Arizona citizen., 1877-07-07
New and Rich Discoveries fin Orc
 BlancO District.

July f, Mir J. NJ. Kirkpatrick and
 MT. Flood called upon us with samples
 of ore from various new discoveries of silver mines Tn Gro Blanco district
 They and partners have made eight
 locations varying in distance from one
 to seven miles from the Ostrich mill,
 five of which they have developed and regard as very valuable. The partners
 in these discoveries are J. NJ, Kirk
 patrick, Isaac Flood, E. D. Richmond, Joseph Hoskins, J. A. Flood and Ho-
 mer Flood. MT. Kirkpatrick is a mlner
 of many years practical experince.
 and is competent assayer. He brought
 Tn samples of ore from the Alaska, Idaho and Warsaw mines. The vein
 of the Alaska Is six feet of mineral,
 and many assays show an average of
 S46l 69 to the ton, the highest running up into thousands. The Idaho is a ledge of fifteen feet thickness, and
 numerous assays show the ore worth
 an average of $1OO per ton in silver and much of it carries lead reaching as high as 72 per cent. The ores of the
 Warsaw assay S5S4 per ton. The Mary
 Ann, Montana and Wyoming, are loca-
 tions by the same parties and some development has been made on all.
 The Mary Ann Montana and Idaho,
 NIT. Kirkpatrick regards as the largest
 1esposiis of mineral he has ever seen.
 The Montana is easily traced for 1900
 feet and is heavy lead Yein carrying an average Of S54 per ton in silver. A shaft of 30 fee. is down OF the Wyom- ing, and the ledge is from fifteen to
 twenty feet thick, end the ore assays
 from $500 to $1EOO per ton. The
 Mary Ann carries much lead and as says in silver oyer $20G per ton. Some .of the veins which are most developed, are certainly in formations most favor able to permanence. MT. Kirkpatrick,
 who has spent years ln the old Mexican mines, says that the formations are the same as he has seen in mines in Mexico which have been worked for hundreds of years. A great advantage enjoyed at these mines IS in the abundance of lead for fluxes, and the country is literally supplied with fire stone, and plenty of wood and water. The ores can best be worked by the sneltingI process, and the facilities to do it, could hardly be better The technical namesI of the several ores were repeated to us, but fearing we might fail into error and use that of one mine for another, they are omitted, further than to say that the ores contain scarcely any baseI metal so far as developed These mi ners will soon put up a furnaceI and further prove the value of their mines by actual production of bullion. In addition to the mines named, other miners have recently made valuable locations and are developing them. Mir. J. c. Holden tells us that the Louise, owned by himself and NIT. Hewitt, Is an immense deposit of sil- yer. MT. Kirkpatrick whose judgment Is second to tha: of no miner anywhere, considers the mineral deposits of OrOI Blanco the largest and most valuable in the whole American mining re- gions. He has examined the Yellow Jacket gold mine and regards it val uable property, but thinks other ma chinery should be used in working the ore. He favors Almarin B. Paurs dry process, and is firm in the belief that by it 95 per cent. of the gold in tue Yellow Jacket would be saved.