Point Mills, Houghton Co., Mich. Employs about 350 men. R. M. Edwards, pres. and gen. mgr.; Albert L. Wyman, sec.; Henry Tolman, treas.; preceding officers, Charles G. Rice, Sidney J. Jennings, John C. Watson and Harry M. Howard, directors. Enoch Hen- derson, supt.

Organized April 3, 1857, under laws of Michigan, capitalization $500,- 000, and reincorporated, 1887, for 30 years, capitalization increased, 1899, to $2,500,000, and again increased, Nov., 1908, to $5,000,000, shares $25 par; issued, 166,358, paid in $14.20, to Dec. 31, 1912. Unissued stock, 33,334 shares, has been set aside for the purpose of acquiring the total capital- ization or 100,000 shares of the Rhode Island Copper Co. Has paid divi- dends of $1,240,000, and has levied assessments of $1,420,000, including a $2 assessment called Jan., 1911. Federal Trust Co., Boston, registrar; American Trust Co., Boston, transfer agent, Annual meeting, third Wed- ` nesday in April.

Lands, 3,280 acres of mineral property, and a 217-acre mill site, having 1 mile of frontage on Portage lake. The old Franklin mine, area 160 acres, was sold, July, 1908, to the Quincy Mining Co., for $170,000, and Sec. 6, T. 55 N., R. 33 W., area 640 acres, lying directly north of the Franklin Junior and west of the Rhode Island, was bought from St. Mary’s Mineral Land Co., 1909, for 33,333 shares of stock.

Property carries 2 miles of the strike of the Pewabic amygdaloid and other cupriferous beds of the Keweenawan series. In addition to the main tract, there are 3 other tracts of mineral lands, of 160, 480 and 640 acres, The company also controls, and is absorbing, the Rhode Island Copper Co., which has 800 acres immediately north of the Franklin Junior mine. The old Franklin mine, sold to the Quincy Mining Co., was de- scribed Vol, VIII.

The Franklin Junior mine, bought 1895, was opened, 1860, as the Albany & Boston, and was reopened, 1882, as the Peninsula. The Franklin Junior consists of 2 distinct mines on parallel beds, these being the old

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alnyedaldid mine, opened 1896, on the Pewabic bed, the Pewabic lying 475’ west of and parallel with the Atiouez conglomerate.

The first work on the Franklin Junior mine was done on the Pewabic amygdaloidal bed, which returned an average of only about 0.45%, or 9 Ibs. fine copper per ton of rock stamped, hence the amygdaloid shafts were abandoned, Feb., 1902, and work transferred to the old Albany & Boston workings, the reopening of which was begun in 1900. Owing to unfavorable development, and continued decrease in the copper content of the conglomerate bed, as well as a gradual narrowing with depth, work was abandoned on the conglomerate mine, July, 1909, and operations again transferred to the Pewabic amygdaloidal bed.

The Allouez conglomerate in the upper workings averaged 18 to 22’ width, with an extreme of 30’ in the upper workings, hut grew narrower at depth. The bed was notably lean on the hanging wall, 3 to 5’ being left unmined, and very little assortment of rock was attempted. The conglom- erate is somewhat more regular in its copper contents than to the north- ward, where it is very bunchy in the old workings of the Allouez mine, but is distressingly low in average grade at all points.

No. 1 shaft of the conglomerate mine, 2,300’ deep, is idle, and the shaft rock house has been torn down. No. 2 conglomerate shaft, 1,200’ south of No. 1 and 1,200’ deep, has been abandoned.

The Pewabic workings were reopened, 1908, after 6 years idleness, and all mining operations were transferred to this bed, 1909. The amygdaloid shafts are numbered from north to south, and are sunk at an angle of 48° 30’. Diamond-drill borings to determine the foot and hanging, and test the ground for values, have shown that the bed splits into 2 and occasionally into 3 parts, of variable width, and there are 2 clearly-defined portions, known as the East bed of 7 to 9’ average width, and the West bed of 10 to 12’ width, the 2 being separated by a varying width of trap.

There are 4 shafts on the Pewabic bed, of which 2 are idle, Nos. 1 and 3 being the working shafts. The North shaft, about 900” south of the Rhode Island line, is about 1,000’ in depth. No. 2 shaft, 1,000’ south of No. 1, and 1,100’ north of No. 3, is about 1,100” deep.

No. 1 shaft, sunk about 20’ in the footwall, was sinking for the 36th level, at the end of 1912, and was showing considerable improvement below a depth of 2,000’. The longest drift, om the 15th level, is about 2,600’, and a limited amount of work is in progress from the 20th level down. This shaft has a loading bin, between the 27th and 28th levels, and between the 31st and 32nd levels, receiving rock from the various levels above. The shaft is equipped with a steel circular rock house (Edwards design), for- merly in use at No. 2 conglomerate shaft.

No. 3 shaft, 2,100’ south of No. 1, is sunk about 40’ in the footwall, and is temporarily bottomed at the 17th level. Shafts Nos. 1 and 3 are con- nected by drift on the 15th level, above which depth very little ground of promise has been opened, the better ground coming in below a depth of 2,000’. Equipment at No. 3 includes a wooden shaft house and a temporary hoist.

In addition to the Allouez conglomerate and Pewabic amygdaloid beds, the Franklin Junior tract carries the Mesnard epidote, Calumet conglom- erate and Osceola and Kearsarge amygdaloids, all supposed to have been opened by a 975’ crosscut driven west on the Pewabic lode, many years ago, this crosscut showing 1 conglomerate and several amygdaloidal beds carrying copper in small quantities. The ground opened was disturbed, and a crosscut at much greater depth might give better results. The Kear- sarge bed is supposed to have been cut, 1906, by diamond-drill borings, and

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also by a crosscut, but was found valueless where opened. Dr. L. L. Hubbard estimates, on data furnished by Reginald C. Pryor, that the Kear- sarge amygdaloid should lie 1,308’ horizontally east of the Allouez con- glomerate, which would indicate that the old 975’ crosscut, driven 1894, did not reach the Kearsarge, and, in consequence, the old crosscut was extended eastward, 1906, but the Kearsarge bed, or what is supposed to have been such, was not found to carry workable values, at that point and depth.

Several diamond-drill holes were bored, 1910, in the territory lying between 2,000’ and 3,000’ west of the Pewabic bed, in the hypothetical hori- zon of the Hancock amygdaloid, but nothing of promise was disclosed.

Surface equipment includes substantial and well-equipped machine, carpenter and blacksmith shops, engine houses, boiler houses, warehouses, changing house, office and a considerable number of substantial dwellings. There are air compressors of 10, 12 and 36 drill capacities.

The new hoist at No. 1 shaft, built by the Nordberg works, embodies several novel engineering ideas, furnished by Mr. Edwards. It hoists a 10-ton skip, and has special air-compression cylinders, storing up energy, otherwise wasted, in compressed air, the compressed air being mixed with steam, in the cylinders, as a prime motive force.

The 177x194' mill, of steel, on stone foundations, is reached by the Mineral Range railroad. Equipment includes 5 Allis-Chalmers 2-way heads, with 20x24” cylinders, each capable of crushing 350 tons of conglomerate or 500 tons of amygdaloid’ rock daily. Each stamp is fed from a 1,000-ton rock bin, and equipped with hydraulic separators, which remove consider- able heavy copper. The washing plant includes 8 Woodbury classifiers, 20 roughing jigs, 15 finisher jigs, 32 Wilfley and 10 Overstrom tables. The jigs are of the Hodge eccentric type, with centershield copper discharges, obviating skimming.

Power for-the mill is furnished by a 16x32” Allis-Chalmers engine, and steam is supplied by two 500-h. p. Stirling boilers. The boiler house has a self-supporting brick-lined smokestack of 7’ diameter, 165’ high, on a 52’ brick foundation. Water is furnished by a 15,000,000-gal. Allis-Chalmers vertical compound pump, having 12x42” high pressure and 42x42” low- pressure cylinders, with 47” stroke and plungers of 3714” diameter. Water is drawn through a 36” pipe line, running 200° under the rock to a crib protected by quarter-inch screens. The mill has a 5x12” duplex fire pump with fire hose, and electric light. There is a 267’ wharf at the mill site, equipped with coal hoist and sheds, with 18’ of clear water alongside. The mill site has about 20 dwellings for employees.

In 1903 the recovery of copper was 15.25 lbs. per ton of rock stamped, and in 1907 was only 11.48 lbs., falling, 1909, to 9.47 lbs. per ton of rock stamped. The largest production ever secured by the mine was 5,259,140 Ibs. fine copper in 1902, and recent production has been: 4,206,085 Ibs. in 1905; 4,228,650 lbs. in 1906; 4,401,248 lbs. in 1907; 3,703,421 lbs. in 1908; 1,615,556 lbs. in 1909; 966,353 lbs. in 1910; 820,203 lbs. in 1911; 1,710,651 lbs. in 1912.

Fraser Mountain Copper Co. New Mexico

Idle. Property at Twining, Taos Co., N. M. Company wrecked, but property bid in by trustees, and held for sale or reorganization. Property promising. See Ore Deposits of New Mexico, Prof. Paper No. 68, U. S. Geol. Surv., p. 84. Fully described Vol. VI.

Free Coinage Mining & Milling Co. Utah

Office: 69 Commercial Bldg., Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine near Alta, Salt Lake Co., Utah. L. A. Evans, presi; DH, Wenger, sec.-treas. Or-

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ganized 1896, under laws of Utah, capitalization $125,000, shares 25 cts. par, assessable, with 2 assessments levied. Lands, 4 claims, 3 patented, in Little Cottonwood cañon, 2 miles from a railroad, having a 50’ shaft and tunnels of 100’ and 525’, showing auriferous and argentiferous lead and copper ores. No returns secured.

Freedom Mining Co. Colorado

Was a close corporation, owning Freedom mine, Central City, Colo., now absorbed by Consolidated Mining Co.

Freeland Consolidated Mining Co. Oregon

Office: Salem, Ore. Mine at Elkhorn, Marion Co., Ore. Hugh Free- land, owner. Assessment work only has been done since 1911. Organized 1901, under laws of Oregon, capitalization $2,000,000, shares $1 par, non- assessable; issued, $1,625,000. Annual meeting, third Monday in April.

Lands, 13 claims, unpatented, area 200 acres, with about 100 acres timbered, on Gold creek, a tributary of the Little North fork of the San- tiam river, 18 miles from Gates, the nearest rail point. Lands show por- phyry, syenite and diorite, with occasional Tertiary sedimentary rocks, having 5 fissure veins, of which 3, under development, are estimated by the company at 17’ average width, and to be traceable 2,000’. Veins have 1 to 6” stringers, carrying chalcopyrite and occasional native copper, and the pyrite adjoining carries gold. Ores are reported by the company to range 1 to 14% copper, and $2 gold per ton. The mine has a 175’ crosscut tunnel, and about 1,300’ of workings, There are 4 buildings.

Fremont Development Co. Wyoming

Office: Houghton, Mich. W. A. Hodgson, pres.; Wm. D. Calverley, vice-pres.; preceding officers, J. H. Rice, Deen L. Robinson, John -T. Reeder, A. Anderson.and R. T. Goodell, directors; Thos. Mullen, sec.-treas. Organized Dec. 9, 1909, under laws of Wyoming, capitalization $200,000, shares $10 par; in $25,000 full paid and $175,000 part paid stock, latter $4 paid, Jan. 16, 1911. Total assessments to 1913, $52,500. Houghton National Bank, registrar. Lands are held on a bond and lease, in 1913, with final payment of $65,000, to be made at some future time.

Property, 3 patented claims, known as the McGrath group, about 18 miles north of Shoshoni, the nearest station on the Lander branch of the Chicago Northwestern railroad. The claims show granite, quartzite and mica-hornblende schists, carrying a fissure vein for length of 4,500’, vein running N. 70° E., with dip of about 80°, varying 20° from the strike of the schist beds. The vein has a surface width of 6” to 4’, increasing, at shallow depth, to a maximum of 9’ width, and at its widest point gave average assays of 5.35% copper. Vein carries oxidized ores, silicates and sulphides, with a 6” footwall pay streak of banded massive chalcocite and quartz. All ore is more or less argentiferous and auriferous, giving assays up to 7 oz. silver and $4 gold per ton.

The mine has a 94’ two-compartment shaft, with 350’ of laterals, and is to be deepened to 2000’, with crosscutting and drifting. Mine is wet, and has a Cornish pump. There also are several exploratory pits and shafts, deepest 45’.

Equipment includes a 35-h. p. Fairbanks & Morse gasoline hoist, pump and fan. Company to take power from the Asmus Boysen dam, at Ther- mopolis, 1913. Veins small, but workable. Capitalization reasonable and property likely to be developed into a good, small mine.

Fremont Mining & Milling Co. Arizona

Idle. Company unknown in Denver, Colo., and Constellation, Ariz. I. F. Dawson, sec.-treas., at last accounts. Organized under laws of Ari- zona, capitalization $3,000,000, shares $1 par. Company had 6 claims, 10

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miles northeast of Wickenburg in Yavapai county, Ariz. The Nevada shaft was 50” deep, and reported to show an 18” vein, carrying ore said to aver- age 35% copper and $8 gold per ton. Not regarded favorably.

Fresno Copper Co, Ltd. California

Idle. Liquidators, Messrs. Balfour, Guthrie & Co., London, England. Mine address: Clovis, Fresno Co., Cal. Sir John HANA Graham, Bart., chairman; N. W. Helme, M. P., Dr. R. Jackson, T. Hannay, W. B. Rankin and W. Lindsay, directors. Organized April 2, 1902, under laws of Great Britain, capitalization £400,000, shares £1 par, and reorganized, under same title, Feb. 12, 1907, capitalization £100,000, shares 4s. par; issued, 399,178 shares, fully paid. In 1910 paid a $55,000 mortgage, and gave a $40,000 trust deed as security for a new mortgage, to the California Title Insurance € Trust Co.

Lands, 2,520 acres, freehold.

In 1901 H. B. Vercoe bought, for about $12.000, a ranch in Fresno county, having an old 120’ shaft, called a copper mine. This ranch was made the basis of the £30,000 California Copper Syndicate, which sold the property to the Fresno Copper Co., Ltd., for shares in that company. Average assays 1.04% copper and 13 cts. per ton in combined gold and silver values. Property carries 3 veins, in mica-schist and diabase, the central vein, which is the only one developed, having a heavy gossan, un- derlaid by an 18’ vein carrying oxidized ores to depth of 50’ succeeded by sulphides in the form of narrow streaks of chalcopyrite. The mine has shafts of 35’, 45’, 50’, 200’ and 530’, with drifts on the 200’ and 300’ levels, showing a vein of about 14’ average width, carrying solid sulphides, mainly slightly cupriferous pyrrhotite. The ore is low in copper, but high in iron and sulphur, and being free from zinc and arsenic, make an excellent flux,

The mine has a steam plant and electric current from the San Joaquin Power Co. Equipment includes a hoist, air compressor and electric light plant, and buildings include a machine shop, assay office and saw mill. A 4-mile branch railway has a locomotive and several ore cars.

The smelter, poorly constructed and never in blast, has two 200-ton circular blast furnaces, the converter department being an open iron shed, having a stand with 3 shells of the Leghorn type. The smelter power house has a 500-h. p. engine.

Friday-Lowden Copper Co. California

Idle. At Redding, Shasta Co., Cal. T. H. Benton, pres.; S. E. Brether- ton, vice-pres.; John R. Lowden, sec.-treas. and gen. mer., at last accounts. Organized 1909, capitalization $2,000,000.

Lands, 15 claims, partly patented, area 300 acres, near the Balaklala, Mammoth and Trinity mines. Considerable diamond drilling done is said to have proven extensive orebodies, and there are 5 tunnels, of 800’ aggre- gate length.

Frisco Consolidated Mining Co. Utah

Idle. Letters unclaimed at Salt Lake City and Frisco, Beaver Co., Utah. D. P. Rohlfing, pres. and gen. mgr.; H. S. Young, sec.-treas., at last accounts. Organized 1909, capitalization $1,500,000, shares $5 par, as a merger of the Frisco Contact Mining Co. and North Horn Silver & Copper Mining Co.

Property, 31 claims, mostly patented, 580 acres, carrying 8,600’, of the strike of a wide mineralized zone, supposedly the extension of-the Horn Silver contact zone. Lands include the’Frisco Contact, North Horn Silver, Good Hope, Glorious and D. G. & J. groups:

The mine has several short tunnels, and 4 shafts, with about one-half

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mile of workings, said to show 4 contact deposits, between limestone and andesite, one being estimated to range up to 115’ in width. The main shaft, of 700’ depth, with about 2,000’ of drifting, shows, on the 600’ level, ore impregnations assaying about 3.5% copper. The 125’ Kruse shaft is about 2,000’ northeast of the main workings, on the same ore zone. :

Equipment includes an 80-h. p. hoist and a 4-drill air compressor at the main shaft, with two_60-h. p. boilers and a 50-h. p. hoist at the Kruse shaft. There are necessary mine buildings. The Horn Silver mine, adjoin- ing, has been a large silver-lead producer, but the failure of the Cactus Co: at Newhouse, has blighted the entire crop of new companies, that grew up in the district when the Cactus property was flourishing.

Frisco Mines & Tunnel Co. Colorado

Office: Security Bldg., St. Louis, Mo. Mine office: Animas Forks, San Juan Co., Colo. Chas. Gagner, supt. Property, the Bagley mine, near Animas, developed by 11,000’ tunnel cutting veins carrying gold, silver, cop- per, lead and zinc ores. A recent strike of very rich silver-copper ore has been made in the Red Cloud vein at a point 900’ below the outcrop. Mine has electric power, air compressor, a 150-ton concentrating mill and em- ploys about 75 men.

Frontenac Consolidated Mines, Ltd. Colorado

Sec. and office: A. E. Rigden, Capel House, 54 New Broad St., London, E-+C:, Eng; Mine at Central City, Gilpin Co.,-Colo. Is a valuable gold mine, whose ores carry lead and copper, the latter as tetrahedrite, in small quantities. Fully described Vol. X.

Frontenac Copper Co. Michigan

Idle. Office: 12 Ashburton Place, Boston, Mass. Operating office: Calumet, Mich. Quincy A. Shaw, Jr., pres.; Rodolphe L. Agassiz, vice- pres.; James MacNaughton, gen. mgr.; Geo. A. Flagg, sec.-treas., and F. W. Hunnewell,, directors. Organized June 26, 1905, under laws of Michigan, capitalization $500,000, shares $25 par. Is controlled, through ownership of entire stock issue, by the Calumet & Hecla Mining Co.

Owns the Central mine and adjoining lands, 22,268 acres, in Keweenaw county, Mich. Property mainly south and west of the Manitou. The Cen- tral mine, worked 1854-97, on a fissure vein, was a large producer for many years and paid dividends of more -than $2,000,000. Property also includes the Winthrop mine, 800 acres, in Secs. 22, 23, 26 and 27, T. 59 N., R. 39 W., adjoining the Central. Lands were slightly prospected by diamond-drill borings, but nothing of especial value found, and work stopped, 1908. The tract, however, is very extensive, and, in view of developments elsewhere, it is altogether probable that payable mines will be opened, eventually, on the Frontenac holdings. ;

Furnace Creek Copper Co. California

Idle. Office: 506 Traders National Bank Bldg., Spokane, Wash. Mine was at Greenwater, Inyo Co., Cal. Patrick Clark, pres.; W. B. Matteson, vice-pres.; J. J. Stewart, sec.-treas.; Abe S. August, asst. sec.; A. B. Harvey, gen. mgr. Organized under laws of Washington, capitalization $2,250,000, shares $1 par. Trust Company of America, New York, transfer agent. Guaranty Trust Co., New York, registrar. Shares are listed on the Butte Stock Exchange.

Lands, 21 claims, unpatented, 2 miles west of Greenwater. The camp is entirely deserted, and property, fully described Vol VIII, is worthless. Company had substantial balance in treasury and was looking for a good new property at last accounts.

Galena Bay Mining Co. Alaska

Office: Pacific Block, Seattle, Wash. Mine office: Valdez, Prince

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William Sound, Alaska. B. F. Millard, pres. and mgr. A. Stansford White, vice-pres.; Alfred Barge, sec.; J. S. Jurey, asst. sec. Organized 1906, under laws of Washington, capitalization $500,000, shares $1 par. Stock held by voting trust of 7 trustees for a term of 10 years, the Continental & Commer- cial Trust & Savings Bank issuing trust certificates, in lieu of stock, which are negotiable and transferable.

Company now owns control of the Standard Copper Mines Co., the Hemple Copper Mining Co., and the Reynolds Alaska Development Co. The company's holdings proper, acquired in 1907, are on Galena bay, about 30 miles from Valdez and include the Galena bay, Franklin, Nicholai mines, and the Vesuvius group. The property of the 3 companies noted above, was not operated in 1912.

Galena Copper Mining Co. Washington

Idle. Letters unclaimed at Index and Seattle offices of company. L. E. Rader, pres.; H. M..M. Williams, vice-pres.; John M. Snook, sec.; Francis X. Waldron, treas.; Judson C. Hubbart, mgr., at last accounts. Organized Jan. 2, 1906, under laws of Washington, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par.

Lands, 16 claims, in the Silver Creek district, showing chalcopyrite, in veins of 3 to 18’ width, said to have given assays of 18.5% copper, 2.9 oz. silver and $4 gold per ton. Development by tunnel, anda shipment of ore to the Tacoma smelter is said to have given net returns of $30 per ton. District promising if ores are treated by froth flotation process. GALENA MINING CO. UTAH

Idle. Letters unanswered from 207 Templeton Bldg., Salt Lake City, Utah, and unclaimed at mine, Milford, Beaver Co., Utah. M. C. Morris, pres.; S. N. Slaughter, vice-pres.; Alice Farnsworth, sec.-treas., at last accounts. Organized July 16, 1897, under laws of Utah, capitalization $45,000, shares 15 cts. par, assessable; has levied 9 assessments. Lands, 6 claims, patented, 8 miles from a railroad, in the Beaver Lake district, hav- ing shafts of 100’ and 250’.

Galena Ridge Mining Co. Wyoming

Probably closed down. Letters unanswered at Meteetse, Big Horn Co., Wyo. Lands, 1,200 acres, patented, also timber ‘ands and water rights, having 5 veins of good width, on one of which the 450” Oregon tunnel shows ores carrying copper, lead, silver and gold values, with quartz gangue. Development by crosscut-tunnel. Has a Pelton water wheel and 10-drill air compressor.

Garbutt Leasing Co. Colorado

John Cortellini, superintendent, Leadville, Lake Co., Colo. Property has 1,000’ shaft- producing copper ore with good gold-silver values. Equip- ment electric.

Garfield Mining Co. Montana

Owns group of 5 claims, 13 miles from Belgrade and 18 miles from Manhattan. A 450’ tunnel is said to cut a gold-copper vein, 9 to 20’ wide. Lower tunnel is to be driven to cut vein below zone of oxide ore. GARFIELD MINING & MILLING CO. IDAHO

Mine at Harvard, Latah Co., Idaho. Albert Burns, supt., at last ac- counts. Property is the Gold Bug mine, developing by shaft, carrying cop- per ore. Equipment includes a small steam plant.

Garfield Smelting Co. Utah

Office: 165 Broadway, New York. Operating office: 714 McCornick Blk., Salt Lake City, Utah. Works office: Garfield, Salt Lake Co., Utah. Daniel Guggenheim, pres.; F. R. Foraker, sec.; C. W. Whitley, gen. mgr.; Wm, H, Howard, supt. Organized 1905, under laws of New Jersey, capital-

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ization $1,000,000. Is owned by American Smelters “Securities Co., and itself owns the Garfield Water Co. and the Garfield Improvement Co. The

smelter has cost, complete, about $6,000,000. Fully described Vol. X.

GARLAND COPPER MINING CO. WYOMING Idle. Address: care E. S. Drury, Cheyenne, Wyo. Mine at Encamp- ment, Carbon Co., Wyo. Y. J. Upjohn, vice-pres.; preceding officer, E. S. Drury, O. F. Wickham and D. H. Palmer, directors. Organized July 10, 1902, under laws of Wyoming, capitalization $1,500,000, shares $1 par; issued, $700,000. Lands, 4 claims, area 80 acres, in the Battle Lake district, having a 40’ shaft and a 100’ tunnel, on a vein of 50’ estimated average and 300’ maximum width, carrying a hematite gossan, supposed to be a con- tinuation of the Itmay vein. GARNET MINE. NEW MEXICO

Mine near Oro Grande, Otero Co., N. M. Operated by Ci C. Camp- house for English company and shipping copper-silver ore, 1913. GARRETSON-SAHUARIPA CO. MEXICO

Letters unanswered from 527 Ellicott Square Bldg., Buffalo, N. Y. Mine at Calera, Sahuaripa, Sonora, Mex. W. H. Farnsworth, pres.; Lau- rens Enos, vice-pres.; W. H. H. Davenport, sec.; D. B. Sherman, treas.; John A. Moore, supt., at last accounts. Organized 1903, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $600,000, shares $100 par, nonassessable; issued, $450,000.

Lands, 96 hectares, and 14,000 acres of surface rights. Property, about 30 miles southeast of Sahuaripa, includes La Calera mine, having 6 ore- bodies, 2 under development, of 3 to 6 width, estimated by company to average 2% copper, 45 oz. silver and $14 gold per ton, which is interesting, if true. Mine has about 1,200” of workings.

The smelter, 1 mile from the mine, receiving ore by pack trains, has a 50-ton 29x48” Garretson pyritic water-jacket blast furnace, burning char- coal and wood, which apparently has not worked well. Idle since 1908, awaiting construction of the Sonora Central railway from Tonichi, which has been surveyed to pass through this property. GARRISON-MONSTER MINING CO. UTAH

Idle. Office: 202 Utah Savings € Trust Bldg., Salt Lake CityanWitale Mine at Ibapah, Tooele Co., Utah. J. P. Gardner, Presi.) moe Garrison: vice-pres.; H. B. Windsor, sec.; S. W. Morrison, treas. Organized June, 1906, under laws of Nevada, capitalization $1,000,000, shares a, Sa merger of the Garrison Gold € Copper Mining Co. and Monster Mining Co. Lands, 26 claims, patented, on Dutch mountain, in the Clifton district, 40 miles from Wendover, on Western Pacific railroad. Branch line to property will be completed, 1914. Mine, having 3,500’ of workings, is said to show considerable bodies of silver-lead ore.

Garvanza Mining & Milling Co. California

Idle. Mine office: Cima, San Bernardino Co., Cal. H. M. Banfield, supt., at last accounts. Lands are on the western side of New York moun- tain, near Bryant station on the Salt Lake railway, showing a vein of 20 to 75’ claimed width, carrying an argentiferous and auriferous sulphide complex of copper, lead and molybdenum. Work was begun 1906, and mine has about 2,000’ of workings, on what is reported as a series of quartz veins, cutting granite.

A 100-ton mill is equipped with crusher, rolls, trommels and Standard tables, and has a 30-ton leaching plant, with three 10-ton tanks, producing a small quantity of thorium nitrate, by means of the hyposulphite leaching process.

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GEM CONSOLIDATED MINES CO. COLORADO Office: 341 Sixth Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. Mine office: Idaho Springs, Clear Creek Co., Colo. Col. J. M. Guffey, pres.; John H. Galey, vice-pres.; W. S. Watson, sec.; Henry B. Clifford, resident director; W. E. Renshaw, gen. mgr.; J. Kaughman, mill supt., at last accounts. Organized Jan. 1, 1907, under laws of Colorado, capitalization $5,000,000, shares $1 par.

Lands, 10 claims, patented, and a mill site, showing a vein of 20 to 50’ width, traceable 3 miles, carrying sulphide ores assaying up to 37% copper, 10 oz. silver and $18 gold per ton. Mine has about 5 miles of workings, estimated to show 1,000,000 tons of ore, with 300,000 tons blocked out for stoping. A 550-h. p. hydro-electric plant supplies 350-h. p. to the mine and 200-h. p. to the mill. There are 4 hoists, good for 3,000” depth, and an 18-drill Ingersoll-Rand air compressor. Buildings include a machine shop, carpenter shop, smithy, etc., and a 100-ton stamp mill. No recent returns secured,

Gemini Mining Co. Utah

Office: 325 Brooks Arcade, Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine office: Eureka Juab Co., Utah. E. W. Packard, vice-pres.; J. E. Berkley, sec.; L. S. Hills, treas.; Jackson H. McCrystal, gen. mgr.; John H. McCrystal, supt. Paid $6 dividend, Oct., 1911,

The property is: a silver-lead mine with accessory copper ore, in shoots. There are 3 fissure veins, in an ore channel about 450” wide, cut transversely by a number of cross-fissures, making a rather complex sys- tem of orebodies, the main fissure, of 15 to 20’ width, having a southeast- erly dip, with ore shoots raking to the north. Ore composed of lead and copper sulphides, ores in the upper workings averaging about 12% lead and 40 oz. silver, while the bottom level, at 1,600’ shows a 20’ vein carrying argentiferous 3% copper ore. The mine has a 1,600” shaft, and a 300’ winze, equipped with electric hoist, reaches to the 1,900’ level. The adjoin- ing Ridge & Valley mine is operated through the Gemini shaft. Company operating only below 900’ level in 1912; upper levels leased, over 100 men being employed, Aug., 1913.

Genera Development Co. U.S. A, Canada & Mexico

Office: 42 Broadway, New York. Adolph Lewisohn, pres.; Theo. L. Herrmann, sec.; Sam A. Lewisohn, treas.; J. Parke Channing, cons. engr.; preceding officers, H. Ruhlender, W. H. Nichols, Jacob Langeloth, Samuel Untermeyer, Herman Sielcken, D. M. Hyman, H. W. Davis, Andrew Freedman, W. T. Rosen, J. A. Lewisohn, A. S. Rossin, J. H. Susmann and S. S. Rosenstamm, directors. Organized 1906, under laws of Delaware, capitalization $2,000,000, increased later to $2,500,000, increased 1909 to $2,- 600,000, again increased, 1913, to $3,000,000, shares $100 par, nonassess- able. Dividends paid 1908, 114%; 90% in 1909 and 15% in 1910, a total of 1064 %.

Company is controlled by the Lewisohn interests, and is operated as a close corporation, controlling, through stock ownership, the Colorado Gold Dredging Co., Miami Copper Co., New Keystone Copper Co., San Cayetano Mines, Ltd., and Naumkeag Copper Co. The increase of capital- ization, 1913, was to finance the merger of the Silver Mines Exploration Co., the corporation which developed and promoted the Kerr Lake and Wettlaufer-Lorraine companies of Cobalt, Ont. Company has extensive stock interests in New Planet Copper Co. and Kerr Lake Mining. Co., with other mining interests in Montana, Colorado, Arizona, Canada and Mexico.

The General Development Co. is a parent corporation, examining, developing and financing mining properties which, when they have reached the self-supporting producing stage, are turned over to operating com-

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GENERAL MINES CO. MONTANA Letters P from last address, 25 Broad St., New York. Mine near Helena, Mont. Geo. Hyatt Robinson, pres.; Walter B. Tipton, vice-

PRES SEREN China sec.-treas.; B. Frank Johnston, mgr. at last accounts. Lands in Avalanche gulch, KERES the Missouri river from Helena, have a 28’ vein, opened by a 500’ crosscut tunnel, showing auriferous aad argen- tiferous copper sulphides. Idle several years.

Genesee Valley Copper Co. California

Address: Genesee, Plumas Co., Cal. A. L. Beardsley, pres.: Henry Metz, vice-pres.; Mel. J. Smith, sec.-treas.; A. B. Clark and J. E. Baum, directors. Organized Nov. 1, 1909, under HR of Nevada, capitalization $2,000,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable: issued, $1,000,000. Annual meet- ing, August 1.

Lands, 15 claims, unpatented, area 300 acres, in 3 groups, and a 120- acre mill site, showing porphyry dike in meta-andesite, with bornite dis- seminated through the porphyry. Dike runs north 20° west, dips 54° southwest. Orebody reported as 80 to 300’ wide, 3,000’ long and proven for 150” depth assaying 3% copper, 2 oz.) silver and $0.50 gold per ton. Company reports, 1913, about 100,000 tons, and property needs no shafts or tunnels, as ore is exposed on side of mountain at angle of 45°, forming a side-hill quarry with bluff face 100’ high. No recent development ex- cept drilling to determine tonnage and value. Ore shows 90% recovery by Minerals Separation flotation process,* concentrates carrying 35% copper, 10 oz. silver and 1 oz. gold per ton. Property considered promising. GENESSEE VANDERBILT MINE. COLORADO

Address: Ironton, San Juan Co., Colo. Property in the Red Mountain district and was formerly owned by the Red Mountain Mining Co., which was sold out for debt. Mine has a 3,000’ tunnel cutting a vein carrying co- vellite, which is now being developed for stoping preparatory to shipments expected to be made, Sept., 1913.

Georgia & Tennessee Copper Co. Georgia & Florida

Idle. Office: William Tudor, treas., 15 Exchange St., Boston, Mass. Mine near Temple, Haralson Co., Ga. Theo. Sutro, pres.; Otis Kimball, vice-pres.; preceding officers, L. V. Briggs, and John T. Coolige, Jr., di- rectors; H. M. Mansfield, supt. Organized Jan. 24, 1905, as a merger of Tallapoosa Copper Mines, Live Oak Phosphate and Georgia Pyrites Co., capitalization $1,000,000, shares $5 par; $525,000 issued. Annual meeting, second Tuesday in January. No business done since 1906.

Owns 447 acres of copper-bearing lands, in Haralson county, near Temple, Ga., and 800 acres of phosphate lands, in Marion and Levy coun- ties, Florida, latter claimed to carry 800,000 tons of phosphate. Copper lands show country rocks of Laurentian schists, with 2 contact veins of 4 x 19 width, between slate and sandstone, opened by a 300’ shaft, with

250' of workings, estimated to show 85,000 tons of ore, with 45,000 tons eee out for stoping, said to give average assays of 3% copper, 2.7 oz. silver and $2 gold per ton. Ore is chalcopyrite, disseminated in pyrite, averaging 41% sulphur. Company planned installing an acid plant and manu- facturing superphosphate for fertilizer, but failed to do so. GERMAN-AMERICN COPPER CO. MEXICO

Letter unanswered from Leesville, La. Mine at Alamos, Sonora, Mex. €. M. McFarland, pres.; G. H. Schweitzer, vice-pres. and treas.; H. W.

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Hackbarth, sec. Organized 1909, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $100,000.

German Copper Co. Arizona

Secretary and office: Chas. H. Trotter, 975 West New York St., In- dianapolis, Ind. Mine at Globe, Ariz. John H. Murdoch, pres.; Chas. H. Zoll- ner, vice-pres.; John A. Hook, treas.; preceding officers, Wm. Elwarner, Jos. Lauler, David Fair, Wm. Burnett, John I. Carson and J. B. McMurray, directors. John H. Faught, supt.; P. H, Pernot, cons. engr. Organized March 25, 1911, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $3,000,000, shares $5 par, fully paid; 175,000 issued; outstanding debt, $75,000. Annual meeting, second Tuesday in October. Company is successor, 1911, of the Arizona- Colorado Belt & Gold Mining & Milling Co.

Property, 21 claims, 420 acres, held by location in the Globe district of Arizona. Ore occurs in a large fissure vein cutting through diabase, quartzite, and limestone, and as contact ores between diabase and sedi- mentary rocks. The vein striking northeast and southwest, dipping 55°, is reported as 9’ wide, proven to depth of 900’, carrying 2% copper, 2 oz. silver and $1 gold per ton, principally as chalcopyrite, on 800’ and 900’ levels. Ore developed above 800’ estimated at $125,000.

Developed by 863’ shaft, several short tunnels, and a total of 3,000’ of underground work. The 800’ level is said to block out 2,000 tons of ore with 18,000 tons of 214% ore reasonably certain. Assessment work only was done in 1912, but mine was unwatered and work resumed, Sept.,

Equipment includes 100-h. p. steam hoist and 7-drill air compressor. Arizona-Eastern railroad_is 1 mile from property, which is well located and has merit.

Giant-California Mining Co., Ltd. British Columbia

Probably dead. Letter unclaimed at mine: Rossland, Trail district, B.C. Jay, P. Graves; pres:; ¡A:L. White, vice-pres.; Chas. Hs Wolf see:; Geo. Wooster, treas.; Wm. Yolen Williams, gen. mgr., at last accounts. Organized 1907, under laws of British Columbia, as successor of Giant Mining Co., Ltd., capitalization $5,000,000, shares $100 par, in $400,000 of 7% preferred, and $4,600,000 ordinary stock. Lands, 2 claims, the Giant and California, adjoining Le Roi No. 2, on Red mountain. The Giant mine has about 500’ of workings, and shipped 4,344 tons of ore, before suspending, 1903. The California has a 1,000’ tunnel with a 200’ winze, that is practically a blind shaft, planned to be sunk-to 550’. Equipment includes electric power, with a small hoist and 10-drill duplex Rand air compressor. No trace of operations secured.

Giant-Eclipse Consolidated Mining Co. Colorado

Main office: Salida, Chaffee Co., Colo. C. F. Johnson, pres.; Clyde H. Jay, vice-pres. and cons. engr.; F. L. Ream, sec. and gen. mgr. Company organized Sept. 21, 1909, under laws of Colorado, capitalization $2,000,000, shares $1 par, fully paid, nonassessable; 1,625,000 issued. Annual meeting, third Friday in January.

Property, 11 claims, 106 acres, in Monarch district, Colo., showing ‘contact deposits of lead-iron, copper, and zinc ores between granite, lime- stone and quartzite. Deposit runs north and south and dips at 45°. Orebody ceveloped for 50 to 150’ width, 1,400’ length and 1,400’ depth, carries 0.5 to 3% copper, 3 to 25% lead, 1 to 12 oz. silver and 80 cts. to several dollars per ton in gold. Zinc occurs in ore and as clean zine carbonate. Mine has tunnels, aggregating several thousand feet, developing 100,000 tons lead- iron and 50,000 tons low-grade zinc ore,

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Giant Ledge Gold & Copper Co. California

Office: 500 Frost Bldg., Los Angeles, Cal. Mine office: Barnwell, San Bernardino Co., Cal. L. M. Gregory, pres. and gen. mgr.; H. G. Stoddard, sec.; R. W. Kenny, treas.; Edward Brough, mine supt. Organized July, 1901, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,000,000, increased, 1910, to $1,500,000, shares $1 par. Company has kept out of debt.

Property, 30 claims, a 40-acre mill site and miscellaneous holdings giving total area of upwards of 800 acres, in the New York district, about 5 miles from Barnwell, showing 4 veins, of which 2 are under development, one being a fissure in granite, the other a contact deposit between limestone and granite, with average width*of 60’, giving average assays of 5% copper, 5% lead, 10 oz. silver and $4.50 gold per ton, from carbonate and oxide ores near surface and sulphides at depth. Mine has 1 shallow shaft and 2 tun- nels, longest 992’, with about 4,000’ workings, developing a considerable amount of ore. Company experimenting with leaching and electric precipi- tation, having about 50,000 tons of oxidized ores available for this process, which is planned to yield electrolytic copper, with lead peroxide as a byproduct.

Gibosa Mine. , Mexico

Owned by American Smelters Securities Co.; situated at Chihuahua, Mex.

Gibson Copper Co. Arizona

Office: Globe, Gila Co., Ariz. Mine at Bellevue, Gila Co., Ariz. Samuel L. Gibson, pres. and treas.; Wm. Henderson, vice-pres.; F. F. Towle, sec.; Geo. K. Stoneman and J. L. Alexander, directors. Organized 1906, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $2,500,000, shares $25 par; issued $2,000,000. Has authorized a $500,000 issue of 6% bonds; issued, $6,000. ,Total divi- dends to date, $80,000. Annual. meeting, first Wednesday in March. Prop- erty was under lease and option to the Summit Copper Co., Arizona, for 17 months, but reverted to owners, Jan., 1912. This option was for a price of $442,375, with $30,000 for an initial payment, and installments of $1,000 quarterly, ending Dec., 1911, followed by installments of $4,000 quarterly thereafter, until June 18, 1914, giving total payments of $91,000, and leav- ing a final balance of $351,375 payable June 18, 1914. The bond provided that 20% of net smelter returns, during the first 18 months, be applied on the final payment, after which 10% of net smelter returns be applied on the final payment.

Property leased to Sultan and Wayne until Aug., 1913, working ores with a small concentrator equipped with jigs. In Oct., 1913, property was reported taken over by a new company to be organized by W. H. Mason, J. W. Sanders, J. H. Dieter and Richard Stevens, the last 2 named being attorneys, all of St. Louis, Mo.

Lands, 16 adjoining claims, 7 patented and 8 in process, area 300 acres, about 18 miles west of Globe, with a good wagon road connection. The property includes the Summit, Pasquale, Reynolds and one additional group, of 4 claims each. The Summit, Pasquale and Reynolds were worked in a very small way, by different owners, 1900-06, when taken over by the Gibson Copper Co., and thereafter were worked continuously, until June, The country rock is Pinal schist and eranite carrying 3 approximately parallel fissure veins, having a northeast strike. The Summit and Pasquale are the principal veins, the former vein, of 4 to 7’ width, traceable for the entire length of the property, a distance of 1% miles. The Summit and Pasquale veins are about 250” apart, the Intermediate vein about 75’ east of the Pasquale. Ore occurs in the Summit and Pasquale veins in well-

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defined shoots, pitching to the south at 40 to 65°, the lenticular form of these shoots being in some cases due to strike faulting and movement. Ore is mainly massive chalcopyrite, with a little bornite. Gangue is quartz with some” calcite and small quantities of specular hematite and gypsum. Two veins show high-grade ore and some low-grade ore has been developed in 5 yeins. The McKinley vein, undeveloped, shows a strong outcrop.

The Gibson mine was opened by Messrs. Gibson and Henderson, with a capitalization of $90 cash and a team of horses, but on that extremely limited capital, not only paid its way but earned good profits from grass- roots. The mine has 3 shafts and 5 tunnels, 2 shafts and 4 tunnels being worked. The Pasquale tunnel, driven on the Pasquale vein, is about 200° below the collar of the incline shaft. The Reynolds tunnel is to intersect the vertical shaft at 1,800’ from the portal, at depth of 500’; the Toombs tunnel, 100’ vertically above and the Upper Toombs tunnel, 210” above the Reynolds, are drifts on the Summit vein. Working shaft is an incline, 600’ deep, sunk on the Summit vein, with 6 levels which show that the Summit vein runs N. 21° E., dips 56° northwest, and carries a seam of high-grade ore, the main pay streak carrying 8 to 15” of chalcopyrite ore assaying 20 to. 30% copper, throughout the various levels. The shaft has 5,915” of workings on the Summit vein, besides drifts on the Pasquale and Inter- mediate vein, reached by crosscuts on the 3rd and 4th levels.

Development by the Summit Copper Co. was by a vertical 3-compart- ment shaft, sunk to a depth of 244’ by the Gibson Copper Co., and deepened by this company to 573’, this depth corresponding with the 7th level of the old incline shaft. About 4,000’ of new drifting and crosscutting, costing nearly $142,000, was also done. The vertical shaft cuts the Pasquale vein at 165’, thé Intermediate vein at 300’ and the Summit vein at 500’ depth.

The Pasquale vein differs from the Summit in that it cuts across the bedding of the schist, instead of following the bedding planes as does the Summit, having a strike of N. 20° E., with dip-of 35 to 50°. Apparently the Pasquale vein is better defined, more continuous and stronger than the Summit, the fissure being of 5 to 10’ width, carrying a pay streak, from a few inches to 3’ in width, of ore assaying up to 33% copper. Ore occurs in the Pasquale vein in shoots pitching to the south, similar to the ore occurrence of the Summit.

The Intermediate vein, having drifts of 225’ length on the 3rd and 4th levels, has a strike of 12° east, with dip of 52° northwest, and is only about 8” wide, with firm walls and, as developed, is not of great importance, but has possibilities. The ground is heavy and treacherous, requiring timber- ing for practically every foot of drifting and concrete posts were used. Messrs. Pritchett & Hamilton estimated the developed ore reserves, at the end of 1910, excluding all high-grade ore, and omitting probable ore be- tween the 3rd and 4th levels on the Pasquale vein, as 33,011 tons of ore, averaging 4.36% copper, on the Summit vein; 17,062 tons of 3%, copper ore in the Summit filling; 39,860 tons of 2% ore on the Summit dump and 8,578 tons of 6.51% copper ore developed in.the Pasquale vein. The de- velopment by the Summit Copper Co. proved disappointing; irregular oc- currence and insufficient tonnage failing to offset the high-grade ore ex- tracted. C. W. Pritchett, Denver, Colo., consulting engineer, advised the surrender of option after sampling and examining all old workings.

Equipment at the incline shaft includes two 250-h. p. boilers, a 14x16” hoist and a 6-drill Sullivan air compressor. The plant at the vertical shaft includes two 200-h. p. Stirling water-tube boilers, a 16x20” Hendrie & Bolthoff double-drum hoist, good for 1,000’ depth and a 10-drill Sullivan

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cross-compound air compressor, with a 132’ steel smokestack of 42” diam- eter. The vertical shaft has pumps with capacity of 500,000 gals. daily.

The gross value of ore produced by the Gibson Copper Co., 1906-09, _has been estimated at $1,250,000. It was shipped to the Old Dominion smelter, a distance of about 18 miles, by 10-horse teams, and required careful selection, owing to the extremely high cost of transportation, re- turning better than 20% copper. Production was 1,106,100 Ibs. fine copper in 1906; 3,340,777 lbs. in 1907; 1,270,211 Ibs. copper and 2,000 oz. silver in 1908; 667,405 Ibs. copper in 1909, and 600,000 Ibs. in 1912.

Gila Cañon Copper Co. Arizona

H. Stuart Hotchkiss, pres., 214 East St., New Haven, Conn. Mine ad- dress: Ray, Pinal Co., Ariz. Milton J. Warner, sec.-treas.; preceding offi- cers, Geo. B. Chittenden and Erroll M. Augur, directors. Organized 1907, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $5 par. Is operated as a close corporation. Lands, 16 claims, area 320 acres, known as the Schneider group, in the Banner or Troy district, Gila county, 4 miles from the Southern Pacific railway. Development, by Geo. Chittenden, progress- ing since Sept., 1912;:1,200 tons of 8.1% copper ore shipped to Copper Queen Reduction Works, Douglas, Ariz.

Gila Copper Sulphide Co. Arizona

Office: 13 Pine St, New York. S. H. Sherman, supt., Christmas, via Winkelman, Ariz. B. P. Cheney, pres.; F. M. Murphy, vice-pres.; A. W. Edwards, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, H. J. Meany, Paul Burks, F. P. Cruice, Sayre McLeod, L. B. Mulhearn, W. G. Bushnell, directors. Com- pany is controlled by B. P. Cheney and F. M. Murphy. Organized 1909, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $2,500,000, shares $10 par, nonas- sessable; $1,207,900 issued and $1,000,000 held intact in treasury for bond conversion. Has authorized an issue of $1,000,000 first mortgage 6-year 6% bonds, convertible into stock, at par, at option of bondholder. Was organ- ized by the Development Company of America, which bought the prop- erty from the Saddle Mountain Mining Co., 1909, for $300,000 in stock and the assumption of the Saddle Mountain bonds, which were scaled down to $420,000. New company spent $275,000 in development work at Christmas and paying off floating debts of former owners.

Property consists of 3 groups of claims comprising 54 claims, 1,458 acres, 50 patented, and 640 acres coal land. Holdings include Christmas mine and claims in Banner district, Gila county, and coal, gold and copper claims in the Saddle Mountain district, Pinal county, all within a radius of 6 miles.

The Saddle Mountain group of gold and silver claims, patented, 266 acres, with 3,450’ of workings, show base dry ore, with a little lead and zinc and traces of copper, an average of 300 assays showing $13 per ton in gold and silver values.

There are also 640 acres of patented coal lands, in the lower basin of Deer creek, showing a 3’ vein of dirty bituminous coal, developed by a 175’ incline shaft and 800’ of workings, equipped with a small steam hoist and pump. There is a bee-hive coke oven for testing the coal.

The Christmas mine is at the junction of Christmas canyon with the Gila river, on the north side of the stream, 8 miles from Winkelman. The mine was opened, 1883, but closed, 1884, because found to be located on the San Carlos Indian Reservation, and remained idle until the lands were restored to the public domain, by executive order of the president, Dec. 2; 1902. The property shows heavily bedded white and gray Carboniferous limestone, in various stages of alteration, near a granite porphyry contact. Ore occurs mainly as replacements in limestone, with garnetiferous gangue,

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carrying sulphides, mainly chalcopyrite, but with bornite and some copper elance. The contact zone has shown copper ore wherever opened and the porphyry also carries copper ore, below workable tenor. Four main ore- bodies are under development, these ranging from 4 to 60’ in width. Ore- body contains nucleal blocks of undigested limestone, surrounded by ore, hence it is difficult to measure tonnage developed. Ore mined gave aver- age assays of about 3% copper and 30 to 40 cts. per ton in combined gold and silver values.

Development at Christmas is by 4 shafts, all showing oxidized and sul- phide ores. The No. 3, or main working shaft, is 850” deep; No. 1, 430’ deep, shows good ore on the 120’ level, said to average 3.75% copper, with considerable heavy sulphide ore on the 300’ and 400’ levels, latter said to show 5% ore; No. 2 shaft is 215’ deep, the Hackberry shaft 165’ and Christmas shaft 175’ deep. The upper workings have a blanket bed of about 6’ thickness, said to be proven for 300’ in width and 625’ in length. The mine has almost 16,000’ of workings, with much ore in sight. Manage- ment estimates, Sept. 16, 1913, that 400,000 tons of ore is blocked out or 500,000 tons “in sight.” The mine has open cast workings of 30,000 sq. ft. area, showing carbonate ores. Recent work at the mine has been along the porphyry contact on the 800’ level.

Mine equipment includes a 90-h. p. steam plant, with 4 hoists of 10 h: p. to 175 h. p. Property will have a 7,000’ rope tram in 1913-14,

Production of the Saddle Mountain was 445,000 lbs. fine copper in.1905; 2,338,492 Ibs. copper, 16,410 oz. silver and 437 oz. gold in 1906; 1,751,264 Ibs. copper, 7,453 oz. silver and 254 oz. gold in 1907. Property, though low in grade, is considered of promise if given further mine development.

Contrary to press reports current, 1913, the Gila Co. does not own the Imperial Copper Co.’s property at Silver Bell and Sasco, Ariz., though a harmony of interests may at some future time. lead to a merger of the companies.

Gila Monster Copper Co. Arizona

Mine near Kelvin, Pinal Co., Ariz. Lands, known as the Confidence mine, with 1,000’ of underground openings, show auriferous and argentifer- ous bornite, chalcocite and various oxidized ores. No trace of operations secured. Probably defunct.

Gila Mountain Copper Co. Arizona

Idle since 1909. N. W. Ferris, pres., 50 East 21st St., New York. Frank Thorpe, Jos. H. Thoms, F. W. Cowperthwait, and John F. Weber, latter of Safford, Ariz., directors. Organized about 1910, capital $300,000, shares $1 par; $50,000 mortgage authorized April, 1911, ordered foreclosed Jan. 12, to reorganize company.

Owns San Juan mine and Great Eastern group, totaling 24 claims, area 470 acres, in the Lone Star district, Gila mountains, about 30 miles north of Morenci, Ariz. The San Juan mine has a 280’ shaft, planned to be sunk to 500’, cutting a 28’ vein on the 230’ level that shows a streak of ore assaying 25% copper and 4 oz. silver per ton. There also are 2 other shafts. A pumping plant, at Walnut Springs, supplies a reservoir at the San Juan mine.

A 50-ton concentrator, built 1906, shipped, 1907, some concentrates to the Old Dominion smelter, 1 carload returning 29.95% copper, about 2 oz. silver and 80 cts. gold per ton. Production, 1907, was 110,858 lbs. fine cop- per, 223 oz. silver and 6 oz. gold.

Property has had a checkered career; it was first the basis of a swin- dling promotion that landed the promoters in jail; then worked as a real

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mine by John Weber, who made money until the panic of 1907. Present company out of funds and property liable for watchman's wages, etc. GILA RIVER COPPER MINES CO. ALASKA £ MONTANA

Probably dead. Letters unclaimed at office in Washington, D. C., and Flint, Meagher Co., Mont. Wm. E. Ambrose, pres.; O. J. Moat, vice-pres.; N. M. Ambrose, sec.; Frank Thos. Evans, treas.; preceding officers, John R. Hill, Hon. M. N. Packard, M. H. Ramage, Gen. Geo. C. Reid and J. A. Howard, directors; W. J. Miller, supt. Organized July, 1907, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $5,000,000, shares $1 par, assessable; issued $3,100,000. Has levied assessments of about $70,000. Company is said to own a controlling interest in the Howard Copper Co. of Montana. Annual meeting, first Tuesday in July. Lands, 8 claims, area 160 acres, in the vicinity of Flint, little developed, also the Liberty group of gold claims, on Silver Bay, 61% miles from Sitka, Alaska, having about 450” of tunnel work,

Giles Gold Mining & Milling Co. Colorado

Mine at Ward, Boulder Co., Colo. Letter to F. A. Lawrence, owner, at Fairmount, Neb., unanswered. Mine has auriferous and argentiferous copper ore, and is equipped with steam power and a 10-stamp mill. GILPADO MINING CO. COLORADO

Harry T. Willis, superintendent, Central City, Gilpin Co., Colo. Prop- erty, the Chase mine, developing a vein of gold-silver bearing copper ore by 500’ shaft and tevels. Equipment includes steam power. Mine exam- ined by Forbes Rickard, 1910.

Gilpin Orion Gold Mining Co. Colorado

Office: 522 McPhee Bldg., Denver, Colo. Wm. A. Miller, vice-pres. and gen.'mgr.; A. C. Ogle, Jr., sec.; Jas. A. Jones, director. Capitalization $3,000,000, shares $1 par. Company is a gold mining concern producing copper in relatively small quantities. Company is mining but little ore, the returns for June being 2% tons worth $105.47 per ton and 2.4 tons of $17.45 ore, but no stoping is being done. A small and not particularly attractive property.

Ginza Copper Co. Suave

Office: Logan, Utah. Mine office: Kelton, Box Elder Eos Utah, Harry Hayball, pres.; J. F. Featherstone, vice-pres.; Edw. Korupat, sec.- treas.; Noble Stewart, mine supt. Organized under laws of Utah, capital- ization $100,000, shares 10 cts. par.

Property, a group of claims, 24 miles from Kelton, the nearest railroad station, and 5 miles from Strevell, in the Clear Creek district, Box Elder county, close to the Idaho line. Claims show vein, or contact deposit with flat dip between quartzite and granite. A 3%’ zone on the hanging wall carries copper ore with gold-silver values averaging about $27 per ton in the 3 metals. Principal development is a 160’ tunnel with 27’ of drifting on the paystreak, and an 18’ winze sunk in ore. Company shipped several carloads of ore in the summer of 1913 and will erect a concentra- tion plant in the near future. Mine recently examined by R. R. Vail, of Butie, Mont.

Girard Copper Co. Montana

George J. Kirby, pres., Willimantic, Conn.; John A. Kirby, vice-pres., Salt Lake City, Utah. Organized 1912, capitalization $10,000,000, shares $10 par; 601,120 issued; 501,000 shares pooled until July 1, 1915. Admitted to quotation Boston curb, for 91,020 shares, Jan., 1913.

Girard Development Co. Arizona

Garrit B. Kip, Girard C. Herrick and E. Hicks Herrick of Butler, Her-

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rick & Kip of New York, are chief stockholders. Company considering purchase of Pioneer Smelting Co. plant at Corwin, Pima county, Ariz. GIRDWOOD MINE. ALASKA

Address: Latouche Island, Prince William Sound, Alaska. Property, also known as the Girdwood & Barrack mine, is one-half mile north of the Beatson Bonanza mine. It shows an orebody carrying chalcopyrite with pyrrhotite and pyrite, about one-fourth mile back from the shore line. The mine has been developed by numerous surface workings and by a long tunnel with stopes, from which several hundred tons of ore have been shipped. Some work was done on the property in 1912.

Giroux Consolidated Mines Co. Nevada & Mexico

Office: 1400 Alworth Bldg., Duluth, Minn. Mine office: Kimberly, White Pine Co., Nev., and Carbo, Ures, Sonora, Mexico. Thos. F. Cole, pres.; John ‘Uno Sebenius, vice-pres.; Jos. B. Cotton, vice-pres. and gen. counsel; Edw. J. Maney, treas.; preceding officers, Geo. G. Barnum, Henry B. Paull, Geo. F. Piper, John H. McLean and Ralph C. Lupton, directors; Frederic R. Kennedy, sec.; Frank P. Mills, gen. mgr. in Nevada; S. L. Hes- lett, gen. supt. Mexican mines. r

Organized April 14, 1903, under laws of Delaware, capitalization $7,- 500,000, shares $5 par, was originally $5,000,000, increased 1908, to $6,500,- 000 and again increased, 1909, to present amount; issued, $7,207,100, with $496,400 in the treasury for the conversion and retirement of convertible bonds. Bonds outstanding, $496,400 first and second issue, at 6%. Ameri- can Trust Co., Boston, registrar; Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Co., trans- fer agent. Annual meeting, first Tuesday in February.

The Giroux is now controlled absolutely by the Consolidated Copper Mines Co., through the exchange of most of the stock of the Giroux for that of the new company on a basis of 10 shares for 1, amounting to 75% of the stock issue of the new company. A proposed $3,000,000 bond issue by the new company will furnish ample working funds.

The Nevada mineral lands, originally 52 claims, patented, area 1,050 acres, were largely increased, 1909-10, by the acquisition of the holdings of the Giroux-Ely Extension Copper Co., which were 130 acres, south of the Giroux Consolidated and east of the Ely-Central; the Rickard-Ely Cop- per Co. holdings, 5 claims, adjoining the Veteran-Ely on the west; the Military group of 4 claims, adjoining the Giroux, and various other adjoin- ing properties, for which $226,551.40 was expended in 1909. The main holdings constitute a tract about 214 miles in length, and one-half to one mile in width, lying immediately west of the Nevada Consolidated. The company also owns 1,800 acres of miscellaneous lands, including the town site of Kimberly, 7 miles west of Ely, and valuable water rights in the Steptoe valley.

The Giroux controls the lands of the Butte & Ely Copper Co. through ownership of 239,175 shares, bought at $1 per share.

Giroux current assets, Dec. 31, 1911, were $496,177; in 1912, $715,073; including metals in stock and ore on dump at Mexican mine, totaling $367,088. Liabilities are given at $649,000 in 1912 and $119,176 in 1911; cash . on hand, 1912, $27,797, as compared with $157,309 in 1911. Net profit in 1912, after allowing for extraordinary expenses, was $150,000, or a little over $1 per ron. Mining expenses, 1912, were $708,592 compared with $198,707 in 1911; construction and equipment, $103,318, against $70,488 in 1911. Total for 1912, $811,910, as against $269,195 the year before.

The Giroux property covers a total area of 2,000 acres, having an extreme length east and west of 15,000” and a maximum width of 4,000”.

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It covers an intrusive body of monzonite porphyry and is part of the long mass running through the district, on which the steam-shovel pit of the Nevada Consolidated Co. is working. This porphyry is exposed over a large part of the company holdings, the rest being limestone whose beds dip away from the porphyry. The contacts are silicified with very extensive areas of quartz, stained by iron and copper.

The ore deposits include porphyry, or disseminated ore, similar to that of the Nevada Consolidated Co., and secondly the contact orebodies be- neath the outcrop just mentioned. The porphyry orebodies have been developed by churn drill holes in the customary 200” blocks and by under- ground workings. It is found that the orebodies, together with blocks of barren rhyolite, are faulted and are not continuous throughout the prop- erty. These orebodies cannot be worked by steam shovel but are being mined by caving methods. They are mined through 3 shafts, the main ore supply coming from the 205’ Morris shaft, now yielding 1,000 to 1,200 tons a day, of 2.24% ore. The Bunker Hillishaft is connected with the above, the main level being 165’ beneath the surface. The Brooks incline shaft is used as a stairway for the men and for lowering timber and supplies,

The Bunker Hill-Morris mine contains 7,000,000 tons of 2% ore, ac- cording to the rigid estimate of Henry Krumb made, 1913, for the Con- solidated Copper Mines Co. Reliable estimates, with allowance for prob- abilities made by the Giroux engineers and published in the company’s report for 1911, gave 10,291,000 tons of 2% ore and for the property as a whole 6,599,000 tons of 1.65% ore. Shipments from the Morris orebody the last 8 months of 1912 amounted to 140,877 tons of 2.15% copper ore. The caving system is now well started at the mine and one blast of 257 holes shot down 20,000 tons ready for loading.

The porphyritic ore is comparatively friable, and readily amenable to concentration, though necessarily somewhat given to sliming. The southern monzonite orebody is about 400’ wide, with a proven length of about 2,000” and is 100 to 175’ thick. Another monzonite orebody extends along Old Glory hill from the western end of the property, in a course between the Alpha and Giroux shafts. The porphyry orebodies have been tested by 6 Keystone churn drills, and these drills have done considerable work also on the Butte & Ely ground. A large number of holes have been bored, mainly to the depth of about 500’, with 1 hole of 1,035’ put down, 1909. The lands are so extensive that a comparatively small part of the property has been thoroughly drilled. The first statement given out by the present management, appearing early 1911, estimated 9,620,000 tons of porphyry ore developed, capable of giving a net recovery of 1.36% copper, 20 cts. silver and 40 cts. gold per ton. As estimates of net recov- ery are subject to change it would be better to give the average assay. The management in this statement to shareholders reported the following bodies of porphyry ore: 4,200,000 tons in the orebody north of Butte & Ely, predicated on 13 holes, with overburden of 65 to 210’ depth, and an average of 108’, carrying 15 to 130’ of commercial ore, with an average of 79, ranging 0.81% to 1.38%, with an average of 1.11% copper tenor, these figures being an estimate for net recovery and not assay values. The Morris orebody of 2,270,000 tons is calculated, 1910, upon 16 drill holes, 2 showing no overburden, others with overburden 30 to 270’ in depth, with an average of 82’, showing 20 to 230’ of commercial ore, with an average of 127’, assaying 0.92 to 3.62%, average of ore given at 1.7% and at 1.3%. The Bunker Hill orebody is estimated at 2,380,000 tons, with an average ot 114 of capping and 120’ of ore, with average of 1.65% copper. Company

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also estimated 650,000 tons of 1.61% concentrating ore on Old Glory Hill, and 120,000 tons of 3.5% smelting ore in the Old Glory mine. ]

Development work for 1910 included 72 churn drill holes, averaging 274 in depth, with a total of 19,725” of holes, costing $34,723, an average of $1.76 per foot. In 1912 company did 7,887" new work on main (1655) level, 8,521’ on 135’ sub-level, and 1,925’ on 105’ sub-level, with 5,927’ clean- ing and retimbering drifts and 366’ retimbering shafts.

The Alpha mine is an independent orebody, having a zone, or lode, several hundred feet wide of mineralized, silicified limestone along the porphyry contact. This deposit is thoroughly leached from the surface downward almost to the water level 1,000’ below. The orebody so far developed is 400’ wide on the 1,000’ and 1,200’ levels, and is several hun- dred feet long. It has not been found on the 700’ level, though that drift shows the formation to be 360’ wide by 520’ long; 230 tons of the ore from this deposit shipped in 1913, assayed 8.77% copper. The mine has 2 shafts, the Alpha 1,200’ deep, and the Giroux 1,450’ deep.

The 1,200’ three-compartment Alpha shaft formerly was the principal working under the old management, but caved, Jan., 1908, entailing a se- vere loss, and rendering the sinking of a new main shaft necessary. The Alpha is about 800” from the Cumberland-Ely mine, and is connected with the Giroux shaft on the 770’ and 1,200’ levels. The Alpha has been re- timbered, and put in as good order as possible, but practically is now only an air-shaft, and an extra exit from the mine. The Alpha mine makes about 100,000 gals. of water daily, and the former management foolishly figured on running a concentrator with water from this shaft.

The 1,450’ vertical Giroux shaft, 700’ west of the Alpha, formerly had only 2 compartments, but, owing to the caving of the ‘Alpha, under the old management, the Giroux has been made the main shaft. The shaft is 12x19’ 4” in the clear, with 5 compartments, these being a 10x5’ 8” com- partment having a double-deck cage to handle men and timber, with ca- pacity for 35 men; 2 skip compartments, each 5x5’ 6”, and 2 compartments for pipes and ladderways, each 5x4’ 6”. Timbers are unusually heavy, being 12x14”, with wall plates 20’ long, and 12x12” and 14x14” end plates. The shaft was sunk through solid limestone, at the rate of 120’ per month, a record for Nevada shaft work, almost exclusively by raising, at an average cost of $71.25 per ft. The Giroux shaft made very little water while in the limestone, but became wetter when bottomed, and-is equipped with unusual pumping facilities, having 2 pumps of 600 gals., and 1 of 1,200 gals. capacity per minute. The main pumping station, on the 1,200’ level, is finished with cement, requiring about 1,000 tons of material. The 1,200-gal. Prescott cross-compound condensing pump is one of the largest underground engines ever built, and has a 7-ton fly wheel, with a 16” dis- charge pipe. The pump station is 40x120’ in size, with sides and ends concreted, having a height of 17’ 6” to the concrete arch, the concrete averaging 30” in thickness. The ore station on this level is 20x22’, and 11’ high, timbered with 14x14” creosoted Oregon fir.

The principal mining equipment is at the Giroux shaft, which has a 94’ steel headgear, with two 12’ sheave wheels. The engine house and boiler house are 400’ from the shaft. The engine house, 47x120’, of steel frame, ironclad, with solid cement floors, has a 26x48” Allis-Chalmers duplex- cylinder hoist having a 10’ drum with 9’ face, capable of handling 5-ton skips in counter balance to depth of 2,000’, at a hoisting speed of 1,500’ per minute. There also is a 20x48” Allis-Chalmers hoist for the cage. Part of this equipment was moved to Morris No. 2 shaft in 1912.

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Nevada Northern line, has grades averaging about 1.5%. Equipment in- cludes a Porter engine, of 600 tons tractive power, and 75 Ingoldsby ore cars.

A $160,000 mill erected in 1907 proved a failure owing mainly to lack of water and has not been operated by the present management. It is described in Vol. X.

The company owns the water rights to Steptoe creek, 9 miles from the mine and 967’ lower.

The Sultana mine, the Mexican property, area 459 acres, includes the San José mine, about 1 mile west of Copete, in the Sierra de Oro, 25 miles east of Carbo and about 35 miles from Hermosillo Property shows a contact vein of 50 to 100’ width, between limestone and porphyry, opened by 3 shafts, No. 1, 200’, No. 2, the main working shaft, sunk on an incline 1,200’ deep, and the San José shaft 500’ deep. The San José mine shows, in the bottom level, a vein of about 40’ width, carrying oxidized ores to shallow depth, succeeded by sulphides. About 15% of the ore hoisted from the San José was of smelting grade, balance, of 6% estimated copper tenor, being stocked. The Mexican property as a whole shows low-grade copper ore with fair gold value. The shipments of Sultana ore to El Paso smelter have returned combined gold and silver values ranging from 92 cts. to $734.36 per ton.

The Sultana mill is said to be an utter failure. It was designed to have a daily capacity of 100 tons and has Huntington mills, an amalgama- tion plant and a cyanide plant. The smelter, purchased after the failure of the mill, remains resting at the railway station, because a competent metal- lurgist reported that the ore could not be profitably smelted. The mine produced about $250,000 from enriched oxidized ores which gave out and exploration and development costing about $500,000 to the end of 1907 developed only low-grade ore which the critics say is neither millable, smeltable nor profitable. The mine has been inactive since 1907 but main- tenance expenses during there years of idleness have been quite heavy.

The Giroux has been a disappointment to its stockholders from the beginning, the many promises made by the old management were never kept and the optimistic press reports of later years have not been sustained by results. The company is now practically merged with the Consolidated Copper Mines Co. by the exchange of over 80% of its stock, the merger being an exchange of stock and not a sale of the property. The merger is believed to be a good thing for the stockholders as by an amalgamation of properties the mines may be worked ona large scale and thereby made profitable. Experience has shown that low-grade ores of this character can only be profitably worked on a scale of at least 1,000 tons a day and this the new company will be able to do. Excessive freight rates on the railroad and smelter charges at Steptoe prohibit local treatment by another company and developed tonnage of Giroux alone would not warrant inde- pendent reduction plants.

Glacier Peak Mining Co. Washington

Office: Roslyn, Kittitas Co., Wash. Mine near Lucerne, Chelan Co., Wash. Christopher Menneghel, superintendent. Owns a group of claims near Glacier peak showing fissure veins carrying copper ore. Developed by tunnel. Employs about 15 men when operating.

GLADHAUGH MINE. p ALASKA

Owned by Ellamar Mining Co., at Ellamar, Prince William Sound, Alaska.

Glasgow & Western Exploration Co, Ltd. Nevada

Office: 33 Renfield St., Glasgow, Scotland, Sec. and office: H. O.

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Jackson, 317 McCornick Bldg., Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine office: Gol- conda, Humboldt Co., Nev. Geo. McFarlane Reid, chairman; Joseph Ralph, London, managing director; A. P. Stanley Macquisten and E. S. Coats, directors; Otto Stalman, mgr.; Joseph Farren, mine supt.

Organized Oct. 28, 1896, under laws of Great Britain, capitalization £30,000, increased 1898 from £6,000, shares £1 par, fully issued and fully paid. Accounts to Oct. 31, 1911, published June 21, 1912, showed debit, £48,829 of profit and loss account. Cash on hand, £2,022; money loaned Adelaide Star mine, £667,402; shares held, £3,835; creditors, £3,790; tem- porary loans and accrued interest, £734,322. This company is a parent concern to the Adelaide Star Mines, Ltd., and also owns the Copper Can- yon and Copper Basin group of claims in Lander county, Nev., and the Montreal group in Beaver county, Utah. The Adelaide Star Mines, Ltd., owns the Adelaide group of claims near Golconda and the Star group at Cherry Creek, both in Nevada.

A large sum of money, approximating $5,000,000, has been spent on these properties in the last 15 years and on April 1, 1913, debts against the company amounted to over $95,000. The English managers sent a repre- sentative to settle up the claims and to avoid bankruptcy compromised with the creditors for 40 cts.-on the dollar. The money spent was used for the erection of smelters, concentrators and leaching plants, when underground development had not yet shown sufficient ore reserves to supply the re- duction plant. The 2 Nevada properties and a small railway in that state, together with the Montreal mine in Utah, were attached as the result of a suit for $2,250,000 brought by Peter Coats, of the J. € P. Coats Thread Co. of Scotland, for money advanced to the company.

At present a reorganization of the company is under way and it is ex- pected that this fall will see a resumption of mining et the Montreal, Cop- per Basin and Copper Canyon properties, since all 3 possess sufficient merit to justify expensive development, though little mining of ore can be done at present. The management expects to sink an 850’ 3-compart- ment shaft down to water level on the Montreal property and a second shaft to depth of 500. The various claims are now being surveyed for patent, since despite the enormous expenditure in the past, title has never been obtained to the land.

Glenwood Mining Co. Utah

Office: 1102 West Seventh South St., Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine office: Salt Lake City, Utah. Abel Grovenor, pres.; E. P. Mowers, vice- pres. and gen. mgr.; M. L. Grovenor, sec.-treas. Organized Feb. 21, 1901, under laws of Utah, capitalization $30,000, shares 10 cts. par, assessable; increased 1912, to $125,000, shares 25 cts. par. Lands, 8 claims, one pat- ented, in Big Cottonwood district, 6 miles from a railroad, opened by shafts and tunnels, with about 1,600’ of workings.

Globe, Arizona & El Paso Copper Mg. & Sm. Co. Arizona

Idle. Mine at Globe, Gila Co., Ariz. David G. Baldwin, pres.; W. D. Mayfield, sec.; W. H. Anderson, treas.; John O’Keefe, managing director, at last accounts. Organized 1910, capitalization $3,000,000, shares $1 par. Lands, 45 claims, in 2 groups, 10 miles northwest of Globe, held under bond and lease. The Dixon group of 20 claims, held under bond from the Dixon Copper Co., is 9 miles from Globe, at the foot of the Sleeping Beauty mountains. The other group, 25 claims, is held under bond from Matteo Giacomo. The Dixon group has 300’ and 400’ tunnels, showing ore assay- ing up to 18% copper, in Globe limestone and quartzite, capped in some places by diabase, and the property shows several small iron blowouts. The Dixon has bunk houses. Was developing, 1911.

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GLOBE £ LOST GULCH SILVER-COPPER MINES CO. ARIZONA Office: 424 McPhee Bldg., Denver, Colo. Mine at Lost Gulch, Gila Cog gAriz.: Ma LE, Brooke, *pres. and gen. mgr.; John A. Myrberg, vice- pres. and supt.; H. A. Wimbush, sec.-treas. Organized April 1, 1907, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par, non-assessable. Lands, 10 claims, patented, and other locations, area 180 acres, and a mill site at the head of Lost gulch, 1% miles north of Inspiration and Miami, Ariz., showing quartzite, granite and limestone, cut by porphyritic dikes.

Development shows lead ore in diabase, silver-chloride ore in granite and limestone and copper silicate ore in dacite.

GLOBE MINING Co. ARIZONA

Office: 606 Schiller Bldg., Chicago, Ill. Mine office: Globe, Gila Co., Ariz. Hon. J. F. Hechtman, pres. and gen. mgr.; M. A. Patterson, vice- pres.; Walter M. DeKalb, sec.; Geo. L. Beach, treas.; preceding officers, F. B. Walker, L. E. West and R. A. Jamison, directors. Organized Feb. 19, 1903, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $2,500,000, shares $1 par. Property leased to Mineral Farms Co. in 1911 and was being developed in 1912,

Lands, 21 claims, patented, area 335 acres, 24% miles north of Globe. Lands show granite-porphyry, syenite, quartzite and diorite, carrying fissure veins in diorite of 2 to 100” width, with gossans giving assays of 2 to 6% copper, 4 to 30 oz. silver and $2 to $28 gold per ton. The Mineral Farm ‘group of 21 claims, 3 fractional, includes the Vacey-Constance mine, worked 1886 for silver, and said to have produced upwards of $100,000 worth of ore under former ownership, this group having upwards of 20 old pits and shafts, of 10 to 165” depth. The Mineral Farm group shows altered sedi- mentary and igneous rocks, with iron dikes and a complex fissure system. The Mineral Farm vein, of about 4’ width, gives assays of 4.8% copper and up to 132 oz. silver and $7.44 gold per ton, and the group also shows a 20 vein, said to sample 22% copper, 9% zinc, 2 oz. silver and $4.96 gold per ton, which seems excessive. The Eagle Pass group has a 215’ two-compart- ment shaft, between 2 iron outcrops.

Equipment includes a 60-h. p. boiler, 8x10” hoist and an Air compressor. There are 6 mine buildings.

Globe Mining Co. Michigan

Office: 15 William St., New York. Jos. E. Gay, pres.; J. R. Stanton, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, R. D. Rickard and W. H. Leggett, directors. Organized May, 1911, under laws of Michigan, capitalization $78,250, shares $25 par; fully paid and fully issued.

Lands, 3,200 acres, being Secs. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, T. 53 N., R. 35 W., ex- tending entirely across the Keweenawan trap formation, from the eastern to the western sandstone. Property lies next south of the Champion, and immediately north of the Challenge, carrying about 6,000’ of the strike of the Baltic and all parallel beds. Mine was developed by the Copper Range Consolidated Co., under option, but option was relinquished, Feb. 1, 1909, after the expenditure of upwards of $500,000.

Diamond-drill borings, to locate the Baltic bed, gave some cores with excellent values, but disclosed a heavy overburden of sand and boulders, rendering it necessary to reach the solid rock by a vertical shaft. Work was begun early 1905, but the first shaft was abandoned, owing to quick- sand, and was replaced by a new vertical shaft, about 700’ south of the Champion boundary. The shaft is telescopic, inside measurements of tim- bers at the collar being 13’ 3”x23’ 3”, with a second section below of 9x19 6”, and a third section of still smaller size.

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were cut thereafter at 100’ intervals. The Baltic amygdaloidal bed was tested by some diamond-drill boring, and about 900” of drifting on the seventh level, which is about 1,000’ from surface? and showed a little copper, in patches, but on the whole was unpayable, and work was suspended Jan. 31, 1909, and property has been idle since. Notwithstanding the unfavorable results secured by the work done so far, the property is by no means de- void of promise. GLOBE-RAY DEVELOPMENT CO. ARIZONA John C. Gibson, supt., Miami, Ariz. This is a development company having a lease and bond on the Independence or Goodwin mine, 14 miles southwest of Miami on the trail to Ray. The claims show a well-defined but small vein in Pinal schist carrying copper ore that runs about 7% cop- per, 4 oz. silver and $4 gold per ton. The vein is opened by a 280’ inclined shaft on the vein with 600’ of drifting on the 4 levels. The ore is packed on burros 3 miles to the summit of the Pinal mountains, thence 9 miles by wagon road to the railway. Three cars of ore were shipped to the Old Dominion smelter late in 1912. GLOBE SMELTING & REFINING CO. COLORADO At Denver, Colo. Controlled by American Smeiting & Refining Co., and described under title of that company. GODIVA MINING CO. UTAH Office: Kearns Bldg., Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine office: Eureka, Juab Co., Utah. Edw. Packard, vice-pres. and gen. mgri; J. E. Berkley, sec.;- L. S. Hills, treas.; Jackson H. McCrystal,, supt.; preceding officers and Robt. Harkness, directors. Capitalization was increased, 1908, from $100,000 to $1,000,000, shares $1 par. It is related to the Gemini Mining Co., and op- erated as a close corporation, has paid dividends, but figures are not made public. The mine is one of the pioneers of the Tintic district, and was once a notable producer. Mine, carrying gold-silver bearing copper and lead ores, has a shaft 1,000’ deep, with steam power. Presumably idle. GODIVA-SIOUX MOUNTAIN MINING CO. UTAH Idle. Letters unclaimed at Eureka, Juab Co., Utah. B. N. C. Scott, pres. and gen. mgr., at last accounts. Organized March 4, 1901, under laws of Utah, capitalization $150,000, shares 15 cts. par, non-assessable; issued, $105,000. Lands, 35 acres, patented, adjoining the Plutus mine, showing 2 fissure veins; having lead and copper ores, carrying 20% lead, up to 40 oz. silver, and $4 to $5 gold per ton. Development is by the Smuggler tunnel. GOLCONDA-NEVADA COPPER CO. NEVADA Idle. Mine office: Golconda, Humboldt Co., Nev. J. H. Playter, supt., at last accounts. Property is in the Winnemucca region and comprises the’ Etchert & Gomes group, bought 1907, and a two-thirds interest in the Hon- olulu group, balance of which is owned by the Silverfields Mining Co., Ltd., a reorganization of the Golconda Consolidated Co. The Honolulu group has a short tunnel, shallow shaft and several opencuts. GOLD BELT DEVELOPMENT & REDUCTION CO. ARIZONA Former address: Morenci, Graham Co., Ariz. Sold, 1911, to Eagle Gold & Copper Mining Co., which see. GOLD BOND MINING & MILLING CO. UTAH Office: 27 Latimer Bldg., Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine office: Tooele, Tooele Co., Utah. Mark Stanley, pres.; H. J. Jones, vice-pres.; Wm. Crome, sec.-treas. Organized 1898, under laws of Utah, capitalization $25,000, shares 5 cts. par, assessable; has levied 9 assessments. Lands, 2 claims, unpatented, 4 miles from a railroad, having a shallow shaft and short tunnel, with about 300’ of workings. Is merely a prospect reported to have good showings.

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GOLD CHAIN MINING CO. UTAH Office: Provo, Utah. Mine at Robinson, JuabiCoy Utah. CME. Loose, pres. and gen. mgr.; J. T. Farrar, vice-pres.; P. G. Peterson, sec.-treas.; pre- ceding officers, G. Simmons and John R. Turloes, directors. W. D. Loose, asst.-mgr. Organized Dec., 1910, under laws of Utah, capitalization $250,- 000, shares 25 cts. par. Paid $70,000 dividends 1912, making total to date of $100,000. Company absorbed the Ajax Mining Co., said to have paid up- wards of $1,000,000 in dividends. i Property includes the Gold Chain group and the Ajax mine in the Tintic district. Recent development on the 300 to 700’ levels has shown an orebody 20 to 40’ wide and 100 to 400’ long, which averages 5 to 7% copper, 8 to 10 oz. silver. and $2 to $3 gold per ton. Development from the Lower Mammoth mine into the west end of property, 900” below the deepest pre- vious work, has disclosed another orebody which is said to carry 3% cop- per, 44 oz. silver, and $2.50 gold per ton. Production is about 100 tons per day, mainly from the largest ore shoot ever opened on the property, which is now being mined on the 700’ level. Ore shipped is medium grade, car- rying copper with gold and silver values, averaging $20 per ton after rough sorting. GOLD CLIFF MINING CO. WYOMING Idle. Letter unclaimed at Sundance, Crook Co., Wyo. Wm. McMillan, gen. mgr., at last accounts. Lands, 14 claims, Kirwin district, carrying sev- eral veins of ore giving good assays in copper, gold and silver. GOLD & COPPER DEEP TUNNEL M. & M. CO. NEW MEXICO Idle. Office: Beaver Falls, Beaver Co., Pa. Mine office: Elizabethtown, Colfax Col, N. M. A. T. McIntyre, pres.; Jas. E. Glasson, vice-pres.; W. H. Martin, sec.-treas.; W. P. McIntyre, gen. mgr. and supt.; preceding officers and Geo. E. Dachtler, directors. Organized Oct. 10, 1900, under laws of New Mexico, capitalization $200,000, increased 1912 to $500,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable; issued, $225,000. Annual meeting, third Tuesday in July. Property is in the heart of Cimarron range, on the west slope of Baldy mountain, 12,500’ high, and comprises 13 claims, 260 acres, in the Moreno district, 18 miles from the St. L. R. M. £ P. R. R. at Ute Park. Orebody a contact between slate and monzonite. Developed by 2 shallow shafts and a 2,300’ crosscut tunnel, planned to penetrate the mountain with a final length of 3,500’, cutting 2 bodies of low-grade copper ore. Underground work to June, 1913, totaled 3,100’. Equipment includes a 12-h. p. gasoline air com- pressor and 10 buildings. The 20-ton stamp mill has a 5’ Huntington mill and gravity stamps. See U..S. Geol. Survey Prof. Paper, 68, p. 95, for geology of this district. $ GOLD CROWN MINING CO, LTD. MONTANA Idle. L. P. Wolfe, sec., Wallace, Idaho. Mine near St. Regis, Missoula Co., Mont. A. A. Mayo, Henderson, Mont., pres. Capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par. Lands, 5 claims, 7 miles from a railroad, showing a vein said to be 7 to 15' wide between quartzite and diabase, carrying ore giving assay values in copper, silver and gold. Development is by 125’ and 500’ tunnels. GOLD HILL CONSOLIDATED CO. NORTH CAROLINA Office: 30 Broad St., New York, N. Y. Mine at Gold Hill, Rowan Co., N. C. Walter Geo. Newman, pres.; Edward H. Swan, Wm. F. Woodbury, Woodruff Leeming, Chas. S. Stacy, J. C. Kemp and W. F. Lanigan, direct- ors. Organized 1910 as successor of Gold Hill Copper Co., a notorious pro- motion that caught many Wall Street operators. New company, under same management, became bankrupt and property sold at auction, Jan. 27, 1910, for $45,000. Company does not own the adjacent Union, Copper mine. The mining property consists of 1,050 acres in Rowan and Stanley

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counties, the Gold Hill mine, where gold was discovered, A. D. 1799. Gold quartz veins were discovered 1831, and in 1845 this mine was the largest gold producer in the United States. Development is by 2 working shafts of 615’ and 830’, and 2 lesser shafts. The mine was operating in 1913, cross- cutting on the 270' level to cut the “Newman” vein, already opened on the 800’ level. Shipments to the Perth Amboy smelter returned 1.5% copper and about $3 gold per ton, with small silver values. Copper occurs in minute particles of chalcopyrite in hard quartz schist and recovery by wet concentration is not commercially profitable. Equipment includes ten 100-h. p. boilers and a 10-stamp mill.

This company and its companion, the Union Copper Mining Co., enjoyed decidedly checkered careers. Operations conducted on a considerable scale, 1901-1903, were unsatisfactory and failed to show up the much adver- tised orebodies. A receivership ensued which was ended early 1906, but a receiver was again appointed, Aug., 1906, for the old company, on the appli- cation of Walter Geo. Newman, the former president, on claims aggregat- ing $352,000. Mr. Newman apparently has used this property solely for stock-jobbing purposes. The property itself is considered worked out and low grade, but worthy of some drilling in depth. At best the company could-never pay honest dividends on its capitalization and under its present president cannot be regarded as worthy of any confidence whatever.

Gold King Leasing Co. Colorado

Otto Mears and Jas. H. Slattery, lessees. Mine at Gladstone, via Sil- verton, San Juan Co., Colo. Property, the Gold King and Sampson mines, formerly owned by the Gold King Consolidated Mines Co., reorganized as New Gold King Mines, also dead.

Claims have fissure veins carrying shoots of lead-copper ore with gold- silver contents. Development by 600’ shaft and 3,000’ tunnel. Equipment includes complete steam and electric power, compressor, 300-ton mill, 80 stamps, etc.

Gold Leaf, Consolidated Mining Co. Idaho

Louis Bole Kellogg, Idaho, mer.; Fred N. Davis, pres.; W. J. Parks, vice-pres.; Vince A. Day, sec.-treas. Company owns Gold Leaf, Copper Belt and Washington claims, near Wallace, Idaho, all in the lead belt, but showing tetrahedrite (gray copper) ore. Twenty-two tons were shipped 1913, carrying 25% copper, 8 oz. silver, and $1.20 gold. Has 480’ drift tunnel on vein. i GOLD LION MINES CO. . COLORADO

Idle.. Letters unanswered from Red Mountain, Ouray Co., Colo. H. Y. Russell, supt., at last accounts. The mine has lead and copper ores and is equipped with steam power. :

Gold Mining Co. Colorado

Mine office: Silverton, San Juan Co., Colo. W. Harrington, supt. Prop- erty includes the Copper Belt mine, acquired 1911, located in Whitehead gulch, a former large producer of high-grade gold-copper ore. The tunnel, started to unwater the old workings, now 500’ long, will be extended to cut the Lincoln vein, also carrying high-grade copper-gold ore. Property also includes the Mabel and Ariadne mines,-carrying auriferous and argentifer- ous copper ores. Equipment includes a water-power plant and a small Leyner air compressor.

Gold Mountain Mines. Nevada

Properties, owned by William Lundgren, situated about 13 miles from Bonnie Claire and 6 miles from Hornsilver, Nev., include the White Horse claim adjoining the Tokop mine. Veins are silver-gold deposits carrying

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copper. An outcropping ore shoot yielded, June, 1913, one ton of ore carry- ‘ing 236 oz. silver, $19.20 gold, and 714% copper. GOLD MOUNTAIN MINING CO. WASHINGTON Mine near Berlin, King Co., Wash., comprises 3 claims on Kelly creek, in Index district, showing fissure veins in granite with gold-copper ores opened by about 2,200’ of tunnels. Assays, Oct., 1912, said to show 5.4% copper with 22% lead, 18 oz. silver, and $2 gold per ton. GOLD NUGGET MINING & MILLING CO. WYOMING J. D. Woodruff, superintendent, Shoshoni, Fremont Co., Wyo. Property, the Gold Nugget mine, showing a vein with gold-copper ore, developed by shaft and tunnel work. Equipped with gasoline engine and plans to install stamp mill and cyanide plant 1914. . GOLD QUEEN MINING CO. COLORADO Idle. Office: Room 408, 40 Dearborn St., Chicago, Ill. Mine office: St. Elmo, Chaffee Co., Colo. C. Kirchner, pres.; A. J. Stark, supt., at last accounts. Capitalization $100,000. Lands, 13 claims, on Baron mountain, in the Chalk Creek district. Mine has several tunnels, longest 500’, with 900’ of work- ings, developing a strong vein carrying copper ores with gold and silver values. No returns secured. GOLD STAR MINING Co. WASHINGTON Office: 2107 E. Madison St., Seattle, Wash. Mine at Index, Snohomish Co., Wash. Aden Fraser, pres.; John Edmond Praul, sec.-treas. and gen. mgr., at last accounts. Organized 1903, under laws of Washington, capital- ization $1,000,000, shares $1 par. Lands, 6 claims, area 120 acres, well tim- bered, in the Index district, 4 miles from the Great Northern railway, show- ing a 6’ fissure vein in syenite, giving assays of 7% copper and $1.20 gold per ton, from bornite, and $25 gold per ton from an oxidized quartz cap- ping. No returns secured. GOLD TUNNEL & RAILWAY CO. COLORADO Idle. Mine near Howardsville, San Juan Co., Colo. Jas. E. Merry, mgr.; Ora Kirk, supt., at last accounts. Owns Highland Mary mine, which has ore yielding up to $100 per ton in copper, lead and silver values. GOLDEN BELL MINING CO. ARIZONA Idle. Mine at Kelvin, Pinal Co., Ariz. L. W. St. Charles, pres.; Geo. H. Sarrick, vice-pres. and gen. mer.; G. L. Sattick “sec CIC St Charles: treas., at last accounts. Organized 1910, capitalization $1,000,000. Lands, 9 claims, near the Southern Pacific railway, 5 miles west of Kelvin, showing auriferous copper ore. :

GOLDEN CURRY CONSOLIDATED MINING Co. MONTANA Succeeded by Elkhorn Mining Co., Jan. 15, 1913, which see. GOLDEN EAGLE GOLD MINING Co. CALIFORNIA

Presumably idle. Office: 54 First St., Portland, Ore. Letter unclaimed at Copley, Shasta Co., Cal. R. J. Jennings, pres. and gen. TAG rele RANG Martin, vice-pres.; Jas. E. Isaacs, sec.; C. C. Bush, Jr., treas.; preceding officers, A. Newlands and- I. Theodore Jennings, directors. Organized under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par.

Property, the Keystone group, 3 miles from Keswick smelter, compris- ing 8 claims, area 160 acres, held.under bond and lease, on the eastern side of the Sacramento river, 10 miles northeast of the Iron Mountain mine. Property, developed by tunnel, is in the Shasta County copper belt and has small and rather lean orebodies with surface enrichments workable for gold. Company claimed to have 5 gold-bearing quartz veins, of 2 to 20’ width, assaying $5 to $20 gold per ton, and a copper vein, claimed to be 6 to 50’ wide and traceable 2,200’, carrying ore of 5 to 22% copper tenor, with $1.50 to $7.80 gold per ton, which figures are considered excessive.

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GOLDEN GLOW MINING CO. IDAHO Wm. Schultz, superintendent, Ketchum, Blaine Co., Idaho. Property shows a deposit of low-grade silver-lead-copper ore developed by tunnels. Operated intermittently in 1912. GOLDEN LINK CO. NEW MEXICO Mine office: Jackson, Grant Co., N. M. Property, 8 claims, along the Big Dry canyon, 6 miles from Jackson, in the Cooney, or Mogollon dis- trict, Socorro Co., N. M. J. G. Barnesdale, Superior, Wis., treas. Development by 3 tunnels, lowest 120’ long, and a vertical shaft, all in ore, vein being 8’ wide. Equipped with 100-h. p. water-power plant, 3-stamp mill and 500’ tram. GOLDEN SMELTER. COLORADO Owned by North American Smelter & Mines Co., at Golden, Jefferson Co., Colo. GOLDEN SOVEREIGN MINE. BRITISH COLUMBIA Mine office: Aspen Grove, Cariboo district, B. C. Mine, located 1887, has a 100” shaft, said to give a strong showing of native copper. Camp actively prospected in 1912-13 and property presumably drilled.

GOLDFIELD-ANACONDA COPPER CO. NEVADA Mine at Lida, Esmeralda Co., Nev. Col. O. P. Posey, pres.; W. F. Mitchell, vice-pres. and treas.; J. F. Mitchell, sec., at last accounts. Or-

ganized under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par, non- assessable: Nine claims, unpatented, showing gold and copper ore, devel- oped by shallow shafts. GOLDFIELD BLUE BELL MINING CO. NEVADA D. S. Johnson, superintendent, Berlin, Nye Co., Nev. Property, the Berlin group, whose veins carry gold and silver-bearing lead-copper ores, developed by a shaft. Equipped with steam hoist, air compressor and a 30-stamp concentrating mill. GOLDFIELD CONSCLIDATED MINES CO. NEVADA Office: Goldfield, Nev. Geo. Wingfield, pres.; J. D. Hubbard, vice- pres.; A. H. Howe, sec.-treas.; J. F. Thorn, gen. supt.; J. H. Mackenzie, cons. engr.; Albert Burch, E. M., gen. mgr., San Francisco; John Mocine, asst. mgr.; Jos. H. Hutchinson, mill supt.; Geo. H. Elder, punch. agt. Or- ganized Nov. 13, 1906, under laws of Wyoming, capitalization $50,000,000, shares $10 par; issued $35,591,480, Dividends to date, $6.70 per share, or a total of $23,839,067. Guarantee Trust Co., New York, transfer agent; also company office, Goldfield. Empire Trust Co., New York, and J. F. Cook & Co., Goldfield, registrars. Annual meeting third Monday in March. Com- pany is a merger of Goldfield-Mohawk, Red Top, Jumbo; Laguna Gold- field, Goldfield and Combination mining companies. In 1911, company ac- quired Vinegerone Fraction and the Bull Dog and Jumbo Fractions. Com- pany owns entire stock of the Goldfield Consolidated Milling & Transpor- tation Co. and 25% stock interest in the C. O. D. Consolidated Mining Co. Property consists of 380 acres at Goldfield, Nev., with 4 working shafts, Combination, Mohawk, Red Top and Clearmont, all development being done from the latter shaft. Mines show veins with irregular streaks and orebodies in which the commercial limit of ore is not dependent upon

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structural planes, orebodies swelling out and pitching with but slight relation to the vein walls. Estimated ore reserves, Jan. 1, 1913, 300,000 tons of good grade and a large tonnage of low-grade ore. Development for 1912, 48,146. Equipment includes 100-stamp mill treating 850 tons per day, 1,000-ton cyanide plant, etc., employs 500 men.

Company is the largest gold mine in the world, but produces a large amount of copper ore from one of its veins, the ore being shipped to the Mason Valley smelter at Wabuska, Nev. Production for first 6 months of 1913 was 200,365 tons of ore with net earnings of $1,967,297. GOLDFIELD MERGER MINES CO. NEVADA

John Mocine, superintendent, Goldfield, Esmeralda Co., Nev. Property, the St. Ives and Velvet groups, showing veins with shoots of copper-silver- gold ore, developed by 1,750’ of shaft work. Equipment includes electric power and air compressor.

Goldfield Mines Operating Co. Nevada

Office: Goldfield, Esmeralda Co.;' Nev. B. F. Thomas, mers J. K, Turner, supt. Is operating under contract the properties of the C. O. D. Consolidated Mining Co., including the C. O. D., Gold Bar and Victor groups, 88 acres at Goldfield. Property developed by shafts and equipped with electric power, employing 25 men, at last accounts. Property is essen- tially a silver mine which has opened up a new body of $17 milling ore on the 200 and 300’ levels between the 2 shafts, which carries a high percentage of copper in addition to gold. This vein will be explored further on the 700’ level of the Blue Bull mine eastward.

GOLINSKY MINING Co. CALIFORNIA

Idle. Mine near Kennett, Shasta Co., Cal. George Bayha, pres.; W. D. Tillotson, vice-pres. Sold to the Golinsky Copper Co. in 1911. Guggen- heim interests held $100,000 bond on property in 1907. Property, 14 claims, adjoining the Mammoth mine on the east and 4 miles west of Kennett, shows an ore shoot 30’ wide carrying low-grade copper ore with gold values. Mine shipped 2,500 tons in 1908 to the Garfield smelter. Equipment includes electric power.

Good Hope Gold & Copper Mg. & Dev. Co. Washington

Idle. Office: Aurora, Ore. Mine near Index, Snohomish Co., Wash. H. A. Snyder, pres.; Capt. J. F. Boon, vice-pres.; F. P. Hallinan, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, H. L. Bent, Gustave Friewald and Fred R. Thompson, directors; Wm. J. Walters, gen. mgr., at last accounts. Organized under laws of Washington, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par. Lands, 10 claims, having an opencut and 6 tunnels, with about 1,000’ of. workings, claimed to show 50,000 tons of ore, assaying 2% copper and 12% lead, with fair gold and silver values. Shipped some ore, 1910, to the Tacoma smelter. GOOD HOPE MINING & REDUCTION CO. COLORADO

Probably dead. Former address Del Norte, Colo. Mine at Vulcan, Saguasche Co., Colo.

Goodenough Mines, Ltd. British Columbia

Located near Sandon, B. C., east of the Noble Five group. Property under lease to Carlson & Lund. Is a silver-lead property. In May, 1913, a strike was reported to have opened up 4’ of copper-stained quartz, carry- ing free gold. 4 GOODRO MINE. ALASKA

Mine office: Kasaan, Alaska. Mine, on the Kasaan peninsula, said to have considerable development, carries auriferous copper ore. Shipments were begun Oct., 1909, and about 3,000 tons of ore shipped during 1910. Production estimated at 250,000 lbs. fine copper. Idle at last accounts.

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Gooney Manor Copper Co, Inc. Virginia

Office and mine: Front Royal, Warren Co., Va. Hugh E. Naylor, pres., gen. mgr. and purch. agt.; Lewis F. Cooper, vice-pres.; S. G. Waller, sec.; A. J. Sager, supt. and engr.; Geo. H. Bowman, treas.; preceding officers, H. C. Sheetz, E. H. Jackson, S. M. Chiles, S. R. Millar, G. H.-Kinzell, di- rectors; L. C. Trent, mg. engr.; F. A. Genth, chemist-assayer. Organized July 12, 1909, under laws of Virginia, capitalization $500,000, shares $100 par; issued 3,525. Annual meeting third Tuesday in July.

Lands, 84 acres, 5 miles south of Front Royal, reported to: carry a fissure vein in porphyry and contact deposits between limestone and por- phyry, with generally northeast and southwest strike and dip of about 55°. Main orebody is reported to average 7’ width, and to be traceable 800’, car- rying a little malachite near surface, with chalcopyrite at depth, averaging 3% copper, 1 to 6 oz. silver and $1 to $8 gold per ton. Orebodies appar- ently are lenticular. Development is by a 40’ open cut, a 65’ tunnel and by shafts of 250 and 228’ without laterals, estimated by company to show 35,000 tons of ore. Equipment includes a 173-h. p. steam plant, with a 13-h. p. hoist good for 800° depth, and a 1-drill Rand air compressor. Build- ings include a smithy, engine house, tool house and dwelling. Company planned developing the orebody for about 1,000’ in length and installing a larger hoist and air compressor. Shaft to be driven to 350”, Ore sent to Baltimore Copper Smelting & Rolling Co., Baltimore, Md.

Goose Lake Copper Co. Montana

At Cooke, Park Co., Mont. Operating Copper King group, in 1912, Described Vol. VIII.

Gould Copper Mining Co. Arizona

Idle. Letters to Tucson, Ariz., unanswered. S. H. Gould, pres. and gen. mgr.; C. E. Hutchison, vice-pres.; W. H. Daily, sec.; Dr. W. V. Whit- more, treas. Capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par. Lands, 19 claims, in the Tucson mountains, 18 miles west of Tucson, the nearest rail point. Lands carry about 1 mile of the E. W. strike of a mineral zone of 2,000’ width and 5 miles length. Country rocks are limestone, granite and quartz- ite, the mineral zone carrying a vein of about 40’ width, having chalco- pyrite, with quartz gangue, said to average about 3% copper, 3 oz. silver and $1.50 gold per ton. Mine has 365’ shaft and 2 lesser shafts, also 2 short tunnels; claimed, 1910, to have 100,000 tons of ore in sight.

Equipment includes a gasoline hoist and air compressor, With necessary mine buildings. Plans were made for a 125-ton smelter, to be put up by ' Pioneer Smelting Co., which was not built here, but at Twin Buttes, 22 miles south of Tucson. Production was 45,036 lbs. fine copper in 1907. Property considered promising.

Gould Island Mine. Alaska

Idle. Letter unclaimed at Sulzer, Prince of Wales Island, Alaska. H. R. Gould, owner and mgr., at last accounts. Lands, 1 claim, 20 acres, showing a lenticular orebody, between hornblende-schist and limestone, up to 40’ in width, giving assays of about 6% copper, 1 to 20% lead, 3% zinc, 1 oz. silver and $4 gold per ton, from chalcopyrite, galena and sphal- erite. Development by tunnels of 60 and 70’.

Gowganda Copper Co. Nevada

Office: 211 South Bellevue Ave., Goldfield, Nev. C. A. Braconier, pres.; Herman Krieger, sec.; S. H. Thompson, Reese Wampler, W. H. Brock, directors. Organized July, 1913, under laws of Nevada, capitaliza- tion $100,000, shares 10 cts. par. Property, 9 claims, near Round moun- tain, 14 miles south of Goldfield, said to show a large deposit of low-grade

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copper ore with streaks and seams high in copper. Workings are as yet shallow. GRAFTER COPPER MINING CO. YUKON

Idle. Mine near White Horse, Yukon, Canada. Hon. Robert Lowe, pres. and gen. mgr.; Fred Whitman, supt., at last accounts. Lands, 1 claim, crown-granted, area 50 acres, elevation 3,827, 1 mile north of the Arctic Chief. Mine has a 7-mile wagon road to the terminus of the White Pass & Yukon railway. Property lies in an area of narrow alternating bands of limestone and diorite, considerably altered, with some aplitic cross dikes, showing malachite and azurite, with native copper sparingly, associated with some magnetite, succeeded, at little depth, by bornite and chalcopyrite, estimated by the Dominion government authorities to carry 8% copper - and $3 gold per ton, in a garnet-augite-tremolite gangue. Mine, opened 1900, but idle until 1907, has a shaft of about 90” depth, with first level at 50’, having 150’ of workings, including some stopes nearly to the surface. Mine shipped, 1905, 450 tons of ore, of 19 to 30% copper tenor, to various British Columbia smelters, and, for several months, 1907, shipped 25 to 30 tons daily to the Tyee smelter. Equipment includes steam power, and the property employs about 20 men. Production 1,500 tons of ore, estimated to have yielded 650,000 lbs. of fine copper, in 1907.

Graham County Copper Co. Arizona

Owns group of claims in Graham mountains, near Cedar Springs, Navajo Co., Ariz. W. C. Rohns, mgr., at last accounts.

Granadena Mining Co. Mexico

Closed down by revolution. Mine at Santa Barbara, Hidalgo, Chihua- hua, Mex. Is a silver-lead mine, producing a small amount of copper. Fully described Vol. X.

Granby Cons. M., Sm. & Power Co.,Ltd. British Columbia

Office: 52 Broadway, New York. Mine at Phoenix, Boundary district, B. C. Smelter at Grand Forks, Boundary district, B. C. Wm. H. Nichols, pres.; Jay P. Graves, W.-H. Robinson and Edwin Thorne, vice-presidents; F. M. Sylvester, gen. mgr.; Northrup Fowler, sec.; Geol. W. Wooster, treas.; preceding officers, Sanford H. Steele, Wm. A. Nash, Bernard Hochs- child, Geo. Martin Luther, J. B. F. Herreshoff, Wm. Hamlin and E. R. Nichols, directors; C. O::Mailloux, asst. to-pres.; O. B. Smith, Jr., supt.; Wakeley A. Williams, smelter supt.; J. C. Morgan, supt. (Old Ironsides group; C. M. Campbell, asst. supt.; J. C. McDonald, master mech.

Incorporated March 29, 1901, by special act of the British Columbia parliament, capitalization $20,000,000.; originally $15,000,000; shares $10 par, changed, 1906, to $100 par; issued $14,964,800. Bonds authorized Feb. 25, 1913, $5,000,000, first-mortgage, 6%, 15-year, convertible at par. Series A of $1,500,000 bonds underwritten Feb., 1912, at 96 by Speyer:& Co. Bonds redeemable at 105 plus interest after 10 years, 4% to be retired by purchase at $110, annually. Early 1910 the company sold 13,500 shares at $85 per share; shareholders being given pro rata rignts to subscribe. Shares are listed on the Boston Stock Exchange. Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Co., Boston, registrar; American Loan € Trust Co., Boston, and Title Guaranty & Trust Co., New York, transfer agents. Annual meeting, first Tuesday in October.

Company was organized to purchase the property and assets of the Old Ironsides Mining Co., the Knob Hill Gold Mining Co., Ltd., the Gray Eagle Gold Mining Co., Ltd., the Granby Consolidated Mining & Smelting Co., Ltd., and the Grand Forks Water & Light Co., at an aggregate cost of $12,097,030. Stock to the amount of $1,402,970 was issued for cash and services rendered.

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Net profits for fiscal year ending June 30, 1912, were $583,379, as com- pared with $217,416 for 1911 and $564,946 for 1910. Dividends have been paid as follows: $133,630 in 1903; $339,991 in 1905; $1,620,000 in 1906; $1,215,000 in 1907; $540,000 in 1908; $270,000 in 1909, and $248,481 in 1910. Dividends were resumed 1913 with $1.50 March 1, and $1.50 June 2.

Report for year ended June 30, 1913, shows operating profit of $1,214,- 599, or $8 per share, against $583,379, or $3.90 per share, in previous year. Interest on bonds in 1913 brought final net profit down to $7.50 per share. Costs were reduced more than a half-cent per 1b., or from 11.1 cts. to 10.6 cts.

The income account is as follows:

1913. 1912. 1911. 1910.

Gross sales... 30d ids. al $4,782,691 $2,874,760 $3,216,014 $4,099,925 Becpenseswisrth: -o mms Si 3,568,092 2,291,381 2,999,489 3,534,978 INietapro hts tiie. atte sess WR fsi 1,214,599 583,379 216,525 564,946 Dividendos. dhani wadoi. ms 449,955 UL 148,481 270,000 Hixedscharges mys. ceca ste. ox: 80,665 cd. 3 AS 2 MARE Depredation. UA ab. 829 600,562 SHAD LATIFA SUBDÍINS: Ageia. EIn AOE A. 683,149 17,183 68,044 294,946 Total surplus 3,199,270 2,516,122 2,532,414 2,464,370

Cost per ton of ore, including all expenses, was $2.65, against $2.90 in 1911-12. Cost per pound of copper was 10.6 cts., against *11.1 cts., after de- ducting gold and silver values.

We compare balance sheet as follows: a Assets: 1913. 1912. 1911. '“Land=machinery, etedrai meid dhis AH. $15,070,786 $15,081,005 $15,218,380 Hidden Creek investment if eS 979,461 on Stocksrand Mond ee 513,578 519,333 1,205,891 Anyox plant investment ($1,058,724 of above invested LAIAT Amo Smig.. 2,038,035 El N a Supplies kE ui) a SS. FTAA Ga 259,035 164,191 160,018 Cashitanducopberra E. silt bak oe 1,853,758 791,789 919,622 DOTA Mili. MANS. RON . Gane 19,735,344 17,535,780 17,503,910 Liabilities: Capitallstociclia ER MEM. Botas BA 14,998,515 14,998,515 14,849,535 First Mortgage 6% gold bonds *1,500,000 PAID. TOLE Dividends held for liquidation 889 EAT, TAR Et Accounts payabletecen bedo OA 37,558 21,143 121,931 Sutpluss HAr dt rk e a 3,199,270 2,516,122 2,532,414 Totals: ¿OCIO AA. aot te © 00 19,735,344 — 17,535,780 17,503,910

*Issued May 1, 1913, due May 1, 1928.

Mining properties include original Granby group at Phoenix in the Boundary district, B. C.; the Hidden Creek mine on Granby bay, Observa- tory inlet, B. C.; Copper Key and Belcher groups at Belcher mountain, Wash., taken over, 1910, under a working bond and lease, and the Oversight group; also a large interest in the coal mine and coking plant at Crow Nest Pass, and a 100,000-h. p. waterpower plant at Kettle falls, both together valued at $2,000,000.

The Granby or Knob Hill properties at Phoenix, B. C., consist of 43 claims and fractions, area 1,050 acres, 15 of the claims being in the min- eralized area. This group includes the Old Ironsides, Knob Hill, Victoria, Gray Eagle, Banner, Tip Top, Triangle, Gold Drop, Curlew, Monarch, Tam- arack, Monte, No. 13, and other claims, forming a compact tract of about 8,000x9,000’ size, carrying 8,000’ of the strike of the mineralized zone. The Phoenix property has 2 distinct sets of orebodies. The largest and longest worked are those of the Knob Hill-Ironside mines; the other one, one-half

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mile east is the Gold Drop. The first named has 3 mines with separate crews and equipment.

The geology of the district is not simple. .Paleozoic rocks, limestones, tuffs and argillites overlie beds of fragmental volcanic rocks with small amounts of limestone. These rocks are intensely altered by contact meta- morphism, due to igneous intrusions, and orebodies formed in basin- shaped troughs in the zone of mineralization. They are replacements of limestone by garnet, epidote, quartz-calcite, with magnetite and finely- divided copper pyrite. The footwall is either jasperoid or limestone; the hanging wall is determined by assays.

The Old Ironsides-Knob Hill claims carry the main orebody, the Gold Drop ore deposit being irregular in shape, and of limited size. The main orebody has an approximately north-south strike, with an eastward dip of 60° at surface and 30° at depth. The main orebody is estimated by the company as 900’ in average width, a maximum thickness of 125’ and 2,600’ in length; the ore, carrying chalcopyrite, originally averaged about 1.7% copper, 0.5 oz. silver, and $2 gold per ton, with 14 to 17% iron, 35 to 40% silica, 18 to 20% calcium carbonate, 3 to 4% sulphur, and about 7% alumina and 7% magnesia, constituting an almost ideal self-fluxing ore. The ore mined in 1912 yielded 1.25% copper, 0.29 oz. silver, and 0.043 oz. gold per ton in metals recovered. The mine is opened by an immense pit, or glory-hole, 400x1,0C0’ in size, which, however, is worked out and present extraction is mainly through tunnels.

There are 5 shafts, the more important being the 300’ Aetna shaft, 400’ No. 2 shaft, and the 485’ Victoria shaft. The former No. 1 shaft was broken into the open pit. Principal extraction is by tunnels, including the 250’ Knob Hill tunnel; 250’ No. 1 Gold Drop tunnel; 1,000” No. 3 Gold Drop tunnel; 2.500’ No. 2 tunnel; 3,000’ No. 3 tunnel, and 1,500’ No. 4 tunnel. The mine has a total of 47,400’ workings. The ore stoped on the various tunnel levels is milled through chutes to lower levels, the mine having elec- tric haulage on the 200’, 300’ and 400’ levels, with double-tracked tunnels, equipped with 75-h. p. locomotives drawing 10-ton ore cars. Company mined 1,250,689 tons in 1912; 606,000 in 1911, and 1,075,000 tons in 1910. De- velopment work for 1912 was 11,000’ of underground work and 6,311’ diamond drilling, or about 1,000’ per month, adding 14 cts. per ton to cost of ore mined. Total shipments up to June 30, 1913, have been: above No. 1 tunnel, 4,731,637 tons; Victoria shaft, 2,362,303 tons, and Gold Drop mine, 881,254 tons.

The 485' hind: -compartment Michonia shaft has a daily productive ca- pacity of about 3,000 tons from levels at 200’, 300’ and 400’ in depth. Mining costs per ton including development and diamond-drill work is 77.1 cts., and ore recovered 90% of ore blocked out. The mechanical equipment at the mine is fully described, Volume X.

The 3 main haulage tunnels are each equipped at the portal with 150-ton crushers, and bins of pate and 3,000 tons capacity. The main crusher house, at the portal of No. 3 tunnel, has a 30x42” Farrell-Bacon crusher, driven by a 150-h. p. ein ahiouke motor, the crusher being capable of breaking masses of nearly a cubic yard in size to chunks not larger than 7 to 8”. A 42” rubber belt conveyor, with capacity of 250 tons hourly, handles the ore.

The mine is connected with the smelter, 24 miles distant. by 2 rail- ways, the Canadian Pacific and the Great Northern. By means of extensive ore bins at the Victoria shaft and the 3 main tunnels, a train of 35 thirty- ton cars can be loaded in 25 minutes or less. The company’s reduction plant at Grand Forks has up-to-date smelting, converting and power plaats, with 2,000 acres of land and 68 town lots. Smelter has 4,400 tons daily

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capacity, being much the largest in Canada, and among the largest in the world. Steel storage bins hold 8,000 tons of coke and 13,000 tons of ore. Ore is handled by 4 electric locomotives, each drawing two 2-ton cars, con- stituting a single charge; the ore being practically self-fluxing, is charged without concentration, or assortment, just as it comes from the mines, with the addition of limestone and fuel.

The 8 blast furnaces are 4x22’ in cross-section at the tuyeres. There is a 10x11x800’ brick dust flue. A steel dust chamber, set 22’ above the charg- ing floor, on foundations of steel columns, masonry and concrete, is 13’ wide, 15’ high and 313’ long, with a floor of 28 hoppers, having a conveyor underneath for flue dust. In 1912, all 8 furnaces were run for 157 consecu- tive days without interruption, smelting 1,200,000 tons in the year’s opera- tion., Slags now granulated are dewatered, carried on conveying belts to a height of 120’ and discharged.

The first-fusion 40% matte is taken in ladles by a 40-ton electric traveling crane to the converter house, which has 3 stands, electrically- operated by 25-h. p. motors, with ten 84x126” shells of barrel type. There are 3 mould carriers under each stand and the product is blister copper of 28.5% tenor, containing an average of 18 oz. silver and 4 oz. gold per ton. sent to the Laurel Hill works of the Nichols Copper Co., for electrolytic refining.

The smelter power plant is driven by electricity. Equipment includes 9 small blowers and 2 Connersville Jumto blowers, with capacity of 100,000 cu. ft, of free air per minute, driven by two 300-h. p. motors. Converter blast is furnished by an Allis-Chalmers double-cylinder air compressor, with capacity to reduce 10,000 cu.. ft. of free air per minute to a pressure of 15 lbs. per square inch, driven by a 500-h. p. direct-connected electric motor.

The Hidden Bay property on the Pacific coast is now owned by the Granby Co. It is located on Granby (formerly Goose) bay, on Observatory inlet, south of and parallel to Portland canal. It is probably the largest copper mine of British Columbia, being reported to have 6,000,000 tons of 2% ore, or 12,000,000 of 1.65% copper ore. The 9 claims cover the top and sides of a hill 920’ high, that is enclosed by 2 branches of Hidden creek and is 2 miles from Anyox, the smelter site and seaport town of the company.

The ore occurs as a mass of solid sulphides, pyrite and chalcopyrite, or mixed with country rock in shear zones, in crushed and schistose argillite. The rocks are folded and mashed but are part of the cover of the great granite mass forming the Coast range. There are 2 deposits, one 25 to 40’ wide, traced 1,400’, said to average 6%, the other estimated to be 100’ wide and of unknown length. Development by diamond drill holes shows the cre to extend 300’ below sea-level, a vertical distance of 1,250’ below outcrop.

Development is by 4 tunnels, each known by its height, 353’, 530’, 630’, 700’ above sea-level. Development, 1912, was 8,671’ of underground werk, 1,051’ of raise and 53,590’ of diamond drilling. Crosscuts and drifts from the tunnels, combined with diamond drill work from the faces, has blocked out the ore.

In July, 1913, 1,125 men were employed, the smelter and converter plant were under construction, and the entire plant should be in operation Jan., 1914. Expenditures on property up to Jan., 1913, amounted to $1,324,554, and a further expense of $1,620,000 will be incurred in 1913, according to the company’s estimates. As the company had but $1,095,595 cash on hand, it issued $1,500,000 worth of bonds to take care of this expense. The company has already let a contract for $700,000 worth of machinery to be used in the 2,000-ton smeiter, costing $1,500,000 at the sea shore. Company has

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also laid out a town, installed water works, electric plant, graded streets, built docks, 100 dwellings, stores, hospitals, etc.

Company also has an option on the Bonariza group, adjacent to the

Hidden Creek mine and is reported to have acquired the Moult-Hartley claim, near Portland canal, which yields fluxing ore. e The Grand Forks smelter requires pyritic ores and an examination has been made of all available claims for 100 miles around, but thus far without results. In May, 1913, the company bonded the Copper Key claims at Belcher mountain, Wash., in which a large tonnage is reported, the Wash- ington, Dutch Jake, and other iron claims between Belcher mountain and Curlew lake, also known as the Lame Foot group, and the Oversight group. These properties will all be prospected by diamond drill.

For fiscal year ending June 30, the largest net earnings were $1,924,937, in 1907, and net profits for year 1912 were $583,379, the company ending that year with net cash assets of $1,454,170. Cost of ore treated, exclusive of marketing blister copper, was $4.77 per ton for 1901, and $2.90 in 1912, compared with $2.50 per ton for 1910, this latter being the lowest figure yet reached. í

Cost of finished copper, delivered, after deducting gold and silver values, was 8.35 cts. per lb. in 1906; 1044 cts. in 1907; 10.24 cts. in 1908; 10 cts. in 1909; 10.34 cts. in 1910. Gross ore production to June 30, 1912, was 7,944,373 tons, of which 721,719 tons was mined and smelted in the fiscal year 1912. Recovery was 31.49 Ibs. fine copper, 0.4406 oz. silver, and 0.1003 oz, gold, per ton in the fiscal year 1901, declining to 18.39 lbs. copper, 0.29 oz. silver, and 0.02 oz. gold in 1912, the falling off in all 3 metals having Leen most marked in the 3 last years. Recent production has been as fol- lows: 16,410,576 lbs. fine copper, 201,337 oz. silver, and 32,738 oz: gold in 1907; 21,092,288 lbs. copper, 300,204 oz. silver and 40,068 oz. gold in 1908; 21,901,528 lbs. copper, 335,520 oz. silver and 45,760 oz. gold in 1909; 22,754,- &99 lbs. copper, 356,746 oz. silver and 48,752 oz. gold in 1910; 17,855,130 !bs. copper, 354,504 oz. silver and 41,744 oz. gold in 1911; 13,231,121 Ibs. copper, 225,305 oz. silver and 33,932 oz. gold in 1912. Production for year ending June 30, 1913, was 324,336 oz. silver, 47,266 oz. gold and 22,641,750 Ibs. cop- per, latter at a cost of 10.6 cts. per lb. after deducting gold-silver values.

Granby has been a disappointment to its stockholders in the past, es- pecially in the matter of ore reserves, but the decision to bond the mines and smelter to finance the Hidden Creek property and to resume payment of dividends has restored good humor generally. The Phoenix property has as much ore in sight as the total amount thus far mined and the Hidden Bay has developed into a better mine than that at Phoenix. Granby is un- under efficient, progressive management and a prosperous future seems assured.

Grand Central Mining Co. . Arizona

Office: 43 Exchange Place, New York. Mine office: Tucson, Pima Co., Ariz. Geo. H. Daily, pres.; R. W. Langworthy, sec.; Frederick Kopper, Jr., treas., at last accounts. Organized 1905, under laws of Arizona, cap- italization $1,000,000; shares $5 par, nonassessable.

Lands; 10 claims, unpatented, area 200 acres, adjoining the old Yuma mine. 14 miles northwest of Tucson, in the Amole district of the Tucson mountains. Property shows granite porphyry, quartzite and limestone. car- rying 4 orebodies, 2 developed by 10 pits and shafts of 10 to 75 depth, and by 6 tunnels of 15 to 40”. Management estimates the main vein to average 40’ in width, and to carry 1% copper, 7% lead, 5 oz. silver and $6.30 gold per ton. Ore includes bunches of copper and lead carbonates, and argentiferous

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galena. Management plans deepening shafts to the water lével, and adding gasoline power. No recent returns secured. GRAND CENTRAL MINING CO. UTAH

Office: Provo, Utah. Mine office: Robinson, Juab Co., Utah. Jos. T. Farrar, pres.; Lafayette Holbrook, vice-pres.; Preston J. Peterson, sec.- treas.; Col. Edwin C. Loose, mgr.; W. D. Loose, asst. mgr. Organized Feb., 1902, under laws of Colorado, capitalization $600,000, increased 1909 from $250,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable; issued 500,000. Last dividend 5 cts., giving total dividends to Jan. 1, 1913, of $1,477,750. Annual statement for year ending Dec. 31, 1911, showed cash received from ore sales, $186,- 302; dividends paid, $25,000; cash on hand, $9,408.

The Grand Central is the deepest mine of the Tintic district. It adjoins the Centennial Eureka and is opened to the 2,400’ level, carrying a vein with an orebody that is 200” wide in places and of low average grade, though it is the largest orebody in the Tintic camp. A second ore shoot, 700’ west of the old one, and with parallel strike, was opened, 1910, on the 2,000” and 2,100’ levels. This ore shoot averages 15 to 20% copper on the 2,380’ level and has been opened up on the 1,600’ level for a distance of 1,200’ showing

a width of 50 to 100. At this point the ore is bunchy, requiring careful -

sorting. Mine producing, 1913, from the 700’ to the 2,400” levels, inclusive. Production for 1911 was 26,217 tons of ore averaging 4% copper, 10% lead, 30 oz. silver and $3 gold per ton, yielding a gross value of $341,010, of which $35,417 was derived from the copper. Management plans sinking main shaft 200' and electrifying the property, having passed the September dividend in order to accumulate a surplus for this purpose. Property and management good. GRAND DOMINION COPPER CO. UTAH Idle. Letter unclaimed at Salt Lake City, Utah, and at former mine office, Milford, Beaver Co., Utah. David C. Rees, pres. and gen. mgr.; Thos. F. Thomas, vice-pres.; John James, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, Jos. Melich, W. H. Roberts and Geo. R. Ayre, directors. Jrganized Nov. 22, 1907, under laws of Utah, capitalization $600,000, shares $1 par, nonassess- able. Shares.are listed on the Duluth Stock Exchange. Lands, 7 claims, un- patented, 140 acres, adjoining St. Mary’s on the southeast, and lying near the Red Warrior and Moscow mines, in the Star district, 4 miles from a railway. The mine has a shallow shaft and a 300’ tunnel, said to have a 250’ back, developing an 18’ vein carrying 26% copper, 10 oz. silver and $1 gold per ton. GRAND EASTERN MINING CO. UTAH Probably dead. Letter unclaimed at Eureka, Juab Co:, Utah. E. R. Higginson, pres. and mgr.; C. E. Berry, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, A. F. Baxter, W. E. Saintsbury and John A. Allen, directors. Organized, 1909, under laws of Utah, capitalization $100,000, shares 10 cts. par. Lands are 11 claims, GRAND GULCH MINING CO. ARIZONA Office: 503 McIntyre Bldg., Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine office: St. Thomas, Clark Co., Nev. Wm. H. McIntyre, pres.; Frank R. Snow, vice- pres.; W. P. Jennings, sec.-treas. and gen. mgr.; preceding officers, Jas. E. Jennings, Wm. C. Jennings, Jos. A. Jennings and Heber M. Wells, direct- ors; S. R. Calloway, supt.. Organized Sept. 15, 1874, under laws of Utah, capitalization $750,000, shares $2.50 par; issued, $600,000. Total assessments “ to end of 1910 were $14,400, with dividends of $4,800. Annual meeting, first Monday in February. Lands, 9 claims, 1 patented, area 180 acres, in the Bentley district of Mohave county, Ariz., but more easily accessible from Nevada than'*from

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southern or central Arizona, owing to the barrier to access presented by the Grand cafion of the Colorado river. Property shows sandstone and lime- stone carrying an apparently circular zone of copper impregnations, also having copper in the bedding planes, ores occurring as cuprite, melaconite, malachite, azurite and chalcocite, all argentiferous, estimated by manage- ment to assay 35% copper and 4 oz. silver per ton. Development is by a 500’ shaft. Mine is 45 miles from St. Thomas, Nev., railroad terminal on the San Pedro railroad. The mine has been in practically continuous opera- tion since 1899,

Equipment includes a 22-h. p. gasoline hoist, good for 800” depth. and a 2-drill air compressor. There are 9 buildings, including a boarding house, bunk house and necessary shops, and a small and antiquated smelter, of no present value. Production, to end of 1909, was 299,154 Ibs. fine copper, and 1,190 tons in 1912, said to carry 12 io 27% copper and 1 to 2.7 oz. silver. Property considered promising.

