Arizona citizen., 1876-12-09
American S1:aas

| The SuolOlneu arllcIc -S rom lnt
 London Mining Journal of October 2c
 of this year It was furnished the
 Mining Jonrnal by member of the firm of F. w Munsell & Co, London stock brokers, who was here Tn com
 pany with one of the editors of tho
 Mining Journal few months ago 1 Our readers will notice that it Is < [ {
 preliminary article, and we presume
 VII be followed by a series of com
 municatiOnS which will tend 10 set tht
 minds of Englishmen right in regard
 lo our mines-Snmething which hereto
 fore it has seemed impossible to do l We shall look with interest for sue
 ceeding articles. The one in question ! from the Journal is as follows:
 Accompanied by reputable expert during q three-months' tour in tho
 mining centers from Salt Lake City t' San Francisco, we nave acquired 8 mass of information not tO be other
 wise obtained. We are indebted tr MT. John Mackay, the bonanza king , I(tO whom we were introduced by MT
 P. Mckay, of the Bank of California;
 for an inspection of the Consolidated Virginia, the most productive of the COmstock group and the richest mine in the world. So extensive l. the scale Oi operations, SD unparalleled the gulf Of
 wealth, and so almost automatic the manipulation of the ore from the time lit leaves the huge excavations till re lduced into gold and silver bars, that
 one feels to be we'll repaid for jour. Iney from the Old tO the New World, by visit alone 10 this truly marvellous ItreqSure-hnnse, yielding as it does, a
 monthly dividend of Sl 100000 (e240,- '000). We propose to fully describe these mines in subsequent notices. In .Our examination of the prominent
 mines of Scandinavian Canyon, Silver
 Mountain (including Exchequer. l. x. L., Isabelle, etc), we were aided by
 MT. Chalmers and several other we'll known authorities, some of whom had gained their experience in the Com stock mines. At Eureka, Mr. Prnbert, Managing director of the Richmond Consolidated mines, received Us most cautiously. We accepted his invita- tinn to inspect the mine, and had the advantage of his personal assistance throughout a protracled examination of the ore-bOdy at the different points Of operation. A second day was employ ed in vi>iling the smelting-wOrks. At Grass Valley. California, we had the privilege of respecting the under ground workings of the Idaho, the rep fft inl, t.t1 mine in he Golden State. This mine in 1870 was offered in the London mar ket for S100.000 (e20,000), since then it has returned in dividends $1,300,000 e2G0, ,0O0), IS producing more and richer quartz than at any previous lime, has larger reserves. apart from the fact that he vein has just been cut rich in The 900-fOOt level, and the stock is selling at high premium upon the San Fran cisco Stock Board In our visit tD the hy- draulic gold mines we were acCOmpan- jed by Professor Price and others eX ports, from whom much guiding knOwl edge was gaIned. To NIT. Hughes, res. ideni manager of the Blue Tent, and NIT. Powers, of Birdscye creek, no less than toMr. B lwie, a local director, we owe our thanks for the painstaking in which they pointed out, with no small amount of labor, the merits and the capabilities of the re- spective mines. While in Salt Lake district many facts were gleaned con corning Flagstaff. Emma and other mines in the locality. Unpardonable on our part would 1t be not t1 avail of this opportunity to ac- knowledge the frlendliness with which we were received throughout the whole of the mining camps west of the Rocky mountains, and the buSl- ness relations we have succeeded in establishing will place us in possession nf information useful 10 English in veStOrs.