The weekly Arizona miner., 1877-11-23
HUMRTG DISTRICT.
A MINING. MANS OBSERVATIONS.
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 ! have just returned to this place after weeks trip through the new "Humbug" Min ing District, and Was greatly surprised as we'll as pleased to noticethc favorable change in mining matters during the past month. At the Tip-top iesd the new Company is pushing developments in both north and south grounds and with most favorable re- suits. The connection between the south shaft and tunnel No. ?, will be made this week This shaft is down something over eighty feet in rich ore. Tunnel No. 2 is driven on ore of the same grade 11S feet and SsiIl be continued south after connect ing with the shaft Tunnel No. 3 south is driven on high grade ore over 100 feet and will connect with the south shaft at the 230 fl level. The contractors (MileS & Co) in No. tunnel struck rich streak last week which gave. ty assay, nearly S1l,000 per ton for an average of little more than l2 inches in width. This drift has been run 2i feet ia liiis ore and no change as vet. Gu the north ground the main incline has been pushed day and night since the pur- chase of tue property and the pay streak has steadily widened with every foot sunk Stoping has been commenced in tunnel No. , north on the loo foot level and every dump on the north ground of the Tip-top is liter ally covered Nith ore. This ore is conceded bv every one in camp to average $500 per ton.
 On Tuesday last visited the Foy or lit tie Tiger mine, also owned by the Tip-top Company, and being worked by Mullhol- land * Company under contract. The shaft is down S5 feet and carried an average pav streak of % inches in width until the 70 foot level was reached. From this point the vein has widcnod until the whole width of the shaft is now solid sulphuret ore and apparently very rich. The vein is nearly vertical with smooth walls and good blue clay gouge. This mine to-day bids fair to equal if not exceed anything yet discovered in Yavapai or Mohave counties.
 On the Cross-cut, Drum X Co. are sinking the .'pearl shaft" and will complete their contract of loo feet next week.
 Head < Co are sinking on the Taurus shaft and will complete 90 feet this week. Both these mines are being worked under bond 10 the Tip-tep Company. So far no high grade ore has been struck in either of them, but each mine carries from two 10 three feet of quartz which the contractors assured me would average from $S5 to $l00 per ton iu silver and about Sl5 in gold. At the Taurus the quartz k free milling, but at an increased depth in the Pearl sulphur cts ars appearing and the ore has increased in value since their appearance. The Foy is the only mine iu the district in which the water level has been reached, but l am told the Tip-top Company will sink the Pearl shaft t0 the water break before deciding whether to accept or reject the properties of NIT. Groom.
 Norvei is sinking a shaft for the Cross cut Company, on the ground north of the Taurus. and between the claim owned by Riggs, Bowers <S Richards and the Thone location. This shaft is down about 90 feet and shows about the same as the Pearl and Taurus.
 The Swilling mine is improving greatly in appearance, and bids fair 10 be a leading property. The ore cannot be distinguished from the Tip-top south, and the vein has the same strike and dip.
 The Isabella has been improving from the 50-foot level down.
 An extension on the Nevada lead kas been located by Hanson and Williams, and carries rich at surface, and the outcrop Is bold and indicates chimney of cOnSidera- ble length.
 The district is filling up rapidly with proSpeetors. and MT. Pfister, the assayer for tbe Tip-top company, told me the average of orc brought him for assay by prospect Ors exceeded $l0G per ton.
 The general feeling among the boys Is that this is likely to prove a red-hot chlO- ride camp. and go ahead of Austin, Nevada, both in the nnmber of small veins and the value of the ore. The camp is quite lively. and has, in addition to the store buildings erected by the Company, two stores, two saloons, a blacksmith shop. feed stable, corral, meat-market, and Chinese laundry. 1t the mill-site. A. Harris S Co. have their brick contract nearly completed. Jack Swiliing has been hauling wood with six or seven teams There are four pack trains packing merchandise 10 the camp. finders IS Rowe had just received six tons of merchandise for their store in addition to previous shipments. Several teams were also delivering four and barley from PhP- nix, and lumber and mill supplies were be- ing received by White < Allen, the con tractors for the Tip-top mill. Taken as a whole, Humbug is about the best prospect to-day of any camp have yet visited in either Yuma, Mohavc or lavapai. The whole country has occasion to congratu- late itself that Company has for once taken hold of an Arizona mine in dead earnest one which bids fair 10 not only stay, but to pay largely.
 I shall write again from the Peck district, where l am next bound. $. F.
 
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