Grand Gulch Mining Co. Nevada

W. P. Jennings, mgr., McIntyre Bldg., Salt Lake Gity Utah 1S) R: Calloway, supt., St. Thomas, Lincoln Co., Nev. Property, the Adams group, with replacement deposits of copper ore developed by shaft. Equipment includes Fairbanks air compressor, gasoline hoist, etc.

Grand Prize Group. Nevada

Property at Hamilton, White Pine Co., Nev. A strike was reported March, 1913. Ore said to average 250 oz. silver, 4G to 60% lead and 8 to 12% copper.

Grand Reef Mine. Arizona

R. V. Dey, owner, 208 Flood Bldg., San Francisco, Cal. James Quinn, supt. Property, 14 claims, patented, in the Aravaipa district, Graham Co., Ariz. Ores occur in fissure veins between granite and porphyry with aver- age values of 314% copper, 24% lead, 12 oz. silver and $2.30 gold per ton. Developed by 7,500’ of workings in which superintendent estimates 175,000 tons of ore blocked out. Equipped with steam hoist and 7-drill air com- pressor. Ore is shipped to El Paso smelter.

Grand Traverse & Arizona Mining Co. Arizona

Idle since 1910. Office: 129 East Front St., Traverse City, Mich. Mine near Cave Creek, Maricopa Co., Ariz. Thos. Smurthwaite, pres.; Geo. R. Ray, vice-pres.; O. P. Carver, sec.-treas.; Walter E. Greilick and H. Mon- tague, directors; Walter Horner, gen. mgr.; A. Scharingron, mine supt., at last accounts. Organized May 6, 1903, under laws of Arizona, capitaliza- tion $2,000,000, shares $1 par; issued, $1,770,000. Annual meeting, second Tuesday in January. Owns 3 patented claims. Fully described Vol. X. GRANITE CONTACT MINES CO. CALIFORNIA

Probably closed down. Mine at Skidoo, Inyo Co., Cal. J. W. Seller, pres.; Clay Tallman, vice-pres.; J. J. Fagan, sec.; G. B. Keenan, treas., at last accounts. Organized under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,250,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable. Lands, 8 claims, unpatented, showing cop- per ore, on which very little work has been done.

Granite Copper Co. Utah

Office and mine: “Beaver, Beaver Co., Utah. A. L. Fotheringham, pres. and mer.; Jos. McEwen, vice-pres.; J. F. Tolton, sec.-treas., at last accounts. Capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par. Mine, in the Mineral range between Milford and Beaver, Utah, has a 2’ vein, carrying high-grade silver-lead ore with some copper, opened by a 250’ shaft and tunnel. Was developing, 1912.

Granite Hill Copper Mine. Nevada

Warner-Nelson Co., owners. Property, 14 miles northwest of Reno,

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Nev., reported to have shipped 51 tons of ore averaging 15% copper and $15 in gold and silver per ton, 1913. GRANITE MINING £ MILLING CO. UTAH

C. A. Lundstrom, superintendent, Santaquin, Utah Co., Utah. Property, the Granite mine, showing limestone with ore-bearing fissures, carrying re- placement deposits of copper and silver-lead ore developed by 1,000’ tunnel. Employs about 15 men.

Granite Tunnel Co. Colorado

Jacob C. Kirsch, superintendent, Granite, Chaffee Co., Colo. Property, the Yankee Blade mine, shows lead-copper ores, developed by tunnel. Operated intermittently.

Grant Consolidated Copper Mining Co. Washington

Probably closed down. Office: Spokane, Wash. Mine office: Chesaw, Okanogan Co., Wash. Geo. A. McLeod, mgr.; A. D. McPhee, supt., at last accounts. Organized 1907, under laws of Washington, capitalization $1,- 650,000. Lands, 14 claims, on Copper mountain, near Chesaw, developed by an open cut and a tunnel planned to be driven 1,500’, cutting 2 strong veins carrying medium-grade chalcopyrite in considerable quantities. Shipments, 1907, 200 tons, to the Granby smelter, returned about 6% copper and $3 gold per ton. Equipment includes two 80-h. p. boilers and an air com- pressor.

GRANT MINE. . NEW YORK Mine near Carmel, Putnam Co., N. Y. The orebody consists of a com- plex of arsenical sulphides, carrying copper, quicksilver, gold and iron. The crude ore is estimated to have a gross value of about $25 per ton, but, on account of its refractory nature, has no present commercial value, and cannot be utilized without special metallurgical treatment. Closed down for several years, GRATIOT MINING CO. MICHIGAN

Office: 12 Ashburton Place, Boston, Mass. Operating office: Calumet, Mich. Quincy A. Shaw, pres.; Rodolphe L. Agassiz, vice-pres.; Geo. A. Flagg, sec.-treas.; Jas. MacNaughton, gen. mgr., and Francis L. Higginson, directors. Organized Feb. 16, 1906, under laws of Maine, capitalization $300,000, shares $3 par, fully paid. Is controlled, through ownership of 50,100 shares, by the Calumet & Hecla Mining Co. Ended year Dec. 31, 1912, with debit balance of $358,510.57.

Lands, 600 acres, being the N. W. % of Sec. 26, N. E. 14 of Sec. 27, S. E. 4% of ‘Sec: 23, and, S/ E. Y. of Sec. 22, except the:N. W. % of the N. W. %,-T. 57 N, R. 32 W. Property lies south and east of the Seneca and north and east of the Mohawk, carrying the Kearsarge amygdaloidal bed under about 175 acres, to a maximum depth of about 2,700’. Extensive drill borings were made before the shafts were started. The Kearsarge bed averages about 12’ in width, with strike of north 42° east, and average dip of 33 to 36° with the horizon, and its copper contents are painfully low.

Development is by two 3-compartment shafts, exact duplicates, 9x22’ inside of timbers, with ladderways in the middle, sunk at an angle of 36° on the Kearsarge bed, two shafts being sufficient to develop the entire tract. Levels are opened at 100” intervals. i

No. 1 shaft, about 1,500’ from the Seneca boundary, is 1,900’ deep, hav- ing a bed up to 18’ in maximum width. Drifting has been done on the alternate odd-numbered levels, from the Ist to 9th, inclusive.

No. 2 shaft, 1,475’ southwest of No. 1, and 1,800’ north of Mohawk No. 1, is 1,520’ deep, and drifting has been done on the 2nd, 3rd, 5th, and 7th levels, the best showing being on the 5th.

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enlarged later. Property is served by a 214-mile spur of the Mineral Range railway, built north from the Mohawk mine. ;

Production was begun July, 1910, at the rate of 300 tons daily, mainly taken from stock piles, and was decreased later to about 50 tons daily, from the mine, rock going to the Centennial mill. Production, 1910, was 28,552 tons of rock, yielding 265,869 lbs. fine copper, and 1m 1911, was 1,347 tons rock, yielding 14,275 Ibs. fine copper, or about 9.3 lbs. copper per ton of rock milled. The mine was shut down April 3, 1911. It is obvious that, owing to its comparatively small size and shallow depth, the Gratiot cannot work the Kearsarge bed profitably at the average price of copper, except on a very large scale, and it could be operated much more advantageously in connection with the Seneca than alone.

Gray Copper Mining Co., Ltd. Idaho

Mine office: Osburn, Shoshone Co., Idaho. E. F. Hall, pres.; W. H. Herrick, sec. and mgr. Capitalization $375,000, shares 25 cts. par. Lands, 7 claims, 2 very hard miles from a railroad, on McFarren gulch, 12 miles from Osburn, showing a vein of 6 to 20’ surface width, developed by a combination crosscut and drift tunnel, showing mainly argentiferous and auriferous gray copper ore, said to average 17% copper, 20 oz. silver and $10 gold per ton. A little high-grade ore was shipped, 1908, to the Ta- coma smelter.

“The reported amalgamation with the Lead King Mining Co. did not go through and the company is dormant at the present time. GRAY COPPER MINING CO. WASHINGTON

Oscar de Camp, supt., at last accounts. Property, between Newport and Ione, Stevens Co., Wash. A 4’ vein carrying copper and silver was exposed by open-cut work and shown in a 235’ tunnel which has a 15” drift on the vein. Development in progress at last accounts.

Gray Eagle Mine. California

Office: Care of John B. Farish, 25 Broad St. New York. Fred H. Dakin, supt. Mine at Happy Camp, Siskiyou Co., Cal. Property in private ownership, consists of 14 claims, 250 acres, patented, known as Dakin mine in Happy Camp district, Cal.

Orebodies are replacements in schist,- similar tc those of the great mines of Shasta county. They are from 10 to 70’ wide, traceable through- out the property, running north 60° west and developed to a depth of 600’ on a 30° dip. The ores carry 3 io 6% copper, present as chalcopyrite asso- ciated with pyrite.

Developed by adit tunnels from 200 to 800’ long. About 1 mile of underground workings developed orebodies, whose 'imits have not been reached.

Gray Rock Mining Co. Utah

Idle. Letter unclaimed at Eureka and Robinson, Juab Co., Utah. C. C. Griggs, pres.; C. E. Huish, vice-pres.; R. A. Badger, sec.-treas. Organized April, 1909, under laws of Utah, capitalization $50,000, shares 5 cts. par, assessable. Lands, 12 claims, unpatented, in the East Tintic district, 2 miles from a railroad, slightly developed by a shaft, showing copper and lead ores.

Great Bonanza Gold Mining Co., Ltd. Colorado

Probably dead. Letters unanswered from London, E. C., Eng., and Central City, Gilpin Co., Colo. W. B. Bishop, chairman; G. B. Ewing and Col. C. R. Rowley, directors; J. McKechnie, sec.; Cecil C. Morgan, mine mgr. Organized April 3, 1891, under the laws of Great Britain, capitaliza- tion £100,000, shares £1 par; issued, £50,000, fully paid. Debentures, £3,200, at 8%. Property is the Next President and Bledsoe mines, on

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Gregory hill, Gilpin Co., Colo., carrying auriferous and argentiferous copper ore, developed by shafts. Equipment includes steam power and a 35-stamp mill, bought, 1909, for £3,200.

Great Bras D’Or Gold Mining Co. Nova Scotia

Idle. Address: 616 Old South Bidg., Boston, Mass. Mine near Gold- brook, Cape Breton Co., N. S. Theodor Kuntzen, mgr., at last accounts. Mine carries auriferous copper ore, with values mainly in gold. Equipment includes a steam plant and an air compressor, with a 10-stamp mill and 40-ton concentrator. No recent returns secured.

Great Britain Group. Alaska

Owned by a Vancouver and Victoria syndicate. R. O. Clark, of Victoria, B. C., pres.; F. J. Crossland, cons. engr. and mgr. Property at Whalebone cove, on the western shore of South Valdez island, Alaska, comprises 4 claims.. Ore is bornite, tetrahedrite and chalcocite, occurring in the contact between limestone and altered lime. Developed by 3 tunnels, showing 4 to 12% copper ore. Ore blocked out estimated at 1,800 tons by F. J. Crossland. Shipments of 700 10 800-tons have been made to the Tacoma smelter, said to average 3% copper. A 500-ton bunker is being erected on the beach for loading shipments on vessels.

Great Copper King Mining Co. Utah

Idle. Letters unclaimed at Salt Lake City, Utah, and Draper, Salt Lake Co., Utah. M. O. Froisland, pres.; Martin Christopherson, vice-pres.; Mi- chael Froisland, sec.; Gus Bachman, treas., at last accounts. Organized Aug., 1904, under laws of Utah, capitalization $50,000, shares 10 cts. par; issued, $47,500. Lands, 10 claims, unpatented, including 4 claims, 1 frac- tional, held under bond and lease, near the mouth of Little Cottonwood canyon, 7 miles from Alta. Mine has’ shallow shafts and a 330’ tunnel, with about 800” of workings, showing auriferous and argentiferous copper and lead ores.

GREAT DIVIDE MINES Co. UTAH

Office: 422 McCornick Bldg., Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine office: Lin- coln, Tooele Co., Utah. Henry A. McCornick, pres.: Walter A. Cooke, vice-pres. and gen. mgr.; Jos. -H. Hurd, sec.; Rodney T. Badger, treas.; John B. Taylor, supt., at last accounts. Organized Aug. 15, 1903, under laws of Utah, capitalization $2,000,000, shares $5 par, non-assessable.

Lands, 110 claims, mainly patented, area 2,000 acres, partly timbered, with 200 acres in mill and smelter sites, lying on the Tooele side of the Oquirrh mountains, shortly west of the holdings of the Utah Consolidated, 9 miles from a railway. Property shows Cambrian quartzite, monzonite- porphyry and altered limestone, with a number of fissure veins and contact deposits between limestone and quartzite. Work is being done on 6 ore- bodies, 1 to 75’ width, carrying auriferous and argentiferous lead, copper and zinc sulphides, giving assays of 81% copper, 19.5% lead, 14 oz. silver and $7 gold per ton. Development is by the 44’ Taylor No. 2 shaft, and 110’ Annie shaft, with numerous pits and tunnels, principal tunnels being the Controversy, of 228’; South, of 250’; North, of 450’; Spring No. 1, of 710’ and Spring, which is the main tunnel, of 2,457’. Development began, 1899, and has been continued steadily with a small force.

Equipment includes a 35-h. p. electric plant, with a 1-drill Ingersoll air compressor, and there are 10 buildings, including a small power house, 2 smithies, a bunk house, stable and dwellings. Electric current is taken from the Telluride Power Co., over this company’s private line from the

sub-station at Bingham. Property considered promising. No recent re- turns secured,

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GREAT EASTERN GROUP. ' NEW MEXICO Address: Santa Rita, Grant Co. N. M. Al. Owen, owner. Property, 8 claims, 160 acres, adjoining Chino Copper Co.’s lands on the cast side of the Santa Rita basin. The southwestern side of the group shows a quartz- ite capping and iron gossan, with limestone covering porphyry over other parts of the claim. Veins with a northeast course outcrop and show small percentages of copper. Property developed by 70 and 60’ shafts and 134’ drill hole. Owner now preparing to drill property in 200’ blocks. GREAT NORTHERN COPPER CO. MINNESOTA

Idle since 1911 and now being reorganized. Expects to resume opera- tions in 1914, Office: 504 Globe Bldg., Minneapolis, Minn. Mine at Hinck- ley, Pine Co., Minn. C. E. Ovenshine, pres.; Dr. C. D. Snow, vice-pres.; F. M. Hutchinson, sec.; A. H. Guanine en. treas. and gen. mgr.; preceding officers, L. Paulle, Wm. Elliott, E. H. Holbert, Stephen O’Dea and God- frey Dawe, directors; F. B. Crane: supt. Organized Sept. 16, 1907, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable; issued, $670,000.

Lands, 160 acres, freehold, 4 miles east of Hinckley, at the extreme western end of Lake Superior Keweenawan copper formation, showing bedded traps, reported to carry 31 amygdaloidal beds, of which 4, slightly developed, show native copper, with occasional malachite from weathering. Two beds, under development, of about 8’ average width, traceable 1,500’, are opened by a 110’ tunnel, and 4 shallow shafts, developing cupriferous amygdaloids reported to average 3% copper and 6 oz. silver per ton, which seems too high.

Great Northern Copper Co. Montana

Owns the Great Northern mine, 1 mile north of Tava, Flathead Co., Mont. W. L. Loyde, supt., in 1912. Developed by several tunnels, 200 to 500” long, on the strike of the vein. Ore principally gold and copper. GREAT NORTHERN COPPER CO. NEWFOUNDLAND

Idle. Office: Commonwealth Bldg., Pittsburgh, Pa. Mine office: Twillingate, Newfoundland. Obadiah Hodder, pres. and gen. mgr.; W. S. Tannehill, vice-pres.; Roselle C. Burns, sec.; Geo. B. Klein, treas.; preceding officers, Jeremiah Doody, Titus Hodder, Robt, M. Ewing nee hag Harden- berg, directors. Wm. Brown Sterrett, chemist. Organized 1905, capitaliza- tion $100,000, shares $1 par. Company was combined with Notre Dame Copper Co. and Hodder Supply Co. of Pittsburgh, in 1912.

Lands, 320 acres, freehold, on Twillingate, North Island, on the eastern coast of Newfoundland, in the vicinity of the Tilt Cove mine. Company claims a vein 163 wide, uncovered for one-half mile and tested to depth of 200’, carrying chalcopyrite assaying 2 to 27.4% copper, and company claimed, early in 1909, that ore then being mined averaged 12% copper, which claim is too high for credence. Ores of this district, as developed elsewhere, average about 4% copper, 50% sulphur and $1.50 gold per ton, and are somewhat bunchy, with sphalerite frequently found in connection with the chalcopyrite. Company reported, Oct., 1910, that it had cut a 7’ vein of practically solid ore. Mine is worked opencast.

Equipment includes steam power and a hoist, with a tram line and 2,000-ton ore bins on the sea.

Great Northern Development Co. Alaska

Office: 2 Rector St, New York. Operating office: Valdez, Alaska. Mine and works office: Phillips, Alaska. Jas. Phillips, Jr., pres.; E. F. Gray, vice-pres.; Walter M. Briggs, sec.-treas.; Edwin F. Gray, gen. mgr.; pre- ceding officers, J. C. Fairchild, H. F. J. Knoblauch and H. I. Gaskill, di- rectors. Organized 1906, under laws of Maine, capitalization $1,000,000,

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shares-$10 par, nonassessable; issued, 70,100. Is a holding company. An- nual meeting, first Tuesday in November. Petley Morse & Co., auditors, 43 Exchange Place, New York.

Lands are a solid tract of about 130 claims, about 2,600 acres, imme- diately south of the camp, which is on the south bank of the Kotsina river, below the mouth of Roaring creek, near the Copper River railroad, and about 60 miles from the Bonanza mine of the Kennecott Co. Lands ap- parently lie in the greenstone formation. Development is by 600’ adit with 20 crosscuts. Ore said to average 12 to 17% copper with some gold. Buildings include a saw mill driven by a Pelton wheel, under a 400” head, taking water from Roaring creek. Company has a 50-mile telephone line to Tonsina, the nearest rail station. Company did 5,000” of new under- ground development work in 1912.

GREAT OHIO COPPER MINE. BRITISH COLUMBIA Sargent € Munro, owners, New Hazelton, B. C. Property adjoins the

Butte Rocher de Boule mine and carries veins with rich gold-copper ores

similar to those of that mine.

Great Standard Copper Mining Co. Wyoming

Probably dead. Mine at Granite Canyon, Laramie Co., Wyo. Dr. Wal- ter H. Parker, pres.; John Laughrey, vice-pres. and gen. mgr.; Chas. B. Lamont, sec. Organized Sept. 30, 1902, under laws of Arizona, capitaliza- tion $1,000,000, shares 50 cts. par. Lands, 17 claims, with miscellaneous lands giving total holdings of 640 acres, in the Silver Crown district, said to show 6 veins, of about 8’ average width, opened by 18 shallow shafts and pits, averaging 7% copper.

Great Western Copper Co. Arizona

Mine office: Courtland, Cochise Co., Ariz. Wm. J. Young, Jr., pres.; Edw. A. Young, sec.; C. H. Young, treas., all of Clinton, Iowa; P. B. Warnekross, directors; W. G. McBride, gen. supt.; G. V. Colchester, engr. Organized Oct. 22, 1900, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $10 par, nonassessable; fully issued.

Property consists of several copper mines in the Courtland district acquired about 14 years ago, and the Mammoth-Collins mine near Mam- moth, Pinal county, taken under bond in 1913. The Courtland property embraces 27 claims, patented, 460 acres in the Turquoise, or Courtland district, showing limestones intruded and altered by monzonite and quartz monzonite porphyry. The Humboldt mine first opened, yielded high- grade ore from the surface to a depth of 200”, where it played out. In 1908, workings on the Mary claim developed a payable orebody and the Mame mine opened up shipping ore in 1909. At the present time there are 3 orebodies which show rusty capping over a leached zone, followed by oxidized ores, succeeded by secondary sulphides, the 2 forms grading irreguiarly into each other. The mines are opened by vertical shafts, the Mary of 310’, Mame of 300’, Monarch of 430’ and Humboldt 200’.

Equipment includes a 300-h. p. electric plant driven by steam power and having two 150-kw. generators, a 500’ 8-drill air compressor, 2 electric hoists, electric pump, etc.

Production begun Aug., 1908, has continued intermittently ever since, and in 1913 the company was shipping an average of 90 tons a day, one- half of which came from the Mame mine. In 1910, the ores yielded 2,250,- 000 lbs. fine copper and in 1912 the production was nearly 4,000,000 Ibs. copper from ores that averaged nearly 5%.

It is generally understood that the Courtland properties have proven disappointing, the limits of the orebodies being known and the explora- tion work unsuccessful. The company has, however, recently acquired

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the Mammoth mine at Schultz, near Mammoth, a well-known gold mine. Claims show strong quartz veins cutting porphyritic granite and schist and carrying pyritic gold ores with abundant wulfenite. On the 700’, the bottom level, the vein becomes copper-bearing and shows a shoot 21%’ wide of 4 to 6% copper ore with $9 gold per ton. The company has in- stalled new machinery at the mine and will, it is said, deepen the shaft to 1,000’ and open up the vein on several levels.

Great Western Gold & Copper Co. Utah

Idle. Office: Provo, Utah. Jesse Knight, pres.; W. Lester Mangum, sec. Lands, at the head of Big Cottonwood cafion, adjoining the Daly Judge, show an orebody of about 100’ width, giving assays of 3 to 5% copper.

Great Western Gold & Silver Co. Arizona

Idle. Mine office: Dragoon, Cochise Co., Ariz. Organized about June, 1908. Lands, in the Dragoon mountains, show auriferous and argentiferous lead and copper ores.

Great Western Mine. Colorado

Armstrong and Vanetta, lessees, Lake George, Park Co., Colo. Prop- erty shows vein with gold-copper ore, developed by shaft and equipped with steam power and air compressor.

Great Western Mining Co. Idaho

Idle. Office and mine: Burke, Shoshone Co., Idaho. W. W. Russell, preske Max <Cyrs vice-pres.; ¿T. HH; Scott, sec..,and megr.;:.C.) H..,.Kratzer, treas.; preceding officers, Jas. Girton and Victor Huot, directors. Lands, 7 claims, patented, 3 miles from Burke, having a vein of 17 to 50’ width, at surface, traced about 1,200’ by trenching, carrying tetrahedrite copper ore. The mine has tunnels of 1,270’ and 900’, and a 207’ shaft, workings cutting a 30’ blind vein carrying silver-lead ore. Work was begun Aug. 12, 1904. About 600 of diamond drilling was done in 1909. Equipment includes a good hoist, and a small Rand air compressor, driven by a 6-h. p. motor. GREENE CANANEA COPPER CO. MEXICO

Office: 1400 Alworth Bldg., Duluth, Minn. Mine and works office: Cananea, Sonora, Mex.,,. Thos. ¡F. Cole, pres.; Chas. A.. Duncan, vice-pres. and treas.; Jos. B. Cotton and Chas. D. Fraser, vice-presidents; preceding officers, Myron M. Parker, Philip L. Foster, Chester A. Cong- ‘don, Jas. McLean, Wm. E. Corey and John D. Ryan, directors; Frederic R. Kennedy, sec.; Jos. W. Allen and Daniel R, Smith, asst. secretaries; Wm. G.sHevardt,.asst..-treas.; Dr, L. Ds, Ricketts, cons. engr:;,Jas. D: Douglas, gen. megr.; John V. Montague, asst. auditor; Jas. V. Doull, mine supt.; Arthur C. Cole, smelter supt.; Frank J. Strachan, mill supt.; Geo. Young, supt. gen. service dept.

Organized Dec. 26, 1906, under laws of Minnesota, capitalization $60,- 000,000, shares $100 par; issued, $50,000,000. New York Trust Co. and Old Colony Trust Co., Boston, transfer agents; Bankers Trust Co., New York, and State Street Trust Co., Boston, registrars. Shares are listed on the Boston Stock Exchange.

The Greene Cananea is a securities holding company only, but it is practically the only one in which the public now own shares. The rela- tions of the company with its subsidiaries is as follows: The Greene Can- anea Copper Co. controls, by stock ownership, the Greene Consolidated Copper Co. and the Cananea Central Copper Co. The Greene Consolidated Copper Co. owns nothing but the entire capital stock of the Cananea Con- solidated Copper Co., S.A., Mexico, The Greene Cananea Copper Co. owns all the shares of the San Pedro Copper Co., S. A., of Mexico. The Cananea Consolidated Copper Co., S. An and the San Pedro Copper Co.,,S. A., own,

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jointly, the property formerly held by the Indiana-Sonora Copper & Mining Co. The company also owns the Superior Bonanza Mining ‘Go: and through this, the Mexican operating company, the Bonanza Mining Co., S. A. The subsidiary corporations named are listed and described elsewhere in this volume, so far as organization, finances and officers are concerned, but the physical properties are described here because the properties are operated together and no description would be complete, or easily understandable, if the properties were described separately. The Cananea Duluth, America Mining, Cananea Development, Sierra de Cobre Mining and Indiana Sonora companies, are all dissolved and no longer exist.

The Greene Cananea exchanged its shares for the stock of the two subsidiary corporations on the basis of 11⁄4 shares for each share of Greene Consolidated, and 1% shares for each share of Cananea Central, this ex- change calling for $50,000,000 of stock of the Greene Cananea to completely absorb the shares of the Greene Consolidated and Cananea Central.

Cananea is a community of 16,000 inhabitants, located 40 miles south of the international boundary line, on.a branch railway of the Southern Pacific Lines of Mexico.

The ores from all of the mines of the various companies are treated at the works of the Cananea Consolidated Copper Co., S. A., the principal Mexican corporation, producing blister copper.

The following description covers all of the subsidiary companies of the Greene Cananea Copper Co.:

The mineral lands held under title from the Mexican government amount to 13,737 hectares, or approximately 33,930 acres. The surface lands owned by the company comprise 140,342 hectares, or approximately 346,644 acres. All of the mines, works, offices, warehouses, stores, etc., of the company are located on its own land and in addition the company owns valuable residence properties in the town site of Cananea, which are occupied by its local-officials and employees.

All of the producing mines of the company are situated in the Cananea mountains, which rise from the headwater valleys of the San Pedro and Sonora rivers in northern Sonora. The mines are distributed along a mineral belt, or series of belts, about 6 miles long, in a northwesterly- southeasterly direction, and about 2 miles wide. The oldest geological formation of the Cananea mountains is pre-Cambrian granite, which is overlaid by Cambrian quartzite, in turn overlaid by Cambrian limestone. Breaking through these rocks, and covering much of the mineral belt, is a series of eruptives of Tertiary age, in which 12 different rocks may be recognized, 1, a bedded tuff, the others massive. Three main classes of ore deposits may be recognized: (1) Deposits containing secondary chalcocite together with iron pyrite either massive or disseminated along shear zones in diorite porphyry; (2) Contact deposits containing chalcopyrite asso- ciated with-iron pyrites and some zinc blende in a matrix of altered lime- stones; (3) Disseminated chalcopyrite assoeiaved with zinc blende in a diorite porphyry breccia. .

The producing mines of the Cananea property stated in the order of their location from S. E. to N. W. are, the Cananea, Duluth, Cobre Grande, Kirk, Veta Grande, Capote, Sierra de Cobre, Elisa, Henrietta and Puertecitos mines.

The Cananea Duluth mine has an orebody about 1,200’ in length with a maximum width of 200. This orebody is a neck of diorite intruded in bedded tuffs. The intrusion is shattered, altered and for 200 to 300’ below the surface is impregnated throughout with pyrite and copper minerals.

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On the 600’, the lowest level, the central portion is unpayable and the values concentrated around the border of this long canoe-shaped orebody. The ore carries good silver and gold values. Practically all of the product of this mine is concentrated before smelting.

The Cobre Grande mine was the original mine of the Cananea Con- solidated Copper Co. Idle for some years it is now being worked for ore to be used in the converters. The ore occurs in a strong and wide vein traversing both altered limestones and igneous rocks.

The Kirk mine is situated in an extensive area of highly-altered lime- stone capped with diorite porphyry and cut in places by small irregular dikes and intrusions of the same material. The ore is not adapted to con- centration and it is necessary to hand-pick it as mined. The sorted ore carries a desirable high percentage of sulphur and evenly balanced iron and silica.

The great mines of Cananea are the Veta Grande, Oversight and Capote which have had large bodies of high-grade ore and contain great deposits of concentrating ore. This ore and the associated first-class ore contains copper in chalcocite, disseminated through diorite porphyry in broad shear zones.

The Capote mine differs from the Veta Grande and Oversight in that the ore occurs not only disseminated in diorite porphyry but also in crushed quartzite through which the porphyry intrudes. There are 3 prin- cipal ore shoots connected by continuous ore on the various levels. The ore in the upper levels is chiefly chalcocite, but the new shoot now being developed, consists of massive pyrite with primary chalcopyrite and bornite. This mine has attained a depth of 1,050’, and has ore on each level from the Ist to the 10th. The Capote mine yields both concentrating and direct smelting ores.

Much of the ore is lean pyrite, a mass on the 5th level, 220’ long with a maximum width of 100’, carries over 214% copper, but there is much leaner ore in the mine which is unprofitable at present.

The Sierra de Cobre property was acquired by purchase from the Indiana-Sonora Copper & Mining Co. and since its acquisition has proved to be one of the largest and most profitably productive mines of the Greene Cananea Copper Co.

The ore from this mine occurs in limestone. Fissures extending out from the “Eureka” fault have acted as channels for mineralizing solutions, making ore along the veins and for a considerable distance into the walls, replacing the limestone by pyrite and chalcopyrite along the bedding planes. There appear to be notable bodies of heavy sulphides on and below the level of the Combination tunnel which passes through this prop- erty to the Elisa mine, and these are now being developed with very satis- factory results. The Sierra de Cobre property also has an extensive area of undeveloped ground lying in the limestone areas, along which smelting ore has been found in the Kirk mine and elsewhere. ;

The Elisa mine contains a number of lenses of ore lying approximately parallel to a nearly vertical fault between limestone and the diorite por- phyry. These lenses occur in the limestone at the fault and back of it for a distance of 150’, along a zone some 1,500’ in length. The ore con- sists of a garnet matrix containing chalcopyrite and iron pyrites. It is a very desirable ore for the smelter, being more than self-fluxing, containing about 20% of lime in addition to the iron. Recent developments in the Elisa mine have been exceedingly satisfactory and a large amount of first- class ore has been opened up on the deeper levels. The ore from this

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mine is now delivered through the Combination tunnel to bins at the Capote mine.

The Henrietta is a small mine whose ore occurs on a contact between diorite porphyry and quartz porphyry. The orebodies are not large and the ore is silicious. New development work in the vicinity of Henrietta has not yet shown workable orebodies.

The Puertecitos mine and the town of that name are located at the northwest end of the mineral belt and at the terminus of the narrow-gauge railroad of the company. The Puertecitos mine ore deposit has a great outcrop of limestone altered by contact metamorphic action to lime-iron- garnet rock and containing carbonates oí copper and some chalcopyrite and bornite. Large areas of this outcrop contain enough copper to war- rant mining, which is carried on by means of large quarries. The ore as mined is not sufficiently rich to be sent direct to the smelter but has to be broken and hand-sorted, yielding about 4 tons of waste material to each ton of ore.

Recently a large amount of underground development work has been done at Puertecitos with highly satisfactory results, the ore being fit for direct smelting; the mine is developed sufficiently to yield 450 tons a day if needed.

The Elenita mine, one of the earliest producers of the camp, located southwest of Puertecitos, is being reopened with a view to again put- ting it in the producing class. The ore from this mine is similar to that of Puertecitos.

Development work for 1911 was 51,874’, and for 1912 aggregated 72,403’, of which 1,392’ was shaft sinking, 13,293’ raises and winzes and the balance drift and crosscut work. This development though satisfactory, has not opened up enough new concentrating ore to equal the year’s extraction.

The cost of mining was $2.46 per ton in 1911 and $2.93 per ton in 1912, the increase being mainly due to increased development, but in part to the charging of general expense to operating costs in 1912,

All of the power used in the operations of the company’s mines and works is delivered from a central power plant located at the smelter, and electrical power is used exclusively except for a portion of the concen- trators and the steam pumping plant at Ojo de Agua. The power house, also containing the boiler plant, made of concrete and steel, 150x260’, con- tains three 1,500-kw. horizontal Curtiss turbines, delivering current to the switchboard at 2,300 volts. The entire electrical equipment of turbines and engines has a capacity of 5,850 kw. alternating current and 500 kw. of direct current.

The electrical energy is transmitted to various parts of the camp at from 2,300 to 11,000 volts, and supplies the necessary power for a great number of motors of various sizes, electric hoists, pumps, etc. The furnace blast is supplied by 7 Corliss engines and 1 piston blower, having a com- bined capacity of 176,000 cu. ft. of free air per minute. The blast is con- veyed to the furnaces through a pipe 6’ in diameter.

The converter blast is supplied by 5 blowing engines having a total piston displacement of 55,000 cu. ft of free air per minute, and is conveyed to the converters through two 30” pipes. In the power house there is also

one 6,000-cu. ft. capacity Ingersoll-Rand compound condensing air com-.

pressor, furnishing air to the mines for drilling and other purposes; also one 1,200-cu. ft. Ingersoll-Rand compressor which is used to furnish air for ramming converter lining and for sundry pneumatic tools around the works. -

The boiler plant has 11 boilers, with a total capacity of 4,260 b. h. p. Crude

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oil, imported free from the United States, under a Federal concession, is used as fuel. The waste-heat boiler plant nearby consists of 8 water- tube boilers having a combined nominal capacity of 2,300 b.h.p.,. heated by the waste gases of 2 reverberatory furnaces. In connection with this waste-heat plant there is a battery of 4 Green economizers, consisting of 288 tubes each. All boilers are equipped with Foster superheaters. The feed water is carefully measured after a simple treatment for the removal of scale-forming material, and is fed to the boilers by means of electrically- operated plunger pumps. The power house is equipped with 2 counter- current barometric condensers, each having a separate water pump and separate dry air pump. All engines are operated condensing excepting those whose exhaust is used in heaters.

The principal water supply of the company comes from Ojo de Agua, 9 miles from the town, where a pumping plant, with water-tube boilers, using crude oil as fuel, runs a Reidler high-duty compound condensing engine delivering 1,500,000 gals. of water per day against a pressure of 967’. A 10” main connects the pumping plant with a 600,000 gal. tank located on a hill near the concentrators. The Ojo de Agua water is used exclu- sively for domestic purposes and for feed water for the boilers and is delivered under substantial working pressure. A very well equipped fire department, with a complete system of mains to pressure tanks, is main- tained. Water from the mines is delivered to the concentrator through wooden pipes and is there used in milling operations,

At the Sierra de Cobre mine, in the Capote basin, there is an Ingersoll- Rand air compressor having a capacity of 2,500 cu. ft. of free air per min- ute, which is directly connected to a 2,300-volt A. C. motor. This machine is used to boost the pressure in the mains in the outlying districts. A sim- ilar machine has also been installed at the Cananea Duluth mine. Fuel oil is stored in 3 main tanks with a capacity of 10,000 . each.

The main shops near the smelter include machine, boiler, blacksmith, foundry, pattern, and electric shops, all well-equipped, up-to-date, and served by both standard and narrow-gauge tracks. A large warehouse, for the company’s supplies, and a framing mill, in which timbers for all of the mines are framed, are located on the southern slag dump.

The concentrating department has a capacity of 2,800 tons per day, and consists of a crushing plant, sampling mill, 2 concentrating mills, a settling system and a slime plant. The crushing plant has storage bins holding 2,000 tons, the ore from the mines being delivered in Ingoldsby side-dump cars of 30 tons capacity each. From the storage bins the ore is fed to a 30” conveying belt by automatic feeder.

This belt delivers the ore to 2 grizzlies, inclined at 48° with 1” open- ings. The screened ore falls on an 18” conveyor transferring it to a 24” conveyor taking’ it to the mill bins of 4,800 tons capacity.

The oversize from the grizzly goes to two 36” picking belts, where first-class ore and also pieces of wood and steel are sorted out. The ore left on belt is then delivered to crushing bins and fed by automatic plunger feed to five 10x20” Blake crushers of the Cananea type, which reduce the ore to 1%” size. This crushed ore passes to 16x36” rolls, breaking to pieces that which passes a 2” ring. This product is delivered to a 24” con- veyor which delivers to the mill bins, together with the grizzly undersize. The crushing plant is electrically driven and has a capacity of 2,000 tons per 10 hours. An automatic sampler at the head of the 24” conveyor cuts one-fortieth of the total ore, which is ground and automatically cut to sample. All rejects drop to elevator and return by conveyor to mill bins,

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consists of 2 sections of 600 tons capacity each. No. 2 mill is a steel structure, containing 2 sections of 800 tons capacity each. Both mills are steam driven, crude oil being used as fuel. The mills are supplemented by a settling system and a slime plant containing 100 vanners. The 2 mills have practically the same flow sheet, although in Mill No. 1 fine grinding is carried further in rolls.

The ore from the 4,800-ton storage bins is fed by automatic feeders into each section. Concentration begins on all material finer than 2” ring. The course of the ore in all 4 sections is as follows:

The ore is delivered to two 4” trommels, the undersize passing to two 34” trommels. The undersize of the latter goes to two 3/16” trommels and the undersize from these to four 2 mm. trommels. The various coarse sizes from screenings are passed to Hartz jigs, and all tailings from jigs coarser than 34” ring are passed through rolls, elevated and returned to screen, so that no material coarser than 36” goes to the Hardinge mills. The coarser material is concentrated on 20 concrete Hartz jigs in each section. The jig tailings finer than 34” pass to 3 Hardinge mills and are ground to about 2 mm. The discharge from the Hardinge mills is deslimed in a drag belt classifier, the coarser sands are classified, the resulting product being treated on 30 tables. The very fine sands and slimes are treated on 36 vanners. Tailings from tables and vanners are settled out and sent to the slime plant for further treatment.

The tailings, containing a gross value of nearly $2 per ton in copper, silver and gold, are impounded in a coarse tailings dam, the slime settling above the dam. The clear water is pumped back for re-use in the mills but is first passed through precipitating tanks where the dissolved copper is precipitated and recovered. The concentrates are delivered in narrow- gauge cars to the spreading beds.

All ores, concentrates, fluxes and secondaries for blast-furnace treat- ment are weighed and delivered to the main receiving bins by the com- pany’s narrow-gauge railroad. The bin system consists of 11 wooden and 8 steel bins, having a combined capacity of about 3,000 tons. From the receiving bins all material is discharged on a conveyor belt which passes through the sample mill on its way to the spreading bed plant. In the sample mill the ore is crushed to about 4” through a 24x36” Farrel crusher. One-tenth of the ore stream is cut out and passes through a 10x20” crusher of the Cananea type; one-tenth of this is cut and passed through a Gates gyratory crusher, then one-fifth is cut and passed through a set of 17x27” rolls, when the final sample is cut out amounting to about one-four-thousandth of the original material. This final sample is quartered down, dried and prepared for the laboratory. The reject from the sample mill is elevated back to the main conveyor system. All material is sam- pled in this manner with the exception of concentrates, which are hand sampled. ;

The ore after passing the sampling mill is conveyed to the spreading beds and distributed evenly over the entire length of the bed by an over- head belt which is automatically tripped. The bedding plant is of steel construction, being 453’ long, and 198’ wide, and contains 3 ore beds of about 9,000 tons capacity each. The composition of each bed is known in advance and in this way an even mixture is assured to the furnaces. When a bed is completed it is reclaimed by a machine which advances into the face of the pile and discharges on to a conveyor which delivers the mixed charge into bins over the blast furnaces, each bin having a capacity of 75 tons. The reclaiming machine has a capacity of about 175 tons per hour. The charge is dropped by gravity from the 75-ton bins above the furnaces

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into measuring hoppers holding 2,000 lbs. There are 5 such hoppers to

each furnace, and these are discharged either directly into the furnace or on to the feed floor by means of arc gátes.

Advantage was taken of the close-down in the panic of 1907 to remodel the smelting works, since which time the entire reduction works have been practically rebuilt. The bedding and reclaiming system was put in opera- tion, the furnaces and converters in the old plant were scrapped and an entirely new and larger installation made, with the result that the plant is now considered one of the most efficient and up-to-date plants in the cop- per industry. The following notes describe the reconstructed reduction works:

The blast-furnace building is of steel construction, 312’ long by 33’ wide. It contains 8 blast furnaces, 48x210” at the tuyeres. There are 4 settlers, 10’ 5” x 19’ inside of brick lining, each settler serving 2 furnaces. The slag overflows continuously into self-dumping slag cars of 45-cu. ft. capacity. Trains of 6 to 8 cars are hauled to the dump by electric loco- motives. The matte is tapped from the settlers into 66-cu. ft. cast-steel ladles and transferred to the converters by electric cranes.

The gases from the furnaces are discharged into a steel balloon flue 10’ in diameter, thence through 2 cross flues, 12’ 6” in diameter, and 2 goose necks, 8’ 6” in diameter, into the main brick dust chamber having dimensions of 60’ x 181’ x 32’ 6”. From this main chamber the gases pass through a flue 20° x 242’ x 19’ 6”, to another chamber 84’ x 34’ 8” x 23’ 6”, thence to a brick-lined steel stack having an'inside diameter of 18’ 3”. The stack is 168’ high from the foundation, which is 25’ in height. All flue dust is drawn from the dust chamber and balloon flue into small cars and trammed to the reverberatory furnaces. The coke bins are located at the west end of the furnace building and have a capacity of about 3,000 tons. Coke is wheeled to the furnaces in barrows and shoveled in by hand.

The roaster building is of steel construction and contains ten 18’ six- hearth McDougal calciners. The roaster dust chamber is of brick and has dimensions of 115’ x 25’ x 15. There is a special bedding plant for the roasters, consisting of 4 bins of 500 tons capacity and 2 beds of 3,000 tons each. The mixed roaster charge is reclaimed and delivered by con- veyor belts into 60-ton bins over and charging into the roasters. The roaster product is hauled by electric motor in 5-ton cars to the reverbera- tory furnaces. :

The reverberatory plant consists of two 19’ 6” x 100’ oil-fired furnaces. The waste gases fire three 300-h. p. and five 250-h. p. boilers placed parallel, and then pass through 4 units of Green economizers containing 1,152 tubes, thence through a brick flue 130’ long to a stack 12’ 6” in diameter by 152’ in height, The slag is skimmed into 112-cu. ft. electrically-tilted slag cars and hauled to the dump by electric locomotive. The matte is tapped into 66-cu. ft. ladles and hauled to converter building in ladle cars, from which it is transferred to the converters by electric cranes.

The converter building is of steel 65x518’, and 56’ to bottom chord of truss and contains 3 electric cranes of 40, 50 and 60 tons capacity, 6 elec- trically-operated stands of the Great Falls type of converter, with 7 basic- lined shells, 12’ in diameter, for same.

The copper from the. bessemer converters is poured into the ladles of 2 straight-line electrically-operated casting machines each equipped with tilting ladles of 66 cu. ft. capacity. Each machine has a chain of 39 molds, casting bars weighing about 260 lbs., dumping into bosh from which they are removed by drag conveyor to the bullion platform. The bar bullion is then stacked by an air-operated radial crane, picked up on trucks, weighed,

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and loaded into standard-gauge railroad cars. The converter slag is skimmed into 66 cu. ft. ladles, transferred by crane to 45 cu. ft. slag cars, hauled by electric motor to pits and reclaimed by a 10-ton steam shovel. It is then delivered in narrow-gauge cars to the receiving bins of the main spreading bed system. i

. The converter gases pass through balloon flues of steel construction, 10 in diameter and 201’ in length, and enter into a steel dust chamber, 104 x 26’ x 20”, with a circular arch roof having a 13’ radius. The gases then pass to a steel stack 12’ in diameter by 125’ high.

The daily capacity of the entire reduction works is 3,600 tons of gross charge. ;

The company owns and operates 36 miles of standard and narrow gauge railway, including branches. spurs and sidings. The narrow-gauge line is double tracked from the smelter to Capote basin, and laid with 50- Ib. steel rails. The equipment includes 2:standard-gauge and 9 narrow- gauge locomotives, all oil burners, and about 140 cars, most of which are 25 and 30-ton steel ore cars. The railway system has direct rail connection with the Nogales and Naco branches of the Southern Pacific Lines of Mexico, and by this line with the El Paso & Southwestern railroad at Naco, Ariz.

The Cananea Consolidated Copper Co. operates practically all of the public utilities in Cananea. Its Public Service Department operates the water system, from which there was delivered to the public in the year 1912 upwards of 60,000,000 gals. of water; an electric light system; a tele- phone system operating 200. drops aiid approximately 450 telephones; and sundry other minor public utilities. The company’s Mercantile Depart- ment operates a lumber yard, a large department store located near the smelter and 9 branch stores scattered throughout the various camps. The rental properties of the company include 619 buildings, consisting of rooming houses for its employees, residences, bunkhouses, etc.

During the year 1912 the mines produced 1,074,222 dry tons of ore, of which 417,341 dry tons went directly to the smelter and 657,482 dry tons to the concentrators. The concentrating ore produced 176,872 dry tons of concentrates.

The total production for the year 1912 was: Copper, 48,157,847 lbs.; silver, 1,457,308 ozs.; gold, 7,197 ozs. For 1911, the production, from the company’s own ores, was 37,101,119 lbs. copper, 795,160 oz. silver and 3,610 oz. gold; the total production for the year was 44,897,466 lbs. copper, 1,295,297 oz. silver and 5,892 oz. gold.

Greene Consolidated Copper Co. Mexico

Office: Room 2027, 42 Broadway, New York. Mine office: Cananea, Sonora, Mex. Wm. D. Thornton, pres.; C. D. Fraser, vice-pres.; preceding officers, F. E. Searle, Alfred Romer, P. L. Foster and Geo. Notman, directors; J. W. Allen, sec.-treas.; Dr. L. D. Rickett, gen. mgr. Organized Sept. 16, 1899, under laws of West Virginia, capitalization increased, 1904, and again increased. 1906, to present amount of $10,000,000, shares $10 par. Has paid 25 dividends totaling $8,044,400 to March 1, 1913. Annual meet- ing, second Tuesday in June. ;

The only asset of the Greene Consolidated Copper Co. is the total stock issue of the Cananea Consolidated Copper Co., S. A., a Mexican corporation.

The Greene Consolidated Copper Co. is controlled, through ownership of 951,859 shares, by the Greene Cananea Copper Co. Financial statement is included under description of the Cananea Consolidated Copper Co., S. A., which is to all intents and purposes the same company under another

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name. The mines and other properties of this and of all affiliated corpora- tions are described under title of the Greene Cananea Copper Co.

This company was organized and controlled by Col. Wm. C. Greene and his friends until Feb. 18, 1907, when the old board resigned, en masse, and immediately thereafter a new board was elected, under the control of Messrs. John D. Ryan and Thos. F. Cole. The early history of the com- pany and the reasons for this change of control are fully given Vol. X. GREEN MONSTER MINE. NEVADA

Idle. Office: care of Mrs. Phoebe Hearst, owner, San Francisco, Cal. Mine near Sandy, Lincoln Co., Nev. Mine, opened by a 325” two-compart- ment vertical shaft, shows carbonate and sulphide ores, latter including

_argentiferous galena and chalcopyrite, and has been claimed to show about 5,000 tons of $40 ore. 1 ' GREEN MOUNTAIN COPPER MINES. CALIFORNIA

Mine at Raymond, Madera Co., Cal. O. R. Sydney, mgr.; W. R. Sund- berg and J. L. Sydney, owners. Mine, in southeastern part of Mariposa county, 7 miles northwest of Raymond on S. P. R. R. and 12 miles from La Grande on the Santa Fé R. R. Property, 14 claims, the Copper Queen, patented, balance unpatented, has been worked at various times since 1863 and has produced considerable high-grade oxidized ore. Claims show a gossan outcrop of 300 to 1,200’ width, between diorite and granodiorite. Mine has 2 main tunnels, the lower, or eastern, being about 600’ long, with several thousand feet of workings, and there also is a new shaft, showing carbonate copper ores. Long continued leaching has given many of the

‘old mine workings a coat of bluestone. In the eastern tunnel, the east drift shows a 125’ body of cupriferous pyrrhotite, and the western drift has a 60’ orebody, reported to carry chalcocite, with cupriferous pyrrhotite. Mine was working, on a small scale, 1911, producing carbonate ore carrying up to 20% copper and 16 oz. silver and shipping low-grade sulphide ore to Globe, Ariz., to be used as a flux. Property considered promising,

Green Mountain Gold & Copper Mining Co. Utah

Letter unclaimed at Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine at La Sal, Grand Co., Utah. Samuel E. McGraw, pres.; W. J. Martin, vice-pres., sec.-treas.; J. E. McGraw, mgr., at last accounts. Organized May 22, 1909, under laws of Utah, capitalization $500,000, shares $1 par. Lands, € claims, unpatented, 30 miles from a railroad, opened by tunnel, with about 450’ of workings, Company ended 1910 in litigation, with bad charges against the manage- ment, and a special auditor was appointed by the court to investigate the charges. Reported, 1913, as contemplating building a mill.

GREEN MOUNTAIN MINING & MILLING Co. COLORADO

Office: 1538 H. W. Oliver Bldg., Pittsburgh, Pa. Mine office: How- ardsville, San Juan Co., Colo. In Feb., 1911, receiver was appointed at request of E. E. Dick, secretary of the company. Property, a gold mine with some copper ore. Fully described Vol. X,

Greenback Copper Co. California

Mine at Woody, Kern Co., Cal. Joseph Weringer, owner. Lands,

1,520 acres, 18 miles east of Jasmin, on the Porterville branch of the South- ern Pacific railroad. Country rock is granodiorite, showing an ore zone carrying lenses of 20” maximum width, with granite walls irregularly im- pregnated with chalcopyrite. Development is by a 185’ incline shaft, with ° 3 levels opened. Carbonate ores stoped from the upper levels have aver- aged 19.4% copper and 5.7 oz. silver per ton. Work resumed, 1913, after several years and 1 carload of copper ore shipped to Selby smelter, GREENHORN MINE. CALIFORNIA

Owned by F. and H. Warren. Mine near Tower House, 22 miles from

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Redding, Shasta Co., Cal. Reported to have struck ore at 280” from sür- face averaging 17% copper and $1.50 gold per ton. Daily output about 13 tons. / GREENWATER COPPER MINES & SM. CO. CALIFORNIA Office: care of Donald B. Gillis, mgr., Tonopah, Nev. Chas. R. Miller, pres.; M. R. Ward, vice-pres.; Lloyd E. Marsden, sec.-treas.; preceding offi- cers, Max E. Bernheimer, Chas. Gold, W. G. Benham, Clyde Milne, Oscar A. Daube; Jos. G. Butler, Jr, S. A. Browan and W: H. Drayton, 3rd, directors. Organized Dec. 12, 1906, under laws of Delaware, capitalization $25,000,000, shares $5 par. Is a securities holding company only, and owns stock in a number of Greenwater promotions, described Vol. VIII, all of which are dead. Company, on Dec. 31, 1910, had $144,727.50 invested in choice’ bonds, after losing about $170,000 through the failure of Chas. Minzesheimer & Co., New York brokers, who failed, Oct. 15, 1910. x In Aug., 1911, company leased for 49 years, the O. K. and Supply groups, gold mines at Dale, Cal., and is now developing same, the 800 north drift showing a new vein 3’ wide of good ore. A 10-stamp mill and cyanide plant are now in operation. GREY'S SIDING DEVELOPMENT CO, LTD. ONTARIO Property is 3 miles from Grey's Siding, T. €. N. O. R. R. Owns the Little Dan mine on Arsenic lake. John McMartin, pres.; William Marshall, managing director; J. E. Wilson, supt. at last accounts. Property consists of 3 claims covering diorite containing bunches and`impregnations of

arsenical pyrite and chalcopyrite carrying several dollars per ton in gold..

Deposit opened up by 6pen-quarry work and by 60’ shaft. Property was shipping 4 carloads of ore a day in 1909, was idle in 1910 but has been developing since.

Gribbell Island Copper Co. British Columbia

Office: 203 First National Bank Bldg., Bellingham, Wash. Mine at Gribbell Island, Skeena River division, Cassiar district, B. C. Geo. Rob- ertson, pres.; Andrew Gaasland; vice-pres.; W. J. Hughes, sec.-treas.; pre- ceding officers and Geo. Graham, directors. Organized under laws of Washington, capitalization $170,000, shares 10 cts. par, nonassessable; issued, $145,000.

Lands, 8 claims, crown-granted, area 400 acres, at the southern end of Gribbell island, facing Mackay reach, and 3 miles west of Ursula channel. Property shows a fissure zone in syenite, carrying massive bornite, chalco- pyrite and gray copper, giving assays of 5 to 50% copper, with small and variable silver and gold values. Developed by several pits, opencuts and 3 tunnels of 275’, 160” and 375. Idle since 1906, owing to lack of funds. GRIFFITH CONSOLIDATED MINE. COLORADO

See Salida Copper Co., Colo., which owns mine through stock owner- ship in Mountain Mining Co.

Grizzly Mine. Oregon

Address: Cottage Grove, Lane Co., Ore. Property has an orebody reported to be in a porphyry dike 20’ wide, the vein showing good walls with 12” of high-grade ore on the foot walls, 4 consisting of mixed lead and copper sulphides with gold and silver values. The discovery is a mile from the mill and 2,000’ lower.

GRIZZLY MINING CO. UTAH Succeeded by Michigan-Utah Mining Co., March, 1912. GRUTLI MINING CO. UTAH

No trace of operations secured. Formerly at 37 Commercial Bldg., Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine at Eureka, Juab Co., Utah. See Vol. X.

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Guadalupe; Mina. Mexico

Probably closed down. Mine at Muleros, Nombre de Dios, Durango, Mex.

Guanacevi Tunnel Co. Mexico

Address: Room 2009, 55 Liberty St., New York. Mine at Guanacevi, Santiago Papasquiaro, Durango, Mex. Organized 1904, under laws of Ari- zona, capitalization $5,000,000, shares $5 par. Property in hands of trustee until conditions in Mexico permit of financing company sufficiently to carry on the extensive development planned.

Lands are 22 properties, about 700 hectares, including timber rights and original concessions, said to possess large bodies of gold and copper ore. The mine has 3 shafts, of 100’ depth each, with tunnels of 1,250’ and 1,400’, the main tunnel, 7x9’, being planned to be driven about 3 kilometers, management estimating that in this distance a large number of veins carry- ing auriferous and argentiferous lead and copper ores should be cut, the tunnel being estimated as likely to cost about $250,000. In September, 1907, the mine had 3,542’ of workings.

The Mexican Western railroad is now building from Tepehuanes to Guanacevi, which adds materially to value of property.

The management denies, with asperity, that the L. Diamond Cor of Boston, was ever at any time a representative of this corporation in any way, and states that a number of brokers bought this stock and imme- diately combined to boom it and unload on the public at unduly high prices. Company reports that under the new management no stock has

been sold.

GUAYMAS SMELTER. MEXICO See Pacific Smelting Co.

Guerrero Copper Co. Mexico

Probably dead. Letter unclaimed at Chilpancingo, Guerrero, Mex. Lands, 8 miles south of the Rio Balsas bridge, on the Mexican Central railway, showing ore said to assay 13% copper and 40 grams gold per metric ton.

Guerrero Mining Co. Mexico

Is the Mexican incorporation of the Victor Mining & Smelting Coy which owns 2 properties in Magdalena district, Sonora, Mex., 10 miles southwest of Cananea. Properties about one-half mile apart, containing 15 and 32 pertenencias, respectively.

Guggenheim Expl. Co. United States & Mexico

Office: 165 Broadway, New York. Mexican office: Tiburcio 27, Mex- ico, D. F. Daniel Guggenheim, pres.; Morris Guggenheim, vice-pres.; Chas. K. Lipman, sec.; Leopold Friedrich, treas.; S. R. Guggenheim, H. P. Whitney and Morris Guggenheim, managing directors; Pope Yeatman, gen. mgr. and cons. engr.; preceding officers, John Hays Hammond, O. B. Perry, Isaac Guggenheim and Geo. S. Field, directors; John K. MacGowan, purch. agt.

Organized June, 1899, under laws of New Jersey, capitalization $6,- 000,000, increased 3 times, lastly in July, 1906, to $22,000,000, shares $100 par reduced to $25 par, April, 1912; issued, $20,793,300. D. A. Crockett, transfer agent; Guaranty Trust Co., New York, registrars. Annual meeting, first Tuesday in June.

Company controls a number of important mining companies. The assets, Dec. 31, 1912, were: American Smelters Securities Co. “A,” 44,000 shares, valued at $3,960,000; Utah Copper Co., 404,504 shares, valued at $9,161,767; Yukon Gold Co., 2,834,885 shares, valued at $10,091,189: Chino Copper Co,, 97,750 shares, valued at $2,534,802; American Smelting € Re-

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fining Co., common, 69,500 shares, valued at $4,767,264; Ray Consolidated Copper Co., 121,200 shares, valued at $2,585,638; Alaska Yukon properties and equipment, $1,144,101. Net earnings were equal to 14.7% on issued stock in 1909, and were 16.1% in 1910. Regular dividend rate is 3% quar- terly and total dividends paid to end of 1912 were $14,689,995.

Profits in excess of dividends, Dec. 31, 1912, $1,192,420. Surplus, Dec. 31, 1912, $23,814,632.

The main business of the company is the development of mines as an

industry and only in exceptional cases does it float and promote mining

companies. GULF COPPER CO. MEXICO

Head office: Phoenix, Ariz. Branch office: Room 405, Timken Bldg., San Diego, Cal. Mine at Angeles Bay, Gulf of California, Mex. Capitali- zation $1,000,000, shares $1 par. J. H. Baker, pres. and gen. mgr.; G. E. Anthony, mg. engr.; J. H. Louden, directors.

Property consists of 40 hectares, about 100 acres, at north end of Angeles bay, 140 miles northwest from Guaymas and about 90 miles south- west from Port Lobos. Claims show silicious schists cut by porphyry dikes and a vein running northwest, dipping at 45° and varying from 5 to 42’ in width. Ore black oxide and sulphide of copper said to average 4.7% with trace of gold and silver.

Development by tunnels with 1,363’ workings, including winze sunk on vein 175. Has shipped 300 tons, 25% picked ore and has several thousand tons of low-grade ore on dump. Property considered promising if properly financed and handled.

Gunn’S Peak Copper Mining Co. Washington

Idle. Letters to 217 Columbia St., Seattle, Wash., unanswered. Mine at Index, Snohomish Co., Wash. Said to be controlled by the Index- Bornite Copper Mining Co. Lands, 4 claims, showing 3 veins, widest said to be 25’ carrying chalcopyrite and bornite, average assays 11% copper and 2 oz. silver per ton. Has tunnels of 125’ and 800%.

Gwin Mine Development Co. California

Mine at Gwin Mine, Calaveras Co., Cal. This famous old gold mine, whose deeper ores carry copper, is now closed down. See Vol. X. GWINN MINING CO. WASHINGTON

Office: Meteor, Ferry Co., Wash. Company owns a group of claims in the Meteor, or Covada, district, showing fissure veins in sedimentary rocks cut by diorite and carrying complex ore said to average about $16 per ton in gold, silver, copper and lead. Development by shafts and tun- nels, blocking out considerable low-grade ore which will be treated in concentrator now in course of erection. Company is also erecting a dam on Hall creek for its hydro-electric plant.

Hachita Copper Development Co. New Mexico

Idle. Letter to El Paso office, Tex., unclaimed. Mine near Hachita, Grant Co; N. M. W. R: Thurston, pres.; Thos. A. Lister, gen. mgr. Or- ganized 1907, under laws of New Mexico, capitalization $200,000, shares $1 par. Lands, 22 claims, near the Anderson-Apache mine, in the Apache district, 7 miles south of Hachita, said to carry about 7,000’ of the McKin- ley fault. Mine has 2 shafts, known as the Star and Quien Sabe, latter, of 110’, said to show a vein of about 40’ width, carrying low-grade dissem- inated copper sulphides. Company inactive for several years and not favorably regarded.

Haggarty Copper Mining Co. Wyoming

Idle. Office: Electric Bldg., Cleveland, Ohio. Mine at Rudefeha, Car- bon Co. Wyo. L. N. Pennock, pres. Organized with capitalization

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$10,000, increased, Nov. 9, 1908, to $1,500,000, shares $1 par. Is controlled and owned by the United Smelters, Railway € Copper Co. Is a companion of the Ferris Haggarty Co., but like all its sister companies owned by the U. S. R. & C. Co. is bankrupt. No one but a lawyer can tell which of the two owns the copper mine that has been the bait for so many “investors.” HAHN’S PEAK GOLD MINING & MILLING CO. COLORADO

Office: 55 High St., Oshkosh, Wis. Mine at Hahn's Peak, Routt Co., Colo. Organized Jan. 29, 1906, under laws of Colorado, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par. E. E. Meeleus, pres.; Ca A. Spencer, vice-pres.; Patrick Magill, supt.; H. O. Granberg, sec.-treas. and gen. mgr.: H, C. Beeler, cons. engr.; preceding officers, Dr. H. A. Wolter, H. C. Sibree and W. E. Brown, directors.

Owns 25 claims, 248 acres, patented. Development “consists of 950' tunnel on Royal Flush claim said to cut 5 veins and the 2,100” Conundrum tunnel 430’ lower, cutting 12 veins, values being principally gold and silver. Shipped 200 sacks of high-grade ore to the smelter in Sept., 1913.

Equipment includes gasoline engines, compressor, air drills, blower and.a 400-ton concentrating mill under construction.

Hale Mining & Milling Co. Arizona

Mine office: Constellation, Yavapai Co., Ariz. Felix X. O’Brien, supt. Has goid and copper ores, with gasoline power. Company has kept up assessment work on claims, but is otherwise inactive.

Hall Creek Mining & Milling Co. Washington

Mine office: Daisy, Stevens Co., Wash. Herman Camerer, supt. Prop- erty, the Gwin mine and group of claims, showing a fissure vein carrying gold-copper ore, developed by 400’ shaft. Equipment includes steam plant and water power, hoist and 4-drill Fairbanks air compressor. Has a 75-ton concentration mill; employing about 25 men at mine and mill.

Hall Mining & Smelting Co., Ltd. British Columbia

In liquidation. Office: 79% Gracechurch St., London, E. C., England. Smelting plant at Nelson, B. `C, destroyed by fire Sept. 1911. Fully described Vol. VIII.

Ham Group ` Washington

D. F. Ham, mgr., Chewelah, Wash. Property owned by D. F. and H. A. Ham, W. H. Montgomery and Geo. C. Allen. Mine, the Washington claim on Monarch mountain, shows 6’ vein of copper sulphide ore with silver values, uncovered in trail building, after 3 years’ failure to find it by tunnel and trench work.

Hamburg-American Copper M. & M. Co. Idaho

Office: Kellogg, Idaho. Wm. Schaefer, pres.; D. W. Price, vice-pres.; J. A. Walden, sec.; W. W. Papesh, treas.; Elmer Brown, Paul Jacobs, H. Froehlich and Frederick Bell, directors.

Organized Nov., 1908, under laws of Idaho, capitalization $1,500,000, shares $1 par. Lands, 8 claims, between the Handspike and Riverside, on the Little North fork. Development by tunnel 749%, Property shows copper ore. Mine 18 miles from O. W. R. € N. Co. HAMILTON-MONTANA GOLD MINING CO. MONTANA

Richard Daxon, mgr. Company owns group cf claims in Missoula Co., Mont. Developed by 400’ tunnel, expecting to cut orebody at 700’. Values mainly copper with some lead.

Hamilton Power, Mining & Transp. Co. Nevada

W. B. Bierce, pres., McGill, White Pine Co., Nev. Mine in Rocco canyon, near Hamilton, White Pine district, Nev. J. D. Teasdale, vice- pres. and sec.; Wm. Harwood, mgr.; preceding officers, R. G. Henke and John Blair, directors.

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Property the Grand Prize group, held under lease and bond from Chas. Minolette and Louis Hani, of Hamilton. Mine comprises 5 claims and power rights on Illipah creek. Ore is a carbonate carrying copper, lead and silver.

Development by 235’ tunnel cutting ledge at 165’ with 26’ winze in ore. Shipments in 1913, of 20 tons sacked, averaged $84 a ton, assaying 6.40% . copper, 20.5% lead and 107 oz. silver. Shipments averaged 60 tons a month for summer of 1913,

HAMLET MINING & MILLING CO. COLORADO Office: Howardsville, San Juan Co., Colo. Isaac Hughes, supt. Prop- erty, the Hamlet mine developed by tunnels, longest known as Mill tun- nel, 500’ below 5th level of old mine workings, connected by raises with tunnel. Ore a complex mixture of copper-lead and zinc sulphides carrying good gold and some silver values.

Equipment includes steam power plant, compressor and concentrating mill. Company employs about 15 men.

Hampton Consolidated Mines Co. Colorado

Idle. Granville I. Chittenden, agt., 200 E, and C. Building, Denver, Colo. Mine at Russell Gulch, Gilpin Co., Colo. Organized under laws of Colorado, capitalization $3,000,000, shares $1 par. Company announced, early 1908, that it would be paying dividends semi-annually, declaring its first dividend March 30, 1908, but apparently no dividends have been paid. Company is now, 1913, entirely without funds and indebted to Chittenden estate for taxes, etc., and the widow of W. H. Chittenden, the organizer and moving spirit of the company, is practically the owner.

Lands, 4 claims, patented, very close to the War Dance gold mine and believed to carry an extension of the ore shoot of that mine. The west- ern. or 80’ shaft of the Hampton, might strike this ore at 250. et We, DES has bornite, tetrahedrite, pyragyrite, pyrite and marcasite, carrying copper, silver and gold values, giving assays of 2.7 to 35% copper, 6 to 35 oz. silver and 0.16 to 5.4 oz. gold per ton. The mine has a 250’ tunnel, and shafts aggregating 300’, with about 3,000’ of workings, management estimating, 1908, that the mine had 36,000 tons of ore in sight.

Equipment includes a 16-h. p. gasoline engine. Some ore has been shipped, averaging $25.83 per ton. In 1912, leasers were mining in eastern part of property, but production was small. Property believed to have merit, but company unable to develop it.

Hamstadt; G. H. California

Probably. idle. Office: Barnwell, San Bernardino Con, Cal. Ga E Hamstadt, owner and mgr.; J. O’Brien, supt., at last accounts. Lands, 8 claims, 160 acres, near Barnwell on the A. T. £ S. F. R. R., in the New York district, showing contact deposits between limestone near granite. The mineralized zone is reported to average 40’ in width, 1,000” in length - and proven for 600’ in depth. It carries sulphide ores giving assays of 8% copper, a trace of silver and $12.30 gold per ton. Mine is developed by tunnels of 93’, 250” and 600’.

Hanauer Smelting Works. Utah

At Salt Lake City, Utah. Controlled through stock ownership by American Smelting & Refining Co.

Hancock Consolidated Mining Co. Michigan

Office and mine: Hancock, Houghton Co., Mich. John D. Cuddihy, pres.; Capt. Thos. Hoatson, vice-pres.; John H. Hicok, sec.-treas.; pre- ceding officers, Allen F. Rees, Capt. Samuel B. Harris, Capt. Jas. Hoatson and Frederick W. Nichols, directors; John L. Harris, gen. mgr.; Richard

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Coombs, mg. capt.; Daniel Fisher, clerk; C. W. McDougall, engr.; Fred G. Schubert, master mechanic.

Orsanized June 11, 1906, under laws of Michigan, capitalization $5,000,- 000, shares $25 par; issued, $2,200,000, paid $22, including an assessment of $2 levied Dec., 1911. Company began business with $1,000,000 and paid $552,623 for its property: Disbursements were $264 538.98 in 1907; $205,- 289.60 in 1908; $279,973.34 in 1909; $383,413.95 in 1910; $359,278.07 in 1911; $267,542 in 1912. Company ended 1912 with quick assets of $120,928 and accounts payable of $134,514. Old Colony Trust Co., Boston, registrar: State Street Trust Co., Boston, transfer agent. Annual meeting, third Wednesday in June.

The Hancock after several years development work is now nearing the producing stage.

Property consists of 936 acres of mineral territory, inimediately west and south of the old Quincy mine, in T. 55 N., R. 34 W., including the original Hancock mine, area 136 acres, set aside, 1859, by the Quincy Mining Co., which reserved the mineral rights to the Pewabic bed. The Pewabic bed, on lands other than the original Hancock tract of 136 acres, is owned by the Hancock Consolidated. Lands carry the Pewabic, Quincy, West and Hancock or Sumner copper-bearing beds. While the Quincy Mining Co. claims the right to mine the Pewabic bed on the lands of the old Hancock Mining Co., the Hancock Consolidated claims that the Quincy has done unauthorized mining on its lands and there is a possibility of litigation over mining rights. Perhaps the best part of the Quincy mine is tributary to No. 7 shaft, which is immediately north of the Hancock boun- dary. Company purchased, July, 1909, lots 6 and 7, Sec. 28, for a mill site, this providing necessary sand room for the mill, which it is planned build- ing near the center of the N. W. % of Sec. 27, about a half-mile back from the shore of Portage lake.

The old Hancock mine, opened 1859, name changed to Sumner, and changed back to Hancock, was closed June 1, 1885, on account of the, low price of the metal, after producing 5,709,384 Ibs. fine copper. The Hancock or, Sumner amygdaloidal bed, which was worked by the old Hancock company, averaged about 12’ in width below the fifth level, to a ı depth of 1,0 where the old mine was bottomed and in the latter years of its operation returned 21 to 22 lbs. fine copper per ton, after selection, making about 50 tons of mineral monthly, secured from an average daily production of 210 tons of rock. Modern milling methods should save 2 to 4 lbs. fine copper per ton formerly lost. The old mine found occasional masses up to 5 tons in weight.

The property carries the Keweenawan series of amygdaloidal traps and intercalated conglomerates, and has 4 known copper-bearing beds, the Pewabic being the most important. The property also carries the under. lay, but not the outcrop, of the 3 copper-bearing beds of the Quincy, these being the Quincy to the eastward, apparently of little value, followed by the Pewabic, which is the main bed of the Quincy and the so-called West lode of the Quincy. The known copper-bearing beds outcropping on the ‘Hancock property are the Hancock or Sumner, mined in the old Hancock mine, and now known as No. 1 lode, lying about 1,100” west of the Pewa- bic; the Old West bed, now known as No. 2 lode, lying about 300’ west of No. 1, and the New West bed, now known as No. 3 lode, lying about 75 west of No: 2. Beds 1 and 2 vary from 250 to 300’ distance apart, and No. 3 is 50 to 100’ west of No. 2. No. 1 is 7 to 12’ in width, No. 2 is 10 to 12’ in average width, and No. 3 is 12 to 14’ in width. Beds 1 and 2 are opened by No. 1 incline shaft and all 3 are opened by No. 2 vertical shaft. The 2

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shafts are connected on the 13th level by a 1,275’ crosscut and on the 18th level by a 50’ crosscut. The old Hancock mine, in addition to the main shaft, now known as No. 1, has an air shaft.

No. 1 shaft is the old main shaft of the Hancock mine, formerly 8x16’, with 2 small skipways sunk at an angle of 54°, but deepened below: the old workings with size 8x21’, having 3 comnpartarents, Old ievels are at 100’ intervals, to depth of 900”, below which levels are opened at 125’ intervals, to depth of 1,600’ at the 14th level, where the shaft is bottomed tem- porarily. The old mine was-found in bad shape, the hanging wall giving much trouble and requiring very close timbering. The old workings were about 800’ in length, with ground stoped from the 2nd to 10th levels, inclusive, on the Hancock or No. 1 bed, and stoped from the 6th to 9th levels, inclusive, on the southern drifts in the Old West or No. 2 bed. No. 1 shaft has a remodeled wooden shaft rock house, with a Lake Shore hoist good for 2,000’ depth. 1

The new and main working shaft known as No. 2 is 2,200” northwest of No. 1. It is vertical, with dimensions 9’ 6” x 29’ 6”, being the second largest in the Lake Superior district, and is 4,001” deep. The shaft has 4 hoisting compartments, each 7x5’ 2” in the clear, with a 4x7’ compartment for ladderway and pipes. The collar is concreted for a depth of 30’ into the rock ledge with a thickness of 24” of concrete at the top and 30” at the bottom. This shaft intersects No. 3 bed at a depth of 2,038’, the bed here showing a pitch of 37°, compared with 47° in the upper workings, this flattening of 10°, at depth, corresponding to a similar flattening shown to the northeast in the No. 7 shaft of the Quincy. The No. 4 lode is inter- sected by the shaft at a depth of 3,105’; it is 17 thick and carries payable ore. Ground below the 53rd level, 4,000’ from surface, will be reached by 2 subsidiary shafts sunk from the 49th level, connecting with the No. 2 shaft through chutes to the 53rd level and through drift connections on the 49th level.

Considerable drifting has been done on No. 3 bed, and on No. 2, No. 3 being opened by a winze from the 10th to 18th levels, inclusive, with drifts on the 9th to 18th levels, inclusive, several of which are more than 1,000’ long. No. 2 shaft has loading stations on the 13th, 18th, 23rd, 27th, 34th, 39th, 44th, 49th and 53rd levels, to which roek broken sin be sent by chutes from the levels above. Cutting-out stopes were begun, late 1910, on the 13th, 14th, 15th and 16th levels, preparatory to making a mill test at the Allouez-Centennial mill which was started April 18, 1911.

No. 2 shaft has a shaft rock house that is the most modern in the Lake Superior district. The structure is of steel, resting on concrete abut- ments 14 high by 35’ in diameter. The building has a total height of 128’, with working floor 60’ above the ground. The bins are of 1,000 tons capacity each. Equipment includes two 50-ton Farrell crushers with 24x36” jaws and a smaller crusher to treat waste rock required for concrete or mac- adam. The 2 large crushers are fed by 2 steel traveling-belt picking tables, each about 20’ long and 6’ wide, having sections with 2 slóts and 2” cross bars, forming a grizzley for all'small rock to pass through, only large rock going to the crushers. The large crushers each have a: 50-h. p. induction motor and each picking table has a 10-h. p. induction motor. Two men per shift are expected to do all work on the crushing floor.

The main engine house at No. 2 shaft is of steel, 60x94’, with a 50x50’ wing for the compressor plant. There are 2 hoists, the main engine being a Sullivan Corliss direct-connected hoist having 36x72” steam cylinders, with a 15x15’ straight-face drum, operating 2 skips in counterbalance, with capacity to lift a cage, with a Kimberly skip swung under, weighing 5 tons,

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hoisting 8 tons of rock from a depth of 4,000’, at a steam pressure of 150 Ibs. There also is a Sullivan first-motion hoist with 24x48” cylinders and 2 loose drums, 8 in diameter with 9’ face, driven by band-frict:on clutches, with automatic stop, calculated to operate 2 pairs of Kimberly skips. in balance, at a speed of 3,500’ per minute, hoisting with 114” steel cable.

The steel compressor house having an electric traveling crane, covers 13-drill and 16-drill air compressors and a new 35-drill tandem-compound air compressor.

The 56x98’ steel boiler house has 2 batteries of 4 return tubular boilers, each 72” in diameter and 18’ long. The boiler house smokestack, built of reinforced concrete, standing on a 12’ base, is 130’ high, of 13’ outside diameter at the base and inside diameter of 7’ 6”, the first 40’ being brick- lined.

Buildings at No. 2 include a machine shop and a 30x80’ smithy. There also are an office, changing house and a number of dwellings. The main plant at No. 2 shaft is reached by a spur of the Mineral Range railway. Company employs about 200 men when running full time.

A mill test for 6% months, made in 1911, showed that a recovery of 18.21 lbs. copper per ton could be made from the ore of lodes Nos. 2 and 3. Expects to ship ore to Lake Milling, Smelting & Refining Co.’s plant in 1914, but plans building a stamp mill, down the hill, less than a mile from No. 2 shaft, a half-mile back from the lake front, to provide sand room. This mill is expected to give the company a transportation cost of about 4 to 5 cts. per ton on rock stamped.

The mine has been developed very extensively and given a thoroughly modern and complete equipment. The ground opened, while by no means as rich as some in the Lake Superior district, is of fair average value and with extensive openings, an exceptionally good equipment and an able and experienced management, the Hancock promises to make a successful low-grade mine.

Hancock Copper Mines Co. Of Idaho, Ltd. Idaho

Idle. John Sennett, sec.-treas., No. 79 Milk St., Boston, Mass. Mine office: Landore, Washington Co., Idaho. Col. C. F. Drake, pres. and gen. megr.; W. M. Palmer, vice-pres.; preceding officers, M. C. Drake and Dr. J. E Stevens, directors, at last accounts. Organized 1905, under laws of Idaho, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable.

Property is in the Seven Devils camp, comprising 16 claims, area 320 acres, on Camp creek, 2 miles from Landore. Mine ‘has a 75’ shaft on the Humboldt claim and a 380’ tunnel, with a number of other shallow shafts and short tunnels, and is said to have a contact deposit 75” wide, carrying 50' of ore averaging 20% copper. Equipment includes a Huntington mill, amalgamating plates and Wilfley tables, turning out concentrates said to average $150 per ton in value. The company also has 6 gold claims, at Rankin, Idaho, having a 200’ tunnel, which was being worked, late 1910, with the copper claims idle.

Haney Copper Co. Arizona

Address: care Ev. Haney, Prescott, Ariz. Company owns properties at Ramsgate, 12 miles west of Prescott. Began development June, 1913. HANNA MINING & MILLING CO. COLORADO

Mine office: Capitol City, Hinsdale Co., Colo. G. H. Martin, supt., 1913. Has auriferous and argentiferous copper and lead ores, with steam and electric power and a 100-ton concentrator. No returns secured. HANOVER COPPER CO. ' NEW MEXICO

Idle. Letter unclaimed at Duluth, Minn. Mine at Hanover, Grant Co., N. M. Géo. A. St. Clair, pres.; J. S. Dickie, gen. mgr.; preceding off-

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cers, Wm. Elder, M. E. Riley and Arthur Howell, directors. Organized 1909, capitalization $50,000, shares $10 par. Property 15 claims, north of the Chino Copper property and near the holdings of the Philadelphia Copper Co. Mine has shafts of 70’, 100’ and 150’, and tunnels of 40’ and 60’, show- ing copper ore. HAPPY JACK MINING & REDUCTION CO. ARIZONA Office: 530 Land Title Bldg., Philadelphia, Pa. Mine office: Pata- gonia, Santa Cruz Co., Ariz. Alfred W. Barnett, pres. and gen. mgr.; W. H. Barnett, vice-pres.; Henry W. Scattergood, sec.-treas.; preceding offi- cers, Martin Stotz and Theo. Myers, directors. - Organized Oct., 1908, as successor of Happy Jack Mining Co., under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par, fully paid and nonassessable; issued, 304,709. shares. Property 9 miles from Patagonia, has a shallow shaft and a 950’ tun- nel planned to-be driven 2,700’, showing lead and copper ores. Is said to have shipped considerable ore of good average tenor in the past and is considered promising. Assessment work only done under present own- ership. HAPPY JOHN MINE. : RRITISH COLUMBIA Probably closed down. Mine at Alberni, Vancouver Island, B. C. A. J. Envik and Frank Bros., owners. Lands, 4 claims, 125 acres, west of the Monitor mine on the western side of the Alberni canai, having a 175’ tunnel, showing a vein with paystreak of 30” extreme width, assaying 12% copper, 1.7 oz. silver and $1.20 gold per ton. j HARCÚVAR COPPER CO. ARIZONA Office: 1201 Pennsylvania Bldg., Philadelphia, Pa. Mine office: Wen- den, Yuma Co., Ariz. Lemuel B. Woolston, pres.; Hon. Dennis A. Burke, vice-pres.; N. A. Lund, sec.-treas.; R. R. MacDonald, supt.; Herbert C. Shotwell, engr., at last accounts. Organized May, 1907, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $2,000,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable; 1,400,006 shares issued. Security Transfer & Registrar Co., New York, transfer agent and registrar. Stock listed on the New York curb. Annual meeting, first Monday in May. 3 Lands 9 claims, patented, 180 acres and a 20-acre water right, adjoining the Oro Cobre, about 12 miles northwest of Wendendale, in the Cunning- ham Pass district of the Harcúvar mountains. Property has several con- tact deposits, between gneiss and diorite, of which 1 of 40 to 60” estimated width, traceable for some distance, is said to show oxidized ores and con- siderable chalcocite in surface workings, with chalcopyrite at depth. . De- velopment said to include a 511” drift tunnel, showing ore reported to average about 3.5% copper, 1.5 oz. silver and $6 to $8 gold per ton. Has a poor reputation locally. Equipment includes gasoline power and 3 small ‘buildings. Property a mere prospect without any merit and stock prac- tically worthless. Is a Philadelphia “wild cat.” Company was promoted by Sutro & Co., then Gavigan € Isbel, then Gavigan € Co., all notorious and the last named put out of business by the U. S. Government. It was hoped the company had died with that firm, but stock was again offered to the gambling public in June, 1912, at 21⁄4 cis. a share. ] HARDSHELL-FLUX MINING & DEVELOPING CO. ARIZONA Mine at Patagonia, Santa Cruz Co., Ariz. Ben Heney, pres.; R. R. Richardson, vice-pres.; W. E. Francis, sec.-treas.; Frederick John Siebert, cons. engr.; Francis J. Heney, counsel; J. C. Hartness, gen. mgr., at last accounts. Property 30 claims, 6 to 9 miles from Patagonia, including the Flux and Hardshell mines. The Three R mine formerly owned by this company was sold in 1912 to N. L. Amster, and is described under title

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“Three, R Co.” Ore values are mainly in silver, with some lead, copper and gold, HARLEY GOLD MOUNTAIN MG. & SM. co. WASHINGTON

Idle. Letters unanswered from 704 New York Blk., Seattle, Wash., and from the mine at Darrington, Snohomish Co., Wash. Charles Burns, pres. and treas.; Harley E. Burns, vice-pres.; Henry S. Noon, sec.; K. O. Neste, gen. mgr., at last accounts. Organized Dec. 15, 1900, under laws of Washington, capitalization $2,500,000. Lands, 16 claims, 300 acres, in the White Horse district, showing 12 orebodies, occurring as fissures in por- phyry and as contact veins between granite and porphyry. Four veins under development are said to average 6’ width and to carry 14.5% copper, 8 oz. silver and $25.65 gold per ton, which claim is decidedly excessive. Development is by 4 tunnels with 346’ of openings.

Harper Mines. Texas

Judge J. R. Harper, A. P. Coles and Louis W. Sinith, owners, El Paso, Texas. Mine, 18 miles north of El Paso in Franklin mountains, El Paso county, shows a body of low-grade copper ore developed by shallow shafts and short tunnels.

Harris Copper Co. . Arizona

Offices: Findlay, Ohio, and 319 Van Nuys Scipio Los Angeles,- Cal. C. C. Harris, of Findlay, Ohio, pres.; treas., gen. :ngr. and purch. agt.; W. J. Martin, vice-pres.-mine supt.; fae W. Moore, sec; preceding offi- cers, W. J. Sease, Los Angeles, and Fred F. Harris, San José, directors. Organized July 10, 1910, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par nordssessable: issued, $710,001. Annual meeting, second Tuesday in January.

Company owns 34 claims, comprising 550 acres in the Tip Top district, Arizona. This district is about 50 miles north of Phoenix and 30 miles east of Wickenburg, on the Aqua Fria river, at the mouth of Black Canyon creek. Property was partly purchased with stock and partly located by the company. It shows schists cut by diabase intrusions. The company’s map shows 2 groups of claims, the Cascadilla, or western, being in part 3,000’ wide, and 1,200’ long; the group covers 3 veins running north and south. Development is meager, being in 1913, one 50’ shaft in diabase and 2 tunnels with an aggregate of 800’ of work, costing $9,000.

The Copper Reef, or east group, is located to cover 2 veins, 1 along- side the Agua Fria river being claimed as an extension of the vein mined by the Kay Copper Co. The camp has a scanty equipment and drilling is by hand. Company claims 1,000 tons of $15 ore blocked out, which is reasonable. One vein said to be 500’ wide and another 90’ in width, the observers evidently considering altered schist to be vein matter.

The president of the company writes the editor as follows: “We insist that the report speaks the truth quoted as we make the report to you and if any embellishments is placed on the wording of our report, it must conform in meaning to give the information that can be. construed from the wording that we give.”

The property may have a great outcrop and it may contain copper in commercial quantities, but we defy any mining engineer to find out what the company does have on its property, from the report issued by the management and reprinted as a gem of humor in the Mining & Scientific Press, and in part reproduced herewith: “COPPER.--A red, ductile, tena- ceous, maleable metal of great and varied use, orig: inally eMe brass of cypress, copper sand, alacaunte, C group of minerals, mostly soft, included C, cuprite, malaconite, malachite, malconite, chessylite, chrycopyrite, oliy-

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nite, etc. Black C ore, malaconite, gray C ore, Chalcocite, C Purite, yellow C ore, variety Chalcopyrite, the common ore.

“The formation of the Harris Copper Co. have blended with the iron, lime and porphyry with quartz. Many of the above minerals, but more especially the commoner forms with oxides condensed formation on the top with the iron and lime, with a great amount of carbon and sulphur in the schist formation, with an amalgamated condition of the various mineralizations where gold and silver predominates. The schist forma- tion being soft, it stands to reason that when the sulphides appear in the lower rocks, I am led to believe from the geological lay of the uplift that is now held and owned by the Harris Copper Co., there is beneath the sur- face of this great iron capped ledge a great body of copper ore.” Enough said.

Despite the unfavorable impression created by the company’s liter- ature, it is understood that the property has genuine merit, has large ore- bodies and with cheaper transportation will make a good mine.

Harris Copper Co. Mexico

Idle. Address: care Fritz Werner, agt., Central Bldg., Los Angeles, Cal. Mine office: Nacozari, Moctezuma, Sonora, Mex. Organized about 1908. Lands, 346 hectares, 3 miles east of the Pilares mine of the Mocte- zuma Copper Co., including La Caridad group, supposed to have been bought for $40,000, said to have 6,000 tons of ore blocked out averaging 4 to 6% copper. Mine shipped 3 carloads of 25% copper ore in 1909.

Property known as Caridad mine, is situated about 18 miles east of Nacozari-and 10 miles from the Bavispe river. Claims show N. W and S. E. shear zones in quartz porphyry, carrying pyrite in silicified rock. Where crossed by intersecting fissures there are “pipes” of brec- ciated rock cemented by tennanite (sulpharsenite of copper with 57.5% copper) and chalcopyrite with pyrite. The claims cover precipitous bluffs and pillars of rock, showing porphyry overlaid by coarse, iron-stained breccia (agglomerate). The porphyry shows abundant and widespread traces of mineralization throughout a zone about 2,000x3,000’, containing several small “pipe” orebodies of high-grade ore.

Development is by tunnels, there being 5 on the Caridad claim, total- ing 800’, and there are a few shallow shafts. Diamond drilling has shown that the orebody extends downward but does not increase in size. Prop- erty interesting, but not considered attractive as a large mining proposition. HARTFORD-ARIZONA COPPER MINING CO. ARIZONA

Address: Hamburg, Cochise Co., Ariz. Henry Hamburg, pres. and mgr. In Sept., 1913, the Arizona Corporation Commission authorized the company to incur a $100,000, 6% bond issue, for further mine development. Owns the Wisconsin group in the Huachuca mountains. Company has sur- veyed a line for tramway to wagon road and will ship to Hereford or to a point on Fort Huachuca branch of the El Paso & S. W. R. R. Property developed by tunnels, has steam plant and compressor and employed 30 men at last accounts.

Hartwig Mining Co. Idaho

Idle. Address: care George Hartwig, gen. mgr., at Aurora, Ore. Mine at Pollock, Idaho Co., Idaho. W. J. Moore, pres.; G. W. G. Geiger, sec.; Samuel Block, treas.; preceding officers, Wm. Hartwig, Fred Goldsmith and Gustave Peters, directors. Organized Jan. 3, 1906, under laws of Iowa, capitalization $900,000, shares $25 par; fully issued.

Lands, 5 claims, patented, 72 acres, and a 5-acre mill site, in the Rapid River district, near Salmon river, carrying several contact deposits between limestone and diorite, of which 4, under development, are of 30' estimated

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average width, traceable 400’, carrying oxidized and chalcopyrite ores, esti- mated by company to average 14% copper, with traces of lead and zinc, 3 oz. silver and $10 gold per ton. Figures undoubtedly too high for an average of the orebody. Mine has a 75’ shaft, and 3 tunnels of 1,000’ aggregate length, an 875’ lower tunnel cutting the ore zone, which shows but little ore. Property has 4 buildings but no power equipment. Idle some years, owing to lack of transportation facilities.

Hauxhurst Mine. Arizona

Idle. Letter unclaimed at mine. Address: Agua Caliente, Maricopa Co., Ariz. Jas. Hauxhurst, owner and mgr., at last accounts. Lands, 900 acres, in the Big Horn mountains, about 65 miles west of Phoenix and 27 miles southwest of Wickenburg, the nearest rail station. Mine, formerly owned by the Hauxhurst Copper Co., was under bond for about 3 years to the United States Copper Mines, Inc., which forfeited same, 1909. -Mine has about 25 pits and shafts of 14 to 400’ depth, and was claimed to have a 9’ vein carrying a 15” paystreak assaying 25% copper, 3 oz. silver and $25 gold per ton, which figures unquestionably represent only the ore of a nar- row and short payshoot in the vein, and cannot be taken as average values. HAVALINA MINING CO. ARIZONA

Address: Duquesne, Ariz. Sold its Santa Nino property, Patagonia mountains, southwest of Duquesne, Santa Cruz county, Ariz., to J. Wells Smith, Feb., 1913. Property being developed, 1913, by 800’ crosscut tunnel to reach a rich copper shoot said to have been found in 1912. HAYCOCK MINE. PENNSYLVANIA

tdle. Address: Charmian, Franklin Co., Pa, Owned by C. E. Wills. Property shows copper-stained rock and some ore on the northern slope of Haycock mountains.

Hayes & Gracey Syndicate. Arizona

M. P. Hayes and T. H. Gracey, Los Angeles, Cal., owners. Succeeds the Dragoon Copper Mining & Smelting Co., now dead. Geo. M. Henry, superintendent, Pearce, Cochise Co., Ariz. Property consists of the Christ- mas and Eureka claims carrying replacement deposits with silver-lead- copper ores. Development is by a shaft 550’ deep. Equipment includes steam power and air compressor. eHAYES MINE. PENNSYLVANIA

Tdle. Address: Charmian, Franklin Co., Pa. Is a copper prospect on Greenstone Islet in Cambrian sandstone of Snowy mountain. Shows native copper and cuprite with epidote in amygdaloidal greenstone. Mine has no deep development.

Haynes Copper Co. Arizona

Office: care C. B. Stranahan, pres., 82 Beaver St, New York. Mine near Jerome, Yavapai'Co., Ariz. A. F. Pritz, vice-pres.; G. E. Dorwart, ) sec.; preceding officers, C. H. Harris and L. E. McBride, directors; Thos. E. Campbell, mine supt.; W. V. DeCamp, asst. supt. Organized Oct., 1906, under laws of Arizona, as successor of Jerome Mines Development Co., capitalization $2,000,000, shares $1 par; issued, $1,200,000. Annual meeting, first Monday in August.

Property, 161 acres, northwest of the United Verde, shows lenticular orebodies in dioritic schist, traceable 2,000’ and from 3 to 19’ wide. Under old management extensive diamond drilling was followed by sinking a 2% compartment shaft 700’ deep with 2,000’ of drifting and crosscutting. Prop- erty also has 248’ tunnel and 40’, 45’ and 350’ prospect shafts. Property was closed down Dec., 1910.

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deep and sinking at rate of 70’ a month to 1,200’ level, where crosscutting northeast and southwest will be done to reach the mineralized zone cut on 700’ level and the Major faults.

Ground is wet, but water is handled by Gould triplex pump on 700’ level. Equipment includes 350-h. p. steam plant, a double-drum hoist good for 2,000’ and a 6-drill Ingersoll-Rand air compressor. Uses electricity fur- nished by Arizona Power Co. for all purposes.

Method of continually selling treasury stock is open to criticism, but present management appears to be spending the company funds in real development work.

Hazel Mining Co. Texas

Chas. Cutler, Dallas, Tex., mgr. and chief owner; W. H. Case, supt. Property in Diablo mountains, 15 miles northeast of Van Horn, Culbertson Co., Texas, consists of the Hazel Silver mine, showing a fissure vein that yields chalcocite ore with barite gangue, shipping ore averaging 10% cop- per and 50 oz. silver per ton. Development includes 700’ shaft and exten- sive workings at various levels. Mine was worked for 10 years by H. G. Clifford of El Paso and A. C. Schriver of San Antonio, producing $500,000, but was shut down in 1895. Recently a new dry concentrator has been erected to treat the old dumps, said to contain about 100,000 tons of $15 copper-silver ore.

Head Lake Gold-Copper Mining Co. Washington

Address: care George Geisler, pres., Spokane, Wash.; J. A. Sullivan, A. M. Harris, vice-presidents; W. E. Allen, sec.-treas.; directors. Prop- erty comprises 22 claims, about 500 acres, in the Newport mining district, near Metaline, Pend Oreille Co., Wash. Company recently acquired the Comstock and Key Fraction group, containing silver and lead-bearing ore. Shipments expected in autumn of 1913.

Headlight Gold & Copper Mining Co. California

Probably closed down, Secretary, C. R. Wisehart, 2115 South Union Ave., Los Angeles, Cal. Organized 1906, under laws of Arizona, capitaliza- tion, $1,000,000. Lands, about 6 miles west of Needles, are slightly de- veloped by a shaft. Property not regarded as promising.

Headlight Mine. Pennsylvania

Idle. Mine near Charmian, Pa. Has a 160’ tunnel in quartzose green-, stone impregnated with native copper with an ore shoot 60’ from mouth, showing 5’ of 10 to 20% copper.

Hearne Gold & Copper Co. Colorado

Idle. Office: Wheeling, W. Va. Mine office: Central City, Gilpin Co., Colo. W. H. Hearne, mgr.; Mathew Daniels, supt. Organized 1907, un- der laws of Colorado, capitalization $500,000. Property is the Anchor mine, in Willis gulch, drained by the Newhouse tunnel, showing consid- erable bodies of low-grade copper and lead ores and medium-grade silver ores, Electric power used; has air compressor, and a 50-ton 10-stamp mill and concentrating machinery.

Heber Springs Copper Mining Co. Arkansas

Office and mine: Heber, Cleburne Co., Ark. Organized about 1910, to develop lands in the vicinity of Heber. No trace of operations secured. Regarded unfavorably.

Heckley Gold & Copper Mining Co. Arizona

Succeeded by Mars Consolidated Copper Co., Dec., 1912, and de- scribed under that title.

Hecla (Consolidated) Mine. Montana

Office and mine: Glendale, Beaverhead Co., Mont. Henry Knippen- berg, owner, The property was worked by leasers, in a small way, until

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1912, when it was taken over by the Longmaid Bros. of Helena, who have installed electric power and will reopen and work the property on a large scale. Property is the Atlantis, Cleves and other mines, formerly owned by the Hecla Consolidated Mining Co., which for 20 years was a large producer of silver and lead, with considerable gold and copper, latter reaching 100,000 lbs. fine copper yearly. Property paid dividends of $2,- 250,000:on an original investment of $40,000, but was bought, 1906, at sheriff’s sale, for $28,000.

Hecla Consolidated Mines Co. Wyoming

Idle. Office: 1624 Curtis St., Denver, Colo. Mine office: Hecla, Laramie Co., Wyo. Henry Schwartz, pres.; Wm. L. Wilson, vice-pres.; Lawrence Myers, sec.; Eli Miller, treas., and Henry Hirsch, directors. Or- ganized 1909, under laws of Wyoming, capitalization $5,000,000, shares $1 par, as a merger of the Hecla Mining Co., Amalgamated Copper Mining & Extraction Co. and Kopper Krown Mining Co.

Lands, 610 acres, including the Hecla group, 13 claims, 2 patented, and a 35-acre town site, is in the Silver Crown district, 4 miles from Granite Canyon, on the Union Pacific railroad and 7 miles from the Cheyenne Northern line. The Hecla is claimed to show 16 fissure veins, of 8’ aver- age width, in schist and granite, of which 3, of 7’ average claimed width, carry oxidized and sulphide ores, said to give average assays-of 3.4% cop- per, 3 oz. silver and several dollars in gold per ton, besides nickel, platinum and uranium. Development includes a 40’ tunnel and 14 pits and shafts of 10 to 140’ depth. The Hecla group made an ore shipment, previous to Sept., 1909, to the Boston & Colorado smelter.

The Teddy Roosevelt-Good Hope group, formerly held by the Amal- gamated Copper Mining & Extraction Co., comprises 10 claims in the Sil- ver Crown district, 2 miles from the Union Pacific railway and 23 miles from Cheyenne, with about 700’ of workings, claimed to show ore giving fair assays in copper.

The Kopper Krown group, about 2 miles southwest of Hecla and 22 miles west of Cheyenne, 7 claims, 140 acres and not 154 acres as claimed by the company, has 413’ of workings, claimed to show 10,000 tons of sul- phide ore blocked out for stoping.

The Hecla mill, 80x100’ in size, has 15 stamps, a 50-ton concentrating plant and a leaching plant. The Ohly process, installed in an attempt to save the rare metals, was not a success. Ore, mainly low in grade, is only in part adapted to concentration, and the mill requires overhauling and adaptation to the ore. With concentration by the Minerals Separation process, on the sulphide ores, property ought to be workable. The history and financial methods of this company and its predecessor are described in Vol. X. Idle, except for annual assessment work, but presumably still has stock for sale.

Hecla Copper-Silver Mining & Millingco. Washington

John C. Argall, Spokane, Wash., purch. agt. Mine address: Chewelah, Wash. J. C. Argall, Howard McPhee, Cheney, Wash. and Virgil R. Hoar, W. G. Hoar, John Frederick, Charles Linscott and A. W. Snellgrove, all of Spokane, directors. Property consists of 6 claims located 34 miles northeast of Chewelah and south of the United Copper Co. holdings. The claims show 4 ledges, the main vein varying from 6 to 14 wide, traceable by cuts and pits for nearly a mile and averaging 5.4% copper, $1 in gold and $1.80 in silver. Work planned includes a tunnel with drift on the vein and the erection of power line and necessary buildings. About 70 tons of

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HECLA-GRANITE MINING CO. COLORADO Idle. Mine near Turret, Chaffee Co., Colo. Company is an offshoot

of the Stratton Gold & Copper Mining Co. that took over the Stratton

group. This company owns the Copperopolis group of 5 claims having a

600’ shaft and showing an 8’ vein of copper ore in shoots.

Heffern Mining & Development Co. Arizona

Bankrupt, sold by sheriff. Formerly at Courtland, Cochise Co., Ariz. See Vol: X.

Helen Mining Co. New Mexico

Idle. Mine: Graham, Socorro Co., N. M. Thos. Graham, pres. Prop- erty comprises the Confidence, Last Chance and Black Bird mines on an E.-W. quartz vein whose ores carry gold, silver and copper. Mine, 1,030' deep, the deepest in the district, has a 30-stamp mill, with steam, water and electric power. Idle since 1902,

Helena-Butte Mining Co. Montana

Idle and probably dead. Mine near Clancey, Jefferson Co., Mont. Frederic E. J. Lloyd, pres.; Chas. J. Burgess, sec., when operating. Or- ganized under laws of Montana. Owns the Silver Crest mine in Warm Spring gulch, 6 miles from Clancey; has a 200’ three-compartment shaft, showing silver-lead ore, with some copper and gold values, with hopes of increasing copper at depth. There is a fair power equipment, and several small mine buildings. 4 HELGA GOLD & COPPER CO. BRITISH COLUMBIA

Probably dead. Letter unclaimed at mine address: Clayoquot, Van- couver Island, B. C. B. F. McCurdy, supt., at lastaccounts. Lands, 5 claims, 250 acres, known as the Good Hope group, on Trout river, developed by a tunnel said to give a fair showing of ore.

Hellan Mining Co. Washington

Probably idle. Mine 15 miles northeast of Cle Elum, in Liberty, or Swauk district, Kittitas Co., Wash. Property carries quartz veins in Ter- tiary sandstone alongside basalt dikes with. copper and free milling gold veins, development being mainly on latter. Equipment includes a 10-stamp mill and 40-ton concentrator, built 1908.

Helvetia Copper Co. Arizona

Idle. Office: 907 Metropolitan Life Bldg., Minneapolis, Minn. Mine and works office: Helvetia, Pima Co., Ariz. C. C. Prindle, pres.; Chas. W. Sexton, vice-pres. and sec.; Robert H. Gross, treas.; preceding officers, William A. Paine, Jas. H. Seager, John S. Pillsbury, Russell M. Bennett and John R. Van Derlip, directors; W. C. Steubing, cons. engr. Organized March 3, 1899, under laws of New Jersey, and reorganized Oct. 4, 1905, un- der laws of Arizona, capitalization $5,000,000, shares $25 par, in $250,000 full-paid and $4,750,000 assessable stock; fully issued. Levied 50-ct. assess- ments, payable July 20, 1908; April, 1909; February, 1910, and Feb. 15,,1911, the latter assessment rendering the stock $15 paid. State Street Trust Co., Boston, registrar; Boston Safe Deposit € Trust Co., transfer agent. An- nual meeting, first Monday after first Tuesday in October.

Financial statement of Dec. 31, 1912, is as follows: Capital stock, $3,- 100,000; interest, $5,626; expenditures to date for mining property, $2,181,- 786; for development, $777,915; for equipment, $47,940; treasurer's account, $41,545; unpaid assessments, $35,605; cash in bank Tucson, $498: ore in stock pile, $11,000; accounts receivable, $27; general expense, $9,306. There is no bonded indebtedness and all accounts are paid. :

The company’s holdings are at Helvetia, at the west foot of the Santa Rita mountains, 18 miles north of Vail, on the Southern Pacific, and El Paso & Southwestern railroad. '

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3 Lands, 55 claims, 38 patented, area 853 acres, also a 40-acre patented mill and smelter site, and 960 acres of scrip land, giving total holdings of 1,853 acres, 30 miles southeast of Tucson. The formations resembling those of Bisbee, include Carboniferous and older limestones lying .north of a great granite mass with porphyritic intrusions. The limestone has many iron outcrops underlain by orebodies occurring as replacements. These have an average strike of N. 35° W., with average dip of 45°, carry- ing ore of 2 to 4% copper.

There are 5 known orebodies called the Isle Royale, Old Dick, Ex- change, Pilot and Heavy Weight, with development under way on 3.

The Isle Royale mine, idle several years, has an 800’ shaft, with a 196’ winze, and shows lenses of 3 to 5’ average and 15’ maximum width, carry- ing ore averaging about 3% copper and $1 per ton in combined gold and silver values. The lower levels show sulphide ore, and this shaft furnishes sufficient water for mine and smelter use.

The Old Dick mine carries an orehody estimated at 1,500’ in length, of 20 to 50’ width extending only to the underlying granite, at depth of 110 to 150’ and now largely worked out. The 127’ shaft has 1 level, showing sul- phide ore of good average tenor. There is also a tunnel leading to an open pit showing a vein of about 7’ width said to average better than 5% copper. The Heavy Weight vein of about 7’ width, 7’ from and nearly par- allel with the Old Dick vein, carries sulphide ore of 3 to 5% copper tenor at shallow depth, and shows a considerable amount of low-grade concen- trating ore. There is also considerable concentrating ore in the Old Dick mine, and much 2% ore in the Elgin mine.

The Leader mine, opened by tunnel and drift under 700’ of heavy iron gossan, is estimated to show 10,000 tons of 3% ore. Work on the Leader and Elgin mines was suspended Aug. 1, 1910.

The Copper World mine, to which operations were confined before closing down in 1912, is the principal producer of recent years, showing a vein of 15’ estimated average width, traceable about 3,000’, carrying oxi- dized ores above and sulphides below, with values, mainly in the latter, formerly estimated by company to average 5% copper, 0.5 oz. silver and 50 cts. gold per ton, which figures probably were too high. The Copper World mine has a 480’ shaft sunk at an angle of 64°, with first level at 135’ from surface and 3 levels below at 100’ intervals. This mine has about 15,000’ of workings, exposing an oreshoot about 500’ long, and up to 40’ in width, ranging 2 to 8% copper tenor and proven depth of about 80’. In other portions of the mine 3 shoots of ore have been opened, 1 of 35 to 60’ width, maintaining an average of about 4% copper. The 2 other shoots are 6’ and 12’ wide, where opened, but apparently widen at depth and carry ore ranging 2 to 3% in copper tenor. The 100’, 200’ and 300° levels of the Copper ‘World show a large tonnage of low-grade ore, with considerable ore of medium grade and some high-grade ore. A heavy flow of water on the 400’ level hampered operations and necessitated bulkheading until the installation of a Prescott triplex pump, with capacity of 700 gals. per minute, working against a 500’ head. The cost of hauling this ore to the railroad proved too expensive to permit operating at a profit and the amount of ore developed does not warrant building a railway, so the mine is closed down and the company must either wait until a railroad is built or levy an assessment on the shareholders for that purpose.

The mine as a whole has several miles of laterals, estimated to show about 400,000 tons of ore.

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hoist, good for depth of 600’, a 9-drill Ingersoll-Sergeant air compressor and an electric-light plant.

There are 35 buildings, including a machine shop, smithy, carpenter shop,:power house and dwellings. Fuel used was petroleum, with yearly consumption of about 8,500 .

A railway line has been surveyed from Helvetia to Vail to connect, at the latter point, with the Southern Pacific, and there is telephone connec- tion with Vail. i

The company has a 100-ton water-jacket blast furnace, and a 30-ton Medbery rotary oil-burning furnace, treating 2-ton charges at frequent in- tervals, was installed by the inventors, at their own expense, under a guar- antee to treat ore at half the cost of ordinary water-jacket blast furnaces burning coke, but proved a dismal failure.

Hembrillo Copper Mining Co. New Mexico

Letter unclaimed at former office: El Paso, Texas. Mine address: Tularosa, but mine is in Socorro Co., N. M. J. W. Eubanks, county sur- veyor, El Paso, Texas, pres.; W. M. Fly, Gonzalez, Texas, vice-pres.; H. C. Marks, sec.-treas.; John P. O'Connor, gen. mgr. Organized 1904. Prop- erty, 12 claims, in Hembrillo canyon, on the eastern side of the San An- dreas mountains, 35 miles west of Tularosa, with a wagon road thereto, said to carry 3 strong veins with N.-S. strike converging to the south. The central or main vein is but a few inches wide at the surface but widens to 6’ in the shaft. Vein lies between quartz-porphyry and limestone and is said to have a nearly vertical dip. Recent development is by the Platte crosscut tunnel 961’ long, in Sept., 1913, which has cost $20,000 and has just cut the vein 500’ below the outcrop. Before starting this tunnel company sank numerous pits showing copper ore, and a 150’ vertical shaft in which the vein is seen to carry oxide and carbonate ores that average 12% copper and has a little chalcopyrite in the lower workings. The heavy flow of water led to the abandonment of this shaft HEMPLE COPPER MINING CO. ALASKA

Office: Valdez, Alaska. Mine office: Landlock, Alaska. S. A. Hem- ple, pres., treas. and gen. mgr.; F. S. Sylvester, vice-pres.; S. I. Hemple, sec.; preceding officers, Arthur Lang and R. P. Ferguson, directors; Frank Stone, supt. Organized March, 1910, under laws of Alaska, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable. Company is said to have expended considerably over $25,000 on the property.

Lands, 6 patented claims, 120 acres, with a 2-acre mill site, all tim- bered, near the Standard and Three Man mines, at Landlock bay. Prop- erty shows greenstone, slate and quartzite, carrying 2 veins having 5 or 6 shoots, said to average 24’ in width and to be traceable 2,000’, carrying chalcopyrite giving average assays of 3 to 8% copper. Mine is opened by tunnels of 50’, 300’ and 575’, with about 2,000’ of workings, estimated by ‘management to show about 200,000 tons of ore blocked out for stoping, which estimate seems high. - There is no power plant, but property has 6 buildings. Was under option, May, 1913, to a Portland, Ore., syndicate. HENDRICKSON MINE. UTAH

Mine near Newhouse, Utah. Leased, 1912, by J. C. Nelson and JM McPhee, who shipped copper-lead ores in that year. :

Henley Consolidated Copper Mines. Wyoming

Henry Schwartz, Denver, Colo., chief owner; H. W. Honacker, vice- pres. Property, 3 claims, 60 acres, 25 miles southwest of Cheyenne, Lara- mie Co:, Wyoming. Developed for 15 years past. Mine has 2 orebodies. Property reported sold to a $10,000,000 English-French syndicate in Sept., 1913, for $5,000,000, which may or may not be true, Syndicate is said to

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be interested in general’ irrigation, mining and oil schemes, to exploit properties in Colorado and southern Wyoming. HENRIETTA MINING & MILLING CO. COLORADO

Mine office: Silverton, San Juan Co., Colo. Organized 1909, to ac- quire the property of the San Juan Smelting & Refining Co., sold at sheriffs sale. Company has suffered from a complication of bad luck and bad financial conditions and has been in a comatose condition for 2 years past. The former president, E. C. Drews, is said to be in the penitentiary but whether for his connection with the company or not is not known. Company and the mining and smelting property owned by it are described Vol. 'X.

Hercules Mining Co. British Columbia

Idle. Mine office: Jedway, Queen Charlotte island, B. C. Claims are near the Ikeda mine, on Moresby island. Apparently has little or no development.

Hermina Mining Co. Ontario

Office: 109 Sth St., Calumet, Mich. Mine office: Massey, Ontario, Canada. Edw. J. Hall, pres.; Christ Schenk, vice-pres.; Lucas Hermann, sec.; W. B. Anderson, treas.; preceding officers, Ole Olson, A. T. Laberge, W. O. Olson, J. S. Pickell and T. H. Pollack, directors.

Organized June, 1903, under laws of Ontario, capitalization $2,500,000, shares $12.50 par; $8 paid and $4.50 assessable. Total assessments to date, $2.35 per share; 75,000 shares issued. Annual meeting, fourth Tuesday in June. Owns a number of mining claims near Massey, Ont., on which shafts were sunk and ore developed. In 1910 company extracted small quantities of copper but has been idle since then.

Hermosa Copper Co. New Mexico

Office: 30 Church St., New York. Mine office: Hanover, Grant Co., ¿¡N. M. John B. Keating, pres.; L. B. Judson, vice-pres.; M. F: Westover, sec.; Henry N. Darling, treas.; A. W. Burchard, D. M. Riordan, T. Beson and John R. Turner, directors, Organized July 20, 1905, under laws of New Jersey, capitalization $100,000, shares $100 par. Corporation Trust Co., New York, registrar. Annual meeting, first Monday in June.

The mines, discovered 1800, and opened 1880, were worked intermit- tently, owing to various Indian troubles and lack of funds, until taken over, 1904, by the present owner, which practically is the General Electric Co.

Lands, 114 claims, patented, about 2,200 acres, in the Central or Han- over district, adjoin the Chino Copper Co., and include the Ivanhoe and Humboldt mines, also the Copper Queen, Treasure Vault, Wild Cat, Ninety, Tourmaline and other mines and attempts at mines. Country rocks are porphyry, granite, quartzite and limestone, showing various con- tact deposits between granite and limestone, with porphyry intrusions, ores occurring as lenticular bodies, in veins with a generally northeasterly and southwesterly strike and an average dip of 45°. Four different orebodies are being developed, these ranging 15 to 20’ in width, with a known depth of 410’ and known length of 2,000’.

Development is by shafts, as follows: Ivanhoe, 350’; Ninety, 410’; Treasure Vault, 325’; Wild Cat, 410’; Humboldt, 300’; Copper Queen, 200’; Tourmaline, 300’; Mabel, 200’. All shafts show ore and the various mines have about 3 miles of workings, estimated to show 100,000 tons of ore, with 25,000 tons blocked out for stoping. The property has large bodies of low- grade concentrating ore carrying average values of 3% copper, 3 oz. silver, and slightly under $1 gold per ton, with small quantities of lead near the surface and occasional traces of zinc, but not in sufficient quantities to materially hamper reduction.

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Equipment includes a 700-h. p. steam plant, with 7 hoists, good for 500 to 1,060’ each, and 4 Sullivan air compressors of 26 drills aggregate: capacity. Buildings include a machine shop, smithy, carpenter shop, framing mill, warehouse and sawmill, with a total of 20 buildings.

The 40x90’ concentrator, of 100 tons rated daily capacity, built by a former management, was altered and used for experimental purposes and has a No. 14 Blake crusher, 2 sets of rolls, 1 Hartz jig, 5 Overstrom tables, 2 Wilfley tables, 7 screw sizers, 1 hydraulic sizer and 1 Huntington mill.

Considerable systematic development was done, 1904-07, based upon estimates of tonnage by eminent engineers, but results did not come up to expectations, for although some fairly large bodies of low-grade ore were found, they were not large enough to render the property profitable. Further work, in the way of systematic drilling, which has developed large orebodies in the Chino, is under consideration. Property closed down and in hands of a caretaker at present.

Hermosillo Copper Co. Mexico

Office: Columbus Savings & Trust Bldg., Columbus, Ohio. Operating of- fice: Aptdo. 98, Hermosillo, Sonora, Mex. Mine and works are near Her- mosillo, Sonora, Mex. J. L. Zimmerman, pres.; C. P. West, vice-pres.; R. D. Wood, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, A. J. Rusling, F. E. Resler, L. A. Clark and Dr. H. W. Whitaker, directors; Jas. Penman, gen. mgr. Or- ganized Feb. 13, 1909, under laws of Mexico, as Hermosillo Copper Co., S. A., capitalization $1,500,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable; issued, $1,000,- 000. Company was practically a reorganization, undef the same manage- ment, of the Verde Grande Copper Co., whose property was bought, Jan. 13, 1909, at public sale and old shareholders were given a chance to get new stock, share for share, plus 25 cts. cash per share.

Property, about 1,300 acres, with 200 acres of mill and smelter sites, in the Hermosillo district, about 28 miles northwest of Hermosillo, con- sists of 9 claims, the El Porvenir, El Picacho, Teodore, El Bajio, Her- mosillo, Verde Grande, La Verde, La Cobriza and San Luis groups, re- ported by the management to carry porphyry and lime cut by granite. The Picacho and Verde Grande have contact deposits in limestone, near igneous intrusives, carrying oxidized ore giving assays of 6% copper, 8 oz. silver ¿and $1 gold per ton. La Cobriza group and La Verde have contact de- posits between granite and quartzite, of 30 to 60’ claimed width, traceable

- 7,000’, carrying auriferous and argentiferous copper ore said to assay 5.5

to 20% copper, with gangue of talcose limestone. Company reports 7 ore- bodies under development of 10 to 100’ width, averaging 5.44% copper, 8.66 oz. silver and 75 cts. gold per ton.

Development consists of 20 shafts and tunnels with over 7,000’ of work- ings, reported to show over 200,000 tons of ore.

Equipment consists of a 100-ton Allis-Chalmers blast furnace, a 30- n. p. hoist, 6-drill Ingersoll air compressor, etc. Smelter is 114 miles from principal workings.

Owing io the Mexican revolution, work for past year has been mainly diamond drilling. Small shipments said to carry 20% copper, 30 oz. silver and $1.25 gold per ton, were made. Company expects to operate smelter and vigorously develop mine when peace is restored.

Hickok Mine. New Mexico

Emory Hickok, owner, Engle, Sierra Co., N. M. Property, 15 claims, south of the Elephant Butte dam. The Hillsboro, Copper Queen and Black Swan claims are reported to show a contact deposit between lime- stone and granite that dips east and carries 18” of copper and malachite ore.

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Hidalgo Copper Mining & Smelting Co. Mexico

Office: Avenida 16 de Septiembre No. 26, Mexico, D. F. Mine and works office: Zimapan, Hidalgo, Mex. Sydney Ludlow, pres.; Ricardo T. Sobey, vice-pres.; R. A. Mills, sec.; Hedley Ludlow, treas.; preceding offi- cers, George A. Camphuis and W. H. Armstrong, directors; Hedley Lud- low, gen. mgr.; Jas. H. Armstrong, supt.; Plenio Lopez, engr.; Halarion Diaz, chemist. Organized Aug. 14, 1907, under laws of Arizona, capital- ization $2,000,000, shares $10 par, in $1,000,000 preferred and $1,000,000 com- ` mon stock. Annual meeting, third Monday in August.

Lands, 44 properties, 500 acres, with a 500-acre mill site. About half of the properties, including the Concordia and Purisima mines, produce mainly copper ores, but carry small amounts of lead ore. Lands show mon- zonite-porphyry and limestone, with contact orebodies, 1 with strike due east and 80° dip, 1 with strike N. 60° E. and dip of 80°, and 1 with strike N. 30° W. and dip of 65°. Two orebodies are under development, 1 to 4 meters average width and 115 meters proven length. There is also said to be a 20’ vein, carrying ore worth 45 pesos per metric ton, with values about equally divided between silver and copper. Copper ores are estimated by the company to average 2.8% copper and 800 grams silver per ton. The mines have a great variety of ores, including copper oxides and carbonates, carbonate and sulphide ores of lead, argentite and chalcopyrite. Develop- ment is by shafts of 40, 100, 32, 71 and 60 meters depth, and by tunnels of 154, 220, 260, 175, 150, 48, 300, 97 and 38 meters length, with a total of 3,000 meters of workings, estimated to show 50,000 tons of ore, with 20,000 tons blocked out for stoping.

Equipment includes a small steam plant and 16 buildings. Company employs about 800 men at the mines and works.

The smelter, at Zimapan, 5 miles from the mine, receiving ore by pack- train, is of 50 tons daily capacity, having a 30-ton copper stack and a 20- ton lead stack, both burning coke. Copper production is 20% matte, sent to the Aguascalientes smelter. Copper production, 1909, was 5,000 long tons of ore, of about 3% copper tenor, yielding 400,000 lbs. fine copper. Lead smelter again running, 1913, after many years idleness, on ore from Nevada group of mines, averaging 25% lead and 900 grams silver. Company plans further development of Purisima, Camino and Concordia groups, and is installing oil engines and electric light, etc., at smelter. HIDALGO PLACER MINING CO. MEXICO

Idle. Last address: care Josiah Smith, pres., Chester; Pa. Owns cop- per claims on the Rio Conchos, in the Cienegas de Olivas district, about 70 miles from Parral, Chihuahua, said to show ore assaying up to 28% copper, at depth of 100”. Property is in revolutionary zone and cannot be reached by mail.

Hidden Creek Copper Co., Ltd. British Columbia

Property bought by the Granby Consolidated Mining, Smelting & Power Co., in 1912, and company liquidated. See Vol. X.

HIDDEN TREASURE CONS. COPPER CO. NEVADA Idle. Mine at Ely, Nevada. Organized, 1907. HIDDEN TREASURE GROUP. MONTANA

Address: W. P. Stephens, owner, Missoula, Mont. Property near Clinton, Missoula Co., Mont., consists of 9 patented claims in the Wallace district, showing 5 veins carrying gray copper and bornite ores averaging $2 to $4 gold and 10 to 20 oz. silver per ton as sorted for shipments.

