Arizona citizen., 1877-07-28
The Aztec Mine.

Extracts from the Manager 5 lasi semLmOnthly report:
 The work on the cut has been push ed ahead. We are in now seventy eight feet, about forty feet only three feet deep; the other thirty-eight feet Is driven in from the start on level and is now eight feet deep in the face. Width of cut, eight feet. Will drive on the level the whole eighty feet and attain depth of about seventeen feet at the north end This north end stops immediately at the apex of the highest croppings. The vein appar- ently is pitching south. STeaks of black manganese and iron ore are com ing in abundautly, showing some min eral. The whole cut Is Tn vein matter For the immense slZe of the vein and the necessary amount of work Co pros pect it, the Superintendent Is well sat istied and says everything looks a: flattering as could be expected Some two weeks more will be required tC finish the cut, and if the mineral come: in us fast as It has in the last week, Vt will be able to show good body o ore before commencing to sink, a con dition much better than we anticipated Mir. Davis Is of the opinion that at ; depth of fifty or sixty feet, we vii show a large body Of ore.
 Since my last report, two men hav' been sinking an irregular shaped pros pect hole on the northern portion O your property. The vein carries meta from the top-down now eIght feet; il the bottom we have four feet five Inch es solid mineral. 1 have sent yOl twelve pounds taken from all parts O the vein. X shaft is sunk on the soutl wall. The width of the YeIn 1 canno tell exactly The croppings indicat
 twelve to eighteen feet. The men vii
 go on exploiting. An open cut vii
 be driven across the vein intersectin
 the shaft. Formation, granite am
 pOrphyry-vein matter porphyllte, wit
 every evidence of true fissure. Ca take out fifty tons of the kind of or sent you from what we see in the shat We have no mode of ascertainlng Il value as yet. We know there Is plent ! of it here, and in few weeks nor
 when we will have the utfully Opene
 and commence sinking on the oO-fo'
 vein, we will be able to keep ten-stam
 mill running day and night.
 It Is impracticable al the present put on more men. As soon as we g
 our roads in good condition and oi houses finished so We can care for an feed men, we will push work ia
 enough to sui, you. Our lumber IS a contracted for.
 1 have carefully looked over the o. road made by the United States son years ago to the SOnoita valley. Vii
 an outlay of S3OO0, 1 can put thls roi
 in good order, so two yoke of oxen c;
 haul three tons of ore daily from u
 mine to the valley. It Is six and Ina l miles from the Aztec property 10 Il e Sonoita creek. About the facilities ( f fered by this stream, 1 have alreaC ] written you. Grass in abundance cu X CTS every part of ground along the roi f and the situation of everything Is a mirable.
 Each share of stock in the Azt ; Gold and Silver Mining Company, $ consider today worth five dollars.
 few months more work when we 2 Y into $ complete system and workil order, will prove il. Our working ca a ital will be amply sufficient for a necessary reduction works, and s twelve months time, with a mOdera - success, we will be able to pay dI
 dends.