Salt River herald., 1878-09-21
GOLDEN STAR MINING COMPANY.

We have just returned from the Cave Creek mining district, where we gleaned the following items:
 The property of the above named company is situated thirty miles northeast of Phenix, in the Cave Creek mining district The mine property consists of the Golden Star, Mccormick, and Florence claims. It is estimated that the ore lying on the surface will measure 50O00 tons. In this instance nature has exposed to view one of the greatest mines on the Pacific Coast. It is virtually an. en- tire mountain of ore. and so located that it can be worked entirely by tun- nels, thus saving the cost of hoisting works one tunnel is now in no feet and it is expected the vein will be encountered in thirty feet more, at depth equal to 600 feet from the sur face, where a shaft is now being sunk.
 The ore of this property is similar to that of the famous Vulture mine, near Wickinberg. The buildings of the company containing the offices and dining-room are but temporary, more substantial ones will shortly be commenced. A tramway has been ordered from San Francisco at a cost of S5,000. and will be erected inside of a month. It will be 4,500 feet long, and convey the ore from the mouths of the different tunnels to huge ore bin at the mill. twill take years of steady labor and constant op- eration ot one hundred stamps to make any perceptible impression to- ward the exhaustion of the ore bod ies of this company already in sight.
 THE MILL BUILDING
 Sits in a ravine at the base of the mountain in which the mine is located. The building is A feet wide and G feet long, with an average height of 9 feet. The tram way will empty the ore in bin II 24. For the first month the ore will be brought down in wagons over an excellent road now in course of con- struction, and upon completion of the tramway the road will be used in conveying heavy timbers to the mine. From the bin the ore passes through Blake Ore Crusher, whence it is fed to the batteries by selffeeder, an automatic auxiliary indispensable to systematic and economical quartz milling. Over 60,000 feet of lumber were used in the construction of the main building. The machinery con- sists of boiler having 50-horse pow CT, accompanied by a splendidly built and finished engine. The bat tery consists of ten stamps weighing 500 pounds each, one Blake crusher and the self-feeder mentioned Ubove The mill Is also supplied with two Frue concentratOrs, which alone will save enough to pay half the running | exnenses of the mill. Twenty-Five per cent of the value of the ore will be saved hy these concentrators, that would otherwise be lost in the tail ings. These concentrates will be worked in a W hite's furnace, shortly to be added to this already complete mill. The entire weight of machin- cry is 100000 pounds, the freight up- on which alone cost the snug sum of S7,000. The mill cost fully $43,000. The battery will have capacity of twenty tons every twenty-four hours, or two tons of quartz per stamp. The entire mahinery was furnished blythe Pacific Foundry, San Francisco. H. W. BOurdwell is the superintend- ent of construction; this gentleman has had many years of experience in building mills on this coast and his work is a model of mill architecture. The grading for another mill of forty stamps, for the same property, will soon be commenced and the day is not far distant when the operations of the Golden Star Mining Company will overshadow the largest opera tions ever undertaken in Arizona. The enterprise will be of much bene- fit to the Territory in general and this town in particular, andtoo much credit cannot be given to Wm. B. Hellings, the promoter of the enter prise, and the coming years of steady Golden Star bullion shipments will record the the wisdom of his eXten- sive, systematic and fearless opera tions. There is no man in Arizona but wishes the Golden Star Company the fullest success, and not one but believes they will attain it. The operations will be watched with in- terest and will be truthfully chron- icled from time to time in the col g.l. . r |