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cludes 2 tunnels in a steep mountain side, uppermost 558’ on vein claimed to be 50°-wide. Ore cut 80’ from portal and extends to face. Lower tun- nel, 1,400’ long, follows the east vein said to be 40’ wide with local ex- pansion to 120”. Crosscuts develop 2 other veins of 13’ and 60’ claimed width and drifts have opened up and show some rich spots and several hundred feet of concentrating ore. Total work 3,600’. Shipments began 1899 and ceased in 1907 and property has had but little development since, though owner expects to reopen it in 1913, HIGGINS LEASING CO. ARIZONA Address: Bisbee, Cochise Co., Ariz. Property very fully described Vols. IV. and V. Isa new company, organized in 1912, to prospect the Higgins property for silver-lead and copper ores. Has no connection with company that operated same property in former years, which is de- scribed Vols. IV. and V. HIGH TOP MINING CORPORATION. VIRGINIA Mine, 10 miles from Elkton, Rockingham Co., Va. Morris D. Brown, pres.; Prentice W. Brown, sec.; Frederick F. Coffin, treas., at last ac: counts. Organized 1909, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $10,000,000, shares $10 par, practically as a reconstruction of the High Top Copper Mining Co. 3 Lands, about 1,000 acres in Greene Co., Virginia, 7 miles from the Norfolk € Western railway, said to show ore zone 600” wide carrying sul- phide ores, claimed to give average assays of 6% copper, 10 oz. silver and $15 gold per ton, which figures are entirely too high. Mine has a 200' shaft with a 45’ drift showing 8’ of rock spotted with argentiferous and auri- ferous bornite and chalcocite, giving sample assays of 10% copper. There also is a 55’ shaft and several shallow pits and open cuts, tracing the out- crop for the entire length of the property, about 3 miles. A report cir- culated by the company states that there are 70,000,000 tons of commer- cial ore discovered which is a statement worthy of Baron Munchausen. Property does show occasional spots and bunches of copper ore and a few tons of selected high-grade ore could be shipped but the mineralized rock as a whole is too lean to work at a profit. Company is believed to have no chance to succeed, its officers:to be self deceived and stock is con- sidered valueless. The property has been visited by various geologists and described in official government reports and the guarded warning given therein should be heeded. HIGHGRADE SILVER & COPPER CO. WASHINGTON F, T. Hertzell, mgr., Chewelah, Stevens Co., Wash. Incorporated un- der laws of Washington, 1909. Property, formerly known as the Enter- prise, in the eastside mineral belt 3 miles from Chewelah, shows an ore deposit along a granite-limestone contact. Development includes a 120: shaft with some crosscutting exposing a short 6” streak of high-grade sil- ver-copper ore and some argentiferous galena with stephanite. Small shipments were made in 1913. Has a ton or so of this ore on the dump. Equipment includes a horse whim good for prospect work only. Man- agement not favorably considered and a 120’ shaft as a result of 20 years work does not promise much to the stockholders. Property considered worthy of energetic development. HIGHLAND BOY GOLD & COPPER MINING CO. UTAH Mine at Bingham Canyon, Salt Lake Co., Utah. Controlled by Utah Consolidated Mining Co., and described under that title. HIGHLAND COPPER CO., LTD. MONTANA Office: 20 Riverside Ave., Spokane, Wash. R. C. McCaffery, pres.; J. A, Anderson, vice-pres.; Homer Wylde, sec.-treas.; N. J. Thomas and

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J. H. Marks, directors. Organized 1909, under laws of Washington, cap- italization $1,500,000, shares $1 par; issued, 415,200.

Lands, 5 claims, unpatented, area 130 acres, in the Silver Star district of Madison county, Mont., showing granite and limestone, carrying 5 con- tact deposits, with some work on each, there being 9 pits and shafts, of 45’ and 80’, Main vein, estimated by company at 10’ in width, shows cop- per carbonates at surface, with chalcocite and chalcopyrite at depth, ore having given average assays of 6% copper, 2 to 5 oz. silver and $19.78 gold per ton. Equipment includes a-40-h. p. hoist, good for 1,000’, and neces- sary mine buildings. Present owners expect to install gasoline engine and to sink shaft. ; HIKO NEVADA MINING CO. NEVADA Idle. Mine at Hiko, Lincoln Co., Nev. Is said to have a 3’ vein, traceable some distance, giving average assays of 4.1% copper, 6.3% lead and 46 oz, silver per ton. No returns secured.

Hillman Copper Co, Ltd. Ontario

Idle. Letter to Sault Ste. Marie, Algoma, Ont., unanswered. T. W. Trotter, pres.; Edw. Ewing, vice-pres.; Hugh McKinnon, sec.-treas., at last accounts. Organized 1907, under laws of Ontario, capitalization $60,000, shares $10 par, as a holding and promotion company, with a plan of float- ing a larger company later. Company owns 640 acres in the township of Aweres, near the Root River mine, on the main line of the Algoma Cen- tral railway, showing veins that carry ore assaying up to 10% copper and

8 oz. silver per ton.

HILLSIDE COPPER CO. NEVADA Mines near Pioche, Lincoln Co., Nev. See Bristol Consolidated Mines & Smelting Co. HINSDALE TUNNEL & REDUCTION CO. COLORADO Probably idle. Mine office: Lake City, Hinsdale Co., Colo. H. S. Bushneil, supt., at last accounts. Is a reorganization made in 1907 of the Henson Creek Lead Mines Co. Lands, known as the Bonanza group, in- clude the Bonanza, Magnolia and other small mines, carrying, complex auriferous and argentiferous lead and copper ores. Has water and electric power and a 50-ton concentrator. HIRIART; AURELIO. MEXICO Office and mine: Charcas, Moctezuma, San Luis Potosi, Mex. Lands include the Bibiana y Anexas mines, which, 1907, produced about 15 tons of copper ore daily and the La Trinidad y Anexas mines, carrying aurifer- ous copper ore. No information procurable, 1913, on account of revolution- ary troubles in Mexico. HOLDEN GOLD & COPPER MINING CO. WASHINGTON Office, Spokane, Wash. Mine near Lucerne, Chelan Co., Wash. W. J. Nicholls, pres.; A. L. White, vice-pres.; C. A. Smith, sec.-treas.; Wm. Yolen Williams, gen. mgr., and B. H. Kizer, directors. Lands, 3 claims, area 60 acres, on Railroad creek, near Lake Chelan, 87 miles north of Wenatchee on the G. N. R. R. Claims show gneiss and schist cut by granite with a vein of 40’ average and 185’ claimed maximum width, developed by 6 tunnels, Nos. 2 and 3 being connected by a blind shaft with about 2,000’ of workings on 3 levels. There also are numerous open cuts. Mine shows ore giving assays of 7 to 10% copper, 2 oz. silver and $5 to $10 gold per ton. Idle, except for annual assessment work. HOLLOWAY MINE. VIRGINIA Idle. Office: care Alfred S. Wright, owner, 48 South Third St., Phil- adelphia, Pa. Mine office: Virgilina, Halifax Co., Va. Property, the old Holloway or Eustis mine, 3% miles north of Virgilina, on a spur of the

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Southern railway. Has a 300’ shaft, equipped with steam hoist, compressor, etc., and produced ore from 75’, 150’, 200’ and 300’ levels. The vein is strong, persistent and 3 to 75’ wide, owing to lenticular expansions. The ore is chalcocite in white quartz. Is described in detail by Weed in Bull. 455, U. S. Geol. Survey, p. 79. Produced 6,000 tons of 12% ore about 1902. HOLMES LIME Co. CALIFORNIA

Idle. Office: Mutual Savings Bank Bldg., San Francisco, Cal. Mine at Newcastle, Placer Co., Cal. H. W. Postlethwaite, pres.; F. R. Turton, sec. Owns the Alabaster Cave mine, 180 acres, 7 miles east of Newcastle, carrying a contact deposit between limestone and slate, showing a 12 to 20° gossan. Vein carries a 3 to 8' paystreak, said to average 3 to 4% cop- per, with small gold and silver values. Development is by shafts of 50’, 50° and 300’, and tunnels of 30’ and 100’.

Holmes Mining & Milling Co. Wisconsin

Idle. Address: Mellen, Ashland Co., Wis. John Holmes, pres. and mgr.; A. D, Barnes, vice-pres.; Thos. A. Humphries, sec.; F. P. Simmons, treas.; preceding officers, Edw. Bekken, A. D. Wilson and Ar D. Hill, di- rectors. Organized Jan. 9, 1902, under laws of Wisconsin, capitalization $150,000, shares 25 cts. par.

Property, 160 acres in the Penokee iron range, about 1 mile north of Bad river, shows fissure veins in greenstone, diorite and slate with E.-W. strike and dip of 70”. Three orebodies are claimed of which 1 is said to be 40’ wide and traceable one-half mile by a strong gossan, with a slate footwall and diorite hanging. This is reported to have chalcopyrite in a quartz gangue. Ores give assays up to 9 oz. silver and $3 gold per ton. ‘Development is by shafts of 150’ and 189’. Equipment includes a 16-h. p. hoist.

Home Copper Co. Arizona

Almost dead. Office and mine: Morenci, Graham Co., Ariz. H. JE Degener, pres.; W. A. Leonard, vice-pres.; W. P. Gee, sec.-treas.; N. L. Jenkins, supt., at last accounts, Organized April, 1901. Lands, 35 claims, 700 acres, in 2 groups, also a mill site on Eagle river. The Peacock: group of 23 copper claims, about 1 mile southwest of Morenci, is opened by an 85’ shaft and by tunnels of 150’ and 700’, latter giving a 500’ back. Ores are carbonates and oxides, with some chalcocite, also a wide ledge of low- grade ore too lean for present working. The Buzzard Shadow group of 12 claims has been sold. Has gasoline power. Company comatose, as promoters were unable to inspire confidence and could not raise enough money to prospect the property sufficiently to prove if it has merit. Not a “wild cat” but a mistake.

HOME COPPER MINING Co. MONTANA Operating a group of claims at Mindin, Meagher Co., Mont. HOME RUN COPPER CO. NEVADA

Office: 1118 Newhouse Bldg., Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine in Bristol mining district near Pioche, Nev. M. C. Godbe, pres.; E. S. Woodward, vice-pres.; H. F, Earle, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, A. H. Godbe and Henry Sadler, directors. Organized 1912, capitalization $100,000, shares 10 cts. par.

Property includes 8 claims, 3 fractions, 180 acres, located 9 miles from railroad. Claims show fissures in limestone expanding into replacement deposits and caves carrying rich copper ores with gold and silver values. Properties adjoin the Gypsy mine and contain same fissures. Company also owns Bristol mine from which shipments of 1 car a week were made in 1913. :

Development by 225’ shaft with levels at 90’ and 150’ opening up caves,

HOME RUN—HOP CANYON 445 showing 1,500 tons of ore containing 8.25% copper and 40 to 200 oz. silver. In Aug., 1913, drift on 90’ level showed 4’ of 26% copper ore carrying 35 oz. silver per ton.

Equipment includes gasoline engine and necessary buildings.

Home Run Copper Mining Co. Wyoming

Office: Rooms 17-18, Postoffice Bldg., Colorado Springs, Colo. Mine near Rudefeha, Carbon Co., Wyo. A. L. Bohrer, pres.; J. F. Humphrey, vice-pres.; Adolph Fehringer, treas.; Wm. C. Robinson, see., at last ac- counts. Capitalization $1,500,000, shares $1 par. Lands, 180 acres, partly patented, known as the Copper Bell group, near the Ferris-Haggarty mine, having a 350’ tunnel showing a vein of 30” to 9’ width assaying up to 12% copper, with gold and silver values. Idle.

Homestake Mine. Utah

Property located about 25 miles west of Cedar City, Iron Co., Utah, was reopened in 1912 after about 8 years idleness, owing to long wagon haul and encountering of water in the workings. Property said to con- tain large deposits of lead and copper ore.

Homestead Copper, Gold & Silver Mg. Co. Wisconsin

Idle. Property near Iron Mountain, Dickinson Co., Mich. Eric Hager, pres.; Andrew Nelson, sec.; E. W. Holm, treas., at last accounts. Or- ganized 1906, under laws of Wisconsin, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par. Lands, 90 acres leased, situated 8 miles south of Iron Mountain, in Florence county, Wisconsin, have 100’ incline shaft, showing a vein 2” wide at surface, with extreme width of 18” at depth, giving assays, from selected samples, up to 10% copper and $3 per ton in combined gold and silver values. Shut down for many years.

Homestead Copper Mines Co. ) Oregon

Idle. Mine at Homestead, Baker Co., Ore. L. L. Carter, supt., at last accounts. Organized 1906, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $2 par. No trace of operations secured.

Hon Mining Co. California

Address: care Harvey Hon, Parker, Ariz. Company owns claims in Copper Basin, northwest of Monument peak, 15 miles by road north of Parker. Copper occurs as chalcopyrite, chalcocite and oxidized minerals in a shear zone 2 to 3%’ wide in schistose granite alongside of diabase. Development by 100’ shaft with orebody exposed by drifting at that depth. Company deepened shaft in 1911.

Honest Endeavor Mining Co. Nevada

Mine address: Yerington, Lyon Co., Nev. B. W. Wooding, pres.; El- mer Hoff, vice-pres.; C. S. Wood, sec.; F. D. Goodale, treas. and gen. mgr., at last accounts. Organized 1907, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $2,500,000, shares $1 par.

Company owns 11 claims in Buckskin district, west of and across the valley from Ludwig, the railroad terminus, and 3% miles from Buckskin, in the Yerington district. Group consisted of 4 claims, to which the Union Blue was added in 1910. Development is by 300’ shaft and drifts opening up 2 veins, showing 2’ of sulphide ore with commercial values. Equip- ment includes hoist, compressor, etc. ls a small but promising mine. HOOSIER BOY COPPER CO. OREGON

Absorbed by the Indiana Mining Co., 1912. Formerly at Medical Springs, Baker Co., Oregon.

Hop Canyon Mining & Smelting Co. New Mexico

Address: care Alpheus McCallum, 154 West Randolph St., Chicago. Mine address: Magdalena, Socorro Co., N. M. Elias G. Raffety, sec.-treas., Oscuro, N. M.; Alexander McCallum, Magdalena, N. M.; J. A. Pement,

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Chicago, and H. Raffety, Oscuro, directors. Capitalization $1,000,000, shares $100 par.

Property comprises 11 claims, 220 acres, 3 miles from Santa Fe R. R., in Hop Canyon district. Claims show a shear zone in rhyolite running N. 25° W. with steep dip northeast. Surface shows thin seams of oxidized ore, developed by 1,550’ crosscut tunnel and 1,450’ of other work. Opera- tions were resumed in 1912. Company said to be clear of indebtedness and expects to ship ore in 1913. Government report states conditions do not warrant the expectation of finding important bodies of ore.

Horn Silver Mining Co. .. Utah

Office: 59 William St, New York. Operating office: 206 Templeton Bldg., Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine office: Frisco, Beaver Co., Utah. Jacob Neadle, pres. and treas.; Alexander B. Simonds, vice-pres.; Edward F. Emmet, sec.; preceding officers, Harvey N. Wadham, E. B. Critchlow, A. B. Simonds, W. R. Britton, Chas. Brenneman, Chas. H. Doolittle and H. S. Young, directors; Benjamin B. Lawrence, cons. engr.; Wm. H. Hen- drickson, mgr. Organized 1879, under laws of Utah, capitalization $10,- 000,000, shares $25 par. Has paid dividends of $5,642,000, last having been paid in 1907. Net profit for year ending Jan., 1913, was $8,606.

Lands, 19 claims, 9 patented. The mine is extensively developed, and has been a large producer of zinc, lead, silver and gold, and has yielded some' copper as a byproduct. The old bonanza mine carried good values to depth of about 800’, showing silver ores on the footwall, with copper ore -on the hanging. Main shaft is 1,600’ deep, but stoping is mainly above the 900” level. During 1910 a new body of slightly argentiferous copper ore was being developed on the 750’ level.

Development for 1912, comprised 1,483’, of which amount 208’ was on 700’ south drift in Lulu ground. Development work was mainly to the south, opening up 2 zinc and 1 lead stope on continuations of the main orebodies.

Equipment includes a 30-stamp mill. Production was shipped, under a 2-year contract, ending 1911, to the American Smelting & Refining Co., shipments, 1909, being said to have averaged about 20% lead and 20 oz. silver per ton. Zinc ore, carrying up to 10% lead and 5 oz. silver, is shipped to Colorado and Kansas zine plants. Production was suspended, 1907, for the first time in 20 years, because of temporary inability to market ore. Production was only 4,490 tons of ore in 1908, and 11,189 tons of ore, including 1,006 tons of first-class copper ore, in 1909, when the value of all ore sold was $120,189.21, with total net earnings, including returns from store and rentals of $132,570.87. i

Production was 577,578 lbs. fine copper in 1901; 717,353 Ibs. in 1902; only 6,539 Ibs. in 1905, and was 24,508 Ibs. copper, 3,583,355 Ibs. lead, 1,244,- 182 lbs. zinc, 206,537 oz. silver and 2,841 oz. gold in 1907. The mine was a bonanza silver producer for many years, but has seen its best days and since 1906, has done but little better than make expenses, though it seems probable that some small further profits will be secured from production.

A disastrous cave-in damaged the shaft and workings in the Autumn of 1912, costing $20,000 for repairs and stopping ore extraction and de- velopment. Shipments were resumed, Jan., 1913.

Horse Mountain Copper Co. California

Mine office: Eureka, Humboldt Co., Cal. David Wilson, pres.; George Wilson, mgr., Eureka, Cal.; D. W. Stapp, supt. Organized Nov., 1910, capitalization $1,000,000. Lands, 35 claims, in vicinity of the Hum- boldt Copper Co. with which this corporation apparently is connected in ownership and management. ;

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Owns Ruby Copper property on Horse mountain, in the Hoopa range, Horse River district, on the watershed between Redwood creek and Trin- ity river, in T.6 N., R. 1 E. For miles copper occurs along a serpentine- gabbro contact; claims show native copper in a vein 30’ thick having 2’ of high-grade ore.

Development is by 6 tunnels, No. 6 of 900’, another of 450’, 1,500’ in all. Equipment includes a $12,000 50-ton concentrator with Huntington mill, installed in 1912; in 1913 concentrates were sacked and shipped by pack train to Korbel, on Arcata and Mad River railroad, thence by steamer from Eureka to the Tacoma smelter.

Horseshoe Copper Co. Idaho

Idle. Assessment work only being done. Mine office: Mackay, Custer Co., Idaho. J. C. Fox, pres.; J. H. Greene, vice-pres.; D. V. Archbold, sec.- treas., Mackay, Idaho; preceding officers, Geo. L. Morgan, C. V. Hansen and S. K. Paxton, directors; C. V. Hansen, mgr. Capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par. Total assessments to date, $3,000. Company owns 17 claims in Alder Creek mining district, adjoining the White Knob mine of the Empire Copper Co. on the north. A ; HORSESHOE MINING CO. WASHINGTON

Idle. Office: 315 Hinckley Blk., Seattle, Wash. Robert Steiger, pres ; K. O. Rosenquist, vice-pres. and supt.; E. G. Moe, sec.; Harold Gangmark, treas.; preceding officers, E. Battleson and Swan Hansen, directors. Or- ganized June 7 1904, under laws of Washington, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable; issued, $621,571. Annual meeting Oct. 15.

Property, 7 claims, about 144 acres, with a 10-acre mill site and several water-rights, well watered, and about 25% timbered, in the Summit dis- trict, near Mount Defiance, between the middle and south forks of the Sno- qualmie river, 6 miles from the Northern Pacific railway and 12 miles east of North Bend. Property shows granite, porphyry and. slate, with 5 ore- bodies, occurring as fissure veins in granite, and between granite and slate, of which 1 is gold, 1 lead and 2 copper, reported by management as 6” to 60’ in width, carrying chalcopyrite and galena, assaying 1 to 32% copper, 43.7% lead, trace to 31.3 oz. silver and 0.12 oz. gold per ton. Development is by No. 1 tunnel of 66’, No. 2 of 226’, and No. 3 of 567’, with 1,300’ of workings. Mine has no power equipment or buildings, but plans patenting lands, building a wagon road, developing a small water power, and build- ing a sawmill.

Horst-Powell Copper Mining Co. Idaho

Closed down. Address P. O. Box 2221, Spokane, Wash. Mine near Kingston, Shoshone Co., Idaho. E. E. Horst, pres.; E.“L. Powell, vice- pres. and treas.; Mark F. Mendenhall, sec. Capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable. Lands, 7 claims and a 5-acre mill site, well tim- bered, on the Little North Fork river. Development is by 3 tunnels, 300’, 600’ and 200’ long, and 2 shafts, 50” and 100’. Vein is of 15’ estimated sur- face width, opened up for 800’ and proved to depth of 400’ with slate foot- wall and quartzite hangingwall, carrying copper ore averaging 5%. Equip- ment includes steam and gasoline power, with a hoist and necessary mine buildings. à HOSEY MINE. ARIZONA

P. O. Patagonia, Santa Cruz Co., Ariz. Lands in Wrightson mining

district, Santa Rita mountains, 12 miles west of Patagonia. Claims show fissure veins carrying higħ-grade chalcopyrite and glance ore developed to

a depth of 200”. Shipments of several carloads have been made. Shaft

now caved in, but property favorably reported upon by John Daniells, of Calumet, Mich.

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HOTCREEK SYNDICATE TRUST. NEVADA Idle. Property at Hotcreek, via Tonopah, Nye Co., Nev. Victor Barndt, trustee; John Lawton Butler, sec. Is not incorporated. Lands, 32 claims, unpatented, in Rattlesnake canyon, showing limestone and andesite, carrying replacements in limestone near porphyry contacts, and fault planes; orebodies reported by company to be 2 to 25’ in width and trace- able from 400” to more than 2,000’. Development is by about 1,000’ of workings, showing copper ores averaging 2 to 3% copper, 5 to 10 oz. silver and $1 gold per ton. Ore at water level is disseminated chalcopyrite, of concentrating grade. HOUGHTON-ALASKA EXPLORATION CO. ALASKA

Office: Houghton, Mich. Mine office: McCarthy creek, Copper River district, Alaska. J. H. Rice, pres.; Deen L. Robinson, sec.; W. B. Mc- Laughlin, treas.; preceding officers, Dr. L. L. Hubbard and F. G. Coggin, directors; Theo. J. Welcker, cons. engr.; Ocha Potter, mgr. Organized 1905, under laws of Michigan, capitalization $500,000. Property is under option to the Mother Lode Mines Co., of Alaska, for $150,000 cash and 250,- 000 shares of stock,

Lands, 30 claims, 380 acres, of which 12 claims, 180 acres, are in proc- ess of patenting, also a 5-acre mill site and 160 acres placer lands, held for town site and general purposes, Lands adjoin the Bonanza group of the Kennecott Mines Co., on the northeast, and are on the McCarthy Creek slope of the divide, the Bonanza group being on the Kennecott slope. About 1,000 h. p. is available from McCarthy creek, for & hydro-electric installation.

The Bonanza fault, traceable 7,000’, consists of a 6” to 12’ fissure filled with brecciated limestone, with mineralization in places up to 100” width, on the fault and along the stratification planes of intersecting veins. The Bonanza fault has a series of fissures cutting the main fault, with mineral- ization along both, at and near the points of intersection, but where other fissures intersect the cross fissures, only the Bonanza fault is mineralized. Ore is exclusively chalcocite, except at surface, where sometimes broken down to carbonates, and the ore is pockety. Development consists of only 123’ of tunnels, as all work was exceedingly expensive, and there was no particular object in developing extensively until transportation facilities were secured. The Copper River railroad now completed to Kennecott gives this property mixed rail and water shipping facilities, by steamer on the Chitina river, 24 miles to the railway. Management considered good. HOUGHTON COPPER CO. MICHIGAN

Office: 199 Washington St., Boston, Mass. Mine office: Houghton, Houghton Co., Mich. Chas, J. Paine, Jr., pres.; Geo. P. Gardner, vice- pres.; A. E. Coe, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, N. H. Stone, Jas. P. Ed- wards and Fredk. W. Nichols, directors; Dr. Lucius L. Hubbard, gen. mgr.; Rex R. Seeber, cons. engr.

Organized Jan., 1910, under laws of Michigan, capitalization $2,500,000, shares $25 par, assessable; issued, $1,675,000, $7 paid. Is controlled by St. Mary's Mineral Land Co., through ownership of 37,228 shares of the 67,000 shares outstanding. Old Colony Trust Co., Boston, registrar; State Street Trust Co., Boston, transfer agent. 3

Annual report for year ended Dec. 31, 1912 shows: Receipts (assess- ment No. 1) $63,255. Expenses at mine, $42,163; general expense, taxes, interest and insurance, $7,234.

' Lands, 23 acres of surface rights, with mineral rights to 160 acres owned in fee, being the N. W. % of Sec. 14, T. 54 N., R. 34 W., lying east of the Isle Royale mine and adjoining the Superior mine. Diamond

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drilling was begun March, 1910, in the horizon of the Baltic-Superior bed, showing 2 cupriferous amygdaloidal beds, the Superior and East lodes being 17’ and 20’ wide respectively, with dip of 51°, separated by about 83’ of trap and conglomerate, the lower bed overlying another conglomerate at a distance of about 150’, these strata corresponding exactly with the Baltic formation. Maximum operating depth is figured at 2,800’.

Development is by a shaft, started Sept., 1910, sunk about 60’ in the footwall, which was 620’ deep, April 1, 1913. A winze sunk 200’ below the 620’ level discloses rich copper -rock in the Superior lode. The ground penetrated by the shaft is soft and badly broken, necessitating close tim- bering and occasional concreting, and the shaft has been lined with a con- crete collar for depth of 300’.

Development in 1912 included 1,300’ drifts on 620’ level on Superior lode; 200’ winze below 620’ level and 141’ drifting from bottom, in high- class rock; 60% of rock from Superior lode goes into ore pile.

Equipment includes a small power plant, and a 16-drill Nordberg elec- tric air compressor. There aré necessary buildings, including an office, changing house and warehouse, all of wood.

The property, though small, for the Lake Superior district, is consid- ered promising and management good. Company employs about 35 men. HOWARD COPPER CO. MONTANA

Mine, if any, near Flint station, N.:P. RSR Granite Co., Mont. De- scribed Vol. X.

HOWE SOUND CoO. : BRITISH COLUMBIA

Office: 747 Fifth Ave., New York. Mine office: Britannia Beach, in the Vancouver district, B. C. Grant B. Schley, pres.; Evander B. Schley, vice-pres.; Kenneth B. Schley, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, Dennis Sulli- van, E. J. Berwind, Louis S. Noble, M. Gavin, J. W. D. Moodie, W. J. Walworth, G. B. Schley, Jr., and Chas. G. Raynor, directors; Jas. E. Man- ter, clerk. Organized Aug. 22, 1903, under laws of Maine, capitalization $3,000,000, shares $1 par; issued, $984,150. Bonds, $1,000,000, convertible into stock at par. Bankers Trust Co., New York, transfer agent. Annual meeting, third Monday in March.

The company is a securities-holding corporation, controlling the Bri- tannia Land Co., Ltd., also the Britannia Mining & Smelting Co., Ltd., which took over the properties of the Britannia Copper Syndicate, Ltd., and the smelter of the Britannia Smelting Co., Ltd., in 1908.

H. T. & C. Co. J Utah

Idle. Mine address: Tooele, Tooele Co., Utah. Jos H. Hurd, pres., Salt Lake City, Utah; John B. Taylor, Taylor, Utah, vice-pres.; Walter A. Cook, sec.-treas. Organized 1906, under laws of Utah, capitalization $100,- 000, shares $5 par, assessable; fully issued. Five assessments have been levied. Is a close corporation, with only 5 stockholders. Lands, 30 claims, in Pine Canyon, West Mountain section, Tooele county, with water rights, tunnel rights and franchise for a deep tunnel, from Pine Canyon into the Bingham district, also several hundred acres of bench lands, and an 800- acre smelter site, 4 miles from the International smelter: Claims show veins with lead and copper ores.

Hualapai Mining Co. Arizona

Probably dead. Mine at Cave Creek, Maricopa Co., Ariz. Lands, in Moore's gulch, in vicinity of the Rogers Springs Mining Co., are slightly developed. . HUB MINING INVESTMENT CO. ARIZONA

Probably dead. Letter unclaimed at Benson, Cochise Co., Ariz. W. C. Ferris, pres.; J. W. Hill, mgr., at last accounts. Lands, 25 miles north-

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west of Benson, are the San Domingo group, adjoining the Valenzuela Copper Mining Co., showing a 4 to 6’ outcrop, carrying cuprite, melaconite and malachite, with gold values. Development is by a crosscut tunnel.

Hubbard-Elliott Copper Co. Alaska .

Offices: 319 So. La Salle St., Chicago, Ill. Home office: 411 New York Block, Seattle, Wash. Mine office: Elliott Creek, Chitina district, Alaska. Jerome G. Steever, pres.; H. P. Elliott, first vice-pres.; Thomas S. Hop- kins, second vice-pres.; A. J. Elliott, sec.; John T. Evans, treas.; Carl Hauser, mine supt.; Earl C. Stroup, mech. engr. Organized Jan., 1911, un- der laws of Washington, capitalization $3,500,000, shares $1 par; 1,500,000 shares issued in exchange, share for share, for stock in the old Hubbard- Elliott Copper Mines Development Co., of Alaska; 2,000,000 shares treas- ury stock.

Company owns 35 patented claims, 4 mill sites all with U. S. govern- ment titles and 84 unpatented claims, total area of over 2,400 acres, also 300 acres of timber, covering over 6 miles in Elliott Creek valley. Elliott creek is an affluent of the Kotsina river, about 15 miles above junction of the Kotsina with the Copper river.

The copper ore occurs in fissure veins and-associated replacement ore- bodies in greenstone with limestone beds above it. The prominent out- crops are practically all on the north side of Elliott creek, near the con- tact, which runs N. 75° W. and dips 80° N. All outcrops are in the green- stone underlying the limestone beds except on the Leland and Lawton claims which are in a well-defined porphyry dike. Above the limestone is found a heavy capping of conglomerates.

The principal ore minerals are bornite, glance and chalcopyrite. The total absence of surface oxidation due to glacial action is notable and sul- phides occur in a calcitic matrix in the veins and with a greenstone matrix.

Development is mainly by the Albert Johnston tunnel, now 836’ long with 700’ more to reach the vein. This tunnel is in the gulch 500’ below the old tunnel on the same claim which crosscuts the outcrop for 48’, all in ore ranging from 4 to 22% copper. The outcrop averages 40’ wide and is exposed for 350’ in length. The new tunnel will be 390’ below it and it is hoped that this work will develop sufficient tonnage to warrant the building of a branch of the Copper River & Northwestern railroad from Elliott Junction to the property, a distance of 1514 miles.

Equipment includes compressor, drills, and all necessary accessories and supplies amounting to 78,000 lbs., purchased from the Chicago Pneu- matic Tool Co., whose engineers installed the machinery in the spring of 1913. With this equipment it is expected that the tunnel will be completed this Fall.

There has been a large amount of money expended in former years on scattered tunnel and opencut work of no real benefit, and for patenting the claims, but the development work now in progress is practically the first mining work prosecuted under competent advice since the organization of the company. The completion of the tunnel should determine the real value of the great outcrops and promising surface indications of the prop- erty. The past history of the company is a serious handicap to its officers, but the present management is reversing the policy of its predecessors ' and endeavoring to develop and work the mine and not the public. A lawsuit brought by the old company to set aside the reorganization of ‘the property was non-suited in Feb., 1913. Mineral lands regarded as promising.

Hudsooner Mining Co. Utah

Address: T. N. Haymond, pres., Salt Lake City, Utah; D. B. Ralls,

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vice-pres.; J. Claude Davis, C. M. Needham, A. L. Ward, T. F. Gleason and Geo. Ladd, directors. Capitalization $750,000, shares 1 ct. par. Owns the Sooner, Grand Prize, G. P. No. 1, Baltic and Anchor claims, adjoining the property of the Western Utah Co. in Deep Creek district.

Development by 18' and 50' shafts, shows 4' orebody of complex silver- lead and copper ore carrying $35 to $50 in value.

HUGO GOLD & COPPER MINING Co. MONTANA

Office: Wallace, Idaho. Mine office: Saltese, Missoula Co., Mont. Richard W. Seideman, pres.; P. R, Levy, vice-pres.; R. M. Hamilton, sec.; A. G. Kerns, treas. Organized 1907, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par.

Lands, 3 claims, carrying the extensions of the Boston-Colby vein sys- tem, next east of the New York & Brooklyn mine, and shortly east of Saltese. Property carries 2 parallel veins, 300 apart, 1 of about 15’ width, showing copper carbonates, bornite and chalcopyrite, giving assays, from selected specimens of 14 to 33% copper, the second vein, proven by trench- ing, being about 12’ wide, carrying a 3” paystreak of ore assaying 12% cop- per, 10 oz. silver and $8 gold per ton. Developed by 2 drift tunnels, 200’ and 700’ long that follow the vein. An overshot water wheel, taking water, under a 12’ head, from the St. Regis river, runs a 4-drill air compressor. HUIRIACHIC; COMPAÑÍA MINERA DE. MEXICO

` Idle several years. Mine at Chalchihuites, Sombrerete, Zacatecas, Mex. John Stenner, pres.; C. A. Phelps, treas. and gen. mgr., at last accounts. Ores are argentiferous and auriferous chalcopyrite and galena, developed by shaft and tunnel. HULBERT MINE. COLORADO

H. C. Bolsinger, mgr., Central City, Gilpin Co., Colo. This well-known gold-silver mine has recently opened up an 8” pay streak of copper-gold ore on the 1,150’ level west, that assays 13.6% copper, $120 gold and 46 oz. silver per ton, with 2’ of milling ores alongside.

HULBERT MINING Co. MICHIGAN

Idle. Albert S. Bigelow, pres., 199 Washington St., Boston, Mass, Wet. Sy (Chrimes, sec.-treas.; Fred W. Nichols, agt., Houghton, Mich. Organized about 1865, in Michigan, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $25 par; all issued.

Owns 1,640 acres of mineral land, all in Houghton and Keweenaw counties, Michigan, undeveloped; part of the surface rights have been sold, but mineral rights reserved. No mining done since organization. HULL COPPER Co. ARIZONA

Office and mine: Jerome, Yavapai Co. Ariz, Hon. Geo. W. Hull, pres. and gen. mgr.; S. F. Dennison, vice-pres.; Mary A. Hull, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, August Humbert and R. A. Pullen, directors. Organized 1906, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $10,000,000, shares $1 par, fully issued; bonds, $250,000 authorized.

Ex-Mayor Hull, of Jerome, controls both this and the Cleopatra Cop- per-Co., which together own an area west of the town of Jerome and bor- dering the United Verde on the south and west.

Lands, 21 claims, partly fractional, patented, area 249 acres, show syenite, diorite and slate, a continuation of the formation of the United Verde adjoining, reported by company to show 21 orebodies, carrying some oxidized ores, but mainly sulphides, as developed. The “1888” shaft, of 475’ depth, about 200’ from the United Verde smelter, has produced a small amount of ore, but not at a profit.

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ground into the Hull property. A winze has been started on the lode at 5,000” from the portal.

The Dillon tunnel extends completely around two sides of the United Verde ground. There are many drifts branching out from the tunnel and these usually follow a fracture plane in the rock showing 1 or 2’ of frac- tured country rock, which usually shows pyrite and may be slightly copper stained. These drifts twist and turn in a manner showing lack of system and finally branch out like a tree, each branch following a fracture plane, some of which show 2 or 3” of copper ore, and some are not even copper- stained. These fracture planes are described as being “leaders” from the big orebodies below, and because the country rock contains a small amount of pyrite disseminated through it, these ragged workings were stated to block out low-grade concentrating ore.

On the Silent claim a drift from the tunnel exposed an irregular body of excellent chalcopyrite from which 2 shipments were made, the ore assaying 814% copper. The stope is about 60’ long, in places is 12’ wide and of irregular height A 160’ raise shows it to branch into 2 seams of and 3’ wide. An inaccessible winze was said to show 13’ of ore, but inasmuch as shipments had ceased, this seems questionable. Beyond this orebody the tunnel turns the southwest corner of the United Verde prop- erty and follows along its western boundary to the “1888” shaft. For part of this distance the tunnel follows a lens of quartz devoid of copper. Aside from the 1 lens of chalcopyrite mentioned the showing in the tunnel is exceedingly discouraging. The mine has upwards of 2 miles of openings, but the manager states that these old workings are not deep enough to develop the extension of the main orebodies of the United Verde.

Equipment includes a 94-h. p. steam plant and a gasoline engine, with 2 hoists, one being a steam hoist, installed 1909, at the “1888” shaft. There also is a small air compressor.

The advertising done in’ behalf of the company by Mr. O. B. Stanton, in 1907, was untruthful, and indefensible. Property not favorably consid- ered as combined capitalization of this and the sister company, the Cleo- patra, is $20,000,000, none of which is in the treasury. Property reported optioned for 2 years to an English syndicate, in Aug., 1913; and" EEUE: Shotweel of Prescott, Ariz., named as manager.

Humboldt Consolidated Mines ¡Hor Arizona

Mine office: Humboldt, Yavapai Co., Ariz. Benj. Rybon, vice-pres. and acting gen. mgr.; Dr. B. S. Bowen, treas. and gen. mgr. Lands, near McCabe, were under development, with a force of about 10 men, at last “accounts. The property has a gasoline hoist.

Humboldt Copper Co. California

Mine office: Eureka, Humboldt Co., Cal. Apparently this corporation is a twin of the Horse Mountain. Copper Co. Lands, 22 claims, well watered, adjoining the Horse mountain, said to show strong veins giving a good showing of copper ore, including chalcocite assaying up to 55% copper. Property said to have been bonded, late 1910, to eastern interests, but no trace of operations secured. For account of property see Horse Mountain Copper Co.

Humboldt Copper Co. Michigan

Idle. Office: 62 Devonshire St., Boston, Mass. Mine office: Copper Falls, Keweenaw Co., Mich. John C, Watson, pres.; John Brooks, sec.- treas.; M. A. O’Neill, W. H. Currier and Wesley Clark, directors. Organ- ized 1863, under laws of Michigan, capitalization increased later to $1,000,- 000, shares, $25 par. Amount paid in is $100,000 in real estate, and $240,- 986.76 in cash. Annual meeting, fourth Tuesday in March.

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Lands are Secs. 16 and 21, the former fractional, ITA 58 N; R. 31 W. all on the mineral belt, about midway between the Arnold and Phoenix mines, lying north of the greenstone, with the Eagle River and Natick mines to the south. The mine, opened 1853, though never a producer, has a single shaft about 300’ deep sunk on the ashbed, which shows the same characteristics as at the Arnold, carrying occasional bunches of rich ground. Equipment includes an engine house, compressor building, smithy, warehouse and 4 dwellings.

Humboldt Copper Co. Nevada

Idle. Letters to Sulphur, Humboldt Co., Nev., and San Francisco, Cal., unclaimed. E. J. Miley, pres.; C. C. Darling, Jr., vice-pres.; M. P. Danly, sec.; preceding officers, E. B. Grace and Dr. Geo. E. Ebright, directors. Organized under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par. Company states that it has 8 claims, on Jackson mountain, 75 miles north northwest of Humboldt, in the Jackson Creek district, connected by a good wagon road, with the W. P. R. R., 30 miles distant. District shows granite and limestone with contact deposits and veins. The mine is claimed to have’ 1,400” of workings showing a vein of 12’ width at surface, widening to 74 in the lower tunnel, averaging 15 to 16% copper, 3 to 5 oz, silver and $1.65 gold per ton. Company is regarded with suspicion. HUMBOLDT ORE CO. ARIZONA

Mine near Humboldt, Yavapai Co., Ariz. Is controlled, through own- ership of practically entire stock issue, by Consolidated Arizona Smelt- ing Co.

Humboldt Smelter. Arizona

Owned by Consolidated Arizona Smelting Co., at Humboldt, Yavapai (SO ARIZ a .

Humbug Mining Co. Utah

At Eureka, Juab Co., Utah. Merged with Uncle Sam Consolidated Mining Co., which see.

Hunt Mining & Milling Co, Idaho

Probably dead. Office: 8 India St., Boston, Mass. Mine near Weiser, Washington Co., Idaho.

Huron Gold Co. Arizona

Idle. Office: Jerome, Ariz. Mine office: Huron, Yavapai Co., Ariz. Geo. W. Hull, pres.-treas. and gen. mgr.; H. E. Wilcox, sec. Organized under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par. Property, 5 claims, 80 acres, known as the Swindler mine, in the Big Bug district, having a 125’ shaft and 680’ tunnel, with upwards of 1,000’ of workings, showing a vein up to 18’ width, carrying ore giving assays of 2.5 to 11% copper and $5 to $30 gold per ton. Is said to have 800 tons of ore on the dump. Inactive since 1903, except for annual assessment work, HUSSEY-HOWE MINING CO. MICHIGAN

Address: care C. A. Senecal, Lake Linden, Mich. Geo. W. Guthrie, Geo. W. Howe, Wm. H. Rea, C. G. Hussey, F. B. Nimick and G. H. Childs, all of Pittsburgh, are the other directors. Capitalization 100,000 shares, $25 par; 54,000 shares issued, fully paid, 45,000 going to owners for property, 9,000 to be sold for development.

Property 320 acres, bounded by Indiana and Bohemia ground, includes N, E. Y Sec. 22, N. W. % Sec. 23, T. 51, R. 57 W. in Ontonagon county. Property shows outcrop of the Eastern sandstone and 100’ west of it an amygdaloid vein supposedly the Baltic lode of 2 veins. It shows copper carbonates and oxides over a width of over 100’ resembling the Baltic outcrop at Champion, 25 miles northeast. As the dip is 60 to 65°, the property contains a valuable area for working.

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Hydah (Haidah) Copper Co. Alaska

Idle. Mine near Kasaan P. O., Prince of Wales Island, Alaska. Fred J. Eitel, pres.; J. A. Jackson, vice-pres.; Victor Vigelius, gen. mgr., F. W. Crary, sec.; J. Albert Johnson, treas.; G: H. Waters, supt., at last accounts. Organized 1906, under laws of Washington, capitalization $60,000. Com- pany owns the Mammoth group, on the east side of Kasaan bay, 2,000’ from tide water, developed by a 40x40’ pit showing a contact orebody of 40’ width, composed of magnetite with garnet, chalcopyrite and epidote, low in copper tenor and carrying up to $2 gold per ton. A tunnel con- nects with upper bins, which in turn have a 2,100’ tram line running to ore bunkers on the wharf, at tide water. Shipped some ore, 1907. Property considered promising. Company inactive in 1912, and has left no address at either the Alaskan or former Seattle office.

Hypotheek Mining & Milling Co. Idaho

Secretary: Otto A. Olsen, Wallace, Idaho. Mine address: Kingston, Sho- shone Co., Idaho. W. W. Davidson, pres.; George V. Harrington, mgr.; P. F. Rogers, supt.; preceding officers, J. H. Kirk and S. A. Covert, direc- tors. Stock is assessable.

Lands, 9 claims, located, 1886, by Octave Guay, having 3 veins, 2 being of 10 to 20’ estimated width, the third vein, known as the Great Western, of 8 to 25’ width, having a 12 to 18” paystreak carrying native copper and cuprite, said to average 45% in copper tenor, and chalcopyrite, assaying up to 16% copper, balance of vein carrying low-grade oré, estimated to carry 2% copper, with small gold and silver values, with quartz gangue. Prop- erty also shows galena, apparently undeveloped.

Mine is opened by a 1,000’ tunnel with a 500’ blind shaft to the 1,000’ level. The 523’ level (750’ below surface) opened up a fine shoot of com- mercial lead ore in 1912. The 800’ level also shows an ore shoot 3 to 4 thick and 200’ long, carrying chalcopyrite, with films of chalcocite in a quartz gangue, the ore giving average assays of 3.5% copper, 7 oz. silver and 67 cts. gold per ton. This is the deepest mining work in the Pritchard slates of the Coeur d’Alene sedimentary series, a formation hitherto consid- ered unpromising. The finding of chalcocite at this mine below 1,000’ of Burke quartzite contradicts the former views.

The mine is electrically equipped and has a 100-ton concentrator with Chilean mill, Wilfley tables, Frue vanners, etc. Property examined and reported upon by Jas. A. McEachran, 1911.

An aerial tram 3 miles long is soon to be installed to convey ore from the mine to the railway. Production, Oct., 1913, is about 200 tons of first- class ore a month. ` IBEX MINING CO. IDAHO

Office: Mullan, Shoshone Co., Idaho. Is controlled by the Amalga- mated Stock Holding Co., of Wallace, Idaho. Incorporated April 15, 1911, under laws of Idaho. Company still in existence, but comatose. Owns 4 claims adjoining Idaho, Boulder Creek and Bitter Root mines, three-fourths mile south of Mullan and 300’ from N. P. R. R. Property shows 4” iron vein adjacent to a diabase dike. Developed by 2 tunnels, the lower starting from Coeur d'Alene river to cut vein at 700’ below outcrop.

Ibex Plomosa Mining Co. Arizona

Idle. Letter unclaimed at Yuma, Ariz, Mine at Bouse, Yuma Co., Ariz. Thos. L. DeSpain, pres.; H. H. McPhaul, vice-pres.; Wm. C. De- Spain, sec.-treas., at last accounts. Organized 1907. Lands, 30 claims, with 28 claims said to have been added, early 1908, in the Hiumosa moun-

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tains, 12 miles south of Bouse, showing oxidized ores of high copper tenor,

carrying up to $4.50 gold per ton. Has gasoline power.

ICONOCLAST CONSOLIDATED MINES CO. WASHIINGTON Succeeded by Tenas Mining Co. p IDA MONTANA MINING CO. MONTANA

Office: Calumet Mich. Mine office: Butte, Silver Bow Co., Mont. P. D. McNaughton, pres.; Capt. Jas. W. Milligan, vice-pres. and mg. direc- tor; Wm. J. MacDonald, sec.; Jos. W. Selden, treas.; M. J. McEvans, supt., at last accounts; preceding officers, Wm. H. Thielman, F. P. Rupee, Victor Nordberg, Edward Ulseth, Angus McDonald and Jeremiah E. O'Neil, directors. Organized 1907, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $3,000,000, as a reconstruction of the Ida Montana Development Co. à

Owns 3 fractional claims, the Ida, “A” and “B,” southeast of and next to the Butte & Duluth Co., at the base of the East Ridge mountain, across the Flat from Butte. Bought for $175,000 and said to be fully paid for. The property lies outside of the proven ore zone in Butte.

The property has a 3-compartment shaft, sunk to 480' depth, which shows, on the 250’ level, copper glance ore carrying silver and gold values; a little ore was shipped, 1908, by lessees. 3

Equipment, abandoned, wrecked by thieves and storms, has been carted away (1913). The mine was attached in 3 actions, Dec., 1907, for supplies furnished. The indebtedness was met by the personal advances of some of the officers and leading shareholders. The floating indebted- ness is about $30,000, apparently in the shape of notes, endorsed by the directors.

Idle for 5 years, but negotiations for sale of property were pending in 1913, as late developments in the neighboring Pittsmont property and the adjacent Butte & Duluth mine of, Capt. A. B. Wolvin have indicated the potential worth of the Ida-Montana ground. This sale when completed should give the old shareholders a substantial return after the floating debt has been paid off. :

Idaho Bride Mining & Milling Co. Colorado

E. D. Payne, sec., and J. J. Hoban, gen. mgr., 227 Temple Court Bldg., Denver, Colo. Owns the Seaton mine near Idaho Springs, Colo. Property is an old gold-silver mine developed to 2,000’ depth and showing small amounts of copper ore. New Company is energetically developing and is shipping 1,000 tons a month of milling ore.

Idaho Consolidated Mines Co, Ltd. Idaho

Property sold to Minnie Moore Mines Co., at receiver’s sale, June, 1912. See Vol. X.

Idaho Continental Mine. Idaho

Address: care A. Klockman, pres., Spokane, Wash.; Albert Goodell, gen. mgr. Mine situated 26 miles from Port Hill, Bonner Co., Idaho, north of head of Priest lake. John D. Ryan, through the International Smelting & Refining Co., advanced $325,000 for the development of the Property on condition that it be given a 10-year contract to treat the company’s ores, should name 3 directors and a manager and receive an option on 150,000 shares at 50 cts. a share. ;

Property embraces several claims showing a strong vein with a suc- cession of ore shoots carrying galena and a little copper ore. Ts an im- portant new lead producer. A 300-ton concentrator has been erected and a 5-year ore-hauling contract was let Oct. 10, 1913. Output will be 30 tons concentrates daily after Jan. 1, 1914,

Idaho Copper Co. Idaho

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claimed. G. H: Gordon, pres.; J. Matteshuck, sec., at last advices. Organ- ized under laws of Washington, capitalization presumably $500,000. Lands, 4 claims, on the western side of Priest lake. Development includes shafts of 67’ and 40’, latter showing an 18” vein, carrying chalcopyrite, galena and sphalerite. Equipment includes a 135-h. p. boiler, 50-h. p. engine and 2 New York pumps, coupled, serving as an air compressor. IDAHO COPPER MINING CO. IDAHO Letters unanswered from 603 Palladio Bldg., Duluth, Minn. Mine in Lemhi Co., Idaho. Simon Clark, pres.; Henry Taylor, sec.-treas. Organ- ized Aug. 16, 1909, under laws of Minnesota, capitalization $100,000, shares $100 par. No trace of operations secured. IDAHO COPPER MINING CO., LTD. IDAHO Office: Wallace, Idaho. Mine office: Mullan, Shoshone Co., Idaho. John H. Nordquist, pres.; A. N. Stroud, vice-pres.; Geo. F. Stoney, sec.; A. H. Featherstone, treas.; W. H. Herrick, gen. mgr. Lands, 6 claims, 3 patented, on the Continental divide, between Idaho and Montana, near the head of Willow creek, in the Hunter district, west of the Reindeer Copper & Gold Mining € Milling Co., Ltd. Property carries about 4,500’ of the strike of the extension of the Reindeer vein, and is developed through the 3,000’ Reindeer crosscut tunnel, which opened a vein in Jan., 1913, showing 214’ of $100 ore. IDAHO-EAGLE MINING CO. IDAHO Declared fraudulent by U. S. postal authorities, 1912. Office: 300 Columbia Bldg., Spokane, Wash. Mine office: Lane, Kootenai Co., Idaho. John C. Kleber, pres.; Arthur A. Hale, vice-pres.; C. E. Mitchell, sec.; Geo. E. Canfield, treas.; R. G. Dunn, mgr. Organized March, 1910, under laws of Washington, as a reconstruction of the Coeur d'Alene Eagle Mining Co., which had a capitalization of $1,500,000, shares $1 par. IDAHO GROUP. 1 ARIZONA J. P. Hayward and Lyman C. Woods, owners, Winkelman, Ariz. Property in Dripping Springs district, Pinal Co., Ariz. Claims said to show veins in Paleozoic limestones and shales, cut by diabase and later monzonite porphyry. Shipments made, 1913, to El Paso smelter. IDAHO MINING, REDUCTION & TRANS. CO. COLORADO Wm. E. Renshaw, manager, Idaho Springs, Clear Creek Co., Colo. Property, the Silver Age, Gem and Freightons Friend mines, showing veins with gold-copper ores. e Development is by several shafts and extensive tunnel workings. Is now operated by leasers. Equipment includes electric-driven compressor ' and hoist, and a 200-ton concentrator with 20 stamps. IDAHO MINING & SMELTING CO. IDAHO Is the successor, 1912, of Clayton Mining & Smelting Co., and was reorganized, 1913; as the Red Bird Smelting Co. Properties are described under that title. IDAHO-MONTANA AMALGAMATED MINING CO. IDAHO Owns the Idaho-Montana mine, near Kalka station, on the Great Northern R. R., 7 miles east of Bonner’s Ferry, Bonner Co., Idaho. De- veloped by a 400’ incline shaft which discloses a 2 to 4 vein im diorite, containing lead and silver values associated with iron sulphide, expected to develop copper with depth. Considered promising. ) IDAHO & SPRING GULCH M. & M. CO., LTD. MONTANA Idle. Mine near Carter, Missoula Co., Mont. Fred Carson, pres. and gen. mgr. Is a small prospecting company, organized Oct. 30, 1906, under laws of Idaho, capitalization $1,000,000 shares $1 par; issued, about $850,000, assessable,

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Owns 7 claims, 110 acres, between the Little Pittsburg and King and Queen mines, 3 miles from 2 railways, in an unorganized district near Carter. Property shows porphyry, slate and limestone, carrying 2 veins, L of 6’ width, traceable 2,000’, reported to average 6% copper and 32 oz. silver per ton, mainly from gray copper ore. Development by shafts of 50” and 300’, and tunnels of 60’ and 700’, the longer to be driven 1,700’, to cut both copper and lead veins. The upper tunnel shows malachite and azurite, assaying about 7% copper, 1.4 oz. silver and 1 to 6 oz. gold per ton. IDEAL MINING & MILLING CO. ARIZONA

Mine office: McCabe, Yavapai Co., Ariz. John L. Davis, gen. mgr., Prescott, Ariz.; Jas. O’Brien, supt., Model mine at last accounts.

The Gladstone mine, with a 1,000’ shaft, carries auriferous and argen- tiferous copper and lead ores, values being mainly in gold. Formerly eee high-grade ore and ran concentrating ore through the McCabe mill. ;

The McCabe or Model mine, 6 claims, bought 1906, for $81,521, has a 750 incline shaft, with about 12,000 of workings, showing a vein formed of a series of lenses of banded quartz, with central band or vug cavity filled by crystals of quartz, arsenopyrite, chalcopyrite and pyrite carrying gold and silver. The workings have developed several orebodies carrying 8 to 10” of smelting ore, and 12 to 24” of milling ore, with values of $35 to $85 per ton. Country rock is schist, vein passing westward into a “stock” of quartz diorite.

Production was 518,895 lbs. copper, 139,766 oz. silver and 14,696 oz. gold in 1906; 361,257 lbs. copper, 117,582 oz. silver and 12,004 oz. gold in 1907; 116,012 Ibs. copper, 25,107 oz. silver and 2,812 oz. gold in 1908, and 189,107 lbs. copper, 47,001 oz. silver and 6,256 oz. gold in 1909. No recent returns secured. Property considered meritorious.

IGNACIO RODRIGUEZ RAMOS, $. A.; COMPAÑÍA MINERA. MEXICO Idle. Owing to the Mexican revolution, no letters can be sent or

received from the mine at Baca, Aliende, Jimenez, Chihuahua, Mex. Of-

cers: Ing. Santiago Rodriguez, pres.; Lic. Alfredo E. Rodriguez, vice-pres.

and managing director; Ignacio Rodriguez Ramos, gen. mgr.; Rafael A.

Quiroz, mgr.; Ramon G. Aguirre, supt., at last reports. Organized, 1902,

under laws of Mexico, capitalization 30,000 pesos, and reconstructed Aug.

17, 1906, capitalization 700,000 pesos, increased, 1911, to 10,000,000 pesos,

shares 200 pesos par. The Compania Minera de Almoloya, S. A., was

absorbed 1910,

Property, originally 15 hectares of the Cigarrero mine, is now 129 hectares, covering the mineral zone of the Sierra Almoloya, including El Cigarrero y Anexas, San Enrique, El Rayo, Las Carolinas, La Abundancia, La Cuauhtémoc, La Centella, El Relámpago, El Trueño and Los Plomosos mines. The geological conditions greatly resemble the Santa Eulalia camp. Ore occurs in limestone, in lenses, one under development having a width of 70’ and length of 140’, ore said to average 5% copper, 25% lead, 6% zinc, 15 oz. silver and $8 gold per ton. Values are mainly in silver-lead ores, though chalcopyrite occurs as a byproduct.

The mine is extensively developed to a depth of 300 meters, by an 800’ shaft and 2 main tunnels, with much rich ore in sight. Ore is sold to the American Smelting & Refining Co. About 300 men are employed.

Equipment includes steam and electric power, with a steam hoist and an. air compressor. An experimental mill, with 3 stamps, is connected with the mine by a 4,000’ incline tram.

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years past, to the average value of about 1,000,000 pesos. Copper produc- tion is estimated at 750,000 lbs. fine copper in 1909. IKEDA MINES, LTD. BRITISH COLUMBIA

Idle. Letters to 448 Seymour St., Vancouver, B. C., unanswered. Mine office: Jedway, Moresby island, Queen Charlotte group, B. C. S. J. Castle- man, gen. mgr.; Andrew G. Larson, cons. engr. and supt. Organized Sept., 1910, under laws of British Columbia, capitalization $850,000, shares $1 par. Property is the former holdings of the Awaya-Ikeda Co., Ltd., taken over for $200,000, apparently with a $50,000 cash payment, and balance of $150,000 due on bond and lease.

Lands, ‘the Lily group, 42 claims, 2,100 acres in several groups on Ikeda bay, at the southern’end of Moresby island, 3 miles from Jedway, and con- nected therewith by government rail and telephone. Steamer connection is had with Vancouver, 450 miles distant.

The Lily group, 8 claims, 400 acres, crown patented in 1912, are on the southwestern side of Ikeda bay. These claims, the only ones on which mining has been done, were discovered May, 1898, by Arichika Ikeda, and developed by him until taken over by the present company, Sept., 1910. The group shows limestone and slate cut by dikes of greenstone and diorite, having well-defined flat fissures at right angles to and between the main fissures, which are practically vertical, the others being approxi- matély horizontal and of great number. Ore occurs in a series of veins of 2 to 8 width, the largest orebodies lying along the horizontal main fissure. The vein principally developed is.of 5 to 30’ width, proven for 1,000’ in length and about 300’ in depth. The ore shoot, up to 20’ in width, carries lenses of chalcopyrite, averaging, as mined, about 2.5% copper, with a gangue of silicious country rock and occasional stringers of quartzite and limestone. The ore mined by the former owners averaged about 4% copper, 2.2 oz. silver and $2.25 gold per ton, with occasional rich ore carrying up to 12% copper, 60 oz. silver and $5 gold per ton; was hand-

sorted before shipment. Diamond drilling, 1910, is said to have shown 2

new orebodies, 1 opened by a 52’ crosscut.

The Lily mine has 4 tunnels, Nos. 1, 2, 2% and 3, all tunnels being connected by winzes. No. 2 tunnel is 350’; No. 2%4 tunnel is 350’ long; No. 3 tunnel, 940’ long, has about 5’ of argentiferous and auriferous chal- copyrite of good average tenor and ends in a 40x50’ chamber from which considerable ore has been stoped, the ore in the chamber apparently being not the same as that followed in the tunnel, lying about 45’ to the north- ward and found by crosscutting.

A 6,100’ horse tram, of 36” gauge, connects the mine with a 150’ wharf having a 110’ ell, supplied with a 1,000-ton ore bunker, there also being one 400-ton and two 100-ton bunkers. The inlet is charted and admits steam- ers of fair size at flood tide. Equipment includes a steam plant burning wood, and a 3-drill Ingersoll-Sergeant air compressor. There are 12 build- ings including a hospital, store, smithy, shops, boarding house, bunkhouse, ee laboratory, dwellings for superintendent and engineer, and stable.

Production, to end of 1910 was about 12,000 tons of ore, of which 5,608 tons were shipped from Nov., 1906, to Aug. 3, 1908. Of these shipments 2,100 tons was first-class ore averaging 12% copper, 7 oz. silver and $6 gold per ton, and 3,568 tons were second-class ore averaging 6% copper, 3 oz. silver and $3 gold per ton, all shipped to the Tyee smelter, at Lady- smith, Vancouver island, B. C. These shipments gave net smelter returns of $58,882, an average of better than $10 per ton. Production is estimated at 125,000 Ibs. of fine copper in 1907; 800,000 Ibs. in 1908, and 600,000 Ibs.

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in 1909, with considerable gold and silver values. Property idle in 1912, save for assessment work on unpatented claims. ILLINOIS COPPER & SILVER MINING CO. WASHINGTON

Idle. Letters to Pittsfield, Ill., unanswered. Mine at Keller, Ferry Co., Wash. J. C. Davis, pres. and gen. mgr.; J. D. Nighbert, vice-pres; A. Ham- ilton, supt.; preceding officers, J. E. Dinsmore and Wm. H. Hoover, direc- tors; B. H. Swan, sec.; J. D. Hess, treas., at last accounts. Organized under laws of Washington, capitalization $2,000,000, shares $1 par, non- assessable, in $1,000,000 preferred and $1,000,000 common stock. Owns property near the Canadian boundary line, embracing 9 claims, in the San Poil district. The Columbia group of 4 claims, 3% miles from Keller, shows auriferous and argentiferous copper ores. The Oregon group has 300’ of workings, including 2 shallow shafts and 2 tunnels, 1 of 112’ length, developing a vein claimed to be 72’ wide carrying a gossan showing low- grade ore,

Illinois & Jerome Copper Co. Arizona

Closed down several years and letters unanswered from Springfield, Ill., and mine at Ayutla, Autlán, Jalisco, Mex. E. A. Perry, pres.; Homer Vandevender, vice-pres.; Thos. Montgomery, sec.; J. T. Ash, treas.; John Breckenridge, gen. mgr., at last accounts. Capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par; issued, $750,000.

Lands, 45 hectares, including El Crudo and El Bajio mines, latter an abandoned old mine. Property said to show 15 veins, main vein being 8 to 17’ in width, traceable 2 miles. El Crudo shaft, of 225’ depth, shows ore of 5 to 20% copper tenor, estimated to average 5% copper, 15 oz. silver and $5 gold per ton. Mine, at last accounts, had about 3,000’ of workings, estimated to show 50,000 tons of ore.

Illinois & Jerome Copper Co. Arizona

Idle many years. Mine at Jerome, Yavapai Co., Ariz. A. D. Zel- lanack, pres.; R. W. Wood, vice-pres.; Annie E. Zellanack, sec. Organized Aug., 1908, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par. Lands, near the Copper Chief, are undeveloped.

Imlay Mining Co. Nevada

Office: 204 Herald Bldg., Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine near Imlay, Humboldt Co., Nev. Geo. W. Morgan, pres.; Hon. O. W. Powers, vice- pres.; R. E. Siddoway, sec., at last accounts. Organized April 19, 1907, under laws of Utah, as successor of Morrison Mining Co., capitalization $500,000, shares $1 par, assessable; fully issued,

Lands, 26 claims, unpatented, with 2 mill sites and a town site, 7 miles from Imlay. Mine has a vertical shaft, with about 4,000” of workings de- veloping ore assaying up to 8.8% copper, 7.6% lead, and 0.18 to 66.5 oz. sil- ver per ton, with gold values.

Equipment includes three 60-h. p. boilers, a hoist, air compressor and electric plant. Buildings include an office and shops.

The 50-ton mill was put in commission July, 1909. Shipments were begun about April, 1908, to the Selby smelter, of 1 carload weekly of ore running $50 to $100 per ton in assay value. Company employed 7 men during 1912,

Imperial Copper Co. Arizona

Office: Silver Bell, Ariz.. M. P. Freeman, receiver; Hon. F. M. Mur- phy, pres.; G. W. Dietz, sec.-treas. Company's affairs are being liquidated by M. P. Freeman, a receiver appointed 1910 in bankruptcy proceedings. A. serious attempt is being made to bring about a reorganization and refinancing of the company and a resumption of operations by mine smelter and railway is confidently expected in 1914. Owing to the low

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price of copper in 1910, the inability of keeping development work ahead of ore extraction, and to the loss of the working shaft by fire, the smelter could not be kept supplied with the 800 or 900 tons of ore a day requisite for economical operation. The property was therefore shut down and this led to the appointment of a receiver.

Organized May 15, 1907, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $7,000,- 000, $5,000,000 outstanding; shares $10 par, nonassessable; fully issued. Bonds, $2,000,000, at 6% mortgage income, under terms of which the com- pany cannot distribute more than 6% annually to stockholders. Interest on bonds was defaulted July, 1910. Paid $100,000 dividends in 1906, and $200,000 in 1907, in 3 dividends of 2% each. Has been controlled through a majority stock ownership by Development Company of America and controls entire capital stock of $900,000 of the Southern Arizona Smelting Co., which owns the company smelter at Sasco, 12 miles away and all the stock ($800,000) of the Arizona Southern railroad. The fiscal year ends Sept. 30. Annual meeting, second Tuesday in November. Balance sheet for year ending Sept. 30, 1910 (plant closed since) shows current assets of $44,349; mercantile department, $66,809, and supplies, $794, with a deficit of $336,819. The property account shows mines purchase account $5,530,000, equipment and buildings $256,940, concentrator $187,717, bond discount $397,880, railroad $45,077, development $86,816, and other items $15,258, a total of $6,519,690. Liabilities, aside from stock and bonds, amount to $1,425,618, of which amount $121,902 is accounts payable, $123,239 accrued accounts and $1,080,000 bills payable.

Lands, 60 claims, patented, 1,000 acres, with mill and smelter sites and miscellaneous lands of 1,820 acres in the Silver Bell mountains, a small independent range having a granitic base, fragments of limestone series, a porphyry intrusion and many later andesite and trachyte dikes. The cap- ping, of no economic importance, consists of rhyolite, andesite, tuff, detrital sand, conglomerate and recent basaltic flows.

The ore occurs in contact metamorphic deposits of altered limestone and as disseminated or “porphyry” ore in the adjacent intruded mass of monzonite porphyry. The contact deposits have been the main source of ore supply thus far, These deposits have been cut and displaced by fault- ing and shearing, orebodies occurring as irregular contact lenses having a N.-W. strike, with axes parallel to the fault and fissure planes. The oxidized zone is comparatively shallow, being not deeper than 150’ in the principal workings, with a sharp change from the oxidized to the sulphide zone. The oxidized ores, which contain cuprite, malachite and azurite, furnished the bulk of early production, but the principal ore mineral of the deposit is chalcopyrite, with occasional bornite in a garnetiferous gangue. The contact deposit also shows some ore that is an argentiferous sulphide- complex of galena, sphalerite and chalcopyrite. S

In 1909 the company acquired working control of 240 acres of adjoin- ing lands, owned by El Tiro Copper Co., and considerable churn-drill boring has been done, showing an extensive deposit of disseminated sul- phides in monzonite-porphyry averaging 2.3% copper. :

The ' original workings were those of the Mammoth or Old Boot mine opened in 1865, and a small producer of high-grade copper and sil- ver-lead ores at irregular intervals, under former ownership. This mine has been the principal producer of the property, the ore coming mainly from the 400’, 500’ and 600’ levels. Development includes the 1,200’ Page crosscut tunnel and the 800’ Mammoth shaft of 3 compartments, vertical, replacing the old 400” Mammoth shaft sunk at 40° incline now used for ventilation, pump-columns and lowering timber. The 700’ station has a

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Prescott compound condensing pump raising about 200,000 gals. of water daily. The mine also has extensive open cuts from which ore has been . extracted.

The Union shaft is 1,600’ north of the Mammoth and connected with it on the 300° level, The shaft is 450’ deep, developing an extensive body of smelting ore of 3 to 4% copper tenor, with reserves of low-grade garnet- iferous ore of about 2% copper average.

The Billy shaft, 1,000 northwest of the Union, is 300’ deep and there also are the 300” Wilson and 100’ Prospector shafts. The property as a whole is reported to have about 11 miles of workings. Development to Sept. 30, 1910, when mine was closed down, aggregated 77,121’ of drifting, 12,590’ of raises and 5,362’ sinking, or 95,073’ in all, of which 15,733’ were done in the year ending Sept. 30, 1910, in which period 8,920’ of work was done in the Mammoth, 3,605’ in the Union, 929’ in the Billy and 168’ in the Page mine.

The main power plant, at the Mammoth mine, has six 70-h. p. boilers, burning petroleum, with oil-storage tanks. There are three 200-h. p. hoists, 1 at the vertical and 1 at the incline shaft of the Mammoth. There is also a 60-h. p. double tandem drum gasoline hoist at the Billy mine. The Mam- moth plant has a Nordberg 2-stage cross-compound condensing air com- pressor, with capacity of 3,000 cu. ft. of free air per minute, at 90 Ibs. initial pressure, and there is a 5-drill Norwalk 2-stage straight-line air com- pressor at the Union mine, where there is a steam plant with six 70-h. p. boilers. Compressed air for the Porter locomotives is furnished by a Norwalk 3-stage straight-line air compressor, driven by a 40-h. p. 440-volt induction motor. Power for lighting, for compressor motor and for mill machinery, is generated by a 500-kw. Westinghouse turbo-generator, at the smelting plant at Sasco, and transmitted 12 miles by No. 6 wire to the mine at 11,000 volts, stepped down at 440 volts for use. The Mammoth shaft has a 36” Link-Belt picking belt, of 120’ length, for sorting ore.

The 300-ton mill, said to have cost $165,000, went into commission Sept., 1908, and was being operated at full capacity just before production was suspended, Aug., 1910, The mill was planned to handle porphyry ores and such ferruginous copper ores as would require concentration be- fore use as fluxing ore in the smelter. Equipment includes three 16x36” rolls, 6 New Century jigs, 22 Card tables and 20 vanners. The mill is operated by electric motors of 5 to 50 h. p. There also is an old 20x40’ experimental mill, of 10 tons daily capacity.

Buildings include machine shops, carpenter shop, a framing mill, smithy, bunkhouses, boarding houses, changing houses and about 20 dwellings, with a mine store, carrying a large stock.

The Southern Arizona railway, controlled through stock ownership by this company, is 22 miles long, of standard gauge, running from Silver Bell through Sasco to Red Rock, connecting with the Southern Pacific line. Equipment includes 3 locomotives and 25 cars. At the mine, ore is hauled in by Porter compressed air locomotive to a 100-ton shipping bin at the railroad track and taken’ in 50-ton steel bottom-dump cars to the Sasco smelter.

Smelting operations began Oct. 1, 1909, and continued to Aug. 15, 1910, or 104% months, in which time the plant handled 241,410 tons of ore, in- cluding 3.511 tons of custom ore. The average cost of smelting including taxes and depreciation was $2.405 per ton and of mining $2.137. The net average price received for copper was 12.91 cts. per pound.

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Production has been as follows: Tons Ore. Copper, Lbs. Silver, Oz.

Sept: 1, 1904, to Dec, 31, 1904.05 2.54. ars 13,695 3,030,632 21,525 Calendar year) 19052. 2, 20. oe see eee 34,313 5,687,152 39,399 Calendar year 1900. A ean e 36,059 4,385,246 44,327 CAMA year NIO A E 41,456 5,267,401 63,171 Jann te Septa gue. O PR eee TA 69,651 5,699,008 80,970 Qt: TF 1908) to Sept...30, 1909... vse 242,400 10,500,000 140,000 Oets7 1909: to Sept 307 1910.0. 20. Je. 7) 237,118 11,215,170 119,355 Rotahdelayotl.. 2 en o soln T 674,692 45,784,609 508,747 IMPERIAL COPPER CO. SOUTH DAKOTA

Durbin Groupe, pres.; John O'Brien, supt. Property in Custer Peak district, developed by 175’ shaft, reaching permanent water level. Cross- cutting will be done to open up the 30’ ledge, and machinery, including a steam hoist and pump, are being installed. Mine reported to show good values in copper in upper workings. k IMPERIAL COPPER & GOLD MINING CO. WYOMING

Office: 423 Caswell Block, Milwaukee, Wis. Jacob Best, sec.-treas. Lands, 133 acres, patented, near the Portland mine, on Upper Cow creek, 12 miles west of Encampment, showing 2 veins, 1 of 26 to 32’ estimated width, being a schist dike. Mine has about 500’ of tunnels developing ore giving assays of 6 to 14% copper, with small gold and silver values. Sec- retary reports all taxes paid, 1913.

Imperial Mine. Utah

Leased by J. H. Manderfield, N. S. Nielson and Walter James, New- house, Beaver Co., Utah. Claims, near the old Cactus mine, show a strong vein on a contact between quartzite and granite (or monzonite), carrying shoots of high-grade copper ore with gold and silver values.

Development is by a 1,300’ tunnel in monzonite with some 3% chalco- pyrite ore; also the older 300’ Massachusetts tunnel in decomposed quartz- ite and granite. A third 250’ tunnel on the opposite side of the mountain shows a strong vein on which recent work has developed chalcopyrite ore from which shipments carrying 14% copper were made in 1911. Work re- sumed in 1912 and compressor and other machinery installed. IMPERIAL MINING CO. IDAHO

Mine office: Burke, Shoshone Co., Idaho. Eugene R. Day and Otto A. Olsson, directors. John H. Nordquist, gen. mgr. Organized 1906, capi- talization $1,000,000, shares $1 par. Assessment of 1% mills per share levied 1913. Property adjoins the Copper King, on the west. Developed by over a mile of work in upper and lower tunnels and is now preparing to explore property by diamond drilling.

Imperial Mining Co. Washington

Probably dead. Letters unanswered from Marysville, Wash. Mine at Silverton, Snohomish Co., Wash. Jas. E. Dupree, president. Lands, 11 claims, showing a contact vein between diorite and conglomerate, carrying gold, silver, copper and lead ores.

Inca Mining & Milling Co. Idaho

Idle and probably dead. Letter unclaimed at Cuprum, Washington Co., Idaho. Owns the Mineral World mine in the Seven Devils district, carry- ing auriferous and argentiferous lead and copper ores.

INDE, REDUCTION Co. MEXICO

“Idle, Letters to Oil City, Pa., and Indé, Durango, Mex., unanswered. W. J. Hulings, pres.; Marcus Hulings, mgr. Is apparently no connection of the Indé Gold Mining Co, Lands, near Rosario, the nearest rail point,

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include Las Coloradas and La Cruz mines, also the Mina Matracal, bought Feb. 1, 1909, The Matracal has a vein of 7 to 15 meters width, traceable 800 meters, carrying gold and copper with excess of iron, and copper and lead sulphides. La Roca smelter has 2 furnaces of 200 tons daily capacity, doing a general custom business, making matte carrying 18 to 30% copper, 10 to 15 kgs. silver and 150 to 175 grams gold per metric ton, shipped to the Aguascalientes smelter for conversion and refining.

Independence Copper & Gold Mining Co. Utah

Probably idle. Letters to Salt Lake City, Utah, unanswered. Mine office: Alta, Salt Lake Co., Utah. Chas. Parks, pres.; Fred Carlson, vice- pres. and treas.; E. O. Leatherwood, sec.; E. R. Morgan, gen. mgr., at last accounts. Organized 1904, under laws of Utah, capitalization $50,000, shares 10 cts. par. Lands, 11 claims, 2 patented, 16 miles from Sandy the nearest rail point. Mine has about 200’ of tunnels, showing copper and gold values with a little lead.

Independence Gold £ Copper Mining Co. Montana

Office and mine: Deer Lodge, Powell Co., Mont. I. S, Eldred, pres. and gen. mgr.; Peter Pauley, vice-pres.; E. Scharnikow, sec.; W. F. Gullette, treas.; preceding officers, A. D. Hoss and W. C. Spottswood directors. Or- ganized 1907, under laws of Montana, capitalization $900,000, shares $1 par. Assessments to date 10 mills per share. Lands, 120 acres in the Oro Fino district, 12 miles south of Deer Lodge and 5 miles south of 2 railways. Property includes the old Independence mine located 1870, which is a patented tract of 102x2,200’, formerly having a 50’ shaft and a 340’ tunnel. New workings include shafts of 25’, 35’ and 125’, and tunnels of 30’ and 55’, showing a vein of 4 to 5’ width, carrying copper ore said to have averaged as produced about $12 per ton in combined values, and to be capable of concentration 4 into 1, giving concentrates with excess of iron. Closed down Sept., 1908, for lack of funds. Leased until Jan., 1914, to men who are driving old tunnel and mining some gray copper ore carrying $18 in gold and copper.

Independence Mining Co. Wyoming

Idle. Office: 55 High St., Oshkosh, Wis. E. E. Meeleus, pres.; Henry L. Larsen, vice-pres.; H. O. Granberg, sec.-treas, and gen. mgr. Organ- ized June 28, 1904, under laws of Wyoming, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par, as successor of Leighton-Gentry Mining Co.

Lands, 6 claims, patented, 120 acres 2 miles north of Dillon in the Battle Lake district, showing eruptive metamorphic country rocks, carrying an 11’ contact vein between quartzite and diorite, opened by a 200’ incline shaft and 250’ tunnel, showing occasional stringers of 3 to 12” width, carry- - ing a little chalcopyrite assaying 12% copper, with small quantities of nickel and cobalt and traces of silver and gold. Has steam power, a hoist and several small mine buildings. Taxes paid to date.

Independent Copper Mining & Milling Co. Idaho

Jas. Bean, pres.; Mullan, Idaho; John H. Nordquist, vice-pres., gen. mgr. and agt., Wallace, Idaho; C. D. Miller, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, Forest Clark and Henry Bilberg, directors. Organized 1907, under laws of Idaho, capitalization $1,250,000, shares $1 par; issued $950,000; assessment to date 1% cts. per share.

Property, 3 claims, the Bullpen, San Quentin and Independent Frac- tion, in the Snowstorm copper belt, 314 miles northeast of Mullan in the Hunter mining district, Shoshone county, Idaho. Claims show quartzite cut by 4’ fissure vein running N. 72° W., dip 80° S., the vein underground being 10’ wide and carrying scattered bunches of 2%. copper ore. Develop- ment includes 800’ crosscut tunnel, with 300’ or more of drifts at a depth

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of 300’ below the outcrop. Development to date, 1,300’, shows ore in vari- ous places but not in commercial amount. Property inactive since 1908, but reopened 1913. Equipment includes 100-h, p. electric motor, etc.

Independent Mine. New Mexico

Cooke & Gunn, owners, care the Oaks Co., Alma, N. M. Property in Copper creek, Mogollon district, shows a rhyolite andesite contact netted by mineralized fractures carrying gold and copper values. Developed by 250° tunnel.

Index-Bornite Copper Mining Co. Washington

Idle. Letter unclaimed at 36 Dexter Horton Bldg., Seattle, Wash. Mine at Index, Snohomish Co., Wash. A. M. Watt, sec.-treas. and gen. mgr., at last accounts. Lands, 2 claims, 40 acres, 3 miles east of Index, having a 50’ shaft, and tunnels of 70’ and 300’, the latter a lower crosscut tunnel having a 200” back on a 2 to 4 vein, with a pay streak carrying argentiferous bornite assaying 16 to 50% copper and 6 to 8 oz. silver per ton.

Index Mining Co. Washington

Probably dead. Letters unanswered from Snohomish, Wash. Mine at Index, Snohomish Co., Wash. Lot Wilbur, pres. and gen. mgr., at last accounts. Lands, 5 claims, known as the Miller group, opened by tunnels of 300’ and 800’, showing chalcocite, bornite and chalcopyrite in a 12’ vein of concentrating ore carrying a 2’ pay streak of smelting ore on the foot- wall.

Indian. Falls Development Co. California

Office: 754 St. Helena Ave., Tacoma, Wash. Mine office: Indian Falls, Plumas Co., Cal. C. A. Darmer, pres.; A. Holt, vice-pres.; Horace W. Tyler, sec.; O. B. Roeder, treas., all of Tacoma, Wash., and John Arthur, directors; G. H. Goodhue, gen. mgr. and cons. engr. Organized May, 1908, under laws of Washington, capitalization $2,000,000, shares $1 par, non- assessable; issued, $1,860,000. Annual meeting, July 12 each year.

Lands, 21 claims, 7 patented, 9 in-process of patenting, 440 acres, also 188 acres of miscellaneous lands including the townsite of Indian Falls, in the Shoofly district. Property shows talcose schists, slate and por- phyrite, carrying 8 lenticular bedded veins, in schists, with average strike of N. 30° W. and dip of 50 to 70°. Six veins under development are: re- ported as averaging 4’, 8’, 12’ and 30’ in width, traceable 12,000’, carrying chalcopyrite associated with pyrite, estimated by management to average 214% copper, 1.8 oz. silver and $1.06 gold per ton. Development is ex- 'clusively by tunnels, 8 short and one 587’ long, with 1,315’ of workings, esti- mated by management to show 21,000 tons of ore, with 16,000 tons blocked out for stoping.

Management plans erecting a summer resort hotel and development of the mineral springs and townsite.

Indian Queen Consolidated Mining Co. Utah

Idle. Address: care Jesse Knight, president, Provo, Utah. Mine near Newhouse, Beaver Co., Utah. L. N. Morrison, vice-pres.; R. E, Allen, sec.- treas.; David Evans, mgr.; Jas. Quinn, supt., at last accounts. Organized 1907, under laws of Utah, capitalization $150,000, shares 10 cts, par, fully issued. Shares are listed on the Salt Lake Stock Exchange.

Lands, 25 claims, partly patented, near the King David mine about 2 miles east of Newhouse, taken over from the old Indian Queen and Leland companies. Development is by a shaft and a 4,700’ tunnel planned to be driven 6,000’, showing at 1,500’ from the portal a mineralized fissure that was drifted on for 500’, but gave no ore. Equipment includes electric

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power, with a hoist and air compressor. Closed down July, 1910, and worked by leasers, with small production of picked ore, until July, 1912. INDIAN QUEEN MINING & SMELTING CO. MONTANA

Idle since 1908. Office: 22 West Park St., Butte, Mont. Mine office: Apex, Beaverhead Co., Mont. Thos. F. Stephens, pres., treas. and gen. mgr.; Wm. Robertson, vice-pres.; Thos. W. Ellis, sec.; A. H. Stephens and T. J. Ellis, directors. Organized July, 1904, under laws of Montana, capi- talization $450,000, shares $1.50 par, nonassessable; issued, $228.000.

Lands are 2 claims, 40 acres, and a 3-acre mill site, in the Utopia dis- trict, known as the Indian Queen mine, which is owned jointly by this company and the Anaconda Copper Mining Co. The property shows granite, quartzite and dolomite, having 2 contact deposits between granite and limestone, of 8 to 10’ average width, carrying malachite, azurite and chalcocite, estimated by management to average 8% copper, 10 to 12 oz. silver and $1 to $4 gold per ton. Mine was opened 1867, and has been worked intermittently by lessees. Development by shafts of 150’ and 220’, and 820’ tunnel, with about 1,600’ of workings.

Equipment includes about 60 h. p. in steam and gasoline, with a hoist good for 500’ depth. There is a small smelter, connected with the shaft by a short tramway, having a 30-ton 36” circular water-jacket blast furnace producing mátte averaging 55% copper, 27 oz. silver and 0.13 oz. gold per ton. Production, 1903, was 1,400,000 lbs. fine copper.

Indian Springs Mining Co. Nevada

Address: 223 Mohawk Block, Spokane, Wash. Mine at Lida, .Es- meralda Co., Nev. A. B. Railton, pres.; H. T. DeMerritt, vice-pres.; Fred N. Davis, sec.; Thos. R. L. Harris, treas.; Ross C. Craddock, supt., at last accounts. Organized Feb., 1911, in Washington, capitalization $1,500,000, shares $1 par, assessments, 3 mills to April, 1913. Company is a reor- ganization of the Indian Springs Copper Mining Co., with new directorate.

Company owns 8 claims, 100 acres mineral land in Lida valley, or Tule Canyon district, 30 miles southwest of Goldfield, Nev. Ground shows veins and replacements in massive gray limestone. Vein runs east-west, has vertical dip and is said to be 70’ wide, traceable for 1,000’. Development by 100’ shaft and 200’ tunnel. Has steam power and expects to continue work with a small force, 1913-14.

Indiana-Darrington Mining Co. Washington

Probably dead. Letters unclaimed at Seattle, Wash. Mine said to be at Darrington, Snohomish Co., Wash. G. A. Rochester, pres.; Geo. M. Crawford, sec., at last accounts, Capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par. INDIANA MINING CO. MICHIGAN

Office: 60 Congress St., Boston, Mass. Mine office: Dee Bldg., Hough- ton, Mich. R. M. Edwards, pres. and gen. mer.; Henry Tolman, treas.; Chas. G. Rice, Sidney J. Jennings and A. F. Holden, directors; Albert L. Wyman, sec.; Thomas Bennetts, supt.; Wm. Wearne, mg. capt. Organized Aug. 11, 1909, under laws of Michigan, capitalization $2,500,000, shares $25 par; issued, $2,000,000, paid in, $10.50. Company gave 60,000 shares to owners of lands for its property and offered 36,000 shares, Aug., 1909, for public subscription, and is supposed to have started business with $128,000 cash. ‘Expenditures, 1912, totaled $77,917, and quick assets at end of year were $65,144, with accounts payable $12,084.

Lands, 1,200 acres, bought 1909 from the Indiana Copper Co., the tract lying northeast of the Lake and north of the North Lake, in Secs. 21, 27 and 28, T. 50 N., R. 37 W. The property was worked on a small scale previous to the burning of its mill, 1864, but the old openings are inac- cessible and no work has been done thereon by the present company. The

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lands are heavily timbered and can supply all mining timber for a cohsid- erable time. Ample water is available from the Fire Steel river. Transpor- tation is furnished by a spur of the Copper Range railway, and the Mineral Range line is within a short distance.

The lands are traversed by the Evergreen belt of copper-bearing amygdaloidal beds and by a number of unidentified cupriferous beds lying between the Evergreen belt and the eastern sandstone. The southeastern part of the tract is in the hypothetical horizon of the Lake amygdaloidal bed. The Indiana is covered with a heavy overburden of sand, hampering drilling operations. The ground has been tested by extensive diamond- drill borings.

No. 2 drill hole resulted in the disclosure of phenomenally rich copper ground, the core being taken from a bed lying immediately under a 400 conglomerate. The nature of this bed is a subject of dispute, 1t having been called sandstone, conglomerate and felsite, but there is little question that it is an altered felsite. A microscopic analysis made of No. 2 drill core by Mr. R. C. Allen, state geologist of Michigan, shows the rock to be holocrystalline, extremely fine-grained, with a rather confused texture, the individual grains interlocking and overlapping very irregularly. The rock consists essentially of quartz and light colored mica, with secondary in- filtrations of calcite and small irregular grains of disseminated native copper. Secondary quartz, clear and normal, occurs in small ramifying veinlets. Mica seems present in 2 types, 1 with extremely small and ir- regular flakes and the other in irregular crystals of much larger size. The even size of the quartz grains, with their interlocking texture, indicates an igneous origin, There are indications that the 40' of rich felsite rock and a second zone of about 25” width, are parts of a single bed of approximately 265’ width, the second zone of 25’ being near the center of the wide bed. No. 5 hole, drilled in felsite, at a depth of about 400’ in the horizon of the felsite cut in No. 2, the discovery hole, and No. 9 hole, cut felsite carrying heavy copper at a depth of 1,497’, apparently a continuation of the same orebody.

Ground was broken, Jan., 1911, near No. 2, the discovery hole, for a vertical shaft, the overburden at this point being about 110’. The shaft is cylindrical, of 17’ outside diameter, lined with steel and concrete, with inner dimensions of 8x12’, and was 1,400’ deep, Aug., 1913, with a good showing of heavy copper along the contact between felsite and trap rock on the 600’ level.

Equipment includes a steam hoist good for 2,500’ depth, air compressor, and necessary mine buildings.

Indiana Mining Co. Oregon

Bankrupt. Property near Baker City, Ore. Closed down. Was a re- organization of Hoosier Boy Co. Described Vol. X. INDIANA-SONORA COPPER & MINING CO. MEXICO

Dead. Formerly owner of entire capital stock of Sierra de Cobre Min- ing Co., S. A., which see. All properties transferred to subsidiary com- panies of Greene Cananea Copper Co.

Indicator Mining Co. ‘Utah

T. F. Gleeson, pres.; D. C. McLean, vice-pres., both of Salt Lake; C. N. Needham, sec.-treas., Thistle, Utah; P. McCaffery and J. J. Gertster, di- rectors, at last accounts. Organized 1911. Property consists of 8 claims, 160 acres, on Dutch mountain, about 30 miles from Wendover. Claims show a 4 fissure vein of white quartz carrying 5% copper with low silver and gold values, according to H. J. Earnest, the consulting engineer.

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Ingenika Finlay River Dev. Co. British Columbia

Idle. Mine address: Jedway, Moresby island, Queen Charlotte Group, B. C.. Lands, near Ikeda bay, at the southern end of Moresby island, in- clude the Copper Cliff group, carrying a vein of 20’ estimated average width, traceable some 300”. Property, but slightly developed, has ore assaying 9 to 11% copper, with fair gold and silver values. Closed down since 1911. INGOMAR CONSOLIDATED GOLD MINING CO. CALIFORNIA

Office: 954 Phelan Bldg., San Francisco, Cal. George D. Graves, su- perintendent, Campo Seco, Calaveras Con Cal

Property, the Ingomar mine, worked in the 50's as a gold mine. Claims show fissure vein with gold-bearing copper ore. Development by shaft, 300’, with level at 120’ showing orebody 60” wide of $12 to $50 ore. Equip- ment includes steam hoist and a 10-stamp gold mill, employing 25 men at mine and mill.

Inguaran; Compagnie D’. Mexico

Office: 56 Rue de Provence, Paris, France. Mine office: Inguarán, Ario, Michoacán, Mex. Ch. Laforgue, gen. mgr.; Maurice Armand de Lille, agt.; J. L. Philips, supt. Organized Jan. 15, 1898, under laws of France, capi- talization 12,000,000 francs, shares 500 francs par. Is controlled jointly by the French house of Rothschild and the Banque Mirabaud; a considerable portion of the company’s stock is owned by the Compagnie du Boleo. Property is said to have cost 1,500,000 pesos, and company reported to have expended about $8,000,000 thereon, which is undoubtedly overestimated.

Property, 185 hectares, and a mineral zone of 5,000 additional hectares, in the Tacambaro district 70 miles north of the Balsas river, Michoacán, lying on the plateau of the volcano Jorullo, 1,500” above the plains. The Inguaran mountain is traversed by a dike 2,000 to 3,000’ wide, of fine- grained pink granite, or granodiorite sprinkled with grains of copper glance and copper pyrite. This dike is traceable several miles across country. The granitic rock is sprinkled with specks of chalcocite and chalcopyrite forming a disseminated, or so-called porphyry deposit whose payable ores occur in belts or bands in the dike. Proven depth of the ore is about 300 meters, at which point it apparently cuts off. Development is by a 2,500' tunnel and 2 main shafts, deepest 350’, with levels opened at 80’ intervals. Both ore and country rock are exceedingly firm, little timbering being re- quired. Estimates of size and value of the orebodies vary .greatly, but the best authorities estimate an average of 3.25% copper, with 2,000,000 to 3,000,000 metric tons of ore blocked out. The ore is not well adapted to wet concentration as the metallic sulphides are firmly interlocked with the granitic minerals, but the ore is admirably adapted to treatment by froth flotation of the Minerals Separation Co., and apparently could be put about 8 or 10 into 1.

The mine has steam power and a 200-h. p. hydro-electric installation at Mata de Plantano, 7 miles from the mine, where there is a stream flowing about 80 liters per second, with an available head of 930', fed by springs that burst forth from the foot of Mt. Jorullo after the last eruption of that volcano, about 1750.

A survey has been made for a railway from Patzcuaro, the present shipping point, to Inguarán, a distance of 78 miles. A complete survey has also been made and plans drawn for a railway from the mines to Zihuatanejo, on the Pacific, the route of the proposed line traversing a rugged country that would necessitate several years for construction.

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several hundred million pounds of copper yearly at a merely nominal cost. The Inguarán has a large body of low-grade ore, but it is not equal in quantity or quality to that of several of our other “porphyry” coppers. The only recorded production was 598,439 lbs. of ore, valued at 21,870 pesos, shipped 1904, doubtless for test purposes. The property has been idle some years and cannot become a serious producer until rail connec- tions are secured; judging from the very leisurely progress of the past decade it will become a large producer about the time that Gabriel blows his horn. INLAND COPPER CO. ARIZONA Idle. Letters to 1017 Commerce Bldg., Kansas City, Mo., and to the mine at Planet, Yuma Co., Ariz., unanswered. L. E. Corbin, pres.; A. W. Bork, vice-pres.; S. D. Dodson, sec.-treas. Organized under laws of Ari- zona, capitalization $5,000,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable. Lands, 40 claims, including 2 groups of about 15 claims each, in the Bill Williams range, near the Bill Williams Fork river, with a mill site, smelter site and water rights. The mine has 2 tunnels, presumably short, and a 2-com- partment shaft of 150’, planned to be sunk to 250’, equipped with an 18-h. p. gasoline hoist. There are several mine buildings. Company advertised for copper ores, presumably to show its stockholders, since it had no reduc- tion plant of its own. Is not regarded favorably. INLAND COPPER CO. IDAHO Idle. Letters unanswered’ Mine near Troy, Latah Co., Idaho. Owns the Inland Empire mine, with 8 claims, 6 miles east of Troy. Development by tunnels aggregating about 1,000’, showing at depth of 160’ a vein of 20’ estimated width, carrying mainly oxidized ores, with rich streaks assaying up to 27% copper. Company was said, early 1909, to plan shipping 12 car- loads of ore, then blocked out, to the Tacoma smelter, but apparently failed to do so and has been quietly sleeping since that time. INLAND MINING CO. ; MONTANA Idle. Letter unclaimed at Wallace, Idaho. Mine near Taft, Missoula Co., Mont. Barney Swanson, pres. and gen. mgr.; John H. Nordquist, cons. engr. Lands, 10 claims, well timbered, in Dennemora gulch, 3 miles southeast of the Dennemora mine, about 5 miles from Saltese, having a 3 to 10’ vein with east-west strike, carrying chalcopyrite and averaging 3 to 10% copper, with smaller gold and silver values. Development is by a 300’ upper crosscut tunnel, a 100’ middle tunnel and a 700’ lower crosscut tunnel. INSPIRATION CONSOLIDATED COPPER CO. ARIZONA Office: 42 Broadway, New York. Mine at Miami, Ariz. William B. Thompson, pres.; William D. Thornton, vice-pres.; Joseph W. Allen, sec.- treas.; Evan J. Dudley, asst. sec.; Charles E. Mills, gen. mgr.; preceding officers, John F. Alvord, Thomas F. Cole, Edmund C. Converse, William E. Corey, Charles A. Corliss, Philip L. Foster, Henry B. Hovland, Eugene Meyer, Jr, William G. Rockefeller, John D. Ryan, Charles H. Sabin and Albert H. Wiggin, directors. F. H. Vollstedt, purch. agt. Guaranty Trust Co., New York and Old Colony Trust Co., Boston, transfer agts.; Bankers ' Trust Co., New York and the National Shawmut Bank, Boston, registrars. Organized Dec. 18, 1911, under laws of Maine, capitalization $30,000,000, shares $20 par; issued, 722,943 shares. Bonds $6,000,000, 10-year, con- vertible 6%, due March 1, 1922, convertible into stock at $25 per share. The annual report of Dec. 31, 1912, showed cash on hand and accounts receivable of $4,521,381, with liabilities of $137,435, which should be ample for its mill construction and development expenditures. Company took over properties owned by the Inspiration Copper Co.

INSPIRATION CONSOLIDATED 469 and the Live Oak Development Co., paying for same in stock. In May, 1912, the mill and camp site of the Black Warrior copper mine was pur- chased from the Warrior Copper Co. for $175,000.

The Inspiration group embraces 40 claims, patented, 546 acres, in a compact tract having an extremely irregular outline, next west of the Miami and north of the Keystone, 8 to 10 miles west of Globe. Company also owns the Live Oak group west of the Keystone property and a 160- acre ranch, with valuable water rights covering the junctions of Pinal and Miami creeks.

The property carries about 114 miles of the strike of a mineralized belt of Pinal schist, much crushed, altered and silicified by contact action, due to the intrusion of the great mass of granite forming the hills to the S. W., the shattering having allowed the free circulation of secondarily en- riching solutions. The oxidized zone shows carbonates, occasionally of commercial tenor, as in the Clipper tunnel, but ore occurs mainly in sec- ondary form as disseminated chalcocite, forming an enriched zone of commercial ore of 50 to 575’ in thickness, estimated by the management to average 180’, with an average of 90 to 100’ of overburden, underlaid by a primary zone of cupriferous pyrite below commercial tenor. About 40% of the values occur in small fissures and veinlets and along the jointing planes and planes of schistosity, copper being mainly in the form of flakes and grains of chalcocite, the balance of about 60% of ore values being dis- seminated through the gangue of friable Pinal schist, with some quartz. The mineralization also extends into the granite-porphyry contact, about 10 to 15% of the ore developed in the Colorado orebody being in granite. The cupriferous schist is faulted, just east of the Woodson orebody, by the Bulldog fault zone, of about 300’ width.

Development under the present company has been of a dual nature, including both extensive underground openings, along lines somewhat similar to those used in opening the adjoining Miami mine, and extensive churn-drill borings along the same general system as followed in the development of the Ray and Chino mines. On Dec. 31, 1912, this mine and the Live Oak together had 71,846’ of workings, and 229 churn-drill holes. By the various shafts and workings and by drill holes bored from surface, the ground has been proven for a maximum width of 1,400’ and length of 3,400’, and Dec. 20, 1911, this area was estimated to have an average thick- ness of 354 of capping, with average thickness of 142’ of commercial ore containing 30,300,000 tons of 1.95% copper ore. ;

The Live Oak group of 14 claims, 200 acres, is about 1% miles. west of Miami at the western end of the Miami ore belt and separated from the Inspiration group by the property of the New Keystone Copper Co. The geological conditions are similar to those of the’ Miami belt gen- erally, save that much of the surface is covered by leached white granite, showing brilliant, green-stained outcrops of far more attractive appear- ance than any other part of the belt. This granite is underlain by schists carrying the ore, but part of the orebody is in granite.

The mine was originally opened on a flat dippirg vein, 5 to 12’ thick, carrying high-grade chrysocolla ore, from which shipments running 17 and 18% were made for several years. Much of this material is quartzose and valuable as a gemstone. The vein ended at water level in a mass of low- grade chalcocite ore similar to that of the Miami mine. This orebody was developed by tunnel work and drilling by the Live Oak Development Co. by over 50 drill holes with 20,000’ of drilling and 5,000’ of new under- ground work. This work blocked out a body of disseminated ore 1,400 long, 75 to 200” deep beneath a capping of oxidized material averaging

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435’ thick. The orebody as developed averages 114’ thick and carries 15,000,000 tons of 2.11% copper ore.

The combined properties are being prepared for ore extraction and but little new development, save diamond drilling on the Live Oak is being done in 1913. At the present time there is about 15 miles of underground work with 229 drill holes, having 124,886’ of work, blocking out 45,000,000 tons of 2% ore.

Development includes the churn drilling already mentioned and under- ground workings from various tunnels and shafts. Ore extraction will, however, be entirely confined to 2 cement and steel-lined shafts, 585’ deep and 107’ apart, in Webster gulch on the north side of the mountain, while men and supplies will be lowered and water pumped at the Incline, or Supply shaft on the opposite, or Miami side of the mountain. The In- spiration orebody will be worked by 2 main tramming levels at 326’ and 450’ in depth, respectively. About 16,000,000 tons will be mined above the first named, or 4th level, and 29,000,000 above the 450’, or 6th level. The Live Oak orebody will be accessible through the Live Oak shafts, but all ore will be hauled through the main haulage tunnel, 6,600’ long, connecting with the bottom level of the Inspiration shafts.

The ore will be mined by the so-called Ray system, or pillar-and-stall method, and carried in trains of 5-ton cars by air locomotives to the work- ing shafts. These 2 shafts will be operated from the same hoist house, but will be entirely independent units, capable of handling 7,500 tons daily each in a 14-hour day. The ore will be hoisted in skips, passed through crushers and put in 25,000-ton storage bins. From these bins it will be carried over the company’s 4!4-mile railroad, with 3% grade, to the new mill at the old Black Warrior townsite. Mining costs are estimated at S5uctsaa toON: i

The new mill, designed by H. K. Burch, will handle 7,500 tons daily by a combined wet concentration and froth flotation process of the Minerals Separation Co. A 600-ton unit of the latter company is now in course of erection. The entire mill is expected to be in operation in 1914, the con- tracts for the machinery having already been let.

In addition to the estimated ore reserves of 45,000,000 tons of 2% ore, there is 8,000,000 tons of 1.4% oxidized ore which will be available for leaching. The company estimates a recovery of 80% of the value in the concentrating ore and a production of copper at 9 cts. a lb. On this basis the orebodies should produce 1,170,000,000 lbs. of copper, which will pro- duce, if the management's figures of 9-ct. cost and 14-ct. copper can be maintained, a net return of $58,000,000. The company is in expert hands, is well managed and is already the sixth largest copper mine in the world in point of tonnage developed and the fifth largest in the United States. It should produce 60,000,000 lbs. of copper annually.

Inspiration Copper Co. Arizona

Office: 14 Wall St., New York. Frank W. Holmes, pres.; D.. E. Thomas, vice-pres.; H. F. J. Knoblauch, sec.; H. E. Dodge, treas., and L. Timmerman, asst. treas. Organized Dec., 1908, under laws of Maine, capi- talization $10,000,000, shares $10 par; fully issued. A former issue of 100,000 shares of 6% cumulative preferred stock was converted into common stock, Oct., 1910, when the balance of stock in the treasury was sold at $10 per share. The charter provides that the number of directors shall be fixed by the stockholders, at not less than 5, nor more than 15. Annual meet- ing, first Monday in March. Company sold all of its properties and assets to the Inspiration Consolidated Copper Co. in March, 1912.

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INSPIRATION EXTENSION COPPER CO. ARIZONA William Evans, pres., 438 Broome St., New York. Anton Trojanovich, gen. mgr., Miami, Ariz.; John Kasser, vice-pres.; Fred Augustin, sec.- treas.; preceding officers and Geo. Kingdon, directors; J. A. Thomas, mine supt. and engr. Organized Feb. 11, 1913, under laws of Delaware, capitali- zation $1,000,000, shares $5 par; $80, 000 issued. Annual meeting, Feb. 11.

Property, 9 claims, 145 acres, unpatented, in the Miami district, is sur- rounded by claims of the Inspiration Consolidated Copper Co., and under- lain by schist, locally altered, that is said to show a large deposit of low- grade copper ore that will average 3%.

Development is by a shaft now being sunk, 90’ deep Sept. 8, 1913, that has passed through schist into granite.

Equipment includes a 35-h. p. gasoline hoist good for 500’, with various buildings; a compressor will be installed in the near future. INSPIRATION MINING CO. ARIZONA

Mr. Richardson, manager, Dragoon station, S. P. R. R., Cochise Co., Ariz. Property, northeast of Dragoon, shows a copper deposit, under de- velopment 1913.

Inspiration Needles Copper Co. Arizona

D. R. Williamson, pres.; Frank Beston, vice-pres.; F. W. Hamm, sec.- treas., and Geo. J. Stoneman, directors. Organized Jan., 1912, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $500,000, shares $5 par. Annual meeting, first Monday in February.

Property consists of several claims in the Needle hills, Miami district, Gila Co., Ariz. Development work thus far has been limited. No account of operations obtained. Property is in poor locality for ore. INTERCOLONIAL COPPER CO. NEW BRUNSWICK

Idle. Office: 32 Tyler Bldg., Pawtucket, R. I. Mine office: Dorchester, Westmoreland Co., N. B. Darius L. Goff, pres.; T. J. Edwards, sec. Or- ganized 1899, under laws of Arizona, and capitalization decreased, 1906, to $2,000,000, shares $5 par, in preferréd and common shares, latter with re- stricted voting privileges.

Lands, 250 acres freehold and 1,100 acres held by leasehold from the Crown, show a blanket vein carrying carbonate and sulphide ores, claimed to average 3 to 4% copper, which is an overestimate. Has shafts of 40’, 75’ and 150’, also a 1,500’ drainage tunnel, with about 8,000’ of underground workings.

Works include a 200-ton concentrator, leaching plant and electrolytic refinery, having 2 boilers, 4 engines, crusher, rolls, 15 tubular roasting fur- naces, six 300-ton leaching vats and two 50-kw. dynamos. The electrolytic plant has 550 lead cathodes and 550 lead anodes, 22x33” each, giving a plating surface of 5,000 sq. ft., for the deposition of electrolytic copper. Plant also includes tanks for precipitation of metal on scrap iron. Reduc- tion plant proved unsatisfactory after making about 50 tons fine copper. INTERMOUNTAIN GOLD & COPPER MINING CO. IDAHO

Idle many years; probably dead. Mine near Pocatello, Bannock Co., Idaho. G. B. Rogers, pres.; Frank Ball, treas.; G. A. Clark, sec. Lands are the Lost Horse group, on the Ft. Hall Indian reservation, opened by a 50’ shaft, said to be bottomed in good ore.

Intermountain Mining & Industrial Assn. Utah

Idle. Office: Denver, Colo. Letter unclaimed at former mine office, Bingham Canyon, Salt Lake Co., Utah. John Chase, pres.; Col. Thos. B. Crawford, mgr., at last accounts. Company owns 350,000 shares of Rio Dolores Copper Co.

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in Markham gulch, Bingham Canyon, Salt Lake Co., Utah. Claims said to show chalcopyrite and galena ore in vein varying from a few inches to 20' in width, giving assays of 6.5% copper, 18.8% lead, 10 oz. silver and $2 gold per ton. The mine has 4 shafts, deepest 200’, and 8 tunnels, longest 700’, with about 3,500’ of workings. Equipment is said to include an air compressor. INTERNATIONAL CONSOLIDATED MINING CO. UTAH Probably closed down. Letter unclaimed at Alta, Salt Lake Co., Utah. F. C. Jenkins, manager. Organized 1909, under laws of Utah, capitalization $1,000,000. Lands, 11 claims, in Big Cottonwood canyon, about 5 miles from Alta, having a 100’ tunnel showing a streak of rich sulphide ore. INTERNATIONAL COPPER x & GOLD CO. COLORADO, MONTANA & MEXICO Office: 1207 Fort Dearborn Bldg., Chicago, Ill. Organized 1899, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $3,000,000, shares $1 par. Apparently is a holding company only, controlling through stock ownership the Montana Copper & Gold Mining Co. and the Santa Fé Copper & Gold Mining Co., and in turn is controlled by Sonora Central Mines Co., under which title all affiliated properties are described. a INTERNATIONAL COPPER MINING CO. MONTANA Probably dead. Letter unclaimed at Libby, Lincoln Co., Mont. Lands, near Libby, Mont., have a short tunnel said to show an 8' vein of molybdenite. Company was said, Jan., 1910, to be installing machinery. INTERNATIONAL COPPER ORE CO. MEXICO Office: 424 Scarritt Bldg., Kansas City, Mo. A. M. Conard, president, Nogales, Ariz. Mine office: Noria, Sonora, Mex. Is the Mexican operat- ing corporation of the Sonora Copper Co. Regarded with much sus- picion. INTERNATIONAL GOLD & COPPER MINING CO. MEXICO Idle. Mine office: Guaynopa, Chihuahua, Mex. J. C. Peterson, presi- dent., Company took over the lands formerly held by the International Consolidated Smelting & Mining Co. and presumably is a reorganization. Lands, 254 hectares, known as the Utah mine, in Guaynopa canyon, claimed by former owners to have a 90’ vein, with an 8 to 12” pay streak carrying high-grade chalcopyrite, assaying 5 to 8% copper, with good silver values. Mine has several short tunnels, longest apparently only 100. Idle on ac- count of revolution, but regarded unfavorably for other reasons. INTERNATIONAL METALS SELLING CO. UNITED STATES Is a subsidiary of the United States Smelting, Refining & Mining Co. and is managed by Vogelstein & Co., 42 Broadway, New York. INTERNATIONAL MINING CO. MONTANA Office: Bozeman, Gallatin Co., Monts J. W. Wilcox, presgusSodia VariBs Henderson, vice-pres. and treas.; Samuel F., Walker, sec. and gen. mgr.; preceding officers, Harvey M. Farriss and A. Badgley, directors, all of Bozeman, Mont. Organized Oct. 2, 1902, under laws of Montana, capi- talization $600,000, shares $100 par, fully paid and nonassessable. Lands, 12 claims, 240 acres, well timbered, in Springhill mining district, Gallatin county, Mont., showing gneiss, quartzite and shale, said to carry fissure and contact veins, opened by 380 to 1,800’ tunnels and by 5 shafts of 80 to 800’, showing sulphide ores. Company now developing an ore shoot said to carry 26% lead, 8 oz. silver and $8 to $67 gold per ton and expects to ship this year. The Lone

ie group adjoining the International is practically under same owner- ship.

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International Nickel Co. United States & Canada

General office: Constable Hook, Bayonne, N. J. Executive office: 43 Exchange Place, New York. Ambrose Monell, pres.; R. M. Thompson, chairman of board; J. L. Ashley, sec.-treas. Organized Sept. 12, 1912, suc- ceeding International Nickel Co. and Colonial Nickel Co., the former ab- sorbing the Canadian Copper Co., which owns the great nickel-copper mines and smelters of Sudbury, Canada. Company also absorbed the Or- ford Co., Anglo-American Iron Co., Vermillion Mining Co., the American Nickel Works, the Nickel Corporation of Great Britain, and the Société Miniére Calédonienne.

The copper-nickel properties couse of mines with an estimated de- veloped reserve of 20,000,000 tons, smelting plants at Copper Cliff, Canada, handling 3,500 tons daily, separating and refining plants at Constable Hook and Camden, N. J.

Capitalization $62,000,000; of which $12,000,000 is 6% preferred stock; shares $100 par; issued, 38,026,427 common and 8,904,718 preferred. Bankers Trust Co., New York, transfer agent; New York Trust Co., New York, registrar. Dividends, 6% on preferred, and 2% Dec., 1912; 24% March 1, 1913, 3% June, 24% September, on common Podi A majority of the stock is held by a voting trust ending Sept. 6, 1917,

International Smelting Co. Mexico

Idle. Last address: Suaqui de Batuc, Ures, Sonora, Mex. J. V. Ham- mer, pres.; H. W. Tracey, sec.; C. T. Finley, treas. Organized 1905, capi- talization $1,000,000, shares $1 par. Planned building a smelter, and promised dividends, but failed to carry out its promises. Is regarded with much suspicion.

International Sm. & Ref. Co. N. J, Utah & Indiana

Office: 42 Broadway, New York. General manager’s office: Kearns Bldg., Salt Lake City, Utah. Smelter at Tooele, Utah. Refinery at Perth Amboy, N. J. John D. Ryan, pres.; Dennis Sheedy and W. D. Thornton, vice-presidents; preceding officers, Chas. F. Brooker, Chas. N. King, THos. Morrison, Chas. H. Sabin, Chester A Congdon, E. C. Converse, W. E. Corey, L. D. Ricketts and Thos. F. Cole, directors; J. W. Allen, sec.-treas.; William Wraith, gen. mer.; E. S. Woodward, ore purch. agt.; O. M. Kucks, supt. Tooele plant of International Sm. € Ref. Co. at Tooele, Utah; A. Clayton Clark, supt. Raritan Copper Works, Perth Amboy, N. J.; Geo. P. Hulst, supt. International Lead Refining Co., East Chicago, Ind.

Organized Dec. 21, 1908, under laws of New Jersey, capitalization $50,000,000, shares $100 par; issued, $10,000,000. Is controlled by the Cole- Ryan interests. Company owns the entire capital stock of the Raritan Copper Works, Raritan Terminal & Transportation Co., New Jersey Stor- age & Warehouse Co., Tooele Valley Railway Co., and ‘International Lead Refining Co. Guaranty Trust Co., New York, and Old Colony Trust Co., Boston, transfer agents. Bankers Trust Co., New York, and American Trust Co., Boston, registrars. Shares are listed on the Boston Stock Ex- change. Annual meeting, second Tuesday in June.

The balance sheet of Dec. 31, 1912, gave total assets of $19,387,029, of which $11,533,347 was in fixed assets and $207,358 was cash on hand and in banks. Net income for year 1912, after deducting for depreciation, was $1,106,047, compared with $1,219,037 for the preceding year and the surplus for year, $306,047.

Gross income for 1912 was $4,537,390, of which $4,423,398 was from treatment charges and profits on E. Dividends were begun Aug. 1, 1909, on the basis of 114% quarterly, increased 1910, to 2% quarterly.

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of the San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake railroad, where connection is made with the Tooele Valley railroad, and plants and yards cover one-half square mile. The receiving bins for ore, flux and fuel have 10,000 tons capacity, the ore going from bins to crushing and sampling plant by belt conveyors; the fuel to furnaces by electric tramming system.

Crushing and sampling 5-story building, 40x84’, 2 complete sections using the Brunton system of sampling, contains 8 Blake type crushers, 9 to 12"x15 to 24” in size and 8 rolls, 12 to 15” wide and 26”, 42” and 48” di- ameter. Each sampling section contains 4 Brunton sample cutters. In the copper plant the ore is crushed to three-eighths inch, conveyed from sample mill to roaster storage bins (5,000 tons capacity) by belt conveyor, thence to roaster feed hoppers by belt conveyor.

The McDougall roaster building contains 2 sections, each 64x162’ and holding 32 furnaces. These furnaces are 16’ in diameter, 18’ high and have 6 hearths. Roaster gases pass through a 120x140’ hopper bottomed brick dust chamber 30’ high above hoppers, containing two 4 banks of wires; thence through brick flue 255’ long to stack. The brick stack is 350’ high and 25’ inside diameter at the top. The reverberatory plant receives the calcine by electric tram system. It contains 5 coal-fired furnaces, Anaconda type, 1 with 19x90’ hearth, 4 with 19x102’ hearths. Each furnace is equipped with 750-h. p. waste-heat Stirling boiler. Gases go through a brick flue 1,360’ long to stack.

The converter plant has 5 electric-driven stands for 96x150” shells and a 60-ton crane. Converter shells are lined with magnesite brick. Copper is cast in steel moulds by 30-ton crane. Slag is cast in beds and broken up and sent to the lead blast furnaces. Gases from plant go through a steel flue to a 50x126’ brick bag house containing 960 31x1' 6” woolen bags. From the bag house the gas is discharged through a 150’ stack 15’ in diameter at the top. s

The power house contains 2 Corliss engines direct-connected to 250- kw. 500-vdc. generators; 2 vertical triple-expansion engines direct-connected to 750-kva. 2,200-v. generators; 2 converter blowing engines, 15 lbs. air; 1 steam-driven 90-lb. air compressor; 1 electric-driven 90-lb. air compressor; 2 No. 10 Roots blowers, direct-connected to tandem compound Corliss en- gines; one 750-kw. Westinghouse-Parsons turbo-generator; and 2 Leblanc condensers and necessary auxiliaries. Condensing water is cooled in natural draft cooling tower. In addition to the waste-heat boilers, there are 3 hand-fired 350-h. p. Stirling boilers.

The lead plant contains blast furnaces, sinter plant and charge bins: There are 26 double steel bins with a capacity of 10,000 tons of ore and concentrate, receiving material from the crushing plant by belt conveyor. Fine concentrates and ores already sampled can be dumped direct. Charges for blast furnaces and sinter machines are weighed in scale hoppers and dropped into charge cars, going direct to furnaces, but sinter charges go by car to a hopper-feeding belt conveyor delivering to sintering machines.

The sinter plant contains 10 Dwight-Lloyd machines, 42x264”,- rated capacity 100 tons per day per machine. Sinter from machines goes to blast-furnace charge bins by standard railway cars. :

The blast-furnace plant is a steel and concrete building with two 45x180” and two 60x180” furnaces whose daily capacity. averages 250 tons of charge. Gases pass to brick bag house containing 1,440 bags, lead to drossing plant and the lead-copper matte to the converter plant. A slag settling furnace is being erected. The drossing plant has four 30-ton kettles and uses a Howard press.

. Tooele Valley railway has 7 miles of main line; 1 locomotive, 6-wheel

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switching type, 57 tons weight; 1 locomotive Mogul type, 6014 tons weight; 2 locomotives, Consolidation type, 96 tons; 30 steel hopper- bottom ore cars; 3 flat cars and 4 passenger coaches.

This plant has a fully-equipped assay office and laboratory, shops, weather observation department, emergency hospital, offices, etc.

Industrial equipment consists of four 18-ton and four 12-ton electric locomotives, with necessary slag trucks, matte trucks, calcine and coal cars. All buildings are of steel and concrete construction.

The details given above show how mechanically perfect the plant has been designed. The smelting practice of copper ores largely follows Ana- conda methods. The sulphide fines are roasted with a certain amount of silicious ore added upon the fifth hearth of the roasters to heat the ore and keep the temperature at the right point. The ore is roasted down to .7% sulphur corresponding to a matte fall of 15 to 18 tons per day. The rever- beratory slag, carrying 40 to 42% silica, is tapped at the back of the furnace and the matte, carrying 20 to 30% copper, conveyed in ladles to the con- verters. The converters, when operated only on day shift, are kept hot over night by filling them with cinders from the reverberatory furnaces. Silica is applied to the converter in lump ore, 2 boats to each 8-ton charge. The bag-house dust from the smelter fumes is removed by reversing the fan and direction of current, drawing “the dust into the chamber beneath.

The completion of the Utah Metal Mining Co.'s 11,000’ tunnel in 1913, gives direct connection with the Bingham mines.

The Raritan plant, at Perth Amboy, N. J., on New York harbor, com- pleted 1899, and since enlarged repeatedly, is one of the largest and most modern electrolytic copper refineries in the world, employing 1,000 men and having a productive capacity at the end of 1912 of about 35,000,000 Ibs. refined copper monthly.

The smelting department consists of one 200-ton, one 150-ton and one 100-ton furnaces for casting anodes, and two 225-ton, one 150-ton and two 100-ton furnaces for casting wire bars, ingots and cakes.

The electrolytic refinery includes 2 tank houses with their respective power houses, power consumption being about 7,000 kw. The department has special shears for trimming cathode sheets and Morrow loop machines for attaching copper lugs to the cathode starting-sheets.

Beginning in 1911, tank house No. 1 was entirely reconstructed, the old tanks being dismantled, copper buss bars and other equipment entirely removed and new tanks installed of a larger size, corresponding with those in No. 2 tank room. The Walker system was utilized and 200 additional tanks were installed, making 1,800 in all, which increased the capacity of the room from 13,000,000 to 22,000,000 lbs. per month. Four new electric traveling cranes were added, increasing the number to 8 cranes in all and larger buss bars were substituted of sufficient capacity to economically carry the increased current. The general arrangement and method of oper- ation is very similar to that in No. 2 tank room. This room is 210x582’.

No. 1 power house, which furnishes power for No. 1 tank room, was also entirely remodeled, four 1,000-kw. Nordberg triple-expansion Corliss engines installed, which are expected to operate on an extremely low steam consumption. Allis-Chalmers barometric condensers were also installed. The engines are direct-connected to 1,000-kw. electrolytic generators, 2 being furnished by the General Electric Co. and 2 by the Crocker-Wheel- er Co.

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10-ton 3-motor Whiting cranes in each bay, equipped with special devices for handling an entire tankful of anodes or cathodes at 1 load. There are 3 electric circuits running lengthwise, 1 in each bay, each circuit of 396 tanks being handled from the power house by an electric generator. Cur- rent is 7,500 amperes, giving a current density of 20 amperes per sq. ft. The main conductor has a cross-sectional area of 1234”. There are 1,188 de- positing tanks arranged in 108 nests of 11 cells each, with electrode ar- rangement on the Walker system.

The International Lead Refining Co., a subsidiary company, with an ‘extensive plant located at 151st Street and McCook Avenue, East Chi- cago, Ind., has 64 acres of ground. Construction work started April 20, 1912, and plant was in operation Oct. 3, 1912. Plant comprises main refinery building 168x416’, all steel and concrete, with 3 standard-gauge tracks en- tering the building. There are 2 crane runways running the full length of the building, with 3 traveling cranes. Brick office building is 128x36. A men’s change house, of brick, 36x70’, is equipped with toilets, shower baths, steel lockers, and 1 room equipped as a dining room. Brick bag house 65” 6x55’ 10”, is constructed of brick and concrete, divided into 4 com- partments of 144 bags, 30'x18”. X

Equipment consists of one 12,000-ton battery Parkes process, two 300- ton softeners, four 60-ton desilverizing kettles, one 300-ton refining furnace, and one 200-ton molding furnace. The bullion comes in on a high track, is charged into furnace with charging machine and flows by gravity through thé plant. Lead is hand-molded and trucked into cars. Sampling is done in two 40-ton kettles and bullion pumped into softeners with centrifugal pump. Residues are worked up in three 30-ton reverberatory furnaces. There are two 40-ton blast furnaces, 1 for antimonial slag, and 1 for by- products and ores; 8 retort furnaces for treating zinc skim and two 5-ton cupels for treating high-grade retort metal.

Common lead is double refined by crystallization in kettles in the cor- . roding lead plant. Refining plant is in complete operation. All furnace gases except softeners and retorts are drawn through a sheet flue 700’ long and passed through the bag house.

Power is supplied by the Northern Indiana Gas & Electric Co. Two waste-heat boilers supply steam for compressors and refinery. High- pressure air is supplied by centrifugal air compressor and air for blast fur- naces is supplied by a Connersville blower. A 50,000-gal. tank elevated 50’, and 100,000-gal. sump tank, waste running back into sump tank and pumped into the 50,000-gal. tank, the elevated tank being connected with the East Chicago Water Co.'s mains. Oil storage capacity, two 12,000-gal oil tanks.

The International is not burdened by old smelteries acquired at ex- orbitant prices, but has new and up-to-date plants, capable of handling ore as cheap, if not cheaper, than any of its competitors and is already a big factor in the mining world. It is in strong and competent hands, both tech- nical and financial, and its profitable operation is assured.

Interstate Exploration Co. Arizona

Office: Room 202, Endicott Bldg., St. Paul, Minn. Maj. E. L. De Lestry, manager. Property comprises copper claims near Globe, Ariz. and lead-zinc lands at Benton and Platteville, Wis., and Galena, Ill. No re- turns secured. p INTERSTATE SILVER-LEAD MINING CO. IDAHO

Merged with the Callahan Mining Co. in 1912 as the Interstate Callahan ‘Consolidated. Is a silver-lead producer, some gray copper ore occurring in a quartz vein on the property, but not in commercial quantity. Property

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gives promise of becoming one of the large lead-zinc producers of the Coeur d'Alene region. INVESTMENT MINING & MILLING CO. ARIZONA

O. A. Pease, pres. and gen. mgr., Goldzona, Yavapai Co., Ariz. Prop- erty, 1,400 acres, situated a few miles from Goldzona, shows veins carrying a paystreak of high-grade gold-copper ore and much low-grade ore. De- velopment claimed in press reports to block out $500,000 worth of ore. INYO COPPER MINES CORPORATION. . CALIFORNIA

Office: 215 Balboa Bldg., San Francisco Cal. Mine address: Keeler, Inyo Co., Cal. .R. G. Paddock, pres. and gen. mgr.; F. J. O’Dea, sec. Or- ganized Noy. 19, 1910, under laws of California, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par, assessable; issued, 550,000. Levied an assessment to pay for patenting claims, 1911.

Company is a reorganization of the Inyo Copper Mines & Smelters Co. The president states that it is free of debt but is waiting for better financial conditions before attempting to raise money and that at present only a small amount of work is being done, 1913.

Property consists of 19 claims in Ubehebe district, covering a contact zone between limestone and granite porphyry. For a mile this contact is said to show places where there is 1 to 20’ of ore carrying 8 to 40% cop- per. The steep mountain side permits development by tunnel and future work will be of this character. Former development, amounting to 650’, includes 6 shallow prospect shafts and as many short tunnels, the longest 120’, together with 100’ of trenching. Ores carry appreciable values in gold and silver as well as copper.

INYO COPPER MINES & SMELTERS CO. CALIFORNIA Reorganized, 1911, as the Inyo Copper Mines Corporation, which’ see. INYO COUNTY CONSOLIDATED COPPER CO. CALIFORNIA

Idle and probably dead. Letters unclaimed at Citrus, Invo Co., and Los Angeles, Cal. D. J. Lang, manager, at last accounts. Lands, 7 copper claims and 5 gold claims, 5 copper claims formerly owned having been sold to the New York € Inyo Copper Co.

