The weekly Arizona miner., 1877-09-14
Items from the Peek.

Tho narty that went to the Peck mine en ss,ur,jay and returned on Tuesday. an ac- conn, of wlfase trip We give elsewhere. were afforded every opportunity for examining all the shafts. lcvcis. stopeS, etc. etc. ,hroughou; the extensive work7. and eN- press themselves as perfectly delighted with what they saw in the way ot ore ID sicht. as we'll as the evidences of perma- hence that the north tunnel k constantly bringing ,o light.
 MT. Gohin, the foreman. is 8 thorough ,nf1er. and is doing thorough job Tn this ,unnel. which is the lowest point II winch a leye. can be run tina, wall drain the works above the bed of the War Eagle guleh, from a poiut on which the tunnel starts. They are now iu four hundred and fifty feet on this level, and the face iS within fifteen feet ,,f thr original or working shaft. the bottom .,f which they will tap within very few .Iaxs at Il depth of nearly four hundred feet from the surface. and within few feet oi .he real base of the hill. at which point ,nirer, l.-}k for the vein to either change fla character or direction. though Il k not a sure thing that any change will take place.
 The vein thus far dips to the west. but It would moi be surprising If when the real l,.se of the hill l. reached and the shaft lS .nnk below the bed of the creek. It should change and dip to the east. or straighten up snd % down nearly perpendicular
 The face of the tunnel k now yielding an .,callent quality of ore. aS are also the stones. and in such quantities that the sevc- ral pack-trainS engaged m packing IL to the az,Isp mill are unable to keep up with them. One hundred feet above the tunnel We have been speaking of is another one north Oi the shaft and frJm the one 10 the other ls d shaft which is .fscended by ladder. Tins upner north tunnel meets what lS known a> inc south, or Bigelow and Thompson tunnel at the main shalt. so that one can 20 m a' the mouth of the lower north tunnel, chmh the ladder hundred feet to the upper one .aud then follow il past the main shalt Shi oat al the south erd of the Bgclow tunnel at the point where the mine was dlsco'ered hy Peck. thus passing entirely through inc hill. nearly q thousand feet without coming to the surface All along these tunnels and shafts with the aid of a candle the rlch chio' rides are seen. unmistakahlc both a> to quan -tiiy and quality and convincing the mos sskenticaI that the metal is there m a strong heaithy vein, that is not likely 10 diminish ol development. NIT. Gobin estimates th' amount of sccoud-class ore, now on th' dumps. and which will not pay to pack. n 2.OO0 tons. this is not a mere guess put arrived st hy such moaurem'hl as Ie "'' Leen .hlc ,o make of 'he scattered piles, al lowing twenty feet 10 the ton. This ore h' .has samplcd and tested in ev-Ty way know .to miners and although his iudg,nent IS ma It will work one hundred and fifty doiiar tn the ton. he puts the figures at one ''uh dred dollars. thi> would give gross yield o ,wo hundred ;h"us snd dollars for the second class orc now oa the dump awaiting th, completion of ihc mill. Say 1t costs S2I n.r ton ia work it and the dump as il lies + worth $l6OOoO which will go long way towards paying the expenses of the mil ,.nd road building in which the Company i' just now so extensively induiSinS