The weekly Arizona miner., 1873-04-12
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taken from them with some asserting. The vein contracts at the eastern line of the ts,m now worked and widen, out towards the western line; but here tue quartz be- comes nearly barren.
 The Nulturc Company owns 500 feet on the original location, but the present mining works are altogether located within 800 feet on the course pt the vein. When the present
 company took hold of the mine it was in
 very Lad condition. not even the most com
 mon rules of uluIng engineering having been
 followed in the planning and execution of the
 work, and only during the last year or two
 have the works under ground been systema-
 tized and laid out with view to permanent
 prosecution of the work. Whims are still!
 employed Co raise the orc frotn the lower
 levels, and the absence of orc has rendered
 the introduction of pumps unnecessary At
 the time of my visit the lowest level reached
 was 2lj feet and the ore was here as free
 from sulphurets as it bad been near the sur
 face; i.e., it contained from to |, Der cent
 The ore sent Co the mill is not permitted to
 contain less than S2j per ton. and much of 1t
 yields over $50. A great deal of thi, is
 taken from the quarry on top, but the richest
 ore has lately been struck in the lowest
 levels, where assays of ore from the incline
 below the 2lOioot level yield over $50 per
 NNa's NAA' Nh|i I dl lDT. llE iLlUllE captain.
 writes in late communication "Since you
 were here, drove the lower incline and
 struck fine body of ore, which belongs to the Front vein ;; it is very much decomposed.
 and much easier extracted than the quartz
 above. l have driftcd east on the body. and am now in 0O ieet, at which point there is still line ore in the face of the drift. The streak of this rich pay orc lies between two perpendicular seams, and ;s 13 feet wide. have extracted and shipped to the mill un
 assorted 400 tons, which have given fine re-
 suits. sin now sinking a winze on this
 body, and it IS still improving" Some very showy specimens have been extracted from the body referred 10 in the above, and the latest developments in the winze show extra ordinary richness of the quartz throughout.
 seventy tons ot quartz are forwarded daily by mule teams from the mine to the mill, fourteen miles, at cost of Ss per ton by contract. The Hassayampa is the only stream m the vicinity, and not even q spring IS nearer to the mine. An enormous cost of transportation IS thus forced unto the enter
 prise and She bulk of the ore is at present entirely useless. 1t is proposed. therefore.
 to bring the water from the IIassayamna to the mill in pipes. There are TO natural diff
 cultles in the way of accomplishing this. but 1t will require heavy Ontlay for the dam and the pipes, and will probably not cos, less than SlsO,OOO. Still, even at this figure. the saving on transportation alone will repay
 the outlay in a little over year. not to men
 tion the vastly increased amount of quartz which will then be available. It is also pro posed to enlarge tue forty-stamp mill. after It's removal 10 the mine, by the addition of sixty stamps, all of which can undoubtedly be easily supplied with ore The mill at ! vnlture City, one mile above the town of Wickenburg on the Hassayampa river. con 1 tains an eighty horse power engine. A Blake, crusher, 40 revolving stamps of $50 bounds each, copper plates and blankets, and eight of Hendy's concentrators. IL is in excellent running order, and crushes from Ct to 70 | tons daily, stopping only during the daytime | on Sundays to clean up. The stamps have | io inches lit, and the best results are claim ed to be obtained by running them at the rate Of G strokes per minute. The concentra,ors dress the suphurets, of which there are not more than per cent, up to l5 per cent. only and tnese are separates preserved outside of inc mill Tor iuture benehcotion, there being no apparatus on haud nt present 10 work them Various as- says at various times Of the tallings Concentrated to the percentage in sulphurets mentioned have ! welded From S2J 10 S9l, while entirely pure sul. phurets assay $50 per ton The sluieetaflng. ! assay s5 per ton, and are also thrown mn keIo1x the mill to be worked over in the future There are between 1000 and SO,0OO tons off tailines ! thus saved, at least G0O0 tons of which contain partly concentrated sulphurcts Four aasavs of average samples of tbesc suiphurets concentrated during two succeeding weeks gave s75 and S7s per ton Tor the first week, and S42 % and s4J 50 TOT the next. Besides the large mill building Mir B sexton, the efficient manager of the cotnuany has erected large office, store-house assay.oeicc containing retoTt and melting furnaces, boarding. house, sleeping apartments, and the necessary outDnudngs, all oi adobe and with shingle roofs hs Nuture City, and store, office dWellinU house and other necessary buildings at inc mine ali substantially constructed Of stone The company also cultivate garden of IF acres in the Ha.say. alnpa bottom, short distance be!ow the mil in which they raise all the vegetables required in tbeir large boarding house The cooks are Chinese, the only celesilals which tue writer met ~ith m Arizona, except one in Arizona City, who keeps tbe only hotel in that town
 One hundred and two men were employea nt The mine, and tweuty-four at the mill, one-half Of Ibe latter wheeling quartz Twelve to thirteen more are employed, some of whom work on Inc rabch' ana the remainder are mechanics. The common wages are kIU per month, and board is deducted al $l per day. Wood is scarce in the vicinity, and costs about S delivered it the mill
 The eost of working one ton of ore in the fall oi lo'v' taken on an average during one month, was, according 10 data kindly furnished by inc as follows ro, ,o,rt.. Per ton. p, iits A l2
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 About ZOO feet of extension are taken up on he Nulture lode, 500 Of which are owned by tbe l ultufe Company None of these extension a ,lains were however, worked in 1870 Lately ! ne paPers report that parties have commenced 6oFking one or the claims, and that the ore Is to 'c crushed in the Hinton tenstamp mill at Wick. I nbuTg The road between Wickenburg and the Vulture 2 nine was formerly very dangerous on account of [ be Apaches. Many attacks were made by them a lOt many years ago on men aud teams, and gen. a rally te whites were tue Oosers in life and prom riy. Lately, however, the Indians have kcnt C ulet ln th,s region, except in the Immediate yi b inity Of Wickcnburg, where they have stolen l orses aud cattle several times during last year. ?
 Unexplored Region U Ya'apai is by far the largest county In Arizona. e nd not more than one-quarter of lts area bns ! al cen explored That part oi tne remainder which x hnOHp 10 contain precious metals the country e Iuth oi the hOgV!.OD range, the Sierra Blanca [ pa sierra finalcno, have been occasionally tray. e led over by strong military paTtes and few b
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