Ione Coal & Iron Co. California

Office: 401 Crocker Bldg., San Francisco, Cal. - Mine at lone, Amador Co., Cal. A. D. Shepard, sec. and gen. mgr.; D. F. McLennan, supt. Prop- erty, 1 patented claim, on Irish hill, about 3 miles north of Ione. Is an old mine having a lenticular orebody of chalcopyrite ore, 4 thick and 75’ long, dipping at 60° and proven to a depth of 300’, enclosed in greenstone. The main shaft is 450’ deep with another 233’ shaft and 1,988” of workings. The company modestly claims but 3,000 tons milling ore blocked out. Con- centrates and high-grade ore are shipped to Mountain Copper Co. at Mar- tine, Cal.

Equipment includes electric light plant, two 30-h. p. hoists good for 700’. depth, a 3-drill Simplex air compressor, 3-stamp mill, 50 tons capacity, in 30x90’ building; 1 Blake crusher 7x9”, Pindar concentrating tables, 1 Frue vanner and 1 Goulds pump.

Production for 1912 was 1,097 tons, averaging 744% copper, yielding 164,424 lbs. copper, 18,848 oz. silver and 649 oz. gold, total value being $44,299.98.

Company plans sinking shaft No. 2 to 600’ in 1913.

Iowa Copper Mining Co. Utah

Probably idle. Letter unclaimed at Modena, Iron Co., Utah. L. J. Ross, manager, at last accounts. Is no relation to company of same title in Summit county, Utah. Described Vol. X.

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Iowa Copper Mining Co. Utah

Letter unclaimed at Salt Lake City, Utah, and at Park City, Summit Co., Utah. Is no relation to company of same title in Iron county, Utah. A. W. Spooner, sec. and mgr.; J. H. Rolley, supt., at last accounts. Lands, on Scott hill, which is the divide between Park City and the Big Cotton- wood district, are developed by a 300’ tunnel, showing several rich stringers; an 1,100’ tunnel develops a fissure vein carrying silver, lead and copper ores, latter of good grade. Mine is quite wet, causing some trouble in operation. Small shipments were made in 1907, 1909 and 1911, but ended latter year practically idle. Hopes to cut big fissure that carries good ore in Barry Coxe ground. Was operating in Nov., 1912, but is generally regarded as a silver mine, copper occurring in small quantities only.

IOWA & NEW MEXICO MINING CO. NEW MEXICO Idle many years. Mine at Carrizozo, Lincoln Co., N. M. IOWA-UTAH MINING & MILLING CO. UTAH

Idle. Letters to 300 D. F. Walker Bldg., Salt Lake City, Utah, unan-

swered. Mine near Frisco, Beaver Co., Utah. J. D. Pardee, pres.; F. W. ` Rombach, vice-pres.; J. K. Shaw, sec.-treas., at last accounts. Organized June, 1906, under laws of Utah, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par, non- assessable; issued, $725,000.

Lands, 15 claims, unpatented, in the Star district 6 miles from a rail- road. Mine has a shaft with about 500’ of workings, showing argentiferous lead and copper ores.

Irene Mining, Smelting & Prospecting Co. Mexico

Probably idle. Letters to 403 South Flores St., San Antonio, Tex., and mine address Calle Aldama 11, Saltillo, Coahuila, Mex., unanswered. Harry S. Jones, pres.; T. T. Jacobson, vice-pres.; T. Holt, 'sec.; J. J. Coffman, treas.; Francisco Farias, supt., at last accounts. Organized 1906, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $500,000, shares $10 par. Property is the Josefina mine, carrying cuprite, melaconite, chalcopyrite and tetrahedrite, all more or less argentiferous. A drainage tunnel solved water problems.

Property in revolutionary zone, where no letters are delivered and mining operations are interfered with.

IRIGOYEN HERMANOS y CA. MEXICO

Mine office: Huetamo, Michoacan, Mex. Firm operates small copper properties, and is an intermittent producer of small quantities of copper. Presumably idle on account of revolutionary disturbances, 1913.

Irish Mines Co. Arizona

Idle many years and probably dead. Mine near Clifton, Graham Co., Ariz. B. A. Boyles, pres.; N. L. Lewis, vice-pres.; Otto Rosenthal, sec.: C. P. Dunn, treas. See Vol. X. : :

Irizar; Salvador. Mexico

Address: Charcas, Moctezuma, San Luis Potosi, Mex. Property is the Cerro del Cobre mine, carrying auriferous and argentiferous copper ore. IRON BLOSSOM CONSOLIDATED MINING CO. UTAH

W. Lester Mangum, sec., Provo, Utah. H. V. Birch, asst. mgr.; L. S. Zabriskie, supt. Is the only big producer of the “Knight” group of proper- ties, owned by Jesse Knight and associates at Tintic, Utah. Mine is a silver-lead property but like most of the Tintic mines also contains import- ant bodies of copper ores. Capitalization 1,000,000 shares, 10 cts. par: the dividend record to Aug., 1913, is $1.67 per share, with $300,000 additional cash on hand. Property good but ore shoots erratic, and while it is impos- sible to say where next year’s ore supply will come from, past experience indicates that the company will keep up its record for 1914, at least.

Other Knight properties are Beck Tunnel, Black Jack, Colorado,

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The Iron Blossom mine is in limestone cut by a large fissure on which the orebodies are aligned. The property is opened to a depth of 1,900’ and has been mining for the past 2 years a very large orebody of silver-lead ore. In May, 1913, high-grade copper ore, carrying silver, was opened on the 700’ level and a large tonnage of this ore is expected when the deeper levels have been driven out to catch this shoot.

Iron Cap Copper Co. Arizona

Office: 60 State St., Boston, Mass. Mine at Copper Hill, Gila Co., Ariz. Frank P. Knight, pres.; J. Judson Dean, Andover, Mass., vice-pres.; Jas. F. Lockwood, sec.-treas., Boston, Mass.; F. A. Woodward, supt.; preceding officers and Alvin T. Baldwin, directors. Organized Feb. 7, 1911, under laws of Maine, capitalization $2,000,000, shares $10 par, fully paid and nonassessable; 50,000 preferred and 150,000 common; issued, 25,215 preferred, 76,804 common. A $50,000 7% bond has also been authorized and $46,590 issued. Federal Trust Co., transfer agent; Exchange Trust Co., auditors. Stock is listed on Boston curb. Annual meeting, first Tuesday in January. Is practically a reorganization of the National Mining Explora- tion Co., buying its property under foreclosure sale May 25, 1911. Company reports Aug. 1, 1913, cash in bank, $16,035; notes receivable, $29,817; with total indebtedness, $15,966.

Property comprises 2 groups, the Iron Cap at Globe, and the Fumarole group in Graham county, Ariz. The Iron Cap group consists of 9 claims, 107 acres, immediately west of the Arizona Commercial holdings and next to the Old Dominion property at Globe, Ariz. The claims show shale and quartzite cut by diorite in depth and traversed by a fissure vein running N. E. and S. W. and dipping at 70°. This vein has been developed to a depth of 650’ and shows 1% to 12’ of commercial ore for a length of 450’ on the 650’ level, the ore averaging 5.74% copper with good silver values.

Development is by the Williams shaft, 802’ deep, with levels at 660’ and 776’ and about 550’ of drifting on the upper levels. In Aug., 1913, the ` new company had opened up 694’ of new ground on the 650’ level, devel- oping an ore shoot as just noted; 73 cars of ore have been shipped from 3 stopes on this drift. On the 800’ level 390’ of new ground has been opened and drifting is being done to get under the 650’ ore shoot. Com- mercial ore has been opened at 2 points on this level. Another shaft 600’ deep is not worked. Total extent of underground workings, 5,500’.

The main workings on the Iron Cap property are on the Black Hawk vein, which is generally supposed to apex in Arizona Commercial property.

The Fumarole group consists of 7 patented claims in the Lone Star mining district, 9 miles N. E. of Safford, Graham county, Ariz. These claims are supposed to contain gold ores in a volcanic neck, but have thus far been unremunerative, though the former company spent $125,000 on the Fumarole mine and opened up a little low-grade ore on the 500’ level. The Fumarole shaft was 570’ deep but has been idle since Dec., 1909. The mine has 2,000’ drifts and crosscuts on the 200’, 500’ and 700’ levels.

In June, 1913, company shipped 14 cars of ore to the Old Dominion and El Paso smelters, amounting to 569 tons and returning 113,618 lbs. copper and 8,650 oz. silver, netting $14,206, or a profit of $9,551.

Iron Dyke Copper Co. Oregon

Idle. Letters to Erie, Pa., unanswered. Mine near Homestead, Baker Co., Ore. 'C. N. Conrad, pres.; H. G. Fink, vice-pres.; A. A. Clauss, sec.; F. F. Curtze, treas.; preceding officers, Geo. R. Metcalf and Davenport Gal-

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braith, directors. Frank E. Pearce, supt., at last accounts. Organized under laws of Pennsylvania, capitalization $500,000, shares $100 par. Erie Trust Co. holds title by trust deed and bond. The mine has several thou- sand feet of workings and has been claimed in the press to have 200,000 tons of ore blocked out for stoping, with considerable ore on the dumps. Property was optioned to, the General Development Co., but option was surrendered May, 1910.

Iron Hat Mining Co. Utah

Idle: . Letters returned from 307 Atlas Blk., Salt Lake City, Utah, and Eureka, Juab Co., Utah. C. P. Harvielle, pres.; Geo. N. Lawrence, vice- pres.; C. E. Hinsh, sec.-treas.; Wm. Hoffman, supt., at last accounts. Or- ganized 1907, under laws of Utah, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par; issued, $645,000. Shares listed on Salt Lake exchange.

Property, 6 claims, partly patented, including the Texas and Missis- sippi claims in the East Tintic district, taken over about June, 1910, under quit-claim deed from the Three Metals Mining Co. Property has a surface showing of slightly auriferous and argentiferous copper ores. Mine has a 55’ vertical shaft and a 115’ incline shaft.

Iron-Horse Gold-Copper Mining Co. British Columbia

In liquidation. Property sold to Canadian Consolidated Mining Co., Ltd., of Canada, for $10,000, in 1912.

Iron King Mine. New Mexico

C. K. Hartley, operator, Oro Grande, Otero Co., N. M. Property, near Brice, shows fissure vein and replacement deposits of oxidized copper ores carrying gold and silver values from which shipments of 50 tons a day were made during Sept., 1913.

Iron King Mining Co. Utah

Office: Provo, Utah. Mine near Eureka, Juab Co., Utah. Col. C. Edw. Loose, pres.; Reed Smoot, vice-pres.; P. G. Peterson, sec., all of Provo, Utah. . Property is in Tintic district and has not yet found a body of silver- lead ore. Assessments of 1 ct. a share have paid for development work. Mine has a 600’ shaft and a 3,500’ tunnel, planned to be driven 6,000’ event- ually. The mine shows large quantities of iron ore, 100,000 tons being, it is said, blocked out and ready for stoping. Mine closed down March, 1912, owing to inability to market the iron ore at a profitable figure.

IRON MASK MINE. BRITISH COLUMBIA Owned by Kamloops Copper Co., at Kamloops, Yale district, B. C. IRON MASK MINING CO. MONTANA

Office: St. Maries, Idaho. Mine near Carter, Missoula Co., ‘Mont. Wm. Carney, pres.; J. W. Masser, vice-pres.; Jos. B. Hunter, sec. and mer.; J. G. Fralich, treas.; preceding officers, C, M. Carney, W. J. Schneider, J. W. Scott and Frank Carney, directors. Organized May, 1908, capitaliza- tion $500,000, shares $1 par. Assessment No. 3 of 2 mills per share levied June, 1913.

Lands, 10 claims, well timbered and watered, 3 miles from a railroad, having a 10’ vein of concentrating ore, with an 18” vein of smelting ore. The mine has a tunnel of 1,700’ length, with back of about 700’, with a total of 2,400’ of drifting on the vein in the various tunnels. The workings show silver-lead ore of good average grade, with a small percentage of copper. Drove 1,200’ new tunnel work in 1912.. Equipment includes gasoline power and necessary mine buildings.

Iron Mountain Copper Co. California

Office: 301 First National Bank Bldg., Riverside, Cal. Mine near Blythe City, Riverside Co., Cal. Harwood Robbins, pres.; E. W. Tucker, vice-pres.; Holton Webb, sec.-treas., all of Riverside, Cal. Organized about July, 1911,

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t ünder laws of California, capitalization $10,000, shares $1 par; issued, 5,000 hares.

Property, 35 claims, about 700 acres, known as the Crescent group, in fronwood mining: district, Riverside county, Cali, 26 miles south of Blythe junction on the Parker cut-off of the Santa Fé railroad. Claims show fis- sure veins in granite and porphyry, the main ledge being traceable 2 miles.

Development includes a 120’ shaft with a level at 100’ depth that is 70’ long and shows high-grade copper. ore containing visible gold. Ore ship- ments by former owners averaged $100 per ton. Outcrop shows high-grade ore. at several places.’ Mr. Robbins, who ‘has. furnished all the money thus far, plans putting in a small smelter.

IRON MOUNTAIN MINE, CALIFORNIA Owned by Mountain Copper Co., Ltd., at Keswick, Shasta Co., Cal. ( IRON MOUNTAIN MINING CO. BRITISH COLUMBIA

Idle, - Mine office: Jedway, Queen Charlotte island, B. C. Property: is on Moresby island of the Queen Charlotte group, in the vicinity of the Ikeda Mines Co. Ltd: Shut down in 1911 and presumably now moribund. IRON QUEEN MINING & SMELTING CO. ARIZONA

Address: Wmi- T. Read, 15 William St., New York City. Mines near Mayer, Yavapai Co.,'Ariz. F. W. Wood, Wm. T. Read, A. D. Barnhart, I. D. L. Williams and H. B. Bishop, directors. Capitalization $3,500,000, shares $10 par. Is a company formed to take over, subject to a mortgage for! $130,000, the greater part of the former holdings of the George A. Treadwell Mining Co., sold at tax and foreclosure sales. The Boggs and Hackberry propertiés are not’ included, being bought by the Commercial Mining Co., controlled by Phelps, Dodge & Co:

The organizers of the Iron Queen offeredithe stock at 75 cts. a share to stockholders. of the Treadwell Co. Property consists of Iron Queen group near Mayer, the narrow gauge railway, the smelter plant, 31 ‘claims and interests-in 3’ others in the Verde mining district: The Iron Queen group was favorably reported upon by M, A Finney, former manager of the Consolidated Arizona Smelting. Co. (Humboldt smelter), who states that this property is leached down to 300! level, has zinc ore between that and 400° leveliand has 6’ pyritic ore catrying"3% copper, “38% iron and 38% sulphur below that and on the 500’ level.

As the former Treadwell holdings are not considered as even decent prospects, the shares of the new company are ‘considered unfavorably. IRON SILVER MINING CO. COLORADO

Offices: Room 1408 Lord’s Court, New York., and’ 615 Stevens Bldg., Detroit, Mich. Mine near Leadville, Lake Co., Colo. De Forest Paine, pres.; W.: R. Cobb, vice-pres.; Homer A. Hoit; sec.; Frémont Woodruff, treas.; preceding officers, Hon, Thos. W. Palmer, Gen. Anson G. McCook, Eber W. Cottrell, H. C: DuVal, Henry (G. Stevens, Samuel E. Reinhardt and Henry C. Bush, directors; Geo. O. Argall, gen. mer.; Wm: Carson, supt.

Organized March, 1880, under laws of New York, capitalization $10,- 000,000, shares” $20 par. Net earnings were $267,034.64 in 1904; $515,127 in 1906; $65,366.14 in 1907; $6,960.46 in 1908; $183,121.93 in 1909; $138,308: in 1910; $187,639 in 1911; $274,322 in 1912. Dividends were $400,000 in 1906; $300,000 'in 1907; none in 1908; $50,000 in 1909; $200,000" if’ 1910; $100,000 in 1911 and $200,000 in 1912, with total dividends, to end of 1912, $4,650,000. Farmets Loan & Trust Co., New York, registrar. Annual meeting, first Tuesday in March.

In 1912 company mined 53,618 tons of ore which, after sorting, amounted to 46,410'tóns of a gross value of $1,848,298 of ainet value'of $523:904. Total income for year was $548,119, and total expense $273,797,

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The company owns and is now operating the Moyer, Tucson and Stevens mines, on Iron hill, about 2 miles east of Leadville, and also con- trols, through stock ownership, the Nisi Prius Consolidated Mining Co.

The Moyer mine is the main producer, yielding 24,752 tons of ore in 1912 of a gross value of $1,115,412 and a net value of $288,546. The mine has over 2 miles of workings and contains great orebodies of complex lead- zinc ore from which large tonnages have been extracted for several years past. This ore is very low grade but the zinc content permits shipment. The new orebody opened and stoped in 1912 was 18' thick, 70' wide and 360' long and had about 30,000 tons left in Feb., 1913. Another ore shoot, cut in 1912, is 5’ thick, 8’ wide and 110’ long.

The Tucson mine yielded high-grade copper ore in 1911, from a lens of copper sulphide found in the Tucson fault between the 600’ and 700’ levels,

but extensive prospect work has not revealed any other body of this ore, and this lens is now practically worked out. The copper production of the mine was 1,448 tons containing 56,410 lbs. of copper in 1912, and leasers produced 2,133 lbs. more in the same year. The total production of the mine for 1912 was 21,657 tons of a gross value of $732,866. The Tucson has a 1,200’ aerial tram, of 12 tons hourly capacity, costing $7,855, from the shaft to the railway siding, which has cut the cost of ore transportation to about 12 cts. per ton, in place of former cost of 60 cts.

Production of the mines as a whole was 62,704 tons, including ore mined by leasers valued at $2,350,675 gross or $636,609 net value in 1912. Pro- duction has been as follows: 948,902 lbs. fine copper, 3,608,351 Ibs. lead, 45,805,699 Ibs. zinc, 950,067 oz. silver ‘and 3,049 oz. gold in 1904; 69,477 Ibs. copper, 4,542,938 Ibs. lead, 61,738,134 lbs. zinc, 425,050 oz. silver and 2,043 oz. gold in 1906; 21,321 lbs. copper, 5,489,047 Ibs. lead, 34,239,954 Ibs. zinc, 298,598 oz. silver and 1,360 oz. gold in 1907; 8,080 Ibs. copper, 2,828,692 lbs. lead, 14,624,954 lbs. zinc, 60,878 oz. silver and 135 oz. gold in 1908 and 432,472 lbs. copper, 3,170,268 Ibs. lead, 18,619,067 Ibs. zinc, 455,883 oz. silver and 1,258 oz. gold in 1909. In 1912 the company produced 58,543 Ibs. copper, 323.92 oz. gold, 470,403 oz. silver, 12,874,099 Ibs. lead, 21,601,428 lbs. zinc and 2,816,079 lbs. iron. The property is well equipped and well managed.

Iron Spar Copper Mining Co. Montana

Probably closed down. Letters unclaimed at Wallace, Idaho. Mine at Saltese, Missoula Co., Mont. Edw. Eisman, pres.; Albert Honeker, vice- pres. and treas.; W. W. Bixby, sec.; John J. Curran, gen. mgr., at last accounts; preceding officers and Morton Webster, directors. Capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par. Lands, 4 claims, near the Leslie Amazon-Dixie mines in Leslie gulch, near the Idaho-Montana divide. The property has a fissure vein in quartzite, traceable 6,000’, showing chalcopyrite and galena, at and near surface, said to assay 22.5% copper, 52% lead, 40 oz. silver and $2.80 gold per ton. Development is by a 700’ tunnel.

Ironclad Mine. Idaho

Idle. Mine near Murray, Shoshone Co., Idaho. C. Stout, mgr., at last accounts. Mine has a 900’ tunnel, showing silver-lead ore óf concentrating grade, and breasted in copper sulphides, at 1,000’ from the portal. Letters neither returned nor answered.

Ironside Mine. Montana

Office: care Dr. F. A. Ironsides, Butte, Mont., Mine address: Whitehall, Jefferson Co., Mont. Mine at head of Little Boulder river, 15 miles from

Butte, shows fissure vein in granite developed by 1,200’ adit tunnel opening a shoot of silver-copper-lead ore in Aug., 1913. IROQUOIS COPPER CO. MICHIGAN

Liquidated, 1899, and lands sold to Osceola Consolidated Mining Co.

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IRVINGTON SMELTING & REFINING CO. NEW JERSEY Address: Charles Engelhard, treas., 30 Church St., New York, Works

at Irvington, N. J. W. L. Glorieux, pres.; C. O. Baker and C. W. Baker,

vice-presidents; Robert A, Knorre, sec. Property is an electrolytic smeiter

and refinery for gold, silver, platinum and copper ores.

Isabella Copper Mining Co. California

R. E. Rader, M. A. Fesler, Howard W. Williford, of Berkeley; E. J. Rader, Sacramento, and E. E. Rader, of Barzilla, San Mateo Co- Gal., directors. Organized 1911, capitalization $500,000. No trace of operations secured.

Island City Copper Mining Co. Wyoming

Probably dead. Letter unclaimed at Saratoga, Carbon Co., Wyo., and Eaton Rapids, Mich. Mine has a contact deposit carrying copper ore be-s tween a norite dike and schist.

Island Copper Co. Michigan

Office: 1400 Alworth Bldg., Duluth, Minn. Thos. F. Cole, pres.; Geo. C. Stone, vice-pres.; Frederick W. Nichols, sec.; preceding officers, F. W. Heimick, Oscar J. Larson, Henry Nolte, Geo. G. Barnum, Geo. A. Tomlin- son and Julius H. Barnes, directors; Edw. J. Maney, treas. Organized March 9, 1909, under laws of Michigan, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $25 par, $6.00 paid; issued, $678,375. Annual meeting, first Tuesday in June.

Property on Isle Royale comprises over 92,000 acres out of the 125,000 acres comprising the island. It includes the former holdings, 83,720 acres, of the Isle Royale Land Corporation, Ltd., and lands of the Island Mining Co., all on Isle Royale, the largest fresh water island of the globe. Con- siderable mining of a rather desultory nature has been done upon these lands at various periods in the past, and a limited production of copper secured therefrom. The Island Mining Co. and its predecessors did rather extensive work on a conglomerate bed of the Keweenawan copper-bearing belt, sinking 3 shafts, 1 of which was said to be 1,000” deep with a fair showing at the bottom of the mine, but work was suspended on this property in 1873. No exploratory or development work has been done on the island since 1892.

No work has been done by the present company, but the management is said to contemplate extensive diamond drilling in the near future. ISLAND MOUNTAIN COPPER MINE. CALIFORNIA

Frank Leach, principal owner, 2015 Oakland Ave., Piedmont, Cal, Company not incorporated and has no offices. Property cònsists of 4 pat- ented mining claims and other property aggregating 225 acres, located in the southwest corner of Trinity county, within 600 yds. of the Califor- nia Northwestern railroad now under construction from San Francisco to Humboldt bay. The nearest post office is Irona, Humboldt county, Cal.

Claims show sandstone with lenticular bodies of copper-iron sulphides outcropping at several places. Development is said to indicate that these various outcrops are part of 1 mass, whose estimated dimensions are 90 to 100’ in width, 450’ in length and a proven depth of from 60 to 145’. Ores are stated to carry 214% copper, 11% oz. silver and $2 in gold per ton.

- Development is by 4 tunnels of 380’, 300’, 280’ and 140’ in length and by 4 shallow incline shafts. The 1,100’ of underground workings are estimated to block out 275,000 tons of ore, but these workings are now caved and the property idle because of inaccessibility; with the completion of the railroad in 1914 property should become active.

Isle Royale Copper Co. Michigan

Office: 12 Ashburton Place, Boston, Mass. Mine office: Houghton, Houghton Co., Mich. Rodolphe L. Agassiz, pres.; Quincy A. Shaw, vice-

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pres.; preééding officers and F.. Ls Higginson, Chas. Q.Whitten,;Wm. Ey L. Dillaway, F. L. Whitcomb and’ Chas. N. King, directors; ¡Geo.. A. Flagg, sec.-treas.; Clarence H. Bissell, asst. sec.-treas.; Jas. MacNaughton, gen. mgri; Jas. FE. Richards, mine supt.; Jas. G. Glanville, mill. supt; Harry Reeder, engr.; John T. Reeder, chief clerk and purch. agt.; Harry: E, Lukey, clerk: Edward Colenso, chief mg. capt. Organized March, 1899, under laws of New Jersey as a merger of the Isle Royale Consolidated; Mining Co. and Miners’ Copper Co., capitalization $3,750,000, shares -$25 par. Old Colony Trust Co., Boston, transfer agent; State Street Trust Co., Boston, registrar. Company owns a one-sixth interest in the Lake Superior Smelt- ing Co.’ Annual meeting, first Wednesday sin April, at 243 Washington St., Jersey City, N. J. 6

The company ended 1912 with balance of assets $557,743, and: on June 30, 1913, reported balance of assets of $383,743. Net profits, 1912, were $430,045:57, and only about $1,000 for the first 6 months of 1913. , A: dividend of $1 per share was paid March 31, 1913.

Lands, 3,520 acres and an 80-acre mill site. Mineral lands include the old Isle Royale, Grand Portage and Huron mines, the Dodge and Frue prospects, the mineral rights in the Montezuma tract of about 200 acres purchased, 1913, for $100,000, and sundry undeveloped tracts: The Hussey- Howe tract of 280 acres, lying northeast of the Superior, supposed to: carry the extension of the Baltic bed, was. bought, -1907, for $220,000. Lands in- clude all of Secs. 1,2 and 11, and parts of Secs. 3, 9, 10.and Dad RAN. R. 34 W., also 160. acres in Sec. 6, T. 54. N., R..33 Wi, 40 acres in Sec 31, T. 55 N., R. 33 W., and 160 acres in Sec, 36, T:.55:N., R. 34 Was giving. a compact tract carrying about 214 miles of the, strike of the system of cop- per-bearing beds.

The Isle Royale has 3 parallel amygdaloidal beds, with strike Gh, Nase. E. and average dip of 56°, of which 2 have been extensively opened, these being the Isle Royale and Portage beds, the latter ‘lying approximately 200’ west of the former. The shafts-are on the Isle Royale, but the Portage bed is opened on many levels by) crosseuts.. East of the amye¢daloids is the “Mabbs vein,” lying near the Eastern sandstone, 4 to 7’ wide and rich in mass and barrel copper, but deficient in stamp rock. It was opened to a depth of about 250’ by John and. Austin Mabbs, about 1875, and, has been tested to some extent by the present owner: There also; are unidentified and unexplored copper-bearing amyedaloids lying west of the Portage bed and'occasional narrow fissure veins: carrying arsenical copper ores.

The 3 old mines included in the present Isle Royale tract, made 48,452,590 Ibs. fine copper, of which the. Huron furnished 35,766,225 lbs., the Isle Royale 9,204,074 Ibs., and the Grand Portage. 3,482,294 lbs. These prod- ucts were secured under primitive conditions, at a net aggregate, loss of about $2,500,000; The old. Isle Royale and Grand Portage mines. were opened in 1853, and the Huron in 1855. The 3 old mines. have 28.old shafts with about 5 miles of old workings in the Huron and 3. miles of workings in the Isle Royale and Grand Portage mines combined. Underground masonry dams have been built at various.points to hold back water in the old workings, the new workings being under the old, without connections, The history of these 3 old mines is given in detail in Vol. II.

Considerable diamond drilling has been done from. time to time. New underground openings were 8,251’ in 1906; 8,728’ in 1907; 10,833’. in 1908;

15,919” in 1909; 14,588’ in 1910; 15,366’. in 1911; 19,106’.in 1912... About 75 rock ‘drills’ are used. OY Tagan paths ang

No. 1 shaft, near the northern boundary, 'was completely gutted by fire,.

Dec., 1903, and was abandoned, Fhis shaft had 3 compartments and. was

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330" deep, opened on the Isle Royale bed, with crosscuts driven on the 11th to 15th levels, inclusive, to the Portage bed, lying 150 to 220’ westward, with about 2 miles of drifts opened thereon, stoping having been about equally divided between the 2 beds, which were found markedly similar in characteristics and copper values. Concrete dams have been built across the south drifts of No. 1 at the 13th and 14th levels, holding back the mine water. Surface water is collected on the 8th leyel and sent to No. 2. shaft for forking out. ¿The surface plant at No. 1 was dismantled, 1908, mar chinery going to No. 4 shaft.

No. 2 shaft, with 3 compartments, 2,280’ southwest of No. 1, was 3, 162’ deep at the end of 1912. This shaft produces less mass copper than for- merly, and the north drifts have not looked especially well for several years, the average of ground being below that of the mine.as a whole.

. No. 2 shaft has a combination shaft rock house, 44x60’ in size, and 90’ high, with 18x24” and, 13x20” Portage Lake crushers. The engine house is equipped with a hoist. having 18’ 6” drums, with lathe-turned grooves for 6000 of 134”. cable, capable of raising 6-ton skips from a depth of 6,000’.

"No. 3 is merely a site for a shaft, to reopen the old Huron mine.

The new shafts, Nos. 4, 5 and 6, are all on the Isle Royale bed, at the southern end of the property, and have several miles of workings showing considerable heavy copper. These shafts are unconnected with the former workings, in-shafts Nos. 1 and 2, at the northern end of the property. Shafts 4, 5 and 6:are connected: by ERES on the upper levels. z

No. 4 shaft, about 3,100’ south of No. 2, was 1,940’ deep Dec. 31, 1912, developing stamp rock of very ‘fair average grade. Equipment ¡noes a 32x72” Nordberg ‘duplex-cylinder hoist, good for 1, mile depth and a 35- drill air compressor, both taken from No. 1 shaft. There is a cytindrical steel shaft rock house, built by the Wisconsin Bridge & Iron Co., having cylindrical rock bins 42’ in diameter and 32’ high. The power plant has a 140’*steel-brick-lined ‘self-supporting stack.

No. 5 shaft about 5,100’ south of ‘No. 2, on Sec. 2, was started Oct., 1906, and was 1,206’ deep Dec. 31,:1912. The shaft is sunk in the footwall, and is equipped: with a 20x60” hoist; good! for a: depth of 3,000’.

No. 6 shaft, about 7,300’ southwest of No. 2, near the center of Sec. 11, has’ 3 compartments and was 1,554’ deep, Decl 31, 1912, developing very good average ground) the bed showing much epidote. Bie: levels are opened at 100’ and 120’ intervals’ On surface there is a circular steel shaft rock house, similar to that at No. 4. The plant at No. 6 includes a brick engine house, with hoist and 45-drill air compressor, and a steel boiler house having a 140” brick-lined self-súpporting steel stack.

“A” ‘shaft, started Sept., 1908; on the Hussey-Howe tract, is 972’ deep, with the first plat cut at depth of 350’: A 205’ crosscut, at depth of 474%, discloses only the bed in which the shaft is sunk. On the 3rd level, at depth of 714’, a drift was run south to within 50’. of the Houghton Copper Co. boundary, disclosing a fair amount of amygdaloidal rock, not carrying cop- per in promising quantities: “A” shaft is supposed to be sunk on the Baltic bed, but there is very great doubt as to whether the shaft really is opened on the northern extension of the Baltic, and failure to locate the twin Baltic bed, within a distance of 205’ in the crosscut on the 474” level, accentuates this doubt.

The Sec. 12 shaft, begun’ Oct., 1905, and discontinued Jan., 1908, at depth of 812’, also was stink in search of the Baltic bed and drifts and crosscuts were opened in 4 directions, without securing satisfactory results. The

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shaft was sunk in a badly disturbed amygdaloidal bed, practically barren of copper.

A shaft was started, 1904, on Sec. 10, but was discontinued because of the heavy overburden, and a diamond drill substituted, the drill cores show- ing an amygdaloidal bed of which about 5' in width carried stamp-copper in fine grains.

The main plant, at No. 2 shaft, includes No. 2 engine house, a com- pressor house having a 35-drill Nordberg 2-stage air compressor; a 44x72’ boiler house, with a 16x72’ coal-storage addition and a 3,000-ton coal trestle, having three 150-h, p. 84” Burt horizontal boilers, taking water from a dam 300x500x6'. The machine shop is 40x60’, of steel, on stone foundations. Shaft houses and rock houses are lighted by electricity, commercial cur- rent being taken from the Houghton County Electric Light Co. The com- pany has a private telephone system. There are about 100 dwellings on the company’s lands.

The Isle Royale railway, owned by the company, connects the mine and mill with about 5 miles of main line, having easy grades, and was rebal- lasted and bridges and trestles strengthened, 1908. Equipment includes 35-ton, 55-ton and 60-ton locomotives, and 40 forty-ton steel rock cars, equipped with air brakes.

The mill site, at the mouth of Pilgrim river, has nearly 1 mile of front- age on Portage lake. The mill, 134x210’, of steel frame, on stone founda- tions, has three 2,000-ton rock bins and 3 Nordberg stamps having circular mortars and three-eighths-inch screen openings. The stamps rest on con- crete bases, 20’ thick, and are fitted with steeple-compound steam cylinders. Each stamp has a maximum capacity for 700 to 750 tons daily. The dress- ing floor has 72 rough jigs and 30 finishing jigs, of the Parnall-Krause type, circular "slime tables, and Bartlett and Wilfley tables to treat slimes from the round tables. There are rolls with fixed bearings to regrind coarse gravel from the mortars.

The mill has a complete machine shop on the second floor, power being furnished by a 750-h. p. engine, taking steam from four 250-h. p. boilers in a 46x72’ boiler house at the rear of the mill,

There is a 32x600’ wharf, with deep water alongside, at the mill site, with appliances for unloading coal and general freight and for the dispatch of mineral, in scows to the Dollar Bay smelter, 2 miles across Portage lake.

ater is furnished the mill by a 16,000,000-gal. Nordberg Corliss pump, especially designed to handle muddy water, having a triple discharge into a 30” riveted steel water main, running 2,200’ from pump house to mill, the pump being located some distance from the mill, to obviate stamp sand clogging the intake. Three 100-h. p. boilers furnish power for the pumps, fuel being taken from a large coal trestle at the rear of the pump house boiler rooms. A dam near the mill supplies feed water for the boilers.

Recent production has been as follows: 2,973,761 lbs. fine copper in 1905; 2,937,098 lbs. in 1906; 2,667,608 lbs. in 1907; 3,011,664 Ibs. in 1908; 5,719,056 lbs. in 1909; 7,567,399 lbs. in 1910; 7,490,120 lbs, in 1911; 8,186,957 lbs. in 1912, and 3,326,655 lbs. in the 6 months ended June 30, 1913. Cost of finished product was 11.84 cts. per 1b. in 1910; 10.85 cts. in 1911; 11.89 cts. in 1912, and 15.61 cts. in the first half of 1913,

The Isle Royale is a low-grade mine, but from results obtained in more recent years, shows itself entirely capable of earning substantial profits, notwithstanding the poor showing made in 1913. Large ground reserves are maintained and necessary and with a larger rock output in prospect, moderately profitable operations for many years to come are anticipated.

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It Mining Co. Alaska

Office: Ketchikan, Alaska. Mine 1 mile from the shore on Kasaan bay, Prince of Wales Island, Alaska. H. C. Strong, pres.; J. C. Barber, sec. and mgr.; C. H. Black, treas. Organized 1908, under laws of Washington, capitalization $30,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable.

Property comprises 12 claims, 5 in process of patenting, in the Ketchi- kan district, showing a number of contact deposits between diorite and limestone. The ore deposit consists of magnetite with chalcopyrite and some bornite, varying up to 15’ in width, and estimated by the management to average 8% copper, 1 oz. silver and $3.50 gold per ton. Mine was opened 1908, and is only worked summers. Development is by a prospect shaft and 1,400’ tunnel, driven to cut the orebody 200’ below the workings from the 200’ shaft. Old workings include open cuts and overhand stopes above 200’ level, from which 1,400 tons were shipped to the Tyee smelter in 1910.

Equipment includes a 15-h. p. hoist and a 2-stage Sullivan air com- pressor. The mine has ore bunkers and a 1,200’ gravity tram connecting with a 4,000’ ground tram leading to 1,000-ton shipping bunkers on a sub- stantial wharf. The company planned driving a new 1,400’ tunnel to cut the present workings at depth of 400’, or 200’ below the bottom of the shaft, to serve also for drainage, as there are water courses in the limestone that

_cause considerable trouble.

Production is estimated at 150,000 lbs. fine copper in 1908; 600,000 Ibs. in’ 1909, and 800,000 Ibs. in 1910. Net smelter returns to end of 1910, $150,000. Property considered promising and management good.

Itmay Mine. Wyoming

Idle. Office: Rawlins, Wyo. Mine near Rambler, Carbon Co., Wyo. I. C. Miller, mgr.; Albert Bryle, supt., at last accounts. It is not an incor- porated company. Property, 4 miles south of Ramblers is said to have a 20’ vein, carrying a paystreak of high-grade ore, apparently undeveloped and another vein up to 8’ in width carrying sulphide ore averaging about 8% copper. Development is by a 300’ shaft. Mine has been a dismal failure to date, largely owing, it is said, to rank ignorance of mining.

Ivanhoe Mining Co. Arizona

Mine address: Patagonia, Santa Cruz Co., Ariz. H. H. Ives, Minne- apolis, Minn., pres.; Jas. Johnson, vice-pres. and gen. mgr.; H. B. Cramer, sec.-treas.; preceding officers and Jas. E. Hurd, directors. Organized 1906, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $750,000, shares $50 par, nonasseggable; issued, $675,000. Annual meeting, third Monday in January.

Property consists of the Ivanhoe mine and various claims, 25 in all, unpatented, 500 acres, in the Wrightson district, 4 to 6 miles southwest of Patagonia, the nearest rail point. The group shows rhyolite, andesite and diorite, with brecciation zones carrying orebodies, of which 5 are estimated by management to average 27’ in width, carrying chloride, silver ore, gray copper and chalcocite, estimated by management to average 16% copper, 6% lead and 225 oz. silver per ton.

Development is by the 200’ Commercial shaft, with considerable cross- cutting, developing, it is said, large bodies of milling ore. Some $15,000 worth of high-grade ore, some of it carrying 27% copper and 1,700 oz. silver per ton, has been shipped. In 1912, a 15” streak of ore carrying nearly 5,000 oz. silver ($3,100) per ton, was reported, but its length was not stated. There are also several tunnels, with 2,700’ of workings, estimated to show 100,000 tons of ore. Equipment includes a 70-h. p. steam plant with a 50-h. p. hoist good for 1,000” depth. There are 5 buildings, and water is supplied by a 6-h. p. gasoline pump.

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IVANPAH MAMMOTH GOLD & COPPER MG. CO. CALIFORNIA Probably dead. Letters unclaimed at former offices at San! Diego, Cal.,

and Ivanpah, San Bernardino Co., Cal. Capitalization $2,000,000, shares $1

par. Lands, 22 claims, 10 held under option, 435 acres, 12 miles west of

Ivanpah, claimed to show'a ledge 8” in width, of which:6 is said. to; carry

copper and lead sulphides, giving surface assays of $9 to $105 per ton.

Ivy Wilson Mines. Nevada

Office: Contact, Elko Co., Nev.. M. McArdle, owner. Properties, near Contact, developed by tunnels, showing streaks and: bunches of high-grade malachite ore.

Jack Pot Mines. Montana

Property is a group of claims 3 miles north of Clinton, Missoula Co., Mont., developed by tunnels 100’, 300’ and 500’ long, respectively, which expose several well-defined orebodies showing concentrating ore carrying copper, gold and silver values.

Jack Pot Mining & Milling Co. Wyoming

Idle many years. Office: 55 High St., Oshkosh, Wis. Ole Granberg, , pres. and gen. mgr.; H. Thorsgaard, vice-pres.; H. O. Granberg, sec.-treas. Organized Dec. 23, 1903, under laws of Wyoming, capitalization $1,000,000; shares $1 par. Lands, 9 patented claims, 180 acres, in the Battle Lake dis- trict, showing fissure veins in diorite and chloritic schist, and 2 contact veins, between diorite and porphyry, carrying carbonate and sulphide ores. Two veins, slightly developed, are said to average 14 and 60’ width. The smaller vein has averaged 8% copper and $3 to $12 gold per ton, the larger vein showing very low-grade copper ore. Development bya ‘7/5’ tunnel, 100’ shaft and 8 pits of 20 to 36’ depth, with 411’ of workings. Company still in existence and reports that all taxes have: been paid to date.

Jack Rabbit Mining Co. Montana

W. H: Greater, superintendent, Argenta, Beaverhead Co., Mont: Mine has copper-silver ore developed by shaft workings, equipped with gasoline hoist. Y JAHNVILLE MINING CO. ARIZONA

P. O. Box 428, Miami, Gila Co., Ariz. F. WOH. Jalin, ipres+treas./and purch. agt. Organized Sept. 18, 1908, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $600,000, shares $1 par, fully paid and nonassessable; issued, 304,000 shares. Annual meeting, August. ;

Property, 26 claims, about 500 acres in Gold gulch, 9 miles from Miami and southwest of the Continental mine. Claims cover part of an interfault block of diorite and overlying quartzite and limestone, also part of the granite porphyry mass west of the north and south fault of the Continental mine. The latter property has developed. a stringer lode of pyritic ore with much metamorphic impregnation of the porphyry walls. The Hahn- ville claims have been examined by R. G. Thomas of Miami, who reports iron-stained gossan in which development has disclosed: pockets of high- grade lead and copper ore. i j ,

Development is as yet but slight; a shaft is being sunk on 1 silver vein and a tunnel on a second vein. Two other veins will be:explored by tun- nels later. i

The financial scheme of the company is unusual; the stock now offered is stated to be guaranteed by gold bonds of the. Granite Securities Co. of Los Angeles, Cal., and the purchaser is given a contract warranting him the return of his investment in 10 years or the delivery of equivalent bonds. Property appears. to be a promising prospect, but the reliability. of the guaranteeing company cannot be vouched for,

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Jalisco Mining & Smelting Co. Mexico

Was absorbed by La Regina Mining Co., Dec. 31, 1909. Organized Oct. 29, 1904, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $2,500,000, shares $1 par, non-

„assessable; issued, $1,740,857. Was a holding company owning the entire stock issue of the Philadelphia Copper € Gold Mining, Milling & Smelter Co.

Jalisco (Mexican) Mining Syndicate, Ltd. Mexico

Idle: Office: 54 New Broad St., London, E. C., England. Mine address: Zapatiltic, Ciudad Guzman, Jalisco, Mex. A. Firth, chairman; preceding officer, R. T; Harper and C. C. Wyllie, directors; W. W: Barrell, sec.; M. P. Gosset, Mexican agt.; G. V. Mitchell, mine supt., at last accounts. Organ- ized Jan. 18; 1906, under laws of Great Britain, capitalization £15,000, in- creased Aug., 1907, to £25,000, shares £1 par; issued, £16,000, fully paid. Property, the Malpillas mines, with 80 pertenencias, 198 acres of mineral- ized ground.

Japan-Flora Mines & Tunnel Co. Colorado

Idle. Office: 709 Colorado Bldg., Denver, Colo. Mine address: Tel- luride, San Miguel Co., Colo. J. J. Fisher, pres.; Chas. H. Johnson, vice- pres.; Wm. P. Humphreys, sec.; J. P. H. Cunningham, treas.; preceding officers and Geo. W. Johnson, directors. Organized Aug. 22, 1903, under laws of Colorado, capitalization $2,000,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable; fully issued. Bonds, $300,000 authorized, at 6%; issued, $193,500. Annual meeting in October.

Company is a silver-gold producer, whose ores carry a little copper. The holdings comprise 43 patented claims, area 301 acres, and a 35-acre mill site, in the Upper San Miguel district, 4 miles from a railway. Property ARE 5 fissure veins, in brecciated andesite and porphyry. Three of these veins are ol developed, showing a width of 1 to 8’, and carrying complex sulphide ores containing lead, copper and zinc sulphides with gold and silver, associated with pyrite, in a quartz gangue. , Ore said to average 1 to 2% copper, 3 to 40% lead, 2 to 20% zinc, 20 to 50 oz. silver and $8 to $30 gold, per ton.

Mine is developed by 2 shafts and a 2,975’ tunnel, with a number of lesser workings, the total underground development amounting to nearly 35,000’ in 1913. The mine is estimated by its manager to have 96,024 tons of ore blocked out for stoping, of $1,383,478 gross and $626,662 net estimated value. Equipment includes a 2-drill Leyner electric air compressor. There are 17 buildings. $

Property, has a concentrating mill equipped with Blake and Gates crushers, 2 trains of rolls, three 6-compartment Hartz jigs, 4 Wilfley tables, 2 Frue vanners, 4 sizers and a 5’ Huntington mill. Property has produced considerable ore in the past, and some high-grade silver ore was shipped by a lessee from the Pandora claim in 1910.

Jarilla Consolidated Copper Co. New Mexico

Secretary's address: Room 35, 92 State St., Boston, Mass. Mine at Brice, Otero Co., N. M. E. S. Plaisted, pres.; John. B; Boss, treas.; pre-

deding officers, I. W. Crozier, John McLean, Geo. W. Kimball and W. W. C. Spencer, directors; W. W. C. Spencer, gen. mgr.; Geo. W. Moffett, supt., mg. engr,, chemist-assayer and purch. agt. Craanized 1912, under oes of Arizona, erialization $2,000,000, shares $1 par, fully paid ‘and nonassess- able; issued, $1,000,000. Annual meeting, first Monday in December.

Property, 40 claims, about 800 acres, in Jarilla (Silver Hill) district, Oteto Co., N. M., carrying sulphide ore in contact. deposits between lime- stone and monzonite porphyry. Vein said to be 3 to 30’ wide, 300’ to a half mile long and proven to 170’ depth, averaging 3 to 5% copper, 2 oz. silver

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and $1 gold per ton. Development by 5 shafts from 30 to 172’ and the Harvey tunnel, 165 long.

Company is a merger of and holds the properties ‘for niorly owned by the Eureka Mines Cons. Co., Boston Jarilla Copper Co., Amarillo Mining Co. and Eureka Placer Mining Co., whose conititied capitalization of $8,000,000 is reduced. to $2,000,000.

Jarilla' Copper Syndicate, Inc. New Mexico

Office: Brice, via Oro Grande, Otero Co., N. M. R. B. Hutchinson, pres. Ji J. Mundy, vice-pres.; T. B. Rains, sec.-treas. and acting megr.; Norval J. Welsh, cons. engr. Organized July, 1912, under laws of Arizona.

Property, the By-Chance group comprising the Stokes, Butterfly, Buck- eye and By-Chance claims, all owned outright, is in the Jarilla district, 4 miles from Oro Grande on the El Paso & S. W. railroad. District shows Paleozoic limestone and shale cut by intrusive masses of monzonite porphyry. The By-Chance claim, the only one operated, has a contact metamorphic deposit of chalcopyrite-hematite-garnet ore lying alongside of a porphyry mass with ore along a fracture zone in the limestone.

Development includes a 130’ vertical working shaft with a level at 86° on which the blanket orebody, 12 to 30’ thick, is being stoped. A 60’ winze from this level is reported to show a second and lower orebody.

Production to Oct. 1, 1913, 6,000 tons of ore shipped to El Paso and Douglas, averaging 2% copper and $2 gold per ton. Shipments now aver- age 600 tons monthly with returns which just about cover development and operating expenses. Property promising and management good.

Jay Gould Mining Co. Washington

Mine near Chewelah, Stevens Co., Wash. F. C. Bailey, superintendent, at last accounts. A little prospecting was done some years ago, when it was said the property showed copper ore. Presumably idle.

J. Bennett Smith Mining Co. Minnesota

Idle. Office: 280 Chestnut St., Kingston, Pa. Mine address: Pine City, Pine Co., Minn. J. Bennett Smith, pres.; Herbert Conyngham, sec.; Edw. Hilles, treas.; Henry Hoefler, gen. mgr., at last accounts. Company owns 500 acres of copper-bearing ground, along Snake river, a mile below Cross lake, in Pine county, Minn. The lands show the western extension of the Keweenawan copper-bearing beds of Lake Superior, the bedded formation having a strike of about N. 20° E., with dip of about 72° S.-E., showing the beds to be on the northern fold of the syncline. One bed shows magnetic deflection of 12 to 18° on surface for a distance of more than 5 miles, and a 560’ shaft was started on this bed. There also are pits and shafts of 20’, 40’, 110’ and 150’. The main shaft was abandoned and another shaft started a half-mile east. Several of the amygdaloidal and conglom- erate strata, showing native copper, have been proven by test pitting and diamond-drill borings. Company reports having expended about $50,000 on exploratory and development work since 1879. :

Jedway Copper Co. British Columbia

Probably dead. Mine near Jedway, Suede Charlotte island, B. C. Prop- erty, sundry claims held under$125,000 bond and lease. Bond probably for- feited, as this section was idle in 1912.

Jefferson Calhoun Mining Co. Colorado

Former address: Chicago, and holdings at Russell Gulch, Gilpin Co., Colo. This company was adjudged bankrupt and its property sold under judgment proceedings several years ago. A reorganization is reported to have been effected by R. R. Alsdorf of Central City, Colo., secretary of the new company. The, old company was a reorganization of the Wabash

JEROME VERDE—JESUS MARIA 491 Consolidated Co. Property, 7 patented claims on Quartz hill, whose gold- copper-lead veins are opened by the Newhouse tunnel. JEROME VERDE COPPER CO. ARIZONA

Office: 223 Security Bldg., Los Angeles, Cal. Mine office: Jerome, Yavapai Co., Ariz. Truman Berry, pres.; Thos. E. Campbell, vice-pres.; I. Mabbett Sutton, sec.-treas. and mgr., and John L. Gales, directors; Eli Barrett, supt. Organized Dec., 1906, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $5,000,000, shares $1, nonassessable; issued, $3,600,000. Was. organ- ized as successor of Verde Queen Copper Co., giving old shareholders $2,501,000 in stock, which is held by the old company in a single certificate, and is practically escrowed.

Lands, 28 claims, patented, 480 acres, lying east of the United Verde and adjoining the Little Daisy mine of the United Verde Extension. Prop- erty shows an iron gossan with outcrops of copper ore on the Verde and Columbia claims. Development is by the 700’ two-compartment Columbia shaft, with about 2,500” of workings, showing mainly copper carbonates, with small quantities of oxide and silicate ores, also some sulphide and a little native copper, all slightly auriferous and argentiferous. Average assays were reported, by former management, at 8.4% copper. The mine is wet, and has electric pump, with capacity of 175 gals. per min., working against 500’ head.

Equipment includes a hoist, good for 1,000’ depth, and a 5-drill air com- pressor. Commercial current is taken from the Arizona Power Co.

There are a number of mine buildings, and a 35-ton smelter, which was in commission for a short time, 1901-02, producing 2 carloads of low-grade black copper, of about 93% tenor, and a small quantity of matte. The prom- ising disclosures on the Little Daisy mine of the United Verde Extension, adjoining this property resulted in an option being given on the Jerome Verde property until June 15, 1915, to the United Verde Extension Co. This option provides for the payment of $500 per month and that 100’ of work per month shall be performed. Dr. James S. Douglas is to buy 400,000 shares for $200,000, said amount to be expended on the property under his direction, but agreement is revocable on 30 days’ notice. If option is ex- ercised the United Verde Extension Co. ‘will increase its capitalization, giving one-third of the total stock to the Jerome Verde Co., one-third to the old stockholders and one-third to remain in the treasury.

Jersey Valley Mines Co. - Nevada

Office: Worcester, Mass. W. Prince Catlin, manager, Battle Mountain, Lander Co., Ney. Property, in Kimberly or Hill Top district, 23 miles from Battle Mountain, comprises the Jersey Valley group, and the Gray Eagle claims, acquired Sept., 1913, from the Gray Eagle Mining Co. Four sets of leasers are taking out ore from the last named claims and the property is being equipped for further development and production.

Jessie Belle M., M. & Sm. Co. California

T. S.and Ray Daulton of Madera, Madera Co., Cal., have reopened the mine under a 4-year lease. Company organized 1902, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,500,000; shares $1 par. Lands, 3 patented claims, 40 acres, 7 miles from and in same belt as the Copper Queen mine, in Mariposa coun- ty. Contains copper carbonate ore with gold and silver values, shipped by the leasers to the Selby smelter in June, 1913.

Development by a 200’ main shaft, showing 4 fissure veins, carrying oxide, carbonate and sulphide ores. Has steam power, air compressor and a 30-ton concentrator. :

Jesus Maria De Baquerachic Mine. Mexico

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sulphides, carrying 5 oz. silver and $2 gold per metric ton. In a remote region and cannot operate profitably without railway transportation. J. I. C. MINING CO. UTAH

Merged with Thompson Mining Co., as the Thompson Quincy Con- solidated Mining Co. Mine near the Daly-West and Daly-Judge at Park City, Utah.

Jimulco Mining Co. Mexico

Mine address: Otto, Coahuila, Mex. Otto Wahrmund, pres.; Otto Koehler, vice-pres.; S. G. Newton, sec.; Arthur L. Tuttle, gen. supt.; John D. Moore, mine supt. Organized 1901, under laws of Texas, capitalization $500,000, shares $50 par, increased, March, 1906, and reduced, 1908, to $1,- 000,000, shares $100 par. To end of 1910 paid dividends aggregating $965,- 000, as follows: $55,000 in 1902; $125,000 in 1903; $285,000 in 1905; $150,000 in 1906; $200,000 in 1907; $30,000 in 1908; $60,000 in 1909; $60,000 in 1910; $10,000 in 1911; $30,000 in 1912.

Property, 111 hectares, including the Defensa, Reforma, Esperanza and San Juan properties, carrying argentiferous copper ores, oxidized ores pre- dominating, as replacement deposits in limestone. Development is by a 500’ main shaft and 10 prospecting shafts of 100 to 150’ depth, with 6 main tun- nels and 4 short prospecting tunnels, aggregating about 1 mile in length. The mine has about 10 miles of workings showing good ore in the bottom levels. Ore is shipped to the Aguascalientes smelter for reduction, and shipments in 1912 were 5,100 tons averaging 6.1% copper and 3 oz. silver.

- Equipment includes gasoline and electric power, with an electric hoist. There is a 5-mile private narrow-gauge railway connecting with the Mex- ican Central line, at Otto.

Production, at end of 1910, was about 25 metric tons daily, and approx- imately 1,635,000 lbs. fine copper and 64,000 oz. silver in 1909. Production, 1912, was 684,420 lbs. Property considered valuable and management good. JOCOMO MINE. COLORADO

Steiner Bros., owners, Rosita, Custer Co., Colo. Property shows a deposit of copper ore developed by shaft and drifts and equipped with steam power.

Joe Creek Copper Co. California

Idle. Mine address: Hutton, Siskiyou Co., Cal. Is one of the many prospects-of the copper belt of northern California, whose owners believed a copper outcrop could be made to pay cost of development and equipment from ore mined from shallow workings. Lands, apparently owned formerly by Copper King Mining Co., lying between the Blomfield group and the Blue Ledge mine, have opencuts and crosscuts developing the mine to depth of 400”. Property is said to carry several large orebodies, ranging 5 to 8% in copper tenor and $8 per ton in combined gold and silver values, an es- timate considered excessive.

Johnny Bull Mine. New Mexico

W. H. Henry, Boston Road, New York, N. Y., owner; David L. Creswell, Steins, Grant county, N. M., purch. agt. Property south of Steins Pass, be- tween S. P. and E. P. & S. W. R. R., on western slope of Peloncillo range, shows a contact deposit between limestone and a N.-S. monzonite dike. The ore is said to average 5% copper and to run high in lime and iron.

Development includes 2 old shafts 100’ and 150’ deep, with 1,000’ of work, exposing 2 parallel veins, each 125’ wide. Property, idle since Feb., .1900; was formerly owned by the Johnny Bull Copper Mining Co., whose charter was forfeited in 1902.

Johnson Copper Development Co. Arizona

Office: Frankfort, Ky. Mine address: J. T. Tange, mgr., Johnson,

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Cochise Co., Ariz. Henry S. Krug, St. Louis, Mo., pres.; Ralph R. Wilson, vice-pres.; E. H. Elliott, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, P. S. Head, Hon. A. A. Hazelrigg, J. A. McKim; Hon. Baily D. Berry, Hon. A. C. Van Winkle and Wm. Deckeraw,. directors. Organized, March 13, 1908, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $2,000,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable; issued, about $1,230,000. Annual meeting, sécónd Tuesday in October.

Lands; 8 claims, 3 fractional, unpatented, area 123 acres, known as the Climax group, located in center of the Johnson camp, between the Pea- body, Peacock, Republic and Black Prince mines. Claims show granite and limestone, with replacement deposits carrying malachite, chrysocolla, bornite and chalcocite, averaging 4% copper and 5 oz. silver per ton for the several thousand tons thus far developed. Orebody has a flat dip, averaging 32°, and is about 2” wide on the 250’ level. Development by 250’, 1144-com- partment working shaft, said to be bottomed in bornite disseminated in limestone. The 100’ level has about 500’ of crosscuts and drifting, much of it in ore, but ground is leached and broken. The 250’ level has north and south drifts, on a 2’ vein, carrying a very narrow streak of 40% ore with 20 oz. in silver. Company averages 15 men at work and is developing the vein in the 250° level hoping to find a large orebody.

Equipment includes a 40-h. p. Fairbanks & Morse gasoline hoist, an air compressor, etc. There are 5 buildings, including engine room, smithy and warehouse. Management plans deepening vertical shaft to 1,000’, JORDAN GROUP. ARIZONA

Address: F. Jordan, owner, Continental Mine, via Miami, Ariz. Prop- erty comprises a group of blais in the Gold gtilch section, aout 1% miles west of'the Continental mine and 5 miles from Miami. Ghims' cover an area Of limestone traversed by an iron oxide zone 200’ wide that is largely hematite, but shows copper ore as a casing between iron ore and limestone.

Development consists of a 140’ and 80’ tunnel. Samples 20’ from sur- face are reported to show 1.15% copper, 9 oz. silver and $3 gold per ton. Property has a spring.

Josefina Mine. Mexico

Owned by Chenowith Bros., of Nogales, Ariz. Property 5 miles from Santa Cruz station, on the Cananea branch of the S. P. R. R. and 40 miles northwest from Cananea. Is shipping to the Douglas smelter. Property is a new one and has only been worked since the beginning of 1913. JOSEPH WILKINSON MINES. ARIZONA

Address: Wenden, Yuma Co., Ariz. Property near Cunningham Pass, Harcuvar range northwest of Wenden, shows vein in gneiss and schist car- rying high-grade gold-silver-copper ores. Shipments were made weekly throughout winter of 1912-13. Property bonded to Bisbee syndicate, Aug., 1913. Not regarded as a promising property.

Josephine Copper Mining Co. Montana

Probably dead. Letters unclaimed at Stark, Missoula Co., Mont. Dan- iel McGinnis, pres.; Claus P. Anderson, sec.-treas.; preceding b fiers, Forest D. Fraser a Fred Link, directors; Jas. McGinnis. mgr., at last accounts. Organized 1907, under laws of Montana, piteli inan $1,000,000, shares $1 - par. Lands, 8 claims, patented, 160 acres, on Nine Mile creek, 14 miles from the railway, at Houston. Mine has a 190’ shaft, showing galena and chal- copyrite at bottom, claimed to give average assay of 21% copper, 3 oz. sil- ver and $2 gold per ton, which figures are considered too high. Equipment includes a 6-h. p. gasoline hoist and various mine buildings.

Juanita Mining Co, S. A. Mexico

Office: Sellwood Bldg., Duluth, Minn. Operating address: Bisbee, Ariz. Martin Pattison, pres.; Byron M. Pattison) vice-pres. and mer.;

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Lemuel E. Shattuck, sec.-treas. Lands about 1,000 hectares, known as the Juanita group adjoining the Calumet & Sonora, 3 miles northwest of Cananea, traversed by several narrow fissure veins in volcanic tuff beds. These veins carry small oreshoots with argentiferous chalcopyrite, galena and sphalerite with some ore assaying up to 15% copper and 30 oz. silver, but values as developed are mainly in lead and zinc. No 1 shaft is 220’ deep and there also is a 75’ shaft. Work suspended 1912-13 owing to po- litical disturbances in Mexico. y

Juanita Mining & Milling Co. Arizona

Office: Phoenix, Ariz, Mine at Prescott, Yavapai Co., Ariz. M. Dwight Jennings, pres.; W. S. Heflin, vice-pres.; D. A. Seaman, sec. and gen. mgr.; E. J. Bennitt, treas.; preceding officers, B. F. Peters, Otto Kring and E. Payne Palmer, directors. Organized April, 1905, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,500,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable; issued, $1,- 200,000. Annual meeting, first Tuesday after second Monday of April.

Property, 16 claims, unpatented, area 300 acres, and a 5-acre mill site about 4 miles from the Senator mine in the Hassayampa district, about 17 miles south of Prescott. Management reports the property to carry 11 fissure veins in porphyry and schist with 4 under development of 1 to 60’ width, traceable 1,000 to 3,000’ carrying auriferous and argentiferous cop- per sulphides assaying 2 to 10% copper, 1 to 100 oz. silver and $1 to $1,700 gold per ton. Apparently the main vein is of 8 average width.

Development is by a 210’ shaft and several tunnels from 45 to 450’ long, with 3,500’ of workings estimated, 1913, to have blocked out 5,000 tons of ore with 25,000 tons in sight. Equipment includes 25-h. p. hoist, 2-stamp mill, 7 tons capacity. Production, 1912, was 50 tons of ore averaging $9.50 per ton. Property is leased to D. A. Seaman until Nov., 1916, leaser to develop mine and install machinery leaving not less than a 20-stamp mill and pay royalty on all ore taken from opencuts and stopes.

Julian Mining & Milling Co. Utah

Idle. Office and mine: American Fork, Utah Co., Utah. Jas. Chipman, Jr., pres.; Wm. Thornton, vice-pres.? J. E. Bennett, sec.-treas. Organized Aug., 1909, under laws of Utah, capitalization $50,000, shares 5 cts. par. Apparently succeeded a company of same title organized under laws of Nebraska, having an office at Geneva, Neb., which lost its charter 1909. Lands, 5 claims, unpatented, showing gold, silver and copper ore. JUMBO EXTENSION MINING CO. NEVADA

Office: Goldfield, Nev. E. S. Van Dyck, pres., treas. and gen. mgr.; Ben Gill, sec.; Chas. D. Olney, asst. sec.; preceding officers, A. A. New- comer and T. G. Lockhart, directors. Organized May, 1904, under laws of Arizona, as successor of the Jumbo and Vernal Extension Mining Co., cap- italization $1,250,000, shares $1 par; issued, $971,158. Securities, Transfer & Registrar Co., New York, and Registrar Security Co., San Francisco, trans- fer agents and registrars. Annual meeting second Monday in July. Receipts for 1912 were $124,318, being $17,743 earnings, balance being cash, carried forward from 1912,

Property, 8 claims, 70 acres, in Goldfield district, Esmeralda Co., Nev. By agreement with Goldfield Consolidated Co., this company received one- half the net proceeds of ore mined from vein apexing on Consolidated ter- ritory and passing through the Poleverde claim and has right to all pro- ceeds of other ore in claim.

The ore carries gold, silver and copper which can be concentrated but not cyanided. Ore is spotty and averages but $7 per ton, which is milled with 70% recovery. Company operates 1 shift of 12 men and produced 4,644 tons of ore in first 3 months of 1913, at a cost of $174 per ton, doing

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716’ development work.. The workings show 3 orebodies on footwall, mid- dle and hanging wall respectively of the quartz mass. The first named assays $3.83 to $6.24 for a width of 10’. j Operations for 1913 show 3,317 tons milled at an expense of $4.02 per ton, or $13,332, with a recovery of concentrate valued at $15,979, netting $13,597. The reduction plant is too small for profitable operation on this class of ore. JUMBO MINE. ALASKA Owned by Alaska Industrial Co., at Sulzer, Prince of Wales island, Alaska. JUMBO MINING CO. IDAHO Office: Wallace, Idaho. John Carlson of Gem, J. N. Morgan of Mace and John Wood, C. E. Conn and Chas. Minch of Gem, Idaho, incorporators. Organized Aug. 28, 1913, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par, JUNE COPPER CO. WASHINGTON H. S. Spedden, superintendent, Chewelah, Stevens Co., Wash. Incor- porated June, 1913, under laws of Washington, by R. C. Toole, L. B. Cot- tingham and W. L. Hansom. Presumably owns the June-Echo mine near Chewelah, Stevens Co., Wash., where a 40-h. p. gasoline hoist has been installed and a 200’ shaft is now being sunk. Vein shows copper-silver ore,

JUNGLE MINE. SOUTH DAKOTA Owned by Custer Peak Mining Co. and described thereunder. JUNIATA GOLD & COPPER CO. ARIZONA

4 Office: 315 South Broadway, Los Angeles, Cal. Mine address: Par- ‘ker, Yuma Co., Ariz. P. W. Powers, pres.; E. S. Field, vice-pres.; Dalton S. Patterson, sec.-treas.; H. B. Ailman, supt. Organized Oct. 29, 1907, un- der laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par. Lands, 10 claims, area 200 acres, lying between the Gray Eagle and Carnation mines, in the Seneca district about 9 miles northeast of Parker, on the east side of the Colorado river. Claims show gray micaceous schists with inter- bedded limestone. The schists dip about 45° and are cut by shear zones in è which copper ores occur. Development consists of 200’ shaft with 2 pros- pect shafts reported to expose 8” of ore carrying 4% copper and $9 gold per ton. A second vein said to be 18’ wide is reported to carry 214% cop- per and $6 gold. Property is as yet a prospect. JURY COPPER MINES, LTD. ONTARIO Idle. Mine near Dean Lake, Algoma, Ont. Organized Dec. 5, 1906, under laws of Ontario, capitalization $1,000,000. Lands, in vicinity of Dean lake, have a 46’ shaft, showing chalcopyrite. Company inactive for 'sev- eral years and presumably dead. KALAMAZOO COPPER MINING CO. COLORADO Property formerly held at Pearl, Larimer Co., Colo., abandoned 1912,' title forfeited and apparently moribund. See Vol X. KAMLOOPS COPPER CO. BRITISH COLUMBIA General office: 609 First National Bank Bldg., Duluth, Minn. Mine address: Kamloops, Yale district, B. C. E. G. Wallinder, pres.; W. H. Eaton, vice-pres.; Louis Ramstad, treas.; J. J. Eklund, Gust. Carlson, Reiner Hoch, J. A. Kennedy, Otto Johnson, directors; W. W. Blackshaw, sec., 1412 Tower Ave., Superior, Wis. Company organized Sept. 7, 1909, un- der laws of Arizona, capitalization $3,000,000, shares $10 par, part paid; 105,000 issued, none preferred. Has issued $210,000, 6% bonds. : Lands, 14 claims, 2,168 acres, 355 acres mineral land, including the Iron Mask mine, 4 miles southwest of Kamloops. The Iron Mask shaft is sunk on a shear zone, mineralized for 20 to 30’ in width, with segregations of better grade ore forming a paystreak of variable width, carrying chalcopy- rite, associated with magnetite in a chloritic or gangue containing ortho-

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clase intererystallized with copper sulphide. The country rock is a diorite with smeary, basic patches of gabbroic material. The Iron Mask orebody averages 28’ in thickness, but is lenticular in shape. The “vein” is opened for 1,300’ in length and 611’ in depth. The ore averages 2.9% copper, 0.5 oz. silver and $1.43 gold per ton. It is troublesome to concentrate by ordinary methods owing to its chloritic and quartz-orthoclase gangue. :

This property shows several orebodies besides the Iron Mask, all of them due to “igneous aftereffects,” and occuring in fresh diorite filling fissures, as replacements along fissures and in patches, consisting of ortho- clase, chlorite epidote and other secondary pneumatolytic minerals, with interlocked chalcopyrite, pyrite, magnetite, etc. i

The Erin orebody shows excellent ore and numerous pits at various points on the property all show ore.

Development includes the 611’ Iron Mask shaft and some 9,000” of workings, the 165’ Erin shaft with short drifts, the 50’ Lucky Strike shaft and 3 other prospect shafts.

Equipment includes 2 boilers aggregating 300 h. p., a 250-h. p. Corliss tandem-compound condensing engine, double-drum hoist, 3 air com- pressors of 1,300 cu. ft. capacity, good for 15 drills and an electric-light plant. There also is a sawmill. Transportation is by a good wagon road though with steep grades, leading to the railway siding below Kamloops. The management plans a 214-mile tram, having a drop of 1,100’.

Company reports mining costs at $1.12 and concentration costs at $0.28 per ton, which low figures are regarded as a result of not charging up gen- eral expenses, development, etc., to costs.

Property is valuable but needs churn drilling as Iron Mask mine alone is not a sufficient basis for a big company, and surrounding ground, while mineralized, is unproven. It may show a large tonnage of low-grade ore susceptible to concentration by froth flotation. There is an old 160-ton con- centrating mill now being reconstructed. The old 50-ton smelter which smelted 2,644 tons of 5% ore to 50% copper matte, is practically scrapped and useless. Production of property to end of 1912 was about 1,500,000 lbs. of copper. Property not worked in 1912, company husbanding its resources to meet payments on the property. Operations in 1913 have been confined to ore extraction from the Erin shaft and to cleaning up the old Iron. Mask workings. It is understood that the English corporation has extended’ the time for further payments on the property.

Kamloops Mines, Ltd. British Columbia

Office: 151 Coronation House, 4 Lloyds Ave., London, E. C; Eng. Company in hands of trustees and working organization abandoned, as sole property is the Iron Mask mine and group at Kamloops, B. C., under lease and bond to the Kamloops Copper Co. See Vol X. 3 KANSAS COPPER CO. ALASKA

Address: W. Gi L. Totten, Buckhannon, W. Va. Incorporated by W. G. L. Totten, J. C. McWhorter, E. W. Martin, U. G. Young and G. F. Smith, to operate copper and other mines in Alaska.

Kaufman & Randall Mine. Nevada

Charles Oberg, leaser, Yerington, Nev. Property in west side of Yer- ington district, Lyon county, Nev., shows 12 to 15” of oxidized ore con- taining cuprite from which recent shipments to the Wabuska - smelter yielded $615.80 per ton net.

KAY COPPER CO. s ARIZONA

S. J. Tribolet, pres. and mgr., Cave creek, Maricopa Co., Ariz. Com- pany owns the Starkweather mine and claims on the Agua Fria river, at the mouth of Black Canyon creek, 50 miles north of Phoenix and some 9

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miles from Cave creek. The reports indicate that this company has recently developed a large body of high-grade ore. The main shaft, 340’ deep, is said to show 17’ of 10% ore on the 260’ level and 8’ of gray copper ore, averaging 17.7% copper, on the south drift of the 300’ level. A new shaft is now being sunk 1,200’ north of present working shaft. Company. has shipped 1,000 tons of its high-grade ore to the Swansea smelter by auto truck and trailers to Glendale, Reported to have an orebody that is in places 30’ wide with 10,000 tons blocked out and to be shipping 3 to 5 cars per month of ores netting $1,500 to $2,500 per car. Property is now under option.

Kay Mine Smelting Co. Virginia

Address;, R. F...D., No..2, South Boston,,Va., Z.,L. Kayn pres: and gen. mgr.; J. R. Wilbourne, vice-pres.; H. P. Wilder, sec.; H. J. Watkins, treas. and Jas. S. Sebree, directors, Organized Aug. 8, 1905, under laws of South Dakota, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par, 525,000 shares paid Z. L. Kay for property; 600,000 issued.

Company owns 261 acres, comprising the Kay farm at the north end of the Virgilina district, 9 miles from South Boston, in Halifax county, Vir- ginia. The tract shows lenticular quartz veins enclosed in schistose rocks formed from old volcanic tuffs and andesite, of the type characteristic of the Virgilina district. Veins consist of white quartz and carry primary cop- per glance below the water level with carbonates, oxides and some native copper in the oxidized zone. The vein varies from 3 to 6’ in width and is said to be traceable 1 mile.

Development is by two 50’ shafts, said.to show ore averaging 4.8% cop- per with small values in gold and silver. Owner estimates 1,000 tons in sight. There is a 15-h. p. gasoline hoist and a 1-drill compressor. A trial shipment of ore has been sent to the Reid electric smelter, Newark, N. J.

Management plans sinking shaft to 300’ level and crosscutting the veins at that depth, but as the money is supplied by local residents, the work is contingent upon their ability to supply the funds.. As work has: been in- termittent since 1905, and property now has but 109’ of workings, the out- look is not very hopeful. The future of the entire district, including. this property, depends upon the use of some cheap method of concentration, which froth: flotation apparently supplies. KEARSARGE MINES. MICHIGAN

Owned by Osceola Consolidated Mining Co., at Kearsarge, Houghton Co:, Mich: Í :

Keating Gold Mining Co. ; Montana

Office: Room 201, Board of Trade Bldg., Duluth, Minn: Mine office: Radersburg, Broadwater Co. Mont, J. H. Barnes, pres.; Jesse B. Roote, vice-pres.; Mc. B. Graves, supt.; R. E. Gilham, mine supt. and engr.; C.R. Vorck, chemist. Organized Oct. 26, 1908, under laws of Montana, cap- italization $1,250,000, increased 1909, to $2,000,000, shares $5 par; issued, $1,875,000. Is said to be controlled through stock ownership by the Raders- burg Consolidated Mining Co. Had +a $50,000 bond issue refunded, 1911, by issuing $125,000 6% bonds, due April 15, 1914, convertible into stock at par at option of holder, there: being 25,000 shares) stock unissued in the treasury to provide for such conversion.

Property, 10 claims, including. former holdings of, Montana Leasing Co. The mine was a gold producer from oxidized ores above the 100’ level, and is popularly reported to have produced about $1,500,000 under former own- ership, work having been confined to the oxidized zone until property was taken over by lessees, 1906. The vein is 4 to 8’ wide and is of 2,200’ known length, There also are transverse fissures, some of which dip at 60° and

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are well mineralized. The mine has auriferous and slightly argentiferous copper ore, with increasing copper values at depth. Ore is pyrite with rare chalcopyrite, bornite and tetrahedrite associated with calcite and silica and the mine has shipped some ore up to 17% in copper tenor with good gold values.

Development is by the 400’ old shaft and the new 800’ shaft, with levels at each 100’ depth, the workings aggregating 3 miles in length. An ore shoot on the 800’ level is reported to average $84 gold and 4% copper, but ore as a whole averages 1.4% copper, 0.6 oz. silver and $20 gold per ton, with 38% iron and 24% silica.

Equipment includes a 600-h. p. electrical plant installed 1910, with hoist and 2,500 cu. ft. capacity air compressors. Ore is teamed 12 miles to Tos- ton, the nearest rail point on the Northern Pacific line, but it is hoped that rail connection from Three Forks to Radersburg will be completed this year.

Ore is shipped to the Washoe and Pittsmont smelters. For the year ending May, 1909, production was $166,178.96 gross, and for the calender year 1909 the mine shipped 120 carloads of ore, netting about $17 per ton. During Oct., 1910, the mine shipped 40 carloads netting about $19 per ton, said to have netted the company $5,000 above all expenses, and early 1911, the mine was shipping 2 carloads daily, mainly from the 400’ and 500’ levels. Net smelter returns were about $17 per ton in 1909; $21 per ton in 1910, and in Feb., 1911, estimated net profits were about $25,000, on shipments of 27 carloads, netting an average of $925 per car. Production has averaged 100 tons a day of $22 ore throughout 1912 and 1913. Copper production for 1912 was 1,080,000\lbs. and production for 1913 is estimated at 1,500,000 Ibs. Property considered good and management able. Stockholders have been disappointed for years by the company’s secrecy. Very optimistic opinions are expressed and steady shipments made, but no dividends have been de- clared and no details given of income and expenditure. KELLER & INDIANA CONS. SMELTING CO. WASHINGTON

Bankrupt. Smelter sold for $2,686 at sheriff’s sale, 1911, to H. Je: fevre of Spokane. Fully described Vol. X. Formerly at Keller, Ferry Co., Wash.

Kelly Mine. New Mexico

Located at Kelly, Socorro Co., N. M. Owned by Tri-Bullion Smelting € Development Co. e KELVIN-SULTANA COPPER CO. ARIZONA

Office: 339 Monadnock Blk., Chicago, Ill. Mine office: Kelvin, Pinal Co., Ariz. A. H. Westfall, pres.; Geo. P. Baldwin, vice-pres.; Neil McMillan, sec. and gen. mgr.; W. Espy Curtis, treas.; preceding officers, L. Ogden Wadleigh and Dr. J. A. Glenn, directors; H. C. Erman, engr. Organized April 19, 1910, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $3,000,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable; issued, 2,865,824 shares. Company was a reconstruction of the Sultana-Arizona Copper Co. Company was financed by the Baldwin Syndicate of Chicago and the entire floating indebtedness eliminated.

Property, 21 claims and 3 fractions, total 530 acres; all patented but 2 claims and fraction, in Ray-Kelvin district. Pinal county, Ariz. Company also owns 30 acres of gold and silver lands in Ures district of Mexico.

The Arizona mines were formerly known as the Riverside and Bryan groups, and are across the Gila river from and 1% miles southeast of Kel- vin. Management reports 21 contact deposits, between granite and diorite, of which 5 veins have been developed; reported as 18” to 6’ wide. and estimated to average 5’ in width, with a generally northwest trend. The property also was said, formerly, to show a 6’ vein carrying chalcopyrite in

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the lower workings, from which shipments to the Humboldt smelter re- turned 8.7 to 10.6% copper. Average tenor of ore in all veins is estimated by the company as 6% copper and 3 to 4 oz. silver per ton.

Development by 6 shafts, the deepest being 400’, and the Hunter and Agnes tunnels. About 6,000” of underground work has been done and is said to show widening of veins at depth. A 165’ shaft on Diamond Joe claim is reported by Ralph Harris, mining engineer, to cut cuprite, chalcocite, chalcopyrite and pyrite. The Westfall, or main working 3-compartment shaft, is now down 400” and in July, 1913, vein No. 2 was cut. Vein No. 2 shows 6’ of 4% ore and in a winze from the 300’ level 3’ of 6% ore. On the Bryan claim, a 175' incline shaft has exposed shipping ore, reported to be very rich.

Equipment includes a new 575-h. p. oil-burning electric plant, in com- mission, March, 1913. Management plans a 1-mile aerial tram, across the Gila river, to the railway station of Kelvin, and a concentrator of 200 to 300 tons daily capacity. Production of old company, to end of 1909, was 522 tons of ore, yielding $12,450. Production was 45,838 lbs. fine copper and 653 oz. silver in 1907. Daily shipments of 20 tons to the Hayden smelter, began this summer. Shipments to date average 9% copper.

Company’s financial campaign is not favorably regarded and its house organ “Financial Converse” uses the methods which have led so many promoters into trouble.

Kemp-Komar Copper Mining Co. . Washington

Idle and probably defunct. See Vol X. Mine at Loon Lake, Stevens Co., Wash.

Kennecott Mines Co. Alaska

Office: 165 Broadway, New York. Mine address: Kennecott, Alaska. Silas W. Eccles, pres.; Stephen Birch, vice-pres. and gen. mgr.; W. E. Ben- nett, sec.; E. S. Pegram, treas.; preceding officers and John N. Steele and Wm. Pierson Hamilton, directors; J. Carson, mine supt.; Oscar Nordquist, mill supt.; W. H. Seagrave, mgr. Organized Nov. 27, 1906, capitalization $2,500,000, shares $10 par; all issued. Total dividends to date $4,000,000, all in 2 years. Annual meeting, third Friday in March.

The Kennecott Mines Co. is the name of the Guggenheim-Morgan cor- poration owning the celebrated Bonanza mine in the Copper River country, Alaska. It is unofficially directed by the A. S. & R. Co. of New York.

The Bonanza mine has one of the most remarkable orebodies ever found by a prospector. This great mass of high-grade ore, much of it carrying 60% copper, outcrops on the crest of a precipitous mountain over- looking the Kennecott river, a tributary of the Chitina, which flows into Copper river. In 1912 the ore reserves were estimated at 30,000 tons of 50 to 60% ore and 54,000 tons of 30% ore carrying $13 per ton in silver, with 30,000 tons of broken ore as a talus pile beneath the outcrop.

Recent development has indicated non persistence in depth, so the mine will not flood the world with cheap copper as was at one time foolishly believed.

The ore outcrops as massive chalcocite averaging about 50% copper and 0.2 oz. silver to each per cent copper. It is probable that this is pri- mary ore and there are no large masses of oxides, or carbonates present as glaciation and active erosion prevent the formation of an oxidized capping.

The company owns the Bonanza and Jumbo mines, with 52 patented claims, and a total of 3,240 acres, all in the Valdez district, on and near Bonanza mountain. The property shows Nicholai greenstone, consisting of a number of basaltic flows of lava, a hard closed grained rock consider- ably altered and in places amygdaloidal, varying in color from brown to

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light ‘green. The greenstone is overlaid by massive beds of Chitistone limestone of Triassic age, with bedding planes parallel to the flow planes of the lava, the limestone being of a bluish color, weathered to gray at the surface. There also are diabase and andesite intrusions and dikes.

Ore occurs in more or less irregular replacement masses and in a fault zone, the orebodies being more or less parallel to the vertical fault planes, though the ore follows, to some extent, minor fault planes, as well as the bedding planes of the limestone making stockwerks and irregular masses in the crushed limestone. The outcrop is 20 to 40’ wide, with an average of about 25’, and is something over 400’ in length, the southern half showing 2 nearly parallel bands of chalcocite, 4 to 10’ in width, separated by about 10’ of limestone, showing breaks in places, and at the northern end of the outcrop the chalcocite bands give place to stringers and interlacing seams of chalcocite and azurite, which thin out as they follow the vein north- ward and fade out as they pass into barren limestone. i

In addition to the Bonanza otitcrop there is a large amount of ore in the talus, or slide rock, broken off from the outcrop. This mass of broken ore and rock is about 300’ wide and extends for about 500’ or more down the slope from the outcrop, varying from 3 to 20’ in depth. A number of testpits, sunk to the outcrop, showed an average of 4’ depth, with an aver- age assay of 13% copper, this including both boulders of chalcocite up to 200 Ibs. in weight and barren limestone. Ore is extracted from the slide by a system of cuts. Two grades of ore mined with’ 70%. and 14% copper; respectively.

The mine is developed exclusively by tunnels from 100’ to several hun- dred feet in length. The highest tunnel, at an elévation of6,200 above sea- level, extends through the vein, near the southern end of the outcrop, from the western face of the ridge, and there is a small system of workings from the eastern slope of the ridge, further north, the latter comprising an upper tunnel extending through the ridge, and a longer lower tunnel of about 300’ length, directly underneath, with an 80’ winze and an inter- mediate level running north and south. The mine now has about 6,000” of workings. :

The Jumbo mine is also being worked and is reported, 1913, to show good ore, but not the great shoot of high-grade ore reported in the news- papers.

The Bonanza mine is connected with the mill at the lower camp by a Bleichert aerial tram, in 2 sections, the upper of 7,000’ and lower of 8,000’, with a drop of 4,000’. The tram line has 40 towers, longest span 1,500’, - with ore bins at both terminals, and has an estimated hourly capacity of 25 tons. The lower camp has the mine buildings, power plant and mill. Equip- ment includes a small steam plant and an air compressor. Buildings in- clude a bunk house, mess house, assay office and 10,000” sawmill. ay

The concentrator installed in 1911; is of 250 tons daily capacity, and was operated throughout 1912. Rich ore is hand-sorted, and lower grade ores, though of excellent average tenor are being concentrated in the mill and ore and concentrates shipped to the Tacoma smelter.

Owing to the inaccessibility of this mine development was accom- plished under very great disadvantages and at phenomenally heavy cost, profitable production being impossible without transportation facilities. The Guggenheim interests have constructed the Copper River & Northwestern railway, at a cost of about $20,000,000, this line of 195 ‘miles length starting at Cordova, on the sea, and ending at the lower camp, having had to cope with tidal, river and glacial floods, blizzards and other difficulties insepar- able from railway operations in an extremely mountainous country near the

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Aretic circle. This line was completed April, 1911, when ore shipments were begun.

The press has been filled with misinformation regarding this property, and the Guggenheim operations generally in Alaska. These fabulous stories have fallen mainly under 3 heads, 1 being the phenomenal size and value of this mine, another group of fairy tales referring to the phenomenal cost of developing the mine and building the railway, sufficiently large without ex- aggeration, while a third lot of stories covered, in great detail, the fabulous value of the coal and copper holdings of the Guggenheim interests, The railway undoubtedly has been very expensive and has been rendered more costly in construction and operation by the obstructive tactics of the Fed- eral government, which has denied the company the right to mine coal in Alaska, work which would have resulted in great benefit to the public, as well as to the Guggenheim interests, and it is now necessary to import British Columbian coal, at a cost of $12 per ton, instead of mining coal on the ground, thanks to the more radical ‘conservationists,’ who seem to be- lieve that the use of any natural resource by any important business inter- est, for the benefit of the present generation, is nothing short of criminal. The Bonanza miné probably is the highest grade copper mine in the world, but unless additional orebodies are found, which is possible, the total amount of copper in the Bonanza mine is insufficient to render it more than ¡a producer of the third rank, not even comparable with such mines as the Wolverine and Mohawk in the Lake Superior district though yielding very large dividends which can continue as long as the bonanza ores last. KENNEDY CONS. GOLD MINING & MILLING CO. NEVADA

Office: Yerington, Lyon Co., Nev. Mine at Buckskin, Douglas Co., Nev. W. C. Pitt, pres:; W. T. Campbell, vice-pres.; E. H. Whitacre, sec.; Lyon County Bank, treas.; Geo. F. Willis, T. Ebert, F. E. Baker and F. C. Biddleman, directors. (Organized May 16, 1906, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,500,000, shares, $1 par, nonassessable; 1,000,000 promotion and 500,000 treasury stock; issued, 1,039,000. Annual meeting, second Tues- day in May. Property now leased to Union Copper Co., office at Buckskin.

Property, 7 claims, 110 acres, patented, in Buckskin district, Douglas Co., Nev., developed by 3 shafts, 90’, 147’ and 220’ deep and by one 240’ tunnel, said to expose some large bodies of ore, mostly sulphides with gold, silver and copper. Mine is 4 miles from Nevada Copper Belt railroad and has power line within 1 mile. 3 KENYON MINING CO. UTAH

Probably dead. Letters unclaimed at Salt Lake City, Utah, and Eureka, Juab Co., Utah. J. E. Galigher, pres.; H. B. Blades, vice-pres.; Valentine S. Snow; sec.-treas., at last accounts. Property in the eastern part of the Tin- tic district.

Keremeos Copper Co. . British Columbia

Idle. Mine near Keremeos, East Yale district, B. C. Dan. Schultz, pres.; Henry M. Stack, vice-pres. Lands, 3 claims, 2 miles from Keremeos, the nearest rail point, having a vein of 14’ reported average width, opened by 3 tunnels, the Spar tunnel being 270’ long, with about 1,500’ of work- ings. Shut down several years and presumably out of business. KETTLE RIVER MINE. WASHINGTON

W. S. Bliss, manager, at last accounts. Mine near Orient, Ferry Co., Wash. Development by shaft reported to show good milling ore; 50-ton concentrator on property. Ore is a complex mixture of copper, lead and zinc sulphides with gold and silver values. Company proposes sinking shaft 50’ below 200’ level to block out ore.

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KEWEENAW COPPER CO. MICHIGAN Office: Calumet, Mich. Mine near Mandan, Keweenaw Co., Mich. Thos. F. Cole, pres.; Spencer R. Hill, vice-pres.; Capt. Thos. Hoatson, sec- ond vice-pres. and mining director; Chas. A. Wright, Jr., sec.-treas., and Capt. Jas. Hoatson, directors; W. J. Uren, mine supt.; John C. Shields, rail- way supt. t i Organized March 13, 1905, under laws of Michigan, capitalization $10,- 000,000, shares $25 par; issued, $5,000,000; paid in, $16. Last assessment was

$1, Jan., 1913. Controls, through stock ownership, the Phoenix Consoli-

dated Copper Co., Washington Copper Mining Co., and Keweenaw Central Railroad Co. Total expenditures, exclusive of money furnished for con- struction of the railway, were $636,041 to end of 1912. Company ended 1912 with cash and accounts receivable of $207,486 and accounts payable of $16,- 926. Has about 2,300 shareholders. American Trust Co., Boston, registrar; City Trust Co., Boston, transfer agent. Annual meeting, second Tuesday in February.

Lands are about 25,000 acres, mainly mineral lands, heavily timbered with maple, birch, cedar and oak. The tracts are in 3 main groups, carry- ing the strike of the Keweenawan mineral belt for abéut 14 miles, includ- ing practically all of the amygdaloidal and conglomerate cupriferous beds of the district, as well as numerous copper-bearing cross fissures. Lands are in T. 58 N., of Rs. 27, 28 and 29 W., and include the tracts formerly owned by the Aetna, Copper Harbor, Empire, Girard, Hanover, Keweenaw, Mandan, Medora, Pennsylvania & Boston, Resolute and Vulcan companies, in addition to lands controlled through stock ownership in subsidiary ‘cor- porations.

The company’s lands carry nearly 2 miles of water frontage on either side of the Montreal river, including Fish cove, 1 mile east of the river’s mouth, which might be made a fair harbor at comparatively small expense. The lands also include 5 miles of the course of the river, on both banks, and, with other holdings, give the company the entire water-frontage of Mosquito lake, making possible the development of a great water power, with a hydro-electric installation at the mouth of the river. There is a mill site on Bete Gris bay, at the mouth of the Montreal river, having about 5 miles of water frontage.

The company also owns the Lac La Belle, or Mendota, ship canal, 1 mile long, connecting Lac La Belle with Lake Superior. This canal has a 14’ channel, and leads to a splendid haven that should be made a harbor of refuge.

Most of the old mines secured by the company were prospects only, but the Aetna had a recorded production of 140,881 Ibs. fine copper, secured 1863-73, and the Resolute mine had a 379’ shaft, with about 2,000’ of workings.

The Medora mine, opened about 1860, had 3 old shafts, about 100’ apart, deepest 140’. The Medora amygdaloidal bed, traversing lands of the company for about 4 miles, lies immediately under the Allouez conglomer- ate, and outcrops several hundred feet north of the Montreal river bed. The Medora, about 12’ in average width, is a soft chocolate-colored amygdaloid, carrying considerable prehnite, calcite and quartz, in connection with fine stamp copper and occasional heavy copper, a 30” paystreak along the foot- wall carrying some barrel work, the bed as a whole being bunchy.

The Medora tract also carries other copper-bearing beds, among these being the Medora fissure vein, outcropping about 225’ east of No. 1 shaft, but making into the shaft at depth. About 100’ south of the Medora amyg- daloid is another bed carrying copper in small quantities, and to the north-

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ward are the Wolverine amygdaloid, of about 15’ width, and the Allouez conglomerate, lying about 280’ north of. the Medora bed, at surface.

The Medora mine was reopened on a considerable scale to depth of 1,700” and length of 1,800’, with about 2 miles of workings. Considerable work was done on an amygdaloidal bed 230’ north of the Medora, which showed a little copper. All work in the mine was stopped Sept., 1909. The Medora workings are fully described Vol. VIII.

The Empire mine also carries the Medora bed, about 3 miles east of No. 1 shaft, and some trenching and test pitting, done 1906-07, on the Empire tract, showed a bed of about 15’ width, carrying some copper at surface. The Empire also carries the Montreal river amygdaloid, on which the Manitou did considerable work.

The Medora-Mandan-Resolute tract of 2,440 acres carries the Kear- sarge bed under practically its entire territory. The shaft on the Kearsarge bed, known as No, 2, is about a mile south of the old Medora workings, and was 1,355’ deep when abandoned, 1911. The shaft is sunk at an angle of 46° with the horizon, the bed having an average dip, so far as determined, of about 43°, and a width of 18 to 20, Diamond drilling, 1910, showed both the east and west beds of the Kearsarge formation well mineralized, the upper having an average width of about 17' and the lower or eastern bed a width of about 22”, these being separated by about 70' of trap.

The Keweenaw Central Railroad Co., is a reconstruction of the old ‘Lac La Belle & Calumet railway. The entire capital stock issue, $730,000, is owned by the Keweenaw Copper Co. The railway company has $500,- 000 bonds, not issued, and ended 1912 with accounts payable of $167,100, presumably owing mainly to the Keweenaw Copper Co. The railway, hav- ing about 40 miles of main line, spurs and branches, cost $856,935, and runs from Centennial, a northern suburb of Calumet, where connection is had with the Copper Range line, to Lac La Belle. Equipment includes 4 loco- motives, 7 passenger cars and 82 freight cars, rock cars being of 25 tons capacity each. Railroad operations gave $3,326 net earnings in 1907; a $4,- 883 deficit in 1909, a $4,044 deficit in 1910, a $14,850 deficit in 1911, and a $20,520 deficit in 1912.

The company owns a diamond drill outfit and has made extensive bor- ings, securing a cross section of the Medora, Mandan, Resolute and Empire tracts. Considerable diamond drilling was done in 1909, the several beds paralleling the Medora being tested by diamond drilling from the bottom of the Medora shaít, beds drilled including the Allouez conglomerate to the north and the Osceola amygdaloid, Calumet conglomerate and other beds south of the Medora. The Osceola bed showed a thickness of 18 to 37’ carrying a fair amount of copper, but the most promising cores were taken from the Kearsarge amygdaloidal bed, through which 5 holes were drilled. Operations, 1912-13, were confined to exploratory work in the horizon of the Ashbed lode, and the first drill hole located a copper deposit of consid- erable promise, early 1913, at a depth of about 500..

KEWEENAW LAND ASSOCIATION, LTD. y MICHIGAN

Office: Room 33, No. 87 Milk St., Boston, Mass. Operating office: Marquette, Mich. T. M. Davis, chairman; Dudley S. Dean, sec.-treas.; John M. Longyear, gen. agt. Isa land corporation, holding 400,000 acres, mainly of timber lands, but with some mineral lands, partly on the Keweenawan copper belt, in the upper peninsula of Michigan, taken over from the Lake Superior Ship Canal, Railway € Iron Co.

Keweenaw Western Development Assn. Minnesota

Probably idle. Letters to Summerfield Block, Cloquet, Minn, unan- swered. Mine near Hinckley, Pine Coi, Minn. F. V. Inskeep, pres.; H.

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Berglund, vice-pres.; W. H. Lancelot, sec.; Gust Berglund, treas.; Wm. Kibbee, resident director, at last accounts. Organized Oct. 29, 1908, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable; is- sued, $428,520. é

Lands, 160 acres, held under contract, carrying the western extension of the Keweenawan copper-bearing bedded series, having a strike of N. 20° E. and dip of 75° with the horizon, presumably to the southward. One amyg- daloidal bed, under development, traced a quarter mile, carries native cop- per and has an 80’ shaft with a 100’ crosscut.

Equipment includes a 35-h. p. steam plant with a hoist good for 500° depth, and a 5-drill Rand air compressor. There are 2 buildings. KEYSTONE BROMIDE MINING CO. NEW MEXICO

Idle. Office: Bloomsburg, Pa. Mine at Tres Piedras, Taos Co., N. M. J. P. Rinker, superintendent, at last accounts. Lands, 18 claims, known as the Payroll mine, in the center of the Bromide district. Property shows an impregnated zone 5 to 20’ wide interbanded with sericite-chlorite schist. This fahlband is opened to depth of about 250’ showing on 250’ level some chalcopyrite ore said to assay 4% copper with $6 gold value. Has steam power and a 50-ton concentrator. Closed down many years and apparently moribund. KEYSTONE COPPER MINING CO. ARIZONA

n Office: Wichita, Kans. Mine at Johnston, Cochise Co,, Ariz, W.. W. Miller, pres. and gen. mgr.; A. Bannow, vice-pres.; T. C. Miller, sec.; W. J. Trousdale, treas.; .” preceding officers, Winn Dyck, Dr W. G. Graybill, EB. Pulliam and Wy R. Miller, directors; Doane Merrell, territorial agt.; P. T. Bannon, supt. Organized under ae of Arizona, capitalization $900,000, shares $1 par. Property comprises the Bannow group of 9 claims surround- ing the St. George claim and 1% miles from the Arizona United property. Shows a large deposit of iron.ore and has cut several veins in a 170’ ver- tical shaft. The main vein has an outcrop of about 15’ width with an 18” to 5’ paystreak assaying up to 15% copper. A test shipment of 1 carload of high-grade copper ore was made to El Paso smelter, 1910. Was de- veloping at last accounts.

KEYSTONE COPPER SMELTER CO. MEXICO Reorganized, 1911, as Keystone Mining Co. See Vol X. KEYSTONE DEVELOPMENT CO. ARIZONA

Operating the Isabella mine, 20 miles from Casa -Grande, Pinal Co., Ariz.. Reported to have 7% copper ore. KEYSTONE EXTENSION MINING CO. UTAH

Mine -near Bingham, in West mining district, Salt Lake Co.,: Utah. Company inactive for some time owing to heavy flow of water- in mine workings. Property covers about 3,000’ of the Keystone vein outcrop and shows, ore averaging $14 .per ton in gold, silver, lead and.copper values, from surface down to bottom of 165’ shaft.

Development by inclined shaft with drifts on vein’ opening up: stopes from, which. shipments have been made. The Montana Bingham Consoli- dated Mining Co. will open the ground by its deep tunnel and eliminate pumping costs and heavy wagon-haul charges on ore shipped.

KEYSTONE MINE. ‘ARIZONA Owned by New Keystone Copper Co., at Globe, Gila Co., Afiz. KEYSTONE MINING CO. IDAHO

Idle. Mine near Weiser, Washington Co., Idaho. Wim)\Caldwelly’ sec.- treas. Lands bought for $10,000, Oct., 1908, of the bankrupt Iron alle ie Mining Co. No trace of operations secured,

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KEYSTONE MINING CO. MEXICO Office: Shamokin, Penn. Is a reorganization of Keystone: Copper

Smelter Co., of Philadelphia, and is the holding company for the Mexicana

Co., Tapalpa district, Jalisco, Mexico. W. H. Childs, general manager.

Lands, about 100 hectares, in 5 groups, in Tapalpa, including the Mexi- cana, America and Palma groups, also timber rights to 50,000 acres of adjoining lands. Principal development is on La Mexicana group, 82 hec- tares, 15 miles west of Tapalpa, mine having a 200-metre crosscut tunnel, cutting 4' veins, with about 1 mile of workings. Veins are fissures in por- phyry, averaging 5’ width, carrying auriferous and argentiferous chalcopy- rite, sphalerite and pyrite.

Equipment includes steam and electric power. There is a 30-ton mill, having 2 crushers, 2 rolls and 3 concentrating tables. A°small smelter, built 1902, had a 75-ton reverberatory furnace, making matte of 30 to 48% copper tenor, when operated, but it was abandoned several years ago. It was planned to add a cyanide plant for treatment of gold ores, but apparently this was not done. Company bought the Etzatlan: smelter, of 30 tons daily capacity, 1908. The entire plant was enlarged and remodeled and resumed operations in Jan., 1912.

Kimball Mining Co; Wyoming

B. A. Lathrop, supt., Arlington, Carbon Co., Wyoming. Has driven tunnels to develop a quartz vein with gold and silver-bearing copper ores. No recent returns secured.

KIN-E-CHY MINING & MILLING CO. ARIZONA Formerly at Willcox, ‘Cochise Co., Ariz: See Vol. VIII. KING COPPER MINING CO. UTAH

Office: Salt Lake City, Utah. Located on the divide between Emigra- tion and Red Butte canyon, 12 miles east of Salt Lake City, Utah. Con- trolled by the Baileys of Salt Lake. Property shows 6’ ledge of copper carbonates on contact between quartzite and blue limestone. Is developed by 300’ tunnel, principally in sandstone. Ore said to carry $14 in gold, copper and silver.

King David Mining Co. Utah

Is controlled by Knight Bros., Provo, Utah. Mine near Frisco, Beaver Co., Utah. Jesse Knight, pres.; David Evans, vice-pres. and mgr.; R. E. Al- len, sec.-treas. Organized 1908, under laws of Utah, capitalization $500,- 000, shares 50 cts. par, assessable. Assessment levied Feb., 1912, one-half cent per share.

Lands, 70 claims, adjoining the Horn Silver mine, including the Reci- procity group. Property is supposed to carry the extension of the Horn Silver vein. Mine has an 800’ two-compartment shaft, showing values mainly in silver-lead ore, with some chaicopyrite.

Equipment includes two 80-h. p. boilers, a 12x14” double-drum hoist, and a 5-drill air compressor. Mine closed down since May, 1910.

King Edward Mine. Ontario

Owned by Dobie & Co., Thessalon, Ont. Property is a prospect show- ing a 12’ vein, known as the Canada Verde, said to be traceable 2 miles and to carry copper ore at the surface. Development by 50’ shaft and numer- ous shallow pits. Was formerly under option to King Edward Mining Co. KING EDWARD MINES, LTD. BRITISH COLUMBIA

Idle: Address: Fairview, Boundary district, B. C. Organized 1904, in

British Columbia, capitalization $500,000, shares $1 par. Lands, 10 claims, 500 acres, in the Similkameen division ‘of the Osoyoos district. Opened by 350’ workings said to show a sulphide orebody 6 to 10’ wide averaging

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King Of The Hills Mine. - Utah

Address: Milford, Beaver Co., Utah. Mine in Granite district, 25 . miles northeast of Milford, reported to have 14 to 18’ contact metamorphic vein of copper-lead ore in limestone, cut by porphyry. Development by tunnels. Equipped with concentrating mill, making a product carrying 10% copper, 42% lead and 10 oz. silver.

King Philip Copper Co. Michigan:

Company was merged, 1911, with the Winona Copper Co., stockhold- ers receiving 2 shares of Winona for each 3 shares of King Philip held. See Vol. X.

King & Queen Copper Co. New Mexico

Idle. Dr. J. Odd Hamilton, president and chief owner. Mine near Steins, Grant Co., N. M., 8 miles southwest of Steins Pass, near the King Kendall and Johnny Bull mines. Claims show limestone cut by a large N.-S. dike of monzonite porphyry with ore occurring in contact meta- morphic deposit of altered garnetiferous limestone. Ore carries a little bornite, chalcopyrite, pyrite, calcite and on the Queen claim, some chryso- colla. The ore is low grade, carries zinc and lead and is hard to concen- trate. Development consists of numerous shallow workings over a large area,

King & Queen Mining Co. Montana

O. P. Weaver, pres., 1007 Bessemer Bldg., Pittsburg, Pa. Mine near Keystone, (formerly known as Carter), Chouteau Co., Mont. G. T. MeCul- lough, vice-pres.; John F. Hinckley, sec.; H. A. Spangler, treas.; C. B. Mc- Kennon, supt. in charge. Organized Feb. 22, 1905, under laws of Montana, practically as a reconstruction of the Montana Mining € Development Co., capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par.

_Property, 15 claims, partly patented, 188 acres and a 20-acre mill site, well timbered, 344 miles from Keystone the nearest rail point, in the Spring Gulch district, 9 miles northwest from Superior. Property carries limestone, quartzite and shale with contact deposits between quartzite and limestone. The deposit under development, of 8' estimated average width, shows copper, lead and silver ore with malachite, chalcocite, chalcopyrite and galena, reported to average 4.5% copper and 12 oz. silver per ton with gold values ranging up to 8 oz. per ton.

The mine has a new 1,200’ crosscut tunnel opening up 4’ of 4.6% copper ore that carries 9 oz. silver and 11% lead. This tunnel, planned to be driven 1,600’, has cut the vein 460’ below the old workings and intersects several veins. A 200’ raise gives ventilation with the upper workings now aban- doned. The main workings total 5,000’.

Equipment includes an 80-h. p. boiler, 25-h. p. hoist and 6-drill duplex air compresor; a 40-ton mill unit of a 100-ton concentrator has been erected and shipments of concentrate began in Sept., 1913. There are several small mine buildings and a sawmill. About 40 men are employed.

Production in 1913 was 40 to 50 tons daily, shipped to Salt Lake smelters.

King Solomon Mines. British Columbia

Near Cowichan, Vancouver island, B. C. Is a development syndicate, organized 1904, capitalization $15,000 in 10 shares. Property is on Copper mountain, in the Helmken district, 4 miles from the railroad. Owns the King Solomon and Queen of Sheba mines from which several shipments, catrying 8% copper, were made to the Tyee smelter a few years ago, KING SOLOMON MINING CO. “MONTANA

Mine address: Clancey, Jefferson Co., Mont. S. N. Moreland, pres.; I. S. Moreland, mgr. and supt. Lands on Clancey creek, 2 miles west of

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Clancey. Claims show coarse granite with some aplite cut by a dacite porphyry dike that forms the hanging wall of the lode. This lode or shear zone is 25’ wide consisting of slabs of rock alternating with bands 1% to 3” thick of solid sulphides, mainly gray copper, (tetrahedrite) galena and zinc blende with chalcedonic quartz. The ore is chiefly valuable for its silver contents and is sorted before shipment.

Development consists of a 300’ inclined shaft being sunk to 700’ Oct., 1913, with levels at 100’, 200’ and 300’ west of shaft. Equipment includes a hoist, skip and air compressor. Is a small silver property, which is not considered likely to become a dividend payer.

King Solomon Mining Co. Washington

Mine near Lucerne, Chelan,Co., Wash. S. J. Gray, superintendent. De- veloped by tunnel said to show copper ore. Equipped with gasoline power. KING SOLOMON TUNNEL & DEVELOPMENT CoO. COLORADO

Office: 810 Majestic Bldg., Denver, Colo. Mine office: Frisco, Summit Co., Colo. F. C. Dinsmore, pres. and gen. mgr.; W. H. Pingrey, vice-pres.; C. W. Rowe, sec.; O. A. King, treas.; preceding officers, S. R. Theobald, C. A. Kissinger, S. H. Alexander and Theo. Dungway, directors; H. S. Sanderson, mg. engr. Organized Jan., 1903, under laws of South Dakota, capitalization $2,500,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable.

Lands, 40 quartz claims and about 20 placer claims, in the Ten Mile district. Property has fissure veins in granite, carrying auriferous and ar- gentiferous copper and lead ores, developed by a 5,200’ tunnel with 5,000’ drifting. Equipment includes a 160-h. p. steam and 115-h, p. electric plant, with an 8-drill Ingersoll-Rand air compressor. Colorado & Southern rail- road runs by the property.

King William Mining Co. Utah

Office: 546 East First South St., Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine address: Eureka, Juab Co., Utah. Chas. H. Blanchard, pres. and gen. mgr.: J. H. Rouse, vice-pres.; A. C. Ellis, Jr., sec.; L. H. Farnsworth, treas.; W. M. Owen, supt. Organized 1907, under laws of Nevada, capitalization $1,250,000, shares $1.25 par, nonassessable. Shares listed on Salt Lake Stock Ex- change.

Lands, 2 claims, 16 acres, surrounded by'the holdings of the Eagle & Blue Bell, Centennial-Eureka and Grand Central. Development is through the Eagle € Blue Bell workings, on the 500’ and 1,000’ levels, correspond- ing with the 1,400’ and 1,900’ levels of the King William. There are several shallow shafts.

Property under option to sell for 25 cts. per share to the Centennial- Eureka Mining Co., and is now being developed by drifting from the deep levels of that mine.

Kingman Copper Mining & Milling Co. Arizona

Office: 211 Coronado Bldg., Denver, Colo. Mine address: Kingman, Mohave Co., Ariz. L. B, Brown, pres.; J. D.. Hawkins, vice-pres.; S. W. Eckman, sec.; A. E. Humphreys, treas.; H. E. Bierce, gen. mgr.; B. W. French, chemist-assayer. Organized July, 1912, in Colorado, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par, fully paid and nonassessable; 650,000 issued.

Property, the McNeely and other groups, including those of the South- western Turquoise Co. and the Aztec Turquoise Co., comprising a large part of the Mineral Park district; 58 claims, 1,085 acres, of which 34 are owned and 24 are under long-time option, all situated in the Wallapai min- ing district. Property is covered by granite porphyry and diabase and shows turquoise and copper silicate at the surface and is expected to show disseminated copper sulphides in depth.

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and a 290’ tunnel. Company operated a No. 23 Traction Star drill rig, and, after drilling 3 holes, 1 of 860”, a second of 600’.and.a third of but a few feet, stopped this work. Company has now begun underground develop- ment at the 250’ Copper Giant shaft, opening up a vein showing 7,, to, Of of 8% ore, according to press reports. In Oct., 1913, company. was driving along the fault plane on one of the large veins in the ridge south of King- man. It is understood that the ore developed by churn drilling was spotty and of too low average grade to satisfy the company’s engineers. KINGSTON GOLD & COPPER MG. CO., LTD. BRITISH COLUMBIA Company failed to make payments under its option and the property reverted to the owners, 1912. Described Vol. X: KINGSTON MINE. . ARIZONA Owned by Capt. Wiley and Chas. Starr, Globe, Gila Co., Ariz. Group of 6 claims, 3 miles east of Globe, adjoining Superior € Boston and United Globe ground. Developed by 290” shaft with 450’ of drifting on the 80° level and 100” on the 150’ level. Last work in tunnel was about 50’ west of shaft. The 4’ vein is in quartzite and ore, said to carry oxidized copper minerals with some chalcopyrite, is shipped for converter use to Old Dominion smelter. It carries 6 to 7% copper, a few ounces silver and over 70% silica. KINSLEY DEVELOPMENT CO. NEVADA Office: Herald Bldg., Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine office: Currie, Elko Co., Nev. John D. Kendall, pres.; W. M. Bradley, vice-pres.; Newton A. Dunyon; sec.-treas. and mgr.; R. J. Deighton, asst. sec.; preceding officers, B. F. Beaur and Wm. Pischell, directors. Capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par. Lands, 28 miles from Currie, on Nevada Northern railroad, show limestone cut by a large number of parallel N.-S. fissures, which carry copper ore at the south end of the property.and lead ore 1% miles north. Has been worked intermittently by leasers for past 2 years. Has steam plant, 3 hoists, compressor and a concentrating mill erected 1909, KISMET MINING CO. NEVADA Idle. Letters to 325 Brooks Arcade, Salt Lake City, Utah, unanswered. Mine near Pioche, Lincoln Co., Nev. Wm. R. Wallace, pres,; R. E. Miller, vice-pres.; J. E. Berkeley, sec.-treas., at last accounts. Organized under laws of Utah, capitalization $250,000, shares 25 cts. par, nonassessable; issued, $150,000. Lands, 9 claims, in process of patenting, 8 miles northwest of Pioche, on which development work was in progress in 1911. KITTIMAC MINES CO. COLORADO No report from 216 Coronado Bldg., Denver, Colo. Mine address: Sil- verton, San Juan Co, Colo. David B. Carey, pres.; R. Thomas, sec.; F. B. Thomas, treas.; J. B. Clark, mgr, . Capitalization, originally $1,000,000, was increased, 1910, to $1,250,000. Report filed with the state, Feb., 1910, showed indebtedness of $227,992.46. Is a gold-silver property owning about 650 acres, unpatented, under a bond and lease, with a part interest in 1 pat- ented placer claim. Mine said to have 12’ vein, carrying gold-copper ore, and lead-copper ore of milling grade. Equipment includes steam power and a 10-stamp mill. The aerial tram line swept away by snow slides, in 1912, has been rebuilt and a cyanide plant added to the mill. KNAPP MINING CO. COLORADO Idle. Address: Pearl, Jackson Co., Colo. Aug. Lenke, Jr., pres., Chicago, Ill, E. H. Lenke, mgr., Pearl, Colo. Owns the Big Horn mine of 6 claims, 55 acres, carrying 5” fissure vein in gneiss and diorite. Developed by shafts of 65’ and 85’, showing chalcopyrite and bornite, the ore being reported to average 7% copper. -Closed down since 1906. Has a 25-h. p. steam hoist.

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KNIGHT COPPER CO. i ARIZONA Idle. Mine, 3 miles south of Humboldt; Yavapai :Co., Ariz. Company has no local representative and left no retl address. Organized May, 1907,:under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,500,000, shares $1 par. Lands, 5 claims, 100 actés, showing schist and a ferruginous porphyry dike, carry- ing lenses of ore of 15 to 75’ estimated average width, said to average about ‘4% copper, with high-grade paystreaks: Development is by a 25’ shaft and a 175’ tunnel. Presumably defunct. KNIGHT INVESTMENT CO. UTAH

Office: Knight Blk., Provo, Utah. Jesse Knight, pres.; Amanda. M. ‘Knight, vice-presi;; Ry Eugene Allen, sec.-treas:; preceding officers, Ray- mond Knight, W. Lester Mangum, J. William Knight and lona Knight, directors. This company controls 17 properties, ranging from prospects up to successful dividend-paying mines in the Tintic district of Juab county, Utah.

The company’s new 100-ton custom milling plant at ines City, de- signed by N. C. Christensen to, treat the complex low-grade Tintic ores at an estimated treatment cost of $3 per ton, was started in Oct., 1913. The Colorado, Iron Blossom and Black Jack mines will ensure a steady supply of ore and water has already been provided by the 20-gal.-per-minute flow from a drift on the 800’ level of the Dragon Consolidated.

Knight’S Island-Alaska Copper Co. Alaska

Nearest P. O., Valdez, Prince William sound, Alaska, but company had no local representative last year. Jas. J. Godfrey, secretary, at last ac- counts. Lands, 17 claims, one-half mile northeast of Northeast cove, on Dryer bay, Knights island, Property shows a shear zone of schistose green- stone 25’ wide, carrying chalcopyrite associated with pyrrhotite, in quartz gangue, that is developed by a 285’ tunnel.

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KNIGHT’S ISLAND CONSOLIDATED COPPER CO. ALASKA Out of business. See Vol. X. KNIGHT'S ISLAND COPPER MINING CO. ALASKA

Letters sent office and mine, Valdez, Prince William sound, Alaska, unanswered, :S. A. Hemple, pres. and treas.; O. P. Brown, vice-pres.; J. C. Dieringer, sec. and mgr.; preceding officers, oles Kraemer, Res Ferguson, A. E. Grigsby.and Swan Johnson, directors; Geo. Wiolmiine, supt., at last report.. Organized under laws of Alaska, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par.

Lands, 8 claims, 1 fractional, 150 acres, near tidewater, on Dryer bay, nen s island, Alaska. Property carries 2 veins, 1 having a gossan carry- ing copper stains, developed by 3 crosscut fannele and a 60’ shaft, showing 30” of ore, from which shipments to the Tacoma smelter returned 19.35% copper. No. 1, a prospect tunnel, cuts a vein carrying chalcopyrite giving assays of 8.2% copper. No. 2 is a 130’ drift tunnel, on a vein of 3 to 7’ width, from which some ore has been shipped to Tacoma. No. 3, the main tunnel, is to be driven 1,350’ to crosscut 5 veins at 400’, 500’, 700’, 850’ and 1,350’ from portal. Company continued active development in 1912.

Equipment includes a hydraulic plant, said to be 200-h. p., having 1,400’ of water pipe and a water wheel actuating a 4-drill air compressor. KNIGHT’S ISLAND MINING & DEVELOPMENT CO. ALASKA

Idle. .Mine P. O.: Valdez, Prince’ William sound, Alaska. W. <C. Rothkranz, pres. and gen. mgr., 18 E. 42d St., New York City; Jesse Miller, vice-pres. and sec.; Robert Kutschinski, supt., at last accounts. Lands, 28 claims on Louis bay, said to have 11 veins of 12’ average width, carrying chalcopyrite ore, avéraging 12% copper, which figures are highly creditable

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a 2’ hanging-wall paystreak of ore, claimed to assay 25% copper, with small gold values. Equipment includes a small power plant and sawmill. KOOTENAI COUNTY MINING CO. IDAHO

Probably dormant. Letter unclaimed at Detroit, Mich. Mine near Priest river, Bonner Co., Idaho. Capitalization $2,000,000, shares $1 par. Lands are at the eastern end.of Priest lake.

Kootenai Mining & Milling Co, No. 2. Idaho

Idle. Mine near Priest river, Bonner Co., Idaho. Lands, 7 claims, at the head of Priest lake, opened by tunnels of 30’ and 40’, showing ore giving good average assays in copper and silver. i KOOTENAY BONANZA MINES, LTD. BRITISH COLUMBIA

R. S. Lennie, A. E. Rand and John A. Hendry, all of Vancouver, B. C., W, Finch Page and A. C. Burdick of Victoria, directors. Organized under laws of British Columbia, capitalization $3,000,000, shares $5 par. Company organized to take over the Silver King mine from the bondholders of the Hall Mining & Smelting Co., Ltd., the claims of the Kootenay Develop- ment Syndicate, Ltd., those of the Dandy & Ollie Consolidated Mines, Ltd., and of the Starlight Mines, Ltd., as well as other properties. KORNKOB MINING & DEVELOPMENT CO. ARIZONA

Frederick Minard, cons. engr.; Wm. L. Davis, mgr.; J. E. Ketson, supt., at last accounts. Organized under laws of Arizona, 1911, capitalization $5,000,000, shares $10 par. Owns Keystone group of 27 claims in Old Hat (Reed) district between the Santa Catalina and Rincon mountains, 35 miles north of Tucson.

Developed by 1,400’ crosscut tunnel with winze 150’ deep showing ore stringers, and by 300’ shaft with 1,500” of work. A lower, No. 2 tunnel, reported to show an ore shoot 70’ long carrying 514% copper and $4 in gold and silver.

At last accounts was sinking on an ore shoot and had stopped devel- opment on disseminated orebody owing to its comparatively small size. Development to date shows somewhat spotty values of about 2% copper over an area 3,000’ long and for an assumed thickness of 100’.

Property equipped with air compressor, power plant and diamond drill. K. & R. PROPERTY. NEVADA

Situated near Ludwig, Lyon Co., Nev., 1% miles from Nevada-Douglas mine. Reported to have recently cut a 12°to 15’ vein with high-grade cuprite in the lower tunnel. Shipping regularly, 1913. f:

Krug Gold & Copper Mining Co. Washington

Idle. Office and mine: Chewelah, Stevens Co., Wash. Geo. A. Allen, pres.; August Krug, sec. and gen. mgr.; T. L. Montgomery, treas. Organ- ized June 12, 1906, under laws of Washington, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable. Annual meeting, last Saturday in September.

Lands, 10 claims, 2 fractional, 185 acres, known as the Hartford group, 7 miles northwest of Chewelah, show contact deposits of 2% to 4’ width, between a diabase and schist, with N.-S. strike and dip of 40°. Develop- ment is by 7 prospect shafts, of 25 to 35’ depth, and a 340’ tunnel, showing ore carrying chalcopyrite, gray copper and galena, all argentiferous and auriferous. No recent returns secured.

Kupreanof Copper Mining Co. Alaska

Mine office: Juneau, Alaska. Organized Jan., 1910, under laws of Ari- zona, by Roy S. Goodrich and L. L. Gates. Capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par. J. B. Mason, superintendent. Lands, 6 patented claims, near Dun- can canal, on Kupreanof island. Company was operating in 1911, driving a tunnel reported to show high-grade copper ore 300’ beneath the outcrop.

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KUPREANOF COPPER MINING & SMELTING CO. ALASKA Idle. Mine office: Petersburg, Kupreanof island, Alaska. John T. Tow- ers, manager, at last report. Lands, 4 claims, 78 acres, show several out- crops of ore with a main vein of about 6’ width, dipping into the mountain at 30°. The ore carries chalcopyrite, associated with pyrite, with quartz and feldspar gangue, and is said to average about 4% copper and $2 per ton in combined silver and gold values. Development is by stripping, trenching, prospecting shafts and a short tunnel. KUSKALINA (KUSKATANA) MINE. ALASKA

Owned by E. F. Holden and associates. Property, the southern exten- sion of Rarus mine, on Copper mountain, near the Bonanza mine, on Cop- per river, Alaska. Is developing by 2 tunnels passing through 100’ of lime- stone to greenstone contact.

La Belle Mining Co. Arizona

Office and mine: Vicksburg, Yuma Co., Ariz. A. W. Hompe, pres.; E. B. Moore, vice-pres.; L. S. Judd, sec. and gen. mgr.; James Bayne, treas. Organized Aug. 3, 1909, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $100,000, shares $10 par; issued, $82,600. Company is a close corporation, entire ‘stock issue being owned by officers. Annual meeting, June 30.

Property, 11 claims, 220 acres, in the Plomosa district, is said to be covered by rhyolite cut by fissure veins running northwest and dipping steeply. The vein developed is traceable for 1% miles, averages 6’ wide and carries leached material with less than 1% copper, the sulphide zone not having been reached.

` Development aggregates 814’, including a 478’ shaft and 4 tunnels. Equipment includes 10-h. p. hoist, 2-drill compressor, 65-h. p. gasoline engine.and various mine buildings. Company plans churn drilling for 1913 and 1914. Property is 10 miles from Santa Fé railroad. LA COBRIZA DE COBRE. MEXICO

Address: Rafael Elias, Cananea, Sonora, Mex. Property, 5 claims, ad- joining Calumet & Sonora on southeast, shows several veins in bedded vol- canic tuffs with complex, silicious lead-copper-silver ore. Developed by 200’ shaft with short drifts in ore. A LA COBRIZA MINING CO. MEXICO

Mine and works office: Noria, Sonora, Mex. Fred C. Emery, pres. and gen. mgr.; J. W. Cook, vice-pres., Manchester, England; E. B. Sharpe, sec.-treas.; C. W. Tonkin, supt.; L. W. Young, geologist. Organized June 5, 1905, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $250,000, shares $1 par and is legalized in Mexico.

Lands, 142 hectares, 350 acres, in the Altar district near Puerto, 7 miles west of Noria. Property shows several contact deposits of nearly vertical dip, between limestone, quartzite and granite. The main orebody under development is reported by company as of 40’ average width, traceable 1,500 on surface, carrying carbonates to depth of about 100’, underlain by chalcopyrite ore averaging 6 to 8% copper, 4 to 6 oz. silver and $1.50 gold per ton.

Mine is opened by shafts of 200’ and 520’, and a short tunnel, manage- ment reporting 7,500’ of workings. Company reports that shaft is to be sunk to 1,000’ level, as soon as sufficient labor can be secured. The presi- dent claimed 300,000 tons ore blocked out, 20,000 on dumps and 1,000 tons in bins in 1911. Property idle for past year but reported to have resumed work in Oct., 1913.

Equipment includes a 300-h. p. steam plant, with a new hoist, installed 1912, and a 12-drill air compressor. There are 20 buildings, including an engine house, shops, store, office and about 15 dwellings. The smelter has

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4 100-ton Macdonald hot-blast pyritic furnace, ready to blow in, in Feb,, 1912, when property was shut down by orders from London. j Š

The company’s affairs have not been harmoniously managed, and many stockholders have been desirous of a change of management ever since 1909, when the manager and secretary were indicted by the Federal author- ities. These charges were nolle prossed in 1910. In 1913 the stockholders elected a new directorate but the manager and his friends had a special meeting of the company called for Sept. 3, 1913, and proposed to add 2 new directors, thus giving their side a majority of the board: J: H. Strong and others, holding 100,000 shares and supported by the vice-president, who owns a like amount, secured an injunction from the Superior Court of Santa Cruz county, Arizona, preventing Messrs. Emory, Sharpe; Tonkin and Young from holding such a “snap” meeting.

