Arizona miner., 1867-10-26

many thousand dollars, and as '~'h a7 u starts up again, it will create quite reYoiu- tion in the business of the town.
 We next visited the mill and extensive works of the Vulture Mining Company, ,itu- ated about one mile north Of WickenbnTg' {. on the banks of the Hassayampa, where we saw more life and animation than are to be seen at any other point in the lerntory The mill has battery of twenty stamps four Hcndy's conccutr1t'Hs, cru,her ana various other contriyanccs. all run by an en- zine capable of running twenty stamps more, with the necessary appcndagcs. From ao to ! 36 tons of ore are crashed and worked every ! q hours, which pay on an average about ! s35 to tle ton The c0ncen,ntors save . about four tons oi sulphurets every 2i hours, ! which as soon as the proprietors find out some sure proces by which to treat them,
 will be worked. By assay. the sulphurets
 pay over $20O per ton. Everything connect
 cd with this nil is fitted up and arranged in
 an excellent manner, and the work goes on like clock-work TLe mjll-stc is one of the
 best in the Territory Water if carried in
 pipes to every workshop anl house upon thc
 p'acc and neither time n r space is wasted
 "A place for every thing, and everything m its proper place. appeared 10 be the maxim that go erns the Superintendent and Clerk. 1 This mill commenced running March l2, 1887, | a:d from that time up to October lG, leG7, | crushed 3.ooO tons. I, has not been lie one
 day (cxccpt Sunday,) during all that time. ! About fifty men are employed in attending ' 10 the mill. etc. Mr J. P Brown, the ale 1 and hard working clerk of the compsny, iu- l formed us that twelve teams were constantly ! engaged in hauling ore from the mine to the
 nil, at SlO per ton. NIT. lager and Mir.
 Chapman have the contract for hauling the ore. The teams owned by the first banned
 gentleman cannot be beat anywhere on the
 Pacific coast. The mules arc the largest and fattest we have ever secD,-thc wagons were built in Sacramento to order of MT. lager. and
 are of huge dimensions. Che team occasion
 ally hauls as high as l9,433 la.. of quartz.
 The teams of SIr. Chapman are also first
 class.
 By invitation of the $ perintendcnt, Mr.
 Jas D Cushcnberry, we visited the mine,
 which is some l5 or tG miles southwest from
 the mill, and after q ride of about two and
 one-half hours alightcd, for the first time. in r front of the cuts and tunnels of the great
 yulture lode We found about fifty men
 Americans and Mexieans, engaged in taking
 out orc, wheeling 1t away, asserting and pil-
 ing it up. There was already taken out
 about 350 tons of first class rock, and about
 5000 tons of second and third class qualities The mine, we firmly believe, is the largest and best upon the continent Its genera
 direction is northeast and south-wcst-yarv. ing from this course prot ably one point
 The formation in which it lies is mica slate
 the casing, talcose slate. The width of ths
 quartz in the several cuts and tunnels is T
 feet. and about 10 tons of rock per day ar,
 taken out The rock is of all shades Of color
 coarse, fine grained and porous. Free golc
 mag be seen Tn almost every piece, and rici
 specimens are frequently iounl. In addition to the cnts and tunnels upon the sulia- e , there are two shafts Of lO2 feet and % fee { ip.depth, respectively, connected by tunne which runs through a body of quartz 39 fee
 in thickness. The shafts on the surface ar
 l20 feet apart. A tunnel is also run thrOug l the ledge from the bottom of the deepes . shaft for 100 feet each way, and inc rock take e out paved well. The shaft is being sun
 still deeper. We have heard people say ina this immense body of rich quartz was but u " blow ont, ' and would not prove to be IT true vein, but facts do not bear them ou
 in their assertions. IL may Dc that sever; I lodes come together, or shoot out of the hil
 but certain II Is that a true vein does exis
 and has been found lO2 feet below the SUI U face. Air. CushenberTy informed Us tha y Mr. Phelps, the President of the compan d wonld be in Wickenhurg in December mex l., when he thought, the work of suryeyii ?. and laying pipes to carry water from tl
 Hassayampa would commence. If it is foun practicable to accomplish this great unde S taking, forty stamp mill will be erected .- the mine, and thousands of tons of secon n and third class ores that will not now pay fl
 hauling and crushing, will then be made yield good profit. The Superintendent h; d great faith in the project of conducting u 1t water to the mine and thinks 1t will n, of cost over Sl500O0, as the mine is scarcel q. 200 feet above the bed of the river, at a gra, v ual ascent. Should the undertaking be success, the Nulture mine will then be cap as ble of producing more bullion than any oth ,n mine in the world, and the region of countl in around Wickenburg will contain large ar t rich population. Speed the good work. a We rode back to town well pleased vii 7 what we saw, bade adieu to our friends ar IT. started by the way of Camp McPherson, le company with the mail rider and his escol UT for Prescott. The distance from Wieke m burg to Date creek is about 90 miles over