Reports from the property in Oct., 1913, indicate that a compromise has been effected and that operations are to be resumed at the property under the old management.

La Coronado Development Co. Arizona

Idle. Mine office: Florence, Pinal Co., Ariz. B. Reed, superintendent, at last accounts. Lands, 18 miles northeast of Florence, have a 265’ shaft, showing at bottom an 8” vein giving assays up to 25% copper, 1 oz. silver and $2.50 gold per ton. A tunnel shows a 3’ vein giving assays up to 23% copper, 15 oz. silver and $8.41 gold per ton. No returns secured.

La Dura Mining Co. Mexico

Mine office: Torres, Hermossillo, Sonora, Mex. Hartmann & Groff, managers, at last accounts. Ores carry gold, silver, copper and lead. Has steam power and turns out silver-lead-copper concentrates, when working. Idle some years and presumably dead.

La Exposicion Mining Co. Arizona

Address: P. O. Box 1031, Pasadena, Cal. Mine at Courtland, Cochise Co. Ariz. Apollos Fuller, pres. and gen, mgr.; Chas. E. Putnam, sec.; J. GF McCamant and J. A. V. Pieters, directors. Organized under laws of Ari- zona, capitalization $2,000,000; $1,500,000 preferred; $500,000 common; shares $1 par;.1,450,000 in treasury, of which 450,000 are common. Company owns silver mines, 16 hectares, a few miles southwest of the town of Cumpas, Sonora, Mex., near the Transvaal Copper Co.’s holdings; also 8 hectares, 3 miles from Nacozari and another group of 10 hectares nearby, both of these groups showing silver-gold ore. The company also owns one-half interest in the Mexican corporation owning 30 pertenencias of copper- bearing ground at Cananea, near the Greene Consolidated Copper Co.’s tract. The Cananea property, which has 4% and 5% copper ore developed, is a shipping proposition.

The main asset of the company is a lease and bond on the holdings of the Leadville Mining Co. at Courtland. Property consists of 2 groups, 187 acres, on which this company has expended $100,000 in operation and development in 1912-13. The principal mine is the Maid of Sunshine, which shows 50,000 tons of ore blocked out averaging. $15 per ton. Equipment includes 125-h. p; steam plant and numerous buildings. This property has been reported upon by S. M. Greenidge and is described under Leadville Mining Co. At last accounts the company had failed to make payments due and title has reverted to the Leadville Mining Co. ;

-LA FÉ CARIDAD y ANNEXAS; COMPANIA MINERA. MEXICO

Idle, Mine near Guachinango, Mascota, Jalisco, Mex. Adolf Marx, -pres.; Andrés Goebel, treas.; R.. Aguirre, sec.; Richard Guenther, gen. mgr., at last accounts. Organized under laws.of Mexico, capitalization 250,000

LA FORTUNA—LA REGINA TS pesos. Ore carries values in copper, silver and gold. Property closed down on account of revolution.

La Fortuna Mining Co. Mexico

Idle. Office: 315 Colorado Bldg., Washington, D. C. Mine office: Apartado 21, Ocotlán, Oaxaca, Mex. C. E. Miller, pres.; Wm. H. Brown, first vice-pres.; E. D, Stinson, second vice-pres.; Amos Tyree, sec.; Ambrose Timberlake, treas., at last accounts. Organized 1906, under laws of South Dakota, capitalization $250,000, shares $10 par.

Lands, 30 hectares, known as the Treadwell group, about 3 miles from Ocotlán and one-half mile from the Oaxaca-Taviche branch of the Mexican Southern railway. Property shows a well-defined nearly vertical fissure vein of 2 to 12’ width, cutting bedded andesite tuffs, greatly leached and oxidized to depth of 300’. Development is by a 400’ vertical shaft, with 600’ of work- ings, two 100’ prospect shafts and 4 tunnels of 700’ aggregate length. Work- ings show argentiferous chalcopyrite, with quartz gangue, estimated by com- pany to average 4.5% copper and 200 grams silver per metric ton. Some ore was shipped returning 14% copper and 600 grams silver per metric ton. Equipment includes a 40-h. p. boiler, hoist and a small air compressor for hammer drills.

Is a silver mine, whose copper output is a byproduct only.

La France Copper Co. Montana

Company bankrupt. Stephen P. Wright, trustee, Butte, Mont. Prop- erty, the Lexington mine, in Butte, was sold, 1913, to Atlantic Mines Co. for $1,003,000. See Vol. X.

La Gracia Gold & Copper Co. Arizona

Idle. Office: Long Beach, Cal. Mine office: Dewey, Yavapai Co., Ariz. Maj. T. C. Jordan, manager. Lands, known as the Red Bluff group, 6 miles east of Dewey, held under bond and lease, show ore giving assays up to 20% copper, 15% nickel and 8% cobalt, with considerable antimony and arsenic, the ore being exceedingly refractory, requiring special treatment. No returns secured.

La Recompensa Mining Co. Mexico

Mine office: Santa Maria del Oro, El Oro, Durango, Mex. P. J. Opper- man, superintendent, at last accounts. Mine has auriferous and argentiferous copper and zinc ores, with steam and water power, and a 10-stamp mill. Pre- sumably idle. ¥

LA REGINA COPPER CO. ARIZONA Abortive. No trace of operations secured. LA REGINA MINING CO. MEXICO

Office: 2120 W. Tioga St., Philadelphia, Pa. Mine office: San Martín Hidalgo, Jalisco, Mex. Chester P. Ray, pres.; F. W. Schmidt, vice-pres.; A. W. Brackmeyer, sec.-treas.; M. J. Slattery, gen. mgr.; John P. Delaney, supt. Organized Nov. 1, 1909, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par, as successor of Philadelphia Copper € Gold Mining, Milling & Smelter Co. Debentures $200,000 authorized; issued, $62,000.

Lands, 73 hectares, including the San Vicente, La Perla, La Fe, La Con- cha, Ajax and other mines. Property shows veins of 3 to 25’ width, carrying auriferous and slightly argentiferous chalcopyrite. The mine has 4 tunnels, at 150’ intervals, and a 465’ shaft. La Fe mine is said to show ore up to 30% in copper tenor. The Ajax mine shows a 12’ vein, estimated to average 4% copper, 2 oz. silver and $1.33 gold per ton. La Estrella del Norte mine has a 260’ tunnel. The property as a whole has 8 shafts, of 100’ average depth, with a total of about 1,000’ of workings, claimed to put in sight 125,000 tons of auriferous copper ore. Work on the copper ores was sus- pended 1909, and development has been confined since to the gold-silver

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vein, said to show at depth of 115', ore averaging 2 0z. silver and 15 grams gold per ton.

Equipment includes a steam hoist and air compressor, ‘at the San Vicente group. The mill has a 25-ton Elspass mill, 25-ton experimental cyanide plant, Huntington mill and 3 Pachuca tanks. Idle on account of political disturbances in Mexico.

La Reina Union Mining & Reduction Co. Mexico

Idle. Office: 602 Empire Bldg., Denver, Colo. Mine office: San Javier, Hermosillo, Sonora, Mex. J. F. Williams, manager, at last accounts. Lands include the Mimbres mine, having a fissure vein carrying lenses of complex lead-copper-sulphide ore having gold and silver values. Equipment includes steam and electric power, and an air compressor. No recent returns secured. LA SAL COPPER-SILVER MINING CO. COLORADO

Idle. Mine office: Paradox, Montrose Co., Colo. J. Ensign Fuller, pres.; John B. Overtón, sec., at last accounts. Company is apparently a reorganization of Consolidated La Sal Mining € Smelting Co., which was a reorganization of La Sal Copper Mining Co.

Property, the Cashin mine, 7 claims, patented, and 3 mill sites, 150 acres, some distance from a railway. Lands are also said to carry coal. The mine has a 1,540' tunnel, showing carbonate and sulphide ores, assaying up to 35% copper and 18 oz. silver per ton. Equipment includes steam power and a Leyner air compressor.

La Salle Copper Co. Michigan

Office: 12 Ashburton Place, Boston, Mass. Mine office: Calumet, Houghton Co., Mich. Quincy A. Shaw, pres.; Rodolphe L. Agassiz, vice- pres.; Geo. A. Flagg, sec.-treas.; Jas. MacNaughton, gen. mgr.; preceding officers, Col. Thos. L. Livermore, Courtney C. Douglass, Francis W. Hunne- well and T. M. Perkins, directors; Ole Hallingby, supt.; Wm. Skewes and Josiah Bartell, mining captains.

Organized Dec., 1906, under laws of Michigan, capitalization $10,000,000, shares $25 par; issued, 302,977 shares. Company absorbed the Caldwell Copper Co. and controlled the Tecumseh Copper Co., through ownership of practically the entire issue, giving 144 shares of La Salle for 1 of Tecum- seh, and bought the entire property of the Tecumseh, May 11, 1910, for $1,648,000. Is controlled, through ownership’ of 152,977 shares, by the Calumet & Hecla Mining Co. The Calumet & Hecla*contributed $1,000,000 cash to the company’s treasury, taking pay in stock, and agreed to loan $750,000 additional cash, as needed. Balance of assets Dec. 31, 1912, was $240,659.65. Operations for 6 months ending June 30, 1913, show mine expenses $27,835, mine construction $11,655, office expenses $2,472. Balance of assets $202,804, a decrease of $37,854. Annual meeting, second Wednes- day in June.

Lands, 2,360 acres, also the Gregory mill site, on Torch lake, nearly opposite the Calumet & Hecla mills. The Tecumseh and Caldwell contrib- uted 560 acres each and 540 acres were furnished by the Calumet & Hecla, St. Mary's Mineral Land Co., Shelden & Douglass Estate, and other inter- ests, these lands being put into the company at a novel basis of valuation, figured upon zones of 2,500” depth on the dip of the Kearsarge bed, allow- ance being made for decreased land values on zones carrying the underlay at increased depths. There are 4 shafts, 2 on the Tecumseh and 2 on the Caldwell tract, with room for 3 additional shafts, to give a total of 7 shafts, at intervals of about one-third mile. The property carries the strike of the Keweenawan formation for about 214 miles.

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few years ago. Little or no drilling has been done on the western portion of the La Salle, no holes drilled in search of the Pewabic amygdaloid, and only a little drilling done east of the Kearsarge bed.

The first work at the Tecumseh mine was done on the Calumet con- glomerate, many years ago, when a 1,000’ shaft was sunk that found no payable ore. During the second era of activity, 1889-1902, a shaft was sunk 2,300” on the Osceola amygdaloid, but this bed being found practically bar- ren of copper, work was abandoned Nov., 1902. It is probable that the old Osceola shaft will eventually be reopened, as the southern drifts of the No. 6 shaft of the Osceola, below the 4,000’ level, near the Tecumseh boundary, are

- among the best in that mine.

è La Salle No. 1 shaft, formerly known as No. 1 Tecumseh, sunk on the Kearsarge bed, is 6x18’ in size with 3 compartments, 2,146’ deep, July, 1913, and shows the Kearsarge lode to be 8 to 12” thick, but characterized by irre- gularly distributed values. The workings have encountered large areas of good ore, some of it with very rich patches of coarse copper that is rather showy though the average value has been, on the whole, somewhat disap- pointing in the mill. Equipment includes a 250-h. p. boiler and a hoist.

La Salle No. 2 shaft, formerly known as No. 2 Tecumseh, is located about 1,700’ south of No. 1 and is of the same size; it was 1,770’ deep July, 1913, showing a bed of workable thickness but not carrying much copper. This shaft has a wooden shaft rock house. The power plant has a 125-h. p. boiler, a hoist good for 2,500’ depth, and a 15-drill air compressor. Build- ings include a changing house. A branch of the Mineral Range railroad was built to the shaft in 1913.

No. 5.shaft, originally known as No. 1 Caldwell, and later as No. 1 La Salle, is 1 mile south of No. 1 shaft, and can be sunk to 9,000’ depth before reaching the boundary. This shaft is 1,450’ deep, showed a poorly-defined bed, with unsatisfactory copper contents, and work was discontinued Nov., 1910.

No. 6 shaft, once known as No. 2 Caldwell, and later as No. 2 La Salle, sunk at a point 1,500’ southwest of No. 5, is like it in dimensions. This shaft was abandoned, June, 1909, at depth of 882’, because the lode shows little or no copper; the surface equipment was removed to No. 2 shaft.

The Kearsarge bed is comparatively thin in the Tecumseh tract, ranging from 7 to 11’, with an average thickness of about 9’. It is estimated that approximately 1,000,000 tons of stamp rock were blocked out in No. 1 Te- cumseh, to the end of 1912, the greatest length of lateral opening being on the 12th level, where a stretch of about 1,000” of good stoping ground has been developed. i

Production was begun March, 1910, at the rate of about 100 tons daily, but has been interrupted at various times and was stopped early in 1912. Production for the first 2 months in 1910, was 13,754 tons of rock, yielding mineral equivalent to 167,257 Ibs. fine copper, an average of slightly better than 13.5 lbs. copper per ton of rock stamped. The ore is treated at the C. & H. mill at Lake Linden.

La Salle Copper Mining & Milling Co. New Mexico

Mine office: Carrizozo, Lincoln Co., N. M. Geo. C. Hopkins, vice- president. Organized under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $100 par. Lands, 3 claims, 60 acres, 6 miles from Carrizozo, said to show a 12’ to 15’ vein of low-grade copper ore. Idle.

La Union Mine. Mexico

C. B. Bell, Douglas, Ariz., owner. Neil Trumbull, manager. Property in Cerro Tordillo section of the Ajo mountains, west of Fronteras, Sonora, Mex., shows a 3 to 20’ vein traceable a mile that carries high-grade copper-

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gold ore. Shipments of 200 tons were made in Sept., 1913. The property was worked in 1882-86, acquired by present owner in 1906 and recently re- opened, employing 30 men.

La Ventura Mining & Milling Co. Mexico

Mine office: Ocotlan, Oaxaca, Mex. Geo. I. Bentley, manager, at last accounts. Mine carries auriferous and argentiferous copper ore, and prop- erty has a small steam plant. Presumably idle.

Ladd Metals Co. Idaho

Office: Canterbury Bldg., Portland, Ore. Mine and works offices: Mineral, Washington Co., Idaho, and Landore, Adams Co., Idaho. Chas. E. Ladd, pres.; Zera Snow, sec.-treas.

Lands, 2 groups, in the Seven Devils district. The first of 4 claims, at Mineral, bought of Consolidated Copper Co., shipped some ore, averaging 5% copper and up to 350 oz. silver per ton. The Landore claims yielded a little ore averaging 35% copper as shipped, and ore of much lower grade has been smelted on the ground.

The company has smelters at Mineral and Landore, the former having a small water-jacket blast furnace. The smelter at Landore, of 60 tons daily capacity, has a 50-ton combination reverberatory and water-jacket blast furnace, former burning wood and latter burning coke. This anomalous furnace was devised on a novel but unsuccessful plan, combining in a double stack, blast and reverberatory furnaces, with a downward blast and a moist updraft, charging being in both furnaces, and between the two. Fuel was furnished by a gas producer consuming wet, rotten, white fir wood. As theory and practice did not agree, the plant was remodeled along common- sense lines.

Smelters were closed down Noy., 1905, on account of poor transporta- tion facilities that rendered it difficult to secure flux and fuel. Idle and prop- erty regarded as hopeless.

Ladysmith Copper Mining Co. Montana

Office: 309 So. La Salle St., Chicago. Mine near Elliston, Powell Co., Mont. Edw. R. Roe, pres.; F. J. Schroter, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, W. A. Lynch, Wm. K. Steele and B. B. Switzer, directors. Organized 1905, under laws of South Dakota, capitalization $1,600,000, increased from $400,- 000 in 1908, shares $1 par.

Lands, 10 claims, 12 miles northwest of Elliston, are well timbered and ‚carry a contact deposit between limestone and granite that is 15’ in maxi- mum width. Development includes a 180’ two-compartment shaft, and a 110’ shaft, with about 1,500’ of workings, sulphide ore occurring at depth of about 165’. Idle since June, 1910. LAKE CITY MINING & SMELTING CO. COLORADO

j Mine and works office: Lake City, Hinsdale Co., Colo. B. N. Ramsey, vice-pres. and mgr.; Nelson Hopper, supt., at last accounts. Company sup- posedly authorized a bond issue, 1910. Mine is developed by tunnel. A 50- ton smelter, near the mine, on the outskirts of Lake City, does a small cus- tom business. No returns secured.

Lake Copper Co. Michigan

Office: 85 Devonshire St., Boston, Mass. Mine office: Lake Mine, On- tonagon Co., Mich. Wm. A. Paine, pres.; John H. Rice, vice-pres.; Robt. H. Gross, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, Wm. F. Fitzgerald, Reginald C „Pryor, Galen L. Stone and Robt. T. McKeever, directors; C. K. Hitchcock, Jr., supt.; Wm. Letcher, head mining captain; Wm. Ivey, asst. mg. capt

Organized Nov. 28, 1905, under laws of Michigan, capitalization $2 500 - 000, shares $25 par, $3 paid, fully issued. Shares are listed on the Bostok

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Stock Exchange. Federal Trust Co., Boston, registrar; State Street Trust Co., Boston, transfer agent. Annual meeting, third Tuesday in June.

The company began business with $45,000 cash, and has been financed by sale of treasury stock, rather than assessments on the customary Lake Superior plan. Sales of stock, to end of 1910, when balance of issue was sold, netted the company $847,379, the last sale of stock having been 13,450 shares, at $35, Nov., 1910. Balance of assets, April 30, 1913, was $35,071.02, including cash and copper of $14,664.99.

Lands, 2,010 acres, including 1,150 acres of mineral land, 680 acres of timber lands and 180 acres of cutover lands. The company bought 20 acres immediately east of the shaft from St. Mary’s Mineral Land Co., to provide room for a surface plant, the purchase carrying with it mineral rights to a depth of 100’, thus caring for the upper portion of the Lake shaft, collar of which is almost divided by the section line. Property includes the S. E. Y of Sec. 29, S. E.% of Sec. 30, N: W. % of Sec. 32, and E. % of Sec. 31, T. 51 N., R. 37 W. r

The first work of the company was done on the Knowlton and Butler beds, with a little work on what formerly was supposed to be the Evergreen, principal work being on the Knowlton amygdaloid, on which there were old shafts of 170’ and 300’, latter having been deepened to 600” by the present company. Considerable copper was taken from the Knowlton bed, but it was thought wise to transfer work to virgin territory, at the southern end of the property, and the wisdom of this move was demonstrated by the out- come. There also is a 90’ shaft on the Tresidder bed, 1,000’ east of the Knowlton, which was sunk 1865, and is said to have paid for sinking from the copper extracted. Considerable diamond drilling has been done, and the borings of the Adventure, on adjoining lands, indicate that the Lake should have several other promising amygdaloidal beds, in the same general horizon as the Lake bed now being opened.

The strike of the Lake amygdaloid in the immediate vicinity of the shaft, is about N. 6° E., with dip of about 35° W. It was at first thought that the Lake bed was a fissure, but that this is not the case was proven conclusively by the disclosure of parallel strata, including a conglomerate lying about 400’ thereunder. The Lake bed, which is a typical Lake Superior amygdaloidal trap flow, barring its unusual strike and dip, is exceedingly wide for a copper-bearing bed, ranging from 50 to 100’. The hanging wall of trap is fairly well defined but the footwall is extremely irregular, there being no marked line of separation between copper rock and trap. The Lake bed appears to carry 3 well-defined shoots of enriched copper ground, rak- ing northward with depth. An attempt was made to locate the northerly ex- tension of the Lake bed by diamond drilling from surface, but without suc- cess, though 3 holes were bored and it is now known that the lode turns west and passes into South Lake ground. Thirteen diamond drill holes have been bored, aggregating 1,638’. The northernmost bottom workings of the mine show a deflection to the westward, with a strike, at the extreme north, of N. 15° W., which strongly corroborates the hypothesis of Dr. L. L. Hubbard, who correlates the Lake bed with the third bed from the top of the 4 amygdaloidal beds cut by the drill holes of the South Lake.

A second copper-bearing amygdaloidal stratum, carrying considerable fine copper and much epidote, underlies the Lake bed at a distance of ap- proximately 175’, and has been opened by crosscuts on the 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th levels. This bed has about 2,000’ of drifts on the several levels opened.

The mine ended 1912 with about 28,000’ of workings, a very large pro- portion of the drifts being in neither the footwall nor the hanging wall, giv- ing a rather indifferent line on the actual values in the bed. The main shaft,

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started in 1911, was about 1,500’ deep, May, 1913. This shaft was opened by sinking and raising simultaneously, from the different levels, and is per- manently equipped with a modern steel rock house, having a storage bin 40’ in diameter by 51” deep.

Equipment includes a 32x72” Nordberg duplex-cylinder double-conical- drum hoist, capable of lifting 10-ton loads from depth of a mile. The en- gine house is 52x87’, of steel frame. There are old 6-drill and 15-drill air compressors, taken from the equipment of the old Belt mine, and a new 50-drill 2-stage cross-compound air compressor, in a steel compressor house 40x80’ in size. The boiler house is 52x102’, of steel frame, equipped with five 250-h. p. locomotive firebox boilers. The boiler house has a 125’ con- crete smokestack. Mine structures include a machine shop, smithy, chang- ing house, office and boarding house. There are 9 new dwellings and a num- ber of old houses at the Belt location. The property is served by the main line of the Copper Range railway, which passes through the old Belt loca- tion, with a 1%4-mile spur to the shaft, and a siding has been built to within 500’ of the shaft by the Mineral Range railway, giving the mine the advan- tage of competitive railway rates. About 150 men are employed.

Production was begun March, 1912, and amounted to 1,300,562 lbs. fine copper at end of fiscal year, April 30, 1913. In this period, 83,109 tons of rock was stamped, the average yield being 15.64 lbs. fine copper per ton. The output was secured at a cost of about 19,5 cts. per pound.

The management is thoroughly experienced and capable, and the mine, though small, is the most promising of the newer mines of the Lake Su- perior district.

Lake Copper Mining Co., Ltd. Nova Scotia

Idle. Office: Eastern Harbor, N. S. Mine office: Polson’s Brook, An- tigonishe Co., N. S. H. G. Dunbar, sec.-treas.; A. G. Baillie, gen. agt. Or- ganized Jan., 1908, capitalization $2,500,000, shares $1 par. Lands, 6,400 acres, on Polson lake, having a vein claimed to be 5’ thick traceable a mile and carrying auriferous and argentiferous copper ore. Mine has a 103’ shaft, with 554’ of workings.

Lake George Development Co. Colorado

Office: 22 E. Columbia St., Colorado Springs, Colo. Mine office: Lake George, Park Co., Colo. O. W. Battles, pres. and mgr.; S. C. Drollinger, vice-pres.; A. J. Kiser, sec.-treas. and purch. agt.; preceding officers, M. A. Kiser and R. H. Kiser, directors. Organized 1910, under laws of Colorado, capitalization $600,000, shares $1 par, divided into 30,000 preferred and 570,- 000 common shares, preferred shares being issued to bondholders of this amount. Bonds bear interest at 714%.

Lands, 28 claims, 530 acres and 750 acres miscellaneous lands, partly. patented, in the Lake George district, show a calcarcous contact deposit between quartzite and granite. Ores contain chalcopyrite with good silver and gold values.

Development is by 3 shallow shafts, deepest 80’, and a 1,100’ tunnel. Presumably idle.

LAKE HURON COPPER SYNDICATE, LTD. € ONTARIO Liquidated voluntarily, Feb., 1901. LAKE MILLING, SMELTING & REFINING CO. l MICHIGAN

Offce: 12 Ashburton Place, Boston, Mass. Operating office: Calumet, Mich. Works office: Point Mills, Houghton Co., Mich. Quincy A. Shaw, president. Organized under laws of Michigan, capitalization $2,500,000, shares $25 par; fully issued, $5 paid in. Is controlled, through joint owner- ship of stock, by the Allouez Mining Co. and Centennial Copper Mining Co.

Lands, 406 acres, carrying more than 1% miles frontage on Portage

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lake, adjoining the Franklin mill site. The mill was built by the Arcadian Copper Co., and was bought, 1904, by the Centennial Copper Mining Co., and later transígrred to the present corporation.

The mill of 4,000 tons daily capacity is equipped with 6 Nordberg stamps and crushing rolls to treat oversize material. Power is furnished by a 600-h. p. Nordberg cross-compound engine, and water is supplied by a 15,000,000-gal. Nordberg pump. A wharf, running 675’ into deep water, is equipped with a modern coal hoist and coal shed.

Lake Shore Mining Co. Michigan

Idle several years. Office: 909 West Kensington Road, Los Angeles, Cal. Mine near Green, Ontonagon Co., Mich. W. H. Garlick, pres. Or- ganized under laws of Michigan, capitalization $500,000, shares $25 par.

Property, 821 acres, patented, on the shore of Lake Superior, is reported to carry bedded deposits, between slate walls, of 5’ and 12’ width, showing copper oxides and chalcocite giving average assays of 2% copper, 0.5 oz. silver and 40 to 80 cts. gold per ton. Apparently the orebody is of the sec- ondary or Porcupine series of the Keweenawan formation, and ores may change to native copper at depth. A little prospecting has been done. LAKE SUPERIOR € ARIZONA MG. & SMELTING CO. ARIZONA

Office: Calumet, Mich. Mine office: Superior, Pinal Co., Ariz. John D. Cuddihy, pres.; Johnson Vivian, vice-pres.; A. E, Petermann, sec.; Wm. B. Anderson, treas.; preceding officers, Wm. H. Thielman, Hon. Angus W. Kerr, Edw. Ulseth, Henry L. Baer, Frank S. Carlton, all of Calumet; W. A. Holt, Globe, Ariz., and John T. Reeder, Houghton, Mich., directors.

Organized Sept. 30, 1902, under laws of Arizona, as the Lake Superior & Arizona Mining Co., capitalization $200,000, shares $1 par, and reorgan- ized, 1904, under laws of Arizona, with present title, capitalization $2,500,000, shares $20 par; issued, $1,680,000, formerly assessable, but now fully paid. Annual meeting, second Tuesday in March. A. E. Petermann, transfer agent, Calumet, Mich. First National Bank, Calumet, Mich., registrar.

Property, the Gold Eagle mine, with 11 claims, 110 acres, freehold at Superior, in the Pioneer district, 3 miles south of the Silver King mine, 30 miles west of Globe and 28 miles east of Florence. Claims show thickly bedded, steeply upturned limestone, resting on quartzite, underlaid by dia- base. Ore occurs following slips, or brecciation along bedding planes which in general lie 4vithin 20’ of the base of the limestone. In places the ore is 4 thick, and sometimes leached iron gossan is 15’ thick. This brecciation is due to fracturing or bedding faulting, and does not follow exactly the same bed.

As the vein matter is a leached iron gossan with only occasional patches and segregations of oxidized ore or residual nuclei of sulphide, hope is felt that massive sulphides will be found in depth. Though a heavy flow of water is encountered, the sulphide zone has not yet been reached.

The principal working is the Carlton tunnel, which for 2,000’ follows the mineralized fracturing along the bedding plane between Devonian limestone and quartzite. This tunnel is 130’ vertically below the Holt tunnel, is con- nected with the latter by a 165’ winze on the dip of the vein and is 3,000’ long, showing ore assaying up to 30% copper. At the northern end of this long tunnel, there is an incline shaft sunk along the bedding plane at 26° inclination for 1,800’ with short levels at various intervals.

Equipment includes a steam plant with a 175-h. p. water-tube boiler, and a 16-drill Rand 2-stage air compressor. Fuel is petroleum, and there are 5 storage tanks at the mine and 2 at Florence, each holding 2 carloads of oil.

Buildings include a power house, smithy and bunkhouse at the mine, and an office and dwelling at Florence, 28 miles distant.

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The Arizona Midland R.. R. Co., organized but road not yet built, would traverse 19 miles of easy rolling country and 9 miles of hills, would cost from $300,000 to $500,000 for construction and equipment and would connect with the Arizona Eastern (S. P. R. R.) at Florence. ii

Production was 99,120 lbs. copper, 1,040 oz. silver and 188 oz. gold in 1907; none since. Work was suspended 1907, resumed 1910 by the Magma Copper Co., and again suspended 1911. Property is considered promising.

In March, 1913, the Gunn Thompson interests, who as the Magma Copper Co., had an option on the property expiring 1912, are reported to have offered to spend $100,000 in sinking the shaft and developing and further agree to add several claims to the group, all for one-half of the company’s stock, provided the L. S. & A. Co. give them title to one of the claims.

Lake Superior Copper Co. Michigan

Idle since 1874. Mine near Rockland, Ontonagon Co., Mich. Organ- ized July, 1853, under laws of Michigan, capitalization $500,000, shares $25 par. Lands were set off and company was organized by the Minnesota Mining Co. Lands, 640 acres, in Secs, 13 and 14, T..50 N., R. 39 W., carry- ing the parallel cupriferous beds of the Evergreen belt. Company ex- pended about $40,000, raised by assessments, and made 14,821 Ibs. fine copper.

Lake Superior Coso Development Co. California

Office: Hancock, Mich. Mine office: Darwin, Inyo Co., Cal. John Kiiskila, pres.; Nels Majhannu, vice-pres.; Jacob Jarvis, sec.; Peter Strol- berg, treas. Organized 1907, capitalization $50,000, shares $25 par. Lands, 30 claims, 600 acres, extending over a distance of about 13 miles. The property carries copper, lead and zinc sulphides. Idle and moribund. LAKE SUPERIOR DEVELOPMENT CO. MICHIGAN

Office: care Clyde Mackenzie, sec., Houghton, Mich. Jos. Croze, pres.; Jos. W. Selden, treas. Lands, 400 acres, held under option, being the N. 14 of Sec. 25, and S! % of S. W. Y of Sec. 24, T. 57 N., R. 32 W. . Prop- erty, about one-half mile east of the Gratiot and about one and one-half miles southwest of the Ojibway.” Lands are on the Keweenawan forma- tion. Drill borings made 1910-11, gave much encouragement, and company hopes to resume operations.

LAKE SUPERIOR SMELTING CO. ə MICHIGAN

Office: 12 Ashburton Place, Boston, Mass. Works office: Dollar Bay, Houghton Co., Mich. Jas. MacNaughton, gen. mgr.; Harry B. Conant, supt. Organized under laws of Michigan, capitalization $1,200,000, shares $25 par. Is controlled, through ownership of 25,000 shares, by the Tama- rack Mining Co., and by the Osceola Consolidated Mining Co., which has 15,000 shares, and the Isle Royale Copper Co., which has 8,000 shares.

The smelter, closely connected with the plant of the Tamarack-Osceola Mfg. Co., has 11 reverberatory furnaces, 5 of 11x16' size each, 4 of 17x30’ size, 2 larger, of 75 tons capacity each, and 3 refining furnaces. There is a mechanical ladling and casting device having a 1,100-Ib. ladle, and a cast- ing machine with molds linked into an endless belt, dumping over sprockets into cooling tanks, whence the ingots are removed mechanically by cleat elevators, which deliver the ingots to inspection and loading platforms. On the return trip of the molds, while inverted, they pass over a rosin fire, which coats them with lampblack, to prevent sticking. About 300 men are employed. The company also owns the dismantled smelting plant at Han- cock, Houghton county, Mich. LAKE SUPERIOR & SONORA DEVELOPMENT CO. MEXICO

Office: Duluth, Minn. C. S. Carpenter, pres.; Jas. Hı Moran, vice-pres.

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and gen. mgr.; E. C. Alsted, sec.-treas. Organized 1909, capitalization $500,- 000, shares $10 par.

Idle since 1909, taxes on property in Mexico unpaid, and company has probably lost its interests therein. Described Vol. X.. LAKESIDE COPPER Co. : UTAH

, Office: 350 Twenty-fourth St., Ogden, Utah. H. E. Baker, pres.; J. M. Russell, vice-pres.; D. C. Lawson, sec.-treas. Organized June, 1906, under laws of Utah, and reorganized Jan., 1911, capitalization $75,000, shares 10 cts. par; issued 430,000 shares. Lands, 20 claims, unpatented, 3 miles from the Lucin cutoff. Claims have a blanket vein, of 15 to 50’ thickness, trace- able 300’, by shallow trenches, developed by a shallow shaft and a 400’ tunnel, showing copper ore, giving assays up to 40%. Presumably idle. LANDLOCK BAY COPPER MINING CO. ALASKA

Office: Valdez, Alaska. Mine office: Landlock, Alaska. Dr. W. A. Rystrom, president and manager. Organized 1907, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par, issued, 750,000 shares. Lands, 7 claims, 140 acres, on a small peninsula, with tide water on both sides, have 2 tunnels, on the western side, besides a shallow shaft, showing chalcopyrite ore assaying 8% copper. LAS ADARGAS MINING CO. MEXICO

Office: 15 John St., New York. Mine office: Jimenez, Chihuahua, Mex. E, C. Seiler, pres.; Geo. E. Crawford, sec.; W. A. Seamon, gen. mgr., at last accounts. Claims to be organized under laws of New York, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $10 par. Declared a dividend of 25 cts. per share, April, 1902. Property said to be held under a bond of $300,000, on which $15,000 was paid. Claimed to have a 300’ shaft. Is regarded with much suspicion. No recent returns secured.

Las Moras Group Mexico

Office: 2030 Land Title Bldg., Philadelphia, Pa. L. H. Taylor, owner. Property, 8 miles southwest of Ameca, includimg the La Fe mine, show an orebody consisting of a breccia of altered limestone, with fragments ce- mented by chalcocite and chalcopyrite, in a crushed and mineralized con- tact zone of about 300’ width, traced for 2,000’, ore being reported to aver- age 2 to 2.5% copper, with small silver and gold values. Development is by a 140’ shaft, and 1,500’ of tunnels.

Las Vegas Copper Co. New Mexico

Idle. Mine near Tecolote, San Miguel Co., N. M. F. A. Manzanares, pres.; J. M. Thompson, sec.; J. M. Allen, treas. and gen. mer, at last ac- counts. Capitalization $100,000, shares $1 par. Property is the Tecolote mine, near Tecolote, showing auriferous and argentiferous copper ore, also a vein of chalcanthite or natural copper sulphate. Has steam and electric power, and a concentrator.

Las Vigas Mining Co. Mexico

Office: Santa Barbara, Cal. Mine office: San Sostenes, Coyame, Itur- bide, Chihuahua, Mex. Geo. E. Voorhees, Jr., manager.

Lands, 74 hectares, said to show upturned Cretaceous sandstones and shales with interbedded copper lodes, occurring as impregnations and re- placements in sandstone. Four veins under development are reported to average 7 to 12’ width, and are said to give average returns of 7.5% copper and 3 oz. silver per ton, mainly from disseminated bornite and chalcopyrite, with occasional oxidized ores and native copper. Mine has shafts of 61’, 98’, 125’ and 212’, with various levels; also 3 short tunnels. Workings esti- mated to develop 160,000 tons of ore. Equipment includes steam power, a hoist, an air compressor, and a 100-ton concentrator. Buildings include an

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office, store and 19 dwellings. Ore was hauled, 43 miles, to Las Trancas station, by a Buffalo-Pitts traction engine. Presumably idle.

Lasqueti Island Mining Co., Ltd. British Columbia

Office: Vancouver, B. C. Mine office: Van Anda, Texada island, B. C. R. A. Mather, pres.; A. D. Tennant, vice-pres.; John D. Mather, sec.; Geo. E. Winter, treas.; Percy Williams, mgr., at last accounts. Organized 1910, capitalization $500,000, shares 25 cts. par.

Lands, 3 claims, 150 acres, on Lasqueti island, on the southwestern end of Texada island, on the Gulf of Georgia, 55 miles from Vancouver. De- velopment is by a tunnel, with a 38’ upraise to surface planned to be turned into a shaft, on a 20’ vein known as St. Joseph, having 4 paystreaks, of 6 to 24” width, carrying ore said to average 10% copper and $20 gold per ton. Presumably idle.

Last Chance Copper Mining Co. Montana

Idle. Geo. Champagne, pres.; W. H. Nichols, sec.; Dr. T. C. Wither- spoon, treas., at last accounts. Capitalization $1,200,000, shares $1 par.

Lands, 2 claims, patented, adjoining the Ben Hur mine, 4 miles north of Saltese, Missoula county, Mont. Mine is developed by shallow shafts and an 800’ lower tunnel, the workings showing 30’ vein, faulted in the tunnel, but a winze shows an 18” streak of ore said to carry about $100 per ton in values. Company reports past shipments of about $150,000, one car- load shipped giving returns of 13.6% copper, 394 oz. silver and $12 gold per ton.

Last Chance Mining Co. Utah

Idle. W. P. Worthen, general manager, at last accounts. Lands, 1 pat- ented claim, adjoining the American Copper Co., in the Big Cottonwood district, near Alta, Salt Lake county, Utah. Shaft, at depth of 70’, is said to show a 6” lead of silver-lead ore.

Latah Copper Mining Co., Ltd. Idaho

Office and mine: Potlatch, Latah Co., Idaho. T. P. Jones, pres.; Wm. Deary, vice-pres.; H. P. Henry, sec.-treas.; C. W. Sanderson, gen. mgr Or- ganized under laws of Idaho, capitalization $2,000,000, shares $1 par, non- assessable, Annual meeting, first Tuesday in September.

Lands, 9 claims, 1 fractional, 161 acres, known as the Copper King mine, in the Hoodoo district, 40 miles east of Palouse. Mine has a 190’ tun- nel, showing malachite and chalcopyrite, estimated by management to average 6 to 20% copper, ore being zinckiferous, and also carrying gold values. The mine has a steam hoist. Idle since 1907.

Latouche Copper Mining Co. Alaska

Mine office: Latouche, Latouche island, Alaska. Geo. Barrach, man- ager. Lands, 7 claims, about one-half mile north of the Bonanza mine of the Beatson Copper Co., at the northern end of Latouche island. The vein has been traced about 750’, by trenches and pits, and is developed by a 750’ tunnel, showing chalcopyrite, associated with pyrite and pyrrhotite, with drifts in ore of 4 to 12% copper tenor, having small gold and silver values. There is an 1,175’ ground tram to a shipping wharf. Buildings include a bunk house, smithy and assay office.

Latouche Island Copper Mining Co., Ltd. Alaska

Office: 49 Sullivan Bldg., Seattle, Wash. Mine office: Latouche, La- touche island, Alaska. Jas. A. Murphy, pres.; Tenning Carlson, vice-pres.; Winfield S. Jamison, second vice-pres.; Gordon Everett, sec.; C. E. Bo- gardus, treas.; preceding officers, Dudley A. Tyng and Robt. Fay, directors; W. E. Dunkle, supt. Organized under laws of Washington, capitalization $5,000,000, shares $5 par.

Lands, 42 claims, with approximately 4 miles of tidewater frontage, are

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on the northeastern shore of Latouche island, 60 miles south of Valdez. The property has 3 practically parallel N.-S. veins, of 8 to 20’ estimated average width, with dip of about 65°, somewhat faulted but proven by trenches for about 3 miles.

Development is by a shallow shaft and tunnels of 94’, 103’, 160’ and 200’, with about 1,500’ of workings, claimed to have in sight approximately 200,000 tons of 5% ore, which is considered excessive. Ore carries bornite and chalcopyrite, with quartz gangue, assaying up to 25% copper, with $1 to $3 combined gold and silver values per ton.

Equipment includes a small hydro-electric plant having a water wheel and a Class E Rand air compressor. Company was shipping 125 tons of ore daily, June, 1913. ; LAURIER MINING CO. WASHINGTON

Office: 602 Columbia Bldg., Spokane, Wash. Mine office: Laurier, Ferry Co., Wash. Dayton H. Stewart, pres. and mgr.; E. K. Erwin, sec.- treas.; W. A. Pfeifer, supt. Organized Oct, 22, 1908, under laws of Wash- ington, capitalization $1,000,000, increased later to $1,500,000, shares $1 par; issued, 1,166,350.

Lands, 6 claims in the Curlew district, 9 miles from Grand Forks, B. C., are developed by a 60’ shaft and 580’ tunnel, showing a 16’ vein of ore said to average 7 to 11% coppet, 10 to 12 oz. silver and $1.50 to $2 gold per ton. Developing at last accounts.

Laurium Mining Co. Michigan

Office: 12 Ashburton Place, Boston, Mass. Mine office: Calumet, Houghton Co., Mich. Quincy A. Shaw, pres.; Rodolphe L. Agassiz, vice- pres.; Geo. A, Flagg, sec.-treas.; Jas. MacNaughton, gen. mgr., and Francis L. Higginson, directors; Geo. G. Endicott, asst. sec.-treas. Organized under laws of Michigan, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $25 par, fully issued. Is controlled, through ownership of 37,550 shares, by the Calumet & Hecla Mining Co. Has paid dividends of $4 per share, through sale of town lots in the village of Laurium. Company ended 1913 with surplus assets of $18,465. Annual meeting, second Tuesday in June.

Lands, 575 acres with mineral rights, including 325 acres whose surface is also owned. Company originally owned 640 acres, lying next east of the Calumet! & Hecla, but a triangular tract of about 65 acres, carrying both surface and mineral rights, was sold to the Calumet & Hecla, and about 250 acres of surface rights have been disposed of since as building lots, with reservation of mineral rights. The property carries about 1% miles of the strike of the Kearsarge bed, with 280 acres of underlay, giving the Laurium a chance to develop this bed to a depth of about 4,400’.

The Laurium shaft, started Aug. 7, 1909, as a result of previous dia- mond-drill borings, is about 2,200’ from the southwest corner of Sec. 26, and about one-half mile north of No. 1 Tecumseh shaft, The shaft was 1,444’ deep at the end of 1912, with about 6,000’ of workings, showing poor ground generally. The shaft has a rock house of about 600 tons daily ca-

acity. 3 Equipment includes a boiler house, with a large Belpaire boiler, an en- gine house with a large hoist and air compressor, and a changing house. LAURIUM-MONTANA MINING CO. it MONTANA

Office: Ely, Minn. Herman Pete, pres.; Wm. Vuoti, sec.; Oscar Kaari, gen. mgr., at last accounts. Organized 1910, capitalization $1,000,000, paid in $51,000. Lands, 3 claims, 80 acres, 4 miles south of Butte, are developed by a 300’ tunnel. Presumably idle.

Leaclede Cons. Gold & Copper Mining Co. Oregon

Office: 461 Broadway, Albany, N. Y. Mine near North Powder, Union

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Co., Ore. W. J. Curtis, pres.; Geo. Oliver, vice-pres.; Andrew Wolf, sec.; E. E. Palmer, treas., at last accounts. Organized June 10, 1900, under laws of Oregon, capitalization $1,500,000, shares $1 par. Lands, 320 acres, 3 miles from a railway, in the foothills of the Blue mountains, partly in Baker county and partly in Union county, Oregon. The mine has several hundred feet of shafts, tunnels and crosscuts, showing parallel veins of 10” to 4 width, carrying auriferous and argentiferous ores assaying up to 10% cop- per, with iron gangue. Presumably idle.

Lead King Mining Co. Idaho

Office: Wallace, Idaho. W. H. Herrick, sec.; E. W. Conrad, gen. mgr. Capitalization $1,000,000. Company was organized, 1911, as successor of the Marie Mining Co., Ltd., and later was reported to have absorbed the Gray Copper Mining Co., Ltd., but the deal was not consummated.

Property, 13 claims, in McFarren gulch, about 1 mile south of Osburn, carries 2 veins, one with outcrops of high-grade argentiferous galena, the other showing outcrops of argentiferous copper ore. Development is main- ly by 4 tunnels, with opencuts and shallow shafts. No. 1 tunnel, of 80%, shows galena; No. 2 tunnel is 265’, No. 3 tunnel is 80’, and No. 4 tunnel is about 550’, showing silver-lead and gray copper ore, giving good assays. Equipment includes several small cabins for mine purposes. Company dor- mant 1913. ` LEADVILLE MINING CO. ARIZONA

Mine office: Courtland, Cochise Co., Ariz. Wm. Holmes, pres. and gen. mgr.; W. D. Monmonier, sec.; Calvin Glenn and W. A. Stilson, direc- tors. Organized, 1905, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $600,000, shares $1 par. Property was bonded, 1912, to Messrs. Fuller & Neer of Douglas, for $600,000, with a first payment of $30,000, final payment to be made within 14 months. (See La Exposición Mining Co.)

Lands, 13 claims, 199 acres, patented, in the Turquoise district, includ- ing the Leadville and Maid of Sunshine mines. The property shows con- tact deposits between monzonite and limestone. Ores are mainly mala- chite, azurite and chrysocolla, with some chalcopyrite and pyrite showing in the Maid of Sunshine mine. Two orebodies, under development, carry an average of about 6% copper. There are 5 shafts, deepest 36 and ar00 tunnel. Equipment includes a 250-h. p. steam plant, 2 hoists and a 3-drill air compressor. Property considered good, and with sufficient ore blocked out to be put on a productive basis. A detailed report and valuation of mine was made by S. M. Greenidge, of Douglas, Ariz., 1913. LEADVILLE MINING & SMELTING CO. MONTANA

Office: Larned, Kans. Mine near Basin, Jefferson Co., Mont. Chas. A. Cottrell, pres.; J. F. Upson, sec.-treas. and gen. mgr.; preceding officers, F. D. Lowrey, John Lindas and J. A. McInteer, directors, at last report. Organized June, 1904, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable; issued, $810,000.

Lands, 12 claims, unpatented, 240 acres are in the unorganized Lead- ville district, 15 miles from a railway. The ground is reported to have 12 fissure veins in diorite, of which the 2 under development carry galena, with a little chalcopyrite, copper being expected to increase with depth. Management estimates ore to carry small percentages of copper, 20 to 70% lead, a small amount of zinc, 10 to 100 oz. silver, and $3 to $21 gold per ton. Development is by a number of shallow shafts, aggregating 410 depth, and a-380 tunnel, planned to be driven 2,000”, to cut 3 veins. The Common- wealth claim has two 50' shafts showing lead carbonates and a little galena.

Equipment includes a 40-h. p. steam plant, with a hoist good for 500’

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depth, and there are 3 búildings. A little ore has been shipped in the past to the East Helena smelter. Presumably idle. LEASTOCK GOLD & COPPER MINING CO. CALIFORNIA

Office: 500 Frost Bldg., Los Angeles, Cal. Mine office: Leastalk, San Bernardino Co., Cal. Andrew Glassell, pres.; L. M. Gregory, vice-pres., treas. and gen. mgr.; E. R. Stone, sec., at last accounts. Organized Oct., 1905, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par, non- assessable; issued, $573,500. Annual meeting, first Monday in July, at Tucson, Ariz.

Lands, 10 claims, unpatented, in the Vanderbilt district, on the northern side of New York mountain, have contact deposits 3' wide, between granite and limestone, that show oxidized ores and occasional native copper, with copper sulphide at depth. The ore is reported by company to average 12.6% copper and 56 oz. silver per ton. Development amounts to 400’ with 4 shafts, deepest 135’. Idle since 1905, from lack of funds and apparently out of business.

Lee Consolidated Mines Co. California & Nevada

Office: 302 Grant Bldg., Los Angeles, Cal. Properties near Lee, Inyo Co., Cal., and Ely, White Pine Co., Nev. D. C. Dack, pres); Chas. S NME Kelvey, vice-pres.; W. B. Mather, sec.-treas. Organized Dec, 1907, under ; laws of Arizona, capitalization $2,000,000, shares $1 par. Company suc- ceeded the Guggenheim-Greenwater Copper Co., a stockjobbing enterprise, and apparently is of about the same caliber.

Property consists of the Pinon group, 5 miles northwest of Ely, opened by a shallow 1-compartment shaft, and 3 groups of claims at the mouth of Willow creek, 35 miles southeast of Greenwater. Idle several years and ap- parently out of funds and credit.

Leighton-Wyoming Mining Co. Wyoming

Idle. Office: 417 Seventh St., Milwaukee, Wis. M. H. Yewdale, pres.; H. E. Dankoler, sec.; Spencer S. Yewdale, treas. Organized 1906, capitali- zation $1,000,000, shares $1 par; issued, $810,000.

Lands, 2 claims, about 1 mile north of the Ferris-Haggerty mine in the Battle Lake district. Development is by a 186’ tunnel and a 65’ shaft. Equipment includes a saw mill and a small machinery plant, bought 1909, from the Haskins mine.

Lelan Gold & Copper Co. Arizona

Presumably idle. Office: Prescott, Ariz. Mine near McCabe, Yavapai Co., Ariz. Elmer W. Wells, manager, at last accounts. Property has a 500’ shaft, electric power and a 10-stamp mill.

Lenape Gold & Copper Mining Co. Nevada

Office: Dover, Del. Mine office: Searchlight, Lincoln Co., Nev. Hon. J. Frank Allee, president. Mine, known as the Goodenough, lying between the Homestead and Cyrus Noble properties, near Searchlight, has a 450' shaft, showing auriferous chrysocolla. Presumably idle.

Lenawee Mining, M., Tunnel & Trans. Co. Colorado

Idle. Mine office: Dillon, Summit Co., Colo. Jas. H. Meyers, superin- tendent, at last accounts. Mine has auriferous and argentiferous copper ores. Equipment includes a steam plant and 20-stamp mill.

Lenox Mining Co. Utah

Idle several years. E. McCarrick, pres.; A. H. Page, sec.-treas., at last accounts. Organized 1900, under laws of Utah, capitalization $400,000, shares $1 par, assessable; fully issued. Lands, 9 claims, patented, 12 miles from a railroad, show ores with auriferous and argentiferous lead and cop- per sulphides, slightly developed by tunnel.

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Lentz Gold-Copper Mining & Reduction Co. Montana

Office: 964 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. Mine office: Sheridan, Madison Co., Mont. C. E. Lentz, pres. and gen. mgr.; F. J. Mangus, vice-pres.; R. P. McChesney, sec.-treas.; S. E. Brimm, supt., at last accounts. Organized under laws of Arizona, capitalization $3,000,000, shares $2 par. Annual meeting, third Friday in February.

Property, 11 claims, 220 acres, and a 20-acre mill site, in the Tidal Wave district, 7 miles from the Northern Pacific railway. Lands show granite-porphyry, gneiss and quartzite, said to carry fissure veins in porphyry and contact deposits between limestone, gneiss and granite, of which 3, partly developed, are claimed by the company to have average widths of 16 to 30’, with strong gossans, and all varieties of copper ore, of estimated average values of 2% copper, 12 to 50% lead, 12 to 1,400 oz. silver and $8 to $600 gold per ton.

Development includes shafts of 30’, 130’, 60” and 110’, and tunnels of 80’, 100’, 120’ and 1,600’, with a total of 4,800’ of workings. Management estimates 8,000 tons of high-grade ore and 160,000 tons of low-grade ore blocked out.

The Northern Star mine of the company has been in litigation. Prop- erty has been idle some years, and company is apparently moribund.

Leo Xiii Mining Co. New Mexico

Office: Hanover, Grant Co., N. M. Property near Hanover, has re- cently encountered a vein of $12 copper ore in its new development work. LEON MINING CO. MEXICO

Office: care E. D. Morgan, pres., 100 Broadway, New York, N. Y. Mine office: Minas de San Pedro, Galeana, Chihuahua, Mex. Geo. A. Laird, mgr.; Pedro Catlin, mine supt., at last accounts. Mine carries auriferous and argentiferous lead and copper ores in large replacement orebodies in marbleized limestone, usually near porphyry dikes. Equipment includes a large steam plant, air compressor, concentrator, etc.

Leonard Copper Co. Arizona

Mine office: Gleeson, Cochise Co., Ariz. J. W. Benny, Clifton, Ariz., mgr.; J. E. Penberthy, supt., Gleeson. Organized 1910, by interests closely connected with the Shannon Copper Co., and property is under lease to that company.

Property, the Copper Belle mine, 8 claims, in the Turquoise or Court- land district. Mine has a vertical shaft and about 1 mile of underground workings on the 100’, 200’, 300’ and 400’ levels, developing several orebodies on 3 different contacts. Ore is nearly solid pyrite, occasionally with con-

siderable chalcopyrite and some bornite and averages 2% copper. It is

valuable chiefly for the iron it contains, which makes good fluxing material for the Shannon ores.

Equipment includes steam plant with 2 hoists, compressor, repair shop, etc. Output 150 tons per day, loaded directly into railway cars at min and shipped over the E. P. & S. W. railroad to Morenci. : LEONARD MINE. MONTANA a Owned by Anaconda Copper Mining Co., at Butte, Silver Bow Co.,

ont. LEONORA y HUERTA; MINAS. MEXICO

Office: care James M. Daniel, owner and gen: mgr., Apartado 16, Aguascalientes, Mex. Mine near Villanueva, Zacatecas, Mex. Jas. M. Daniel, Jr., supt. and engr.; Manuel Varila, mine supt., at last accounts:

Property, 100 acres, with 500 acres miscellaneous lands, in the Jalapa district, showing a fissure vein in porphyry, of 10’ average width, carrying galena, argentite, melaconite and azurite, with clay gangue, said to give

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average returns of about 5% copper, 10% lead, 200 oz. silver and 29 milli- grams gold per ton. Mine is an old one, opened in 1820, and reopened 1883, has shafts of 300’ and 1,000’, with about 1 mile of underground work- ings. Equipment includes steam power, and a concentrator having 1 crusher and 12 planillas, for treating’ low-grade ores. Concentrates and smelting ores are shipped, 75 miles, by pack train, to the Aguascalientes smelter, when the mine is operated. Presumably idle.

Leonora Mining & Milling Co. Utah

Office: 37 Commercial Block, Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine office: Mil- ford, Beaver Co., Utah. John Matson, pres.; Willard Hansen, vice-pres.; C. D. Brown, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, J. W. Chase and W. P. Kinley, di- rectors; N. C. Christensen, mine supt. Organized Dec. 19, 1903, capitaliza- tion $100,000, shares 10 cts. par, assessable; issued, $40,000.

Lands, 13 claims, in the North Star district, near Milford, have fissures in limestone carrying replacement deposits of gold, silver and lead ores. Mine is developed by tunnels of 400’, 100’ and 35’, and by 7 shallow shafts of 25 to 100’ depth. Developing at last accounts.

Lepanto Mining Co., Inc. Philippines

Office: Manila, Philippine islands. Mine office: Mancayan, Lepanto, Luzon, Philippines. Geo. E. Wolf, pres.; J. R. McDill, vice-pres.; M. F. Loewenstein, sec.; J. A. Hamilton, treas.; Albert P. Wright, supt. Organ- ized Sept., 1906, under laws of the Philippines, capitalization 1,000,000 pesos, shares 100 pesos par. Company holds a franchise for a railway, from Man- cayan to Bangar, on the western coast of Luzon. The copper property, but slightly developed, in the vicinity of Mancayan, was optioned to the Tellus Aktiengesellschaft; of Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, but the option was sur- rendered, 1910. Presumably idle.

Le Roi Mining Co., Ltd. British Columbia

Liquidated. Property sold, 1911, to Consolidated Mining & Smelting Co. of Canada. See Vol. X.

Le Roi No. 2, Ltd. British Columbia

Secretary's address: F. A. Labouchere, 541 Salisbury House, London Wall, London, E. C., England. Mine office: Rossland, Trail district, B. C. Employs about 110 men. Lord Ernest W. Hamilton, chairman; preceding officer, A. B. Dealtry, F. C. D. Haggard and H. W. Morrison, directors; Ernest Levy, mine mgr.; Alex. Hill € Stewart, cons. engrs.

Organized June 1, 1900, under laws of Great Britain, capitalization £600,000, shares £5 par; fully issued and fully paid. Has paid dividends as follows: 5s. in 1901; 5s. in 1902; 3s. in 1904; 4s. in 1905; 6s. in 1906; 2s. in 1907; 6s. in 1908; 6s. in 1909; 6s. in 1910; 6s. in 1911. Total dividends to end of 1911 were £2 9s. per share, or £300,000. For fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 1912, net profit was £3,043, after writing off £21,895 for depreciation. The company holds a share interest in the Cloncurry Syndicate, Ltd., and a two- thirds interest in the Van Roi Mining Co.

Lands, 120 acres, including the Josie No. 1 and Annie mines, on Red mountain, also 8 claims near the old mine, 2 claims near the Velvet mine, and 5 claims in the Ymir district of British Columbia. Considerable diamond drilling has been done each year since 1906, the total annual borings run- ning considerably over 10,000’ in the aggregate. New underground open- ings made were 3,286’ in 1907, 4,362’ in 1910 and 5,845’ in 1912. X

The property shows a number of veins, the most important being the Josie, Annie and Hamilton. Development is by the 1,300” Josie main shaft, and by 3 tunnels, 2 on the Josie and 1 on the Poorman claim. The Josie vein is narrower than the average in the camp but has ore about twice as rich as the average, the bottom workings showing ore carrying up to 4%

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copper and 15 . gold per long ton. Ore of the property as a whole is chalcopyrite, associated with pyrite and pyrrhotite, in a silicious gangue, with average assay of 1.64% copper, 0.87 oz. silver and 0.8 oz. gold per ton. Concentrating ore ranges 0.4 to 0.5% in copper tenor, with only about 20% of the copper saved, the extraction of assay values in gold being 56 to 60%. Ores carry values in gold, copper and silver in the order named, and output is divided into smelting and concentrating ores. Ore reserves were esti- mated by the management, 1913, at 150,000 long tons, including some ore . shoots of considerably better than the average grade of the camp. Side line agreements with the Consolidated Mining & Smelting Co. of Canada insure freedom from possible litigation.

Equipment at the Josie shaft includes a 150-h. p. electric hoist, good for a quarter-mile depth. Buildings include a machine shop, framing shop, smithy, superintendent’s dwelling, etc.

The mill, across a small gulch from the Josie shaft, is of 50 tons rated daily capacity, having Blake and Gates crushers, 2 Chilean mills, 3 Jencke sizers, and 6 Wilfley tables. An Elmore oil concentrator, fully described Vol. IV., was installed 1903, proving a technical but not a commercial suc-

cess, and was superseded by Wilfley tables.. Concentrates average 1.8% copper, 1 oz. silver and 1.3 oz. gold per ton.

Largest copper production was 3,001,027 Ibs. in 1902. Recent produc- tion has been as follows: 803,409 Ibs. fine copper, 22,054 oz. silver and 19,615 oz. gold in 1906; 539,048 lbs. copper, 13,393 oz. silver and 12,602 oz. gold in 1907; 910,354 lbs. copper, 20,488 oz. silver and 28,452 oz. gold in 1908; 957,800 lbs. copper, 22,401 oz. silver and 28,352 oz. gold in 1909; 970,966 lbs. copper, 24,078 oz. silver and 26,447 oz. gold in 1910; 864,500 lbs. copper, 19,219 oz. silver and 22,725 oz. gold in 1911; 507,499 lbs. copper, 12,281 oz. silver and 14,157 oz. gold in 1912. Property considered valuable and management good. LE ROY MINING CO. MEXICO

Idle. Mine near Pilares de Moctezuma, Sonora, Mex., has gold, silver and copper ores, slightly developed.

Leroy Gold & Copper Mining Co. Montana

Office: Wallace, Idaho. Mine office: Saltese, Missoula Co., Mont. Hon. Herman J. Rossi, pres.; C. E. Clark, sec.-treas., at last accounts. Lands adjoin the Monitor mine, and survey for the extension of the Monitor tun- nel runs through this property. Idle several years, except for annual assess- ment work.

Leslie Copper Mining Co. Idaho

Office: 508 Bank St., Wallace, Idaho. Mine office: Mullan, Shoshone Co., Idaho. Wesley Everett, pres. and mgr.; A. W. McLaughlin, vice-pres.; Hon. Herman J. Rossi, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, A. M. Stevens and O. E. Peppard, directors. Organized Feb., 1899, under laws of Idaho, capital- ization $100,000, shares 10 cts. par.

Lands, 11 claims, 220 acres, adjoining the Amazon-Dixie, also a mill site and 2 water rights, lying east of Mullan. Property has several fissure veins, in porphyry, the main vein, of 12’ average surface width, having a 35’ shaft, with development mainly by tunnels, giving about a mile of under- ground openings. The upper workings show galena and copper ore, and a lower tunnel is to give a back of 650. The property carries mainly silver- lead ore, of concentrating grade, with a narrow copper paystreak. Equip-

. ment includes water power, an air compressor, and several mine buildings. L'ETETE GOLD € COPPER

Mining Co. New Brunswick & Nova Scotia

Mine office: L'Etete, Charlotte Co., N. B. Property includes the old

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Johnson mine, opened 1860, and reopened 1902, having 2 short tunnels and a 145’ main shaft, showing ore of good assay value. Has a steam plant and shipping facilities at tide water. Company also owns mineral lands in Nova Scotia. Idle some years and apparently past resuscitation. LEUPFER MINING CO. MONTANA Mine address: Whitefish, Flathead Co., Mont. George Hoffman, super- intendent. Property about 8 miles west of Whitefish, is developed by a 150’ shaft, showing a well-defined vein of copper ore in porphyry and limestone. Has a small steam hoist. LEVIATHAN GOLD MINING CO. MONTANA Mine office: Pony, Madison Co., Mont. Chas. E. Morris, general man- ager, at last accounts. Property carries copper ores, with values mainly in gold. Equipment includes a hydro-electric power plant, air compressor, and a 100-ton concentrator. Presumably idle. LEWIS & CLARK MINING CO. IDAHO Office and mine: Mullan, Shoshone Co., Idaho. J..Wm. Grismer, pres.; Thos. G. Kennedy, sec. Organized 1907, under laws of Idaho, capitaliza- tion $1,250,000, shares $1 par. Lands, 12 claims, northeast of the Snowstorm, showing a strong vein having a gossan. Property has little or no develop- ment. : LEWIS GROUP. NEVADA Mine office: Contact, Elko Co., Nev. Martin Hickey and associates, owners. Property shows replacement and contact deposits in limestone. Mine reported on by Harry Allen and Raymond Guyer of Hailey, Idaho, in 1913. LEWIS MINES. COLORADO Office: Telluride, San Miguel Co., Colo. Property has fissure veins with shoots of complex lead-zinc-copper ore, treated in 50-ton concentrating mill. Has steam plant. LEWISOHN EXPLORATION & MINING CO. NEW YORK Office: 334-11 Broadway, New York. Frederick Lewisohn, pres.; E. C. Westervelt, sec.; Walter Lewisohn, treas.; preceding officers, Albert Lewisohn, P. S. Henry, O. B. Van Sant and Kenneth K. McLaren, directors. Organized Jan. 6, 1906, under laws of New Jersey, capitalization $5,000, and was said to plan increasing its capitalization to $15,000,000, by easy stages, as properties were acquired. Is controlled by Lewisohn Bros. Inactive.

LEXINGTON MINE. MONTANA Owned by Atlantic Mines Co., at Butte, Silver Bow Co., Mont. LIBERTY COPPER MINING CO. WASHINGTON

Office: Spokane, Wash. Mine office: Bluecreek, Wash. J. H. Reser, pres.; C. Oldfather, vice-pres.; A. Haas, sec.; S. G. Neff, treas. and gen. mgr.; R. E. McVicar, trustee. Organized under laws of Washington, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par. Property, 6 claims, well watered and timbered, on Blue creek, about 1/ miles from Blue Creek station, and 6 miles north- west of Chewelah. The property had 3 orebodies, 2 being blind veins. The main vein, developed by 2 tunnels, lower 502’ long at last accounts, is of about 7’ average width, carrying auriferous and argentiferous copper and lead ores.

Equipment includes a Fairbanks-Morse steam hoist, 100-h. p, boiler and an air compressor. The mine has been under steady development since 1906, and made its first carload shipment March, 1909, to the Northport smelter. Management is said to plan a concentrator,

Lily Group Mining Co. British Columbia

Mine office: Jedway, Queen Charlotte island, B. C.. Property, on

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Moresby island, of the Queen Charlotte group, is in the vicinity of the Awaya-Ikeda mine. No trace of operations securable and probably dead. LILY MINING CO. UTAH

Mine office: Eureka, Juab Co., Utah. Lands, 3 claims. Is controlled, through a two-thirds stock ownership, secured 1908, by the Eureka-Lily Mining Co., and to all practical intents and purposes is out of business, and a part of the Eureka-Lily.

Lime Mountain Copper Co. Arizona

Idle. Mine office: Johnson, Cochise Co., Ariz. Organized 1906, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,000,000, by Davis S. McGahan and I. N. Kattensbroth. Property consists of the George Washington group of 21 mining claims located near the Empire mine, in the Dragoon mountains. The claims are slightly developed by tunnels showing small amounts of copper ore.

Lincoln Consolidated Mining Co. Arizona

Idle several years. Office: Wilmette, Ill. Mine office: Tucson, Pima Co., Ariz. Chas. A. Wightman, pres.; Geo. E. Fernald, sec.-treas., at last accounts. Organized June, 1904, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $2,- 000,000, shares $1 par.

Property, the Garcia group of 31 claims and 4 other claims, 21 patented, in the Papago district, 12 miles from the Twin Buttes railway. Property shows limestone, granite-porphyry and diorite, carrying replacement ore- bodies ranging from 4 to 25’ in width, and opened by a 400’ tunnel and several shafts, of 50 to 200’ depth. Ores are of low average value though selected high-grade copper ore has been shipped.

Equipment includes two 15-h. p. gasoline hoists, good for 400” depth, and a 15-drill Rand air compressor. There are 5 buildings, including ma- chine shop, smithy, store and 2 dwellings.

Lincoln Gold & Copper Mining Co. Georgia

Idle. Mine office: Metasville, Wilkes Co., Ga. Carl Heinrich, pres. and gen. mgr.; W. Murdock Wiley, sec. Organized June 11, 1906, under laws of Oklahoma, capitalization $2,000,000, shares $1 par; issued $1,820,000. Paid 1 dividend, of one-half of 1%. Was practically the successor of the Seminole Mining Co., which was a sad failure. Annual meeting, first Tuesday in August.

Lands, 901 acres, freehold, known as the Magruder or Seminole mine, just over the Wilkes county line, 12 miles from the Georgia Central rail- road, and 70 miles from Ducktown, Tenn. Property shows gray sericitic schists, intruded by eruptive dikes of 2 different ages, with 4 veins in schist and between schists and eruptive rocks. They have an average strike of N. 30° E. to N. 40° E. and dip of 50° to vertical, veins averaging 3 to 14’ in width, and traceable 1,200’, showing ores consisting of pyrite with chalcopy- rite, some bornite, cuprite and melaconite, estimated by company to aver- age 2.5% copper, 3% lead, 1.5% zinc, 4 to 5 oz. silver and $5 gold per ton.

The mine, opened 1852, and closed 1862, on account of the American Civil War, was reopened 1878, 1899 and 1905. Development is by a 225’ main shaft, a 150’ air shaft and shafts of 40’, 45’ and 80’, with about 1,500’ of work- ings.

Equipment includes a 175-h. p. boiler, 12-h. p. and 15-h. p. hoists and a 4-drill Rand air compressor. There are 10 buildings, including a machine shop, smithy, assay office and boarding house. ;

- The small and ramshackle mill is 30x70' in size, of wood, on stone foundations, and equipped with a Gates centrifugal crusher, set of rolls, Twentieth Century jig, 2 Bartlett tables, elevators and revolving screens.

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close to the mine, has a 16-ton rectangular water-jacket blast furnace, and a 10-ton reverberatory furnace, making, when in operation, a matte of 15 to 20% copper tenor, carrying 20 oz. silver and 1.5 to 3 oz. gold per ton, shipped to the Maurer works of the American Smelting & Refining Co. for reduction, first-class ore and concentrates also being shipped to Maurer. LINCOLN GOLD MINING & MILLING CO. ARIZONA

Formerly at Humboldt, Ariz. Succeeded, 1911, by Knickerbocker Min- ing Co. See Vol. X.

Lincoln Issues Co. Arizona

Mine office: Superior, Pinal Co., Ariz. W. C. Browning, gen. mgr.; Thomas Tighe, supt.; John J. Neary, purch. agt.

Property is the old Reymert mine, 7 claims, patented, 10 miles south- west of Superior, that has been idle since 1889, The mine has a large ton- nage of low-grade ore, principally lead-silver, with indications of copper on the surface. The ore occurs in veins 10 to 60’ wide, traceable for long dis- tances and characterized by calcite stained by manganese. The new own- ers will install a 60-h. p. steam plant, hoist and No. 7 pump and is actively sinking a new shaft, 175’ deep Oct., 1913, planned to go below water level, as old workings stopped at that horizon. Property regarded as promising and management first class.

Lincoln-Nevada Mining & Milling Co. Nevada

Idle. C. A. Bond, pres.; A. H. McCullough, sec.; Dr. Frank Winders, treas., at last accounts. Organized July, 1906, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable. Lands, 10 claims, 8 patented, shortly south- east of Pioche. The mine has about 800’ of workings showing copper and lead ores. Equipment includes a hoist, with a 10-stamp mill and several buildings. ` LINGANORE COPPER CO. MARYLAND

Office: Frederick, Md. Mine office: New London, Frederick Co., Md. J. H. Gambrill, Jr., pres.; Thos. A. Dunshee, gen. mgr.; Dr. J. O. Hendrix, sec.; Oscar B. Coblentz, treas., at last accounts, Organized March, 1907, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par, nonassess- able; issued, $474,000. Annual meeting, third Thursday in January.

Lands, 306 acres, including the Linganore, or New London mine, and the Dolly Hyde mine, latter including a good farm, at Libertytown, near Monrovia.

The new London, or Linganore mine, 86 acres, with 14 acres of timber land, formerly held under a 25-year lease from Capt. Edw. S. Wertz, was bought by the company, in 1910. This mine was opened and worked, 1835- 55, apparently at a profit, but was idle after 1881, except for unwatering and retimbering the shaft, 1893-1904, until reopened by the present company in May, 1907.

The property has two 4 to 5’ fissure veins in slate and marble, with northeast strike, carrying bornite and gray copper. The ore is estimated by management to average 3% copper and 16 oz. silver per ton, with a trace of gold. Development is by a 300’ shaft, planned to be deepened to 500’ and 4 tunnels, longest 340’, with a total of 1,095’ of workings, estimated by the management to block out 17,307 tons of ore for stoping.

The Dolly Hyde mine, 220 acres, was for many years the principal copper producer of Maryland and though never having a large output, shipped, without selection, considerable 6 to 12% ore to the Baltimore smelter. The mine has metamorphic deposits in dolomite and phyllite, carrying a little malachite in the upper workings, succeeded, at shallow depth, by bornite and chalcopyrite.

The New London mine has a 65-h. p. steam plant, with a 35-h. p. hoist,

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good for 500’ depth, and an 8-drill Sullivan air compressor. The property has 12 buildings, including a 24x36’ machine shop, 20x24' smithy, 20x28 carpenter shop, office, engine house, sawmill and 6 dwellings. E

The mill is 44x54 with a 26x76 concentrating room, equipped with a 125-h. p. steam plant, 15x30” Cresson crusher, of 100 tons daily capacity, 4 sets of rolls, 1 Richards jig, 5 James tables, 5 trommels, screens, settling tanks, etc. Property considered good though small and management good. LIPPINCOTT MINE. MONTANA

Mine address: Essex, Flathead Co., Mont. John Stewart, operator. Lands, 4 claims, developed by a number of tunnels, longest 200’ and 300’, show copper ore of commercial tenor,

Little Bell Consolidated Mining Co. Utah

Office: 161 South Main St., Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine office: Park City, Summit Co., Utah. Solon Spiro, pres. and gen. mgr.; J. B. Bean, sec., at last accounts. Organized 1902, under laws of Wyoming, capitaliza- tion $1,500,000, shares $5 par, nonassessable; fully issued. Began payment of 5-ct. quarterly dividends, Nov., 1909, and, up to and including Sept. 2, 1910, had paid 4 quarterly dividends of $15,000 each. Shares are listed on the Salt Lake Stock Exchange.

Lands, 30 claims, patented. Mine, having considerable development, carries argentiferous lead and copper ores, and has been opening new ground steadily since work was resumed, 1909.

Equipment includes steam power, with a hoist and an air compressor, and electric power is taken from the Knight plant at Provo. The old 100- ton mill of the Fortuna Mining Co., at Bingham Canyon, was bought 1910, and re-erected at Park City.

Little Billy Operating Co. British Columbia

Mine office: Van Anda, Texada island, B. C. J. C. Taylor, superintend- ent. Property is the Little Billy mine, having an orebody of 8’ estimated average width, developed by a 200’ shaft, with a 35’ headgear. Equipment includes an 80-h. p. boiler, single-drum hoist, and a 5-drill air compressor. There is a crude concentrating mill, with sorting tables, and a 500’ trestle with double-track gravity tram to a shipping bunker on tidewater. LITTLE BULLY HILL MINING & SMELTING CO. CALIFORNIA

Idle. Mine near Winthrop, Shasta Co., Cal. Capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par. Lands, 5 claims, said to adjoin the Bully Hill mine, and to be opened by a 130’ tunnel and several trenches, that show sulphide ore. Company’s prospectus misleading and its operations apparently un- successful,

Little Chopaca Mining Co. Washington

Office: Wooster, Ohio. Mine near Loomis, Okanogan Co., Wash. C. A. Andrus, pres.; A. B. Lee, sec.-treas., at last accounts. Organized under: laws of Washington, as successor of Six Eagles Mining Co. Lands, 11 claims, carrying auriferous and argentiferous lead and copper ores. Idle some years, except for necessary annual assessment work,

Little Johnnie Mine. ¢ Arizona

In the Hassayampa district, Yavapai Co., Ariz. Property shows fissure vein carrying gold-bearing copper ore said to run $100 per ton.

Little Lightning Copper Co. Texas

Mine office: Sierra Blanca, El Paso Co., Tex. English & Cahil, owners. John Gilcrease, manager, at last accounts. Lands in the Quitman moun- tains, about 3 miles from. Lasca station, on the Southern Pacific railway. The mine has replacement orebodies in limestone, which resemble those of the Jarilla district, New Mexico. The workings have developed copper sul-

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phides and small shipments were made throughout 1910 to the El Paso smelter. Presumably idle, 1913. LITTLE MARY MINING CO. ARIZONA

Idle. Office: Douglas, Ariz. Mine office: Pearce, Cochise Co., Ariz. J. W. Yost, pres.; E. E. Williams, vice-pres.; E. T. Phillips, sec J. A. Thompson, treas., at last report. Lands, 12 claims, near Thumb Butte, about one-half mile east of Pearce, and 2 miles from the Southern Pacific railway. Development is by a shaft, on the Copper Mill claim, showing ore said to assay up to 23% copper, from 10 to several thousand ounces silver, and $4 gold per ton.

Little Miami Copper Mines Co. Arizona

Office: 15 Broad St., New York. Jas. A. Fleming, pres.; C. A. Miller, sec.-treas., at last accounts. Organized Jan., 1910, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable; issued, $617,000.

Lands, the Wild Air group of 3 claims, 60 acres, owned outright, in the Miami district, bought for 600,000 shares of stock, escrowed for 1 year with the Empire Trust Co., New York.

The mine has a 210’ two-compartment shaft, several hundred feet north of the Red Springs shaft of the Miami, started in Gila conglomerate, in- tending to crosscut at depth to the schist contact, but at about 150’ depth the shaft cut the schist, showing some chrysocolla. The shaft has a 25-h. p. gasoline hoist. Idle and presumably out of funds. See Vol. X for further details.

LITTLE MINA MINE. MONTANA Owned by Anaconda Copper Mining Co., at Butte, Silver Bow, Mont. LITTLE NORTH FORK COPPER M. & M. CO., LTD. IDAHO

Office and mine: Wardner, Shoshone Cò., Idaho. T. R. Mason, pres.; Archie McDonald, sec.; John Locke, treas.; Jas. H. Hoskins, supt. Organ- ized Sept., 1903, under laws of Idaho, capitalization $1,500,000, shares $1 par, assessable.

Property, 10 claims, known as the Handspike mine, on Little Copper creek in the North Fork district, 12 miles from a railroad. Claims lie above the Horst-Powell holdings.

Development is by the 232’ No. 1 upper tunnel, showing ore assaying up to 28.8% copper, 1 oz. silver and $1.20 gold per ton, and the No. 2 lower tunnel of 1,500’ showing a 12 to 18” paystreak of argentiferous copper ore that averages $8 to $30 per ton. Selected samples give assays up to 44% copper and 34 oz. silver per ton. Property has not yet developed ore in commercial quantities, but company has spent $15,000 in development and will continue 4 men at work sinking and drifting during winter of 1913-14, LIVERPOOL MINING CO. MONTANA '

Mine office: Clancey, Jefferson Co., Mont. John Hamilton, superin- tendent, at last accounts. Property shows veins in granite that carry bunches and small oreshoots of auriferous and argentiferous copper and zinc sulphides. Is a well-known silver mine intermittently worked for 20 years. Equipment includes a steam plant and air compressor.

Lloyd Consolidated Copper Co. Arizona

Idle: Mine near Turkey, Yavapai Co., Ariz. E. T. Teter, pres.; L. B. Nash, treas., at last accounts. Capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par. Lands, in the Squaw Peak district, 15 miles east of Turkey, carry a miner- alized zone, developed by a 125’ shaft. Equipment includes a 40-h. p. gas- oline hoist and a small electric plant for power drills and lighting. LLUVIA DE COBRE MINING CO. MEXICO

Idle. Office: 711 Kansas City Life Bldg., Kansas City, Mo. Mine ad- dress: Carbo, Sonora, Mex. Job Hollinger, pres.; W. M. Rynerson, vice-

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pres.; Edgar Hubbard, sec.-treas.; J. C. Worthington, gen. mgr.; Thos. Lake, supt., at last accounts. Organized Nov., 1904, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $3,000,000, shares $1 par, increased, 1907, to $5,000,000.

Lands, 283 acres, on San Juan mountain, in the Papago district, 30 miles west of Carbo, show silver-bearing sulphides, selected samples assay- ing 33% copper, 560 oz. silver and $7 gold per ton. Development is by the 410’ Josephine shaft, with several thousand feet of level work,

Equipment includes a 10-drill air compressor. Is not regarded favor- ably, the company’s advertising having been decidedly lurid. Closed down 1907, resumed 1909, and was developing with a small force at last accounts. LODI GOLD & COPPER CO. NEVADA

Idle. Office: 59 Commercial Bldg., Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine near Rhyolite, Nye Co., Nev. Jacob Evans, pres.; H. P. Henderson, vice-pres.; Samuel L. King, sec.-treas., at last accounts. Organized May, 1907, under laws of South Dakota, capitalization °$1,250,000, shares $1 par, nonassess- able; issued, $850,000.

Lands, 25 claims, unpatented, adjoin the Lodi Mines Co., on the north and are in Skull valley, 40 miles from a railway. Development is by a 100’ shaft, showing mainly auriferous and argentiferous lead ores.

Log Cabin Mining & Milling Co. Idaho

Property, a silver-lead mine near Wallace, Shoshone Co., Idaho, is idle except for annual assessment work.

Logan Copper Co. Arizona

Idle. Office: 1008 Commerce Bldg., Kansas City, Mo. Mine office: Skull Valley, Yavapai Co., Ariz. Jos. Knoche, pres.; M. C. Tubbs, vice- pres:; F. D. Barr, gen. mgr.; Louis Tippe, sec.-treas., at last accounts. Or- ganized Dec. 7, 1906, under laws. of Arizona, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par.

Lands, 11 claims, 215 acres, are in the Copper basin, 5 miles northeast of Skull valley, the nearest rail station, and 23 miles southwest of Prescott. Property shows Yavapai schists, with deposits of iron gossan showing cop- per carbonate ore. Development is by a 160’ tunnel, and a 155’ two-com- partment shaft, having levels opened at 35’, 65’, 80’, 95’ and 115, which is poor practice. Ore shows melaconite, malachite, chalcocite and chalcopy- rite, giving average assays of about 4.5% copper. Equipment includes a 40-h. p. steam hoist, good for 1,000’ depth.

Logos Mines Co. Arizona

Office: 650 West 27th St., Los Angeles, Cal. Mine office: Mayer, Yava- pai Co, Ariz. Dr. Sara -Thacker, pres.,.sec.. and gen mar; Henny, W. Thacker, vice-pres. and treas.; preceding officers and Earl H. Tate, direc- tors. Organized June, 1906, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $10 par. Lands, 46 claims, partly patented, 900 acres, and 320 acres of miscellaneous lands, in the Big Bug district, 8 miles southeast of Mayer. Development is by a 180’ shaft, and a 190’ tunnel, with 2,000’ of workings, besides considerable surface work. Equipment includes a 40-h. p. gasoline hoist and 2-drill air compressor. Developing in a small way at last accounts. :

Lolita Mines Co. Mexico

Idle. Office: Merrill Bldg., Milwaukee, Wis. Wm. G. Gruber, pres. and mer.; Arthur H. Gruber, sec., at last accounts. Lands, 538 acres, in the San Blas mountains, about 20 miles from Barreal, are slightly devel- oped by numerous shallow shafts. Inactive several years and not favorably regarded.

Loma De Toro, S. A.; Negociacion Minera. Mexico

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at last accounts. Organized July 2, 1897, under laws of Mexico, capitaliza- tion 84,000 pesos. Lands include the Loma de Toro, La Luz, San Antonio, San Miguel and Monserrate mines, all carrying auriferous and argentiferous lead, copper and: zinc ores, developed by tunnels.

Lombardy Mining & Milling Co. Idaho

Office and mine: Kellogg, Shoshone Co., Idaho. Peter Albinola, pres. and gen. mgr.; Hon. Herman J. Rossi, vice-pres.; Edw. Albinola, sec.-treas. Organized April, 1898, under laws of Idaho, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par. Annual meeting, fourth Thursday in April.

Lands, 15 claims, show a bedded vein, estimated to average 27’ wide with shale footwall and quartzite hanging and traced for 800”. Ore is said to carry variable values in copper, up to 47%. lead and 33 oz. silver per ton. Development is by tunnels of 360’ and 900’, with about 1,500’ of workings. Idle except for annual assessment work.

Lomita Mining Co,, S. A. Mexico

Is the Mexican incorporation of the Elenita Development Co., which see.

London Arizona Consolidated Copper Co. Arizona

Office: 723 Title Insurance Bldg., Los Angeles, Cal. Mine office: Winkelman, Gila Co., Ariz. Chas. E. Finney, pres.; Robert J. Simpson, sec.- treas.; rd De Wilson, Walter A. Burrell, John A, Finch, Robert A: B. P. Cheney, J. H. Neff, Richard E. Sloan and Frank M. Murphy, directors. Edward W. Brooks, cons. engr. and geologist. Henry Kehoe, engr. in charge of operations.

Organized Sept. 18, 1913, under laws of Maine, as a merger of the Lon- don Arizona, London Range, London Shamrock and Ball Copper com- panies. Capitalization $12,000,000, shares $5 par, fully paid and nonasses- sable. Bonds, $207,300, 6% outstanding. Citizens Trust & Savings Bank, Los Angeles, registrar. Annual meeting, first Tuesday in October. Com- pany starts out with a treasury fund of $500,000.

The property forms a compact group covering a mineralized area show- ing a series of 1,500’ of well-bedded limestone, quartzite and shales resting on a laccolithic mass of diabase; these rocks are broken, faulted and later intruded by dikes and sheets of diorite porphyry, presumably the offshoots of an underlying batholithic mass of granitic material. The ore occurs in contact metamorphic deposits and replacements, especially in the lime- stone. Much of the ore consists of garnet (andradite, the lime and iron species) intergrown with specular hematite, copper sulphides and a variety of iron-magnesian lime silicate minerals. The copper ore occurs largely in “blanket” deposits, but also in fissures and vertical contacts. The main ore outcrop is 10 to 30’ wide and about three-fourths of a mile long, lying between beds of limestone and quartzite.

Silver-lead ores do not occur in the contact deposits, but are found in limestone along dike contacts where contact alteration is not noticeable. Some 2,000 tons of lead carbonate ore have been shipped since Jan., 1913, averaging 28% lead and 3 oz. silver per ton.

Development includes the 272’ Curtin shaft, the 182’ Arizona, 190’ Red Bird and 90’ O’Carroll shafts, total underground development amounting to 2,500’. Details concerning the various tracts will be found under the titles of the companies named above.

The new organization plans development work on a comprehensive scale. It has already ordered new, machinery and plans to sink the Curtin and Arizona shafts with 3 compartments, the first to 1,200’, the latter to 1,000’ in depth. The company has a strong directorate, an experienced management and promises to become an important producer.

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London-Arizona Copper Co. Arizona

Office: 723 Title Insurance Bldg., Los Angeles, Cal. Mine office: Win- kelman, Pinal Co., Ariz. Chas. E. Finney, pres.; Chas. S. Gleed, vice-pres.; Robt. J. Simpson, sec.-treas.; Edw. W. Brooks, cons. engr.; preceding offi- cers, J. H. Neff, B. P. Cheney, A. C. Finney, Chas. E. Finney, Jr., R. J. Fin- ney and Richard E. Sloan, directors; Harry Scott, supt.

Organized April 12, 1907, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $10,000,- 000, shares $10 par; issued, 573,000 shares. Debentures, $152,000 at 6%. Company merged with London Range, London Shamrock and Ball Copper companies as the London-Arizona Consolidated Copper Co., a Maine cor- ‘poration, in Sept., 1913, and now holds 768,054 shares of the capital stock

of the new company. : Property, 68 claims, 1,257 acres, known as the Dripping Springs or O'Carroll group, on London mountain, in the Banner district, 7 miles north of Winkelman.

Property shows limestone of the upper carboniferous series, resting on quartzite, and cut by dikes of porphyry. The limestone series has the same members as in the Globe district, and the ore deposits occur simi- larly, as replacements in limestone. The basal quartzite caps a great mon- zonite laccolith, which presumably is the primary source of the ore, and is said to carry copper values of about 2.5%, in disseminated chalcopyrite and chalcocite. "The limestone shows an ore-bearing ledge about 30’ wide, -traceable 4,000’.

The property has about 4,000’ of old workings, remaining from former ownership, showing considerable carbonate ore of 5% estimated average copper tenor. Development is by 2 shafts, deepest 272’, and 4 short tun- nels, aggregating 636’ in length, with about 1,000’ of new workings. Equip- ment includes 3 gasoline hoists and 2 air compressors of 8 drills capacity. Property considered promising. A full report on the property was made by E. W. Brooks, E. M., 1907. i LONDON-GILA MINING & POWER CO. ARIZONA

Mine office: Winkelman, Pinal Co., Ariz. Dr. N. H. Morrison, pres. and gen. mgr.; S. H. Stewart, sec., at last accounts. Organized May, 1908, capitalization $3,000,000.

Lands adjoin the London & Arizona, near London mountain. Drill boring, 1910, is said to have shown considerable quantities of low-grade copper ore, with some native copper. Idle and presumably moribund. LONDON MOUNTAIN COPPER CO. ARIZONA

Office: 526 Security Bldg., Los Angeles, Cal. Mine office: Christmas, Gila Co”, Atiz>''O” A: "Turner, ‘pres.; “H. Futner, sec.-treas.; Theo. Phil- lips, gen. mgr., at last accounts. Organized May, 1908, capitalization $15,- 000,000, shares $5 par. Lands on London mountain, adjoining the London- Gila, London-Arizona and London-Range properties. Development is by 3 shallow shafts and a 270’ tunnel, drifting for an ore zone said to be 100’ ‘wide at‘surface. The property is said to show auriferous and argentiferous „copper sulphides of about $15 per ton average values. No récent returns secured. i : LONDON-RANGE COPPER CO. ARIZONA

Office: 723 Title Insurance Bldg., Los Angeles, Cal. Mine near Win- kelman, Gila Co., Ariz. Chas. E. Finney, pres.; Robt. J. Simpson, sec.- treas.; Edw. W. Brooks, cons. engr.; Hon. Richard E. Sloan and Ieee Wright, directors. Harry Scott, supt. Organized Dec. 28, 1907, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $6,000,000, shares $10 par; issued, $2,000,000 Bonds, $68,500 issued. Annual meeting, second Tuesday in Tandari. i

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issued stock, by the London Arizona, has transferred its property to the new London Arizona Consolidated Copper Co. and its charter will be given up.

Property consisting of 30 claims, 500 acres, with the 182” Arizona shaít, a 50’ prospect shaft and a 75’ tunnel, will hereafter form an integral part of the tract owned by the newly organized company.

London Shamrock Copper Co. Arizona

Office: 723 Title Insurance Bldg., Los Angeles, Cal. -Mine at Winkel- man, Gila Co., Ariz. Chas. E. Finney, pres.; Edw. W. Brooks, vice-pres. and cons, engr.; Robt. J. Simpson, sec.-treas. Organized July 21, 1910, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $10 par, nonasses- sable.

The company's property, 18 claims, 300 acres, including the Red Bird mine, was sold to the London Arizona Consolidated Copper Co., Sept., 1913, and the corporation will be dissolved.

Lone Star Consolidated Copper Co. Arizona

Letters unanswered from Safford, Graham Co., Ariz. Hon. Wm. H. Powers, pres.; Duncan McVichie, vice-pres.; Henry H. Folsom, sec.; A. G. Smith, treas.; S. S. Campbell, gen. mgr.; Chas. B? Spalding, supt. Organ- ized Aug. 6, 1906, under laws of Maine, capitalization $5,000,000, shares $10 par, practically as successor of Maravilla Copper Co.

Company controls the Mineral Mountain Copper Co., through owner- ship of a two-thirds share interest, and controls, through majority stock ownership, the Chase Creek Copper Co. ;

Lands, 32 claims, including the Little Clara mine, having a tunnel and shaft, and the Lone Star mine, in the Gila mountains, 10 miles north of Solomonville, having a 900’ shaft showing a 5’ vein of sulphide ore, claimed to. carry 8 to 10% copper, with fair silver values'and a little gold. The shaft also shows stringers of ore giving assays of 5 to 20% copper. Pre- sumably idle.

Lone Star Copper Mining Co. Washington

Office: P. O. Box 2107, Spokane, Wash. Oscar De Camp, pres.; Wm. S. Thyng, sec. and engr., and R. C. Rimertsen, directors. Organized April, 1910, under laws of Washington, practically as a reconstruction of the Cop- per Hill Mining & Milling Co., capitalization $1,500,000, shares $1. par. Lands, sundry claims, including the Copper Hill mine near Newport, Ste- vens Co., Wash., developed by several shallow shafts and tunnels. Mine has an 18’ vein, carrying chalcopyrite, disseminated in pyrrhotite. There is no machinery. Idle several years, except for annual assessment work. LONE STAR MINE. WASHINGTON

W. D. Barnard, manager, Okanogan, Wash. Property, the Lone Star mine, situated on Salmon river, above Conconully, Okanogan Co., Wash., and reached by the Oroville-Wenatchee branch of the Great Northern rail- road to Okanogan. Property controlled by the Syndicate Development Co. First shipments made in July, 1913.

Lookout Copper Co. Arizona

Idle. Office: 11 Pine St, New York. Mine office: Poland, Yavapai Co., Ariz. Orleans Longacre, Jr., vice-president and general manager. Is controlled, through ownership of $1,716,300 stock, by Development Com- pany of America. Lands, in the Slate Creek district, have a 350’ shaft, and the mine has steam power.

Loon Creek Mining & Investment Co. -Idaho

Idle. Office: Blackfoot, Idaho. Mine office: Ivers, Custer Co., Idaho. E. H. Watson, pres.; J. M. Stevens, sec. Lands, about 2 miles from the Lost Packer, have a tunnel showing high-grade auriferous copper ore.

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LOP EAR MINE. ARIZONA - Office: Mayer, Yavapai Co., Ariz. Hill Bros., owners. Property, a few claims near Mayer, showing fissure veins developed by shaft, whose levels show a shoot of high-grade copper ore (25%) carrying gold and silver values. Made small shipment in Sept., 1913,

Loper & Carney Mine. Arizona

Property, 8 miles east of Hackberry, Mohave Co., Ariz., in the Cot- tonwood district. Claims show a small vein of copper ore said to average 3% copper and 5 oz. gold per ton. Principal development is by shaft 54’ deep at last accounts. : LORETA y PROVIDENCIA; COMPANIA MINERA. MEXICO

Mine office: Jesus Maria Ocampo, Rayon, Chihuahua, Mex. E. R. Bones, mgr.; Jesus Poyval and Rascon Hnos., owners. The mine has a 500' main shaft and a 900’ tunnel, developing argentiferous copper and lead ores. Equipment includes a 10-stamp mill, of 25 tons daily capacity, a small leaching plant, and a 1-ton smelter, Mine has water power and em- ploys about 50 men.

Loretta Mining Co. California

Mine office: Big Pine, Inyo Co., Cal. John G. Kirchen, mgr.; John Cole, supt. Is controlled through stock ownership by Chas. M. Schwab and the Gail Borden Estate. Lands, about 750 acres, east of Bishop, have a 40’ vein, carrying ore said to average 4% copper and about $3 gold per ton. — Development is by a 865’ main shaft, said to be in commercial ore, and 2 crosscut tunnels to the northeast, 1 of 90’ length said to have cut a 74’ vein. Improvements include a smithy and several small mine buildings. Was de- veloping with a small force at last accounts and planning, 1912, to install a 100-h. p. electric hoist.

Lorraine Copper Mining Co. Washington

Idle. Mine office: Keller, Ferry Co., Wash. Owen Jones, pres.; A. G. Rockwell, sec.; Fred J. Chamberlain, gen. mgr., at last accounts. Organized April 13, 1900, under laws of Washington, capitalization $1,500,000, shares $1 par.

Lands, 22 claims, 422 acres, in 2 groups, and a 20-acre mill site, in Ferry and Pierce counties, Wash.

The Wilmot group, in the San Poil district, Ferry county, shows con- tact deposits between porphyry and schist. The ore is of 4 to 6’ width, and said to give average assays of 6.5% copper, 40 oz. silver and $4 gold per ton, showing malachite and azurite near surface, and chalcocite, bornite and chalcopyrite at depth.

The Lorraine group, in the Carbon River district, shows fissure veins in granite, having bornite and chalcopyrite ores, which assay up to 20% copper, 5 oz. silver and $1 gold per ton. This group is opened by 2,016’ of work- ings with 4 shafts, deepest 100’, and by 8 tunnels, longest being 630’. No trace of operations secured.

Los Angeles Gem Co. Arizona

Office: Los Angeles, Cal. Mine office: Kingman, Mohave Co., Ariz. E. E. Peck, pres. and gen. mgr.; C. W. Morrell, sec.-treas. Property in- cludes a variscite mine in Esmeralda county, Nev., but the principal prop- erty is the George Washington group of 6 claims in Mineral Park, near Kingman. This property carries a vein of 18 to 24” width, developed by a 143’ upper tunnel and a 370’ lower tunnel, showing: ore assaying up to 4% copper, 200 oz. silver and $4 gold per ton. The company mined turquoise from the claims for some years, before developing copper. Equipment in- cludes gasoline hoist.

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Los Cerros Copper Co. Cuba

Idle. Office: Blackstone Bldg., Cleveland, Ohio. Mine office: Fomen- to, Santa Clara, Cuba. W. J. Boardman, pres.; W. C. Watkins, vice-pres.; Sherman+C..Dalbey, sec. W. L. Rees, treas.; Col. D. H. Pond, gen. megr., at last accounts. Organized Aug. 12, 1905, under laws of Arizona, capital- ization $500,000, shares $100 par.

Lands, 2 claims, 100 acres, also 1,500 acres miscellaneous lands, opened by shafts of 25’, 35’, and 50’, and by tunnels of 80’, 80’, 200”, 205’ and 250’, showing ore assaying 10% copper, 20 to 25% zinc, 20% sulphur and 30% silica, with gold and silver values. Zinc apparently decreases at depth. The vein has a 12 to 15’ gossan outcrop along its strike. Property is an antigua, last operated in 1750. The ore though mostly low-grade zinciferous can be concentrated and property is considered worthy of further development under competent direction.

Los Muertos Mining Co. Mexico

Mine office: Velardena, Cuencame, Durango, Mex. Carter Barker, superintendent, at last accounts. Mine has argentiferous lead and copper ores, with steam power. No returns secured.

Los Platanos Mining Co. Mexico

Office: 516 Grant Bldg., Los Angeles, Cal. Mine office: Choix, Fuerte, Sinaloa, Mex. A. M. McDermott, pres. and gen. mgr.; C. F. Iredell, vice- prés.; J. L. Davidson, sec.; preceding officers, R. E. Small and W. W. Thomas, directors; E. B. Hosford, mine supt. Organized Dec., 1909, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,200,000, shares $10 par, nonassessable; issued, $280,000. Operates through Compania Esploradora de Los Platanos, S. A., organized under laws of Mexico. Merchants’ Trust Co., Los Angeles, transfer agent. Annual meeting, first Monday in October.

Lands, 39 pertenencias, 96 acres, bought of Choix Consolidated Mining Co., Ltd., 3 miles from Choix, and 40 miles from Fuerte, the nearest rail point. The eastern extension of the Kansas City, Mexico & Orient rail- way is planned to pass within 10 miles of mine.

Property shows an intruded mass of diorite, cut by later dikes of andesite, developing fracture and shear zones, giving 2 ore zones, of 30 to 100’ estimated width with length of 2,500’. These zones carry ore shoots connected with a system of cross-fractures. The upper portion of 1 of these veins shows occasional flakes of native copper, near surface, suc- ceeded by a leached zone. The other vein is entirely leached near surface, except for occasional copper stains, and small bunches of ore. Ore is esti- mated by management to average 7% copper, 1.5 to 2 oz. silver and 60 cts. to $1.50 gold per ton.

Development includes 1,500 of workings with a 240’ shaft, and incline tunnels of 600’ and 300’, known as the Iglesia and Abundancia mines, esti- mated by the management to show 12,000 tons of ore. Records of 1,093 tons of ore shipped show average returns of 21.8% copper and 5.5 oz. silver per metric ton. The discard from these shipments, about 7,500 tons, is esti- mated to average 4% copper and 1.5 oz. silver per ton, and the management estimated a total about 12,000 tons of ore on the dump, 1911. Equipment includes a hoist, and several buildings. ;

Los Sauces; Mina De. Mexico

Frank B. Hines, manager, at last accounts. Mine at Santa Maria del Oro, Durango, Mex., is opened by shafts. Ores contain gold, silver and copper. Property has a steam plant, is equipped with a 50-ton smelter and employes about 100 men when actively working.

Lost Cabin Mining Co. Wyoming

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erty, the Lost Cabin group, with the Summit vein in the Boyeson section. Development by shaft and tunnel, has been intermittent. LOST PACKER EXTENSION MINING CO. IDAHO

Mine office: Ivers, Custer Co., Idaho. .W. W. Chisholm, pres.; Col. O. P. Chisholm, sec.-treas. Lands are near and supposedly adjoin the holdings of the Lost Packer Mining Co., No trace of operations securable. LOST PACKER MINING CO. IDAHO

Office: 724 E. Second South St., Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine and works office: Ivers, Custer Co., Idaho. Jas. Ivers, pres.; J. T. Finlen, vice-pres.; Henry Welsh, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, J. Frank Judge and-H. M. McCormick, directors; J: P. Boyle, mgr. Organized under laws of Utah, capitalization $150,000, shares $1 par. Company declared a dividend of 25 cts. a share, Oct., 1913.

Lands, 32 claims, 4 patented, in the Loon Creek district, 112 miles west of Mackay, the nearest rail point, the mine being seriously handi- capped by inadequate transportation facilities. The mine and smelter are located high in the mountains, only accessible by steep and dangerous trail . and hampered by such deep snows that the smelter can only be run a short time (2434 days in 1913). Development is by drift tunnels, No. 1 having a back-of 450’, No. 2 a back of 700’, and No. 9 a back of 870’, latter showing rich ore, and planned to have a back of 2,000’, ultimately. Tunnels are drifts on a vein of 2- to 7’ average width, with maximum width of 15 to 18, carrying ore averaging 2 to 6% copper, and $2 to $8 gold per ton, with a paystreak of 2” to 5’ width, proven to average about 2’ for a distance of 500’ and depth of 400’. The ore is said to average 10 to 25% copper, 10 to 12 oz. silver and $40 to $75 gold per ton.

Company employs 80 men at the mines and 300 horses are required to handle supplies and output.

About $225,000 has been expended on surface improvements and equip- ment, including the smelter. The property has water power, with an elec- tric-light plant, assay office and necessary mine buildings.

The smelter has a 100-ton water-jacket blast furnace, making matte of about 45% copper, 25 oz. silver and 8 to 10 oz. gold per ton, with slags run- ning only about 0.2% copper. The smelter ran 2434 days in the summer of 1913, smelting 1,800 tons of ore, and producing 380 tons of matte.

The property, though very difficult of access, and having many features unfavorable to operations, is of exceptional promise.

Lost Packer Mining & Smelting Co. Idaho

Office: 34 West 33rd St., New York. Mine near Ivers, Custer Co., Idaho. John T. Clarke, treasurer and managing director. Organized 1907, under laws of Wyoming, capitalization $3,000,000, shares $5 par, as a holding company, to gradually acquire the outstanding stock of the Lost Packer and other mining companies.

Lost River Copper Co. Idaho

Office: Idaho Falls, Idaho. Mine office: Nicholia, Lemhi Co., Idaho. Mine is said to have a 7’ vein, between quartzite and limestone, carrying sulphide copper ore. Idle several years and apparently moribund. LOUIS D’OR GOLD MINING CO. ARIZONA

Office: 339 Monadnock Bik., Chicago. Mine office: Globe, Gila Co., Ariz. L. Ogden Wadleigh, pres.; Geo. P. Baldwin, vice-pres.; Neil Mc- Millan, sec. and gen. mgr.; J. A. Glenn, treas.; preceding officers, Theo. A. Steller, Willis H. Smith, C. S. Andrews and L. W. Whitmer, directors; John S. Ross, supt. Organized July, 1912, under laws of Arizona, capital- ization $2,000,000, shares $1 par; issued, 1,116,540. Company is practically a reconstruction of the Lost Gulch United Mines Co.

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Lands, 19 claims, partly fractional, 283 acres, in 3 contiguous groups, about 2 miles north of the mouth of Lost gulch, and 3 miles from a railway. Property shows monzonite-porphyry, diorite and granite, carrying 4 fissure veins, of which 3, of 4 estimated average width, are more or less developed, the mines as a whole having about 7,000’ of workings. The Badger mine has a vein of 3 to 6’ width, developed by a 145’ shaft, somewhat wet, carry- ing ore averaging about $7 per ton in values, with occasional shoots of $17 to $30 per ton, and a 400’ tunnel showing a vein of 3 to 6’ width, averaging about $7 per ton. Equipment includes a 15-h. p. gasoline hoist,.good for 400” depth. The Bonanza mine has a 1,050’ tunnel, The Cedar Tree mine carries mainly argentiferous and auriferous galena, with a little copper and zinc. All ores are sulphide.

The mill, of wood, completed Feb., 1910, has 10 stamps, a 7x10” Gates crusher, 2 Wilfley tables, 2 Frue vanners and a Pierce amalgamator, power equipment including two 80-h. p. water-tube boilers and a 150-h. p. Corliss engine.

The property has been sadly mismanaged in the past and the present advertising campaign of the company is not liked, many points being stretched to help stock sales. The mine, however, seems to be of promise, if handled as a straight cyanide proposition, but must be considered a gold mine, as copper values are inadequate to warrant treatment alone and con- not be recovered if the ore is cyanided for gold.

LOUISIANA & ARIZONA MINING Co. ARIZONA

Idle. Mine office: Jerome, Yavapai Co., Ariz. Organized Nov., 1908. Property, the Grand Island mine which adjoins the Copper Chief mine on the south, and is 30 miles south of Jerome. The mine, said to have a good surface showing, has a 100’ two-compartment shaft, developing a 3’ vein carrying low-grade copper ore. Equipment includes a steam hoist.

Low Creek Copper Co. Washington

Idle. Property, south of the Skykomish river, opposite Baring, King county, slightly developed.

Low Divide Copper Mining Co. California

Idle. Office and mine: Crescent City, Del Norte Co., Cal. John Mur- ray, president. Property consists of the Alta, Occidental and Copper Hill groups, on which several different veins have been opened by shallow work- ings which show oxide, carbonate and sulphide ores carrying good values

in copper.

Lower Mammoth Mining Co. Utah

‘Office: 516 Dooly Bldg., Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine office: Mam- moth, Juab Co., Utah. John Dern, pres.; A. T. Moon, vice-pres.; A. Reeves, sec.; W. S. McCormick, treas.; J. C. Dick, gen. mgr; preceding officers, A. L. Jacobs, M. P. Braffet and D. L. Wertheimer, directors. Organized July 3, 1896, under laws of Utah, capitalization $150,000, increased, 1906, to $190,-

.000, again increased, 1907, to $250,000, and again increased, 1911, to $1,000,-

000, shares $1 par, assessable. Bonds $60,000 authorized. To Nov. 1, 1908, company paid total dividends of $57,000, and levied total assessments of $127,500. Paid a dividend of 7% cts., Dec. 29, 1909, bringing total dividends to $65,073, and levied a 5-ct. assessment a few months later. Last assess- ment 1 ct., definquent Oct. 17, 1913. Shares are listed on the Salt’ Lake Stock Exchange. Annual meeting, second Monday in January.

Lands, 6 claims, patented, adjoining the Mammoth and Grand Central mines, carrying a continuation of the Mammoth orebody. Development is by a 700’ tunnel, and a 2,000’ three-compartment shaft. The extensive workings, show large bodies of low-grade ore, decreasing in values with depth. The oxidized zone extends to depth of at least 1,800’, ores to this

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depth including lead carbonates, ruby silver and native silver. The copper ore occurs mainly on the footwall of the Mammoth vein, and is overlaid by silver-lead ore of smelting grade, the segregation of the copper and lead ores being remarkably complete. Ihe lower workings in the sulphide zone show auriferous and argentiferous galena, chalcopyrite and pyrite, coming in at a depth of 1,800’ to 2,000’.

Equipment includes 2 electric hoists, 1 of 165-h. p., with double drum, good for a half-mile depth, and an electric air compressor. Buildings in- clude a carpenter shop, smithy, assay office and superintendent’s dwelling.

Operations were, suspended March, 1907, and resumed May, 1908, and in Dec., 1912, the mine was shipping zinc ore netting about $20 per ton. Man- agement: considered good and property promising, notwithstanding the rather poor record of the past. -

Loyal Lease Co., Ltd. ’ British Columbia

Mine address: Van Anda, Texada island, B. C. C. H. Jacobs, manager, at last accounts. Lands, 7 claims, 350 acres, near Blubber bay, 3 miles from Van Anda, show outcrops similar to those of the Marble Bay mine. De- velopment is by a 300’ shaft, showing chalcopyrite and occasional bornite, of good average tenor. Equipment includes a steam plant and 2-drill air compressor.

As the property was held under lease and bond from H. W. Treat, the company has presumably lost it and is now out of business.

Lucania Tunnel & Mines Co. Colorado

Office: 205 Colburn Bldg., Denver, Colo. Mine office: Idaho Springs, Clear Creek Co., Colo. E. A. Colburn, pres. and gen. mgr.; John McColl, supt. Mine, developed by a 6,385’ drainage and transportation tunnel, car- ries lead and copper sulphides. Equipment includes steam and water power, with an air compressor. Was developing with a small force at last ac- counts. t LUCIA MINING CO. MEXICO

Office: 15 William St., New York. Mine ofice: Pánuco de Coronado, San Juan del Rio, Durango, Mex. Britton Davis, pres.; H. M. Hubbard, vice- pres.; Myra B. Martin, sec.-treas. Organized 1900, under laws of West Virginia, capitalization $25,000, shares $5 par. This company is controlled by the San Luis Mining Co., and its property is described under that title. LUCILE DREYFUS MINING CO. WASHINGTON

Idle. Office: 208 Columbia Bldg., Spokane, Wash. Mine at Danville, Ferry Co., Wash. C. B: Dunning, pres.; Geo. K. Stocker, treas., at ‘last accounts. Development by 3 tunnels, showing a ledge of 100” estimated width, with paystreak of about 25’, carrying argentiferous chalcopyrite, as- sociated with pyrrhotite, closed down several years.

Lucile Gold & Copper Mining Co. California

Idle. Office: 230 San Fernando Bldg., Los Angeles, Cal. C. B. Wal- worth, pres.; Frank L. Pitney, vice-pres. and mgr.; C. V. Boyd, sec.-treas. Organized Nov. 21, 1906, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par.

Lands, 5 claims, 100 acres, on the western slope of the Providence mountains, 11 miles from Kelso, having 2 veins, carrying mainly gold val- ues, developed by a 60’ shaft, and 2 tunnels, 27’ and 200’ long. Closed down several years.

Lucky Calumet Copper Mining Co., Ltd. Idaho

Office: Wallace, Idaho. Mine office: Mullan, Shoshone Co., Idaho, John H. Nordquist, pres. and gen. mgr.; Chas. H. Solberg, vice-pres.; Otto A. Olsson, sec.-treas., Eagle Block, Wallace, Idaho; preceding officers, John H. Wourms and O. A. Larson, directors; Al. J. Grills, supt. Organized

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Oct., 1906, under laws of Idaho, capitalization $1,500,000, shares $1 par, assessable. Last assessment 5 mills per share delinquent Sept. 10, 1913.

Lands, 10 claims, patented, 181 acres, on Snowstorm hill, lie between the Independent and Snowstorm mines, and about 5 miles northeast of Mullan, Property shows 2 fissure veins of 10 to 50’ width, in quartzite. De- velopment is by 3 tunnels. The upper one of 1,400’ length, has a quarter- mile of drifts and crosscuts, which develop what is supposed to be the ex- tension of the Snowstorm vein, showing low-grade ore carrying disseminat- ed carbonates and bornite of 2 to 3% estimated copper tenor. The lower tunnel, a crosscut, from the head of Gentle Annie gulch, is about 1,800’ long and is planned to intersect the so-called Snowstorm vein at about 2,100’ from the portal, at a vertical depth of 678’, giving a back of 1,500’ on the dip of the vein.

Equipment includes electric power, with 2 motors, and a 5-drill air compressor. LUCKY FRIDAY MINING CO. IDAHO

Idle. Mine office: Wallace, Idaho. Franklin Pfirman, pres.; LeRoy Slater, sec. Capitalization $1,500,000, shares $1 par. Lands, 4 claims, which adjoin the Hunter mine on the south. Mine has a 90’ shaft, a 625’ upper crosscut tunnel and a 700’ lower crosscut tunnel, developing a 10’ vein, with a 4’ paystreak giving assays up to 3.5% copper, 29% lead and 89 oz. silver

. per ton.

Lucky Group. New Mexico

M. D. Gaylord, manager, Brice, via Oro Grande, Otero Co., N. M. Property, the Lucky, May, Copper King and Lincoln claims in Jarilla dis- trict, at railway terminus, carrying malachite ore a few inches to 3' thick, lying in, bedding planes and along seams and cross fractures. The ore averages 7% copper. A chimney of ore 50’ wide is said to carry $4 to $11 per ton in gold, largely free.

Development is by tunnel, exposing several orebodies at 300’ depth. In Sept., 1913, an experimental plant of the Dawson patent process was in- stalled at the mine.

Production is at the rate of 50 tons per day carrying 2 to 5% copper and $3.50 to $10 gold with a bonus of $2 for iron and lime. Employs 15 men.

Lucky Swede Gold & Copper Mining Co. Idaho

Office: 625 Cedar St., Wallace, Idaho. Morris Pearson, pres.; G. W. Dougherty, sec.-treas.; L. F. Maceijewiski, A. J. Clark and Ida Pearson, directors. Organized May, 1909, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par; assessable; last assessment 3 mills per share, delinquent Sept., 1913,

Property, 8 claims in the St. Joe district, southeast of Mullan, near the C., M. € St. P. R. R., having 3 veins carrying surface ores giving good assays in copper and gold. Development is by tunnel with about 600’ of workings. Company’s last assessment is to provide funds for a new 1,250’ tunnel to start near the railway line and cut a copper vein. Equipment includes new compressor, installed 1913.

LUDWIG MINE. NEVADA Owned by Nevada Douglas Copper Co., at Yerington, Lyon Co., Nev. LUEMA MINING CO. COLORADO

Presumably idle. Office: Leadville, Colo. Warren F. Page, manager, at last accounts. Property, the Valley and Forest Rose mines, developed by a 450’ shaft and 2,000’ tunnel, shows silver-bearing copper and lead ores. Has electric power.

Luning-Idaho Mining Co. Nevada

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Co., Nev. W. M. Willett, pres.; Robt. B. Todd, vice-pres. and gen. mgr.; S. W. Todd, sec.-treas. Organized April 29, 1910, under laws of Nevada, capitalization $1,500,000, shares $1 par; issued, $834,748.

Lands, 14 claims, 280 acres, in the Santa Fé mining district, show sev- eral fissure veins in quartzite, said to carry 544% copper, 2 oz. silver and about $1 gold per ton. Property is only slightly developed.

Lycoming Co. Minnesota

Office: 708 Lonsdale Bldg., Duluth, Minn. Is a securities-holding com- .

pany with a large share interest in the Cactus Copper Co.

LYNN & IDAHO MINING CO. IDAHO Idle. Office: Burke, Shoshone Co., Idaho. John Finley, pres.; Wm.

Sellars, sec.-treas. Capitalization $1,500,000. Property, a group of claims

in the Hunter district, show quartz veins with gray copper ore and silver

lead veins in slate. No recent work. :

LYON COPPER CO. ARIZONA Reorganized as Arizona Merger Gold & Copper Co., which see. MABEL COPPER CO. ARIZONA

Mine near Tombstone, Cochise Co., Ariz. Geo. W. Swain, manager. Lands in the Dragoon mountains have a main shaft of about 300’ depth and a 500’ tunnel. Equipment includes a 60-h. p. engine and air compressor. MACKAY IDAHO MINING CO. IDAHO

Office: care Porter Stevenson, trustee, Mackay, Idaho. Property, the’

Columbia Standard mines, Nos. 1 and 2, held in trust. MADERA MINING CO. ARIZONA

Office: Helvetia, Ariz. Mine near Arivaca, Pima Co., Ariz. H. E. Brandt, pres. and gen. mgr. Organized Nov., 1907, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par. Lands, 16 claims, area 200 acres, near Old Baldy peak, in the Santa Rita mountains, Arivaca district, 70 miles south of Tucson, showing a 5’ vein carrying auriferous and argentiferous bornite and chalcopyrite, developed by a 500’ crosscut tunnel to be driven 1,200’ to cut the vein. Equipment includes steam power and air compressor. Working in 1913.

Madero Hermanos. Mexico

Owned the Aurora Anexas Co., operating near Marquez, Chihua- hua. Mex. See that title.

Madizelle Mining Co. Arizona

Office: Prescott, Ariz. Geo. U. Young, pres. and gen. mgr.; F. W. Taylor, sec-treas., at last accounts. Organized 1906, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $500,000. .

Lands, 25 claims, 411 acres, in the Thumb Butte district, include the Derby and Centipede mines. Development is by shafts and tunnels, with about 5,000’ of workings, showing auriferous copper ores. Equipment in- cludes a small hoist, air compressor, a 5-stamp mill and necessary mine buildings. Idle at last reports.

Magazine Mining Co. Arizona

Idle. Property at Johnson, in Cochise county. is developed by 3 shal- low shafts, showing ore of about 8% copper tenor.

Maggie Murphy Copper Co. Wyoming

Office: care Chas. S. Ashley, president, New Bedford, Mass. Mine near Douglas, Converse Co., Wyo. Organized Aug., 1904, under laws of Wyoming, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par.

Lands, 12 claims, 180 acres, and a 60-acre mill site, all fairly timbered, on the northwestern side of Horseshoe canyon, in the Laramie Peak dis- trict. 4 Claims show granite, fissured with diorite, with gneiss and schists, carrying 7 veins between gneiss and mica-schist, of which 1 ranges 30 to

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60” in width and shows covellite, bornite and chalcopyrite, ores holding pyrrhotite and assaying 1 to 6% copper, 2 to 9 oz. silver and 40 cts. to $4.50 gold per ton.

Development includes 114’ shaft and various shallow workings. Com- pany has kept up necessary annual assessment work, but has done no development. Í MAGISTRAL-AMECA COPPER CO. MEXICO

Office: 201 Hibernian Bldg., Los Angeles, Cal. Mine office: Ameca, ; Jalisco, Mex. H. L. Percy, pres.; Fred M. Lyon, vice-prés.; Geo. C. B. Robinson, sec.-treas.; Jas. P. Harvey, gen. mgr., and H. N. Manington, directors; Percy A. Babb, cons. engr. Organized May 20, 1909, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,500,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable; issued, 1,255,300 shares. Holds direct title to lands through Magistral-Ameca Copper Co., S. A., organized under laws of Mexico. ‘Annual meeting, sec- ond ‘Wednesday in November.

Property bought of Las Moras Copper Mining Co. for $100,000, by Messrs. Patrick Clark, Jas. P. Harvey, H. L. Percy and Fred M. Lyon, Mr. Clark selling his quarter interest to his associates for $55,000.

Property, 74 pertenencias, 185 acres, Known as the Mina Magistral, on the Hacienda Hegira, 8 miles southwest of Ameca, has veins in diorite that are cut by porphyry dikes. The veins occur on dike contacts and show outcrops of silicified rock with quartz stringers and hematite. The vein varies from 4 to 25’ in thickness and carries lenticular orebodies connected by mere films of quartz or fissures with wall rock impregnated with chal- copyrite. The Magistral ore shoot occurs where 3 veins intersect. The

ore carries copper sulphides and averages from 4 to 7% in copper with

about $2 in combined gold and silver values.

Development is by a 321’ shaft, planned to be deépened to 350’ and by tunnels with about 1 mile of openings, March, 1913, developing copper ground for width of 5 to 50’, said to assay 4 to 8% copper. The Magistral was worked many years ago for bluestone, used by neighboring mines in the ‘process of treating silver-lead ores.

Equipment includes two 80-h. p. high-pressure boilers and a 150-h. p. tandem compound engine, with hoist good for 500’, at the Magistral. The mines are connected with Ameca by a good wagon road, 8 miles long, with a 114% grade, built with the idea of using it for railway tracks in the future. About 100 men are employed.

The concentrator, of 50 tons capacity, tried the Elmore process with- out success. The original mill with jigs and tables has been remodeled and the ore is now treated by crushing through 3-stage rolls to 14 mesh and passing the entire pulp over Isbell concentrators. The middling is recrushed in a tube mill and passed over Wilfley tables. Management reports a saving of 75% of assay values, with concentration of 6 into 1, from ores averaging 3 to 5% copper, with small silver and gold values. Concentrates are shipped to the Aguascalientes smelter under contract.

Production in Sept., 1913, was 125 tons of ore daily, making 500 tons of $80 concentrate monthly.

Magistral, S. A.; Negociacion Minera Del. Mexico

Office and mine. Aptdo 22, Zacatecas, Zacatecas, Mex. Dudley H. Norris, pres.; Chas. O. Gilbert, mgr. Company, which is operated as a very close corporation, is said to have paid for improvements from net earnings. Owns the Refugio de Magistral and San Roberto mines.

The San Roberto mine, about 300’ deep, has iron ore carrying small

values in copper, silver and gold, used for fluxing, and also has a little high-

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The Magistral mine carries chalcopyrite and galena, and ore is pro- duced returning about 6% copper and up to 200 grams silver per metric ton. Development is by a 900” tunnel and 2 shafts, 1 of 400’ depth, the second, with 3 compartments, is to be sunk 1,500’.

Equipment includes a 40-h. p. gasoline and 150-h. p. steam hoist, boiler plant, compressor, etc.

The reduction plant, at Magistral siding, on the Mexican Central line, connected with the mine by a narrow-gauge railway, includes a 50-ton sam- pling mill and a 200-ton smelter, latter blown in March, 1909. The smelter has a 250-ton El Paso Foundry & Machinery Co. blast furnace, with a movable forehearth, Connersville blower and 103’ brick stack. Slags are highly silicious, and matte is sent for conversion to the Torreon smelter. Works treat about 2,000 tons of ore monthly, including a considerable amount of custom ore. About 150 men are employed.

Magma Copper Co. Arizona

Offices: 14 Wall St, New York, and Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine office: Superior, Pinal Co., Ariz. H. F. J. Knobloch, pres.; H. E. Dodge, sec.-treas.; W. H. Aldridge, managing director, and Jas. Neary, supt.; W. C. Browning, engr. Organized June, 1910, under laws of Maine, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $5 par. Company is controlled by Thompson & Gunn.

Property, the Silver Queen mine with 22 claims, 340 acres, and 50-acre mill site in the Pioneer district. Claims show a 40’ fissure vein cutting through limestone and quartzite, about 20’ being highly mineralized with a 4 to 6 paystreak carrying an average of 48% copper, 30 to 67 oz. silver and about $4 gold per ton. Ore is mainly chalcocite.

Development is by an 800’ shaft with considerable openings on the 300’, 400’, 650’ and 800’ levels, the last 2 showing large amounts of high- grade ore in the east drifts.

Equipment is electrical throughout but includes a 160-h. p. steam hoist, 2 air compressors driven by 225-h. p. motor, 3 vertical Aldrich pumps, 2 auto trucks for the transportation of ore-and supplies between the mine and the station at Florence. Company was shipping regularly at rate of 500 tons monthly, April, 1913. About 50 men are employed.

Production for 1912 (last 2 months), 93,080 lbs. copper from 129 tons of 26% copper ore carrying 0.29 oz. silver and 0.07 oz. gold per ton. Com- pany is diamond drilling its ground, 1913. Property is remarkably pro- ductive for its size and its future is decidedly promising.

Magna Charta Mine. Montana

At Walkerville, Butte, Mont. W. A. Clark, owner. Property carries the extension of the Rainbow lode and is properly considered a zinc mine, though it carries copper in commercial amounts in some of its veins. MAINE & NEBRASKA MINING CO. MEXICO

Mine office: Rio Balsas, Guerrero, Mex. F. M. Currie, pres.; H. Lo- max, sec.-treas.; A. E. Sedgwick, gen. mgr.; D. H. Harroun, mine supt., at last accounts. Organized 1907, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $4,000,000, shares $10 par, nonassessable.

Lands, 43 hectares, with a 4 hectare mill site and 9 hectares of miscel- laneous lands. The Santa Lucia group has 4 contact deposits, between diorite and quartzite, of which 1, under development, estimated by manage- ment at 18’ average width, carries copper sulphides, apparently mainly chalcopyrite. Development is by a 300’ shaft and tunnels of 50’, 300’ and 600’.

The mine has a 250-h. p. steam plant. Property is served by a 1%- mile spur from the Mexican National railway. The works, include a small cyanide plant and a smelter having an El Paso Foundry & Machine Works

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blast furnace, rated at 125 tons daily capacity. Company estimates costs as 70 cts. for mining, $1.80 for concentrating, and $1.80 per ton for smelting.

District unsafe and operations suspended 1911-13, on account of brigand- age by Zapata’s forces and general revolutionary distubrances.

MAIZ y CA.; JOAQUIN. MEXICO

Office and mine: Villaldama, Nuevo León, Mex. C. Robles, manager, at last accounts. Property, the Blanca y Anexas mines, opened by tunnel, developing copper ore. Presumably idle.

Majestic Copper Co. Arizona

Office: First National Bank Bldg., Kansas City, Mo. Mine office: Oracle, Pinal Co., Ariz. E. A. Hosier, pres.; W. A. Neiswanger, vice-pres.; E. T. Wilder, sec-treas. Company was organized under name of Inspira- tion Mining Co., but sold its property, in the Globe district, to the Inspira- tion Copper Co., and changed its name, March, 1909, to the present title, to avoid misunderstandings.

Property now consists of a group of 6 claims near Oracle, on which assessment work is done.

This company received from the sale of the Inspiration mine about $1,500,000, paying a 10% commission to Messrs. Henry Krumb et altos putting the deal through.

Majestic Copper Mining & Smelting Co. Utah

Office: 79 Milk St., Boston, Mass. John M. Dick, president. To all practical intents and purposes this company was succeeded, 1904, by Majes- tic Copper Co., which was succeeded, 1908, by Majestic Mines Co., but the Majestic Copper Mining & Smelting Co. remains in existence, though prac- tically the entire stock issue, and a large majority of the bonds, are owned by the Majestic Mines Co. The company became bankrupt, 1904, but paid 100 cts. on the dollar. Very fully described Vol. IV.

Majestic Mines Co. Utah

Office: 342 Exchange Bldg., Boston, Mass. Mine office: Milford, Beaver Co., Utah. Wm. D. Elwell, pres.; John M. Dick, vice-pres.; D. J. Flanders, sec.-treas.; Arthur Lovering and F. H. Bossom, directors. Alex. D. Moffat, mine mgr. Organized May 18, 1908, under laws of Maine, prac- tically as successor of Majestic Copper Co. and Majestic Copper Mining &. Smelting Co., capitalization $5,000,000, shares $5 par, assessable; issued, $4,009,240.

Stocks of both "companies were exchanged share for share for stock of the Majestic Mines Co. on payment of 15 cts. a share; bonds of the Majes- tic Copper Mining & Smelting Co. were exchanged for stock of the Majestic Mines Co., giving 900 shares of new stock for each $1,000 bond. Of the outstanding bond issue of $514,000 of the Majestic Copper Co., the Majestic Mines Co. owned $381,900 at last accounts. Assessments of pres- ent company have been as follows: 15 cts. in 1908; 5 cts. in June, 1910; 10 cts. in April, 1911. Shares are listed on the Salt Lake Stock Exchange and the Boston curb. Federal Trust Co., transfer agent; State Street Trust Co., registrar, Boston, Mass.

Lands, 120 claims, 2,450 acres, in 8 groups, also an 80-acre smelter site, and 1,100 acres miscellaneous lands. The groups, located in 5 different districts of Beaver county, are the O. K., Old Hickory, Harrington-Hick- ory, Vicksburg, Hoosier Boy, Southern States, Larkspur, Copperfield and Treasurer, said to have about 100 orebodies, carrying copper, gold, silver, platinum, lead, cobalt, bismuth, vanadium and uranium. The company has platted the town site of Lewisville, where the smelter was located, and the property is served by the S. P., L. A. 8 S. L. R. R.

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100 to 600’ deep with a total of 6 miles of underground workings. The Old Hickory and O. K. mines yield copper ores, the others silver-lead ores.

The principal work of the present company is on the Old Hickory group of 9 claims, from which shipments are being made at the rate of about 100 tons ore daily, net earnings on these operations ranging from $2,000 to $5,300 per month. Smelter returns on this ore are given as 3.46% copper, 1.7 oz. silver and 39.7% iron.

The O. K. mine, 7 claims, formerly the principal producer, has a 400’ three-compartment shaft, with a vein up to 20’ in width, development being mainly on the 300’ and 400’ levels. This mine has more or less ore blocked out, in what apparently is a stockwerk, up to 250’ in width, carrying stringers of high-grade ore. The O. K. mine was leased, 1913, the opera- tors shipping a carload of ore in July that ran 28.8% copper, 28% ‘silica and 15% iron with 3.8 oz. silver and 0.5 oz. gold per ton.

The Harrington-Hickory group of 25 claims, partly- fractional, shows numerous fissure veins, intersected by cross veins, both approximately vertical, and, in addition, has a series of bedded veins, presumably follow- ing bedding planes, dipping at 30 to 35°, giving 3 separate intersecting sys- tems of orebodies. Development is by a 600° two-compartment vertical main working shaft, with drifting in progress on the 500’ level, where there is a body of high-grade ore, assays from which ‘have given 1% copper, 37 to 55% lead, 18 to 22:0z. silver, and about $1 gold per ton.

The Vicksburg group of 4 claims, formerly worked for gold, has 3 prac- tically vertical fissures, of 2 to 20’ width, with mineralized cross-fissures, developed by a 2-compartment working shaft, and numerous shallow shafts and pits. It is said that high-grade ore has been encountered at a depth of 150’ in this mine.

The Larkspur group of 8 claims has a 60’ contact deposit between granite and limestone, carrying irregular bunches of high-grade) ore. The Copperfield group of 17 claims, lying between the O. K. and Old Hickory mines, is undeveloped.. The Apex group of 4 claims adjoins the Old Hickory mine, and is practically without development. The Ben Harrison group is undeveloped.

Equipment includes steam and gasoline power for hoists, and electric power, for lighting and pumping, is taken from the Beaver River Power Co. There is a 34-h. p. Fairbanks € Morse gasoline hoist at the O. K: mine, and an electric hoist at the Harrington-Hickory shaft. The Har- rington-Hickory has a 400-gal. electric pump and an Ingersoll-Sergeant air compressor.

There is an undeveloped water power on Beaver river, 35’ miles dis- tant, said to be capable of generating 2,000 h. p. and transmitting same electrically to the mine and smelter at a cost of $100,000 for a hydro- electric installation and transmission line.

The reduction plant, at Lewisville, which is practically Milford, 3 to 8 miles from the various mines, includes a sampling mill and a smelter, with a 250-ton blast furnace for copper and a 100-ton lead stack. This smelter is small and antiquated, though run only about 40 days, and smelting only about 5,000 tons of ore. It was leased, Dec., 1908, for 5 years, with privilege of further extension and purchase, to the Miners’ Smelting Co., organized by F. Augustus Heinze, which expended a little money in tinkering up the plant, but did not blow it in.

Company is now sinking a new 200° shaft at the Hickory mine and plans to develop the vein at that level.

Major Evans Cons. Mining & Milling Co. Utah

Idle. Office: Provo, Utah. Mine office: American Fork, Utah Co.,

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Utah. Jesse Knight, pres.; R: E. Allen, sec. Organized Jan., 1908, capi- talization $100,000, shares 10 cts. par. Shares are listed on the Salt Lake exchange. Lands, 31 claims, in American Fork canyon, having a 40’ shaft and 150’ tunnel, showing auriferous and argentiferous copper and lead ores. MALAPATI MINING CO. ARIZONA

Thos. Smyers, superintendent, Kirkland, Yavapai Co., Ariz. Property has fissure veins in schist, that carry gold-copper ores. Development by 850’ shaft. Equipped with gasoline hoist and mill, with 1 Nissen stamp. Company employs an average of 15 men.

Malaspina Mine. British Columbia

Office: care F. Pabst, 215 W. Ohio St., Chicago, Ill. Mine office: Van Anda, Texada island, B, C. Alfred Raper, general manager. Is owned by a close company, presumably not incorporated. Lands, 16 claims, 400 acres, showing limestone, diorite and porphyry, with 4 veins of 5 to 6’ estimated average width. Mine has a 60’ shaft and a 600’ crosscut tunnel. Equipment includes a 50- h. p. steam plant, 20-h. p. hoist, and 3-drill Rand air compressor.

Malden Mining, Milling & Mfg. Co. Washington

Office: Rosalia, Wash. Mine office: Metaline, Stevens Co., Wash. D. D. Birks, manager, at last accounts. Mine, opened by tunnel, is the only copper property in the camp, the other mines carrying lead ores. Equip- ment includes an air compressor. Idle.

Maloney-Blue Lead Copper Mg. & Sm. Co. South Dakota

Mine office: Sheridan, Pennington Co., S. D. John Harnan, pres. and gen. mgr.; Philip Harnan, vice-pres. and supt.; J. G. Thomas, sec.-treas. Organized 1899, capitalization variously reported as $750,000 and $3,000,000, shares $1 par. Lands, 380 acres, showing a gossan of 118’ claimed width, underlain by rich oxidized ores containing good copper and gold values. Development is by a 260’ shaft, showing occasional stringers of ore, and a 1,610’ tunnel, showing arsenopyrite. Developments to date have not shown copper in paying quantities, but commercial ore is believed to exist below the water level. Equipment includes a steam power plant and air com- pressor.

Mammoth-Collins Mine. Arizona

Address: Schultz, Pinal Co., Ariz. Owned by Great Western Copper Co.

Mammoth Copper Mining Co. Of Maine. California

Office: 55 Congress St., Boston, Mass. Mine and works office: Ken- nett, Shasta Co., Cal. Wm. G. Sharp, pres.; Frederick Lyon and C. C. Rice, vice-presidents; preceding officers, B. Preston Clark, E. L. Carpenter, Jas. J. Storrow, and S. W. Winslow, directors; A. F. Holden, managing direc- tor; F. W. Batchelder, sec.-treas.; G. W. Metcalfe, mer.; Robt. E. Hanley, mine supt; W. J: O'Donnell, supt. Quartz Hill mine; Jas. H. Kerwin, smelter supt.; A. P, Anderson, engr.

Organized Aug. 2, 1904, under laws of Maine, capitalization $2,500,000; $1,500,000 issued, all owned by the United States Smelting, Refining & Mining Co.

Lands, 25 claims, partly fractional, patented, with. an 80- -acre smelter site and PAE ON lands, giving total holdings of about 1,900 acres. The principal mineral. holdings are on Little Backbone creek, west of Sac- tamento river, in the Big Backbone district. Lands are well timbered, with numerous mountain streams available for water supply and power. The country is very rugged, with mines opened near the tops of the moun- tains. Lands include a limestone quarry, but limestone for fluxing is now taken from Holt & Gregg’s quarry, by electric cars. The company also

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holds, under bond and lease, the Stowell, or Webster group of 23 claims, on Spring creek, between the Iron Mountain and the Balaklala mines. The Stowell mine is now under active development, 1913, and a long tunnel has opened up a large orebody. The mine has a new Ingersoll-Rand com- pressor and electric power. Extensive diamond-drill borings have been made.

The company’s Iron Mountain mine, 120 acres, is at Fernley, Nevada county, Cal. This mine has a 12’ fissure vein, in rhyolite, with a gossan up to 300’ in width, traceable for a half-mile, and is opened by a 250’ two- compartment vertical shaft, developing auriferous copper ores, including malachite and chalcopyrite, associated with hematite and pyrite. Nearest rail point is Grass Valley, with a good wagon road connecting. Equip- ment includes boilers and a 25-h. p. double-cylinder link-motion geared hoist. Buildings include a power house, smithy and bunkhouse.

The Mammoth group, which is the principal property, lies on the west- ern side of the Sacramento river. The orebodies consist of a series of long flat-lying lenses, occurring irregularly in a rhyolitic zone of pre-Devonian age, ore occurring mainly as replacements of porphyry in fissure and shear zones. Occasionally quartz phenocrysts are distinguishable, but usually little or no trace remains of the original rock. Ore carries chalcopyrite, disseminated in massive pyrite and pyrrhotite, ranging 3 to 12% copper, 2 to 3 oz. silver and 60 cts. to $1 gold per ton, with about 40% iron and up to 40% sulphur. The largest orebody has a maximum width of 228’, with about 500’ length. A chalcopyrite orebody occurs along a porphyry con- tact on the northwestern extension of the mine.

Development is exclusively by 5 tunnels, with electric haulage. Min- ing is by the caving system. Ore reserves are estimated at about 2,000,000 tons and are maintained practically constant.

The Summit mine is about a mile from the Mammoth. Extensive diamond-drill work, 1910, has proven 7 orebodies, of good average tenor. Development is by tunnel.

The Quartz Hill mine, in the Old Diggings district, about 4 miles from the Mammoth smelter, is operated under a 5-year bond and lease, dated, 1912, The Quartz Hill mine carries lenses of low-grade ore, running about $4 gold per ton and 93% silica, this mine being the largest producer of silicious ore in Shasta county, and furnishing fluxing ore and material for converter linings. About 50 men are employed. Equipment includes electric power and a 5-drill air compressor, and the mine is connected with the smelter by a 4-mile narrow-gauge railway.

The Buchanan mine has a small body of exceptionally high-grade ore, but has been idle several years.

The aerial tram proving inadequate, has been replaced by a combina- tion ground tram of 3,500 tons estimated daily capacity, built to meet pe- culiar local conditions. The ground tram has 3 miles of standard-gauge steam railway line, from the smelter to the foot of the gravity road, the latter 4,000’ long, with a drop Ofp 100% connecting at the upper end with a 2-mile electric rail line leading to the mine. The gravity line cares for two 20-ton standard-gauge cars, operated in counterbalance, with a retarding as SRE an air compressor. The transportation system of the Pae REE mieg of narrow-gauge steam railway, equipped with 2

omotives, 2 miles of electric line, a 4,000' gravity tram, and a 13,200" „aerial tram. of the maine a te EA E By eterna a atte of 1,000 tons daily capacity, at a cost of Le e i

, , of $500,000, and the smelter was

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blown in Oct. 6, 1905, but was enlarged, 1907, to a capacity of about 1,800 tons daily, and again enlarged, 1909, to the present capacity of 2,250 tons, being the largest smelter in California. All buildings are of steel, and all material is handled by gravity, the design and system of operation being excellent. The plant works three 8-hour shifts daily.

The bin house, of steel frame, for storage of ore, coke and limestone, is 214’ long, with capacity for 2,500 tons of custom ore and 100 tons of fluxing ore, in addition to coke and limestone, and has 27 scales for individual weighing of cars in train loads. In addition to the bin house, there are 4,500-ton bins at the lower branch of the aerial tram, and a 20,000 ton custom ore bin. Charge trains are run underneath the 3 sets of ore bins. The plant includes a sampling mill for custom ore.

The 72x222’ blast-furnace building has three 42x180” and two 56x180” furnaces, designed by Carl F. Moore, with water jackets and steel tops, 1 furnace being held as a spare. Semi-pyritic smelting is employed, requiring only 3 to 4% coke charges. Notwithstanding the ore being zinckiferous, no furnaces have been lost by freezing, and when the zinc in the ore does not exceed 5%, Mr. Kerwin has run the furnaces with as small a coke charge as 2%, for short periods, and although ore has run as high as 10% zinc, increased fuel charges have obyiated all trouble from freezing. This plant is notably successful in its handling of zincy ores, which are such a bugaboo in most smelters.

The 3 old furnaces have 6' 9” settlers, and the 2 new furnaces have 16' settlers, each with a water-jacketed top, of continuous-flow syphon type. The 3 new furnaces have water-jacketed tops with main jackets extending from the furnace bottoms to the charge floor, built in vertical sections, 2 end jackets extending from the furnace floor to the feed floor. The fur- naces take a 42-oz. cold blast. Charge trains consist of four 5,000-1b. self- dumping charge: cars, drawn by 4-ton Baldwin-Westinghouse electric loco- motives, with tracks on either side of each furnace, charging alternately. Slags go into 6-ton cars, drawn by 6-ton Baldwin-Westinghouse electric locomotives. Matte is discharged from the spouts of the settlers into a traveling matte-casting machine, 40’ long, from which chilled matte is dropped into 700-lb. barrows, first-fusion matte being resmelted.

The blast-furnace building has a 12x30’ experimental reverberatory fur- nace, installed 1909, fired with California crude petroleum.

The 92x204’ converter building has two 50-ton Morgan electric travel- ing cranes of 50’ span, with two 15-ton auxiliary hoists, equipped with General Electric 440-volt induction motors. There are 2 Allis-Chalmers hydraulic stands, with room for a third, and eight 96x150” shells, taking second-fusion matte. The converters blow off into hoods leading to the old stack of the blast-furnace building, which has a self-supporting steel chimney 150’ high and 12’ in diameter. There is a slag-casting machine for converter slags requiring resmelting.

The relining department, in the converter building, has 400-ton bins for - quartz and clay, two 7’ Carlin grinding pans, and two Ingersoll-Rand pneu- matic tamping machines, each on a hydraulic jib crane.

Fumes from the blast furnaces go through individual goosenecks to a brick dust flue, 200’ long, with sectional area of 407’, built in sections and provided with hopper bottoms, leading to a horizontal dust chamber, 30’ wide, 15’ high and 500’ long, running to a 200’ steel stack, of 18’ diameter, standing on a 35’ base. An electric tram-line running under the dust flue brings flue dust to the briquetting plant, in the furnace building, which has a 6-ton Chisholm, Boyd & White press, making briquettes from a mixture of flue dust and sulphide fines.

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The 75x250’ bag house, built by the American Bridge Co., at a cost of about $250,000, was begun Oct., 1909, and required 750 tons of structural steel for the frame, which is sheathed with corrugated iron. There are 2 fans, each operated by a 400-h. p. electric motor. Fumes from the blast fur- naces are drawn off by fans into the discharge chamber, then pass to the bag house through cooling pipes, each 200” long, said to reduce the, tem- perature of the fumes from 400 to 200° F., free air being drawn in also to dilute the fumes. Equipment of the bag house comprises 3,000 woolen bags, each 18” in diameter and 30’ long, through which the fumes pass. The bag house has capacity to handle fumes from 3 furnaces. The fumes leave the bag house by a number of small stacks, and bag house dust is briquetted and resmelted in the same manner as the product of the dust flue and dust chamber. s

Both mine and smelter. are operated by electric power, commercial current being taken from the Northern California Power Co., at a very reasonable rate. Current is delivered to the power house at 2,000 volts, the company requiring about 3,000-h. p. for the operation of its mines and works.

The steel roofed power house, at the smelter site, is 250’.long, with installations aggregating about 2,300-h. p. Equipment includes 6 Conners- ville blowers, each with capacity of 124 cu. ft. of free air per revolution, at 135-r.p.m., driven by electric motors. A Nordberg air compressor, furnish- ing converter blast, is driven by a 750-h. p. General Electric motor. There are three 150-h. p. General Electric motors, three 200-h. p. Westinghouse motors, and two 100-h. p. motors.

The boiler house, 43x176' in size, is out of commission, owing to the use of electric power, but the boilers are held in reserve for emergencies.

The shops are in a single building, 41x432’ in size, divided into sections, having a traveling crane with full span, and crane run for the entire dis- tance. Three standard-gauge railway tracks run through the entire build- ing, this being one of the best planned shops in existence. Miscellaneous buildings at the works include an office and laboratory.

Water, formerly raised from Blackbone creek by two 500-gal. centrifu- gal pumps, is now taken by gravity from the Butters’ ditch, passing above the smelter and the pumps are held in reserve for emergencies.

The smelter treated 411,131 tons of ore in 1912, compared with 388,917

in 1911. .The mine output for the year 1912 was 278,088 tons, of which.

amount the Quartz Hill mine yielded 29,923 tons of silicious ore. Output for 1911 was 270,330 tons. Employs about 1,200 men.

Production was about 12,000,000 Ibs. fine copper in 1907; 30,000,000 in rig 27,000,000 in 1909; 22,000,000 in 1910; 18,000,000 in 1911 and 20,000,000 lbs. in 1912.

Mammoth Mine. Arizona

Office: Mammoth, Pinal Co., Ariz. J. H. Hooper, superintendent. Owned by Calumet & Arizona Mining Co. Property shows fissure vein in granite porphyry, developed by 600’ shaft. Has electric power plant and air compressor. MAMMOTH MINING CO. ay UTAH

Office: 409 Hooper Bldg., Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine office: Mam- moth, Juab Co., Utah, Samuel McIntyre, pres. and gen. mgr.; Samuel McIntyre, Jr., vice-pres. and supt.; Col, R. M. Wilkinson, sec. Organized 1881, under laws of Utah, capitalization $10,000,000, shares $25 par, and reincorporated Dec. 5, 1906, under laws of Nevada, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $2.50 par. Controls the Cleveland Mining Co. through ownership of 70% of capital stock. Dividends, to end of 1912, were $2,280,000, last having

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been 15 cts., paid Oct. 10, 1912. As a result of 9 years litigation, a judgment in favor of the Grand Central Mining Co. was rendered, 1910, against the Mammoth Mining Co., and necessitated the levying of a 10-ct. assessment, 1910, the first in the history of the company. Annual meeting, first Tues- day in February.

The mine, opened about 1870, is developed extensively and has a 2,300' main shaft, the deepest in the Tintic camp. Irregular shoots and chimneys of lead and copper ores occur, values being mainly in silver and lead,

Equipment includes a complete plant, installed 1910, a mill with 30 stamps and all necessary buildings. Mine considered valuable. MAMMOTH NO. 2 MINING & MILLING CO. UTAH

Office: 409 Hooper Bldg., Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine at Mammoth, Juab Co., Utah. Wm. H. McIntyre, pres.; Samuel McIntyre, vice-pres. and treas.; Isaac Jennings, sec. Organized 1900, under laws of Utah, capi- talization $300,000, shares $1 par, assessable; fully issued. Lands, 2 claims, patented, adjoining the Mammoth Mining Co., showing lead and copper ores. Idle several years.

Mammoth Tunnel € Mining Co. Colorado

Property at Silverton, San Juan Co., Colo., was leased, 1903, to the Stony Pass Mining Co.

Mangas Development Co. New Mexico

Office: Silver City, N. M. Mine office: Tyrone, Grant Co., N. M. Hon. Norman W. Haire, pres. and gen. mgr.; Jos. E. Saint, vice-pres.; M. W. Porterfield, sec.; Jos. W. Selden, treas. Organized Oct. 2, 1909, under laws of New Mexico, capitalization $500,000, shares $5 par, of which 50,000 shares were issued, fully paid, in part payment for property, and 50,000 shares, half paid, rendered full paid by a $2.50 assessment, levied 1910. First National Bank, Calumet, registrar. Annual meeting, second Tuesday in March.

Lands, 59 claims, approximately 2,000 acres, partly owned in fee, and partly held under option, lie near the Chemung and Savanna mines, on the northeastern slope of the Burro mountains, 12 miles northwest of Silver City.

The Porterfield-Robinson group of 22 claims, 353 acres, lies near the extreme southwestern edge of the favorable area of the district, the north- ern part being the more promising, showing iron stains, with some copper stains, and slip zones.

The Porterfield group has 17 claims, 340 acres.

The Malachite group of 5 claims, patented, 73 acres, is held from the Azure Mining Co., under a bond and lease, partly paid.

The Thompson group of 11 claims, partly fractional, 150 acres, held under option from the Ocala Mining Co., is 1 mile northwest of the Midway group, and has a 365” shaft on the Ocala claim, with a little drifting, and some assessment pits. The shaft showed high-grade copper oxides at sur- face, but has not reached the water level to develop sulphides.

The Tulloch group of 15 claims, 300 acres, on Edith mountain, held under a $350,000 bond and lease, has a 50’ shaft on the Dagger Point claim, showing some ore assaying up to 14% copper.

The Midway group of'18 claims, 10 fractional, 254 acres, carries the southwestern continuation of the ore zone of the Chemung Copper Co., and also lies near the Burro Mountain mine, with conditions markedly similar to those existing on these adjoining properties, on which large quantities of ore have been developed.

The orebodies are a combination of stockwerk and impregnation de- posits, carrying values mainly along a series of small intersecting veinlets, having occasional masses of solid chalcopyrite up to several inches in size,

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but with ore occurring mainly as minute particles of chalcocite, in veinlets, and as films on gangue rock. The orebodies vary greatly in size, with im- perfectly defined walls, owing to impregnations, and some of the orebodies carry clay gouges. The copper impregnations, being disseminated through a gangue of decomposed eruptive rock, are of the type commonly called “porphyry ores,” the term coming from the development of the Utah Cop- per Co. and Nevada Consolidated Copper Co., the mines of which carry disseminated chalcocite in a gangue of monzonite-porphyry, but in this camp the ore occurs in inclined “blanket” deposits, that are relatively thin and rather irregularly mineralized.

Acting on the advice of J. Morgan Clements, who reported favorably on the property, preliminary development was undertaken by churn drills, 1 Star and 2 Cyclone drills being employed, with holes put down checker- board fashion, at 200’ intervals. A drill hole in Emerald gulch, 1910, showed sulphide ore from a depth of 350 to 700’, apparently with the best ore near the bottom. Churn drills also cut the Humboldt vein, on the St. Paul claim, well mineralized for a width of 30. Drilling was suspended, 1910, but in 1911 an exploratory shaft was started on the eastern side of the Tulloch group, in high-grade carbonate ore, and reached sulphides at comparatively shallow depth. The Midway group, when taken over, had 2 shallow shafts and a few pits, showing a little carbonate and silicate ore on the dumps, but these workings were too shallow to be of much import- ance.

Financial conditions caused the checking of the company’s plans, but the management is good, and the property is considered promising, with a fair chance of developing into a large mine.

Manhattan Cons. Mining & Milling Co. Wyoming

Idle. Office: La. Crosse, Wis. Mine near Encampment, Carbon Co., Wyo. Wm. Doerflinger, pres.; Chas. H. Freeman, vice-pres.; P. J. Bott, sec.; Henry Tillman, treas., at last accounts. Organized Feb. 3, 1902, under laws of Wyoming, capitalization $800,000, shares 10 cts. par.

Lands, 2 miles south of Encampment, showing a vein of 4 to 12’ esti- mated width, carrying ore giving assays of 3 to 30% copper. Development is slight and only assessment work has\been done for some ‘years. MANHATTAN COPPER MINING & MILLING CO. NEVADA

Mine office: Pioche, Lincoln Co., Nev. Hon. A. B. Lewis, pres.; Edw. F. Freudenthal, mgr., at last accounts. Is controlled, through stock owner- ship by the Consolidated Nevada-Utah Corporation, succeeding the Nevada- Utah Mines & Smelters Corporation. Company succeeded the Manhattan Gold & Copper Mining Co.

Lands, 2 groups, 1 east of Pioche and 1 in the Stampede Gap section. The Pioche group includes the Revenue, Telephone and Alps mines, with 100” and 140’ shafts, showing ore assaying well in gold and silver. The Stampede Gap property has auriferous and argentiferous copper and lead sulphides, opened by a shallow shaft and 2 tunnels, with about 2,000’ of underground workings. 7 MANHATTAN DEVELOPMENT CO. MEXICO

Office: Postoffice Blk., Houghton, Mich. Mine near Santa Cruz, So- nora, Mex. A. O. Koppes, supt.; J. H. Rice, pres.; W. G. Rice, sec.-treas. Organized March, 1905, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $200,000 shares $10 par; $5.50 paid in. ae ty

Lands, 37 claims, 600 acres, owned in fee, in the California district near Paradise, Cochise county, carrying upwards of 2 miles of the outcrop of a mineralized zone lying west and north of the holdings of the Chira- cahua Development Co. Development is by several shallow shafts, deepest

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80’, and a 450’ crosscut tunnel, latter showing leached ore and a little high- grade ore, with indications of permanent values at greater depth.

In August, 1913, company purchased the property of the Arnold Min- ing Co., near Santa Cruz, Sonora, for $88,000. This property is developed by a 300’ shaft and has recently been shipping 12% ore to the Cananea smelter. The company’s previous operations have been mainly in the Yaqui region of Sonora. ` MANHATTAN MINING & POWER CO. COLORADO

Mine office: Twin Lakes, Lake Co., Colo. O. P. De Ford, manager, at last accounts. Development is by a 1,400’ tunnel, showing copper and lead ores. Has water-power plant. No returns secured.

Manila Mine. Washington

Office: Keller, Ferry Co., Wash. Farr Bros., owners. Property, the Manila mine with 4 claims, a 20-acre reservoir and mill site, well timbered, with a 20,000’ saw mili at the reservoir, in the San Poil district, 7 miles above the Columbia river and 4 miles west of Ferry, the nearest rail sta- tion. The Manila mine is on the summit of a mountain and shows a large deposit of disseminated chalcopyrite ore estimated to be 70 to 100’ wide, traceable 1,000’.

Development is by tunnels, the oldest 100’ below the apex, another 150’ lower. Mine was under option for $60,000 to the Keller Indiana Co., now bankrupt, which put up a smeiter in 1906, but failed to develop mine and property has supposedly reverted to original owners.

Manitou Hill Copper Co. Arizona

Office: care W. H. Brown, secretary, 110 So. Third St., St. Joseph, Mo. Mine office: Globe, Gila Co., Ariz. A. T. Hammons, pres. and mgr. Or- ganized 1911, capitalization $1,250,000, shares $1 par. Company is a reor- ganization of the Pinto Creek Mining & Smelting Co., and by consolida- tion later acquired the property of the Five Points Copper Mining Co.

Lands, 70 claims, at the head of Pinto creek, about 10 miles southwest of Miami, showing pre-Cambrian schists cut by granite and granite por- phyry. Ore is mainly chalcocite, finely disseminated, and of low-grade generally, though pay streaks carry up to 12% copper with small silver and gold values. `

The Pinto Creek group is developed by the 570" Yo Tambien shaft, showing a fair body of sulphide ore, the 70’ Manitou shaft, and 8 tunnels, 3 longest 2,200’, 2,150’ and 1,100’ long, with upwards of a mile of workings.

The Five Points group, some distance down the valley, is developed by the 150° Solace incline shaft, and the 350’ Crackerjim shaft, sunk 1,500’ apart. Property shows malachite near surface with some azurite and chalcocite at shailow depth.

Equipment includes a small steam plant and hoist at the Five Points mine, a 6-h. p. gasoline hoist, 6-drill air compressor, and a 250-ton con- centrator at the Pinto Creek mine.

Property was in the hands of leasers at last accounts, the company ap- parently having done no work since 1912.

Manitou Mining Co. Michigan

Idle. Office: 12 Ashburton Place, Boston, Mass. Mine near Dela“ ware Mine, Keweenaw Co., Mich. Quincy A. Shaw, pres.; Rodolphe L. Agassiz, vice-pres.; Geo. A. Flagg, sec.-treas.; Jas. MacNaughton, gen. mgr., and Francis L. Higginson, directors. Organized June 26, 1905, under laws of Michigan, capitalization $500,000, shares $25 par.‘ Is controlled, through ownership of the entire stock issue, by the Calumet & Hecla Min- ing Co.

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Montreal and New Jersey mines, the Delaware being the only property on which much work was done in the past, or under the present ownership.

The old Delaware mine, also known as the Conglomerate and Lac La Belle, and now called the Manitou, had about 3,700 acres of mineral lands and upwards of 17,000 acres of miscellaneous lands, with a water frontage of 10 miles on Lake Superior, and the entire frontage on Lac La Belle. This property expended, under various ownerships, about $3,700,000, before passing to the present company. The old Delaware mine, opened on the Allouez conglomerate, has 4 shafts, of 300 to 900’ depth, the Allouez bed underlying the greenstone and dipping northward at an angle of 25° 30’. The old workings were unwatered and found to give a fair showing of copper, and copper was found in the Medora amygdaloid underlying the conglomerate. The Delaware is exhaustively described Vol. II, under title of Pawnee.

Mansfield Mining & Smelting Co. Arizona

Office: 303 Midland Bldg., Kansas City, Mo. Mine office: Patagonia, Santa Cruz Co. Ariz. Frank D. Reasor, pres.; C. E. Sweet, sec.; Chas. L. Cookson, treas.; preceding officers, Herman A. Sutermeister, Harry J. Richards, A. W. Safford, R. W. Peirce, and A. E. White, directors; C. A. Pierce, gen. mgr.

Organized May 26, 1906, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $8,- 000,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable; issued, $7,112,556. Bonds, $100,000

-authorized, at 6%; issued, $95,760. Annual meeting, second Monday in January.

Lands, 34 claims, 660 acres, and a 119-acre townsite at the station of Crittenden, all in the Wrightson district, 9 miles from the Nogales branch of the Southern Pacific railway. Property shows syenite, dacite, andesite and rhyolite tuff, said to show 9 orebodies, of 4 to 30’ estimated width, of which 3, of 6’ estimated average width, carry chalcopyrite, bornite, chalco- cite and tetrahedrite, claimed to average 6% copper, 10 to 20 oz. silver and $4 to $10 gold per ton. The mine is developed by No. 1 shaft, of 360’; No. 2 shaft, of 140’; and 8 shafts of 50 to 100’ each, with 10 tunnels of 100 to 250’ length. The mine is reported to have 6,500” of workings. Equipment includes a 225-h. p. steam plant, with two 40-h. p. hoists and a 6-drill air compressor. There are 9 buildings, including an engine house, smithy, carpenter shop and store.

The smelter, at the mine, completed, 1908, is said to have cost $21,900, and has a 30-ton blast furnace. The smelter is of little or no value, because of its toy size, and is idle. The company, as promoted, was a swindle, described Vol. VIII, and reorganization by the bondholders is in progress. MAPIMI SMELTER. MEXICO

At Santa Barbara, Chihuahua, Mex. Owned by American Smelting & Refining Co.

Marble Bay Mine. British Columbia

On Texada island, Howe sound, B. C. Owned by Tacoma Steel Co. and described thereunder. :

Maricopa Mines Co. Arizona & Nevada

Office: B. of L. E. Bldg., Cleveland, Ohio. Mine offices: Morristown, Maricopa Co., Ariz., and Austin, Lander Co., Nev. L. F. McGrath, pres.; P. J. Meade, sec.; Wm. H. Fowler, treas.; Francis L. Judd, men, at last accounts. Capitalization not reported.

Lands, 33' claims, 611 acres, in 2 groups, principal property being the Nevada group of 17 claims. This property, at Austin, shows 4 fissure veins in quartzite, ranging from 3 to 20’ in width, traceable 1,400’, and said to

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carry average values of about 4% copper, 50 oz. silver and $2.80 gold per ton.

Development is by 4 shafts of 800’, 400’, 320’ and 197’,,and 5 tunnels, O: being 2,000” and 830’, with total underground openings of about

,000*.

The Arizona property, known locally as the Prosperity group, 16 claims, in the Wickenburg district, shows granite and limestone, the ore occurring in fissure veins in porphyry. There are 6 known veins of 8 to 30’ average widths, developed by numerous shafts, 2 principal shafts being 280’ and 320° deep, with about 1,800’ of workings. Ore is mainly chalcocite, claimed by the management to carry average values of 9% copper, 11 oz. silver and $11 gold.

Equipment includes 2 small steam hoists and an air compressor at the Arizona property, and a 75-h. p. gasoline hoist, 2 air compressors, machine shop, carpenter shop, smithy and other necessary mine buildings on the Nevada property.

The concentrator, in New York canyon, near Austin, of 100 tons daily capacity, has a 10x16” Blake crusher, two 36x16” rolls, 9 Card tables, 6 slime tables and a small cyanide plant.

Marion Mines & Mills Co. Colorado

Office: 850 Equitable Bldg., Denver, Colo. Mine office: Fairview, Cus- ter Co., Colo. Company refuses information and has not answered letters from this office. Henry E. McElwain, pres.; Frank Bulkley, vice-pres. and gen. mgr.; Jos. Credlartz, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, John S. McElwain, Holyoke, Mass., and Clarence A. Brandenburg, Denver, directors. Capital- ization $300,000, increased from $200,000, fully paid by $100,005 cash, balance in property. Outstanding debts, Feb. 24, 1913, $52,050.

Property, known as the Greenhorn group, 19 claims, includes the Sam Davis claim, 10 acres, patented, 154 acres held by location, 11 acres under lease and bond and 7 acres mill site, a total of 185 acres mineral land in the Hardscrabble district, Custer county, Colo.

Development is by a tunnel showing a vein of zinciferous copper and lead ore with small gold and silver values. Has water power, air com- pressor and a 100-ton concentrating mill. As the entire copper production of Custer county for 1912 is valued at $353 and the lead produced at $463, the output of the mine has not been large.

Markham Gulch Mining & Milling Co. Utah

Office: Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine office: Bingham Canyon, Salt Lake Co., Utah. Walter J. Orem, general manager, at last accounts. Organized Sept. 29, 1906, under laws of Maine. Is controlled by the Mineral Lands Co., through ownership of entire share capital. Company owns no mines but has a 200-ton concentrator, on the site of the old Red Wing mill. MARQUETTE & ARIZONA MINING CO. ARIZONA

Idle. Office: Marquette, Mich. Mine office: Bisbee, Cochise Co., Ariz. Emil Marks, pres. and gen. mgr.; Jos. J. Wirtz, sec. Organized Dec. 6, 1902, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $500,000, shares $5 par. Lands, 37 claims, 740 acres, overlaid by a heavy conglomerate capping resting on limestone. Mine has a 560’ two-compartment shaft, substantially timbered, passing through limestone showing considerable iron, much of it assaying about $2 gold per ton. There are short north and south drifts, on the 400’ level, and 1 short drift on the 145’ level. Company dormant for many years. MARS CONSOLIDATED CO. ARIZONA

Office: care F. J. Webber, Colorado Springs, Colo. Capitalization not reported. Company is the successor of the Heckley Gold & Copper Mining Co. Lands, 13 claims, in 3 groups, on Copper hill, in the Black Rock dis-

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trict, 6 miles northeast of Wickenburg, Maricopa county, Arizona. Prop- erty shows 3 veins of 6’, 10’ and 25’ claimed average width, developed by a 268’ tunnel, said to carry ore assaying up to 28% copper. Reported to have resumed work early 1913.

Marshall & Russell Gold M., M. & T. Co. Colorado

Idle. Office: 347 West Broad St., Columbus, Ohio. Mine office: Em- pire, Clear Creek Co., Colo. W. A. Miller, pres.; O. N. Marihugh, sec. and gen. mgr., at last accounts. Organized May, 1901, under laws of Colorado, capitalization $8,000,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable; issued, $7,000,000. Lands reported by company as 120 claims, with a 50-acre mill site. Development is by a 5,300’ main tunnel, planned to be driven for 12,000” piercing Miller, Covode and Red Elephant mountains. The tunnel shows veins with auriferous and argentiferous copper ores. Equipment includes water power and 300-ton ore bins.

Martin Mine. California

Mine near Calzona, San Bernardino Co., Cal. W. A. Martin, owner. Property, only slightly developed, shows high-grade auriferous copper ore. MARTIN MINING & POWER CO. COLORADO

Idle. Mine address: Eureka, San Juan Co., Colo. Samuel G. Martin, general-manager, at last accounts. Property, the Tom Moore group, for- merly held by Tom Moore Consolidated Mining Co., and later by Tom Moore Gold Mining Co., latter organized 1907. Property carries veins showing ores with auriferous and argentiferous sulphides of lead, copper and zinc. Equipment includes a hydro-electric plant and a Leyner air compressor.

Martinez Smelter. California

Owned by Mountain Copper Co., Ltd., at Martinez, Contra Costa Go? ¡Gal.

Mary Mining Co. Mexico

Office: 412 Empire Bldg., Pittsburgh, Pa. Mine office: Jesús Maria, Rayón, Chihuahua, Mex. John E. Carnahan, pres.; J. Worth Carnahan, sec.; Todd C. Woodworth, mgr., at last accounts. Capitalization $12,000,000.

Lands, said to be about 8,000 acres, in the Afio Nuevo district, some dis- tance from a railway, including several antigua gold mines, and the Nellie B., Mary and Arichuyvo mines, developed by tunnel showing copper and lead ores, claimed to give average assays of 9.5% copper, with small lead, silver and gold values.

Equipment includes a mill with 20 stamps, completed 1910. Manage- ment planned, several years ago, a 100-ton concentrator and a 125-ton smelter, but failed to build either. Idle.

Mary Verna Mining & Milling Co. Colorado

Mine office: Frisco, Summit Co., Colo. H. T. McAllister, general man- ager, at last accounts. Capitalization $500,000, shares 10 cts. par. Mine on the west slope of Ten Mile range, developed by tunnel, has auriferous and argentiferous copper and lead ores. Equipment includes a small steam plant and a Leyner air compressor. Idle since 1910.

Mascot Copper Co. Arizona

Office: Harris Trust Bldg., Chicago. Mine office: Dos Cabezos, Co- chise- Cos Ariz. .T. N. McCauley, pres.; R. V. Dixon, vice-pres.; J. C. Knapp, sec.; D. S. Stevenson, treas.; C. V. Weston, gen. mgr; preceding officers, Hon Frank K. Mott, J. W. Phillips ahd H. H. Evans, directors; F, L. Sizer, supt.; B. W. Tibby, cons. ener.

Organized July, 1907, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $10,000,000 shares $10 par. '

Lands, 47 claims, 700 acres, about 300 acres being classed as mineral

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lands, in the Dos Cabezos district, 18 miles from a railroad. Company also owns a town site near Dos Cabezos, and miscellaneous other lands, includ- ing 3 placer claims, total holdings aggregating over 1,100 acres.

Property shows limestone near a granitic area, intruded by diorite dikes and quartz porphyry with a covering of rhyolite, on part of the ground. The limestone shows in the lower hills on the south. Granite constitutes the 2 pillars known as Dos Cabezos.

The ore occurs largely in lenses in contact deposits between altered lime and porphyry and generally within a mineralized zone of from 300 to 400’ in width. Ores carry chalcopyrite in a gangue of contact minerals and carry from 3 to 20% copper, the average being 5% copper, with small gold and silver values.

Development is by the 450’ Oregon shaft, and 2 tunnels, longest the 1,800’ Consolidated tunnel, connecting with the shaft at the 4th level. Total underground openings aggregate 18,000’, and ore in sight is estimated at about 500,000 tons. About 15,000’ of diamond drilling has been done in various parts of the property.

Equipment includes a 250-h. p. distillate engine, a 12-drill air com- pressor, machine shop, electric-lighting plant, smithy, telephone system and boarding houses, with a total of about 80 buildings upon the property. About 80 men are employed.

The mine management is good and property is reliably reported as promising, though the company's advertising was lurid and its campaign of stock selling has been very unfavorably regarded in past years. MASCOT MINING CO. ARIZONA

Idle. Office: 1318 Majestic Bldg., Detroit, Mich. Mine office: Willcox, Cochise Co., Ariz. i Christian Kern, pres.; Geo. F. Scheffer, vice-pres.; W. C. Rohns, sec.; J. A. Zahn, treas.; Delos D. Jayne, gen. mgr.; C. W. Court- ney, supt., at last accounts. Organized March, 1905, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par. Company has no connection with the Mascot Copper Co., operating in the same county.

Lands, 35 claims, unpatented, 700 acres, lying about 40 miles northeast of Willcox, in the Clark and Montezuma districts, on the western slope of the Graham mountains, in 4 groups, within 4 miles of each other, show mainly granite with some Carboniferous limestone and frequent intrusive dikes of porphyry and rhyolite. The claims carry veins of 6” to 20’ width, showing copper and lead ores, occasionally with high silver and gold values, principally as malachite, azurite, chalcocite, chalcopyrite and galena, usually with gangue of quartz, but occasionally of decomposed limonite or hematite.

The Gold Cord group of 11 claims shows a vein of 6” to 22’ width, traceable 2,000’, opened to depth of 107’, with about 1,300’ of workings. Ores are highly auriferous copper sulphides, assaying 1 to 3% copper only, with gold values up to $90 per ton. Equipment at the Gold Cord includes a 30-h. p. boiler, pumps and a hoist.

The Iron Bell group of 9 claims, 314 miles from the Gold Cord, carries a 3’ vein opened by a 100’ shaft showing ore assaying 1 to 15% copper and about 1 oz. gold per ton.

The President group of 3 claims, about 114 miles from the Gold Cord, shows both porphyry and granite, in which there is a fissure vein of 3 to # width, having auriferous silver-lead ore, with quartz gangue, developed by a 130’ shaft. Ore is said to concentrate 10 into 1.

The Republic group of 2 claims, 2 miles from the Gold Cord, shows a vein of 4 to 22’ reported width, having low-grade ore carrying lead, silver and gold,

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Buildings include an engine house, smithy, boarding house and bunk house. There is a 2-stamp mill. Second-grade ore, of $20 estimated aver- age value per ton, is milled to $140 concentrates, which are shipped, in connection with first-grade ore carrying 7 to 9% copper and up to 2 oz. gold per ton. Company not favorably regarded.

Mascota Copper Co. Mexico

Office: 513 Germania Life Bldg., St. Paul, Minn. Mine office: Ameca, Jalisco, Mex. Chris. D. O’Brien, Sr., pres.; J. M. Bowler, vice-pres.; Byron J. Mosier, sec.-treas.; Chris. D. O’Brien, Jil; gen. mgr., at last accounts. Organized June, 1908, under laws of Arizona, as successor of Independence Mining & Smelting Co., capitalization $1,500,000, shares $1 par.

Lands, 46 hectares, said to include an antigua mine, are in the Guachinango division of the Mascota district, 24 miles from the Mexican

Central line. The claims show an 8’ fissure vein in porphyry, said to be trace- '

able about 2,000’ and proven to depth of 486’. The ore is reported to aver- age 5% copper, 7 oz. silver and 6 grams gold per ton.

Development includes a 300’ shaft and a 375’ tunnel, with 4,825’ of workings, estimated to show 40,000 tons of ore, with 28,000 tons blocked out for stoping.

Equipment includes a 50-h. p. steam plant, with 3-drill Sullivan air compressor. There are 17 mine buildings. The reduction plant includes a 25-ton wooden stamp mill, with 10 Allis-Chalmers gravity stamps, and a small concentrator, equipped with 2 Overstrom tables, a vanner, 4 slime tables and a sizer.

Mascota, S. A.; Negociación Minera. Mexico

Office: Ap. 840, Mexico, D. F. Mine office: Tequisistlán, Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, Mex. Emilio Maevers, pres.; Max von Duering, vice-pres.; Fran- cisco Ponce de León, sec.-treas.; Rodolfo W. Batelt, gen. mer. Organized Nov. 5, 1906, under laws of Mexico, capitalization 300,000 pesos, shares 50 pesos par, divided into 2,000 free and 4,000 assessable shares. Has levied $40,000 assessments.

Property, 262 hectares, in the San Carlos Yautepec mineral district, shows a 5’ vein carrying chalcopyrite and tetrahedrite, said to give aver- age assays of 9.5% copper, 30 oz. silver and $5 gold per ton. Development is by tunnel 400’ long, at last report. Nearest railway is the National Tehuantepec, 50 kilometers distant. Equipment includes a steam plant, and a 4-drill air compressor.

Mason Valley Extension Mining Co. Nevada

Idle several years. Office: 300 Herald Bldg., Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine address: Mason, Lyon Co., Nev. C. W. Reese, pres.; A. G. Gutheil, vice-pres. and gen. mgr.; R. S. Wimmer, sec.-treas., at last accounts. Or- ganized 1907, under laws of Utah, capitalization $100,000, shares 10 cts. par, assessable; issued, $86,700. Annual meeting, second Monday in May.

Lands, 14 claims, patented, 201 acres, showing limestone, porphyry and granite, carrying fissure veins and contact deposits between limestone and porphyry, developed by shafts and tunnels with about 1,000’ of work- . ings.

Mason Valley Mines Co. Nevada

Office: 14 Wall St, New York. Mine office: Thompson, Lyon Co. Nev. W. H. Aldridge, pres.; Frank W. Holmes, vice-pres.; H. F, Fs Knob- loch, sec.; Henry E. Dodge, treas.; preceding officers, Wm. B. Thompson John F. Alvord and W. Mont Ferry, directors; Jules Labarthe, gen. mer $ W. J. Cox, mine supt.; A. J. McNab, smelter supt.; C. A. Bovett, mg. ener. C. O. Kamm, purch. agt. 3

Organized Jan. 4, 1907, under laws of Maine, as successor of the Mason

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MASON VALLEY MINES CO. 561 Valley Copper Co., capitalization $2,500,000, shares $5 par; increased March 14, 1910, from $1,000,000, shares $1 par; issued $777,750. ' Bonded debt is $984,500 in authorized $1,000,000 first mortgage, 10-year, 6% gold bonds in $500 bonds convertible previous to April, 1915, into stock on the basis of $10 per share and redeemable on 31 days notice at 102% and accrued in- terest.

The mortgage securing the bond issue contains a sinking fund pro- vision, by which the company is required to pay to the trustee within 60 days after Jan. 1, each year, beginning 1912, 20 cts. for each net dry ton of ore treated during the year preceding, with a provision whereby the sinking fund payments may be reduced proportionately, as outstanding bonds are retired. The directors were authorized by vote of shareholders, March 14, 1910, to issue any part of the treasury stock for acquisition of additional property. Annual report of Dec. 31, 1912, gave cash on hand $160,841, and total current assets as $418,540, with current liabilities $274,- 514. Net profits for first half of 1913 were $118,068. Guaranty Trust Co., New York, and United States Trust Co., Boston, registrars. Bankers Trust Co., New York, and Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Co., transfer agents. Shares listed on Boston and Salt Lake stock exchanges.

Property, 7 claims, patented, 140 acres and a fractional claim of 10 acres, known as the Sprage mine, lyine south of the Bluestone and about 1% miles west of Mason. Company also owns a smelter and 1,320-acre smelter site near the railway; also 320 acres of ranch lands. Property shows a strong outcrop with north-south strike, being a contact deposit between limestone and andesite, partly covered! by rhyolitic tuffs. The latter rocks are comparatively soft and have been eroded into steep escarpments and sharp gulches. Ore occurs as a contact deposit making big replacement masses in iimestone of 30’ average width. Surface ore is mainly malachite with a little cuprite, succeeded, at about 100’ depth, by cupriferous pyrite, largely massive, with copper in the form of chalco- pyrite. The mine is said to have some ore averaging 10% copper but the average tenor is about 3.5% copper. An average analysis shows 16 to 17% iron, 16 to 18% lime, 12% sulphur and 38% silica.

Considerable bluestone was produced from this property for the mines of the Comstock lode, 1870-75, and a record of over 1,000 tons of selected ore shipped from surface pits gives an average of better than 30% copper.

Development is by tunnels and upraises. The workings reach a depth of 550’ and cover 1,000’ of the strike of the main contact deposit. In addi- tion to the main orebody, known locally as the west vein, there is an ap- parently independent orebody. The main orebody has been proven for 18 to 120’ in width, with an average of probably about 30. Though the ore as a whole is low-grade, there are occasional high-grade shoots, 1 of which, up to 20’ in width carried ore assaying 15 to 65% copper. Sub-levels have been driven at 12 to 15’ above the main levels and some winzes have been sunk to depth of 50 to 75. Drill holes have shown the existence of good sulphide ore to depth of 485’ below the mine workings.

No. 1 tunnel is a crosscut driven through garnetiferous limestone and intersecting the vein about 250’ from the portal at depth of 100’, the vein being about 20’ wide, dipping east and carrying chalcopyrite-garnet ore.

The No. 2 tunnel cuts the vein with a back of 200’ and shows an ore- body of about 35’ width, carrying high-grade ore. An intermediate level, between tunnels Nos. 1 and 2, shows the vein to have a total width of 90’ at one point with ore up to about 10% in copper tenor.

No. 3 tunnel, of 2,100’ length, cuts the vein at depth of about 350, proving 45’ of ore for 230” length as an orebody separate and entirely dis-

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tinct from the main contact vein. This orebody carries some cuprite and native copper and averaged 5% copper. s

No. 4 tunnel, of 2,600” length, is connected with No. 3 by a 140' upraise © and cuts a vein of about 25’ average width proven by drifts and crosscuts on this level to have an extreme width of about 130’.

No. 5, the bottom tunnel, gives a back of about 600’ on the vein and is connected with workings above by an upraise. Work on this level en- countered an oxidized zone, quite thoroughly leached of values.

The mine has developed a very considerable tonnage of low-grade car- bonate and sulphide ores, with a smaller quantity of high-grade ores. Actual development work was begun March, 1907, and workings aggregated 16,527’ on Dec. 31, 1912.

Mining equipment includes 2 electric air compressors, with total ca- pacity for 18 drills, a 50-h. p. motor generator set, and a 7x10” duplex hoist, in the No. 4 tunnel. No large hoists are required, owing to the present plan of development by tunnels.

A 6,250’ tramway, with drop of 600’, of 100 tons hourly capacity, connects the mine with the Copper Belt railway, which line connects with the company’s smelter 16 miles distant.

The smelter, built at a cost of approximately $600,000, and blown in Jan. 6, 1912, is about 2% miles from Wabuska, on the Southern Pacific rail- way and about 16 miles from the mine. The plant consists of a sampling mill for custom ores, extensive storage bins for ore, coke and fluxes, a blast-furnace building, with two 44x300” blast furnaces, of 1,000 tons daily capacity, a sintering plant, power house, machine shop, plate shop, smithy and carpenter shop. The blast furnace has a 200’ brick chimney with inside diameter of 16’. Two stands of 12’ converters, of the Great Falls type, are to be installed.

The smelter treated from 580 to 630 tons of ore daily in the autumn of 1913, much of it silicious ore with precious-metal contents. The smelter has been in operation 18 months and produced 25,000,000 Ibs. of copper, of which 8,625,000 lbs. were produced in the first half of 1913, compared with 8,224,000 lbs. for the same period in 1912. d

The company does considerable custom smelting and received and smelted 146,530 tons of ore from Goldfield and over 150 shippers in 29 different mining districts in Nevada and California during 1912. The out- put of its own mines totalled 98,912 tons and the production of fine copper,

1912, was 16,058,496 lbs. and about 18,000,000 lbs. in 1913.

Mine considered promising, though rather small for so large a com- pany, but management is good and smelter bound to receive a big custom business, as the prospects of the region are developed. At present the smelter earnings are small, owing to the failure of the mining companies to supply the ore contracted for.

Masonic Mountain Gold Mining Co. California

Office: Carson City, Nev. Mine near Masonic, Mono Co., Cal. F. E. Garrett, pres.; Wm. H. Paul, sec.-treas., at last accounts. Organized Jan. 25, 1906, under laws of Nevada, capitalization $1,250,000, shares $1 par.

Lands, 7 claims, unpatented, in the Masonic district, Mono county, Cal., 70 miles from a railway. The claims show fissure veins in granite and porphyry, reported to range 3 to 30’ in width and to be traceable 1,500’. The veins have oxidized ores and occasional native copper, giving assays of 1 to 18% copper and $4 to $30 gold per ton. Development is by shafts of 187’, 50’ and 100’, and tunnels of 600’ and 50’, with about 1,500’ of workings,

showing considerable ore. Equipment includes a 25-h. p. gasoline hoist. Presumably idle. ,

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Mass Consolidated Mining Co. Michigan

Office: 79 Milk St., Boston, Mass. Mine office: Mass, Ontonagon Co., Mich. John W. Linnell, pres.; Theo. O. Nicholson, vice-pres.; Wilfred A. Bancroft, sec.-treas.; Elton W. Walker, supt:; preceding officers, Francis L. Maguire, Wm. F. Fitzgerald, Jas. B. Hill, D. Allison Carrick and Fred J. Schultheis, directors; F. W. Sperr, cons. engr.; E. Fenner Douglass, mill supt.; Wm. J. Niness, mg. capt.; Jos. Bice, master mechanic.

Organized 1899, under laws of Michigan, capitalization $2,500,000, shares $25 par; issued, 97,317 shares; paid in $23; $8 paid on organization, balance in 10 installments; last assessment $2, levied May, 1911. Report for year 1912 shows $348,070 received for copper and $335,673 spent on mining devel- opment and other expenses, with cash balance for year of $13,681, or total surplus of $30,710. Assets are valued at $142,031 and liabilities, etc., at $132,684.

Company was mining 350 to 400 tons a day, carrying between 18 and 20 Ibs. of refined copper per ton when closed down by the labor strike in July, 1913.

Lands, about 5,500 acres, lying in a very irregular but fairly compact tract, in Secs. 33, 34 and 35, T. 51 N., R. 38 W., in Secs. 4,5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 16, T. 50 N., R. 38 W., and in Sec. 1, T. 50 N., R. 39 W., holdings being bounded on the north by the Union, Adventure and farm lands, on the east by the Adventure and, Toltec, on the south by the Flint Steel and the Knowlton mine of the Adventure, and on the west by the Flint Steel, Adventure and St. Mary's Mineral Land Co. Holdings include 4 old mines, the Ridge, Evergreen, Mass and Ogima, also 2 old prospects, the Merrimac and Hazard, joint production of which, under previous managements, was 11,- 131,023 lbs. fine copper. The Ridge mine, operated 1850-74, made 5,134,449 lbs. copper and paid dividends of.$100,000. The old Mass mine, opened 1856 and worked intermittently until 1886, secured a total output of 5,014,266 Ibs. copper, and the Ogima, opened 1860 and closed 1868, made 982,308 Ibs. copper. The Merrimac and Hazard were early-day explorations without recorded production. These 5 properties are described, in detail, in Vol. II.

The Mass tract carries 6 of the 7 cupriferous amygdaloidal beds of the Evergreen belt, these varying greatly in width from point to point but aver- aging about 10’, with a sharp bend in their strike, which varies from N. 32° E., on the north, to N. 37° E. at the southern boundary. The dip of the beds varies from 38° at the Ridge to 47° at the old Mass mine. The copper- bearing beds of the Evergreen belt on the lands of the Mass Consolidated are as follows, from north to south:

1. Knowlton. Carries heavy copper and stamp rock.

2. Mass. Lies 140’ south of the Knowlton, and carries a little heavy copper and stamp rock.

3. orth Butler. Lies about 75” south of the Mass bed, is wide and fairly mineralized in places.

4. Butler. Lies about 200’ south of the North Butler, is 12’ to 35’ wide, carrying mainly stamp copper with occasional masses.

5. Ogima. Lies about 100’ south of the Butler. Carries mainly stamp copper with some barrel-work, being 5 to 10’ wide and showing some good ground. 5

6. Evergreen or Ridge. Lies about 250’ south of the Ogima and is 1 of the best beds of the property, ranging 4 to 40’ in width and usually being richest where widest. Is very bunchy but shows some excellent stopes yielding heavy copper and stamp-rock of good grade.

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green belt and brings the number of cupriferous, beds to 7, corresponding with the number in the adjoining Adventure property, lies about 120’ under the Evergreen bed and was opened by crosscuts from “A” shaft on the 15th and 18th levels. The bed averages about 12’ in width carrying considerable epidote and is very showy, but the copper is exceedingly fine, most of it being of a flaky nature, very deceptive to the eye. A mill test of the rock from this bed, 1909, gave a recovery of only 18 lbs. of mineral per ton.

Development work in 1912 was confined to the Butler and Evergreen lodes.

The Mass has openings on all of its copper-bearing beds, and rock is hoisted through the nearest shaft, all workings on each level being con- nected by crosscuts. The Mass carries the outcrop of the copper-bearing beds of the Evergreen belt for about 114 miles. Shafts “A” and “B” are connected on the Butler lode down to and including the 10th level. The mine as a whole is notably rich in mass copper and carries silver values, but the ground is exceedingly bunchy, ranging from very rich to absolutely barren. Considerable rock selection is made underground and culls used for filling. Under the new management a system of rock assorting was put into operation, 1910, resulting in bringing the average contents of stamp rock to about 16 Ibs. per ton. It is possible, in the case of this and many other mines similarly situated having large bodies of bunchy ore, to secure a low tonnage cost at the price of very low average extraction, or to secure high copper returns at the price of unduly high working costs per ton. About 50% of the rock broken is being selected and about 25% of the re- covery is now in mass copper. The mine was working 25 drills, Dec., 1912, and a single mass of copper weighing 16,900 Ibs. was secured May, 1910.

“A” shaft, 1,757’ deep, with 2 compartments, formerly known as the Ridge No. 3 shaft, is sunk on the Evergreen bed and connected with the Butler bed by crosscuts on several levels.” The Evergreen bed in this shaft runs 8 to 10’ in width, showing considerable rock of good grade. This shaft has been abandoned.

“B” shaft, 875’ southwest of “A,” has 3 compartments, and is bottomed at 1,857’. Levels are at variable intervals, the old workings having 60° levels, while some of the newer levels, at the bottom of the mine, are 135’ apart. Levels at considerable intervals permit a large saving in drifting through poor ground and sub-levels can be run where needed. The major portion of the workings have been opened on the Evergreen, but the Butler bed has been reached by crosscuts, on different levels, and shows some good stopes, while the North Butler supplies some fair stamp and barrel copper. The Knowlton bed has been opened also, by a crosscut on the 7th level, showing some good stamp rock and considerable heavy copper. The chief production comes, however, from .the Evergreen, a strong amygdaloidal bed with plainly-defined walls and a dip of 43°, having some good stopes of 20 to 25’ width. The Evergreen. in this shaft, while exceedingly bunchy, carrying occasional stretches of almost barren ground, has developed some large stopes that were both wide and rich.

In 1912 development work at this shaft was west on the 600’ and 800’ levels, where the Evergreen lode showed an increased width of milling ore.

“C” shaft, 2,148’ southwest of “B,” with collar 100’ higher, was bot- tomed on the 13th level, at the beginning of 1913. This is the old Ogima -shaft, cut down, retimbered and deepened, and is sunk on the Butler bed, which makes a fair copper showing. The Evergreen bed tributary to “C” shaft is opened by a 400’ crosscut on the 5th level. Some high-grade ground was opened in the 3rd, 5th, 7th and 9th levels west on the Butler bed during 1912. The company has centered work upon the Butler openings, though

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some work was done also on the Ogima and Knowlton beds, tributary to “C” shaft, in 1910, results on the whole being promising.

“D” shaft, 1,800’ southwest of “C? was sunk only 150’ and has been idle for some years.

There are a number of old shafts, the 450’ main shaft of the old Mass mine proper having 7 levels opened on the Knowlton bed. This was pumped out, 1901, and the showing pronounced satisfactory. The Ogima bed has been opened at several points by crosscuts from “A” and “B” shafts and was found bunchy though showing occasional good stopes.

Considerable diamond drilling has been done, largely in 1909, south from the Evergreen bed into the horizon traversed by the so-called Ad- venture lodes, cut by diamond drilis on the Adventure property, and also north of the Knowlton bed. Diamond drilling was done, 1910, in the N. E. % of Sec. 5, to test amyedaloidal and conglomerate strata outcrop- ping at that point, which is quite a distance under the hypothetical horizon of the so-called Adventure lodes, with distance to the eastern sandstone undetermined.

The shaft rock hotise at “B” is equipped with a steam hammer, Blake crusher and a 12x24” Nordberg engine. “C” shaft has a new steel shaft rock house. Both rock houses have been equipped with devices permitting . automatic handling of rock.

The central power house, 48x150', has a 24x48” Allis-Chalmers duplex hoist with 10’ 6” drums having 11’ faces, grooved for 114” cable, good for one-half mile depth. The power plant includes a 50-drill Rand 2-stage cross-compound air compressor, a 75-kw. dynamo for electric light, and two 250-h. p. Stirling water-tube boilers.

In addition to the usual mine buildings, there are about 60 good dwellings. The company also has a town’ site, Mass City, which is the terminus of the Mineral Range railroad, and a station on the C., M. & St. P. railway, the village having a considerable population, with a number of hotels and business houses.

The Mass mill is at Keweenaw bay, on an arm of Lake Superior, at the junction on the Mineral Range and Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic railways, 16 miles south of Houghton and 34 miles northeast of the mine, with ample sand room, deep water, and immunity from heavy seas. The 90x232" mill, built by the Wisconsin Bridge € Iron Co., is of steel frame on stone foundations. Equipment includes 2 Nordberg stamps, having vertical mortar grates supplied with automatic hydraulic cleaning devices. Each head has a nominal stamping capacity of about 525 tons daily, in- creased to 700 tons daily by the addition of rolls.

The 30x60 mill boiler house contains one 350-h. p. and two 200-h. p. Stirling water-tube boilers. Ashes and cinders are washed into the lake through a launder. i l

The 40x70’ pump house has a 16,000,000-gal. Nordberg vertical pump, fed from a 12x30’ well, with bottom 6’ 6” below mean water level, connected with a tunnel running 300’ under the bed of the bay to the intake.

A 1,000’ wharf, serving also as a breakwater, has 18” of clear water at its end, and is equipped with 3 towers and derricks, capable of unloading coal vessels at the rate of 900 tons daily. Coal is taken from the wharf, in 3-ton cars, by a 14x20” hoist, to a 1,500’ storage trestle of 20,000 tons capacity.

In his report the consulting engineer, F. W. Sperr, recommends doub- ling the rate of production, estimating that the production cost per pound of copper would then be: mining, 4.534 cts.; surface expense, 1.384 cts.; general expense, 0.074 cts.; taxes and insurance, 0.19 cts.; freight, 1.15 cts.;

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stamp-milling, 1.61 cts.; development, 1 ct.; a total of 9.934 cts. per pound. The development work during the year was highly satisfactory, 352,100 tons having been added to the reserves, making the net total, Dec. 31, 1912, ` 727,000 tons.

Production was begun 1899, with an output of 42,800 lbs. fine copper, gradually increased to the high-water mark of 2,576,447 lbs. in 1903, de- creasing thereafter, through loss of the Evergreen bed. Recent production has been as follows: 2,007,950 Ibs. fine copper in 1905; 2,106,677 lbs. in 1906; 2,078,677 lbs. in 1907; 1,766,930 Ibs. in 1908; 1,723,436 lbs. in 1909; 1,321,885 lbs. in 1910; 1,326,898 lbs. in 1911; 2,045,006 Ibs. in 1912.

The Mass Consolidated has had to cope with almost every sort of mis- fortune that befalls mines, but, through the acquisition of the Evergreen Bluff property, has been placed in better mining position than ever before and the experience of 14 years has given a very thorough knowledge of the vagaries and possibilities of the 7 cupriferous beds of the Evergreen belt. All of these are somewhat bunchy, but 2 of the number are of real promise, these being the Evergreen and Butler. It is probable that several of the 5 other beds can be worked occasionally, owing to their contiguity to the 2 beds named, but the future of the mine rests upon results to be secured from the Evergreen and Butler beds. Given extensive openings, which the mine never has had, permitting a large production, combined with judicious selection of rock, such as is now being made, the Mass has very fair prospects of making a payable, though not a rich mine. There also is the possibility of locating and developing other and richer beds to the southward of the main workings, in the horizon of the Lake and Ad- venture beds. The management is thoroughly progressive and experienced. MASSACHUSETTS CONSOLIDATED COPPER CO. CALIFORNIA

N. E. Guyot, superintendent, Red Bluff, Tehama Co., Cal. Property, the Tom Head mine, shows a deposit of copper ore developed by shaft. Equipped with steam power.

Massey Station Mining Co., Ltd. Ontario

Office: 57 Home Life Bldg., Toronto, Ont. Mine near Massey, Ont. Wallace Nesbitt, pres.; S. H. P. Pell, vice-pres.; Britton Osler, sec.; pre- ceding officers, Robt. Means Thompson and Miss I. M. Innes, directors. Organized April 24, 1901, under laws of Ontario, capitalization $300,000, shares $100 par, nonassessable; fully issued. Company is said to have ex- pended about $300,000 on development and equipment.

Property, 840 acres, crown granted, including 480 acres timber land, in Salter township, Sudbury district, about 3 miles from a railway. Lands show, schist and quartzite carrying lenticular orebodies in east-west zones with 75° dip. There are 3 parallel lenses, 2 developed averaging 10’ in width in an ore zone traceable about a mile. Ore carries finely disseminated chalcocite and gray copper ores in' quartzose gangue changing in depth to bornite and that in turn to chalcopyrite, estimated by management to aver- E to 5% copper and $1 to $2 gold per ton, with about 50,000 tons in sight.

Development is by a 600’ shaft with levels at 100’ intervals, opened for lengths of 50 to 150”. There is also a 150’ tunnel about a mile from the main shaft. Í

Equipment includes a 200-h. p. steam and electric plant, with 6x8” and 10x12” Lidgerwood hoists, and a 6-drill Ingersoll-Rand air compressor. There are 15 buildings, including shops, warehouse and office.

- The ore not being adapted to wet concentration, owing to excessive sliming, a 50-ton experimental mill has been built, using the Elmore vacuum oil flotation process, with Blake and centrifugal crushers and 3 Jenckes and

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Wilfley tables. Property closed down in 1909 owing to failure of mill to make expenses. MATEHUALA SMELTER. MEXICO M Owned by American Smelting & Refining Co., at Matehuala, SL.P., ex. MAVERICK COPPER CO. ARIZONA Mine office: Florence, Pinal Co., Ariz. Geo. Lobb and Eugene Wood- bury, managers. Property, known as the Iron Spring mine. Claims show a strong outcrop, carrying finely disseminated chalcocite, with some oxides, carbonates and a little native copper, estimated to average 3% copper. De- velopment is by a shallow shaft and a number of prospect pits and shafts. Annual assessment work only has been done since 1910, when the Copper Queen Co. relinquished its $100,000 bond on the group. MAY COPPER CO. ARIZONA Mine address: Goddards, via Bumble Bee P. O., Yavapai Co., Ariz. Property in Tip Top district at mouth of Black Canyon creek, 50 miles north of Phoenix. Claims show a copper deposit near the Harris Copper Co.’s holdings. Developing by a 100’ shaft in 1913. MAY MINING CO. ARIZONA Idle. Office: Sidney, Ohio. Mine office: Mayer, Yavapai Co., Ariz. M. L. Heffelman, pres. and gen. mer.; J. D. Barnes, sec.-treas., at last ac- counts. Organized 1902, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $200,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable. Bonds, $50,000 authorized, partly ‘issued. Property, the May and Malcolm claims, 40 acres, patented, 3 miles south of Mayer, in the Big Bug district. Lands show a 13’ fissure vein in schist and a bedded deposit between sericitic and quartz schists of 150 estimated width, carrying sulphide ore, estimated by company to average 3% copper. Development is by shafts of 237’ and 205’, equipment including a 50-h. p. steam hoist, with 3 buildings. MAYER CONSOLIDATED MINING CO. ARIZONA Mine office: Mayer, Yavapai Co., Ariz. E. F. Miller, sec.-treas.; Louis D. Hall, gen. mgr., at last accounts. Organized 1910, as successor of Pittsburg-Mayer Mining Co. Lands, 5 claims, 3/4 miles east of Mayer, in the Big Bug district, show fissure veins in schist carrying auriferous copper ore, developed by a vertical shaft of 175’ depth. Equipment includes gaso- Mine power. Presumably idle. MAYER MINING & MILLING CO. ARIZONA Office: Mayer, Yavapai Co., Ariz. John Malm, superintendent. Organ- ized June 1, 1910, as successor of Rigby Mining & Reduction Co. Com- pany owns a custom smelter, on a 70-acre site, near Mayer, connected with the Prescott € Eastern railway by a 3,000’ spur. The smelter, planned to operate on the Poehle € Croasland volatilization process, was fully de- scribed Vol. VIII, under title of Rigby Mining & Reduction Co. Several smelter tests were made and pronounced satisfactory, but neither this

company nor its predecessor has done any commercial smelting. Idle several years and presumably out of business. MAYFLOWER MINING CO. MICHIGAN

Office: 705 Sears Bldg., Boston, Mass. Mine office: Houghton, Hough- ton Co., Mich. Chas. J. Paine, Jr., pres.; Harry F. Fay, Geo. E. Clarkson, A. L. Dickerman, F. W. Nichols and Geo. P. Gardner, directors; Arthur E. Coe, sec.-treas.; Geo. S. Goodale, supt. Organized 1899, under laws of Michigan, capitalization $2,500,000, shares $25 par; $9 paid. St. Mary's Min- eal Land Co. owns 25,000 shares of the capital stock. Company had $58,259.67 cash on hand, Jan. 1, 1913. Expenses were $41,966.22 in 1912. An- nual meeting, third Wednesday in March.

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Property, 840 acres in the heart of the copper range, between the Kear- sarge and Old Colony mines and east of the South Kearsarge and Wolverine mines. Lands comprise Secs. 7 and 8, T. 56 N., R. 32 W. Prospecting, begun in 1899, was continued 5 years. No. 1, or Faull shaft, 400’ deep, has considerable drifting on the 1st and 2nd levels and a crosscut opens 2 par- allel cupriferous amygdaloids, showing occasional patches of copper, but nothing of promise.

No. 2, or Isle Royale shaft, 160’ deep, has several hundred feet of drift- ing and shows a bunchy amygdaloid, 10 to 12’ wide. carrying more or less copper in a 2’ streak next to the hanging wall.

No. 3, or Sandstone shaft, is 60’ deep, in a soft and badly broken amygdaloid, all of the strata near the eastern sandstone being much disturbed.

No; 4 shaft, 580’ deep, starts from surface on an unnamed amygdaloid, lying approximately 2,000’ east of the Kearsarge bed and at a depth of 425’ runs into a parallel amygdaloid lying 90’ to the eastward of the first bed. The copper showing is poor.

A fairly complete geological cross-section was obtained by diamond-

“ drill borings and exploratory work was resumed July, 1909, after 3 years’ idleness. Up to date, 33 holes have been put down which, together with the holes on the Old Colony tract, prove up a big and well mineralized amygdaloid bed, called the Mayflower lode, for a distance of 2,000’ and a depth of 1,500. The lode lies on the extreme eastern side of the copper range, near the Eastern sandstone.

Thirteen holes on the Mayflower and 10 on the Old Colony ground showed commercial ore; hole No. 20 showed 101” of 1.65% rock; hole No. 22, nearby, showed 100’ of 1.2% copper ore, 60” of which carried 1.9%; holes Nos. 16 and 17, in this locality, showed 87’ and 95’ widths. A new shaft is to be started 500’ west of hole No. 20, near the Old Colony bound- ary line.

Mayo Mining Co. Mexico

Idle. Mine near Jesús Maria, Chihuahua, Mex. John E. Carnalian, mer.; Carlos Smythe, supt., at last accounts. Capitalization $1,000,000. Isa twin of the Mary Mining Co. Lands, said to be 3 mines, carrying argentifer- ous and auriferous copper ore. Shut down several years, but taxes said to be paid. MAZAPIL COPPER CO., LTD. MEXICO

Office: 47 Peter St., Manchester, England. Mine address: Aptdo: 64, Saltillo, Coahuila, Mex. Percy E. O. Carr, gen. mer.; Alfred Crewdson, chairman; Wm. Andrew. Aitchison, John Seacome Burrows, W. A. R. Heaven, Jacob Higson, Chas. Hopkinson, Wm. Jones and Jas. Wm. Purcell, directors; W. Hickie, gen. mine supt.; C. R. H. Blythe, engr. Organized Feb. 18, 1891, and reorganized April 21, 1896, under laws of Great Britain, capitalization increased, 1903, to £300,000, shares £10 par, and again in- creased, -1912, to £500,000, shares £1 par; issued, £422,490. Debentures, £120,000, at 6%. Has paid several dividends: 20% in 1910; 20% and a 5% bonus in 1911; 10% (interim) Sept. 28, 1912; also a bonus of 5 shares of stock for every £10 original share.

Accounts for 1911 show a net profit of £110,294 with £28,504 surplus from, previous year, making total of £138,798. Dividends absorbed £70,145, mines purchase, £2,465, and directors fees, £1,500, leaving a balance of £64,419, Reserve fund, £196,660. The company is a private concern and does not care to give details concerning its mining operations. Company owns and operates the Coahuila and Zacatecas railway, running from Sal-

- tillo to Concepción del Oro, 2 smelters and various mines, employing be-

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MAZATAN—MAZATZAL 569 tween 3,000 and 4,000 men. Operations were suspended June, 1913, by the Mexican revolution.

Property, about 2,000 hectares of mineral land in 4 principal groups. The Aranzazú and Cabrestante mines, carrying copper ores, are the most important; the San Elijio, Naranja, Cajón, San Francisco and Protrero mines, carrying silver-lead ores, and the Promontorio group, producing mainly fluxing ores, with some ore of 25 to 45% copper tenor, with good gold values. There also are other groups, known as the Salaverna and San Pedro mines. Copper ores occur in irregular masses, in limestone, near granite-porphyry contacts.

The various mines of the company have 83 different shafts and tunnels, many of which are small and worthless, remaining from old operations, with upwards of 25 miles of workings. The Aranzazú mine is developed by a 1,600-meter tunnel, starting from Concepción del Oro and tapping the vein at depth of 500 meters, 200 meters below the old workings, serving the triple purpose of developing new ore reserves, draining the mines, and furnishing water needed for the mill.

The smelters are at Concepción del Oro and Saltillo. The first named, of about 500 tons daily capacity, has 4 copper furnaces. The. Saltillo smelter, built 1906, has a lead plant of 300 'tons daily capacity and does.a general custom business, as well as treating ores of the company. There are 4 blast furnaces, 1 reverberatory furnace and a converter department with 4 stands. Equipment includes electric power, with a. c. generators direct- connected to 2 Harrison-Fleming Corliss tandem-compound condensing air compressors.

Transportation is by 4 aerial trams, 1 connecting the Aranzazú mine with the smelter, being of 7 kilometers length with 23 metric tons hourly capacity, built by Ropeways, Ltd. The San Pedro group ships silver-lead ore by rail.

The concentrator, at the mines, is of 150 tons rated daily capacity, but the district is arid and operations have been hampered frequently by short- age of water, though the water supply has been supplemented by the driving of the Aranzazú tunnel. A Minerals Separation plant to treat the complex lead, zinc, silver, pyrite ore was installed in 1912.

The Ferrocarril Coahuila y Zacatecas has 75 miles of main line. Pro- duction, 1912, was 13,556,208 lbs. copper, 15,024,485 lbs. lead, 8,463,536 Ibs. zine, 1,572,012 oz. silver and 15,560 oz. gold.

Mazatan Copper & Gold Mining Co. Mexico

Office: 60 State St., Boston, Mass. Mine office: La Colorada, Sonora, Mex. R. C. Jacobs, sec.; Dudley M. Bell, gen. mgr. Capitalization $2,000,- 000, shares $5 par. Title to property is held through the Mazatan Mining (Gore: A.

Lands, 100 hectares, 246 acres, 17 miles west of Soyopa, on the west side of the Yaqui river valley and western slope of Rodriguez mountain, district of Hermosillo. The property shows 4 distinct veins in granite, sur- face ores being mainly azurite and malachite with occasional masses of chalcocite occurring in seams and kidneys in the vein matter. Orebodies vary from 3 to 12’ in width. Values are mainly in gold and are said to average $4 to $5 per ton.

Development is by 4 shallow shafts, 3 tunnels and numerous open cuts, all openings with one exception, being in the oxidized zone.

The property was fully reported on by S. H. Parsons, E. M., Jan. 1911. MAZATZAL COPPER CO. ARIZONA

Idle, Office: Jerome, Ariz. Jos. J. Shaw, pres. and gen, mgr.; E, A,

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Macpherson, sec.-treas., at last accounts. Organized Jan. 6, 1907, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,500,000, shares $5 par.

Lands, 24 claims, 420 acres, and a 5-acre mill site, about 12 miles east of Fossil creek, and 9 miles from Payson, in the Tonto basin, in a district very difficult of access, about midway between Jerome and the Roosevelt dam, and 80 miles northwest of Globe, from which point the property 1s best reached, at present.

The property shows a shear zone of about 35’ average width, said to be traceable 3,000’ by outcrops carrying copper carbonates and occasional sul- phides. This ore zone has a porphyry footwall and slate hanging, carrying a series of lenses with cuprite, azurite and malachite, succeeded by sulphide copper ores, with a small stringer of argentiferous galena. Development is by a 40’ shaft and 3 tunnels, each over 400’ long, said to show a 22’ pay- streak of sulphide ore, assaying 16 to 21% copper. Ores as a whole have been estimated to average 5.5% copper, 3% lead, 2 oz. silver and 40 cts. gold per ton.

Equipment includes a 50-h. p. steam plant with a double-drum hoist and a 2-drill Ingersoll air compressor. There are 5 buildings. Property con- sidered promising but too remote to be worked profitably at present. McCAFFREY MINING & SMELTING CO. MONTANA

Office: Basin, Jefferson Co., Mont. Roger and Frank McCaffrey, Basin, Mont.; J. B. McCaffrey, Jos. K. Mueller, F. B. McGreevey, T. F. Stall and J. T. Twomey, of Chicago, directors. Organized Jan., 1913, under laws of Montana, capitalization $500,000, presumably to take over the Basin Reduc- tion Works, sold for debt, but formerly owned by the La France Copper Co. and operated until 1912 under lease by the Butte & Superior Copper Co. McCONNELL MINES CO. NEVADA

Office: Yerington, Nev. Mine office: Mason, Lyon Co., Nev. O. H. Sonne, pres.; S. B. Elbert, sec. and mg. engr.; preceding, Mrs. O. H. Sonne and Mrs. S. B. Elbert, directors. Organized Sept. 14, 1912, capitalization $500,000, shares $5 par; issued, 40,002 shares.

Property, 10 claims, partly fractional, 160 acres, patented, adjoining the Yerington Malachite mine on the west. Claims show limestone, shale and granite with argentiferous contact deposits in the contact zone near the granodiorite. Property has 4 orebodies, the 2 under development aver- aging 25’ in width and carrying about 3.5% copper.

Development is by a 400’ shaft and 3 tunnels of 330’, 300’ and 325’. Re- cent work on the 200 level of shaft opens up 4’ of 3 to 12% sulphide ore.

Equipment includes a 25-h. p. hoist, 7-drill air compressor, and 8 build- ings. Company has been shipping 50 tons daily throughout 1913. -

Production, 1912, was 1,074,289 lbs. fine copper, secured from 16,284 tons of ore smelted and at a total cost of about 14 cts. per pound. Property tegarded as good and management capable.

McCOY CREEK MINES CO. WASHINGTON

Office: Chehalis, Wash. Mine office: Vance, Lewis Co., Wash. C. L. Sticklin, trustee, at last accounts.

Lands, 26 claims, on McCoy creek, in 2 groups, 12 miles south of Vance, are developed by several tunnels, showing high-grade copper ore, with small gold and silver values.

SR Equipment includes a small saw mill and a stamp mill. Presumably idle. McDONALD-ELY COPPER CO. NEVADA

Office: Boyd Park Bldg., Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine address: ESP. Turner, supt, Ely, White Pine Co., Nev. D. C. McDonald, pres. and gen. mgr.; Col. Enos A. Wall, vice-pres.; Geo. W. Parks, sec.; Frank Knox,

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treas.; preceding officers, Frank J. Westcott, Geo. W. Lamb and Hon. Thos. Kearns, directors; E. P, Jennings, cons. engr. and mer. Organized Nov., 1906, under laws of Utah, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $5 par, nonassessable; issued, $790,000. Debentures, $100,000, at 6%, maturing Nov. 15, 1915. Shares are listed on the Salt Lake Stock Exchange.

Lands, 28 claims, patented, 325 acres, with a ranch nearby that has a good spring. Apparently 19 claims are held under bond lease. Property, on the lime belt, in the northeastern part of the Ely district, carries 4 con- tact deposits, between porphyry and limestone, showing prominent iron outcrops. Management estimates veins as 20’ wide carrying oxidized ores, the sulphide zone not having been reached, assaying 1 to 40% copper, and about 80 cts. gold per ton. Development is by the 250’ Mill shaft: 405’ Golden Gate shaft, caved 1912, but reopened 1913; 165’ Robust shaft; 80’ No. 2 shaft; 65’ No. 3 shaft; 80’ No. 4 shaft, and the 415’ Wall tunnel, show- ing 21’ of heavy iron. A 218’ crosscut in the Robust shaft shows copper ore of fair grade. The mine as a while has about 3,000’ of workings.

Development work was resumed in 1913 on the 320’ level of the Golden Gate shaft, drifting on the Robust vein to get beneath the gossan showing on the Maceo claim. A 70’ winze proved ore said to assay 13 to 40% copper as bornite, chalcopyrite and glance carrying up to $2.20 in gold and silver.

Equipment includes a 25-h. p. gasoline hoist, 40-h. p. steam hoist, and a 6-drill Ingersoll-Sergeant air compressor. There are 6 buildings, includ- ing necessary shops. A pumping plant and pipe line supply water from a spring at the ranch.

An old 50-ton mill, with rolls and cyanide plant, remains from a former ownership. The 100-ton concentrator has a gyratory crusher and 3 trains of rolls. Property considered promising and management good.

McGILL SMELTER. NEVADA

Owned by Steptoe Valley Mining & Smelting Co. at McGill, White Pine Co., Nev. ; McKINLEY MINES, LTD. BRITISH COLUMBIA

Office: Rossland, B. C. Mine near Franklin, Boundary district, B. C. B. Lequime, pres.; H. W, Warrington, vice-pres.; A. M. McKenzie, sec.; C. L. Hammond, managing director. Property, 4 claims, on the North fork of Kettle river, about 34 miles north of Grand Forks and 18 miles from the Kettle Valley railway terminus. The claims were under bond and lease to the British Columbia Copper Co., 1912, and a long tunnel driven. James Breen, of Spokane, owns 75% of the stock. The company was promoted by P. A. O’Farrell, who spent $30,000 supplied by F. A. Heinze, in diamond drilling, before Heinze abandoned the proposition and it was taken up by Mr. Breen.

McKINLEY MINING CO. ; UTAH

Office and mine: Eureka, Juab Co., Utah. W. D. Myers, president. Mine, west of the Centennial-Eureka, is developed to depth of 500’, and an east-west dike of 35’ estimated width on the 500’ level is said to show ore worth about $6 per ton. The stock is assessable and the company has had some difficulty in obtaining funds to carry on its development campaign. McKINLEY MINING CO. WASHINGTON

Office: 1723 Cincinnati St., Spokane, Wash. Mine at Orient, Ferry Co., Wash. H. M. Gibson, pres.; A. O. Stuberg, vice-pres.; T. Larsen, treas.; W. Hausken, sec.; preceding officers and J. D. Grimes, directors. Organ- ized 1909, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par.

Property, 9 claims, with 5 contiguous claims owned by the company’s officials, lies on the eastern side of McKinley mountain at 2,850’ elevation

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and 4 miles northeast of Rock Cut. Claims show 3 north-west veins with gold-copper ores. Development on No. 1, a gold-silver vein, includes a 143’ shaft, with 42’ crosscut not yet in vein, and a 53’ shaft with 40” drifting on vein. A 570’ tunnel is intended to cut this vein at 640’ and 300’ below the surface. No. 2 vein of copper ore is 6’ wide and is developed by 4:prospect shafts, a 37’ tunnel and a 100’ incline. The third vein, 18 to 30’ wide, is opened by a 75 shaft. McKINLEY MINING & DEVELOPMENT CO. ARIZONA Office: Prescott, Ariz.. Chas. E. McKinley, pres. and gen. mgr. Or- ganized 1906, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par.

Lands, 38 claims, 760 acres, are in the Copper Basin district, 11 miles.

south of Prescott. The Dixie group of 6 claims has veins of 5 to 15’ width, carrying auriferous and argentiferous copper ore. The Peacock group has a vein of 60’ claimed width, carrying surface ores said to average 3.7% copper, with good gold values, developed by the Peacock shaft, planned to be sunk to 700’, showing sulphide ore giving assays up to 15% copper, 5 oz. silver and $6 gold per ton.

Equipment, according to company’s report, includes steam, electric, water, gasoline and air power, with 2 hoists, 1 good for 1,000’ depth. No returns securable, 1913.

McKITTRICK MINE. ARIZONA

Property, a group of claims adjoining the Tejon mining and Leonard copper properties at Gleeson, Cochise Co., Ariz., in the Turquoise, or Courtland district. Claims show limestones intruded by porphyry dikes and carrying replacement deposits of oxidized copper ores with limonite in limestone. Development by extensive tunnels. Idle in 1912, but work re- sumed in 1913.

McMAHON GROUP. ARIZONA

Office: Zonia, via Kirkland, Yavapai Co., Ariz. Property, the Zonia mine and a group of claims, south of Zonia, shows irregular bedded veins in micacéous schists, carrying small and bunchy shoots of high-grade oxi- dized ore. Small shipments of 5 to 6% ore were made in 1912. The prop- erty was under option to the Mines Development Co. (Shannon Copper Co. interests) in 1911, but churn-drill results were unsatisfactory and option was relinquished. See Mines Development Co. McMILLEN-STONEWALL MINING CO. ARIZONA

Office and mine: Globe, Gila Co., Ariz. V. Y. Smith, pres. and gen. mer.; C. N. Lightle, sec.-treas.. Organized March 27, 1907, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par. j

Lands, 34 claims, in the Richmond basin, 16 miles northeast of Globe, carrying 3 miles of the strike of the Stonewall Jackson vein, of 25 to 35’ average width. Property includes the Stonewall: Jackson mine, worked 1876-83, with an estimated production of about $500,000 of silver ore, of high average grade. ¡Development is by the 300’ three-compartment Mc- Millen shaft and the old 600’ Stonewall Jackson shaft, latter showing no stoping done below 230. The mine is said to have considerable reserves of ore carrying 5 to 50 oz. silver per ton, and is said to have about 40,000 tons of discarded silver ore on the old dumps on which cyanide tésts were pia 1910. Equipment includes an old stamp mill and a small cyanide plant. A full and favorable report on the proper May, 1912, by R. B. Wagner. i PEA MEADOW CREEK COPPER & MOLYBDENITE CO. WASHINGTON

Idle. Letter unclaimed at Bellingham, Wash. Mine office: Keller Ferry Co, Wash. J. E. Jennot, manager, at last accounts. Lands, on

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Meadow creek, about 5 miles northwest of Keller, show 4 veins, 1 claimed to be 45’ wide. Tunnels on the vein are said to show fair mineralization with copper, lead, molybdenum, silver and gold, ore estimated to average $20 per ton in gross values.

Meadow Mining Co. Michigan

Idle. Office: 62 Devonshire St., Boston, Mass. 'Mine near Copper Falls, Keweenaw Co., Mich. Francis L. Maguire, pres.; John Brooks, sec- treas. Organized 1898, under laws of Michigan, capitalization $1,500,000, shares $25 par. Is a reorganization of a corporation of same name organ- ized 1863, under special Michigan charter. Lands, 364 acres, adjoining the Humboldt and Phoenix mines, carrying the Ashbed lode, which was first opened 1851, with a little mining previous to 1860. Where the Ashbed is crossed by transverse fissures, bunches of ore occur and such places usually show pits of prehistoric miners. Fully described Vol. TI.

Medicine Bow’S Mines Co. Wyoming

Office and mine: Albany, Albany Co., Wyo. Jas. Christensen, pres.; G. S. Simmons, vice-pres. and supt.; Win. Benton, séc.-treas. and gen. mer. Organized Sept. 19, 1903, under laws of Wyoming, capitalization $100,000, shares $10 par.

Lands, 10 claims, unpatented, 200 acres, in the Holmes district. Claims are said to show syenite, granite, diorite and limestone, with fissure veins in syenite and granite, and deposits between gabbro and serpentine. The Cuprite vein, formerly under development, is of 15’ average width, trace- able a mile, carrying chalcocite, bornite and chalcopyrite ore, estimated by company to average 5% copper, 3 oz. silver and $4 gold per ton. Test shipments have returned 7 to 15% copper, 2 to 12 6z. silver and $3 to $18 gold per ton. Development is by 10 pits and shafts of 10 to 80’ depth, and a 960’ tunnel. The company estimated, 1911, 40,000 tons of ore in sight, with 16,000 tons blocked out for stoping. Company appears to have kept up assessment work and was still in existence in 1912. :

MEDORA MINE. í MICHIGAN Owner by Keweenaw Copper Co., at Mandan, Keweenaw Co., Mich: MELCHER MINING & MILLING CO. IDAHO

Office: 409 Hooper Blik., Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine office: Albion, Cassia Co., Idaho. Samuel McIntyre, Sr, pres, gen. mgr. and treas:; R. M. Wilkinson, sec. and purch. agt.; P. McIntyre, supt. Organized under laws of Utah, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $2 par; issued, 410,000 shares.

Property, 37 claims including former holdings of the Cumora Mining Co., bought 1912, is in the Stokes district, 38 miles froma railroad. Country rock is schist, granite and quartzite, orebodies occurring as fissure veins in both schist and granite. The vein developed runs N. 10° E. and dips 68° west.

Development is by the Cumora and Melchor shafts of 210’ and 75’ and the 650’ Cumora, 850’ Giant and 3,290’ Melcher tunnels, showing a 3” vein of chalcopyrite and galena and lead carbonates said to average about 1% copper, 10% lead, 5 oz. silver and $5 gold per ton.

Equipment includes 200-h. p. steam and water power plant, 5-drill air compressor and 6 small buildings,

Company now developing vein in Giant tunnel and driving the Melcher crosscut tunnel to crosscut the 3 veins.

Melczer Mining Co. Mexico

Is the operating company of the Copete Consolidated Copper Co., which see.

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MEMPHIS & IDAHO SPRINGS GOLD M. & M. CO. COLORADO Idle. Mine near Idaho Springs, Clear Creek Co., Colo. J. J. Wil- liams, pres.; Wm. M. Slack, sec.-treas., at last accounts. Organized under laws of Colorado, capitalization $1,500,000, shares $1 par, nonassess- able. Lands, 14 claims, patented, carry auriferous and argentiferous lead, copper and zinc sulphides. Mine is developed by shafts of 125’, 250’ and 460’ and is tapped at depth of 2,350 by the Newhouse tunnel. Equipment includes a 22-h. p. electric hoist and an air compressor. MEMPHIS MINING CO. NEW MEXICO

Mine office: Organ, Dona Ana Co,, N. M. C. E. Head, pres:; J. L McCullough, sec.-treas.; J. F. McCullough, gen. mgr. Organized 1911, capitalization $1, 000,000.

Property is the old Torpedo, or Memphis copper mine. Development is by 2 shafts and a 400’ tunnel, showing an 8” vein with a 3” paystreak, said to carry argentiferous copper ore worth up to $60 per ton in com- bined values. Idle in 1912, but expected to operate this winter. MEMPHREMAGOG MINING CO. QUEBEC

Office: Sherbrooke, Quebec. Mine office: Bolton Center, Brome Co., Quebec. Geo. E. Smith, pres. and mgr. Organized under laws of Quebec, capitalization $50,000, shares $100 par. Owns the Smith mine with 150 acres, freehold, near Lake Memphremagog. Lands show a lenticular deposit between schist and a diabase dike of 50’ estimated average width, traceable 1,000’, carrying complex sulphide ore estimated, by the manage- ment to average 3% copper, 2% lead, 2% zinc, 1 to 4 oz. silver and $1 to $9 gold per ton. Developing only in 1912.

Mendha-Nevada Mining Co. Nevada

Office: Commercial Bldg., Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine office: Pioche, Lincoln Co., Nev. T. J. Osborne, pres.; M. C. Godbe, sec., at last accounts. Capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par. Property, the Melessa mine, is said to have produced $500,000 under its former ownership. The mine is reported to have a vein 3 to 15’ thick averaging 6’, practically vertical and showing on the 700’, or bottom level, silver and gold-bearing lead and copper ores assaying up to $100 per ton. Net smelter shipments have given returns of about $30 per ton. Development is by a 900’ incline shaft. MERCER-SAN RAFAEL MINING CO. MEXICO

Office: Mercer, Pa. Mine near Tapalpa, Jalisco, Mex. J. W. Tyrrell, pres.; J. M. Thorne, sec.; Jas. M. Young, gen. mgr.; Geo. J. Graham, supt., at last accounts. Organized 1906, under laws of New York, capitalization $3,000,000, shares $1 par.

Lands, 112 hectares, known as the San Rafael group, on the eastern slope of the Sierra Cacoma, in a very rugged district, about 20 miles west of Ayutla. The property is an ancient mine whose workings show a wide belt of quartzite and diorite cut by veins carrying auriferous and argen- tiferous chalcopyrite ores with occasional lead and zine sulphides occurring in shoots up to 40’ in width. The mine has about 12,000’ of workings.

Equipment includes a hydraulic power installation. The 50-ton con- centrator has 5 stamps, a Samson crusher, Elspass mill, Pierce amalga- mator and 3 Bartlett tables, with a small cyanide plant and patio. Idle on account of revolution.

Merrimac Mining Co. Arizona

Address: Globe, Gila Co., Ariz. Guy M. Smith, supt. Property, 22 claims at Powers gulch, developed by 150’ tunnel and 65’ shaft, with 350’ of workings, showing 15’ of black sulphide ore reported to carry 9% copper, $4 gold and 80 oz. silver per ton.

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Mescal Mining Co. Arizona

Mine office: Jerome, Yavapai Co.. Ariz. Capt. Samuel B. Adams, pres. and gen. mgr.; J. Prather, sec., at last accounts. Organized under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,500,000, shares $1 par.

Property, the Mescal copper mine, 7 claims, 3 patented, known as the Owen & Allison group, near Mescal gulch, on Mingus mountain. Claims show fissure veins in slate and contact deposits between slate, and diorite. The vein worked is of 3” average width, traceable 1,600” and opened by an 85’ shaft and tunnels of 220’ and 900’, with a blind shaft from the 700’ tunnel level. The mine! had about 1,200’ of workings at last accounts showing chalcopyrite assaying 1 to 2% copper, with a trace of gold.

Equipment includes electric power and an air compressor, and there are 5 buildings. Idle for some time but operations resumed 1913, when shaft was unwatered, retimbered and machinery installed.

Metal De Cobre; Compania Minera. Mexico

Mine near San Antonio de la Huerta, Ures, Sonora, Mex. Organized under laws of Mexico, and is the holding company of the Rio Yaqui Copper Co.

Metaline Oriole Mining Co. Washington

Office: 223 Mohawk Blk., Spokane, Wash. Mine office: Metaline, Pend Oreille Co., Wash. Fred. N. Davis, pres. and gén. mgr.; E. E. Doan, vice-pres.; Thos. R. L. Harris, sec.; H. F. Snamiska, treas.; Joseph Lan- caster, mg. engr. Organized Dec. 30, 1910, under laws of Washington, capitalization $1,500,000, shares $1 par, assessable. Total calls to end of 1912, $30,000.

Lands, 5 claims, 100 acres, and a 5-acre mill site, unpatented. Property has 2 fissure veins in quartzite, the one under development showing a width of 6 to 8’, and carrying about 1% copper, 12% lead, 25% zinc, 40 to 80 oz. silver and $5 gold per ton. Development is by a 200’ shaft and 3 tunnels of 50’, 400’ and 750’. A 100’ shaft sunk at 60° on the vein from the lower tunnel shows ore throughout a 70’ drift. Company has'1,500 tons of ore on the dump. Equipment includes steam power, with small hoist and 3-drill air compressor. Company was planning, 1913, to erect a 50-ton mill.

Metallurgical Co. Of America. United States

Office: 52 Broadway, New York. Richard Merton, pres. and gen. mgr.; J. Langeloth, vice-pres.; Theo Sternfeld, treas.; preceding officers, B. Hochschild, Edward Balbach, Jr., and Otto Sussman, directors; Julius Gold- man, sec. Organized May 19, 1904, under laws of New Jersey, capitaliza- tion $2,000,000, shares $100 par; 15,000 shares issued for the purpose of exploiting mining and smelting enterprises. Annual meeting second Tuesday in April, at Jersey City, N. J.

Methow Gold & Copper Mining Co. Washington

Mine office: Winthrop, Okanogan Co., Wash. W. D. Scott, pres.; J. N. Tewinkel, sec.-treas. Organized 1889, under laws of Washington, capitalization $90,000, shares 5 cts. par. Lands, 8 claims, 150 acres, show fissure veins in Algonkian rocks. The sulphide ores assay 9% copper, 2 oz. silver and .$5.50 gold per ton. Development includes 3 tunnels, longest 564’, and a 52’ shaft. Has available water power and timber. Idle except for annual assessment work.

Mexican-American Smelting & Refining Co. Mexico

Owns the Guaymas smelter. The smelting plant is at Batuecas, a suburb of Guaymas, Sonora, Mex., on tide water, lying between the Bay of Guaymas and the S. P. R. R. of Mexico. The smelter was originally erected by William C. Greene, founder of the Greene-Cananea Copper

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Co. and not having been operated for some years, will need extensive alterations. Guaymas is well located for a large smelting plant and com- pany has a 250-acre site in a splendid situation for operating.

This smelting company also owns a smelter concession from the Government covering the mining districts of Hermosillo and Guaymas, in the state of Sonora, for a period of 20 years. This concession is one of the most valuable ever granted in Mexico, by reason of its privileges and exemptions.

Mexican Exploration & Mining Co. Mexico

Is controlled by the Pacific Smelting & Mining Co., through owner- ship of practically entire share capital. Described Vol. X.

Mexican Metals Co. Mexico

Office: 35 Congress St., Boston, Mass. Mine office: Cananea, Sonora, Mex. Geo. E. Keith, pres.; Geo. H. Woodman, vice-pres.; Sumner M. Teele, sec.; Harold C. Keith, treas.; other directors: William Brocken and Eldon B. Keith; August Fritsche, gen. mgr.; Henry Beckman, mine supt.; J. W. Baker, mill supt.; S. B. McCluskey, metallurgical. and mg. engr.; Chas. Ahnell, purch. agt.; Albert M. Jackson, chemist-assayer.

Organized August 16, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $5,000,000, shares $5 par, assessable; $2.25 paid. Company succeeded the Arizpe Mines Co. and operates and holds title to property through the Moctezuma- Arizpe Development Co., legalized in Mexico. Old Colonty Trust Co., registrar; Federal Trust Co., transfer agent. Annual meeting, second Monday in September. Shares are listed on the Boston curb. An assess- ment of 15 cts. per share was levied September, 1913. Operations, 1912- 13, have been much hampered by chronic warfare about the mine, causing a small deficit in operations.

Property, a compact tract of 6,500 acres in several groups, also a one- half acre mill site, in the Manzanal mountain range, about 15 miles south- east of Cananea.

Lands show porphyry and diabase, the orebodies occurring in shear zones of brecciated diabase, silicified and cemented with sulphides, having a generally N.-S. strike and dipping about TOA there. ate, o. ore bodies under development, ranging in width from 3 to 40’. Ores are mainly tetrahedrite, bornite and chalcopyrite, high-grade ore ‘carrying up to 5% copper, 20% lead, 200 oz. silver and $1 gold per ton, and milling ores averaging 1% copper, 12 oz. silver and about $1 gold per ton.

The principal mines are the Alacran and Palo Seco, former having a main working shaft 300’ deep and a 150’ prospect shaft. The Palo Seco shaft is 400’ deep and there is also a 150’ shaft and a tunnel. There are a number of prospects on the property, the most important being the Manhattan with 4 shafts 100 to 200’ deep and 2 tunnels of 400’ and 600’, the Rey de Cobre having a 250’ shaft, the Victoria 75’ shaft and the Sevilla tunnel of 250’. Total length of underground openings is about 6,000’. Ore reserves are estimated at 50,000 tons. The Manhattan property, 4.000 acres, shows surface indications markedly similar to those noted on the Greene-Cananea property and is to be developed by churn drilling.

Equipment includes a small steam plant, 2 Bessemer 165-h. p. oil engines, 4 hoists, 2 with capacity good for depth of 800’, and a 1,400-cu. ft. air compressor. The concentrator will treat 110 tons daily making $54 concentrates. Mill has a 7x10” Blake crusher, a Hartz jig, 5 Wilfley tables, ‘2 Deister slime tables, 4 Callow tanks, hydraulic classifier and canvas tables. Buildings are an office structure and 2 warehouses in Cananea, a 20x40’ machine shop, a 14x20’ smithy, store building, office, laboratory boarding house, 3 cottages and 35 miners’ dwellings at the mines.

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Transportation facilities consist of a 5-ton Pierce-Arrow motor truck, and a Ford touring car.

Production is small but the company’s holdings include some proper- ties of promise and are being systematically and intelligently developed under the able supervision of Mr. Fritsche. A preliminary report on the property was made, 1908, for the Arizpe Mining Co., by Arthur Houle, E. M. MEXICAN MINES CORPORATION. MEXICO

Letters unclaimed at Lincoln Trust Co. Bldg., Jersey City, N. J. Mine near Baca, Hidalgo, Chihuahua, Mex. C. L. Graves, sec.; E. J. Ernest, gen. mgr., at last accounts. Organized under laws of Maine, capitalization $3,500,000, and is protocolized in Mexico. Lands are 5 groups, including former holdings of the Janie Mining Co. The Ventura mine, about one- half mile from the Mina Cigarrero, has a 230’ three-compartment shaft, showing fissure veins carrying streaks of auriferous and argentiferous copper ore below commercial tenor. A little commercial ore is said to ` have been developed. Equipment includes a machinery plant. Presumably idle.

Mexican Mines-Prospects Dev. Co, S. A. Mexico

Office: Cinco de Mayo 32, Mexico, D. F. Mine office: Hostotipaquillo, Jalisco, Mex. J. L. Requena, pres.; Percy A. Babb, gen. mgr. Organized 1907, under laws of Mexico, and is said to hold a controlling interest in the Compania Esplotadora de Jalisco.

Lands include the San Luis del Oro and Juanquiniquilla mines. The San Luis del Oro mine, 82 hectares, carries mainly silver and gold values having some rich ore. The Juanquiniquilla mine, 131 hectares, 31 miles southwest of San Marcos, has auriferous copper ore. The property is said to include a porphyry ore deposit. Presumably idle.

Mexican Mining Co. Mexico

Idle. Office: Long Beach, Cal. Mine office: Alamos, Sonora, Mex. C. C. Clute, pres.; J. B. Randall, vice-pres.; J. T. Newell, sec.-treas:; Wm. Hitchcock, mgr., at last accounts. Organized under laws of California, capitalization $300,000. Lands, 10 hectares, known as the Veta Grande mine, developed by shafts, said to show a considerable body of copper ore and company claims to have 50,000 tons of low. to medium-grade ore on the dump. Equipment includes steam power.

Mexican Smelter Co. Mexico

Office: Pedricena, Durango, Mex. Property is a 50-ton furnace, built on the patents of Jas. E. Anderson, to use petroleum for fuel, which did not prove successful. Idle several years.

Mexican Smelting Corporation, Ltd. Mexico

Office: 671 Salisbury House, London, E. C., England. Works office: Monclova, Coahuila, Mex. A. F. Roberts, secretary. Organized Aug. 29, 1908, under laws of Great Britain, capitalization £150,000, in 100,000 ordinary shares of £1 par and 1,000,000 shares of 1s. par. All ordinary and 169,200 1s. shares issued. Bonds £200,000 first-mortgage profit-sharing debentures at 614% authorized; £15,600 issued. Lands about 3,000 acres. No returns securable. Company was organized to acquire for £55,000 a tract of 3,000 acres of land at Tapada, near Monclova, Coahuila, Mex., and to erect a smelter and do a general custom smelting business. MEXICAN SMELTING & REFINING CO. MEXICO

Idle. Works office: Taxco, Alarcon, Guerrero, Mex. Lawrence Tatum, pres. and gen. mgr.; Fredk. M. Perkins, supt., at last accounts. Lands, 200 hectares, including several antiguas, principal being the San Jose mine, carrying copper ores with values mainly in silver. Has gas power and a 60- ton smelter with water-jacket blast furnace and a small refining furnace.

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Mexicana; Compania Metalurgica. Mexico

Office: 82 Beaver St, New York. Mine offices: Sierra Mojada, Coahuila, Mex., and Concepcion del Oro, Zacatecas, Mex. Works office: San Luis Potosi, S. L. P., Mex. Robt. S. Towne, pres. and gen. mgr.; R. E. Safford, sec.; Geo. H. Carnahan, gen. mine supt.

Organized 1890, under laws of New Jersey, capitalization $4,000,000, shares $100 par, fully issued, in $1,000,000 cumulative 8% preferred stock, $1,250,000 guaranteed 6% second preferred stock, and $1,750,000 common stock. Debentures, $3,000,000 first-mortgage 5% bonds authorized, due July 31, 1931, with a 2% annual sinking fund, bonds being subject to call at 110 and accrued interest; issued, $2,265,700. Company is not a dividend payer. Morton Trust Co., New York, registrar. Annual meeting, first Monday in June.

The company’s interests are extensive, including control of numerous subsidiary mining, transportation and land companies, among the more important being the Sombrerete Mining Co. and the Mexican Lead: Co., ° at Sombrerete, Zacatecas, Mex., the Montezuma Lead Co., Alvarez Lead & Timber Co., Mexican Mineral Railway Co., and Potosi & Rio Verde Railway Co.

The Veta Rica mine, at Sierra Mojada, produces silver-lead and copper ores, latter averaging 3% copper, 5% zinc and 20 oz. silver per ton. Devel- opment is by a 600’ main shaft and values are mainly in lead and silver.

The Cerro Prieto and adjoining mines, at Concepcion del Oro, devel- oped by tunnels, contain veins producing gold copper ores. The San Pedro and San Pablo mines also are important producers.

The Minas Flojionales, in the state of Hidalgo, carrying veins with auriferous and argentiferous lead and copper ores, are under development. The company is said also to have property in the vicinity of Taxco, in the state of Guerrero, Mex.

The smelter, treating about 750 tons daily, has a modern equipment, including 12 furnaces for the reduction of gold, silver and lead ores, and a special copper department of 100 tons daily capacity. The works have steam and electric power, and employ about 1,000 men. The company is a large producer of lead and silver, with considerable outputs of copper and gold, secured mainly as byproducts, and is active and enterprising in the rejuvenation of old properties and the development of new mines. MEXICANA MINING CO. MEXICO

Address: W. H. Childs, general manager, Shamokin, Pa. Company is the operating subsidiary of the Keystone Mining Co., formerly the Keystone Copper Smelter Co., of Philadelphia, Pa. Operating office: Aptdo. 22, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mex. Mine at Tapalpa, Jalisco, Mex. Property, the Keystone mine, has silver and gold-bearing copper ore developed by shaft. Equipment includes steam power and an air com- pressor. The reduction plant includes a 40-ton mill and 50-ton smelter. Property resumed operations January, 1912.

Mexico Grande Mining Co. Mexico

Address: Chas. L. Montague, treas., Cananea, Sonora, Mex. W. A. Johnson, pres.; Pete Lepash, vice-pres.; R. P. Saffold, sec.; M. Bernstein, commissario. Incorporated in Mexico, capitalization 10,000 pesos.

Property consists of the Mexico Grande, Morena, Aldasora and General Lafayette claims, lying north of the main working shaft of the

Calumet-Sonora Mining Co. These claims contain the continuation of the vein worked by that company and while no large orebody has been found the slight development on the property has shown good ore. The property shows pale-colored, well-bedded volcanic tuffs and breccias cut by fissure

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veins, but has no large outcrop such as characterized other parts of the . foothill ore belt of Cananea. MEXICO MINE. MEXICO

See Mina Mexico Co.

Mexico Mining, Refining & Exploration Co. Mexico

Office: 501.1. W. Hellman Bldg., Los Angeles, Cal. Letters unclaimed at Hermosillo, Sonora, Mex. Wm. T. Calderwood, pres. and gen. mgr.; Dr. Chas. B. Nichols, vice-pres.; F. C. Lamb, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, E. 'B. Lovie, C. A. Neil, L. A. Davis and A. A. Snodgrass, directors; B. A. Ogden, supt.; A. Wainwright, engr. Organized 1905, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $5,000,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable. Annual meeting, second Monday in April, at Nogales, Ariz.

Lands, 104 hectares, 260 acres. El Creston de Cobre mine, 100 hectares, about 35 miles west of Hermosillo, shows dolomite and granite and is an antigua dating from the eighteenth century. The property carries 4 orebodies, of which 2, under development, reported by the company as of 30’ average width, and traceable 1,400’, carry copper ores averaging 4% copper, 8 oz. silver and $1 gold per ton. Development is by 8 shafts, deepest 300’, and tunnels of 400’, 250’ and 80” with 1,000’ of workings, estimated by the company to show 100,000 tons of ore. ¿

La Cobriza mine, at Soyopa, 4 hectares, is said to show a 16’ vein with a 7’ paystreak carrying ore formerly claimed to be of 10 to 20% copper tenor, with silver values.

Equipment includes a 235-h. p. steam plant, with 2 hoists and a 6-drill air compressor, and there are 9 buildings. There is also a 20-ton mill. Company employs 15 men, and was planning, 1913, to erect a 100-ton smelter.

Miami Arizona Development Co. Arizona

Mine office: Globe, Gila -Co., Ariz. W. L. Lincoln, manager. Property, 13 claims, adjoining the Gibson Copper Co. on the southwest, is developed by about 1,500’ of tunnel, showing chalcopyrite ore of good milling grade. MIAMI COPPER CO. ARIZONA

Office: 42 Broadway, New York. Mine office: Miami, Gila Co., Ariz. Adolph Lewisohn, pres.; J. Parke Channing, vice-pres.; Sam A. Lewisohn, treas.; preceding officers, Hermann Sielcken, Jacob Langeloth, Wm. H. Nichols, Walter T. Rosen, F. W. Estabrook, Ralph C. Lupton, Theo. L. Herrmann and Julius A. Lewisohn, directors; Herman Cook, sec.; B. Brit- ton Gottsberger, gen. mgr.; F. W. Maclennan, asst. mer.; I. W. Solomon, mill supt.; W. F. Williams, chief clerk; Arthur Stonham, auditor.

Organized Nov. 30, 1907, under laws of Delaware, capitalization $3,000,- 000, shares $5 par, increased Nov., 1909, to $3,500,000, and again increased Aug., 1910, to $4,000,000; issued, $3,727,705. Of the last increase in cap- italization, 60,000 shares were offered to stockholders at $18 per share. Of the issued stock, 300,000 shares were given, Nov., 1907, in payment for lands; 200,000 shares were issued April, 1908, at $5 per share; 100,000 shares were issued Aug., 1908, at $10 per share; 60,000 shares were issued Aug., 1910, at $18 per share, and of the balance, 88,236 shares were set

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aside for conversion of bonds, and 51,764 shares remain unissued. Deben-

tures, $1,500,000 first-mortgage 10-year 6% gold bonds, convertible into .

stock at $17, and redeemable at the option of the company, on any semi- annual interest date, on or before Jan. 1, 1915, at 105, plus accrued interest, upon 4 months prior published notice and after Jan. 1, 1915, upon like notice, at par and accrued interest. Of the bond issue, $25,000 was out- standing Sept., 1913. The company is controlled, through stock owner- ship, by the General Development Co. Mechanics & Metals National Bank, New York, and Old Colony Trust Co., Boston, registrars; Bankers Trust Co., New York, and American Trust Co., Boston, transfer agents. Shares are listed on the New York and Boston Stock Exchanges. Annual meeting, third Wednesday in April. Dividend payments were begun May 15, 1912, at the rate of 50 cts. per share quarterly, and to end of 1913 totalled $2,591,678. Net profits for 1912 were $2,094,804.

Property, 222 acres, mining claims, patented, 555 acres held for the mill and: power plant and 345 acres for water rights, all in the Red Springs or Miami district, 6 to 8 miles west of Globe. Claims show an area of silicified schist at and near a contact with a great intrusive body of granite, known as Schultze granite. The altered schist belt averages about 1,200’.in width and has a generally E.-W. direction. The granite merges into granite porphyry at its borders, and this and offshoots, or dikes of the granite in the schist, are mineralized along the ore belt. This is seen in a dike with E.-W. strike, of 40 to 60’ width, mineralized in the same manner as the schist.

The schistose area is netted with contraction fractures and later fissur- ing due to metasomatic changes of volume, accompanying mineralization and alteration. The ore belt is marked by silicification and intense alteration of the schist, a change that fades out into natural gray schist a few hundred yards north of the Miami and Inspiration mines. The ore zone is oxidized and leached to an average depth of 210’, this part containing small seams and. veinlets of oxidized ore. Below this leached belt a few feet of mixed ore is succeeded by the zone of disseminated glance, a rather soft, much altered rock specked with tiny glance grains and films.

Development of the mine has been by extensive underground opera- tions; supplemented after the mine was opened up, by churn drilling. Up to the end of 1912 drill holes of 600’ average depth had been drilled to the number of 62. Drill holes were put down at the corners of 200’ squares and practically all of them cut ore, carrying from 110 to 210’ in thickness and ranging from 2 to 2.5% in copper tenor. Drill borings in the vicinity of the mine have shown commercial ore to at least 115’ additional depth below the 720’ level of the mine.

The mine is worked by a very large main shaft with 3 others sunk during prospecting operations and development. The latter are known as the Captain, Red, Springs and Red Rock shafts. The Red Rock shaft with 3 compartments was 720’ deep at the end of 1912 and is sunk in about the center of the mineral deposit. The Red Springs shaft, 2,150 north- west of the Red Rock, has 3 compartments and is 422’ in depth, sunk through surface capping into ore. The Captain shaft, the first shaft put down on the property, was stopped at 210’, but in 1913 was deepened to 420’ and a tramming level prepared for stoping and ore extraction; 1,894’ completed Nov., 1913.

The Miami, or main working shaft, equipped for ultimate production of 5,000 tons of ore daily, is sunk outside the proven mineral'zone in order to be immune from caving and is bottomed in granite at depth of 720’, the first 450’ being through conglomerate. It is 12x16’ inside of timbers with

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15x19’ outside dimensions and framed with Louisiana long-leaf yel- low pine, preserved by the use of 12 lbs. of creosote per cubic foot. The timber was creosoted after framing by the International Creosoting & Construction Co. of Galveston, Texas, at a charge of $20 per 1,000’, board measure. The shaft has 5 compartments, two 5x6’ hoisting compart- ments, a 6x12’ cage compartment, a 3x6’ ladder compartment, and a 3x6’ pipe compartment. No. 4 has a 110’ steel headgear, with sheave journals 90’ above the collar of the shaft, and has 1,000-ton steel ore bins.

As the mine has a solid orebody, the upper levels are opened in the ore zone at only 50’ intervals. The first level is at 220’ below the collar of the Red Rock, or development shaft, and levels are opened mainly there- after at 50’ intervals, with sub-levels between each, giving ore developed in slices of only 25’ vertical depth. Ore is blocked out horizontally by 5x7’ drifts, with centers spaced 100’ apart, while on the upper levels there are drifts with centers spaced at 50’ intervals, blocking out ore in cubes of various sizes, but with all dimensions that are multiples of 25’, Eleven levels have been opened. The 420’ and 570’ levels handle the bulk of the ore and have 1,000-ton loading pockets. Ore is hauled in trains of twenty 214-ton ore cars by 6%-ton electric locomotives.

There being practically no waste in the mine, within the limits of the ore zone, the most serious problem was to devise a method by which the greatest amount of ore could be extracted with the least waste. The system used is an:adaptation by N. O. Lawton of the auxiliary raise and sub- level stoping method, by which about 60% of the ore will be mined in rooms and the remainder extracted by top-slicing and sub-level caving methods. This gives minimum timbering and the compactness and uniform- ity of the orebody make it well adapted to this plan of extraction.

At the end of 1912 the company had developed, or explored, 58 acres of the ground classed as mineral-bearing, and of this area 15 acres carried copper sulphides formerly considered too low in grade to be termed ore. It was conservatively estimated by the management that the 43 acres of proven ground carried 20,800,000 tons of ore, averaging 2.48% copper. Besides the amount stated, the property also has about 17,000,000 tons of 1.25% ore which will eventually be worked at a profit. These figures are reliable, because of the unusually thorough manner in which the ore has been developed and blocked out underground and the well known con- servatism of the management. A very large part of this ore is actually blocked out underground, and the estimated average percentage is based upon thousands of careful assays, made of samples taken at 5’ intervals, throughout the workings. There remain 164 acres of mineral ground yet to be tested, of which a large aggregate area should have ore. New under- ground openings, 1912, were 54,929’, and the mine had 166,252’ of workings at the end of the year, It is probable that further development of the mine will develop more or less additional ore, possibly above what is con- sidered the present payable limits, probably below, and almost certainly in the lateral extensions.

The 70x264’ power house is on the flat below the mine and reached by side-tracks from the main line of the Gila Valley, Globe & Northern railway. Power generates compressed air at 90 lbs. initial pressure, and a 25-cycle alternating current at 6,600 volts. There are three 4-cylinder triple-expansion engines taking steam at 185 lbs. pressure, with 100° superheat, direct-connected to three 1,000-kw. 3-phase 25-cycle generators. There are two 4-cylinder triple-expansion air compressors with capacity of 4,000 cu. ft. of air per minute, at 90 Ibs. initial pressure. Electric current is used for the mill, shops, pumps and underground traction, and com-

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pressed air will be used for power drills and hoists. A transmission line has been built to the Roosevelt dam, 70 miles from Miami, and power will be supplied by the U. S. Government from the plant at that point.

The boiler house has four 600-h. p. Edgemore water-tube boilers, gen- erating steam at 200 lbs. pressure, equipped with Green fuel economizers and Foster superheaters, burning petroleum, and a 500,000-gal. storage tank is to be built for oil storage. The boiler plant is so designed that if coal can be obtained later and used with economy automatic stokers can be installed. The boiler house has a reinforced concrete chimney built by the Weber-Duller Co. of Los Angeles, 200’ high with tapering walls, having an outside diameter of 23’ 4” and inside diameter of 18’ 4” at the base and 12’ internal diameter at the top, lined for one-third of the height with a 22” course of firebrick covered with 18” of concrete at the base, and rein- forced by 2 sets of steel rods on the inside.

The plant at the main shaft, one-half mile from the central power station, consists of 2 Nordberg hoists, the larger for raising ore having 2 drums of 10’ diameter with 55” face, capable of handling 1,000’ of 13%” rope. An auxiliary hoist has 16x16” cylinders with a drum of 8’ diameter and 6’ face for hoisting the man cage. Both hoists are operated by compressed air, reheated. The ore hoist raises two 714-ton skips which are dumped directly into the pockets of the crusher building. No. 4 shaft is planned and equipped to handle 2,000 tons of ore in 8 hours, giving a maximum productive capacity of 6,000 tons per diem.

The crusher building, at No. 4 shaft, of 6,000 tons daily capacity, has Chalmers-Williams crushers, breaking ore to 114” size, the product being fed through two 4x10’ trommels to four 62x18” rolls that crush oversize to half-inch cubes. Ore then goes by belt conveyor, Miami type, heavy duty Traylor, to the mill bins. The stock pile at No. 4 shaft contained 108,213 tons of ore at the end of 1912,

The concentrator was planned and built by H. Kenyon Burch, the builder of the Nacozari and Morenci mills, and like all his work is a com- plete success. The plant is located on a hillside, south of the ore deposit, permitting the use of gravity in handling material and with a large acreage in the valley nearby, available for many millions of tons of tailings, besides a gulch in front of the mill which provides dumping ground for a number of years to come and also will serve as a reservoir for clarifying the mill water for re-use. The 3,000-ton mill is of steel and stands on a foundation of about 15,000 cu. yds. of concrete. Ore is delivered from the crusher house, at the main shaft, by 300’ belt conveyors leading to six 1,000-ton ore bins, 1 at the head of each section of the mill. At the head of each of the 6 sections is a 1,000-ton steel cylindrical ore bin of 30’ diameter and 30’ height, set 24” above the ground on concrete foundations, each bin having automatic weighing and sampling devices. The sections being similar, a description of one answers for all save the sixth unit.

From the bin ore goes by conveyor to a set of rolls, reducing pulp to 1g” size, after which it is classified by 22-mesh screens, oversize going to Hardinge conical mills replacing the Chilean mills used at first, mill having 30-mesh. The product, with the undersize from the 22-mesh screens, goes to classifiers, the coarse product from which goes to sand concentrating tables and the finer material to slime tables, there being 22 sand tables and 30 Deister tables to each section. One section of the mill has Burch fine crushing rolls in place of Chilean mills. Concentrates go through a tunnel having 6 concrete settling tanks, in which they are dried by vacuum pumps and then taken by belt conveyors to storage tanks above the railway. Concentrates leave one side of the mill, and tailings the other.

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In Oct., 1913, the company decided to alter the first 5 units to conform to the sixth unit because the latter secures a 2 lb. per ton better extraction. A 20-ton experimental plant has also been installed to treat mixed sulphide and oxide ores by a new process consisting of: (a) coarse crushing and removal of fine dust; (b) rough water concentration to take out coarse sulphide matter; (c) roasting of tailings from above; (d) leaching with sulphuric acid solution; (e) precipitation of copper by electrolysis and regeneration of solution with sulphurous acid gas, solution then being used again for leaching.

The first unit of the mill started March, 1911, and the sixth and last in Feb., 1913. As a result of several years of continued painstaking experi- mental work, the mill is fully meeting the predictions made by Mr. Chan- ning. Early experiments indicated a concentration. of 15 into 1, but later work showed that as good a recovery could be secured with the higher ratio of concentration of 20 into 1, and the mill is running on this basis, yielding a 40% copper product, with an extraction in the neighborhood of 70% of the assay value. Concentrates are shipped under a 10-year contract, beginning July 1, 1913, to the Greene Cananea Copper Co., at Cananea, Sonora, Mex., where they aʻe smelted.

The water supply of the mill comes from Pinal creek, and from 3 wells, each producing 500,000 gals. daily at the lower end of the Miami wash. Water is taken from Pinal creek by a 25,000’ pipe line of 14” diameter. In addition the company buys from the Old Dominion Copper Mining & Smelting Co. 2,000,000 gals. of water daily. Water from the Old Dominion flows to McLean’s ranch, near Pinal creek, whence it is pumped by a Nord- berg electric pump of 1,500 gals. capacity per minute, to a 50,000-gal. storage tank at the concentrator, and thence distributed through the works in 12” cast-iron mains.

Buildings include a machine shop, warehouses, steel change house, store, boarding house, bunkhouse and upwards of 150 frame dwellings, of 2 to 6 rooms each, for employes,. all lighted by electricity. There is a substantial office building, erected at a cost of $15,000, a club house and recreation hall, on the summit overlooking Miami flat, provided with reading matter, pool tables and games, and a hospital owned jointly with the Inspiration Consolidated Copper Co.

The mine is served by the Gila Valley, Globe & Northern railway, with standard gauge, having an excellent average grade and light curves, so that favorable freight rates are given the mine and mill.

Production was begun March, 1911, and at end of the year a total of 445,036 tons of ore was milled, yielding 20,065 tons of concentrates from which 15,385,783 Ibs. fine copper was secured. The output in 1912 was 32,832,609 lbs. fine copper secured from 1,040,744 tons of ore milled and at a cost of 9,588 cts. per lb. Production has been as follows:

1913. 1912, Ibs. Ibs. Si am onth see. A tee. O: 15,727,369 15,543,783 PUTA HA IE ONL). EAE 2,890,000 3,014,996 UIST SE AAS I. Ee 3,097,500 2,931,948 September RRA 2,688,600 2,727,022 WELSH Seer: aL IO 2,862,050 2,897,755 Tatalon ie S. LE, AM E. 27,265,519 27,115,504 The Miami is a very large and very fine mine and is in worthy hands. MIAMI INSPIRATION MINING CO. ARIZONA

Mine address: Care F. W. Ham, sec.-treas., Globe, Ariz. Dan R.

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Williamson, pres. Organized under laws of Arizona, capitalization $500,- 000, shares $5 par. Property, about 214 miles west of Miami, adjoins the Miami Needles Copper Co. on the south and east. Claims are reported to show considerable evidence of mineralization, ore occurring in silicified schist and adjoining Schultze granite. Company developing in a leisurely fashion, 1913. 1

Miami Needles Copper Co. Arizona

Office: Globe, Ariz. D. R. Williamson, pres.; F. W. Ham, sec.-treas. Organized 1912, capitalization $500,000, shares $5 par.

Property, 11 claims on Needle mountain, about 5 miles west of Miami. Claims, slightly developed, show altered schist and Schultze granite, the former with evidences of mineralization along narrow belts. Much of the group is covered by barren Gila conglomerate. Company has made no serious attempt to further develop the property since organization, and apparently is idle through lack of funds.

Michigan-Arizona Copper Co. Arizona

Idle. Office: 2 Ingersoll Blk., Lansing, Mich. Emory W. Olds, pres.; Dr. Ely F. Allen, sec., at last accounts. Organized June 17, 1907, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $2,000,000, shares $1 par. Lands, 80 acres, in the Sulphur Springs valley, at the foot of Graham mountain, show two 8” parallel veins of ore assaying up to 29% copper, with traces of gold and silver, opened by a 42’ shaft.

Michigan & Arizona Development Co. Arizona

Office: 905 Metropolitan Life Bldg., Minneapolis, Minn. Mine near Helvetia, Pima Co., Ariz. C. C. Prindle, pres.; R. M. Bennett, vice-pres.; Chas. W. Sexton, sec.-treas. This company reorganized the Helvetia Copper Co., under a plan explained Vol. V. Property formerly was a considerable share interest in the Helvetia, and about 40 undeveloped claims adjoining the Helvetia. Reported idle by company in 1913. MICHIGAN-ARIZONA MINING CO. ARIZONA

Idle. Office: 17 First St., Muskegon, Mich. Mine near Mammoth, Pinal Co., Ariz. S. H. Hamilton, pres.; Theo. P. Swift, sec.-treas. and engr. Organized Aug. 22, 1904, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $5,000,000, shares. $1 par.

Lands, 7 claims, 140 acres, in the Bunker Hill or Copper Creek district, 22 miles from a railway, carrying fissure veins and impregnations in brec- ciated masses of country rock, with porphyritic intrusions. The mine has a 50’ shaft and tunnels of 93’ and 150’, showing cuprite, melaconite, mala- chite, chalcocite and occasional chrysocolla.

Michigan Copper & Gold Mining Co. Utah

Office: 502 Newhouse Bldg., Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine office: Frisco, Beaver Co., Utah. Lawrence Green, pres.; Sam S. Porter, vice- pres.; Geo. Winsness, sec.; Rodney T. Badger, treas.; preceding officers, H. M. Dinwoody, H. G. Williams and R. P. Morris, directors; E. Rum- melmeyer, cons. engr. Organized Dec., 1902, under laws of Utah, capitaliza- tion $300,000, increased, 1911, to $1,000,000, shares $1 par.

Lands, 6 claims, patented, including the New York group, near the Horn Silver mine, 1 mile east of Newhouse, in the San Francisco district three-fourths mile from the railway. Claims are said to show 12 parallel veins intersecting the main contact. Development is by shafts of 80’, 100’ and 200’ and a 50’ tunnel. The mine has a paystreak carrying ore giving assays of 13.3% copper, 2.1% lead and 7.5 oz. silver per ton. Was developing with contract labor, at last accounts.

Michigan Copper Mining Co. Michigan

Office: 15 William St., New York. Mine office: Rockland, Ontonagon

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Co., Mich. Jos. E. Gay, pres.; John R. Stanton, vice-pres. and treas.; J. Wheeler Hardley, sec.; preceding officers, Geo. W. Drucker and Alfred M. Low, directors; Samuel Brady, supt.; Henry Stubensky, clerk.

Organized Jan. 5, 1899, under laws of Michigan, capitalization $2,500,000, shares $25 par; fully issued, $20 paid in. Last assessment was levied 1909. The tompany ended 1912 with quick assets of $16,420 and liabilities $117,772. Old Colony Trust Co., Boston, registrar; American Trust Co., Boston, transfer agent. Annual meeting, first Tuesday in May.

Lands 4,870 acres of mineral territory, 1,466 acres of timber and miscel- laneous lands and a 150-acre mill site, giving total holdings of 6,686 acres, mineral lands being in Secs. 1, 2, 9, 9/40,111,:13,1.14, 15,16, 17,214 22423, 24, 25, 26 and 27, T. 50 N., R. 30 W.

The main tract is 3 miles east and west by 4% miles north and south, in addition to which there are 4 scattering tracts to the westward, 1 of 40 acres, 2 of 80 acres each and 1 of 160 acres, all carrying the outcrop of the Calico amygdaloid. The Michigan lands include the old Minnesota, Rockland and Superior mines. The Superior mine produced 567,331 Ibs. fine copper, 1856-69 and 1876-79. The Rockland, lying next east of the Minnesota, was operated 1853-70, making 6,210,309 Ibs. fine copper from the Minnesota contact vein which averaged about 2’ width and carried considerable silver in that mine. The old Minnesota mine, opened, 1847, closed 1870, made 34,704,668 Ibs. fine copper and paid dividends of $1,820,000. The Minnesota mine is fully described Vol. II.

The Michigan tracts carry the following known copper-bearing beds of the Evergreen belt: Calico, Contact, Minnesota, Branch, North Contact, Knowlton, Mass, Butler, Ogima, North Amyedaloid and South Amygda- loid, and presumably the other parallel beds, in addition to various other unidentified copper-bearing beds of the Keweenawan series. The Knowl- ton, or northernmost of the Evergreen belt of parallel beds, lies about 1,000’ south of the old Minnesota shafts and the 7’ amygdaloidal bed supposed to be the Butler, opened to some extent in Penninsula bluff, 2,000’ south of “B” shaft, shows some heavy copper and stamp rock. There are 3 old shafts on the Butler bed and a tunnel cutting several parallel copper- bearing strata. There also are cupriferous amygdaloidal outcrops north of the Calico bed on which no work has been done.

The Michigan mine has 3 shafts on the Calico bed and about 10 miles of workings. “A” shaft is 2,133’ deep; “B” is bottomed at the 14th level, and “C” at the 11th level. The lode grew steadily poorer with depth and showed a tendency to pinch, being only about 5’ wide on the 16th level of “A” shaft, though well charged with copper. The mine was closed down Oct., 1909, continuing about 25 men in exploratory work until the end of 1910, when the property was turned over to tributors, who continued to scram the mine with some profit to themselves and the company until May, 1913, when all work was stopped.

Buildings include a 30x60’ machine shop, a stone smithy, carpenter shop, warehouse, office and 22x50’ changing house.

The mill, construction of which was begun April, 1906, is about 1 mile north of the Mass mill, on Keweenaw bay, with ample water frontage. Construction was suspended, 1907, though perhaps no more than $10,000 would be required to complete the mill, on which about $175,000 has been expended.

Recent production has been as follows: 2,875,341 Ibs. fine copper in 1906; 2,665,404 lbs. in 1907; 3,000,206 Ibs. in 1908; 1,979,305 Ibs. in 1909; 36,682 lbs. in 1910; 327,773 lbs. in 1911; 162,590 lbs. in 1912. The mine has proven a disappointment, and untoward financial conditions have re-

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stricted the exploratory and development work that are clearly called for, and which probably will be taken in hand vigorously, when the times war- rant. The property is very fully described in Vol X.

Michigan Smelting Co. Michigan

Office: 82 Devonshire St, Boston, Mass. Works- office: Houghton, Houghton Co. Mich. Wm. A. Paine, pres.; John R. Stanton, vice-pres.; Frederic Stanwood, sec.-treas.; Frederick I. Cairns, supt., and Chas. A. Snow, directors; John Mugford, asst. supt. :

Organized 1903, under laws of Michigan, capitalization $500,000, shares $25 par. The entire stock issue is owned by 6 mining companies, the Copper Range group holding 12,000 shares and the Stanton companies 8,000 shares, holdings in shares being as follows: Champion, 4,400 shares; Trimountain, 4,400; Baltic, 3,200; Mohawk, 3,200; Wolverine, 3,200; Atlantic, 1,600. No dividends have been paid, profits having been turned back into improvements. Annual meeting, second Monday in January.

Company owns and operates the Michigan smelter, 3 miles west of Houghton, near the old Atlantic stamp mill, with frontage on Portage lake. It was designed by Frank Klepetko and is the largest and most modern smelter in the Lake Superior district, with a capacity of 90,000,000 Ibs. fine copper yearly.

The plant is terraced throughout, permitting automatic handling of material. The copper ore (locally mineral) is delivered in 40-ton bottom- dumping steel cars by the Copper Range railroad, which also hauls away the refined copper for shipment from the Copper Range wharves in Houghton.

The 3,000-ton storage bins hold 10 days supply for the works. Mineral is dehydrated in rotary dryers by water gases from the furnaces, taken to the furnaces in tram cars and dumped into hoppers on the charging floor. Coal trestles, on an upper level, hold 15,000 tons of hard and soft coal, with tunnels underneath through which fuel is taken in tram cars, descending by gravity to the furnaces and boiler rooms. There also are separate storage bins for charcoal, sand and limestone.

The 160x205’ reverberatory furnace building has three 5-ton traveling cranes. There are 6 furnaces, 2 being 16x36’ each, two 14x23’ each, one 15x18’ and one 16x40’ of 100 tons daily capacity. The two 16x36’ furnaces were built 18x50’, over all, but gave so much trouble that they were cut down to 40’ length.

Alternating with the larger reverberatories are one 300-h. p. and two 200-h. p. Stirling water-tube boilers, heated by waste gases from the fur- naces. After leaving the boilers the gases are drawn through a 6x8’ sub- terranean flue, with arched roof, up the hill to a 150” smokestack, with base 100’ above the furnace building.

The 40x70’ blast-furnace building, of steel and brick, has 2 blast fur- naces. Blister copper is cast, mechanically, in moulds upon a circular casting table, cooled in water, and carried by a link elevator to the loading platform. Slags are carried mechanically to the sampling mill and reduced in a 30-ton crusher of 1,000 tons daily capacity for resmelting. The slag from the final fusion is granulated by water and discharged through launders to low ground northward for grading.

The combination machine shop and power house, of steel and brick has a complete equipment driven by an independent engine, and a 300-h. n Nordberg horizontal tandem-compound engine, driving a 200-kw. gen- erator, actuates the rotary blowers for the blast furnaces. Electric power is used for operating the drying plant, cranes, casting machinery and lighting. There are 3 specially designed Jeffrey electric locomotives, of

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100-tons drawbar pull, taking current from the overhead trolleys, hauling 8 pressed steel Sheffield mineral and coal cars, the tracks reaching all parts of the works.

Miscellaneous buildings include a two-story and basement office and laboratory, of brick, heated by exhaust steam, a 40x60’ iron-sheathed frame warehouse, barn, etc. The plant has two 50’ track scales of 150 tons capacity each, 1 for mineral and 1 for coal and flux, with smaller scales at other points. Water is obtained from the old Atlantic dam, on Cole’s creek, through a 4,300’ flume with capacity of 5,000 gals. per minute, leading to a 50,000-gal. storage tank, 100’ above the works, giving good pressure at all points. The plant is well planned and well handled. i MICHIGAN-UTAH MINING CO. UTAH

Office: 611 Dooly Bik., Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine office: Alta, Salt Lake Co., Utah. Norman W. Haire, pres. and managing director; Jas. B. Edwards, vice-pres.; Edwin G. Wooly, Jr., sec.; L. H. Farnsworth, treas.; other directors, Duncan MacVichie, Jas. A. Pollock, R. H. Strick- land, Wilbur S. Zehring and D. O. Hastings; Wm. B. Fisher, gen. mer.; F. D. Brown, purch. agt.

Organized March 4, 1912, under laws of Delaware, capitalization $2,500,- 000, shares $2.50 par, nonassessable; issued, 500,625 shares. Debentures, $625,000 at 6% authorized; issued, $597,400. Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Co., transfer agent; American Trust Co., Boston, registrar. Annual meet- ing, second Tuesday in September. Shares are listed on the Boston curb.

Lands, 79 claims, 1,000 acres, and a 5-acre mill site, patented, in the Alta district, 18 miles from the Denver 8: Rio Grande railway.

Property shows Paleozoic sediments cut by granite, the ore occurring in fissure veins in limestone, and as contact metamorphic deposits between limestone and granite, having a general strike of N. 65° E., and a dip of 32”, There are 5 distinct and parallel veins, 3 under development, showing average widths of 21%” and traceable 5,000’, are reported to carry about 5% copper, 20% lead, 1% zinc, 34 oz. ‘silver, and $1 gold per ton. Ores are carbonates at and near surface, succeeded below by sulphides.

Development is principally by tunnels, all workings being in the oxide and carbonate zones, but sulphides are proven to occur in depth by work- ings of the Columbus Consolidated Mining Co., near by. Total under- ground openings, 1913, aggregated nearly 50,000’, about one-half being represented by tunnels, drifts and crosscuts that are all in ore, raises and winzes aggregating 10,500’ additional. Ore is transported by aerial tram- way to Tanners flat, 5 miles from the mine, and thence by wagon road and railway to the Midvale smelter. The tram has a maximum capacity of 200 tons daily.

Output, 1912, was 1,500 tons of about 5.5% copper ore. Average cost of mining and smelting per ton of ore was $14.65 and $4.77 respectively.

Equipment includes two 90-h. p. hoists, and a 12-drill Ingersoll Rand air compressor. A small concentrator is run by a 200-h. p. steam plant but mine uses electric power throughout.

Buildings include a 20x50’ machine shop, a carpenter shop, several dwellings and a 20x30’ smithy, Jocated underground as a measure of pro- tection from snow slides, which are of frequent occurrence in this region.

Property considered promising and management good. MICHOACAN RAILWAY & MINING CO., LTD. MEXICO

Address: G. A. Mitchell & Co., secretaries, 2 Suffolk Lane, Cannon St., London, E. C., England. Mine office: Angangueo, Michoacan, Mex. Works office: Ocampo, Zitacuaro, Michoacan, Mex. Henry W. Forster, chairman; G. A. Mitchell and C. H. Potter, directors; J. M. Pircher, representative.

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Organized Jan. 29, 1889, under laws of Great Britain, capitalization £105,- 364, shares £1 par, in £21,015 “A” noncumulative 7% preference shares, £12,190 “B” noncumulative 7% preference shares, £70,745 ordinary shares, and £1,414 founders’ shares; issued, £99,370. Debentures, £27,090 of 5% prior lien bonds, and £103,000 of 4% mortgage bonds. Is in arrears of interest,on mortgage bonds. The railway rights originally held have been disposed of to the Michoacan & Pacific Railway Co., in which the company has a £60,000 share interest in addition to £18,600 bonds held.

Lands 537 hectares known as the Angangueo silver mines, opened by-

tunnels and variously reported to have 14 to 30 kilometers of workings.

The smelter, known as Los Trojes, of 250 tons rated daily capacity, has a 44x163” water-jacket blast furnace, and 8 blowers. Coke and charcoal are burned in equal quantities, latter being made from the company’s own timber. Equipment includes two 4 Pelton water wheels, operated under a 450” head, a small electric plant, and a 150-h. p. auxiliary steam plant. The property was leased, 1909, for 10 years, to the American Smelting & Refining Co.

Midas Copper Co. Alaska

Mine office: Valdez, Alaska. George Baldwin, Wm. Wilson, Geo. C. Trent, A. E. Grigsby, T. J. Devinney, G. H. Plant and John Feinbloom, directors. Organized 1912, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par. Mine bonded to Granby Consolidated Mining, Smelting & Power Co., Ltd., 1913.

Property, 12 claims, 9 in 1 group and 3 in another, in Solomon basin, 790’ above tide water and 6 miles from Valdez bay. Claims show an ore deposit from 25 to 200’ wide, stripped in 8 places and traceable 1,500’, running N. 70° W. and dipping 45° S. W. Ore carries chalcopyrite mixed with pyrite in a slaty gangue, and 100 tons shipped, 1911, carried 8.9% copper and $2 gold with 10% silica and 34% iron.

Development is by a 2,000’ crosscut tunnel with 400’ upper level and 700’ lower level, all in 7% ore. Recent development made under a $540,000 bond by the Alaska Syndicate, Sept., 1912, to June, 1913, consists of” 1,700’ of workings said to block out 200,000 tons of 7% ore. Ore as a whole is said to average about 6% copper and $2.40 gold.

Middle Swansea Mining Co. Utah

Office: 408 South State St., Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine office: Robinson, Juab Co., Utah. Richard B. Shepard, pres. and gen. mgr.; Emma C. Shepard, sec.-treas., at last accounts. Organized 1899, under laws of Utah, capitalization $5,000, shares 1 ct. par; issued, $4,800. Assessments were $3,500 to end of 1910. Annual meeting, first Monday in January.

Lands, 4 claims, unpatented, 70 acres, adjoining the Eureka-Swansea Extension mine, showing quartzite and limestone, with development by shafts of 155’ and 60’. Idle, except for annual assessment work. MIDDLEMARCH COPPER CO. ARIZONA

Office: 212 Henne Bldg., Los Angeles, Cal. Mine office: Middlemarch, Cochise Co., Ariz. H. Bert Ellis, pres.; F. C. Austin, vice-pres.; Wm. King Gird, sec.; Wm. LeMoyne Wills, treas.; preceding officers, Mrs. M. M. O’Gorman and Mrs. Richard Gird, directors; Edw. J. Kelly, supt. Organ- ized April 26, 1907, under laws of California, capitalization $1,000,000, increased March 28, 1906, to $3,000,000, shares $100 par. Absorbed the Cobreloma Consolidated Copper Co., about 1907. Annual meeting, first Monday in April. ;

Lands, 68 claims, 1,360 acres, in the Dragoon mountains, showing sev- eral contact deposits between limestone and granite-porphyry, having a generally northwest strike, with dip of 42 to 54°. The 2 orebodies under

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development, said to be 30 to 80’ wide, show oxidized ores succeeded by chalcopyrite, with some chalcocite. :

Development is by 9 shafts, deepest 210’, and by tunnels of 625’, 450’ and 390’, with 3 others, the total workings being about 2 miles, estimated by management to show 200,000 tons of ore, with 100,000 tons blocked out for stoping in the Missouri mine, with ore in other properties, though not extensively developed.

Equipment includes a 300-h. p. steam plant, 50-h. p. hoist and 4-drill Laidlaw air compressor. There are 12 buildings, including a 30x38’ engine house, 32x38’ boiler house, 30x38’ machine shop and 20x30 smithy.

The reduction plant includes a concentrator and smelter in a 40x100’ building. The mill of 50 tons daily capacity, receiving ore by a 300’ ground tram from the portal of the Missouri tunnel, has an 8x12” Blake crusher, 2 Huntington mills, 2 rolls, 2 Bartlett tables, 1 slime table and 3 sizers. The smelter, when operated, made matte averaging 55 to 70% copper, 20 to 100 oz. silver and 0.25 to 2 oz. gold per ton. Work, 1912, was confined to the Cobreloma claim, about 200’ of new openings showing mainly bornite of about 5% copper tenor. Property considered promising, MIDNIGHT MINE. ARIZONA

Office: care St. Charles Bros., owners, Kingman, Ariz. Mine near Chloride, Mohave Co., Ariz. Daniel S. Richards, superintendent, at last accounts. Mine has a deposit of gold-coppér ore developed by a 200’ shaft. Equipment includes a 10-stamp mill and concentrator turning out about 50 tons of concentrate a month in the summer of 1913, shipped to the Copper Queen smelter at Douglas, Ariz.

Midway Copper Mining Co. Utah

Presumably dead, as Utah corporation tax has not been paid for

several years. MILAN MINING & MILLING CO. NEW HAMPSHIRE ; Office: P. O. Box 666, Portland, Me. Mine office: Milan, Coos Co., N. H.' F, H. Bradford, pres. R. C. Bradford, treas., and J. B. Carper, direc- tors; D. R. Andrews, supt. Organized Aug., 1907, under laws of Maine, capitalization $100,000, shares $100 par, nonassesgable.

Lands, 400 acres, freehold, including 240 acres of mineral lands, 140 acres of timber land and a 20-acre mill site. The property, first operated 1875-80, shows pre-Cambrian slates, schist and serpentine, carrying 2 over- lapping lenses, of 3 to 10' width, in an ore channel, in mica-schist, having a generally N. W. strike, with average dip of 70°. One lens, under de- velopment, of 4 minimum and 20’ maximum width, is reported by the company as traceable 8,000’, and to average 2% copper, 4% zinc, 25% sulphur, 1 oz. silver and $1 gold per ton. Development is by 4 short tun- nels, and 2 shallow shafts.

Equipment includes a 150-h. p. steam plant, with a 35-h. p. hoist and a 20-drill air compressor. There are 10 frame buildings, including machine shop, smithy and carpenter shop.

The mill is equipped with two 10x20” Dodge crushers, 2 sets of rells, 5 Wilfley tables, 1 slime table and a Richards classifier, making concen- trates carrying about 1.25 to 1.75% copper, and 42 to 45% sulphur.

The property is served by the Grand Trunk railway with a siding to the mine and mill, An automobile has been transformed into a locomotive, by replacing the rubber-tired wheels with flanged iron wheels.

The complany plans manufacturing sulphurous gas, from lump pyrites and second-grade pyritic concentrates, pumping the gas 8 miles in a 2” pipeline to sulphite manufacturers and selling the cinder to smelters for

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copper values. Management estimates costs at 75 cts. per ton for mining and 50 cts. for concentrating. MILITARY MINING & MILLING CO., ‘LTD. IDAHO

Office and mine: Burke, Shoshone Cos! Idaho. Fred Bergen, pres.; A Capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par. Lands, 2 claims near Burke showing a 5’ vein said to be traceable 2,000”, carrying copper with quartz and quartzite gangue, developed by a 57’ shaft. Dormant several years.

Miller Hill Mining Co. Utah

Idle. Office: Knight Block, care Knight Bros. Provo, Utah. Mine office: American Fork, Utah Co., Utah. Jesse Knight, pres.; J. C. Jensen, vice-pres.; R. E. Allen, sec.-treas. Capitalization $100,000, shares 10 cts. par. Shares are listed on the Salt Lake Stock Exchange. Lands, 23 claims, adjoining the Mineral Flat mine, developed by shaft, with about 400” of workings.

Miller Mining & Smelting Co. Utah

Office: P. O. Box 7, Salt Lake City, Utah. W. A. Wilson, general manager. Lands, 10 claims, patented, 56 acres, in American Fork canyon. Ore carries a little copper, with mainly gold, silver and lead values. Man- agement reports production of $1,€00,000 to end of 1912. Company inactive at present and property shut down.

Mills & Co., Chas. S. Mexico

Idle. Office and mine:.Sierra de Oro, Horcasitas, Sonora, Mex. Chas. S. Mills, managing partner. Property, the Sierra de Oro mine, 81 hectares, 28 miles from Pesqueira, adjoining the Sultana and San Jose mines of the Giroux Consolidated Mines Co. Lands carry extensions of the Giroux veins and other contact deposits, in limestone, adjoining porphyry in- trusions and rhyolite flows. Claims have 5 veins of 2 to 100’ width, carrying copper, silver and gold, with a little nickel, cobalt and platinum. Develop- ment is by a 100’ shaft and a 440’ tunnel.

Equipment includes steam power, and a 20-ton stamp mill and con- centrator. Mine closed down.

Mina Mexico Co. Mexico

Is the operating and Mexican company of the Chicago Exploration & Development Co., operating the Mexico mine, 45 miles from Tonichi, Sonora, Mex. W. E. Pomeroy, mgr.; Geo. B. Squire, supt. of smelter; Chas. Gercken, mine supt. Has 85-ton charcoal burning smelter. Was working up to Sept., 1913, and reported to have 500 tons of copper con- centrate carrying 100 oz. silver per ton ready for treatment.

Mineral Farm Development Co. Arizona

Office: 64 W. Randolph St., Chicago. Property, the Mineral Farm group of 21 claims, 2 miles northeast of Globe, under bond and lease from Globe Mining Co.

Lands show altered sedimentary and igneous rocks, with iron dikes and a complex fissure system. There are 2 veins of 4’ and 20’ width, carry- ing gold and silver-bearing copper ore of good grade. Development is by a 400’ shaft.

Equipment includes a 60-h. p. boiler, 8x10” hoist and an air compressor. Company had 3 men engaged in development work at last accounts. MINERAL FLAT EXTENSION MINING & MILLING CO. UTAH

Letters unclaimed at Provo, Utah. Mine office: Carbonate, Juab Co., Utah. Jos. I. Bullock, pres.; F. E. Brown, sec.; Wm. H. Horner, supt. Or- ganized March, 1909, under UONE Utah, capitalization $50,000, shares Sects: par, assessable. Property, 2 miles south of Alta, in Little Cottonwood dis- trict, White Pine canyon. Claims show a 3’ vein of auriferous and argen-

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tiferous copper ore, giving assays up to 50% copper, also silver-lead ores, developed by tunnel and shaft, with drifting on vein. Company has kept up assessment work on its unpatented claims. i

MINERAL FLAT MINING Co. UTAH

Office: Provo, Utah. Mine office: American Fork, Utah Co., Utah. Jesse Knight, pres.; J. C. Jensen, mgr. Organized under laws of Utah, cap- italization ‘$100,000, shares 10 cts. par, assessable. Shares are listed on the Salt Lake Stock Exchange. Company’s statement of Sept. 1, 1911, showed receipts of $3,292 for the preceding year with balance on hand of $657. Company’s only source of revenue is the rental of $50 a month received for the use of its power plant. Lands, 22 claims, partly patented, 25 miles from a railway, carrying lead and copper ores. The mine, developed rather poorly, has a 100’ shaft and tunnels of About 1,500’ aggregate length, upper levels showing occasional bunches of good ore, but without continuity of payable mineral. Equipment includes a hydro-electric plant, with a 9,000’ pipe line and several buildings. Idle since June, 1910, except for annual assessment work.

Mineral Hill Consolidated Copper Co. Arizona

Office: 331 Fourth Ave., Pittsburg, Pa. Mine office: Tucson, Pima Go., Ariz. M. S. Isherwood, pres.; Boon Ingells, vice-pres.; E. B. Reeser, sec.- treas. and gen. mgr. Organized March, 1904, under laws of Arizona, as suc- cessor of Azurite Copper & Gold Mining Co., capitalization $3,000,000, shares $1 par.

Property, the Azurite mine with 26 claims, 12 patented, 520 acres, in the San Xavier district, 18 miles southwest of Tucson. The Azurite group of 13 claims is said to have produced $550,000 worth of ore under former own- ership. Company’s lands also include the American group of 8 claims and the Mineral Hill group of 5 claims. The mine is claimed to have a large body of sulphide ore averaging about 3.5% copper.

Development is by 74 pits and open cuts, 8 tunnels, mostly short, long- est being 250’, and 48 shafts, mostly shallow, deepest being 345’, mine hav- ing a total of about 1 mile of workings. The company operated in 1912 but closed down in Sept., 1913. An Edison electric concentrator has been or- dered for the mine according to the press.

Mineral Hill Tunnel & Copper Mining Co. Washington

Address: F. E. Houghton, Room 1140 Old South Bldg., Boston, Mass. Mine office: Danville, Ferry Co., Wash. Lewis A. Crosby, pres.; A. L. Bradley, gen. mgr. Organized 1906, as: successor of Minnehaha Copper € Gold Mining Co., capitalization $2,000,000, shares $1 par.

Lands, 700 acres, in 8 groups, about 5 miles from the Granby smelter, lying at an average distance of 2 miles south of the international boundary line, in the Curlew district, Ferry county, Wash. The Minnehaha group, 4 claims, 80 acres, has several shafts, deepest 500’, and a 3,000” tunnel, the upper workings showing a vein of low-grade auriferous copper ore, with a 12” paystreak of ore of good average assay tenor. Idle and in process of reorganization.

Mineral Lands Company. Utah

Idle. Office: 36 Exchange St., Portland, Me, Mine address: Bingham Canyon, Utah. J. A. Waterman, treas. Organized, 1913, under laws of Maine, capitalization $500,000, shares $5 par. Company owns entire cap- ital stock of the Markham Gulch Mining & Milling Co.

Property, the Red Wing and Butler-Liberal mines, with about 300 acres in Markham gulch, formerly owned by the North Utah Co. of Bingham, Utah. The claims carry the Florence and Erie fissures, latter having been a good producer in the upper levels. Development is mainly by tunnels,

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with about 5 miles of workings, showing ores carrying lead, silver, copper and gold values, in about the order named.

Equipment includes a good machinery plant, with a 200-h. p. electric hoist, and a 12-drill Franklin air compressor.

Mineral Mining Co. Arizona

Address: Kingman, Mohave Co., Ariz. Company said to be drilling a group of claims south of Kingman held under lease and bond, Oct., 1913. MINERAL MOUNTAIN MINING CO. UTAH

Mine address: Lucin, Box Elder Co., Utah. C. F. Whipple, managing director. Organized March, 1909, under laws of Utah, capitalization $100,- 000, shares 10 cts. par.

Property, 7 claims, patented, developed by tunnel, showing a contact deposit between limestone and porphyry. Ore occurs principally as re- placements in the limestone, carrying mainly silver and lead, with a little malachite at and near surface. Was developing with small force, at last accounts.

Mineral Point Mining Co. Arizona

Idle. Property, 15 claims, in the Black Hills range, 8 miles from Junc- tion, Yavapai Co., Ariz. Mine has a 225’ shaft said to show a 2’ vein of sulphide ore, carrying good values in copper, silver and gold.

Mines Development Co. Of Nevada. Nevada

Office and mine: Lovelock, Humboldt Co., Nev. John T. Reid, pres., treas. and gen. mgr.; Paul G. Reid, sec. and supt.; preceding officers, R. C. Moore, J. Thies, Peter Ancher and E. T. Loring, directors. Organized Sept. 1, 1904, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $750,000, shares $1 par; issued, $447,996.

Lands, 5 claims, 100 acres, in the Juniper Mountain district, showing various fissure veins, alongside of quartz porphyry dikes, intrusive in mon- zonite. Veins run north 10° west and are nearly vertical. The vein developed averages 5’ wide, is traceable for 2,000’ and proven to 170” depth. Small seams of ore found at or near surface show chalcocite, bornite and tetra- hedrite, giving average assays of 2% copper, 11 oz. silver and $3.50 gold per ton. Development is by a 30’ shaft and 365’ tunnel. Company plans resumption of work, 1913, and 1,000’ of new development.

Mingus Mountain Copper Co., Ltd. Arizona

Office: 516 Grant Bldg., Los Angeles, Cal. Mine near Jerome, Yavapai Co., Ariz. W. W. Thomas, pres.; A. Gleason, sec., at last accounts. Organ- ized March, 1900, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $3,000,000, shares $1 par; issued, $2,400,000.

Lands, 5 claims, 100 acres, in the Black Hills district, 12 miles south of Jerome, the nearest railroad point. Claims show 3 fissure veins carrying oxide and sulphide ores, 1 vein having a claimed extreme width of 40’ and said to be traceable 4,000’, giving good surface showings of carbonate ores, assaying up to 16% copper. Development is by shaits of 120’, 430’, 250’ and 370’, with several tunnels, giving a total of 4,240’ of workings.

Equipment includes a 50-h. p. steam plant, with 2 hoists, good for 1,000’ each, and several mine buildings. Out of cash and idle some years. MINING ISSUES CO. y NEW YORK

Was organized to finance the Inspiration Copper Co. Paid a single dividend of 218%, and was dissolved, 1911. : MINNEAPOLIS COPPER CO. MEXICO

Office: 550 Security Bldg., Minneapolis, Minn. Mine address: Cumpas, via Nacozari, Sonora, Mex. Geo. H. Heising, pres.; M. K. Emery, sec.; Wm. Kemp, gen. mgr. Organized June, 1906, under laws of South Dakota, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $10 par, nonassessable, and is organized

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under laws.of Mexico as Minneapolis Copper Co., S. A., the South Dakota corporation being a holding company. Is operated in the United States under the title of Minneapolis Copper Development Co., the reason for which has not been explained.

Lands, 277 hectares, about 30 miles southeast of Cumpas. Property carries several fissure veins, in andesite, with northeast strike, of which 4, under development, are of 5 to 8’ estimated average width, carrying tetra- hedrite, estimated by company to average 10% copper, with traces of lead and zinc, 5 to 40 oz. silver, and $1 and upwards in gold, with occasional very high assays. The property has been under development continuously with a small force, since the company took it in 1906. The 155’ Fryer shaft: develops a 4’ vein carrying ore said to average about 9% copper and 20 oz. silver per ton.

The Archipelago mine, the principal property, has a 250’ incline shaft, and the mine as a whole has about 8,000’ of workings, mostly in ore.

Equipment includes a 35-h. p. gasoline hoist and there are 5 buildings of stone, including a 40x120’ general quarters building, housing the office, store, etc. There is also a 75-ton smelter, built in 1912, and company, early 1913,

was making 8 to 10 tons matte daily, which was being shipped to the Cop- per Queen smelter.

Transportation is by wagon-road to Cumpas, freight being carried in two 90-h. p. gaso-electric trucks.

Mine was reopened in the summer of 1913 and the smelter reported to“ be working, but in September property was closed down and creditors were trying to get a satisfactory settlement without taking over the property. MINNEAPOLIS-CORBIN COPPER CO. " MONTANA

Office: 10 South Fourth St., Minneapolis, Minn. Mine address: Corbin, Jefferson Co., Mont. Philip B. Winston, pres.; Albert H. Hall, sec.; Thos. F. McCue, treas.; Patrick Meany, gen. mgr., at last accounts. Organized April 23, 1909, under laws of Minnesota, capitalization $500,000, shares $5 par, assessable.

Lands, 7 claims, 140 acres, in process of patenting, near the Alta and Boston & Corbin mines. Property is said to carry 9 large fissure veins, principal being the Moonlight, estimated at more than 100’ in width, with 2 veins on the Anaconda claim said to be 15’ and 50’ in width, respectively. Development is by No. 1 incline shaft, of 176' depth, and No. 2 vertical shaft, of 240’, with 380’ of workings. Stringers of rich ore have been en- countered in the vertical shaft from a depth of 30’ to the bottom, which shows streaks of chalcocite, and the entire vein at the bottom is estimated to average about 4% copper, 8 to 10 oz. silver and 80 cts. to $1.40 gold per ton. Property idle and company dormant,

Minnesota-Arizona Copper Co. Arizona

Office: Willmar, Minn. Mine office: Copper Creek, Graham Co., Ariz. Col, Frank J. Sibley, pres.; Martin E. Tew, vice-pres.; Walter De La Hunt, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, E. Osterholf, R. W. Stanford and J. Emil Nelson, directors; R. Roy Sibley, gen. mgr.; C. S. Gesler, supt. Organized April 29, 1908, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $3,000,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable; issued, about $2,000,000. Annual meeting, second Tues- day in April. Company is closely affiliated in management and ownership with Calumet & Copper Creek Mining Co., and apparently is a subsidiary of that concern.

Lands, 9 claims, 190 acres, in the Bunker Hil! district, adjoining the Calumet & Copper Creek holdings, in 2 groups, southern of 4 claims. The Silver Reef claim, in the southern group, is claimed to show a rich vein of cuprite at surface and has a 40’ shaft. The Kimbro claim has a 100’ shaft

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with a 25-h. p. electric hoist, and the Lead Carbonate claim has a 100' tunnel showing lead and copper sulphides. Company reports country rock as granodiorite, with porphyry intrusions, ore being carried in the original magma, with 7 known orebodies, of which 3, under development, are re- ported to show oxidized ores near surface, succeeded by bornite and chal- cocite, with chalcopyrite below 200’ depth. The Lead Carbonate claim is said to carry a 10’ vein of auriferous and argentiferous galena. Company reports 2,000” of workings, with 1 body of disseminated copper ore of 72 width, and estimates ore to average 3.25% copper. Electric power is taken from the Calumet & Copper Creek Mining Co. Unfavorably regarded.

Minnesota Nevada Investment Co. Nevada

Office: 436 Endicott Bidg., St. Paul, Minn. Mine near Fairview, Churchill Co., Nev. Alf. Patterson, pres.; O. S. Deringer, sec.; M. P. Ryan, treas.; A. A. Day, gen. mgr.; Chas. A. Peet, mg, engr. Organized Aug. 6, 1906, under laws of Oklahoma, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par; issued, $690,000. Annual meeting, Aug. 6.

Property, 28 claims, 160 acres placer ground, total about 750 acres, on Chalk mountain, 3%4 miles north of Fairview. Claims said to show several orebodies, of which 3, under development, are 6’ average width and proven to depth of 126’, showing 2% copper, 32% lead, 26 oz. silver and $8 to $20 gold per ton.

Development consists of 3 shafts, deepest being 126’. Company reports a shipment of 2 tons to the Hazen smelter, 40 miles distant, which netted $82 per ton, values being mostly in lead and silver.

Company succeeded to the property of the Corinthian Mining Co. and Chalk Mountain Copper Co.

Minong Copper Co. Michigan

Office: 122 Winder St., Detroit, Mich. Louis O. Broadwell, pres.; Hugh A. McPherson, sec. Organized Dec. 16, 1874, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $25 par.

Lands, 1,455 acres in Secs. 22, 23, 26, 27, 34 and 35, T. 66 N., R. 35 W., lying at the head of McCargo’s Cove on Isle Royale. Property shows a line of ancient pits, largest. 400’ and about 1% miles long, showing very extensive ancient operations. Idle since about 1881.

Miser’S Chest Mine. New Mexico

In the Lordsburg district, Grant Co., N. M. Reported to be shipping silicious copper-gold ores to the El Paso smelter.

Missabe-Morenci Development Co. Arizona

Idle. Office: 21 Fourth Ave. West, Duluth, Minn. Mine near Morenci, Graham Co., Ariz. Richard Lakenan, pres.; I. H. Knapp, sec.-treas., at last SAC Organized under laws of Arizona, capitalization $600,000, shares

par.

Lands, 15 claims, 300 acres, the Stevens, Campbell and Dell Potter claims being owned outright, with the Dick Lakenan group of 12 claims, 8 patented, held under bond and lease. Property, in Gold gulch, is 2 miles southwest of Morenci. Company has side-line agreements with the Arizona Copper Co., Ltd., and Detroit Copper Mining Co. The Campbell claim is said to have produced $45,000 worth of very rich ore. The mine has a 300’ shaft, with steam power and hoist.

Missoula Copper Mining Co. Idaho

Office and mine: Mullan, Shoshone Co., Idaho. Henry Billberg, pres.; C. A. Barnes, vice-pres.; Thos. G. Kennedy, sec.-treas.; R. J. McLeod, gen. mgr.; preceding officers, Harry Cheney, J. N. Thennes and John Brown, directors. Organized 1901, under laws of Idaho, capitalization $100,000, in- creased, 1907, to $1,500,000, shares $1 par, assessable; issued, $1,350,000,

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Shares are listed on the Spokane and Vancouver stock exchanges. Annual meeting, first Tuesday in November.

Lands, 10 claims, about 175 acres, at the head of Deadman gulch, ad- joining the Lucky Calumet, and about 11% miles northwest of the Snow- storm, in the Hunter district. Property has a strong fissure vein, of 85' maximum width, in Revett quartzite, carrying native copper, cuprite, azur- ite, malachite, bornite and chalcopyrite, with values mainly in sulphides, ranging in tenor from about 1%, on the hanging wall, to 8% on the foot- wall, with high-grade streaks, ore averaging about one-half oz. silver per unit of copper. The property also carries some argentiferous galena.

Development consists of a 1,400’ upper tunnel and a 2,800’ lower tunnel, with a connecting shaft and nearly 1 mile of workings. The main tunnel runs N. 30° E. for 1,900’, then N. 70° E. for 700', passing from purple St. Regis slates at the portal into Revett quartzite. (Geology described U. S. G. S. Bull. 540, E, p 48, 1913.)

Equipment includes a 100-h. p. electric plant, with an 8-drill air com- pressor and necessary mine buildings.

The management plans driving a third tunnel of 5,500’, as the National Copper Co. has recently opened up very large amounts of copper ore on what is supposedly the same orebody at 1,000’ greater depth. The company will probably start development on this level during the winter. ` Property considered promising.

Missouri Copper Mountain Mining Co. Missouri

Office: 323 West Seventh St., Sedalia, Mo. Works office: Sullivan, Franklin Co., Mo. L. M. Barnard, pres.; W. D. Scoble, vice-pres.; Wm. H. H. Myers, sec. Organized Jan., 1903, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,500,000, shares $1 par; issued, $1,396,000.

Lands, about 7,000 acres in Crawford and Washington counties, Mis- souri, this including some farm lands. The Copper Hill mine, 32 acres, worked in a small way before 1850, shows an orebody with a good gossan in magnesian limestone. Development is by a 140’ shaft and about 1,200’ of tunnels. In 1913 company was making an opencut, 40 wide and 200 long at base of hill, showing 30’ of ore running as high as 36.3% copper. Ore deposit shows carbonate and sulphide ores, with a hematite gangue claimed by tħe company to average about 12% copper. The lands are also claimed to carry iron ore, lead, nickel, zinc and coal.

Equipment includes a 60-h. p. steam plant, with 2 hoists good for depth of 300.

The reduction plant includes a mill and smelter, former having a Blake crusher, 18” and 22” rolls, 4 New Century jigs, a Card table and hydraulic classifiers. The smelter has a 30-ton Allis-Chalmers blast furnace and a Connersville blower.

Company plans to work its large iron deposits open cast, to do which it will be necessary to first remove an overburden of 70 to 120 thickness. This work was expected to be in progress some time in 1913.

Mizpah Cons. Copper & Gold Mining Co. Nevada

Office: East Ely, Nev. Eastern office: 913 Crozier Bldg., Philadelphia, Pa. Mine office: Mizpah, Elko Co., Nev. Robt. T. Seagrave, pres.; Harry Darlington, sec. and gen. mgr.; H. P. Cryst, treas.; John F. Crow, supt. Organized April 7, 1907, under laws of South Dakota, capitalization $1,000,- 000, shares $1 par, nonassessable; issued, $751,250. Annual meeting, third Monday in January. i ;

Lands, 23 claims, unpatented, 460 acres in the Dolly Varden district, 20 miles east of Mizpah, on Nevada Northern railroad, and 5 miles from its tracks. Claims show several orebodies occurring :as fissure veins in

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granite and as contact deposits between granite and rhyolite, of which 1, under development, is estimated by the management at 200” width, carry- ing mainly bornite and chalcopyrite ore. Development is by a 70’ two- partment shaft showing a 3’ orebody, giving maximum assays of about 15% copper, 8 oz. silver and $18 gold per ton, which are not to be considered as average ore values. Company is now driving a tunnel 1,260’ long in August, expected to cut ore at about 1,400’. Property considered promising. MIZPAH COPPER MINING CO., LTD. IDAHO

Address W. R. Belvail, Palouse, Wash. Mine office: Harvard, Latah Co., Idaho. C. E. Frederick, pres.; J. C. Northrup, vice-pres. and gen. mgr.; W.. F. Chalenor, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, E. R. Northrup and F. P. Miller, directors; J. J. Stanford, engr. Organized Sept. 4, 1906, under laws of Washington, capitalization $1,500,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable. A $50,000 bond authorization is unissued.

Lands, 18 claims, 318 acres, sometimes known as the Hoodoo mine, well watered and timbered, on Copper mountain, near the Palouse river, in the Hoodoo district, Latah county, about 40 miles from. Palouse, with a 20-mile wagon-road to Harvard, and 10 miles from the Puget Sound rail- way. The property shows quartzite and schist, with 8 fissure veins in quartzite, serpentine and schist, having a northeast strike, and dip of about 40°. The 2 being developed are estimated by the management at 40’ aver- age width, carrying cuprite, malachite, chalcocite and chalcopyrite, latter ¡associated with pyrrhotite, with quartz and limestone gangue, said by man- agement to average 6% copper, 2 oz. silver and $2 gold per ton. The veins are traceable 2,000’ on the company’s lands by outcrops showing carbon- ates, and there are intrusive porphyry dikes.

Recent development consists of No. 5 crosscut tunnel, 700’ long to cut vein 250’ below old workings, Other work includes the 50’ Baby Grand shaft, sunk in gossan and leached ore, connected with No. 3 tunnel by a 175” winze. There are 5 tunnels, No. 1, the Hecla tunnel, being a crosscut, tapping the vein at 81’, with a little drifting thereon. No. 2 tunnel is a 150’ crosscut showing good ore. No. 3 tunnel, above Nos. 1 and 2, is 500’, in a vein carrying chalcopyrite ore. No. 4 tunnel, known as the Chalenor, cuts at 70’ from the portal a 50’ vein with drifts thereon showing chalcopy- rite ore. The mine as a whole has 2,000’ of workings, estimated by the management to show 100,000 tons of ore.

Equipment includes 60- h. p. gasoline power, with a 3-drill air com- pressor, and there are 16 buildings with accommodations for about 50 men.

A 50-ton concentrator is planned. Property shut down March and re- opened Aug., 1913, employing 9 men.

,MOCTEZUMA-ARIZPE DEVELOPMENT CO, S. A. MEXICO See Mexican Metals Co.; also Vol. VI. MOCTEZUMA COPPER CO. MEXICO

Office: 99 John St., New York. Mine office: Nacozari, Moctezuma, Sonora, Mex. Dr. Jas. Douglas, pres.; Arthur Curtis James, vice-pres.; Geo. Notman, sec.-treas.; J..S. Williams, Jr., gen. mer.

Organized 1896, under laws of West Virginia, capitaliaztion $3,000,000; issued, $2,600,000. Is controlled through entire stock ownership by Phelps, Dodge & Co., Inc., and holds direct title to lands through Moctezuma Copper Co. S. A., organized Feb. 4, 1896, under laws of Mexico, with capi- talization 500,000 pesos. Dividends were 77%, or $2,262,000, 1902-07, with ‘no dividend in 1908, $988,000 in 1909, and $2,118,569 in 1912. Surplus, Dec. 31, 1912, after writing off $427,645.92 for depreciation, was $2,968,631.52.

Property, about 2,000 acres of mineral land in the Moctezuma and Arizpe districts of Sonora, including the Pilares de Nacozari mine 6 miles

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east of Nacozari, and the company also owns the Juarez and Nicolas ranches of about 35,000 acres, which carry considerable valuable timber.

The Pilares mine lies in a high and precipitous country near the divide of the Yaqui and Oposura rivers. The ore deposit is a large pipe, or chim- ney, of rock breccia cemented by ore. The rock fragments are angular, of all sizes up to masses over a ton in weight and consist of creamy-tinted, hard but altered fine-grained felsitic, rhyolitic porphyry. The orebody has. an elliptical cross section 2,000’ long and 600’ wide. The ore carries chal- copyrite with pyrite and some bornite, the ore being mostly of concen- trating grade, averaging 2.3% copper as mined. The deposit has no clearly- defined footwall and the hanging dips at an angle of about 80°. There is a small outcrop of rich carbonate ore, but croppings are mainly red-stained porphyry, carrying considerable low-grade hematite. The leached zone is about 20’ in depth only, with payablé ore coming in at depth of about 60’.

In addition to the Pilares mine, the company owns a number of other properties that have been operated for several years past by lessees, these mines including the Churunibabi, Bella Union, Fortuna, San Francisco, El Vaquero and San Pedro. The Bella Union has high-grade ore, including oxides and native copper, shipments assaying up to 39% in copper tenor, with small gold and silver values. The Churunibabi property, operated by Col. Norton Hand for several years, yielding $100,000 worth of silver ore, will hereafter be operated by the company, a rich gold-silver-copper ore- ‘body having been struck July, 1913.

The mine is worked by 3 shafts, 1 at each end of the orebody, and by the Porvenir adit-tunnel, a mile long, which taps the deposit 600’ below the surface, the 25-ton narrow-gauge railway cars running from Nacozari into the tunnel direct to the mine ore chutes. The mine has three 3-compart- ment main working shafts, the Guadalupe 1,100’, the Pilares 1,000’ deep and the Esperanza shaft, 700’ deep. The Porvenir tunnel has storage bins in a 25x100’ chamber to which ore is milled down from the upper workings, no ore being hoisted, all ore as broken being sent in chutes to the tunnel. Ore is hauled by 6-ton General Electric locomotives in 25-ton Ingoldsby steel side-dumping cars, in trains of 7, to the portal. where steam locomo- tives take the cars.

The mine is opened by levels 100’ apart, every alternate level being used as a stoping base, the others for ventilation, waste and supply dis- tribution and development. Up to the present most of the output comes ` from above the tunnel level known as the 700.

The mine employs 2 methods of ore extraction, the room-and-pillar with waste filling as work progresses, and the newer method of shrinkage stoping with waste filling after all of the ore has been extracted.

The mine has some enormous stopes, No. 4 stope, on the 3d level, having been 85’ high, 125’ wide and 150’ long. The ground stands very well and the systems of extraction used give minimum timber requirements at a cost of only a few cents per ton of ore mined. Costs are about 3 pesos per metric ton for ore loaded on the tram cars. No water is hoisted above the Porvenir tunnel level and very little water is raised from the workings below. The mine is well ventilated and is equipped with electric lights.

The Pilares orebody is one of the largest in the world and is com- parable, in many respects with that of the Rio Tinto. Ore reserves devel- oped are estimated as sufficient for 5 years’ continuous production, at 2,000 tons daily, and only about 60% of the ground above the 7th level has been opened, leaving 40% for later development. Company is reported, 1913, to plan deepening the 3 shafts from 1,000 to 1,500’, connecting on that level. by

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drifts as the orebody shows no decrease in value at 110’ depth. The Guada- lupe is to be the main working shaft.

Mining equipment includes new electric hoists and a 25-drill air com- pressor. There is an emergency steam plant at the mine having 2 boilers held in reserve in case of accident, but electricity is used throughout.

The power plant, at Nacozari, includes a plant, built 1908, having four 435-h. p. Stirling water-tube boilers, equipped with Green fuel economizers, Foster superheaters and Rooney stokers, burning New Mexican coal, hav- ing a 196' reinforced concrete stack. The plant has three 1,000-kw. Curtis turbo-generators giving a 6,600-volt current, and an auxiliary 50-kw. steam turbine generator set is used as an exciter. Current is transmitted at 6,600 volts to the mine and mill and at the mine is stepped down to 230 volts for the pumps, while the hoists and electric locomotives use a 250-volt direct current. An old gas engine plant is described Vol. X.

The mine is connected with the mill by a 6-mile 20”-gauge railway, making a considerable detour to avoid bad grades. Rolling stock includes four 60-ton locomotives and twenty 30-ton Ingoldsby steel side-dumping cars.

The 2,000-ton concentrator, designed and built by H. Kenyon Burch, at a cost of about $1,000,000, is one of the most complete and efficient in ex- istence. The mill is in 2 sections, both of steel frame, on concrete founda- tions. All elevators and tanks in the mill are of reinforced concrete and all launders for concentrates and tailings are below the floor.

The crushing plant receives ore from the mine in 6,000-ton bins, whence it is fed by 2 automatic ore feeders, of special design, to grizzlies, with bars set 214” apart, oversize going to a No. 8 gyratory crusher, and undersize to a belt-conveyor, meeting material from the crusher, and going by belt conveyor to two 4x10” manganese trommels, with 116” perforations. Under- size from the trommels goes to belt conveyors and oversize from the trom- mels goes to No. 5 gyratory crushers, breaking the material to 1” cubes, which joins the material from the trommels and is sent by belt conveyors to 4,000-ton storage bins.

Each unit of the mill is equipped with 6 coarse and 12 fine jigs, 3 sets of rolls, Swain classifiers, Callow screens, 44 Wilfley tables and 72 Johnson vanners. From the storage bins the ore is fed by a portable ore feeder to a belt conveyor, passing over an automatic weighing machine and sampler delivering it to an 18-mm. trommel. This trommel screens the ore, the coarse pieces going to bull jigs and undersize to 11-mm. trommels; the lat- ter feed oversize to coarse jigs and undersize to 7-mm. trommels. These trommels in turn feed oversize to intermediate jigs and undersize to 4-mm. trommels, whose oversize goes in its turn to 2-mm. trommels; oversize from latter goes to fine jigs. The undersize from the 2-mm. trommels goes to 22-mesh Callow screens and thence to Wilfley tables handling oversize and undersize.

Slimes from the Wilfleys go to the vanner settling tanks and mid- dlings from the Wilfleys go to Chilean mills by elevators. Tailings from the bull jigs, coarse jigs and intermediate jigs go to either of 3 sets of 42x16” rolls, then by elevator to the mixing-box at the head of the trom- mels. Tailings from the fine jigs go to dewatering machines, and overflow from dewatering machines goes to vanner settling tanks, dewatered ma- terial going to the jig tailings bin and thence to Chilean mills, crushing to pass a'2/-mm. screen and thence to Callow screens of 22-mesh. Product

is a concentrate of about 12% copper tenor, about 85% of the assay value being saved.

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An aerial tramway carries tailings from the concentrator to a dump on the hillside, far above the river level.

Water is pumped from a well sunk at the side of the river by 1 triplex and 3 Worthington pumps, of 500 gals. capacity per minute, to 500,000-gal. tanks at the mill. Wash water from the concentrates is settled and re- used. A large dam 3 miles east of Nacozari, 90’ in height, stores water sufficient for 2 years steady operation of the mill.

The old 600-ton concentrator, in 2 sections, fully described Vol. IX, is out of commission, but is by no means antiquated or inefficient, being avail- able for use on immediate notice.

The smelter, described Vol. IX, has been cold since Sept., 1904, con- centrates and ore being shipped to the Copper Queen smelter, at Douglas.

Equipment includes a complete plant of shops and warehouses, includ- ing a good brick machine shop. The company built and owns the entire town of Nacozari, and a town at the Piíares mine, with a considerable num- ber of comfortable houses, and a school. At Nacozari the company main- tains both English and Spanish schools for the children of employes, a well-equipped hospital and a free library, and amusement hall. The com- pany maintains large stores and conducts a profitable mercantile business, both at Nacozari and Pilares. At Nacozari 2 saloons are permitted, 1 for Mexicans and 1 for other races. The company also owns and manages a hotel, water works, an electric light plant and a 10-ton ice plant.

Forces normally are 1,300 men at the mine and mill, of which the great majority are Mexicans, with a few Japanese, no American labor be- ing employed at the mine aside from shift-bosses and timbermen. Mining is performed under contract at 7 to 11 pesos per foot, and the larger part of the tramming is done by contract also, the mine proper employing about 200 miners, 80 carmen and 75 contractors.

Recent production has been as follows: 10,160,016 lbs. fine copper in 1905; 12,714,726 lbs. in 1906; 9,640,390 lbs. in 1907; 15,522,580 lbs. in 1908; 25,011,838 lbs. in 1909; 22,681,472 lbs. in 1910; 25,512,658 lbs. in 1911 and 32,080,099 lbs. in 1912, The Moctezuma is one of the world's really great copper mines and the management is of the best.

Moctezuma Mine. Arizona

Property near Globe, Ariz. Mrs. L. C. Woods and Mrs. Ike Elliott, owners. Mine is opened by a 75' shaft, showing a 2’ vein of black sulphides of about 3.5% copper tenor.

Moctezuma Mining Co. Mexico

Office: San Antonio, Tex. Mine address: Charcas, San Luis Potosi, Mex. Otto Wahrmund, pres.; A. L. Tuttle, supt. Property shows chal- copyrite ore, estimated to average 4 to 5% copper, with small silver values. Mine idle since 1907 and company dormant.

Modern Copper Mining Co. Arizona

Office: 1 Waverly Place, Utica, N. Y. Mine office: Bisbee, Cochise Co., Ariz. Jeremiah C. Breen, pres.; Milton Harlan, sec. and mgr.

Lands, 28 claims, unpatented, about 500 acres, at the northwestern end of Tombstone canyon, in the Warren district, showing 5 fissure veins carrying carbonate and sulphide ores, of which 1 vein, slightly developed, is claimed to give ore with average assay values of 7% copper, 10% lead, 14 oz. silver and 1 oz. gold per ton. Development includes shafts of 30’

and 100’ and a short tunnel, latter planned to strike a vein showing a gossan “outcrop. Equipment includes a hoist and 6-drill air compressor. Closed down since 1910. Property considered of very speculative value.

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Modern Smelting Refining Co. Colorado

Idle several years. Works at Denver, Colo. W. H. Powell, pres. an gen. mgr., at last reports. Capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par. ;

Lands are at Utah Junction, 4 miles northeast of Denver, having a spur track connecting with several railways. The property is a custom smelter, including a sampling mill operated by a 100-h. p. motor. The smelter has 4000-ton steel ore bins and a 300-ton Colorado Iron Works blast furnace, making matte. Equipment includes a 450-h. p. Burns-Kennicut boiler, with automatic stokers, a 150-kw. electric dynamo and Piqua blowers. MOGOLLON GOLD & COPPER CO. NEW MEXICO

Office and mine: Cooney, Socorro Co., N. M. Thos. J. Curran, pres.; J. H. Seaman, vice-pres.; W. I. Cox, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, R. Brownell and R. P. Barnes, directors; C. H. Putman, mgr.; Geo. Millan, supt., and A. M. Howat mg. engr. Organized Sept. 12, 1901, under laws of New Mexico, capitalization $1,250,000, increased, 1910, to $3,000,000, shares $1 par. Bonds, $350,000 authorized; $305,000 issued. The property is oper- ating under bond and lease to C. H. Putman Engineering Co., California.

Lands, 26 claims, partly patented, 480 acres, including the Cooney, Pea- cock, Little Charlie, Independence and Fluoride groups, sometimes known as the Silver Bar mine, in the Cooney district of the Mogollon mountains, 85 miles northeast of Silver City, the nearest rail point. The property shows porphyry and andesite, carrying the Little Fanny fissure vein of 5 to 10’ average width, with a paystreak of about 3’ average and 30’ claimed maximum width, having numerous narrow feeders, some of which carry high goid values. This company and the Socorro Mining & Milling Co. are operating on this vein, and with a lateral development of 3,000’ are said to be producing $3,000 per day, 1913. Ores include slightly auriferous and strongly argentiferous chalcopyrite, bornite and chalcocite, claimed to carry increasing silver values at depth, and the east vein has been said to show native copper at depth of 600’. The Cooney and Peacock mines are said to have produced $1,250,000 worth of ore in the past. The Cooney group of 9 claims has a 780’ two-compartment main shaft. The Peacock mine, 1,500’ from the Cooney, has a 400’ shaft and is connected with the Cooney. by drifts on several levels. The Little Charlie mine has shafts of 350', 225’ and 200’, the main shaft being 250’ below the tunnel. There are also various tunnels on the several groups.

Equipment includes a 30-h. p. crude oil engine, an electric hoist, air compressor and necessary mine buildings. The mine shipped 20 to 30 tons daily in the summer of 1913. ;

The new management has shown ability and made creditable progress in development and, considering the 85-mile haul to a railway, deserves credit for its efficient operations.

Mohawk Mining Co. ; ; Michigan

Office: 15 William St., New York. Mine office: Mohawk, Keweenaw Co., Mich. Mill office: Gay, Keweenaw Co., Mich. Jos. E. Gay, pres.; J. Wheeler Hardley, sec.; John R. Stanton, treas.; preceding officers, Wm. A. Paine and Fred Smith, directors; Theo. Dengler, supt.; John Trevarrow, Jr., mg. capt.; F. Wm. Hartmann, engr.

Organized Nov., 1898, under laws of Michigan, capitalization $2,500,000, shares $25 par; paid in, $18.50. Dividends were $5 in 1906; $9 in 1907; $2.50 in 1908; $3 in 1909; $2 in 1910; $1.75 in 1911; $3.50 in 1912; $5 in 1913, a total of $3,175,000. Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Co., registrar; American Trust Co., Boston, transfer agent. Annual meeting, last Tuesday in March.

Lands, 800 acres, in an irregular tract having its axis on the strike of the Kearsarge amygdaloidal bed, in Secs. 27, 28, 33 and 34, T. 57 N., R.

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32 W., about 4 miles northeast of Calumet, with the Ahmeek and Seneca mines on the north and Ahmeek to the west.

The property carries the Kearsarge amygdaloidal bed. This formation ranges from 15 to 18' in average width, or about the same as at the Wolver- ine, and the upper workings carry about the same percentage of copper as in the Wolverine mine, but the lower workings are by no means so rich. The Keararge bed is crossed at approximately right angles by a number of narrow fissure veins, with nearly vertical dip, that are yielding a con- siderable amount of mass copper and in addition there are 3 cross-fissures carrying copper arsenides, including mohawkite, keweenawite, mohawk- whitneyite, and stibio-domeykite, the 2 former being peculiar to this dis- trict and first found in this mine. The fissures carrying mohawkite range 3” to 3” in width, well mineralized where crossing the amygdaloidal bed and for an indefinite but usually short distance on either side, the mohawk- ite and allied arsenides occasionally occurring massive, but commonly being disseminated in an arenaceous gangue. Values in the arsenides decrease with depth and production latterly has been small. There also are other cupriferous amygdaloidal beds in the stratified series that may be given attention later.

The mine is developed by 6 shafts, numbered from north to south, of uniform size, 8x18’ inside of timbering, with solid cribbing through the over- burden and with identical equipment. Thaskipways are laid with concrete stringers, which prove very satisfactory. The mine is equipped with Rich- mond electric signals and operates about 65 power drills. About 15,000’ of new openings are made annually.

No. 1 shaft, about 1,500’ south of the northern boundary, is bottomed ` at the 22nd level and is 2,250’ deep. This shaft gave a good showing near surface, becoming poor with depth, but improving in the lower levels. No. 1 hoist, in the central power plant at No. 2 shaft, operates two 4-ton skips in counterbalance. No. 1 shaft has a combination shaft rock house, equipped with a 12x24” Nordberg engine and crushers. -

No. 2 shaft is 2,000” deep. Like No. 1, it had a good showing near surface with impoverishment at depth, followed by improvement below the 12th level. The combination shaft rock house is similar to No. 1 in design and equipment. The power plant at No. 2 shaft, serving both Nos. 1 and 2, inciudes an engine house and boiler house of mine rock with redstone trimmings. Hoists are Nordberg double-conical-drum duplex-cylinder en- gines, good for 6,000” depth, each handling two 4-ton skips in counterbal- ance. The boiler house has 2 locomotive firebox boilers, with foundations for 3 additional boilers, and the engine house has 2 Ingersoll-Sergeant air compressors, of 40 drills aggregate capacity.

No. 3 shaft, 1,100” southwest of No. 2, is 1,600’ deep, and is to be aban- doned, as the ground tributary to No. 3 can be reached to better advantage through shafts Nos. 2 and 4. Equipment includes a shaft rock house similar to Nos. 1 and 2, and a Fraser & Chalmers geared hoist, good for 3,000’ depth, operating 2-ton skips in balance.

No. 4 shaft, 1,300’ southwest of No. 3, is 1,900’ deep, developing good average ground from surface. Equipment includes a steel shaft rock house with 3 crushers and a steam hammer. The engine house has a Nordberg double-conical-drum hoist, good for 6,000’ depth. The central compressor plant, at No. 4, has a 60-drill Nordberg air compressor and a 60-drill Inger- soll-Sergeant cross-compound 2-stage air compressor, with steam cylinders of 22” and 46” diameter, and air cylinders of 27%” and 4214” diam., with stroke of 48”, having a piston efficiency of 5,260 cu. ft. of free air per min- ute, compressed to 70 lbs. pressure per square inch, The boiler house at

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No. 4 has 5 locomotive firebox boilers and a 160’ self-supporting brick-lined steel smokestack. °

No. 5 shaft, 1,800’ south of No. 4, is 1,400’ deep and like the northern shafts gave an excellent showing near surface with impoverishment at depth, but is again improving in the lower workings. Equipment includes a standard shaft rock house and a Bullock hoist good for 2,000’ depth.

No: 6 shaft, the southernmost and newest, is about 2,600’ south of No. 5 and 2,600” from the Ahmeek boundary, commanding about three-fourths of a mile of the strike of the Kearsarge bed under an area of about 160 acres, or approximately as much ground as the entire Wolverine mine. This shaft is located about 60’ in the foot, is 1,100’ deep, and can be sunk to a maximum of 4,000’. The shaft is concreted for a depth of 90’ from the collar, and the first level opened at 213’ corresponding with the 4th level in the old- er workings of the mine, is known as the 4th level, there being no first, sec- ond or third levels in this shaft. The bed in No. 6 shows an average width of about 17’, and owing to the sharper pitch of the bed levels are only about 90’ apart. Equipment of No. 6 includes a 45x86’ steel-frame power house, a steel shaft rock house, Nordberg hoist, with 24x60” duplex cylinders, good for depth of 4,000’, and a 20-drill Ingersoll-Sergeant air compressor.

Buildings include a commodious 2-story office, a well equipped hospital, machine shop, smithy, combination carpenter shop and warehouse, 2 changing houses and numerous glwellings for employes. A complete tele- phone system connects the principal underground stations and surface works.

The mine and mill are served by the Mineral Range railway.

The mill, near the mouth of the Tobacco river, on Traverse bay, Lake Superior, opposite the mill of the Wolverine, is 178x206’ in size, of steel frame sheathed with iron, on foundations of sandstone quarried from the company’s own land. A steel trestle, 350” long and 50’ high, leads into the mill, loaded cars being pulled up the incline by a winding engine. The mill has 4 stamps, all compounded, giving a daily capacity of 2,800 to 3,000 tons. The mill has a Chilean mill and 3 sets of auxiliary crushing rolls, with fixed bearings, to reduce oversize material from the mortar boxes of the heads, this averaging 20 to 25% of rock stamped. Mineral from the wash discharges automatically and is sluiced into the basement, where shoveled into 134-ton mineral cars, having 14-mesh perforated steel bottoms that allow the draining out of water, after which the cars are weighed, then lifted by a cage elevator and dumped into bins. The bin house has 4 compartments, each with cement floor and steam-pipes under- neath, for drying the remaining moisture from the wash. The mineral is taken from the bin house, in self-dumping steel mineral cars to the Mich- igan smelter at Houghton for reduction. Tailings from the mill are de- watered, then raised by bucket elevator, and stacked by belt conveyor, some distance from the mill. :

The boiler house has four 250-h. p. Stirling water-tube boilers. Water for both the Mohawk and Wolverine mills is furnished from a joint pump house, standing near the Tobacco river, from which water is taken. The pump house has a 20,000,000-gal. triple expansion Snow pump, supple- mented by a 9,000,000-gal. Nordberg pump, giving an ample water supply for both mills.

A 30x300’ wharf, on Traverse bay, a short distance from the mill, with 14 of clear water alongside, is fitted with coal hoists and storage sheds, ample for the needs of both mills.

Yield of fine copper, per ton of rock stamped, averaged 15.79 lbs. for the decade ended 1912, and for the first half of 1913 was about 16 lbs.

Molina—Monarch 603

Costs, plus construction, per ton of rock stamped, were $1.92 per ton in 1903; $1.44 per ton in 1908, and $1.47 in 1912. Cost of finished copper, mar- keted, including construction, was 11.75 cts. per pound in 1907; 10.75 cts. in 1908; 11.20 cts. in 1909; 11.44 cts. in 1910; 10.39 cts. in 1911; 10.61 in 1912.

Production has been as follows: 160,897 lbs. fine copper in 1901; 226,824 Ibs. in 1902; 6,284,327 Ibs. in 1903; 8,149,515 Ibs. in 1904; 9,387,614 Ibs. in 1905; 9,352,252 lbs. in 1906; 10,107,266 lbs. in 1907; 10,295,881 Ibs. in 1908; 11,248,474 ibs. in 1909; 11,412,066 Ibs. in 1910; 12,091,056 Ibs. in 19107 1169955 + 598 lbs. in 1912. The Mohawk, while a much lower grade mine than was anticipated at the beginning, is a fine property with an assured future and has the benefit of a strong, honest and thoroughly economical and compe- tent management.

Molina & Sanginetti Mining Co. Arizona

Address: J. M. Molina, Yuma, Ariz. Mine near Wenden, Yuma Co., Ariz. Lands, 5 claims, known as the Torres mine, about 7 miles northwest of Wenden, in the Harcúvar mountains. The mine has shafts of Jo LOU, and 125’, and a 125’ tunnel, all workings showing slightly auriferous copper ore of good average assay tenor. Property idle several years.

Mollie Groves Mining & Milling Co. Colorado

Office: 328 New York Life Bldg., Kansas City, Mo. Operating office: 420 Ernest & Cranmer Bldg., Denver, Colo. Mine office: Parshall, Grand Co., Colo. L. F, Fue, pres.; Chas. F. Dehner, vice-pres.; J. F. Johnson, sec.; P. B. Austin, treas.; O. M. Groves, gen. mer., at last accounts. Organized March 4, 1909, under laws of Colorado, capitalization $2,000,000, shares $1 par.

Lands, 11 claims, unpatented,. 114 acres, about 6 miles northwest of Parshall. Property shows granite and schist, carrying 5 orebodies of 3 to 16' reported average width, of which the main vein of 16' average and 30' maximum width is reported to have a 6’ central paystreak carrying gray copper ore with copper stains and copper sulphides on either side. Ores are mainly chalcopyrite and chalcocite, assays averaging 12% copper and $7.50 gold per ton. Development is by 11 pits and shafts, of 10 to 55’ depth, and 5 tunnels of 125’, 170’, 200’, 80” and 40’, with 703’ of workings. Two mill tests from surface ore returned 7.8 and-7.9% copper. Property was not regarded favorably by the late Horace J. Stevens, owing to its alleged preposterous claims.

Monarca Copper Co. Mexico

Address: Hermosillo, Sonora, Mex. Property, 50 miles northwest of Carbo, shows copper deposits in limestone near porphyry intrusions, Idle since 1910.

Monarch Mine. Montana

Property, near Elliston, Powell Co., Mont., shows fissure veins in andesite intruded by quartz-monzonite carrying galena, blende, pyrite and arsenopyrite. A 3 to 5’ vein of copper sulphide ore yielded considerable copper in the past, but has not been worked recently and present efforts are directed toward the exploration of other veins.

Monarch Mining & Smelting Co. Arizona

Office: P. O. Box 13, Macon, Ga. Mine office: Wickenburg, Maricopa Co., Ariz. Dr. Jas. T. Ross, pres.; H. G. Leak, vice-pres.; C. E. Kernoghan, sec.; preceding officers, H. L. Abbott, J. C. Edwards, Hon. Rhodes Brown, Jos. H. Napier and W. A. Chapman, directors. J. C. Carlisle, supt.; A. D. Akin, mgr. and cons. engr.; D. S. Jones, purch. agt. Organized Aug., 1904, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable; issued, $736,840 In Oct., 1913, the company authorized an issue of $100,000

604 THE COPPER HANDBOOK E first-mortgage bonds, $50,000 issued for cash to be used for mine develop- ment.

Lands, 6 claims, patented, 100 acres, known as the Ryland or Three, Black Butes group, in the Black Rock or White Picacho district, 9 miles southeast of Wickenburg, show diorite and schist carrying oxidized ores changing at shallow depth to ehalcopyrite and occasional bornite, assaying 2 to 20% copper and estimated by management to average 1 to 3 oz. silver and $3 to $15 gold per ton. Development is by several shallow shafts and tunnels of 600’ and 360’, with about 1,500’ of underground workings and several thousand feet of surface trenching. 5

Equipment includes a 50-h. p. distillate engine, 5x8” Rumsey triplex pump, and a 4-drill Sullivan air compressor. There are about 26 buildings, all owned by the company. Water is taken from the Hassayampa river through 7 miles of 4” pipe. The mill, of 100 tons rated capacity, has a 11x15” Dodge crusher, Hartz jigs, rolls, 2 concentrating tables, 2 vanners, slime table and 3 buddles. The mill was burned and mine shut down in summer of 1913, but operations resumed in October.

Mond Nickel Co., Ltd. Ontario

Secretary’s address: Hugh Hughes, 39 Victoria St., London, S. W, England. Mine office: Victoria Mines, Algoma, Ont. Works office: Clydach, Glamorganshire, Wales. Sir Alfred Mond, M. P., chairman; Dr. Bernhard Mohr, gen. mgr.; Sir Andrew Noble, Bart., K. C. B., F. R. S. Saxton W. A. Noble, Emile S. Mond, Robt. L. Mond, Dr. Carl Langer, Robt. Mathias and Sir Edmund Walker, C. V. O., directors. Oliver Hall,

—supt.; A. Sharp, supt. Garson mine.

Organized Sept. 20, 1900, under laws of Great Britain, ,capitalization £600,000, increased, July, 1908, to £850,000, in £500,000 cumulative 7% preferred shares, £5 par; £300,000 ordinary shares, £1 par, and £50,000 deferred shares, £1 par; total issued capital, £750,000. For fiscal year 1913, profits were £201,102. Dividends of 7% have been paid regularly, on the preferred shares, and dividends on ordinary shares have been as follows: 6% in 1905; 10% in 1906; 1214% in 1907; 15% in 1908, 1909 and 1910; 1614% in 1911 and 1912; 2114% in 1913. Reserve fund, £220,000. Cash balance, Sept., 1913, £49,525. Net profits were £111,320 in 1909; £114,107 in 1910; £140,803 in 1911 and £232,429 in 1912, Dividends on deferred shares were 18% in 1906; 33% in 1907; 48% in.1908, 1909 and 1910; 5214% in 1911 ana 1912; 804% in 1913.

Lands, 7,050 acres, freehold, and about 1,550 acres leasehold, in the Sudbury district, including the Worthington, Garson, Victoria and Coch- rane-McVittu mines, and a smelter site at Coniston, 10 miles east of Sudbury, alongside the Garson mine. The properties carry nickeliferous and cupriferous pyrite, in norite gabbro, averaging about 1.75% copper and 2.25% nickel.

The Garson mine from which the company obtains most of its ore has 2 lenses of ore about 100’ apart known as the north and south deposits, developed by a shaft, worked to the 700’ level and proven by diamond drilling to 1,300”, The ore encloses great masses of greenstone and it dips southeast under the norite mass, supposedly as a result of faulting.

The Victoria mine, opened 1899, the principal property, carries 2 columnar bodies of pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite, about 169’ apart, with E.-W. strike and dip of about 70° E., connected by stringers in schistose diorite near a granite contact. The orebody has been proven for 1,600’ in depth. The mine has a 1,600’ three-compartment vertical shaft, 4x12’ inside of timbers, with 18 levels opened, the orebodies maintaining their size and grade in the bottom workings.

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The Cochrane-McVittu mine has a fraction of the great Frood deposit, the world's greatest nickel copper orebody. This property, already drilled, will be developed by an 800’ shaft in 1914.

+ Equipment at the Garson and Victoria mines is complete and up-to-date.

The power plant on the Wahnapitae river furnishes power to both mines and the smelter,

The old smelter, near the mines, has been abandoned, and a new and larger smelter, erected 1912, was blown in May 15, 1913. The new smelter, of 1,000 tons maximum daily capacity, makes a high-grade nickel-copper matte which is sent to the refinery at Clydach, Wales. :

At the Clydach refining works, in the Swansea valley, the copper-nickel matte from the smelter is dead-roasted and treated with dilute sulphuric acid, which permits the extraction of about 65% of the copper and 2% of the contained nickel. The residue, after drying, assays 45 to 60% nickel, and is treated in charges of 500 kgs. with water-gas, in a reduction tower, at a temperature of about 300° C. This tower has shelves and the ore is moved from shelf to shelf by automatic rakes, the lower shelves being cooled. After treatment in the reduction tower the charge is transferred to a volatilizing tower and treated with carbon monoxide at a temperature of about 100° C. The residue therefrom is returned to the reducing tower and the charge goes forward and back between the 2 towers for 10 to 15 days, and when 60% of the nickel has been volatilized, as nickel carbonyl, . the residue of the charge is returned to the roasting furnace. The nickel carbonyl is treated in a decomposing apparatus, wherein the metal is recovered in granules, assaying 99.4 to 99.8% nickel, and the copper is turned out as bluestone. The mine output for 1911 was 163,352 tons and 117,658 tons in 1912.

Production is not reported by the company, but unofficial estimates place the annual output at about 4,000,000 Ibs. fine copper and 5,000,000 lbs. nickel, with a possible maximum production of 10,000,000 Ibs. copper and 15,000,000 Ibs. nickel. 2 MONITOR CONSOLIDATED COPPER MINING CO. IDAHO

Office: 1325 Dean Ave., Spokane, Wash. Mine office: Saltese, Missoula Co., Mont. Otis Hill, pres. and mgr.; L. B. Hill, H. M. Casey, HF. Samuels and E. P. Spaulding, directors. Capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par. Paid a dividend, 1907, of $9,500. Supposedly is controlled through ownership of 51% of stock issue by Monitor Development Mining Co.

Lands, 10 claims, patented, 6 miles west of Saltese, being the first copper location in the eastern Coeur d’Alenes. A fissure vein of 10 to 30’ width, with N.-E. strike and nearly vertical dip, has a paystreak carrying mainly massive chalcopyrite ore, balance of vein carrying disseminated chalcopy- rite, mainly of concentrating grade. Occasional native copper is found. Shipments of selected ore returned 17 to 22% copper, 7 oz. silver and $1.50 to $2 gold per ton. The bottom levels of the mine, which is quite wet, show good ore. Development is by a 700’ two-compartment vertical shaft and survey was made, 1913, for a 3,000” crosscut tunnel, starting from the Puget Sound Railway track, to develop this, the St. Lawrence and the Rich- mond properties, which show high-grade copper ores.

Equipment includes a steam plant with 50-h. p. and 60-h. p. boilers, a good hoist and a 3-drill air compressor. Property idle since equipment was destroyed in big forest fires of 1910-11. Work will be resumed in Nov., 1913.

Mono-Baltic Mining & Smelting Co. Colorado

Idle. Office: Red Mountain, Ouray Co., Colo. Works office: Ironton, Ouray Co., Colo, E. W. Averill, pres. and treas.; Frank Woodbury, vice-

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pres.; D. W. Jackson, sec. Organized 1907, under laws of Colorado, cap- italization $5,000,000, increased, 1909, to $7,500,000, shares $10 par.

Lands, about 180 acres, known as the Saratoga group, in the Red Mountain district, showing fissure veins and contact deposits having large bodies of oxidized silicious ores of low copper tenor, but carrying high silver values, with some gold, also bornite and chalcopyrite associated with pyrite. A complete sampling of the mine, with 500 assays, is reported to have given an average of 3.5% copper and 12 oz. silver per ton, with small gold values.

Development is by 4 shafts, deepest 140’, and by tunnels of 120’, 700’, 1,000’ and 1,100’, with about 2 miles of workings. There are necessary mine buildings.

A smelter, planned to have been blown in July, 1909, was not in blast early 1913.

Monroe Copper Mine. Arizona

Address: John Curran, owner, Prescott, Yavapai Co., Ariz. Mine, once owned by the Monroe Consolidated Mines Co., long dead, is near the junction of Knapp gulch and Lynx creek, near Prescott. Property, for- merly worked as a gold mine, has a gold vein and a 50’ dike carrying copper. ore on the 300’ level.

Development work consists of various tunnels. Two car loads of ore carrying oxides and bornite are reported shipped in Oct., 1913. MONTANA-ARIZONA COPPER CO. ARIZONA

Address: W. D. Greenough, manager, Greenough Bros., Spokane, Wash. Mine address: Bouse, Yuma Co., Ariz. Lands, 26 claims, 520 acres, 30 miles north of Wenden, the nearest railroad station. Property is said to show 5 veins of 3 to 100’ width, traceable 7,000’, including a 3’ vein carrying good gold values. Development is by a 300' two-compartment shaft and a-con- siderable number of trenches. Equipment includes a 60-h. p. gasoline hoist. Idle several years.

Montana-Bingham Consolidated Mining Co. Utah

Office: 66 West Broadway, Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine office: Bing- ham Canyon, Salt Lake Co., Utah. : W. E. Hubbard, pres. and gen. megr.; G. G. Schliep, vice-pres.; H. A. Kornick, sec.; E. O. Howard, treas.; M. T. Miller, supt. Organized July, 1910, as successor of Bingham-Butte Consolidated Mining Co., capitalization $1,500,000, shares $1 par; issued, 783,764 shares. Debentures, $200,000 at 6%, $32,000 outstanding. Total assessments to date, $18,164.

Property, 4 claims, patented, 60 acres, including the Puritan and Eddie groups, carrying the Quinn fissure, near the Starlus mine. Company was organized mainly for the purpose of driving a long tunnel known as the Montana Bingham, or Miller tunnel, which will be the main transporta- tion and drainage tunnel and eventually develop the eastern section of the camp, including the Fortuna, Keystone, Conger and other groups. The

tunnel, planned to be driven 3,500’, was 2,020’ in length Sept. 15, 1913.

This and several prospect tunnels disclose porphyry and quartzite, charac- teristics of the Bingham camp and the Upper tunnel exposes the Quinn fissure, samples from the first 50’ of a 500’ crosscut assaying 1.29% copper, the balance going much lower. The big tunnel intersects several fissures, including the Front vein, about 25’ wide, carrying an 18” paystreak said to assay 9% copper, 3 oz. silver and $1 gold per ton. MONTANA-CLINTON COPPER CO. MONTANA Office: Helena, Mont. Mine office: Elliston, Powell Co., Mont. E. H. Brandegee, pres.; W. K. Armstrong, vice-pres.; C. L. Friederichs, sec.- treas. and gen. mgr.; preceding officers, Wm. Pope, and C. O. Price, direc-

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tors; John A. Friedrich, supt.; Arthur Ireland, mg. engr.; Fred Halroyd, purch. agt.; Goodall Bros., assayers.

Organized April 16, 1909, under laws of Montana, capitalization $1,500,- 000, shares $5 par, assessable; issued, 142,874: 55,000 shares outstanding, $1.55 paid, last call being 15 cts., Nov., 1912. First National Bank, Laurium, registrar and transfer agent.

Lands, 7 claims, unpatented, 140 acres, known as the Julia group, on Telegraph creek, 8 miles south of Elliston. Country rock is granite. There are numerous veins, the 1 under development being 14 wide with a pay- streak ranging from 6” to a maximum of 4’, developed for 500’. Ores are mainly galena, sphalerite and tetrahedrite, with a high silvér content. Sur- face ores carried considerable gold, decreasing with depth, while the silver content has increased. Development is by a 210’ shaft and a 600’ tunnel, with ore for 500’ in length of 600’ of workings. Ore reserves estimated at 2,000 tons, said to average 4% copper, 4% lead, 8% zinc, 35 oz. silver and $10 gold per ton.

Equipment includes a new 80-h. p. boiler, a 30-h. p. steam hoist and 3-drill Rand air compressor, and there are about 10 buildings. Continuous development is planned. Company planned 300’ new drifting, west, and 300’ crosscutting south, also sinking shaft to 300’ level.

Production from June 1, 1911, to June 1, 1912, was 1,258 tons of copper- lead ore carrying gold and silver, yielding $17,870 net smelter returns and for 8 months ending Feb. 1, 1913, was 969 tons, shipped to Washoe smelter, returning $31,335.

Montana Consolidated Copper Co. Montana

Office: 46 Wall St., New York. Capitalization $1,000,000. Property includes the Comet and the Grey Eagle mines, about 7 miles northwest of Boulder, Jefferson Co., Mont., both idle several years, except for work done by leasers. Ores are mainly galena and sphalerite with associated pyrite and chalcopyrite, and the Comet is popularly credited with having yielded a gross output of $10,000,000. See Vol IX.

Montana Consolidated Mining Co. Utah

Office: 531 Atlas Blk., Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine office: Ophir, Tooele Co., Utah. Thos. F. Kelly, pres.; Edw. McGurrin, sec., at last accounts. Organized 1902, under laws of Utah, capitalization $400,000, shares $1 par, assessable; fully issued. Lands, 12 claims, patented, showing argentiferous copper and lead ores, developed by a 300’ shaft, with about 2,200" of workings. Presumably idle.

Montana Copper & Gold Mining Co. Montana

Is controlled through ownership of Practically entire stock issue, by Sonora Central Mines Co., which see.

Montana Copper Silver Co. Montana

Address: E. R. Purnell, superintendent, Helena, Mont. Mine in Seratch Gravel hills, Lewis & Clark Co. Mont. 8 miles from Helena. Property shows quartz veins in quartz-monzonite, carrying ores with pyrite and chal- copyrite with gold-silver values. Development consists of a 370’ shaft, sinking to 500’ in July. Equipment includes hoist and company plans buy- ing compressor.

Montana Copper & Silver Mining Co. Montana

Letters unanswered at Clancey, Jefferson Co., Mont. Capitalization $2,000,000, shares $10 par. Lands, 4 claims, in Lump gulch, 2 miles from Clancey, opened by the 275’ Clara Bell shaft, lower drift of which shows tetrahedrite assaying 60 to 400 oz. silver per ton. Shut down several years and company presumably dead.

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MONTANA CORBIN COPPER CO. MONTANA Reorganized as Corbin-Copper King Mining Co., which see.

Montana-Illinois Copper Mining Co. Montana

Office: 450 Phoenix Blk., Butte, Mont. Mine address: Jefferson Island, Madison Co., Mont. J. W. Brown, pres.; Benj. W.. Wilson, sec. and gen. mgr.; W. Y. McCormack, treas.; preceding officers, L. H. Stanhope, Alex. Mackel and J. C. Oberon, directors. Joseph Pyle and Hugh McLeod, cons. engrs.; Arthur Goff, mine supt. Organized 1907, under laws of Montana, capitalization $2,000,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable; issued, $1,954,000. Bonds, $30,000 authorized, at 12%; issued, $21,000. Annual meeting, first Thursday in July.

Property, the Bismark mine, is 20 miles south of Jefferson Island, in the Ruby mountains. Holdings comprise 11 quartz claims, 2 patented, three 5-acre mill sites, a water right and 320 acres of placer ground, contested by the forest reserve, giving total holdings of 550 acres, including part of the former holdings of the Bismark Copper Mining Co. Claims show granite and gneiss carrying 3 fissure veins, under development, with N.-W. strike of about 4 average width. Veins carry chalcopyrite and bornite estimated by management to average about 5% copper, 2 oz. silver and $1 gold per ton. Mine has tunnels of 400’, 200’, 500’ and 1,900’, with about 3,000’ of workings.

Equipment includes a 5’ Pelton wheel and a 10x12” two-drill air com- pressor. There are 12 mine buildings. A concentrator, under construction, 1913, is to have a Blake crusher, Chilean mill, rolls, 6 Wilfley tables, 4 vanners and a slime table.

Montana Ore Purchasing Co. Montana

Address: F. Aug. Heinze, 74 Broadway, New York. The mining prop- erty of the company was sold, 1906, to Butte Coalition Mining Co., and apparently the company now owns nothing but sundry share interests. Fully described Vol. V.

MONTANA OREWAY MINING CO. i MONTANA

Office: 501 Postal Telegraph - Bldg., Chicago. Mine office: Briston, Beaverhead Co., Mont. W. P. Jahnke, pres. and gen. mgr.; Fred W. Scott, sec.; J. D. Rankin, treas. Organized 1898, under laws of Arizona, capitali- zation $1,000,000, shares $1 par; issued, $900,000.

Property, 5 claims, patented, 100 acres, and a 25-acre mill site, known as the Straight Tip group, in the Big Hole basin. Claims show several fissure veins averaging 10' thick in quartzite and contact deposits between quartz- ite and serpentine. Opened by a 2,350 tunnel driven to cut a mineralized diorite dike carrying copper oxide ores, with lead and small silver and gold values.

Equipment includes a 35-h. p. steam plant, with 1-drill air compressor, and there are 6 small buildings. ;

Montana Scotch Bonnet Cop. & Gold Mg.Co. Montana

Idle. Office: 603 Jamieson Bik., Spokane, Wash. Mine office: Cooke, Park Co., Mont. S. A. Gibson, pres. and gen. mgr.; C. E. Mallette, sec.- treas. Organized March, 1902, under laws of Washington, capitalization $300,000, shares 10 cts. par, nonassessable; fully issued. $

Lands, 17 claims, partly fractional, 200 acres, in the New World dis- trict, 65 miles from a railway. Development is by tunnel with about 1,500’ of workings developing oxidized and sulphide ores of lead and copper, giv- ing small copper assays, an average of 3.7% lead, 4 to 5 oz. silver and $3.10 gold per ton. Mine closed, awaiting transportation facilities. Company reported to have refused an offer of $180,000 for 60% of its stock, made by the American Smelting & Refining Co., 1911.

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MONTANA SMELTING CO. CALIFORNIA Address: Room 613, Oakland Bank Bldg., Oakland, Cal. Incorporated

Jan., 1912, under laws of California, by Geo. B. Merrell, True Van Sickle

and Geo: E. De Golia, all of Oakland, and corporate articles filed at Helena,

Mont. Capitalization $100,000.. California franchise forfeited Nov., 1912, for

non-payment of license tax.

Montana-States Mining Corporation. . Montana

Office: Bailey. Blk., Helena, Mont... Mine ‘office: Alhambra, Jefferson Co. Mont. R.A. Bell, pres. and gen. mgr.;, Edward Horsky, sec.-treas.; E. H. Wilson, engr.. Organized May, 1911, under laws of Montana, capital- ization $5,000,000, shares $5 par; issued, 80,000 shares.

Lands, 38 claims, partly patented, 700 acres, including the Fairview group of 30 claims, in the Warm Springs district, 6 miles from a railroad. Country rock. is a quartz monzonite of the Boulder batholith, cut by rhyo- lite dikes and showing quartz veins with mineralization along the walls.

Development is by numerous shallow shafts, and short tunnels, with about 1,600’ of openings, opening a number of small veins. . Ores are mainly galena, sphalerite and tetrahedrite, with a.chalcedonic quartz gangue reported by the. management to carry up to 22% copper, 10% lead, 8% zinc, 16,0z. silver and $16 gold per ton. A i

` Mine has no equipment but electric power is planned. Property con- sidered promising. MONTANA YERINGTON CO. NEVADA "Geo. Wingfield, Goldfield, Nev.: H” $. Brady and C. W. Geddes, mgr., chief owners. Fred’ Siebert; cons. engr. Mine address: Yerington, Lyons Co., Nev. Property, 'a group of claims said to show órebodies in porphyry, unlike other Yerington deposits.

Development consists of a 300’ shaft sinking to 500’ with levels at 160’ and’ each 100’ interval. The 160’ level east was run 500’ to daylight, making a main working tunnel. The 2nd level opened has 200” crosscut to vein, showing a wide contact with much low-grade and streaks of high-grade ore. ‘A’ face 25’ wide is said to show commercial ore from which 100-ton ship- ments have returned 7% copper.

Monte Rico ‘Mining & Milling Co!‘ New Mexico

Office: 428 Washington Trust Bldg., Washington, Pa. - Mine office: Lordsburg, Grant Co., N: M.. Lawrence R. Boyd, pres.; F.'B..Theakson, vice-pres.; Jas. V. Boyd, sec.-treas. Organized under laws of Arizona, capitalization $500,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable.

Lands, 9 claims, 120 acres, on Lee’s peak, in the Pyramid mountains, Virginia district, 4 miles southwest of Lordsburg.

Property shows diorite cut by andesite, and there is said to be a dike ‘100 to 200” wide mineralized throughout and forming the center of a network of veins. Ores: at and near surface carry azurite and malachite succeeded at depth by chalcopyrite and there are also silver, lead and cop- per ores with small gold values.

The mine is reported to have upwards of 2,000’ of workings, including Shafts, tunnels and trenches, with ore in sight estimated by the company at 500,000 to 1,000,000 tons, which is doubted. The company’s statement that its ores can be mined and milled at an expense of $1.50 to $2 per ton is also: considered doubtful.

The prospectus of the company is replete with misinformation and untruths, and among other things ‘states that “this formation, as well \as the character of the ore, is identical with that found in the great copper mines of Bisbee, Globe, Jerome and Cananea,” but as is well known, the orebodies of those localities differ greatly in occurrence. In view of the

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many questionable statements made, and the unreasonably large profits promised in the prospectus, the company must be regarded with much suspicion. y

Monterey Mining, Smelting & Refining Co, S. A. Mexico

(Compania Minera, Fundidora y Afinadora, S. A.) Office and works: Monterey, Nuevo León, Mex. Juan M. Weber, general manager. Capital- ization $8,000,000, shares $100 par.

Lands include the Ocampo and Santa Elena mines, at Mineral de la Mula, carrying gold, copper and lead ores; La Cruz y Anexas mines, at Pánuco de Coronado, carrying silver-lead and copper ores; the Cinco de Mayo group at Lampazos, Nuevo León, producing iron fluxing ores; and a mine at Naica, Chihuahua, Mex.

Company operates a lead smelter and silver-lead refinery, in direct competition with the American Smelting & Refining Co., at Monterey. The smelter also handles small quantities of copper, which is disposed of in the form of matte. Production during fiscal year, 1912, was 13,919,107 kgs. lead, 238,555 kgs. silver and 3,158 kgs. gold.

MONTEREY SMELTER. MEXICO See Monterey Mining, Smelting & Refining Co., S. A. MONTEREY SMELTING & REFINING CO. MEXICO

Works office: Monterey, Nuevo Leon, Mex. Is controlled by American Smelting & Refining Co., which see.

Montezuma Copper Mining Co. Arizona

Property, 17 claims, a mile west of Miami, Gila Co., Ariz., sold, June, 1912, to the Southwestern Miami Development Co. Company paid dividend out of first payment of purchase money and is doing no mining work. See Vol. VII and, IX.

Montezuma Mining Co. Michigan

Address: Care Shelden-Douglass Estate, Houghton, Mich. Property consists of a number of building lots in the village of Houghton, covering the old Montezuma tract, the mineral rights in which were sold, 1912, for $100,000, to the Isle Royale Copper Co.

Montreal Smg. & Redn. Co. Of Canada, Ltd. Ontario

Office: 26 St. James St., Montreal, Quebec. Works near North Bay, Nipissing, Ont. R. J. Forget, pres.; L. J. Cartier, sec. Capitalization $2,000,000, shares $5 par.

Owns the North Bay smelter at Trout lake, 3% miles from North Bay, said to have cost $700,000, and designed primarily to reduce the argentif- erous ores of the Cobalt district, but also planned to smelt copper ores. The plant includes a concentrator with ore bins and amalgamating mill, furnace and converter departments, power house, boiler house, machine shop, carpenter shop, laboratory and office, all principal buildings being of steel frame, sheathed with galvanized iron, on concrete foundations. The smelter was blown in Jan. 7, 1908, but did not prove successful and was soon blown out. Idle several years and property for sale.

Moon Creek Mining Co. Idaho

Office: Wallace, Idaho. J. Peeper, president and general manager, at last accounts. Lands, 9 claims, 180 acres, about 2 miles up Moon creek from Osburn, with a good wagon road. The property has a 30” vein carrying ore assaying up to 9% copper and 20% lead, with small gold values, de- - veloped by a 165’ shaft and a 675’ tunnel. Equipment includes a 4’ Pelton water wheel, working under a 185’ head, with an auxiliary boiler, hoist, 4- drill Ingersol air compressor, and a small electric light plant. There are ‘necessary buildings. Presumably idle.

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MOONLIGHT MINE. i MONTANA Mine address: Copperopolis via Delphine, Meagher Co., Mont. John Weston, superintendent. Property, about 15 miles east of White Sulphur Springs, is developed by a 700’ tunnel, showing a vein of silver-copper ore. MOORE COPPER MINE. IDAHO M. E. Mopre, owner, Edwardsburg, Idaho Co., Idaho. Property, the Moscow mine, or Moore Bonanza, has a big ledge said to be 150’ wide of gold ore carrying small copper values. MOOSE MINE. COLORADO

Henry M. Scott, owner, 111 Broadway, New York, N. Y. H. C. Bishop, supt., Alma, Park Co., Colo. Property has silver-lead-gold-copper ore in veins, opened by tunnels. Employs about 15 men when working. MOQUI COPPER CO. VIRGINIA

Office: 20 Broad St., New York. Letter unclaimed at Reager, Rappa- hannock Co., Va. Geo. B. Wright, pres.; Josiah C. Pumpelly, vice-pres.; Morris F. Wood, sec.; Powhatan Weisiger, treas., at last accounts. Organ- ized Feb. 12, 1907, as a reconstruction of Manassas-Gap Copper-Mines, Inc., capitalization $1,500,000, shares $1 par.

Lands, 700 acres, freehold, including about 400 acres of timber land, in Fauquier county, Virginia, 3 and 6 miles from 2 railroads, carrying 2 con- tact veins between Cambrian sandstone and Silurian slates, claimed to range 3 to 11’ in width and to carry malachite, bornite and chalcopyrite, associated with a little native copper. Idle several years, and not regarded seriously. MORAJESKI MINES. ARIZONA

A and V. Morajeski, owners. Red Rock, Pinal Co., Ariz. Property, the Apache mine, 9 miles northeast of Red Rock, in the Owl Head district, is an old silver property, carrying a large andesite dike cutting granite and carrying zone impregnated with oxidized and sulphide ores of copper. MORESBY ISLAND MINES, LTD. BRITISH COLUMBIA

Office: Vancouver, B. C. Mine address: Jedway, Queen Charlotte Islands, B. C. W. H. Leckie, pres.; A. Liddle, sec.-treas. Capitalization, $500,000, shares $1 par. Property is the Collison group of 3 claims, on Moresby island, also known as the Meal Ticket, Cash Box and Treasure Vault claims. Development is by tunnels and open cuts, showing assay values of 3.8% copper and $5.60 gold per ton. Idle except for annual assessment work.

Morning Glory Mine. Arizona

Office and mine: Patagonia, Santa Cruz Co., Ariz. Chas. B. Wilson, owner and manager. Lands, 11 claims, 220 acres, 12 miles from a railway, in the Harshaw district of the Patagonia mountains, showing a 6' fissure vein in limestone and porphyry, carrying sulphide ore, estimated by owner to average 3% copper, 40% zinc, 3 oz. silver and $2 gold per ton. Develop- ment is by 2 shafts of 80’ and 200’, with about 400’ of workings, estimated by owner to give 50,000 tons of 314% copper ore blocked out for stoping. Ore is hand-sorted. Equipment includes a small hoist. Production, 1912, was about 240,000 lbs. copper. Shipments planned to resume as soon as the Pioneer smelter resumes in 1913. ;

Morning Star Mine. California

At Markleville, Alpine Co., Cal. Owned by Curtz Consolidated Mines Co.

Morrin Group. British Columbia

Is a gold-copper prospect on Valdez island, Comox district, about 120 miles north of Vancouver. Property embraces 5 claims on Granite bay, principal claims being the Grand Prix and Gold Thread, former having several open cuts, said to show a contact deposit between limestone and

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diorite:y Ore is mainly chalcopyrite. The Gold Thread: claim, examined by Percy Williams, M. E., 1913, shows an irregular fissure of white quartz in diorite, carrying high values in gold.

MORSE CONSOLIDATED COPPER CO. ARIZONA :¡¿¿¡Mine address: Box Canyon via Wickenburg, ‘Maricopa: CO. “Ariz. F. J. Weber, superintendent. Lands, 6 miles from Wickenburg on the Hassayampa river, developed by tunnel, show copper ore said to average 3% copper, 10 oz. silver and $5 gold per ton.

Moscow Extension Mining Co. E] Utah

Office: Salt Lake, Utah. No trace of operations securable: ‘Presumably defunct.

MOTHER LODE COPPER CO. ARIZONA ¡“Mine ‘office: Prescott, Yavapai Co., Ariz. Organized 1907.) Lande M

claims, 140 acres, in the Copper basin, 10 miles west of Prescott, showing

an orebody between limestone and porphyry, said to give average assays

oí 12% copper and $6 gold per ton. Idle.

Mother Lode Copper Mines Co. Of Alaska. Alaska

Office: 902 Lowman Bldg., Seattle, Wash. Mine office: Kennecott, Cop- per River district, Alaska. Jas. J. Godfrey, pres.; J. W. Robinson, vice- pres.; C. L. Warner, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, O. J. Hosford and B. L. Engelke, directors; Geo. E. Baldwin, gen. mgr. Organized under laws of Washington, with capitalization $5,000,000, shares $1 par.

Lands, 70 lode and placer claims, about 1,300 acres, including the Smith-Haglund-Sall group, on unsurveyed ground, adjoining the: Bonanza mine, and 13 miles from the Copper River & Northwestern railroad.

The geological conditions at this property, according to Herman Keller, are similar to those of the Bonanza mine. The base of the mountain is formed of amygdaloidal basalt, highly altered. and called the Nicolai greenstone, This is covered by thick beds of: Chitina: limestone, dipping north. ¡The ore shoots occur in the limestone, and exploration has shown that contrary to general belief, the ore does not occur along the green- stone contact, but in a favorable bed 90’ above it.and then only in con- nection with the Bonanza fault, or shear zone. This shear zone, 20 to 24’ wide, cuts both greenstone and limestone and the ore is found in chimn ys and as irregular bunchy masses along the zone and as impregnations in the limestone walls. The ore consists of nearly pure glance with minor and unimportant amounts of covellite and of very: little malachite; ete. Like the Bonanza ore it carries gold and silver.

Development is by 4 short’ tunnels, known as the South, Marvelous, North and Regal. Work for some time has been confined to drifting and crosscutting on the Marvelous claim, which with the Hero and Leviathan claims is considered the most important of the several groups.

The mine has no power equipment, but there is a 7,300’ aerial tramway, connecting the Marvelous tunnel with the so-called Lower camp. Buildings include an office, boarding house, and several other log structures.

New work planned for 1914 includes a long working tunnel, 1,100’ below the present workings on the Marvelous claim, and a small steam plant. with air,compressor will be erected. These improvements will: cost $150,000. Company has 500 tons of ore sacked for shipment, said to assay 74.68% copper and 15.4 oz. silver, being mostly copper glance.

Property hasbeen fully and favorably reported on by Herman A. Keller, E. M., and by Arthur W. Jenks, and is a prospect of considerable merit. MOTHERLODE COPPER MINING CO. VIRGINIA

Idle, Office: 623-18 Broadway, New York. Joseph H. Morong, pres:

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and gen. mgr:, at last accounts.) Organized Sept., 1902, under laws of New York, capitalization $1,500,000. Property is the old Morong mine, at Virgi- lina, Halifax Co., Va.

MOTHER LODE MINES. BRITISH COLUMBIA Owned by British Columbia Copper Co., Ltd. MOUNT AETNA GOLD & COPPER MINING CO. UTAH

Idle several years. Address care S. M. Levy, Salt, Lake City, Utah.

Property, 12 claims, partly patented, adjoining the Utah Metal Mining Co., in Oquirrh range, Bingham district. Developed by 3 tunnels, No. 1 of 950’, No: 2 of 2,600’, and No. 3 of 370’, carrying ore assaying up to 15% lead, 3.4 oz. silver and $10.40 gold per ton, with occasional copper values. No. 1 tunnel has a Fairbanks & Morse engine and an air compressor. MOUNT ANDREW IRON & COPPER CO. ALASKA

Office: Empire Bldg., Seattle, Wash. Letter unclaimed at Ketchikan, Alaska. Harry Bellam, superintendent, at last accounts.

Lands, held. under lease from the Mount Andrew Mining Co., on Kasaan peninsula, Prince of Wales island, Alaska, carries chalcopyrite dis- seminated in. magnetite, with hornblende gangue, and ore is practically unaltered fromm surface, except for a few inches of occasional oxidation, masses of sulphide ore even showing glacial striations, though occasional thin sheets of native copper are found. Ore averages about 3.75% copper and $1 to $1.60 per:ton in combined gold and silver values. The orebody has been stripped for about 2 acres and is developed by tunnels of 300’ and 700”, with a 70’ blind shaft from the lower tunnel, and 10 small glory-holes, ‘opened upwards to surface from the tunnels,

A 4,600’ aerial tram of 40 tons hourly capacity leads from a 50-ton loading bin at the mine to a shipping bunker 500’ from tide water. Equip- ment includes two 50-h. p. boilers, with 5-drill and 7-drill Ingersoll-Sergeant air compressors. Buildings include an office, boarding house, bunk house and smithy. About 125 men are employed.

Property idle for most of the year 1912, but company plans systematic development of mine in near future. MOUNT ANDREW MINING CO. ALASKA

Office: 1105-165. Broadway, New York. Property is the Mt. Andrew copper and iron mine, on Kasaan penisula, Prince of Wales island, Alaska, under lease and bond to the Mount Andrew Iron & Copper Co.

Mount Baker & Shuksan Mining Co. Washington

Idle. Office: 18 Post-Intelligencer Bldg., Seattle, Wash. Letter un- claimed at mine address, Maple Falls, Whatcom Co., Wash. J. Conaway, pres:;¡C..M. Welch, sec., at last accounts. Lands, 320 acres,'said to carry 7,000,000” of good standing timber, with an available water right. Property ás said to have ‘several veins, varying from 25 to 100% in width: Develop- ment is by 4 tunnels, longest 1,100’, with about 3,000’ of workings showing gold-copper ore! Equipment includes an air compressor.

Mount Glines Gold & Silver Mining Co. Maine

Mine office: Bryant Pond, Oxford Co., Me. Property, slightly devel- oped, shows copper and lead ores. Has steam power and a small mill. Inactive for several years.

Mount Royal Mining & Reduction Co. Montana

Mine office: Princeton, Granite Co., Mont. L. N: Loomis, president. Property, the Bonner group, 4 claims, a tunnel site and water rights, on Royal, mountain, 8 miles from Philipsburg. Claims cover 6,000’ of the course of 2 fissure. veins carrying gold-copper ore... Development consists of tunnels opening up a body of commercial ore. Reduction works have copper, leaching plant designed by J. D. Fields.

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Mount St. Helens Cons. Mining Co. Washington

Office: 516 Selling Bldg., Portland, Ore. Mine office: Spirit Lake, Skamania Co., Wash. Thos. Prince, pres.; H. P. Christiansen, vice-pres.; E. L. Harmon, sec.; Dr. Henry Waldo Coe, treas. and managing director; Andrew Olson, sup.; Geo. W. Lilly, engr. Organized 1902, under laws of Oregon, capitalization $1,800,000, shares $1 par.

Lands, 65 claims, patented, 1,300 acres, estimated to carry 45,000,000’ of standing timber, on the North fork of the Toutle river and on the shores of Spirit Lake, 50 miles from Portland. It includes the former holdings of the Sweden Copper Co., Calumet Copper Mining Co., Bronze Monarch Mining Co., Chicago Mining Co., Yellow Metal Mining Co., Earl Mining Co. and Cascade Copper Mining Co. The company also owns a three- fourths interest in the United mines. In addition to copper ores the tract contains gold veins, an ochre bed, a granite quarry and a deposit of pumice stone.

The property is said to show syenite, diorite and slate with fissure veins carrying about 20 orebodies ranging from 5 to 100’ in estimated width. The ores carry chalcocite, bornite and chalcopyrite and vary from 2 to 25% copper, some lead, 2 to 50 oz. silver and $1 to $40 gold per ton.

Development consists of a 2,300’ tunnel, besides others of 250’, 400’, 600’ and a 50’ shaft. The workings total about 5,500’ and are estimated by the management to show 125,000 tons of medium and high-grade ores, with a greater tonnage of milling ore.

The Sweden-Norway-Denmark group is reported to have a 30 to 40’ vein between diorite and syenite, the footwall streak carrying occasional shoots of rich ore assaying 3 to 20% copper, 4 oz. silver and $1.50 to $7 gold per ton. There is said to be 10,000 tons of ore on the dump at this tunnel.

The Earl group shows a strong gossan, carrying small gold values, with occasional bunches of high-grade copper ore.

The Bronze Monarch group, adjoining the Sweden, opened by a 300’ tunnel, has produced about 1,000 tons of auriferous and argentiferous copper sulphides.

The Index mine, about 2% miles from the main group, shows a vein said to be 44’ wide, carrying ore with 1.5% copper, 8 oz. silver and $4 gold per ton.

Equipment includes an 80-h. p. Pelton water wheel and a 6-drill Sullivan air compressor. There is a sawmill, and about 25 shops and cabins at the various camps.

Lands are owned outright and the company has no bonds or debts, but the property has been practically idle for some years awaiting the construction of a much-needed railway. i MOUNT SICKER & B. C. DEV. CO. LTD. BRITISH COLUMBIA

Office: 764 Bullitt Bldg., Philadelphia, Pa. Letter unclaimed at Mt. Sicker, Vancouver Island, B. C. Dr. T: J. Jones, pres.; Jas. A. Cameron, sec.-treas. and managing director, at last accounts. Capitalization $1,000,000.

Lands, 9 claims, 352 acres, 49 miles north of Victoria, in 2 groups, known as the Copper Canyon group of 5 claims, on Mount Sicker and a group of 4 claims on Mount Brenton. Property is in the same geological horizon as the Tyee and Lenora mines and supposedly carries a continua- tion of the schistose ore belt of those mines. Workings consist of a two- compartment shaft, sunk at an angle of 76°, variously reported as 80’ to 144’ deep, showing a little good ore in the bottom. Development work on various claims has given encouragement but the company has not yet se- cured a workable orebody. Equipment is said to include necessary mine buildings. Mine shut down several years and company apparently dormant,

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MOUNT SICKER & B. C. DEV. CO., LTD. BRITISH COLUMBIA Idle. Office: 30 George Square, Glasgow, Scotland. Fred I. Smith,

chairman; John D. Steel, sec. Organized Oct. 20, 1898, under laws of Great

Britain, capitalization £125,000, shares £1 par. Lands are on Mt. Sicker,

Vancouver Island, B. C.

Mountain Copper Co. Arizona

Letters unclaimed at 42 Broadway, New York, and Safford, Graham Có., Ariz. M. W. Ferris, treasurer, as last accounts. Company was orgdn- ized as successor of the Gila Valley Copper Co., which in turn succeeded the Federal Mining Co., of odious fame.

Lands are sundry claims in the Lone Star district, Gila mountains, developed by several shallow shafts. There is a 50-ton concentrator and a small pumping plant at Walnut Springs.

Apparently no work has been done by the present company, and the outfit is viewed with much suspicion.

Mountain Copper Co., Ltd. California

Secretary’s address: A. N. Frewer, 3 Lombard St., London, E. C., Eng- land. Operating office: 150 Pine St., San Francisco. Cal. Mine office: Keswick, Shasta Co., Cal. Works office: Martinez, Contra Costa Co., Cal. Capt. F. B. Lawson, chairman; Sir Andrew Noble, Bart., K. C. B., Henry J. Wenham, J. T. Middleton, E. T. McCarthy and N. M. Macdonald, directors; Wm. F. Kett, gen. mgr.; W. L. Cole, mine supt. Jardine, Matheson € Co., Ltd., 74 Wall St., New York, American sales agents.

Organized Dec. 1, 1896, under laws of Great Britain and reorganized May 10, 1902, capitalization £250,000, shares £1 par. In 1899 the company changed its capitalization of £1,250,000 into £250,000 in shares and £1,000,- 000 in 6% debenture stock, shares £4 par, on which a first payment of £1 per share was made Jan. 16, 1905, leaving £750,000 of stock outstanding. The change in 1899 was practically a complete amortization. Dividends before reconstruction, 1897-1901, aggregated 584%. Profits were £150,255 in 1907; £28,112 5d. in 1908; £24,557 12s. 4d. in 1909; a deficit of £3,042 in 1910; profit of £50,438 in 1911.

Holdings are extensive, including the Iron Mountain and Hornet mines, 10 miles northwest of Redding. The Iron Mountain mine was opened, 1880, for silver, and was given a 20-stamp mill, 1884, working the gossan in a small way for some years.

The Iron Mountain mine had a gossan of 100 to 300’ width, covering a lens of ore, 100 to 400’ wide, 800’ long and 500’ deep, in a shear zone of meta-rhyolite. The ore carries chalcopyrite associated with pyrrhotite averaging about 5% copper, 2 oz. silver and slightly under $1 gold per ton. The orebody was worked pillar-and-stall, and stopes filled with waste, but pillars have been robbed and the mine now shows little high-grade sulphide ore, though there are reserves of 500,000 tons of silicious ore averaging 4 to 5% copper. The old orebody being pyritic, there was trouble from fires, but the application of the plenum system of ventilation, by Mr. Wright, restored normal conditions. Considerable cement copper was secured from the charged waters coming from the fire zone.

The Hornet mine, lying to the north of the Iron Mountain, developed about 5,000,000 tons of pyritic ore, averaging only about 1% in copper tenor, with patches up to 2.5% copper, and carrying 47 to 50% sulphur. Gold and silver values are very small but the ore is valuable for the manufacture of sulphuric acid, saving the small copper and precious metal values as by- products.

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steam railway, traversing a rugged country, with an average gradé of nearly’ 4%, the elevation gained being 2,000’. F i

In Oct, 1913, the company was said to be shipping about 12,500 tons of ore a month from its mines to the Martinez smelter. Employs about 100 men at the mines.

The Keswick smelter, in the canyon of Spring creek,less than a mile from the Sacramento river, had 11 Wright circular calcining furnaces and five 300-ton water-jacket blast furnaces. This plant, fully described, Vol. VIII, has been dismantled. i

The 350-ton Martinez smelter, on San Francisco bay, includes the old works of the San Francisco Chemical Co., which formed the nucleus of the plant. The Martinez works have one of the most extensive and best planned acid works in existence, built at a cost of approximately $1,000,000. The Hornet ores, low in copper but rich in sulphur, are burned, the, sul-* phur fumes collected in lead-lined chambers and transformed into sulphuric acid by the Meyer chamber process, the cinder remaining after the roasting is smelted for its copper contents. The' acid is sold crude and also is uséd as the basis of commercial fertilizers for which there is a considerable demand in the rich fruit and agricultural districts of California and the other Pacific coast states. The Martinez works also do a general custom business and are fully: equipped with steam, electric and pneumatic power.

Production of ore, April, 1913, was at the rate of about 200 tons daily from the Iron Mountain mine, and 100 tons daily from the Hornet. At one time, only a decade ago, this company was among the largest copper pro- ducers of the world, but has since greatly declined in output, production having been 29,727,040 Ibs. fine copper in 1901: 19,116,160 lbs. in 1903; 6,814,- 000 Ibs. in 1907; 3,638,619 Ibs. in 1908; 2,775,197 Ibs. in 1909; 2,987,815 lbs. in 1910; 5,400,000 Ibs. in 1911, The company has been managed with great prudence and marked success, both financially and technically and not- withstanding the depletion of an originally rich mine has been able to make a successful change of base by: which low-grade pyritic ores are utilized for the manufacture of acid. MOUNTAIN DELL CONSOLIDATED MINING CO. UTAH

Office: National Copper Bank, Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine office: American Fork, Utah Co., Utah. John H. Wootton. pres. and supt.; Henry Lewis, vice-pres.; Benjamin B. Hall. sec.; A: W. Raybould, freds: preceding officers and H. W. Griffith, directors; R. N. Baskin, mine supt. Organized June, 1906, under laws of Utah, capitalization $100,000, shares 25 cts. par, assessable, with 11 assessments levied to end of 1911; fully issued.

Lands, 9 claims, patented, 180 acres, 18 miles from the San Pedro rail- way, having a 4’ interbedded vein, between limestone and quartzite, with E.-W. strike, traceable 3,000, carrying lead and copper ores, estimated by management to average 5% copper, 37% lead, 60 oz. silver and $1 gold per ton. ‘Mine is developed by a 300’ incline shaft and an 800’ tunnel, with 1,200’ of workings. There is a small gasoline power plant, and 3 buildings. MOUNTAIN LAKE MINING Co. i UTAH

Office: Knight Blk) Provo, Utah: Mine’ office: Heber, Wasatch’ Co, Utah. Jesse Knight, pres.; Jas; H. Moyle, vice-pres.; R. E; Alten, sec.- treas.; J. W. Knight, gen. mgr. Organized 1896, under laws of Utah, capi- talization $50,000, shares 10 cts. par, increased, 1900, to $1,000,000, shares $1 par, assessable.’ Shares are listed on the Salt Lake Stock Exchange. Lands, 7 claims, patented, in the Big Cottonwood and Snake Creek dis- tricts, in Wasatch and Salt Lake counties, The property has 2 contact de- posits, between diorite and limestone, carrying bornite and chalcopyrite, orè giving assays up to 55% copper and $210 gold per ton, with estimated

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average assay values of 2.5% copper, 2 oz. silver and $1 gold per ton. De- velopment consists of a tunnel. driving from the Snake Creek side, over 5,400’ long, with other lesser workings.

Mountain Meadows Copper Co. California

Idle. Office: Security Bldg., Sioux City, Ia. Mine office: Quincy, Plumas!Co., ¡Cal:: W.G: Lummis, manager, at last accounts. Property, in Lights canyon, has a 950’ tunnel, showing auriferous and argentiferous cop- per ore and a little native copper. Equipment includes steam power and an air compressor. Company comatose and mine shut down several years. MOUNTAIN MEADOW GROUP. MONTANA

Address: P. H. McDermott, owner, Helena, Mont. Mine, 4 miles from Pony, Madison Co., Mont., on Willow creek, now operated by leasers. Property shows a fissure vein in granite carrying pyrite and chalcopyrite with gold values in quartz gangue. A small log concentration mill handles the output and concentrate is shipped to the East Helena smelter. MOUNTAIN MINING CO. COLORADO

Is controlled through stock ownership by the Salida Copper Co., which see. Property is the Griffith mine.

Mountain Monarch Gold Mining Co. California

Office: 319 Yuba St., Redding, Cal. Mine office: Shasta, Shasta Co., Cal. W. F. Aram, pres. and gen. mer.; J. H. Hunter, sec.; C. E. Armstrong, treas., at last accounts. Organized Nov. 25, 1905, under laws of California, capitalization $75,000, shares $1 par, in $25,000 preferred and $50,000 com- mon stock,

Lands, 11 claims, unpatented, 220 acres, in the Whiskeytown district, north of Redding, 10 miles from the Southern Pacific railway, showing fissure veins in rhyolite, the main one said to be 140’ wide, traceable 2,500’. The ore carries malachite, bornite and chalcopyrite associated with pyrite, and averages 7% copper, 1.5 oz. silver and $3.40 gold per ton. Development is by tunnels of 200’ and 750’, with 1,200’ of workings. Equipment includes steam and gasoline power with a 6,000’ sawmill and 5 mine buildings. Idle. MOUNTAIN VIEW DEVELOPMENT CO. ARIZONA

Letters unclaimed at Bisbee, Cochise Co., Ariz. Geo. Bennett, pres.; W. D. Kinsey, sec., at last accounts. Organized 1903, under laws of Ari- zona, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par.

Lands, 9 claims, at the head of the Dixie canyon, 4 miles northwest of Bisbee. The mine has 2 shallow shafts and a tunnel at last accounts devel- oping copper ore, with occasional lead, and a small test shipment gave returns of 16.74% copper and 100 oz. silver per ton. Property was being worked by leaser at last reports.

MUDERSBACH MINE. ARIZONA Near Bouse, Yuma Co., Ariz. See Record Mines Co. MULBERRY MINING CO.. NEW MEXICO

Office: care H. M. Gray, Tyrone, Pa. Mine address: Lordsburg, Grant Co., N. M. Property, about 400 acres, in the Virginia district, showing 7 fissure veins.

Development consists of a 500’ shaft and numerous shallow shafts and pits, with an aggregate of about 3,000’ of workings, showing gold-copper and lead ores.

Equipment includes steam power, with air compressor, and there is a 5U-ton concentrator. Was developing with small force at last accounts. MULOCK MINE. MICHIGAN

Idle. Office: care R. P. Mulock, owner, Colfax, Ia. Mine near Match- wood, Ontonagon Co., Mich. Lands, 240 acres, being the N. W. Y of Sec. 9 and the N. W. % of N. W. 14 and 'S. W. % of S. W. Y, of Sec. 15,

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T. 49 N., R. 41 W., one-half mile northwest of the Norwich mine. Explora- tory work, 1903-05, showed 4 cupriferous amygdaloidal beds, of which two, that were about 400’ apart, averaging 6’ and 15’ in width, were opened by several pits, showing copper. MULTNOMAH MINING, MILLING & DEV. CO. WASHINGTON Office: 346 Broadway, New York. Mine office: Nespelem, Okanogan Co., Wash. J. M. Hudnut, pres.; M. J. Hills, vice-pres. and sec.; Dr. F. O. Hudnutt, asst. sec. and gen. mgr.; Geo. S. Wickman, treas., at last accounts. Organized 1901, under laws of Washington, capitalization $2,000,000, shares l par. : anis about 600 acres, in 4 groups, including the River group of 260 acres, patented, carrying placer gold; the Mineral Hill group of 100 acres, 3 miles west of Nespelem; the Multnomah group of 180 acres, 4 miles west ct Nespelem, and the Ramsey group of 60 acres, adjoining the Nespelem Central Mining Co., 5 miles west of Nespelem. The Ramsey group is said to show high-grade gold-copper ore. The Multnomah group has a tunnel of about 1,100’, said to cut a 15’ vein, showing mainly auriferous and

argentiferous lead ore. Mine as a whole is said to have about one-half mile `

of workings. There are 5 buildings, and a dam built across the Nespelem river. Presumably idle and no returns securable, 1913. MUMME MINING CO. ARIZONA Office: 1502 S. Flores: St., San Antonio, Tex. Mine office: Patagonia, Santa Cruz Co., Ariz. T. E. Mumme, pres. and gen. mgr.; E. J. Mockert, vice=pres.; H. P. Mockert, sec.; Geo. F. Wieland, supt. Organized Sept. 20, 1910, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $100,000, shares $1 par; issued, 61,000 shares. Also has $10,000 debentures authorized, but unissued. Lands, 7 claims, patented, in the Harshaw district, 6 miles from Pata- gonia, showing 2 veins of about 7' average width, carrying gold and silver- bearing copper ore, said to average about 9% copper, 22 oz. silver and $4 gold per ton. 7 Development is by a 50’ shaft and 3 tunnels, longest 320’. The mine has no power equipment. MURPHY COPPER MINE. BRITISH COLUMBIA Address: A. Beamer and A. E. Raab, operators, Hope, B. C. Property, a group of 8 claims, situated on the northern side of the Fraser river, a mile above Hope station on the C. P. R. R. The mine, located and worked about 1865, shows gold-copper ore in a netted vein in igneous rocks. De- velopment consists of an 800’ adit and numerous old pits and trenches. Property now under bond and lease to firm named above. MURRAY-ISABEL MINES CO. COLORADO Idle. Office: Parkdale, Fremont Co., Colo. W. H. Murray, Jr, and J. F. Murray, owners. Lands, 7 miles from a railway, have a vein of 7 to 10’ width, carrying ore giving average assays of 7% copper, 6 oz. silver and $2 gold per ton, opened by a 300’ shaft and a 220’ tunnel. Closed down for several years. NACIONAL; COMPANIA MINERA LA. MEXICO Idle. Mine office: El Salado, Catorce, San Luis Potosi, Mex. Miguel Ferrara, pres.; José M. Parga, mgr., at last accounts. Property is the Saltillito mines, producing silver, gold, copper and iron ore. NACO CONSOLIDATED COPPER CO. ARIZONA Idle. . Last address: 228 West Fourth St., Los Angeles, Cal. Letter unclaimed at Turkey, Yavapai Co., Ariz. A. J. Paden, pres.; Wm. Theising, vice-pres.; Chas. W. Stewart, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, J. Ross Camp- bell and J. W. McBride, directors, at last report. Organized Oct. 26, 1906, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $2,000,000, shares $1 par. Lands,

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20 claims, 400 acres, including the Yankee Chief and Comet groups, in the Black Canyon district, 3 miles from Turkey. Development is by 2 shafts, with about 700’ of workings, showing sulphide ores. Company advertised a few years ago that it had one of the “biggest, richest, surest things, and quickest money-makers ever offered to date,” each statement being abso- lutely untrue. Closed down several years, and deservedly dormant. NACO SMELTING & REFINING CO. ARIZONA

Probably dead. Letter unclaimed at Naco, Cochise Co., Ariz., and Los Angeles, Cal. Fully described Vol. VIII.

NACOZARI CONSOLIDATED COPPER Co. MEXICO

Address: P. O. Box 64, Douglas, Ariz. Mine address: Pilares de Naco- zari, Sonora, Mex. John G. Alexander, pres. and gen. mgr.; R. R. Hum- phrey, vice-pres.; George Motz, sec.; John Gaughran, treas.; preceding offi- cers, Geo. S. Howard, J. Cota Leon, J. A. Finney and N. Cohen, directors. B. R. Russell, mine supt. and purch, agt.; S. A. Gardainer, chemist-assayer. Organized July, 1907, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $3,000,000, shares $5 par, fully paid and nonassessable; issued, 420,000; 25,000 shares sold for $1 each in Sept., 1913. Annual meeting, second Tuesday in July.

Property consists of various claims, 245 acres, lying in 2 groups near the Pilares mine of the Moctezuma Copper Co. The Galera group shows andesite and brecciated rhyolite cut by several veins carrying complex sulphide ores with gold and silver values, The other group which adjoins the Pilares mine, shows a big red reef, 300’ wide, of brecciated, silicious vein matter outcropping on the Copper King claim and supposed y an extension of the Pilares deposit.

The Galera group is opened by a long tunnel driven on the vein devel- oping narrow streaks of high-grade shipping ore. Company has spent much of its money on the main, or No. 1, tunnel (1,800’ long in Oct., 1913), driven towards the Red Hill to undercut the Copper King outcrop. This tunnel cuts several 2 to 6’ veins on which drifts are now being run and complex sulphide ores developed. This ore runs high in lead, carries considerable zinc, 3 to 4% copper, 60 to 70 oz. silver and a few dollars in gold. At 1,400’ from the portal, and 300’ beneath the surface, the tunnel entered a vein a foot wide which has been followed up for 300’, widening to 2’ of ore said to average 2.25% copper, 30% lead, 15% zinc, 64 oz. silver and 60 cts. gold. Total development to date is 2,948’, including 3 shallow shafts and a num: ber of prospect tunnels. Management estimates 29,900 tons of ore blocked out with an average content of 114% copper, 10% lead, 7% zinc, 15 oz. silver and 50 cts. gold per ton.

In Oct., 1913, company ordered and paid for the machinery of a 100- ton concentration mill and has graded foundation site. The plant is ex- pected to be complete in Jan., 1914.

Property is in an excellent location, has promising ground and a chance to find a large ore deposit of milling ore. Veins thus far discovered show a good grade of ore, but the future of the company depends upon the results of further exploration work.

Nanaimo Jubilee Mg. & Dev. Co., Ltd. British Columbia

Idle. Mine near Dunsmuir, Vancouver Island, B. C. Described Vol. X. NAPOLEON MINE. CALIFORNIA

Idle many years. Mine near Copperopolis, Calaveras Co., Cal. Joseph- íne H. Sullivan, owner; Lewis and Benj. Williams, lessees, at last accounts. This is the oldest copper mine in California and was a consideráble pro- ducer in early days, 1865. The property shows a 100” ore channel, ranging from diabase to talcose schist, having lenticular orebodies up to 20’ in

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width, carrying mainly copper sulphides. Development is by a 430” new main shaft and a 325’ old shaft, to the eastward.

NAPOLEON MINE. WASHINGTON See British Columbia Copper Co.; at Marcus, Stevens Co., Wash. NATICK COPPER CO. MICHIGAN

Office: Leopold Bldg., Houghton, Mich. Mine near Copper Falls, Keweenaw Co., Mich. Frederick W. Nichols, resident manager. Lands, 180 acres, being the N.E. % and E. diagonal % of E. % of N.W. 14 of Sec. 28, T. 58 N., R. 31 W., surrounded by holdings of the Frontenac Copper Co. Property slightly explored in early days, has been idle many years. NATIONAL CONSOLIDATED MINING CO. ARIZONA

Office: 420 Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, Ill. Operating office: Nogales, Ariz. Letter returned unclaimed from former mine office, Patagonia, Santa Cruz Co., Ariz. Oscar E. Porter, pres.; Geo. D. Gross, vice-pres., and gen. mgr.; D. F. Orange, sec.; Alfred Thurtell, treas., and S. E. Johnson, directors. Organized Dec. 9, 1905, under laws of Arizona,, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par, nonassesable. Annual meeting, first Monday after first Tues- day in January.

Lands, 21 claims, about 400 acres, and 40 acres in mill sites, property including the Silver Glance group, about 12 miles northwest of Nogales. Lands show decomposed granite, diorite and occasional limestone, carrying about 20 fissure veins and contact deposits, of which 6 are partly developed. Principal vein, of 12’ average width, carrying chalcocite and galena, esti- mated-to average 3% copper, 10% lead, 12 oz. silver and $9.75 gold per ton. Development by shafts of 60’, 200’, 80’ and 75’, and tunnels of 193’ and 120’.

Equipment includes a 12-h. p. Fairbanks & Morse gasoline hoist and there are 5 mine buildings.

National Copper Co. California

Idle. Letters to 202 Bullard Blk., Los Angeles, Cal., unanswered. Mine near Needles, San Bernardino Co., Cal. Fredk. H. Newton, pres. and gen. mgr.; Jas. H. Newton, vice-pres. and treas.; A. E. Miller, sec., at last accounts. Organized under laws of California, capitalization $5,000,000, shares $1 par, of which $2,500,000 was given for property. Authorized, 1907, a $100,000 issue of $1,000 ten-year 8% bonds.

‘Lands, 29 claims, 4 fractional, about 40 miles south of Needles and 22 miles north of Parker, Ariz., in the Whipple Mountain district, said to show

strong veins, developed by shafts of 75’ and 100’, with a gasoline hoist.

There are several mine buildings, including a 20x30’ office. NATIONAL COPPER CO. NEW MEXICO

Chas. P. Laughlin, secretary, Tyrone, Grant Co., N. M. Organized Feb., 1902, capitalization $1,200,000, shares $100 par.

Lands, 22 claims, 10 patented, 4 miles from the Chemung Copper Co., in Whitewater canyon, Burro Mountain district. The property has a fissure vein, in granite, of 60’ estimated average width, carrying mainly chalcocite, opened by a 200’ shaft and a 360’ tunnel having a 214’ blind shaft. The mine shows considerable bodies of copper ore, mainly in disseminated sulphides of 2 to 3% copper tenor, with some ore carrying up to 15 and 20% copper. Equipment includes steam power and a Norwalk air compressor. Pre- sumably idle.

National Copper Mining Co., Ltd. Idaho

Address: August Paulsen, pres., Spokane, Wash. Mine at Mullan, Shoshone Co., Idaho. A. P. McCrae, vice-pres., Mullan, Idaho; Chas. McKinnis, sec.-treas. and mer.; foregoing with Harry White, Jas. F McCarthy, H. H. Stambaugh and R. C. Steese, directors. Organized Sept. 22, 1906, under laws of Washington, capitalization 2,000,000 shares, $1 par,

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increased from 1,250,000 shares in July, 1913; 1,200,000 issued; 800,000 shares treasury stock were sold at 50 cts. Asessment of 1 ct. per share levied March, 1913. Had $300,000 in treasury Aug. 15, 1913.

Property lies in Deadman gulch between Mullan and Larsen, on the north side of the Coeur d'Alene valley. . It is about 1% miles west of and in the same belt as the Snowstorm copper property, which it closely resembles in character. Ore occurs in a fault vein in thickly-bedded white Revette quartzite with talcose slips bordering the ore. The vein runs nearly east and west and dips steeply to south. The surface gives no indications of the great orebody 1,700’ beneath it and in fact the ore-bearing quartzite does not show in the upper workings.

During the “boom” days of 1906-07, the company sank a 400’ shaft and drove an adit tunnel developing a fissure vein and a strong fault, but found no ore in commercial quantity and no especially favorable indications of a large orebody. Since that period the management has been driving a crosscut tunnel as rapidly as funds permitted, getting little encouragement, endeavoring for a year past to open a lead-silver fissure until Dec., 1912, when a large body of silver-bearing copper ore was cut at a distance of 4,380’ from the portal, about 1,000’ lower than the old tunnel and shaft. The crosscut tunnel is driven about 4,000’ through very hard and tight Wallace slates and St. Regis quartzites to a fault separating the St. Regis from the more favorable Revette quartzite. This fault showed scattering lead and copper mineralization, but no commercial ore. Beyond this fault the beds of white Revette quartzite run northwest and southeast, dipping steeply, 80°, to the southeast. About 200’ from the big fault zone just noted, there is a nearly vertical quartz vein, filling a fault in Revette quartzite, the beds north of this vein running slightly north of west and dipping at but 45° south. This vein carries copper ore and a drift east disclosed the great orebody which has given the mine its present prominence. The extent of the ore shoot is not yet known, but it is 50 to 100’ wide, over 500’ long and proven downward for several hundred feet by drilling. A sample cut across the orebody where it was 85’ wide showed an average value of 214% copper, 5 oz. silver and 80 cts. in gold.

Development consists of a 1,200’ upper tunnel, 4,800’ lower crosscut tunnel with about 1,000’ of drifting on the vein and a 400’ shaft with 400’ drifting. é

An examination and report made by Fred T. Greene in June, 1913, is said to give the total value of developed, probable, and possible ore, as $8,417,890. His estimates of tonnage, as given in the press, are as follows: Above tunnel level 247,890 tons partly developed and 207,520 tons possible ore; below tunnel level, 883,990 tons partly developed, 875,400 probable ore and 1,830,260 possible ore.

This great orebody is now being prepared for stoping and $300,000 will be spent in constructing a 500-ton concentrator, flotation plant, 2-mile trolley line and other works nearly completed Nov. 1, 1913. The concen- trator is designed by the General Engineering Co. of Salt Lake City and the construction work is under the direction of Karl Bernson. Production: is expected to begin early in 1914.

National Copper Mng. & Devel. Co. Pennsylvania

Main office: Belvidere, Warren Co., N. J. Mine in Adams Co., Pa. Chas. O. Lane, pres.; Henry D. Deshler, sec.-treas. and gen. mer.; Edw. March, Harry Bossard and John Paul, directors. Organized Dec. 16, 1905, under laws of New Jersey, capitalization $500,000, shares $1 par, fully paid and non-assessable; issued, 118,985. Annual meeting, third Monday in March.

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Property, 2 claims, 155 acres, in Adams county, Pennsylvania. Ore occurs in veins in a schist formed from porphyry and marked by epidote; strike northeast and southwest with average dip of 85°. One vein under de- velopment said to average 16’ wide carrying 5% copper, 1.40 oz. silver and $6.80 gold per ton. Development to date by open cut and shallow shafts. NATIONAL COPPER TEMPERING CO. COLORADO

Office: Cincinnati, Ohio. Has a so-called copper tempering process. Stock believed to be without value. See Vol. X.

National Gold & Silver Mining Co. New Mexico

Idle. Mine near Steins, Grant Co., N. M. M. H. Sherman, pres.; B. L. Berkey, supt., at last accounts. Has steam power and a 50-ton concentrator. NATIONAL METALLURGICAL CO. MEXICO

Office: 165 Broadway, New York. Mine and smelter at Matehuala, San Luis Potosi, Mex. Geo. C. Kaufman, mgr. mining department of American Smelters Securities Co.; Samuel James, mgr. Matehuala plant. Is con- trolled, since 1910, by American Smelters Securities Co., itself owned by the American Smelting & Refining Co.

Organized Aug., 1901, under laws of Colorado, capitalization $1,000,000, -

shares $25 par. Debentures, $500,000 authorized, at 6%; issued $472,000. Annual meeting, last Tuesday in July. Holds title to property through the Compania Metalurgica Nacional, organized in Mexico.

The Dolores mine is situated a few miles from Matehuala, in the state of San Luis Potosi, Mex., in an isolated diminutive mountain range known as the Sierra del Fraile. The range runs north and south, is less than 3 miles long and 1 mile wide and consists of Mesozoic blue limestone, which has been intruded by quartz-monzonite and the metamorphism and ore deposition in the range is connected with these intrusions. In the Dolores property the intrusive rock occupies a belt about 1,000 m. long, and 300 to 400 m. wide. Surrounding it, and lying between it and the limestone, is a practically continuous band of lime-silicate rock, plainly of metamorphic origin. Nowhere does this rock pass into the limestone far from the intrusion. í

The ore deposits consist mainly of cupriferous pyrite, are intimately

associated with the lime-silicate rock and occur largely at the very contact, frequently with limestone as one`wall. This cupriferous pyrite has usually a gangue made up largely of pyroxene and garnet. There are 2 intrusions, the Dolores on the south and the Cobriva on the north, the latter being irregular.

The company owns the ground about both of these intrusive masses and works the gold-copper ore in the Tiro General, Dolores, Trinidad, Azul, La Luz and El Angel mines. The copper'ores as shipped average 5% copper, 50 to 80 grams silver and about $2 gold per ton. The geology of the district is well described by Spurr, Garry and Fenner in Journal of Geology, Vol. VII, p. 444, 1912.

The principal mines are connected with the smelter by the 7-mile Matehuala narrow-gauge railway.

The smelter, connected by a spur with the Mexican Central railway, receiving ore by rail and burros, has 150-ton and 200-ton water-jacket blast furnaces for lead and copper, with a calcining furnace and a 30-ton rever- beratory furnace used for flue dust. There also is a small sampling mill. Product formerly was matte, averaging 45% copper, 50 to 200 oz. silver

and 1 oz. gold per ton, shipped to the Aguascalientes smelter for con- version.

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a 275-h. p. Corliss tandem-compound engine direct-connected to a 150-h. p. generator, with a number of smaller generators and motors.

Is a splendid property, well managed, with an adaptation of Mexican methods and labor to modern conditions. Mine development has utilized geological work to great advantage. 5 NATIONAL MINES & SMELTERS: CO. MEXICO

Office: Magee Bldg., Pittsburgh, Pa. Mine office: Magistral, Durango, Mex. S. H. McKee, pres.; Wm. L. Curry, vice-pres.; John S. Eberman, sec.- treas.; Renald Ailes, financial agt.; E. A. Kennedy, supt. Organized 1911, capital $2,500,000; issued, 1,700,000 shares. Authorized, $400,000 collateral income bond issue; issued, $375,000. Company owns all the stock of the Santa Maria del Oro Mines Co., which company purchased property of the Lustre Mining & Smelting Co. from old stockholders, paying for same in stock and bonds of the National Mines & Smelters Co.

Property, 32 claims, 441 hectares, 1,089 acres of mineral lands, 397 hec- tares of mill and smelter sites, besides miscellaneous lands and leasehold timber lands.

The Magistral mine is developed by 3 tunnels and 9 shafts and has a large body of slightly cupriferous pyrite with quartz and limestone gangue, carrying 0.5 to 5% copper, probably averaging under 1% copper, 1 oz. silver and 15 to 20 grams gold per metric ton.

The Cocinera mine has been developed by the new company since July 1, 1911, opening up an ore shoot 1,000’ long, 15’ wide and said to aver- age $10 in gold and copper with a little silver. Company is now sinking from the 7th to 8th level, the depth being 647'. Ore reserves in this and the Azurite mines are estimated by the management at 190,000 tons, developed in new ground since 1911. The old company claimed reserves of 185,000 tons in other and entirely distinct orebodies, in 1910,

‘ The new company has thus far confined itself entirely to the develop- ment of the known and most accessible orebodies, as the Mexican revolu- tion has interfered with work and prevented resumption of operations on a large scale.

The equipment is very complete in all departments, including a central power plant having two 360-h. p. Koerting and two 350-h. p. Crossley gas engines, one 200-h. p. and three 400-h. p. gas producers, a 2,300-volt 3-phase generator, two 6-drill Ingersoll-Rand air compressors and 10 hoists of 100 to 300-h. p.

The 40-stamp mill, 750-lb. heads, has Huntington mills, 1 Ball mill and 10 Frue vanners.

The present concentrator has 2 Huntington mills, a chlorination plant and a cyanide plant. `

The smelter has 6 blast furnaces, including two 150-ton hot-blast fur- naces and three 200-ton 42x126” furnaces, air for blast being heated by waste gases in a specially-designed MacDonald hot-blast heater.

The stamp mill and concentration plant have been idle for some time and the lack of development in the mine resulted in a shortage of fluxing ore and as the smelter could not operate successfully on the highly silicious material mined it had to close down. The old company apparently spent a million dollars or so for installation before the mines were sufficiently developed to provide the ores necessary to keep the various plants running and in 1907-08 became financially embarrassed. The mines are not yet on a profitable basis, but with the installation of a new concentration plant, planned for 1914, as the result of tests made by Henry E. Wood & Co., of Denver, it is expected that the property will yield a satisfactory return on the investment.

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Idle many years. Office: 6 Beacon St., Boston, Mass. Mine office: Rockland, Ontonagon Co., Mich. B. T. Morrison, pres.; Harry Highley, sec.-treas.; Chas. M. Baker, Harry M. Howard and W. S. Warn, directors. “Organized 1848, under laws of Michigan, rechartered 1878, capitalization increased later to $2,500,000, shares $25 par; issued, $1,875,000, and rechar- tered 1908. Paid dividends, 1861-72, of $320,000, and levied a 40-ct. assess- ment 1909. The company has no debts.

Lands, 1,852 acres, having the Michigan on the north and east and the Victoria on the south and west. The company explored various other tracts for several years before beginning work, 1852, on the present mine, which carries the western continuation of the contact vein of the old Minnesota mine, now owned by the Michigan Copper Mining Co. The property showed, when work was begun, remains of ancient mining operations, including a shaft of 50’ depth, timbered and scaffolded, with a nearly continuous sheet of copper extending down 1 side of the shaft. The company had considerable litiga- tion with the old Minnesota company over title to 115 acres of land, the National finally winning. The mine was let on tribute, 1873-80 and excel- lent profits were secured by the tributors, but the mine was badly. used up. The company resumed work, on its own account, 1880, but was unable to bring the mine to the point of profitable production and stopped work 1893. The mine is connected with the old Minnesota mine of the Michigan, between the 50 and 70 fathom levels, but the connection has been dammed. The machinery plant, entirely obsolete, was sold for scrap iron, 1908. NATIONAL NATIVIDAD COPPER CO. MEXICO

Office: 251 Main St., Dallas, Tex. Mine office: Oaxaca, Mex. Isaac B. Walker, pres.; D. Head, vice-pres.; A. M. Walker, sec.; F. Wiebens, mgr.; H. J. Hazzard, supt. Owns 7 properties, including the Natividad, Dallas, Banco, San Diego, San Diego Annex, San Diego No. 2 and Duratt mines, carrying auriferous and argentiferous copper and lead ores. Princi- pal development is on the San Diego group, in which the ores are said to average $19 per ton, though very high-grade ore occurs. The Natividad mine has a 120’ two-compartment shaft, showing a 4’ vein carrying mainly copper values, with a hanging-wall paystreak carrying ore claimed by the

company to average $50 to $100 in combined values. The Santiago mine is .

reported to have 4 parallel veins carrying outcrops claimed to assay $290 to $1,800 gold per ton, planned to be opened by a 400’ tunnel. El Banco mine has a 40’ shaft said to show gold and silver values. The Dallas mine has several prospect pits, and the Durant mine is apparently undeveloped. Equipment includes steam power. The revolution in Mexico caused the company to close the mines down until their peaceful operation can be assured. NATIONAL SMELTING CO. p MEXICO

Idle. Office: 2030 Land Title Bldg., Philadelphia, Pa. Mine office: Chal- chihuites, Zacatecas, Mex. L. H. Taylor, Jr., pres.; Richard G. Park, vice- pres.; Paul W. Meyers, sec.; John J. Little, treas., and Wm. C. Haddock, directors. Organized March 27, 1906, under laws of Maine, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $5 par; issued, $389,375, in 1908. A former $150,000 issue of 6% bonds was converted into stock, at par. Dividends were $14,000, in 1907, none since. Company holds property through the Compañia Benifi- ciadora de Chalchihuites, S. A., organized under laws oí Mexico. Annual meeting, first Monday in June.

Company owns 178 hectares, besides 38 acres of mill and smelter sites and sundry water rights. Mineral lands, in 8 groups, showing limestone. with several intrusions of eruptive rocks, carry fissure veins in the erup-

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tives, and contact deposits in Hinestore, with values mainly in copper and silver-lead ores. Lands include La Colorada silver-lead mine, La Anaconda mine of iron fluxing ore, La Espléndida silver-gold mine, El Manto and El Tigre silver-gold mites, La Estufa and La Constancia silver-lead mines, La Santa Rita de Los Bobos mine, and a stock control of the Núngano mine, which has argentiferous lead and copper ores.

The Anaconda mine shows a 36' vein carrying ore averaging 2.5 to 3% copper. The Núngano has an orebody of 6 to 15’ width, developed for 120’ in length and 160’ in depth, giving 2.5 to 3% copper ore, opened by shafts of 30’, 60’ and 160’, and by tunnels of 250’ and 300”. The other mines carry siivertlead ores, Ii írom 20 to 45% lead, 10 to 50 oz. silver and $2 to $5 gold per ton.

Equipment small but sufficient for working the property on present scale. The concentrator of 60 tons daily capacity has a 14x17” Dodge crusher, 2 pairs of rolls, 3 New Century jigs, 2 Standard tables and settling tanks. The smelter, now idle, has 2 small blast furnaces and a reverber- atory with accessory roasters and necessary machinery.

The company became involved in litigation, 1906, which was settled, 1908, leaving the property in the company's possession and free from debt. The corporation has, however, been without working capital for some years and the revolutionary conditions in Mexico have made a refinancing of the company impracticable. The Durango Canitas railroad is now built to the district, materially improving the economic conditions and lowering the working costs.

Native Copper Co. Michigan

Idle since 1855. Office: 60 Congress St., Boston, Mass. Mine at Del- aware Mine, Keweenaw Co., Mich. John C. Watson, pres.; Arthur C. Paine, sec.-treas.; Ashley Watson, M. Augustus O’Neil and Frank L. Van Orden, directors. Organized 1849, and reorganized March 29, 1880, under laws of Michigan, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $25 par; fully issued. Annual meeting, first Wednesday in March.

Lands, 480 acres, being the S. % of Sec. 3 and N. W. % of Sec. 10, T. 58 N., R. 30 W., all on the Keweenawan trap belt. A little work was done, 1852-55, on a fissure vein crossing the ashbed, the company levying assessments of about $39,000.

Native Copper Mining Co. California

Incorporated in 1911 to develop the Copper King, Native Copper and other claims on Table mountain, Monterey county, Cal. W. H. Kerr, Coal- inga, Cal., president.

Native Copper Mining Co. Nevada

Idle. Letters to Reno, Nev.,and Yerington, Lyon Co., Nev., unanswered. Benj. Curler, pres.; H. Pennington, vice-pres. and mgr.; W. T. Wilson, sec.- treas., at last accounts. Organized under laws of Nevada, capitalization $500,000, shares $1 par. Lands, 4 claims, unpatented, near the Bluestone mine, about 3 miles west of Yerington, said to have an 8” vein carrying cop- per ore and free gold, assaying up to 20% copper and $871.76 gold per ton, opened by 3 short tunnels, longest 185’. Shipped 20 tons of ore to Thomp- son smelter in 1912.

Naumkeag Copper Co. Michigan

Office: 42 Broadway, New York. Mine office: Houghton, Mich. J. Parke Channing, pres.; Sam A. Lewisohn, vice-pres.; J. H. Susmann, sec.- treas.; preceding officers, Adolph AN IES Ela AMIA Van Orden, Theo. L. Hermann and Chas. J. Paine, Jr., MBE! Sidney S. Lang, supt. Organized March 21, 1912, under laws of Michigan, capitalization $5,000,000, shares, $25 par, $10 paid in; issued, 102,000 shares. Company ended 1912

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with a cash balance of $232,152. U. S. Mortgage & Trust Co., registrar. Annual meeting, third Wednesday in March.

Lands, 1,200 acres, in Secs. 34 and 35, T. 55 N., R. 34 W., and Sec. 3, T. 54 N., R. 34 W., just west of the village of Houghton, on the south shore of Portage lake. ¡The property carries practically all of the Ashbed amyg- daloidal beds, including the Atlantic and the Quincy-Pewabic lodes.

Property was slightly explored under former owners, but efforts were sporadic and altogether unimportant. Operations by present owners were begun July 10,'1912, in the horizon of the Hancock lodes. Drill borings yielded good showings of copper at depth of 513’ in what is presumed to be an extension of Hancock No. 3 lode, and again at a depth of 1,301’ where a 6” streak of coarse copper was encountered. Hole “B” went to a depth of 1,378’, passing through the Atlantic lode at 250’ and through the Pewabic lode at 1,295’. The first showed practically no copper and the latter only about 6” of copper, finely distributed. This hole, however, did cut 3’ of heavy copper ground at a depth of 535’ in an unidentified lode. Hole “C” showed slight traces of copper at depth of 261’ in the Atlantic lode, trace of copper at 650’, a little fine copper at 720’ and about 3” of copper at a depth of 970. Hole “D” revealed traces of copper at various depths between 198’ and 1,044. Hole “E” made showings similar to those noted in “D.” Hole “E” encountered 21’ of copper at a depth of 483 to 504’, and lesser amounts at 904’ and 1,134. Hole “H” yielded good copper showings at 330’, 401’ and 665’. Other work is centered in the sinking of an exploratory shaft in the approximate horizon of the Pewabic lode, and the extension of an exploratory crosscut from the end of an old adit opened many years ago on this lode, in the South Side tract. This adit, 200’ in length, reveals traces of- copper for about 100’. :

The property is decidedly promising and the management is excellent in every respect.

NE PLUS ULTRA MINES. CALIFORNIA Formerly owned by California-Nevada Copper Co., now bankrupt. ‘NEBRASKA & ARIZONA COPPER CO. ARIZONA

Address: Paradise, Cochise Co., Ariz. W. K. Morrow, superintendent at last report. Was organized Jan., 1910, and was merged June 25, 1910,

with the California & Paradise Mining Co., in the California & Paradise.

Consolidated Mining Co. Lands, 13 claims, known as the Morrow & Cham- berlain group, developed by a shaft on the Malachite claim.

Company resumed operations in June, 1912, after several years of idle- ness, sinking the old 200’ Malachite shaft with 2 shifts and crosscutting in November on the 600’ level.

Needles Mg. & Sm. Co. Arizona And California

Office: 400-55 Congress St., Boston, Mass. Mine office: Chloride, Mohave Co., Ariz. Works office: Needles, San Bernardino Co. Gale War G: Sharp, pres.; C. G. Rice, vice-pres.; F. W. Batchelder, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, B. Preston Clark, Albert F. Holden, S. W. Winslow and asa je Storrow, directors; D. R. Muir, mgr. Organized under laws of Maine, capitalization $5,000,000, as successor of Arizona-Mexican Mining & Smelt- ing Co., and is owned through entire stock issue by United States Smelting, Refining & Mining Co. eh Property consists of various mines and claims in California and Arizona, a limestone quarry in San Bernardino county, California, and a smelter on the bank of the Colorado river, 1 mile northwest of Needles. The predecessor of the company also held mining lands at Siam, Cal., and 16 idle claims near Florence, Pinal Co., Ariz, The mining properties, in the

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Chloride, Stockton Hill and Cerbat districts of Mohave county, Arizona, carry values mainly in silver, lead and zinc.

The Tennessee mine, at Chloride, has a vein up to 10’ in width, carrying argentiferous lead, zinc and iron sulphides, opened by an 800’ shaft. The mine produces 200 tons per day. The Stockton Hill or Banner mine, 12 miles north of Kingman, has argentiferous and slightly auriferous lead ore, of good average tenor, opened by a tunnel of 1,300’.

This company also operates the Gold Roads mine, between Kingman and Needles, producing 200 tons of $15 gold ore daily.

The Needles smelter of 300 tons capacity is not now operating. Equip- ment includes 2 McDougal roasters, a 46x120” lead stack, and a small copper stack, with a 100’ steel smokestack, 65-h. p. engine and No. 6 Connersville blower. There is a 35x37’ sampling mill, and a 250-ton concentrator handling lead and zinc ore on the same method as is used in the Midvale plant of the United States Smelting Co.

Nellie Mine. Idaho

Owned by Jack Alger and Capt. A. P. Horton of Osburn and O. R. Young of Wallace, Shoshone Co., Idaho. Property, 114 miles from Osborn, on O. W. R. & N. R. R., has a fissure vein with gray copper ore (tetra- hedrite) in quartz, the ore being said to carry 100 to 240 oz. silver per ton. Shipped 25 tons in Oct., 1912. Has water-power plant for pumping and hoisting work.

Nelson Mining Co. Arizona

Office: 609 Land Title Bldg., Philadelphia, Pa. Mine near Crown King, Yavapai Co., Ariz. Geo. P. Harrington, superintendent. Property is half way between town of Crown King and mine of that name. Has fissure vein carrying gold-copper ore, developed by 900’ tunnel and 300’ incline shaft on vein.

Equipment includes 25-h. p. gasoline hoist, air compressor, and com- pany is reported to employ an average force of 15 men.

Nest Egg Gold & Copper Mining Co. Nevada

Office: 402 Majestic Bldg., Denver, Colo. Mine near Kimberly, White Pine Co., Nev. David J. Reed, pres.; E. B. Henderson, vice-pres.; Albert L. Hillér, sec.-treas., at last accounts. Organized Feb. 9, 1907, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,500,000, shares $1 par.

Property consists of the Portland group of claims near Kimberly, adjoining the Giroux holdings in the Ely district, Nevada. The ground is 4 miles from the railway line and is practically undeveloped, but may be regarded as a promising prospect. The company is also reported to own 2 claims in the Bullfrog district and claims near Searchlight.

No record of recent operations can be secured and it looks as if the company had been organized to work the public and not the mine. NESTOR MINING CO. ALASKA

John Wick, manager, Hadley, Alaska. Owns the Nestor, Pelaska and other claims, about 114 miles from the Mamie and Stevenstown mines near Hadley, Ketchikan district, in southeastern Alaska. Property shows a copper-bearing contact between a diabase dike and limestone, whose garnet- epidote rock carries chalcopyrite. Property has 2 tunnels at 110’ and 180’ above tidewater, with an ageregate of 600’ of work on Nestor claim. NEVADA ARIZONA MINES CO. ARIZONA

Near Hackberry, Mohave Co., Ariz. Is a silver-lead mine in the Music mountains, whose orebodies are said to show a little copper. Development includes the 200’ Lucknow shaft and 700’ Roosevelt tunnel, latter in milling ore for 200”. Company has erected a small concentrator expected to start work in Oct., 1913.

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NEVADA BONANZA COPPER CO. NEVADA Main office: 159 S. Main St., Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine at Morning- star City, Lyon Co., Nev. Freeman Morningstar, pres. and gen. mgr.; Sereno B. Tuttle, vice-pres.; Robt. J. Deighton, sec.; Walter C. Tuttle, asst. sec.-treas.; preceding officers, H. P. Clárk, W. D. Mathis, Thos. J. N. Nippur, M. S. Woolley and P. L. Williams, directors.~ Organized 1906, capitalization $2,100,000, shares $1 par; issued, 1,448,000 shares in April, 1913. Property, 12 claims, 7 patented, 250 acres, adjoining the Nevada Douglas ground, about a third of a mile from Ludwig station on Nevada Copper Belt railroad, in the Yerington district. J. C. Dick, E. M. of Salt Lake City, reports 3 fissure veins crossing property; 1 on the Green Dutchman about, 5’ wide and assaying $38 in gold and 5% copper. The vein on the Copper King claim has been developed by a 3-compartment, 115’ shaft, said to show copper ore its entire depth. Property is still in the prospect stage, but management plans further development for 1913-14. NEVADA BRITISH MINING CO., LTD. NEVADA Idle. Mine address: Cherry Creek, White Pine Co., Nev. Alfred Fletcher, pres. and treas.; A. F. Dotterer, vice-pres.; Wm. F. Fletcher, sec.; J. W. Walker, gen. mgr. Organized 1907, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable. Shares are listed on the Salt Lake Stock Exchange. Lands, 6 claims, 3 patented, near Cherry on the Ely railroad, known as the Chief of the Hills group, west of the Adelaide Star Mine, Ltd., carrying lead and copper ores. Mine has shafts and tunnels aggregating 500’. In 1911 an upraise from 800 to 600’ level, 1,000’ from the shaft, cut a 7’ vein of commercial ore. Company had lease with the Adelaide Star Mine Ltd., expiring June 18, 1913. Mine reported to contain $200,000 worth of ore blocked out for stoping. As the Adelaide Star mine is leased to the Glasgow Western Exploration Co., the Nevada British lease is probably now held by that company. Equipment includes a 40-h. p. gasoline hoist, 50-h. p. boiler and a small air compressor. NEVADA-BULLION MINES CO. NEVADA Address: Moe & Dougherty, San Francisco, Cal. Mine near Bullion, Elko Co., Nev. Company often called the Bullion-Nevada Mines Co., owns a group of claims adjoining the Nevada-Bunker Hill Mining Co. holdings and a half interest in the Kerr & Peterson lease on that company’s ground. Development consists of a tunnel now 1,970’ long and being extended 200’ further to cut the vein opened in old mine workings. Company has been shipping ore during Oct., 1913. NEVADA BUNKER HILL MINING CO. NEVADA Office: Elko, Nev. Mine at Bullion, Elko Co., Nev. J. A. McBride, pres.; Frederick Davis, vice-pres. and gen. mer.; R. H. Mallett, sec.; John Henderson, treas.; preceding officers, John Zelch, L. H. Johnson and W. W. Booker, directors; Fred Diggs, supt. Organized April 28, 1905, under laws of Nevada, capitalization $2,000,000, shares $1 par; fully paid and nonassessable; 900,000 shares reserved in treasury for development, of which 16,180 have been issued. Annual meeting, first Wednesday in May. Property consists of 21 lode claims, 9 patented, in Railroad mining district, 1 mile from Bullion P. O. and 14 miles from railway. Eight of the patented claims are held under bond and lease for $109,000 until July 1, 1915, with 20% royalty. The country rock is limestone cut by porphyry dikes and with granite on either side. Ore occurs in the porphyry dikes and also in limestone and along contacts. There are 7 known orebodies 2 being worked by leasers. Veins run north and south, are nearly vertical

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and vary from 3 to 30’ in thickness, are proven from 50 to 500’ in length and to a depth of 600’. Ores are said to average 3% copper, 15% lead. 30 oz. silver per ton and a little zinc. Mine is an old one, having been dis- covered in 1869 and worked until 1893.

Development is by a 700’ shaft and a 2,028’ tunnel driven to open the old workings of the Blue Bird mine with other tunnels of 350’, 250’, 1,200’, 2,000’ and 1,000’. There is also a 200’ and a 300’ shaft on the property. Total development is reported as 13,800’.

Production for 1912 was 300 tons of 3% copper ore. The Nevada Bullion Mine Co. and the Sweepstakes property adjoin the mine. Manager states main working tunnel will be carried on to the 3,000’ point which will be 500’ below the 300’ Tripoli shaft, an incline sunk on ore. In September last, the long tunnel cut and followed an iron seam that opened after 50’ into a 1 to 4 streak of 35% lead ore with copper values. Leasers are mining ore at several points on this property.

NEVADA-BUTTE MINING CO. i NEVADA

Martin Benson, president. Organized 1913, capitalization $1,000,000 shares 25 cts. par. Property, 15 claims in Dolly Varden and Mizpah dis- tricts, Elko Co., Nev. Claims are 75 miles from Ely and said to be on the northern end of a great belt of mineralized porphyry and to carry fissure and contact deposits. Development, by several shallow shafts, shows min- eralization, but property still in prospect stage. Drilling on neighboring areas has shown commercially mineralized porphyry. NEVADA-CALUMET COPPER CO. NEVADA

Address: W. H. Bray, mgr., Battle Mountain, Elko Co., Nev. F. D. Nowell, pres.; J. A. Beck, vice-pres. and sec.! Organized 1913. Property, the Boyd-Martin group, 30 claims, in heart of the monzonite-porphyry belt of Battle mountain, shows copper-stained patches thought to represent the outcrop of a big disseminated glance deposit. Company plans drilling

~.property in winter of 1913-14, NEVADA-CALUMET COPPER CO. NEVADA

Office: 157 State St., Bridgeport, Conn. Mine office: Wabuska, Lyon Co., Nev. Thos. Malcolm, pres.; John L,- Washing, vice-pres.; Arnold Schaer, John D. Kazar, William E. Blanchard, Chas. E. Hayes, Everett C. Elwood, Geo. E. Crawford, Thomas Malcolm, John L. Washing, J. Frank Cox, Francis E. Higgins and J. O. Brigham, directors; Philip J. Stacey, supt. Organized May 4, 1907, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $2,000,000, shares $5 par.

Lands, 17 claims, patented, 340 acres, 6 miles northeast of Buckskin and about 10 miles northwest of Yerrington. Property shows diorite, por- phyry and silicious limestone, and has 3 contact deposits, estimated at 12’, 30’ and 40’ average width, traceable 500 to 1,200’, showing cuprite, malachite, azurite, chalcocite and chalcopyrite, giving assays of from a trace to 18% copper, and low average gold values. Development is by 2 main shafts, 1,200’ apart, to be connected on the 500’ level. About 225’ of laterals, on the 500’ level, show small bunches and stringers of ore, in a leached zone, with fair indications of workable values at greater depth. Equipment includes two 25-h. p. Witte gasoline hoists, and there is a 20-room boarding house, with 4 other buildings.

Nevada Central Copper Co. Nevada

Office: Room 1012, 122 So. Michigan Blvd., Chicago. Mine office: Cedar, via Palisade, Eureka Co., Nev. Robert L. Benson, pres. and treas.; Geo. Leighton, vice-pres.; A. F. Bordwell, sec.; preceding officers, Jos. D. Wright, E. L. Wilson, S. E. Oberlin, Wm. R. Andrews and Charles Lay, directors; Harold A. Linke, M. E., mine mgr. Organized Dec. 20, 1904,

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under laws of District of Columbia, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $10 par, in $250,000 non-cumulative 7% preferred stock and $750,000 common stock. Issued, $750,000 common. Annual meeting, second Tuesday in January at

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Lands, 32 claims, about 700 acres, near Cedar, in the Antelope district. Litigation over titles was settled in the federal court of appeals, San Fran- cisco, the Nevada Central securing clear title to the former property of the Whalen Consolidated Copper Co. Development is by a 500’ incline shaft, with 1,000’ drifts on Prince of Wales mine, cutting an 8’ vein on the 100 level, showing copper of good average assay tenor. Two carloads of ore gave returns of 11% copper. There is also a 470’ (June, 1913) vertical double-compartment shaft being sunk on the Henry mine. Equipment in- cludes one 60 and one 12-h.p. gasoline hoist, air compressor and electric drill. Engine house was burned in July and work shut down, but operations were resumed Oct., 1913.

Nevada Champion Copper Co. Nevada

Idle. Letters unclaimed at Goldfield, Nev., and Mina, Mineral Co., Nev. Wilson H. Scott, pres.; W. F. Miller, vice-pres.; C. M. Miller, sec-treas., at last accounts. Organized 1907, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $7,500,- 000, shares $5 par.

Nevada Consolidated Copper Co. Nevada

Office: 165 Broadway, New York. Operating office: McGill, White Pine Co., Nev. Mine near Ruth, White Pine Co., Nev. Silas W. Eccles, pres.; Col. Daniel C. Jackling, vice-pres.; W. E. Bennett, sec.; preceding offi- cers, S. R. Guggenheim, Judd Stewart, Murry Guggenheim, J. N. Steele, Col. Chas. Hayden, Wm. B. Thompson, Chas. M. MacNeill and W. Hinckle Smith, directors; C. K. Lipman, treas.; C. B. Lakenan, gen. mgr.; E. E. Van- derhoef, mine supt.; G. F. Waddell, mill supt.; S. S. Sórensen, smelter supt.; Pope Yeatman, cons. engr.

Organized Nov. 17, 1904, under laws of Maine, as a merger of the Bos- ton & Nevada Copper Co. and White Pine Copper Co., capitalization $5,- 000,000, shares $5 par; increased Feb. 5, 1908, to $8,000,000, shares $5 par, and again increased Nov., 1909, to $10,000,000, shares $5 par, non-assessable. A former issue of $3,000,000 first-mortgage 6% convertible gold bonds, due April, 1918, has been retired. :

Statement of Dec. 31, 1912, gave cash on hand $739,951, and metals on hand and in transit $2,886,660, with accounts receivable $437,562 and ac- counts payable of $577,998. Dividend rate is 37% cts. per share quarterly, begun Oct., 1909, and dividends, 1910 and 1911, were $1.50 per share, $2 in 1912 and $1.50 in 1913. Old Colony Trust Co., Boston & Guaranty Trust Co., New York, registrars; Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Co., Boston, and C. E. Beach, New York, transfer agents. Shares listed on the New York and Boston stock exchanges. Annual meeting, third Friday-in April.

Earnings for 9 months in 1913 were but half those of 1912 and if allow- ance is made for depreciation, the balance of $95,159 is a debit one after dividends are paid. Undivided profits are $2,953,325, but quick assets are ac- tually $3,582,852, or nearly $2 a share.

Company absorbed the Cumberland-Ely Copper Co., paying $7,554,084 cash therefor, and took possession Aug. 30, 1910. Shareholders of the Cum- berland-Ely were given the opportunity of exchanging stock on the basis of 314 shares for 1 share Nevada Consolidated. The Nevada Consolidated ‘is controlled through stock ownership, amounting to 1,000,500 shares by the Utah Copper Co. The Nevada Consolidated Copper Co. controls through stock ownership the Nevada Northern Railway Co., having a line 168 miles

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Ely to Cobre station on the Southern Pacific railway, and controls, through stock ownership, the Steptoe Valley Smelting & Mining Co. The company had 7,300 shareholders Feb., 1913.

Lands, 111 claims, patented, 1,379 acres, including the former holdings of the Cumberland-Ely, 48 claims, of 523 acres area. Property includes the Copper Flat or Eureka group of 355 acres; the Ruth group of 455 acres; the Lane group of 46 acres; the Veteran group of 14 claims; the Jupiter group of 22 claims, and a group of 12 claims near the Giroux Consolidated. Min- eral lands include properties formerly held by the White Pine Copper Co., Cumberland-Ely Copper Co., and sundry other corporations and indi- viduals.

The geologic features of the property are somewhat similar to those of Morenci, Ariz., and Bingham, Utah. An area of Paleozoic limestone is intruded by a great mass of monzonite porphyry tilting the sedimentary rocks and forcing its way into them in dikes and sills, heaving them up in great irregular lacoliths. At the surface the monzonite porphyry, which is the principal ore-bearing rock, is sparingly stained with small quantities of copper carbonates, not exceeding 0.5% in copper tenor and 25 cts. in gold, hence is worthless. Below the thoroughly oxidized zone, varying from 20 to 162’ in thickness, the rock is no longer leached, but carries specks of copper glance in white altered porphyry. This disseminated chalcocite also occurs in tiny seams in partially brecciated material and as patches dissem- inated through the rock mass.

The zone of payable ore extends 200 to 300’ below surface and below that depth the chalcocite impregnations become too lean for commercial use, the bottom limits of payable ore depending somewhat upon commer- cial factors, mainly the market price of the metal, as there is a gradual shading out of ore values with depth. The altered limestone also carries occasional impregnations of chalcocite, of commercial tenor. One portion of the property shows an extreme width of about 2,000’ of ore.

A considerable part of the property is covered by a rhyolite capping, part of a lava flow that poured out over the district long after the mon- zonite intrusion and subsequent faulting and erosion. Two orebodies are mined by steam shovels, at Liberty and Copper Flat pits. The capping between these two orebodies has been removed and in time they will be mined as one.

The Copper Flat orebody covers an area of 3,600’ long, 1,200’ wide and averages 220’ thick; the ore averages 1.67% copper, 3.5% iron, 0.5% lime and 80% silica. The actual yield from 1.53% ore was 19.47 lbs. copper in ‘Aug., 1913.

Mining is mainly by steam shovels, working in open pits, and principally from the Copper Flat and Liberty mines, which have mammoth pits. The company has 6 dumping sites for material stripped from the Copper Flat and other pits, these sites having room for the deposition of about 11,000,000 - cu. yds. of capping, giving sufficient room for all capping.

The Copper Flat mine, formerly called the Eureka mine, was proven by underground workings and by drilling before mining by steam shovels began, but extraction is practically all opencast. The mammoth pit of the Copper Flat mine is about 2,500’ long, 1,500’ wide and 350’ deep, with ore removed in 7 benches of about 50’ each. The ore is soft and friable, but requires blasting, holes being put down by churn drills to average depth of about 50’, drilled at intervals of about 20’ and fired in series, each blast breaking tremendous quantities of ground. The Copper Flat pit was working 8 Bucyrus steam shovels, Feb., 1913, partly on overburden and partly on ore, these having dippers of 3%4 cu. yds. capacity, loading 14,200 tons of ore in a

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single day. The Copper Flat mine lies on a low rounded hill, with summit only about 150’ above the flat through which the railroad enters the mine, and the rail line reaches the bottom of the pit by 4 spirals along the benches, having a length of about 5 miles. The railway track in the pit has a grade of 3 to 4%, and as depth is gained transportation becomes more difficult. The Copper Flat has four 60-ton and eight 45-ton locomotives, one 30-ton crane with 50-ton and 60-ton ore cars.

Carbonate ores from cappings of the Copper Flat pit are produced far in excess of the requirements of the Steptoe smelter, though a considerable tonnage is used for converter flux and a small amount is employed in the reverberatory furnaces, but the greater part of the carbonate ore is stored in a ravine northeast of the works, where a railroad fill of considerable size has been built entirely of ore to be leached at some future time. Water from the Copper Flat pit has been raised by a small electric pump.

The Liberty mine or pit near the Copper Flat is now stripped and open- cast mining began, 1913. Churn-drill borings indicated about 9,000,000 tons of ore in the Liberty that may be extracted opencast. One steam shovel is removing overburden at the Liberty and 1 in ore, Feb., 1913.

The Ruth mine includes the Ruth and Star Pointer mines, operated as one property and connected by a 2,700’ tunnel, with an extensive electric haulage system hoisting through the Star Pointer shaft. The Ruth shaft, 1%4 mile from the Copper Flat pit, is 610’ deep, sunk at an angle of 45°, with 2 compartments, 200” of its depth being in limestone, with levels opened at 120’, 310’, 520’ and 610’, and is equipped with a small steam hoist. This shaft, now used for ventilation, has been replaced by the Star Pointer shaft, 459 deep, which corresponds with the 520’ level of the Ruth shaft with which it is connected on this level. Water is cared for by a 300-gal. pump. The average grade of ore in the Ruth mine is somewhat above that of the Copper Flat and the mine has developed about 8,000,000 tons of ore of 2.5% average grade, with small gold and silver values. The ore is soft and the mine is to be operated on the caving plan.

The Star Pointer, or the main working vertical shaft of the Ruth mine, is located about 250’ west of the lime-porphyry contact, is 7’ 6"x25' 6” in the clear and has 4 compartments, there being two 6x6’ skipways, a 5x6’ ladder- way for pipes also and 7x9 timberway, handling loaded cars on cages. The shaft has a 140' steel headgear on concrete foundations. The main hoist is geared to a 300-h.p. General Electric induction motor, and has drums with 72” face running independently or in balance, raising 5-ton ore skips, work- ing in guides, and there is a 75-h.p. 11x16” duplex hoist for the timber cage.

The Veteran mine, taken over from the Cumberland-Ely, was. tested extensively by churn drilling and has an orebody of about 500x1,000’ in sec- tion, of about 200’ average depth, with indications that it is an isolated bunch of sulphide ore, lying on a shelf of limestone, in a trough that has protected the sulphide ores from oxidation and leaching. Development includes a tunnel, but is mainly by the 475’ Veteran shaft, sunk in limestone. This has outside dimensions of 7’ 6”x27 6”, being practically a duplicate of the Star Pointer shaft. The mine has its bottom level at 400'-and is worked by top- slicing and caving, to which the blanket formation is excellently adapted. Equipment includes a 300-h.p. Denver Engineering Works electric hoist, with 6 drums, raising two 5-ton Kimberley skips, singly or in balance, good for 600 depth, and is operated by a 550-volt 3-phase current, with a steam hoisting plant in reserve, for emergencies.

Miscellaneous Properties include a number of small mines and groups, on which more or less work has been done. The Kimberley group shows a promising area of mineralized porphyry, but is not extensively developed

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and the capping is too thick for opencast work. The Wedge mine has a shaft showing some ore of about 3.5% copper average assay tenor. The Jupiter mine has 4 shallow shafts showing ore assaying up to 9% copper, but with’ an average of probably about 3%. The Turkey shows a compara- tively thin bed of cupriferous porphyry, apparently of no particular promise, and the August and Boss of Nevada groups have not given indications. of much value.

Electric power is used throughout, current being brought from the Step- toe smelter; at, 40,000 volts, and stepped down to 550 volts by four 200-kw. transformers in a concrete station.

Buildings include a machine shop and warehouse at the Copper Flat mine, engine houses at the various shafts and an office, boarding house and bunkhouse and numerous dwellings at the Ruth mine.

Ore is shipped to the Steptoe smelter, at McGill, separately described under title of the Steptoe Valley Smelting & Mining Co., over a 27-mile standard-gauge railway, equipment including 275 self-dumping ore cars. This line. is a.part.of the Nevada Northern railway having a standard- gauge line of 168 miles in length, running from the mines and Ely to a junction with the Southern Pacific railway at Cobre station, 3 miles east of Toano. The Nevada Northern Railway Co., controlled through stock own- ership by the Nevada Consolidated, is capitalized at $2,000,000, with a $1,000,000 bond issue, at 5%, the line doing a general-business. in addition to handling the traffic of the Nevada Consolidated Copper Co. and the Step- toe Valley Smelting & Mining Co.

Reserves: Extensive churn-drill borings on the Copper Flat, Liberty, Veteran, Ruth and other properties, have proven a tonnage estimated Dec. 31, 1912, to be 38,853,351 tons of ore, averaging 1.66% copper and represent- ing an ore supply of about 14 years, of which the major portión is in the Copper Flat and Liberty groups.

The cost of stripping overburden was given at 33.64 cts. per cu. yd. for the fiscal year ending Dec. 31, 1912, with actual mining costs for ore of 17.35 cts. per dry ton, with an additional charge of 15 cts. per ton made to cover stripping redemption at the Eureka pit, 22 cts. at Liberty pit and 30 cts. at the Hecla pit. Ore mined and treated during the fiscal year 1912 averaged 1.692% copper, by assay, with an average extraction of 68.25%. The ore mined and milled for the 3 months ending Sept. 30, 1913, was 813,153 tons, of which but 7% came from underground workings. This ore averaged 1.53% copper as compared with 1.76 for the previous quarter year and 1.67 for the mine average. The cost of production for the fiscal year 1912 was given as 8,33 cts. per lb. of copper and for the three-quarters of 1913, 10.09 cts., covering all charges, including depreciation charges on Steptoe plant. It is not probable, however, although the Nevada Consoli- dated Copper Co. is one of the largest and best minés in the world, that the mine can continue to produce copper, for any great length of time, at much less than 8 cts, per 1b., and, when all factors are taken into considera- tion and due allowance is made for the cost of improvements, that ulti- mately must be charged against costs, a net cost of 9 cts. per lb. for finished copper laid down at the seaboard, would be a fair estimate. Production is marketed through the American Smelting & Refining Co., on a 1% commis- sion basis.

Production was 33,283,348 Ibs. fine copper in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 1909; 62,772,340 Ibs. in the fiscal year 1910; 78,541,270 lbs. for the 15 months ending Dec. 31, 1911; 63,063,261 Ibs. for the year ended Dec. 31, 1912, and 48,287,774 lbs. for the 9 months ending Sept. 30, 1913. The Nevada Con- solidated is a mine of the first magnitude and is capable, with mill improve-

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ments, to recover values in slimes, of making cheaper costs and larger pro- duction than was secured in the fiscal year 1912. The property has been splendidly developed and is being managed with ability and success. NEVADA CONSOLIDATED MINES & SELLING CO. NEVADA Office: 625 Market St., San Francisco, Cal. Mine office: Hawthorne, Mineral Co., Nev. Alex. Brown, pres.; Chas. L. Newton, vice-pres.; C. C. Matthews, sec.; F. G. Carey, treas. Lands, about 1,000 acres, including a gold property formerly owned by the Huntoon Valley Mining Co., 45 miles south of Hawthorne, and copper claims 10 to 20 miles southwest of Hawthorne. The copper property is being developed by a 650’ tunnel said by the com- pany to have a 17’ vein carrying copper sulphides, with some galena. The company claims to have nearly 6,000’ of workings. A 100-ton concentrator and a smelter, planned for 1909, were not built. Officers are said to stand well but the company’s past advertising is not liked. NEVADA CONTACT COPPER CO. NEVADA Operated 1913, according to press reports. Letter unclaimed at Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine near Contact, Elko Co., Nev. Organized 1907, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,000,000, by Chas. A. Berter, J. H. Roberts, A. G. Hudson and A. Naylor. Lands, 100 acres, showing 3 veins, said to be traceable 4,000’, having a 40’ shaft, from which picked samples give assays up to 28% copper, with an estimated average of 12 to 14% copper. NEVADA COPPER CO. NEVADA Mine near Yerington, Lyon Co., Nev. Lands are claimed to show a vein of 60 to 100’ width, opened by a 330’ main shaft. Company is said to hold the old Boston & Nevada smelter, across the river from Yerington. Idle some years and reported probably dead, 1913. i NEVADA COPPER CO. NEVADA Office: 572 Bullitt Bldg., Philadelphia, Pa. Operating office: Tonopah, Nev. Mine office: Mina, Mineral Co., Nev. Jas. S. Austin, pres.; J. H. Whiteman, vice-pres.; C. A. Higbe, sec.-treas. Company is controlled by the owners of the Tonopah Mining Co. Owns the Dunlap mines near the Blue Light mine, 12 miles east of Mina. Claims show a great outcrop said to be 600 to 700’ wide and much longer, carrying bornite and copper oxide in a lime-iron gangue. The property can be worked by open cuts, Prop- erty has very little development, but has a good plant with air com- pressor, etc. Company is not the one of same name merged with Nevada Bell Cop- per M. € R- Co., 1904. NEVADA COPPER CO. : UTAH Idle. Office: 222 D. F. Walker Bldg.; Salt Lake City, Utah. : Mine office: Smyths, Beaver Co., Utah. A. J. McMullen, vice-pres.; A. D. Me- Mullen, sec.-treas, Organized April, 1907, under laws of Utah, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par, assessable; issued, $650,000. Lands, 14 claims, 4 patented, 12 miles from the S. P. L. A. & S. L. R. R., in the Beaver Lake district, show Paleozoic limestone cut by monzonite, with disseminated ore and replacements. The claims have several pits and shafts, deepest 175’. with about 200’ of laterals, said to show a vein. assaying 8.5% copper and 111 oz. silver per ton. No returns secured. NEVADA COPPER HILLS MINING CO. NEVADA Office: 18 South Mulberry St., Mansfield, Ohio. Mine office: Luning, Mineral Co., Nev. A. H. McCullough, pres.; F. W. Lenhart, vice-pres.; T. J. Foster, sec.; Chas. Ritter, treas.; Rowland Lea, gen. mgr.; preceding offi- cers, Geo. Lowery and W. J. Whillis, directors. Organized Oct. 24, 1907, under laws of Nevada, capitalization $1,500,000, shares $1 par, non-assessable;

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issued, $745,000. Farmers Saving & Trust Co., Mansfield, Ohio, registrars. Annual meeting, first Monday in December. è

Lands, 10 claims, 200 acres, in the Fitting district, 9 miles north of Luning. The property is reported, by Mr. Lea, to have numerous replace- ment orebodies in limestone forming a series of parallel bedded veins over a width of about 600’, these having a generally north-south strike, with a dip of 6°, carrying oxidized ores with occasional native copper; some -bornite with chalcopyrite shows in the bottom workings. Veins average 2’ thick and 28 of them are opened up for a length of 400’ and a depth of 100’, ac- cording to the company’s secretary. Ore is stated to assay 1 to 70% copper, from a trace to 8 oz. silver and from a trace to $3 gold per ton.

Development is by a 225’ shaft and a 330’ tunnel. Equipment includes a 25-h.p. hoist, and there are 6 buildings. Management plans extending the tunnel, deepening the shaft to 500’, and crosscutting, also installing com- pressor.

Nevada Copper Mining, Milling & Power Co. Nevada

Office: Tacoma, Wash. Mine at Contact, Elko Co., Nev. E. F. Mes- singer, pres., Tacoma, Wash.; Henry Smith, vice-pres. and gen. mgr., Con- tact, Nev.; E. S. Price, sec.-treas.; M. K. Price and C. Smith, all of Tacoma, directors. Organized May 5, 1905, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,500,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable; issued, $1,500,000.

Property, 52 claims, 16 patented, in Salmon River district, better known as Contact district, Nev. Claims show Paleozoic sediments cut by granite with orebodies along the contact. Company is now preparing for exten- sive development and several hundred tons of high-grade ore is at the Alice mine awaiting shipment by auto truck to Rogerson, Idaho, 40' miles away. Property and geology fully described Bull. 497, U. S. Geol. Survey. NEVADA COPPER, PLATINUM & NICKEL CO. NEVADA

Office and mine: Bunkerville, Clark Co., Nev. Property is the Key West mine, or Great Western group, in the Bunkerville (Copper King) district, 38 miles northeast of Moapa, on the Salt Lake railroad. District shows limestone cut by volcanic lavas, with fissure veins. The working shaft is 300” deep and there are over 5,000’ of underground development in tunnels and crosscuts. Made shipments in 1908 of ore said to average about 4% copper, 2.5% nickel and 1% oz. platinum per ton. Idle several years. NEVADA COPPER QUEEN MINE. NEVADA

. A. C. James, supt., Luning, Mineral Co., Nev.; A. L. Van Tyne, Syra- cuse, N. Y., and associates, owners; John C. Skuse, cons. engr. Property, the Spanish Woman’s group of 53 claims, 8 miles from Luning. Develop- ment work shallow, but leasers are now taking out ore at 6 places. Present owners bought property in Oct., 1913, and plan active development.

Nevada Delaware Mining & Milling Co. Nevada

Idle. Mine office: Carson City, Ormsby Co., Nev. E. B. Sollenberger, pres.; A. M. Duncan, vice-pres.; J. E. Sollenberger, sec.-treas. and gen. mgr.; preceding officers, O. B. Taylor and F. B. Sharp, directors, at last report.

Organized under laws of Nevada, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par. Lands, 3 claims, unpatented, 60 acres, 7 miles northeast of Carson City, the nearest rail point. Mine, developed by a crosscut tunnel, with about 2,000 of workings, has oxidized silver-copper ores, with some free gold, a test shipment to a Salt Lake smelter assaying $32 per ton giving net returns of $7 per ton. No returns secured.

Nevada Delker Copper Mining Co. Nevada

Idle. Office: Cherry Creek, Nev. Walter F. Rock, pres.; J. W. Walker, vice-pres., treas. and gen. mgr.; A. C. Krez, sec.; W. D. Clements, supt., at last accounts. Organized July, 1910, capitalization $1,000,000, shares $1 par.

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Lands, 23 claims, 460 acres, 20 miles west Bt Currie, having an ore zone of 400’ aimed width, developed by a shallow 2-compartment shaft planned to be sunk 400’ to the sulphide zone. A test shipment of surface ore gave re- turns of 14% copper and $3 gold per ton.

Nevada-Denver Copper Co. Nevada

Address: Yerington, Nev. C. C. Warrell, pres.; Geo. D. Suter, Denver, vice-pres. and gen. supt.; O. L. Stiles, Denver, sec.-treas.; Paul Esch, Mil- waukee, Wis., C. C. Werts and C. A. Hilton, Denver, and A. W. Gardiner, directors. Organized Sept., 1912, under laws of Nevada, capitalization $250,000. Property, t he Juanita group, 4 claims adjoining the Honest En- deavor mine in the Yerington district, Nev., which belongs to same owners and isa few miles northeast of the Nevada-Douglas mines. Claims said to show veins with 4 to 16% ore in granodiorite. Development is slight, con- sisting of shallow tunnéls, cuts and pits. Property idle, Sept., 1913, on account of liens filed by former employee and title said to be still in the name of Suter and Hilton.

Nevada Development Co. Nevada

Idle. No response from office: 201 Walnut Place, Philadelphia, Pa. Mine'at Lovelock, Humboldt Co., Nev. Theo. H. Lowe, supt., at last ac- counts. Lands are the Copper Glance group and adjoining claims. NEVADA DOUGLAS COPPER CO. NEVADA

General office: 79 Milk St., Boston, Mass. Main office: Newhouse Bldg., Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine office: Ludwig, Lyon Co., Nev. A. J. Orem, pres:; James G. Berryhill and L. H. Curtis, vice-presidents; F. M. Orem, sec.-treas.; W. C. Orem, gen. mgr.; preceding officers, J: J. Corum, Jos: T. Herrick, directors; Archie J. Orem, supt.; H. L. Burbridge, mine supt.; Llew Humphreys, mg. engr.; E. R. Marble, assayer; R. M. Mitchell, Salt Lake City, Utah, purch. agt. Organized Sept. 1, 1906, under laws of Utah, capitalization $5,000,000, ‘shares $5 par, fully paid, nonassessable; 930,000 shares issued. Bonds, $600,000, 6%; $500,000 outstanding. Dividends, 1913, $125,000. Federal Trust Co., Boston, registrar; Paul Revere Trust Co., Boston, transfer agent. Stock listed on Boston curb. Annual meeting, second Tuesday in May.

The report for the year ending Dec. 3, 1912, shows a gross operating revenue of $824,891, while operating expenses were $390,077, leaving a gross operating profit of $434, 814. Deducting $164,657 for fixed charges of mine depreciation, there is a net profit of $270,157 for the year.

The company has decided to dispose of its half interest in the Nevada Copper Belt¡Railroad Co. and has sold for $100,000 the railroad company’s note and surrendered 5,000 shares of railroad stock for 50,000 shares of its own stock, which are returned to the company’s treasury, this action being due to recent laws enacted in the state.

Lands, 30 claims, 550 acres, with 2 mill sites aggregating 80 acres, ee miscellaneous lands, including water rights, giving total holdings of about 700 acres on the western slope of the Mason mountains. Lands include for- mer holdings of both the Ludwig Copper Mining Co. and the Douglas Cop- per Mining Co., which succeeded the Douglas Mining & Smelting. Co. Holdings consist of 4 separate and distinct mines, the old Douglas mine, the Amalgamated group and the Casting Copper mine, being the original holdings of the company, and the Ludwig mine, which was more recently purchased. Country rock consists of limestone fed lls by grano- -diorite, with large contact orebodies and ‘fissure veins.’ There also is one claim carrying fluxing ore at Buckskin, 7 miles distant.

The Ludwig mine, about 1 mile northwest of the Douglas, includes 2 claims, on which the mine is opened, and a 40-acre tract in Sanity Valley,

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on which there is a well and pumping station. The Ludwig was opened 1865, and’ work by the former owners was badly planned, but the property was a shipper for some years of small quantities of high-grade ore, pro- duction including some very handsome malachite and azurite, a portion of which was sold to lapidaries, and considerable bluestone was produced also for the mines of the Comstock Lode.

The ore occurs in a fissure vein with a white limestone footwall and a silicious limestone hanging wall, which changes to a garnetiferous lime: stone, heavily impregnated with sulphides in places. Where crushing has permitted surface waters to work downward, large bodies of carbonates and copper glance ores are found as replacements in the footwall limestone. The vein proper has an average width of about 30’ and has been developed along its course for 1,300’ and to a depth of 910’ by levels, along hanging wall, every 100’. The orebody on the 700’ level is 50’ wide and 300’ long and runs 6% copper. The shoots, or pipes, of high-grade secondary ore. running from 16 to 30% in copper, form chamber deposits in the limestone near the porphyry contact, proven down to: 800’ level. Ore reserves are estimated at 400,000 tons of 5% copper ore. ;

In addition to copper ore, the Ludwig has a very large deposit of gyp- sum, on the footwall, said to be 3,000” long, 500’ wide and 400’ deep, which figures seem high. This deposit of gypsum is already of commercial value, and was being mined and shipped at the rate of 50 tons a day in 1913. ;

The Douglas mine is working a typical contact) metamorphic deposit in which garnetized limestone carrying copper sulphides and their resultant oxidized ores occur in very irregular orebodies in limestone which have a tendency towards a horizontal rather than a vertical extension. The min- eralized area is about 700’ wide and 2,000’ long with numerous’ parallel fissures which seem to control the mineralization. This mine has been de- veloped by a main working tunnel and a deeper haulage tunnel with nu- merous crosscuts and drifts netting the property. The working tunnel, 4,290’, has an average depth of 120’ beneath the surface and the ore is in, places continuous to the surface. Four 50’ winzes show the downward ex- tension of the ore. .

The Casting Copper mine shows a large area of garnet-epidote lime- stone constituting low-grade carbonate ore, which will be extensively mined. This mine has a 350’ vertical shaft and a 500’ tunnel. In:1913: three levels, 100’, 200’ and 350’, were being developed but little work was being done on the latter. The 100’ level shows an orebody 50’ wide and 175’ long and ship- ments average 5% copper as compared with 3% in the Douglas mine.

At the Amalgamated mine very little development work has been done, but the surface exposures indicate the existence of similar large contact metamorphic deposits.

Property as a whole has 21,362’ of workings. í

Equipment includes four 100-h.p. hoists, good for 1,000” depth each, with a 52-drill Imperial air compressor. Electric current is' taken from the Truckee River General Electric Co. Water is secured from artesian wells in Smith valley, brought to the mine by a 17,000’ pipe line.

Company has canceled its smelting contract with the Mason: Valley smelter, having been discontented for some time with the smelting rates, which made it necessary to mine only the richer ores of Douglas hill. At the present time it has built an experimental leaching plant at Denver, Golo., of 20 tons capacity, using the Greenewalt wet process, ore being crushed to 16 mesh, leached with a 12% solution of sulphuric acid and pre- cipitated by electrolysis. A 90% extraction has been made by W. L: Austin,

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who is in charge of this plant. A 1,000-ton leaching plant will be erected at the Ludwig mine.

Company employs about 243 men, whose daily wage averaged $3.41, and has a school house, store, club, etc.

Ore mined in 1912 from the Ludwig and Douglas Hill mines amounted to 331 tons per day, or 120,908 tons, averaging 4.25% copper, yielding 9,020,640 lbs. fine copper. Output for 1913 estimated by management at 12,000,000 lbs. Latest production, Aug., 1913, was 3,839 tons of 4.62% ore and in Sept., 1913, 3,491 tons of 6.1% ore.

Nevada Ely Copper Co. Nevada

Idle many years and probably dead. Office: Exchange Bldg., Colorado Springs, Colo. Letter unclaimed at Ely, White Pine Co., Nev. J. W. Yates, pres.; J. O. McClain, vice-pres.; O. P. Grimes, sec.-treas. Organized 1907, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $3,000,000 shares $1 par, nonassessable, Lands, 7 claims, including the Timberline group of 3 claims and the Copper Bottom group of 4 claims, on which some diamond drilling was done in 1907. NEVADA EXPLORATION & MINING CO. UTAH

Idle. Office and mine: Bingham Canyon, Salt Lake Co., Utah. Organ- ized 1907. Lands, 15 claims, near the Eagle Bird Mining & Milling Co., in Barney canyon, in the northern part of the Bingham district. Development is by a tunnel being driven jointly with the Utah Mining & Milling Co. No returns secured.

Nevada Mines Co. Nevada

Address: Geo. E. Stone, 74 De Long Bldg., Philadelphia, Pais We Gi Hay, pres.; Hayden Whitney, vice-pres. Mine address: Imlay, Humboldt Co., Nev. Is a reorganization of the U. S. Gold & Copper Corporation and Par Value Consolidated Mining Co., both stock-selling propositions that drained Wheeling and Moundville, W. Va., investors.

New company organized 1911 under laws of Arizona, capitalization S $2,500,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable; 1,000,000 shares and $4,000 cash paid for properties. Stock was sold at 5 cts. a share to stockholders of old companies.

Property, 8 claims, 160'acres, in the Humboldt rangę, 4 miles from Humboldt, Nev., developed by 700’ tunnel and drift work, showing lead and copper ore. Not regarded favorably.

Nevada Mining Co. California

Probably closed down. Mine near Auburn, Placer Co., Cal. L. IG. Schuster, mgr., at last accounts. Lands, 150 acres in Placer county and 30 acres in Nevada county, former 8 miles from nearest railroad, at Auburn, with a good wagon road connecting. Development by 2 shallow 2-compart- ment incline shafts, in a vein reported as diorite in slate, carrying mala- chite and chalcopyrite, associated with pyrite and hematite.

Nevada Ore Copper Co. Nevada

C. Greeman, supt., Acme, via Mina, Mineral Co., Nev. Property, a group of claims in the Fitting district, said to show copper ore in replace- ment deposits. Developed by 1,000’ shaft and extensive workings, opening up lead ores. Shaft to be deepened to 1,500’ in 1914.

Nevada Pacific Mines Co. Nevada

L. P. Patrick, pres., Goldfield, Nev. Mine office: Mina, Mineral Co., Nev. Property, the Mayflower group in New York canyon, northeast of

. Mina, shows copper ore 150’ wide, exposed by surface work, from which 15 tons daily are shipped to the Wabuska smelter. Development work is in progress to prove up the property, which is regarded by observers as a steam-shovel proposition,

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Nevada Phœnix Mining Co. E Nevada

Idle. Letters sent to Beowawe, Eureka Co., Nev., unclaimed. Lands, 22 claims, south of Beowawe, are opened by a shallow 2-compartment shaft and a 300’ crosscut tunnel, showing a 3’ vein said to give average assays of 7.2% copper, 55 oz. silver and $16 gold per ton.

Nevada Queen Copper Co. Nevada

Idle. Office: 405 Mining Exchange Bldg., Colorado Springs, Colo. Mine near Yerington, Lyon Co., Nev. Duncan Chisholm, pres.; John Matthew, vice-pres. and treas.; R. G. Riddett, sec.; preceding officers, H. Hieronemous and D. P. Randall, directors. Organized Oct. 5, 1906, under laws of Colorado, capitalization $1,500,000, shares $1 par, nonassessable; issued, $1,107,350. Is operated as a close corporation. Annual meeting, second Monday in October. Lands, 28 claims, patented, 467 acres, lying immediately north of the Nevada Douglas and Yerington Central Copper companies, developed by shafts of 186’ and 210’, showing copper ore giving assays of 1.5 to 28%. Management planned operating in 1913.

Nevada Sm. & Mines Corporation. California & Nevada

Office: Room 515 E, 30 Church St., New York. Mines near Tybo, Nye Co., Nev. Max E. Bernheimer, pres.; L. A. Dessar, vice-pres.; Werner Mueller, sec.; A. W. Joseph, treas.; preceding officers, M. Eisenberg, Chas. Lee, L. E. Marsden, N. P. Payne, H. Rawitzer, C. J. Roberts, directors. Organized May, 1906, under laws of South Dakota, capitalization $5,000,000, shares $5 par. Stock listed on the New York curb. Empire Trust Ed New York, registrar. Company has abandoned its copper claims at Green- water, Cal., and now owns a controlling interest in the Tybo Consolidated Mining Co., owning silver-lead properties at Tybo, Hot Creek district, Nev. NEVADA STANDARD COPPER CO. . NEVADA

C. Wilbert E. Marsh, pres., Mina, Nev. Organized under laws of Nevada, capitalization 100,000 shares; 55,000 issued for property and 9,220 sold for development funds.

Property, 12 claims and a mill site located in the Santa Fé or Luning district, Mineral Co., Nev. Claims cover low rounded hills at about 6,000' elevation, lying 6 miles east of Luning with good wagon road. The rocks are leached porphyries showing traces of copper and underlain at 20' depth by low-grade oxidized copper ores.

Development consists of 104” shaft on the Green Mystery claim and various location pits and tunnels. A level at 104’ cuts a 24 shear zone carrying low-grade ore. Owner considers it a typical porphyry, or dissem- inated copper deposit. Equipment includes a 4h. p. gasoline hoist, black- smith shop and buildings for men. There are 3 springs, 2% to 5 miles distant.

Nevada United Mining Co. Nevada

Main office: Lovelocks, Humboldt Co., Nev. Oliver G. Jennings, pres. and treas.; David R. Fowler, sec., both of 51 Wall St., New York; Wm. uf Griffiths, vice-pres.; John T. Reid, gen. mgr. and mg. engr.; preceding off- cers, Louis C. Naisawald, Louis J. Mukel and Ed. M. Burghard, directors; Chas. Sauberg, mine supt. Organized 1906, under laws of Arizona, capital- ziation $200,000, increased later to $300,000, shares $1 par, fully paid and nonassessable; 240,000 shares issued. Annual meeting, first Thursday in “February.

Lands, 33 claims, 10 patented, 550 acres, and a 60-acre mill site, 35 miles southeast of Lovelocks, 16 miles from Boyer, the nearest post office, and in the White Cloud district of Churchill county, Nev. The district shows Triassic sediments cut by granite-porphyry and covered in part by volcanic rocks. The ore deposits occur as replacements in limestone and as contact

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metamorphic orebodies. The claims show limestone, with 4 orebodies, hay- ing gossans of cupriferous, specular hematite, carrying oxidized ores in the gossan and sulphides at depth. The vein runs E.-W. and has a dip of 70”. The copper deposit is said to average 414% copper. The zinc vein is 20’ wide, where cut in a 1,300” tunnel, and averages 5/4% zinc.

The.mine has shafts of 40’, 60’, 70’ and 120, and, 5 tunnels, the longest a crosscut of 3,050’, with back of about 1,000’, and 1,050 of crosscuts; the final 250” of tunnel is in an ore zone of iron oxide, 100’ wide, with irregular bunches of copper ore assaying 2.5%. Workings estimated by manager to show 10,000 tons of ore, with 1,000 tons blocked out for stoping. The mine, which was worked 1871-73, and again 1889-95, was reopened, 1906, by the present management, and is quite wet, about 700,000 gals. of water daily flowing from the tunnel.

Equipment includes a 160-h.p. steam plant, with a hoist good for 750 and a 3-drill Ingersoll-Rand air compressor. There are 10 mine buildings. NEVADA-UTAH MINES & SMELTERS CORP. NEVADA & UTAH

. Reorganized and entire assets taken.over-by Consolidated, Nevada-Utah Corporation of Virginia and properties described under’ that title. The old companies affairs are fully described and criticised in Vol. X. The schedule in bankruptcy, filed Feb., 1912, showed liabilities of $185,033, with $21,500 secured by a Salt Lake bank and $40,000 by the Bristol Consolidated Mining Co. The assets included $222,341 due from the Nevada-Utah Mining Co.; $17,434 from the Imperial Gold & Copper Mining Co., and $10,831 from the Consolidated Pioche Mining Co. On June 11, 1912, the entire assets were bought for $102,000 at a judgment sale by a reorganization committee for a new company called the Consolidated Nevada-Utah Corporation, organized under the laws of Nevada.

The secretary states “About 50% of the old company’s shares, totaling 1,500,000, paid the 50-ct. assessment, thereby making available for carrying out reorganization approximately $350,000. The properties were bid in at receiver’s sale for $102,000, while approximately $100,000 additional was spent in corralling other collateral, including shares of subsidiary companies. This left available for reorganization and development work about $150,000. The new company has 2,000,000 shares, par $3, and $900,000 income bonds. The new management has pledged itself to carry forward an extensive pro- gram of development work and has retained as consulting engineer Allen H. Rogers, who some months ago made an examination of the property.

“None of the executive officials will draw salaries until the property has demonstrated that it can pay them from earnings. Some of the upper levels of the property at Pioche have been leased since last July and between 20 and 30 cars of ore monthly have been shipped on a royalty basis. ¿The new management has been practically assured that concentrates running 114 into 1 should yield a value of over 40% Zinc, thereby netting a substantial profit per ton, after an $8 freight charge to smelter.

“A period of fully 8 months will elapse before the program mapped out for the development work will be completed.”

The Last Chance group of 14 claims at Bingham, Utah, said to have produced $1,500,000 and developed by a 3,200’ tunnel, is reported sold Oct. 1913, for $100,000 to the U. S. Smelting, Refining & Mining Co. NEW ARCADIAN COPPER CO. MICHIGAN

Office and mine: Houghton, Houghton Co., Mich. Robt. H. Shields, ‘pres. and gen. mgr.; Col. Sylvester T. Everett, vice-pres.; Wm. F. Miller, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, Wm. B. Anderson, John. Merton, John C. Shields, L. W. Killmar, Jas. W. Shields and Allen F. Rees, directors; Her- man W. Fesing, engr,; Otto Lieber, mg. capt. Organized April.27, 1909,

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under laws of Michigin, capitalization $3,750,000, shares $25 par, assessable; paid in, $11.50. Last assessment, 50 cts., was paid July, 1913. This com- pany succeeded the Arcadian Copper Co., a corporation organized under the laws of New Jersey that had nonassessable stock, and exchanged shares, pari passu, levying an assessment of $1 per share, 1909. Property was trans- ferred, by deed, from the old company to the new, May 30, 1909. Company owns 10,000 shares of stock of the New Baltic Copper Co. Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Co., registrar; American Trust Co., Boston, transfer agent. Annual meeting, first Tuesday in May.

Lands, 3,500 acres, including 3,200 acres of mineral lands, all freehold. Property includes 5 old mines worked in a small way at various periods in the past. The Arcadian Copper Co., predecessor of present company, op- erated the property with great vigor, 1898-1901, and equipped it with mag- nificent buildings and machinery, including a 3-stamp mill at Grosse Point. Operations on the Isle Royale bed proving unsatisfactory all work was sus- pended June 15, 1903, the hoist, machinery and shaft houses were sold to the Trimountain Mining Co., the stamp mill was sold to the Centennial Cop- per Mining Co. and the mine buildings disposed of to various purchasers, the property being almost completely dismantled. The floating debt of the old company was liquidated by the sale of 800 acres of land, for $750,000, to the Quincy Mining Co. The old mine and equipment were fully de- scribed. in Vols. I and II.

Exploratory work was resumed Oct., 1905, by the old company, on an amygdaloidal bed about one-fourth mile east of the Isle Royale amygdaloid previously worked, and crosscutting from the 200’ level of the exploratory shaft disclosed 5 cupriferous beds in a distance of 110’. Work was sus- pended March, 1908, until organization, and was resumed Aug., 1909, by. diamond-drill boring from the bottom of the 200’ exploratory shaft, which is in the S.W. % of Sec. 29. Exploratory work, 1910-12, included consid- erable trenching and test pitting, but was devoted mainly to securing 3 cross-sections, nearly 1 mile apart, by diamond drilling, and 26 holes, ag- gregating over 26,000’, had been drilled to end of 1913. Drill hole No. 22 cut a promising amygdaloid lode, in the north area. A shaft started June, 1912, on this lode, was 750’ deco Sept., 1913, is to be sunk to a depth of 1,500 to 2,000’. Crosscutting was being dona in October, after 3 months’ idleness due to the strike, on the 700’ level to explore the 2 copper-bearing amygdaloid beds disclosed by diamond drilling, one 300’ east, the other 150’ west of the shaft.

Equipment includes a steam plant, with boilers, a hoist good for 1,500’ and a 15-drill air compressor, and there are necessary mine buildings. Owing to its immense acreage on the mineral belt, the property is con- sidered promising, notwithstanding its lack of success under the old com- pany, and management is good.

New Atlas Mining Co. Yukon Territory

Wilbur D. Greenough, care Greenough Bros., Spokane, Wash., chief owner and gen. mgr.; J. F. Berger, supt., White Horse, Yukon Territory, Can. Property, the Yukon- Pueblo group, shows deposits of silver-bearing copper ore, developed by shaft work, with a force of 85 men at last accounts. Has steam plant.

New Baltic Copper Co. Michigan

Office: Houghton, Mich. R. H. Shields, pres. and gen. mer: Jas..P- Edwards, vice-pres.; John Edwards, sec.-treas.; other directors, S. J. Beahan, J. C. Shields and Tohn Merton; Herman Fesing, engr. Organized Dec. 14, 1909, under laws of Michigan, capitalization $2,500,000, shares $25 par, as- ene issued, $1,750,000; $8 paid. Company succeeded the New Baltic

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Exploration, giving stockholders therein share for share, giving 30,000 shares to the Edwards estate and 10,000 shares to the New Arcadian Cop- per Co., for lands, and selling 20,000 shares to the public, at $8. Company began operations with $120,000 cash, and ended 1912 with a cash balance of $23,576. All officers with exception of general manager serve without .pay. Annual meeting, third Wednesday in April.

Lands, 640 acres, being Sec. 16, T. 55 N., R. 33 W., with mineral rights to the N.W. % of the N.W. % reserved by the New Arcadian Copper Co. Exploratory work, begun June 10, 1909, included extensive trenching in the horizon of No. 3 conglomerate, supplemented by boreholes put down by a Calyx shot drill, cutting a 314” core, considerable trouble having been ex- perienced in getting down stand pipes. No. 3 borehole, at depth of 330’, cut 2’ of exceptionally good copper-bearing rock, with 6” of heavy copper, and a drill core fairly charged with copper was taken, Sept., 1909, from what was thought to be the western Baltic bed, at depth of 300’. In Nov., 1909, a drill hole pitched at an.angle of 60° cut an amygdaloidal bed estimated to pitch at 60° in opposition, giving cores of 105” aggregate length, showing copper at various points, the final 7’ being well charged with fine stamp copper and a considerable amount of very coarse stamp copper. The drill- ing also disclosed an unidentified amygdaloidal bed of about 75’ width, car- rying considerable copper in masses approaching barrel-work size. Deepest hole bored was 1,200’. ,

Ground was broken June, 1910, for an eXploratory shaft, which was started about 35’ in the footwall trap, and this shaft was 500’ deep, Sept., 1913. Although the shaft was started in the foot, the formation rolls so that the bed was cut at 3 points in the depth of 310’. At 200’ the shaft cut the - footwall of the amygdaloidal bed, of kindly appearance, carrying much calcite but devoid of copper. At depth of 310’ the bed was cut again, car- rying extremely heavy copper of a grade materially better than the average of the payable mines of the district. Drifts on the 350’ and 500’ levels dis- close exceedingly bunchy ground, with occasional pockets of rich copper, and a crosscut on the 500’ level shows further copper ground in an uniden- tified amygdaloidal bed underlying No. 4 conglomerate bed, distant about 1,500’ from the shaft.

Equipment includes a temporary frame shaft house. The steam plant has a Cleaves hoist, good for 1,500’, and a 6-drill Ingersoll-Sergeant air com- pressor. Property considered promising and management good.

New Bingham Consolidated Mining Co. Utah

Idle. Mine near Bingham Canyon, Salt Lake Co., Utah. Jesse Knight, pres., Provo, Utah; Wm. W. Mathews, vice-pres.; W. Lester Mangum, sec.- treas.; Wm. Christopherson and J. Wm. Knight, directors; J. Knox, mgr., at last accounts. Organized Jan., 1907, under laws of Utah, capitalization $100,000, shares $1 par. Lands, 6 claims, in the northern part of the Bingham district.

New Boston Mining Co. Montana

Office: 117 North Montana St., Butte, Mont. Mine office: Corbin, Jefferson Co., Mont. Jas. A. Davidson, pres. and gen. mgr.; Hugo Traylor, sec,-treas., at last accounts. Capitalization 600,000 shares, $1 par. Company owns 6 full and 2 fractional claims adjoining the Boston & Corbin, said to carry upwards of 20 different veins. The Daphne claim, patented for 30 years, carries a 5’ vein with a 16” paystreak assaying 10.5% copper, 42 oz. silver and $3 gold per ton, balance of vein being claimed to assay about 3% copper. -

New Chicago Mining Co., Ltd. Idaho

Letters neither answered or returned from Wallace, Idaho, Mine near

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Murray, Shoshone Co., Idaho. Mrs. Elise Heller, pres. and treas.; N. E. Hanson, vice-pres.; Geo. H. Heller, sec. and gen. mgr.; preceding officers, Walter H. Hanson and Frank A. Heller, directors. Organized, 1907, under laws of Idaho, capitalization $1,500,000, shares $1 par, assessable.

Lands, 4 claims, 80 acres, 40 acres of placer ground, a 5-acre mill site and 20 acres of timber land, 1% miles west of Pritchard creek and about 7 miles west of Murray. Property shows porphyry and slate, with 2 veins of 4 to 6’ estimated average width, carrying ‘ead and copper sulphides with some silver, estimated by management to average 10% copper, 25% lead, 25 oz. silver and $4 gold per ton. Development includes a 45’ shaft and 4 tunnels with 675’ of workings. Mine has water power and 3 small build- ings. Management planned driving a new 800’ tunnel in 1911, but no recent returns secured. ; NEW COLUMBIA MINING CO. IDAHO

Mine office: Salmon, Lehmi Co., Idaho. H. Armstead, superintendent. Ores carry copper and gold. Has steam power and a 10-stamp mill. Idle several years and presumably waiting for a “boom” to raise money for new development work.

New Cornelia Copper Co. Arizona

Office: 611 Wright Bldg., St. Louis, Mo. Operating office: Gila Bend, Maricopa Co., Ariz. Mine office: Ajo, Pima Co., Ariz. Geo. H. Augustine, pres.; C. E. Neeley, vice-pres.; John R. Boddie, sec.; C. A. Bowman, treas.; preceding officers, C. W. Chamberlain, T. C. Ratcliffe, H. B. Salls, Stuart E. Pierson, Ralph C. Lupton, and H. W. Mann, directors. Organized Sept. 28, 1909, under laws of Delaware, as a reconstruction of the Cornelia Copper Co., capitalization $6,000,000, shares $5 par, nonassessable; issued, $2,650,000. Debentures, $50,000, at 8%, called in and paid July, 1912, two years before maturity. Bankers Trust Co., St. Louis, registrar and transfer agent. Annual meeting, second Tuesday in December.

The Calumet & Arizona Mining Co. was given a year’s option on all of the treasury stock and about 65% of issued stock at $2.50 per share in Sept., 1911, which option was taken up in Oct., 1913. This company has had possession of the property since Oct., 1911, and has spent from $5,000 to $20,000 per month since that date.

Drilling and other work on the property by the Calumet & Arizona Co. has, it is said, proven the existence of 29,000,000 tons of ore carrying 2% copper, mostly available for steam-shovel mining. Much of this ore carries too much oxidized material to be concentrated, but will be treated by leaching.

Property, 14 claims, all patented, area 243 acres, 45 miles from the Southern Pacific railroad at Gila Bend, Ariz. Claims show monzonite, porphyry and granite, carrying disseminated copper ore. Mine has about 1,100’ of workings.

Ores include cuprite, malachite, chalcocite, bornite and chalcopyrite. From the surface down to a depth of about 150’ it is principally carbonate ore; below the oxidized zone the rock carries sulphides, which continue downward to the greatest depth explored, but are of low grade.

The average value of both the carbonates and sulphide ore is something less than 2% for the entire property and, so far as exploration has extended, no barren ground has been encountered. The ores carry about 2 oz. of silver and $1 in gold per ton beside copper values.

Equipment includes a 40-h. p. and 60-h. p. steam plant, with hoists and a 1-drill compressor. There are 5 buildings, including a machine shop and smithy. A 10-stamp mill has 10 gravity stamps, a 75-ton Gates crusher, 4 Wilfley tables and 3 sizers,

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The company’s early history and its experiments with new processes are fully described in Vols. VI, VIII and X. In 1910, the General Devel- opment Co. bought 20,000 shares of stock for $20,000, spending the money under an option for a stock control, putting down 5 diamond-drill holes, deepest 188’, which showed the ground to be oxidized to a depth of about 30’, followed by sulphides, estimated by the company to average 2 to 2.75% copper. The option was forfeited 1910 and property was leased to H. C. Chamberlain who shipped concentrates from 800 tons of 4% ore to the Copper Queen smelter.

New Dominion Copper Co., Ltd. British Columbia

Office: 42 Broadway, New York, N. Y. General office: Greenwood, B. C. Works office: Boundary Falls, Boundary district, B. C. Lucius W. Mayer pres.; Newman Erb and C. A. Starbuck, vice-presidents; preceding officers, C. B. Mears, Hon. Warren W. Foster, John A. Sleicher and Chas. H. Burke, directors; H. B. Blanchard, sec.; R. H. Eggeleston, treas.; Oscar Lachmund, gen. mer.

Organized June 9, 1909, under laws of British Columbia, capitalization $1,750,000, shares $5 par; issued, $1,178,320; treasury holds $499,800 in stock for conversion of like amount of bonds. Debentures, $500,000 ten-year 6% gold income bonds, convertible into stock at par; outstanding March 31, 1912, $483,650. Empire Trust Co., New York, transfer agent. Annual meeting, first Monday in June.

The annual report for,the year ending March 31, 1913, shows a net profit of $116,949. Cash in bank amounted to $164,516, accounts receivable $128,288 and accounts payable $14,492. The figures for 1912 were as follows: Operating loss, $11,811; cash in bank, $114,578: accounts receivable, $91,125; accounts payable, $15,778. Company made payment of coupon No. 4 of its bonds in Oct., 1913, holders releasing company from payment of coupons Nos. 1,.2 and 3, as income was not earned.

This company is a drastic reconstruction of the Dominion Copper Co., Ltd., originally the Montreal & Boston Mining Co. The property was acquired at foreclosure sale for $347,999.85. Is controlled, through owner- ship of about 155,000 shares, or 64% of the issued stock and one-third of the bond issue by the British Columbia Copper Co. sited:

The mines are operated by’ the British Columbia Copper Co. and the ore is smelted by that company under a contract providing for the payment of actual smelting charges plus 50 cts. a ton for interest and depreciation. A recent change has been made which provides for a fixed profit of 15 cts. a ton guaranteed by the British Columbia Copper Co., regardless as to whether such amount be realized from the ore or not.

Lands, 15 claims, 500 acres, fractional interests in 94 claims additional, also a 32-acre mill site, an 80-acre town site, a water-power plant at Boun- dary falls and a 1,000-ton smelter. Mining lands are in 4 groups, in the Phoenix, Deadwood, Wellington and Summit camps. Country rocks are limestone and greenstone, orebodies occurring largely as replacements in greenstone. These deposits are all more or less developed, of about 25’ average width, a generally north-south strike and average dip of about 40°. The ores are low in average grade and the mines, though showing large orebodies, have a comparatively small amount of ground blocked out. For the fiscal year ending July. 31, 1907, the mines made 8,519’ of new openings. From June 17, 1909 to March 31, 1910, the mines were not operated. The Rawhide and Athelstan mines were reopened in 1910.

The mines at Phoenix, comprising 366 acres, include the -Brooklyn, Idaho, Rawhide, Stemwinder, Montezuma and Standard mines. The Brook-

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The Brooklyn mine, which was for years the principal producer of the company, has a 430’ main shaft, with a steam hoist- and about 8,000’ of workings, showing a 40’ vein, estimated to average 1.43% copper, 25 cts. silver and $1.32 gold per ton. The orebody was relatively high grade, but is faulted or cut off by a cross fracture and not recovered beyond it.

The Idaho mine, connected with the Brooklyn on the 250’ level, is developed by tunnel and shaft, latter having an electric hoist, but the mine is worked open cast. i

The Stemwinder mine, opened on a vein parallel with and about 1,000 east of the Brooklyn, has a 400’ shaft, with about one-half mile of work- ings, yielding ore averaging about 1.4% copper, 25 cts. silver and $1 gold per ton.

The Rawhide mine, now the principal producer, shipping about 600 tons of ore daily, adjoins the Gold Drop mine of the Granby. The property, thoroughly prospected by diamond drilling, has ore averaging about 1.4% copper, 25 cts. silver and 90 cts. gold per ton. Development is by a 180 shaft, 6 tunnels and various open cuts; work aggregating 1,229 of drift and crosscut work with 1,208’ of raise and winze work, besides enlargement of former openings, was done in 1910-11 and 950” of diamond-drill explora- tion in 1912. Ore is sent through chutes to the main level and trammed through the tunnel and over a trestle to ore bins at the crusher plant. Production 1912, 172,856 tons.

The Montezuma and Standard claims, but slightly developed, show low-grade ores similar to those of the other mines of the Phoenix camp.

The Deadwood group, 110 acres, includes the Sunset, Morrison, Crown Silver, Little Buffalo and C. O. D. mines:

The Sunset mine, now idle, has shafts of 200’ and 412’, and large open- cast workings. The orebody is valuable chiefly for flux as it carries excess of iron, silica and lime, with only small copper, silver and gold values. A trestle from the Sunset mine runs to a 2,000-ton ore bin on the railroad siding. Equipment includes a 14x20” Jenckes duplex link-motion hoist, 14x20” Lidgerwood double-cylinder hoist, and a 10-drill Ingersoll-Sergeant duplex air compressor. Production of the Sunset mine, 1907, was 31,258 tons of ore. :

The Crown Silver mine adjoins and is practically a part of the Sunset. Development is by a 265’ shaft and an 880’ tunnel.

The Morrison mine has a 364’ shaft with 4,300’ of tunnels, showing ore averaging about 0.6% copper, 1.5 oz. silver and up to $4 gold per ton. Equipment includes a 110-h. p. steam plant with a 7x9” hoist and 5-drill Canadian-Rand air compressor.

The Athelstan or Wellington group includes the Athelstan and Jackpot ` mines, with combined area of 34 acres. These show a large outcrop of oxidized ore carrying very low values in copper, about 1 oz. silver and up to $7.50 gold per ton, but expected to carry somewhat better copper values below the oxidized zone. The Jackpot was a considerable producer 1910 and the new company ran a 200’ tunnel and did 1,000” of diamond drilling in 1910-11. The Athelstan mine produced 6,388 tons in the year ending March 31, 1912, but mine was shut down Dec., 1911, as vein is narrow and prospects for more ore are unpromising.

The Summit group includes a one-half interest in the Lancashire mine, having a vein carrying silver ore, and a three-fourths interest in the Moun- tain Rose mine. The Mountain Rose, developed by 2 tunnels, has a vein

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about 15’ wide, carrying pyritic ore, low in silica, with small gold and silver values for fluxing purposes. j ,

Equipment at the Brooklyn mine at Phoenix includes electric hoist and a 25-drill Canadian-Rand air compressor, driven by a 450-h. p. Can- adian Westinghouse electric motor.

Electric power is taken from the Bonnington Falls plant of the West Kootenay Power & Light Co., transmitted 87 miles at 60,000 volts, entering the works at 2,000 volts and then being stepped down again to 550 volts for use.

Ore is transported 4 to 25 miles by rail from the various mines to the smelter, at a freight rate of 17 cts. for Deadwood ore and 30 cts. per ton on ore from the mines of the Phoenix and Summit camps.

The 1,500-ton smelter, 4 miles from Greenwood, is now idle. Described Vol. X.

Production of the old company, for year ending July 31, 1907, was 187,981 tons of ore, yielding 2,910,695 lbs. fine copper, 42,606 oz. silver and 10,321 oz. gold, giving an average.recovery of about 15.5 lbs. fine copper, 0.5 oz. silver and $1.10 gold per ton.

Production for the year ending March 31, 1913, was 294,300 tons of ore yielding 7,304,713 lbs. copper, 10,862 oz. gold and 79,450 oz. silver. The treatment cost was $1.85 per ton and the company received 16.655 cts. per pound for its copper and 61,743 cts. an ounce for its silver.

New Dominion Gold Mining Co. Colorado

Letter unclaimed at Denver, Colo. Mine near Ophir, San Miguel Co., Colo. Samuel Morris, pres.; J. V. Butler, vice-pres.; J. H. Frank Smokey, sec.-treas. and gen. mgr., at last accounts. Organized 1906, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $1,800,000, shares $1 par. Has tunnels of 940’ and 1,100’, showing auriferous and argentiferous copper, zinc and lead sulphides. Probably dead, as it had no funds on hand in 1910.

NEW DOMINION MINES CO. ARIZONA . Office and mine: Globe, Gila Co., Ariz. Organized 1905, capitalization

$1,000,000. Lands, about a half mile north of the Gibson mine, are said to

show a 12” vein in schist, opened by 240’ shaft. After 2 years of work, this

vein, carrying chalcopyrite ore averaging 23% copper, was struck in a cross-

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New Ely Central Copper Co. Nevada

Main office: 907 Market St., Wilmington, Del. Business office: 16 State St., Boston, Mass. Mine office: Ruth, White Pine Co., Nev. James Milne, pres.; John G. Gray, vice-pres.; Jonathan H. Brown, sec.; H. E. Lodge, treas.; J. Pearce Cann, local mgr. directors; Frank J. Gallagher, supt. Organized Feb. 19, 1912, under laws of Delaware, capitalization $8,000,000, shares $5 par, fully paid, nonassessable; issued, 500,000 shares. Bonds authorized, $500,000, 6%; $175,000 issued. American Trust Co., regis- trar; Federal Trust Co., transfer agent. Annual meeting, second Monday in February. This corporation was reorganized from the wreck of the Ely Central Copper Co. by about 1,600 of its stockholders. All the stock ` and bonds that have been issued are to the stockholders of the corporation which participated in the reorganization plan, except stock of the par value of $5,550,000 which was issued in trust for treasury purposes. The man- agement proposes a careful but comprehensive plan of exploration for the purpose of developing a mining enterprise. Balance sheet for year ending Dec. 31, 1912, showed gross earnings $18,607 and net earnings of $11,893.

The development of the property is to be done by the Mines Develop- ment Co. under an agreement by which a deed to the property is placed in escrow to be delivered to the Mines Development Co. on or before

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Jan. 1, 1915. The latter company was to immediately commence drilling the ground, agreeing to sink at least one 2,000” hole and such other holes as will convince them of the value of the property. If the deed is taken up the new Ely Central stockholders will be paid $1 per share for their stock. An alternative offer is that the stock or bonds may be turned in for exchange for stock of the new company of similar capitalization at the underwriting price. 7

Property, 32 claims, patented, except 1 fraction, 479.66 acres, in the Robinson district, White Pine Co., Nev. Claims join the property of the Nevada Consolidated Copper Co., lying immediately east and north of the: Copper Flat and the Liberty steam-shovel pits of that company. They cover an area of altered limestone and rhyolite with small exposures of monzonite. This rhyolite is a flow underlain by volcanic tuffs resting on mineralized monzonite, in a small tract immediately east of the Copper Flat steam- shovel pit where faulting along a nearly north and south line has thrown rhyolite against limestone and monzonite. The greater part of the rhyolite area is however underlain by altered limestone. The value of the property rests upon the determination of the presence of disseminated copper ore beneath the rhyolite and of the finding of commercial orebodies in the limestone.

Development up to the present time has been small. A limited amount of churn drilling done in former years failed to disclose commercial ore and in fact most of the holes are believed to have been in altered lime- stone, or in barren rhyolite. A drill hole in the southeast section of the property is said to show disseminated porphyry ore beneath the rhyolite flow, but sufficient drilling has not yet been done to prove its extent, or commercial worth. Workings from the Zack shaft on Ely Consolidated ground, driven:to within a few feet of the east boundary of the Ely Central claims, show oxidized copper ore dipping into the New Ely Central from the east on the 600’ level.

A comparatively shallow drill hole on the north contact gave encour- aging indications late in 1912. The former company sank the Eureka shaft 627’ deep with 375’ of drifting on the 455’ level and 151’ on the 600’ level, and the workings are said by former engineers to prove theory of faulting to be correct, but the workings were too deep for commercial ore, The Clipper shaft, 235’ deep, has 295’ of drifting and 92’ of crosscutting on the 220’ level. This shaft is in the jasperoid area and the limited workings demonstrated the presence of low-grade copper ore carrying small gold and silver values. These workings are now flooded. Two shallow shafts near the center of the ground and north of the Copper Flat pit show malachite ore of commercial grade in a fissure in limestone. Other workings near the north contact, on 1 of the westerly claims, show small bunches of high-grade ore.

Despite all that has been said and done, this property is still a prospect and its value remains to be determined. The Nevada Consolidated has made a contract with the company to prospect the Stewart claim by a 600’ drill hole with a view of purchasing the surface rights for dumping waste, or carbonate ore from the steam shovel pits, in case the drill hole fails to develop steam-shovel ore 200’ from the surface.

On Oct. 23, 1913, the Consolidated Coppermines Co. offered to take the New Ely Central bonds at par, payable 25% in convertible 7% bonds and 75% in stock of the Consolidated Coppermines Co. at par and to exchange stock at rate of 20 shares New Ely Central for 1 of Consolidated Coppermines. The offer is to be binding if accepted by a majority of the stock and bondholders without delay.

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New England & Arizona Gold & Copper Mg. Co. Arizona

Idle. Letters to 250 Devonshire St., Boston, Mass., and Humboldt, Yavapai Co., Ariz., unanswered. Geo. A. Wooden, pres.; Louis. Harlow, treas.; John H. Farrell, supt., at last accounts. Organized Jan. 19, 1901, under laws of Arizona, capitalization $750,000, shares $1 par.

Lands, 6 claims, 3 patented, 120 acres, including the Red Star group and Calumet groups, near McCabe, Ariz. The property is said to show 2 parallel veins, 30’ apart, having paystreaks of 2’ width, carrying ore assaying about 10% copper, with gold and silver values. The mine has a 600° two- ‘compartment main shaft, a power house with a 70-h. p. boiler, 35-h. p. hoist and a small air compressor. Mine shut down many years.

New England & Clifton Copper Co. Arizona

Property near Clifton, Greenlee Co., Ariz., sold to the Detroit Copper Co. in 1912. By this purchase the Detroit Copper Co. acquired allethe New England properties and also control of the Standard Consolidated Copper Co., which owns a majority of the stock of the Standard Copper Mines, the Clifton Copper Mines, Ltd., and a 26% interest in the Coronado Mining Co. The New England & Clifton is largely owned abroad and about $2,000,000 was expended upon the property, but accumulated debts bank- rupted the company and property was acquired at sheriff’s sale by John K. Erskine. He in turn transferred it to the Phelps-Dodge interests. Fully described Vol. X.

New England Gold & Copper Mining Co. Utah

Office: 67 Milk St., Boston, Mass. Mine office: Bingham Canyon, Salt Lake Co., Utah. Jas. S. Williams, pres.; E. E. Abercrombie, vice pres. and managing director; Geo. F. Bradstreet, sec.-treas.; preceding officers, Woodford Yerxa, Thos. Kellough, Francis H. Dowse and Geo. Bancroft, directors; David J. Cook, gen. mgr. Organized June, 1899, under laws of Colorado, capitalization $2,000,000, shares $10 par; issued, $1,294,467. Bonds, $500,000 authorized, at 6%; issued, $119,800. Paid a 10% stock dividend, Oct., 1908. Federal Trust Co., Boston, registrar; Geo. F. Brad- street & Co., transfer agents. Annual meeting, first Monday in June. Company owns the Bingham group of 9 fractional claims, 18 acres, in the Bingham, or West Mountain district, Utah, lying south of the Boston Consolidated, next to the Last Chance group and near the Utah Metals property. —

The old Nast mine of the Bingham group shows porphyritic country rock carrying 3 fissure veins, of 30” average width, opened by the 1,600’ Nast tunnel and the 1,670’ Benton tunnel, both in ore, and 2 shafts, 1 of 159’, with a total of about 6,000’ of workings. Veins are said to widen at depth and ores are said to give average assays of 30% lead, 10% zinc, 15 oz. silver and $4.50 gold per ton, with small and variable percentages of copper, some of the monzonite country rock carrying copper values that may prove workable at some later date. The mine produced milling silver- lead ore, handled in a 50-ton concentrator, running 1 shift, yielding 150 tons high-grade concentrates per month in 1911.

Equipment includes a steam plant with 2 hoists, 1 of 30 h. p., good for 800’ depth.

The concentrator has a 4x12” Sturtevant crusher, 2 rolls, 2 Hartz jigs and 1 Wilfley table, operated by commercial electric current. Production was 2,108 tons of lead concentrates and 165 tons of copper ore, 1907, but property was closed down, late 1907, and mine was worked on only a

small-scale, 1910, securing 936 tons of ore, giving net smelter returns of -

$29,013, an average of $30.98 per ton. In Feb., 1910, the Utah Metal Mining Co, sued this corporation for $700,000 damages, alleging trespass and illegal

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ore-extraction. The company also owns a group of 4 claims at Goldfield, Nev. NEW ENGLAND MINING CO. MASSACHUSETTS

Idle. Office: 35 School St., Greenfield, Mass. Mine office: Charlemont, Franklin Co., Mass. Othello A. Fay, pres.; E. Forrest Sweet, sec.; Capt. Geo. H. Davenport, treas. and gen. mgr., at last accounts. Organized 1902, capitalization $500,000, shares $5 par.

Owns about 1,000 acres 2 miles west of the Davis pyrite mine. Vein, traceable 700’, is approximately vertical, conforming closely in dip and strike with the Savoy schist in which it occurs. Deposit apparently is a fahlband, lacking well-defined walls, ore occurring scattered through 15 to 20’ of the schist, with 6 to 12” of quartz, well mineralized, on the south wall, and a heavy impregnation of chalcopyrite, 1 to 2’ wide, on the north wall. Property has been partly stripped, and vein trenched across.

New Gold King Mines. Colorado

Office: Care L. E. G. Green, secretary, 53 State St., Boston, Mass. Mine office: Silverton, San Juan Co., Colo. Property, the Gold King and Sampson mines, developed by a 625’ shaft and a 2,800’ tunnel, showing copper ores with values mainly in gold. Equipment includes steam and electric power. The 350-ton concentrator has 80 stamps and 4 tube mills.

The property has been conveyed to a committee of 3 to hold in trust for stockholders, bondholders and creditors, and leased by committee to Otto Mears, Denver, Colo., on shares, with option to purchase.

New Haven Copper Co. Connecticut

Property at Seymour, Conn., is developing a copper-bearing band of hornblende schist, carrying chalcopyrite with some bornite. Operations “have been carried on intermittently for several years, the last work being done in Oct., 1911. Company has power plant on the border of the Nauga- tuck river, flooded in 1911.

NEW ISSUE GOLD MINING & MILLING CO. ARIZONA Probably dead. Formerly at Mayer, Yavapai Co., Ariz. NEW JERSEY METAL REFINING WORKS, LTD. NEW JERSEY

Works office: Elizabeth, Union Co., N. J. Is controlled by Mountain Copper Co., Ltd.

New Keystone Copper Co. Arizona

Office: 42 Broadway, New York, N. Y. Mine office: Miami, Gila Co., Ariz. Employs 50 men. Samuel A. Lewisohn, pres.; J. Parke Channing, vice-pres. and cons. engr.; preceding officers, Adolph Lewisohn, Walter T. Rosen, Jacob Langeloth, Theo. L. Herrmann, Ralph C. Lupton, J. S. Dunston and J. H. Susmann, directors; E. H. Westlake, sec.-treas.; B. Britton Gottsberger, gen. mgr.

Organized July 16, 1909, under laws of Delaware, capitalization $3,000,- 000, shares $5 par, nonassessable; issued, $1,790,870. Was a reconstruction of the Keystone Copper Co., shareholders of the old company taking stock in the new in exchange for the property. Is controlled through stock ownership by the General Development Co. On June 18, 1912, company had $111,790 cash on hand with development expenditures to date of $215,414, general and administrative expenses of $24,358, and insignificant current bills. Expenditures at the mine for the calendar year 1912 were $25,229. Farmers Loan & Trust Co., New York, registrar. Annual meeting, third Wednesday in June.

Property consists of 16 patented claims, 243 acres, forming a tract separating the Live Oak and Inspiration mines of the Inspiration Con- solidated Copper Co. About 60 acres of this land is underlain by Pinal schist, covered in part by a sheet of granite porphyry, 25 to 200’ thick.

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A strong fissure vein crosses the property and was mined by the old Key- stone Copper Co., the vein being 12’ thick with a paystreak averaging 15” from which shipments of 19 to 22% copper and 2 to 5 oz. silver per ton were made for some years, the mine yielding according to report about $1,000,000. The present company has explored and opened up a deposit of disseminated glance ore similar to that of the Miami mine and the value of the property rests primarily on the amount of this ore. /

Development by the new company has consisted in blocking out this orebody by únderground workings and by churn drilling. The Keystone shaft is 330” deep and has 4,436’ of work on the 150’ level, 7,081’ on the 250’ level and 2,163’ of raises and 156’ of winzes, a total of 14,886’. Churn drilling along 200” squares was discontinued June, 1912, after company had put down a number of holes with an aggregate of 21,947’ of work. These holes and the underground development together blocked out 2,516,000 tons of ore, which recent sampling shows to have an average value of 2.25% copper:

A lawsuit between the Inspiration Consolidated and this company was decided in its favor and prevents the Inspiration from carrying its main haulage tunnel through the Keystone ground.

The surface indications on the property are excellent but development has been disappointing in the amount of ore disclosed. Consolidation with another property seems necessary, though management is good and is aided by the best of expert advice.

The large amount of oxidized ore in the property makes treatment by the usual methods uncertain, only about 30% of the oxidized material being saved. Experiments by flotation and leaching methods are expected to materially increase the percentage of extraction and Mr. R. C. Canby, now engaged in experimental work in a testing mill on this ore, is understood to have evolved a cheap and very satisfactory method of treatment for the mixed oxidized and sulphide ore of the Keystone and Miami mines. NEW MEXICO LEAD & COPPER CO. ; ARIZONA

Address: E. E. Breed, Walker, Yavapai Co., Ariz. E. S. Osburn, super- intendent. Property, the Breed group of mines near the Senator mine and about 2 miles from Walker P. O., taken over in 1912. The Effie claim shows a fissure vein reported to have 4 of chalcopyrite and galena at 40’ in depth. Machinery and electric drills were to be installed and 2 shafts sunk on the vein in summer of 1913, company receiving electric power from Walker. NEW MONARCH MINING Co. COLORADO

Office: Care J. Langeloth, 52 Broadway, New York City. Mine office:

. Leadville, Lake Co., Colo. Jas. B. McDonald, pres.; Frank Fuller, supt., at last accounts. Company is controlled by the American Metal Co., Ltd., a close corporation, through the Ohio & Colorado Smelting & Refining Co., owning the Salida, Colo., smelter, Owns the New Monarch and Cleveland mines, carrying copper, lead and zine sulphides. Equipment includes a steam plant, air compressor, etc.

New Planet Copper Mining Co. Arizona

Office: 42 Broadway, New York. Mine office: Planet, Yuma Co., Ariz. Chas. S. Barton, pres.; Wm. G. Nickerson, vice-pres.; Alexander Rae sec.; Julius H. Susmann, treas.: preceding officers, S. S. Rosenstamm, Géb. Crompton, Jas. M. Satterfield and O. J. Ashman, directors; Samuel Unter- meyer, gen. counsel; J. Parke Channing, cons. engr. Organized July 13 1909, under laws of Delaware, capitalization $4,000,000, shares $5 par non assessable; issued, $1,714,525. Is a reconstruction of the Planet Gonpes Mining Co., stock of which was retired by exchange for 240,000 shares of New Planet stock. The General Development Co. owns 100,000 shares and had an option on 460,000 shares additional, but forfeited same after the

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company expended about $150,000 on exploratory and development work. Farmers Loan & Trust Co., New York, registrar. Annual meeting, third Wednesday in June.

A financial report for the calendar year 1911, issued in Oct., 1912, showed $4,804 spent in 1911, about $1,300 being used for mining develop- ment and $3,000 for salaries. Cash on hand amounted to $1,000, a poor showing for a company whose property is credited as costing $4,041,715.

Property, the Planet mine with 31 patented claims and 3 unpatented placer claims, 750 acres, in the Harcuvar district, on the southern bank of the Bill Williams Fork river, 21%4 miles from Bouse on the Santa Fe cut- off and about 6 miles ea Swansea. The copper occurs mainly as oxidized ore, though nucleal particles of sulphides mixed with specular hematite are seen in the deeper workings. The orebodies are replacements in limestone, the ore bed developed at the Plant shaft lying on the contact between this rock and underlying gneiss. This deposit is 3 to 20’ thick and dips 15> south. Much high-grade ore has been shipped from other parts of the property in past years; it was found as crusts, or shells, about impure hematite in limestone, especially near bodies of amphibolic rock now altered to black gneiss. A deep-seated mass of granite is the not im- probable source of mineralization, although later igneous activity is shown in a volcanic plug not far distant and in the basalt flows which cover the surrounding country. The geology is very fully discussed in U. S. GHS. Bul. 451, p. 47, written by Howland Bancroft.

The ore deposits show a heavy iron gossan, mainly of hematite, appar-

ently of workable grade, and it has been estimated that the property shows

about 500,000 tons of 60% iron ore. The main orebody developed in the Planet shaft is about 300’ in width, has a thickness of 4’ 3” and an average copper content of 5.9%, according to a report by A. H. Kellar.

The main development, aside from open cut and tunnels, is at the Planet shaft, an incline sunk on the ore bed at an average angle of 15° to a depth of 733’, There are drifts, crosscuts, etc., amounting to 2,500. A vertical 350’ shaft connects with these workings and gives ventilation.

The old workings include 8 tunnels, longest 225’ and 12 vertical pits and shafts, of 25 to 325’ depth. About $150,000 was expended under the management of the General Development Co. in sinking the vertical shaft and putting down a number of churn-drill holes, 3 holes showing low-grade sulphide ore below the old workings.

The Planet mine is probably the oldest copper mine in Arizona. It was opened in 1864, worked in a small way until 1874, and reopened in 1884 when a 36” circular blast furnace was erected. The property was taken over 1902, by the predecessor of the present company. The mine pro- duced, 1864-74, upwards of $500,000 worth of high-grade ore, ranging from 15 to 40% in copper, which was shipped down the Colorado river to a port on the Gulf of California, presumably Guaymas, and thence to Swansea, for reduction. A little ore was also shipped to San Francisco, and is said to have given fair profits, notwithstanding the heavy cost of freight and smelting and harassments by Indians.

Equipment includes a 75-h. p. gasoline plant, with two 15x25” hoists and a 5-drill air compressor. Buildings include a 15x40’ frame carpenter shop, 10x10’ smithy, 2 shaft houses and 3 dwellings. Property considered as still unproven, as churn drilling was too limited to determine existence, or nonexistence of large ore bodies, and the greater part of the area is unexplored.

New State Copper Mining Co. Arizona

Idle. Office and mine: Tucson, Pima Co., Ariz. James W. Bogan,

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' pres.; Chas. Bent, vice-pres.; Lyman W. Wakefield, treas.; Ralph K. Shelton, sec., at last accounts. Capitalization, $2,000,000, shares $1 par. Lands, 9 claims, in the Tucson mountains, '14 miles west of Tucson, show a prominent gossan, carrying oxidized ores and a little chalcocite, with small gold and silver values. Has a 40’ shaft, showing a little chalcopyrite, and a short tunnel, with 400’ of workings. Has shipped about 300 tons of ore. NEW STATE COPPER MINING & SMELTING CO. ARIZONA

Address: Care Harry Sultan, Globe, Ariz. Organized 1911, under laws of Arizona. J. N. McDonough, pres.; Harry Sultan, vice-pres.; Wade Sotel, sec.-treas.; John F. Shaw, Frank Hubel and Chas. Miller, directors. Thos. P, Kelly, mgr. Annual meeting first Saturday in September. Property, 33 claims adjoining the Continental mine, at head of Webster gulch, about 10 miles from Miami. Claims cover an area of faulted quartzite, limestone and diabase, with quartz porphyry to the west of a strong fault. The Republic claim is crossed by the Duquesne vein in limestone, which is 5’ thick and shows 1 to 3’ of shipping ore carrying high values in copper and lead with vanadium. A 50’ shaft sunk on this vein proved to be on patented ground belonging to the Continental mine of the Old Dominion Smelting Co. The vein has, however, been cut at a depth of 500’ by a new 1,000” crosscut tunnel. Property regarded as promising and management honest and competent.

New State Mining & Reduction Co. Arizona

Office: 316 New England Bldg., Topeka, Kan. Mine near Amadoville, Santa Cruz Co., Ariz. Thos. M. Park, superintendent. !

Property, 26 claims, showing veins carrying lead-zinc-copper ores, with gold and silver values. j

Development is by 150’ shaft with 950’ tunnel developing ore. Equip- ment includes gasoline hoist and Ingersoll air compressor. In 1913 was planning to erect a 100-ton dry concentrator to treat low-grade ores. NEW STATE SMELTING CO. NEW MEXICO

W. H. Case, mgr.; Herman L. Schneider, supt., Socorro, Socorro Co., N. M. Has a 200-ton copper-smelting plant, employing 50 men when oper- ating and is equipped with steam power.