The Phoenix herald., 1879-10-04
CHERRY CREEK.
2erations of the Golden Era Mining Co.
The Work of an Enterprising
 Company.

aiions of the Golden Era Mining O.,
 is copied from the Niner of Sept 1si
 Through the courtesy of Hon. J. J
 Gosper we were furnished seat-room
 in his fine turnout on Monday last
 and conveyed to the new town oi
 Srffthville, on Cherry Greek, where
 we had an opportunity of examining
 inc town. quartz and saw mills, the
 numerous quartz lodes. and other
 proacrty belonging to the Golden Era
 Mining Company. composed of gen
 tIemen who reside mostly i'll Chicago.
 Here we met NIT. A II. Smith, Super
 intendent, for whs m the town is
 named. Years ago we travelled, often,
 through the Cherry Creek country
 and helped to open the roads that
 wind through the hills and canyons
 At that time we met an occasional prospcctor and were always on the alert for the willy Apache Now we
 find things changed. The mountains and hills arc full of prospectors, wood choppers, saw-log- cutters. team sters, dairymen, traders, carpenters. Iaborers, mill men, saloon keepers and merchants. Where was then
 willow tIlicket, now is being built busy town. The Golden Era Mining Company have erected a storehouse, boarding house, office and sleeping apartment. Their mammoth boiler is nicely caged between solid stone, brick walls. The thirty-five horse power engine is sleeping on its solid bed, the saw-mill fixtures are in place and in six or eight days the whistle will summon the workmen from their reposc to duty, and the giant pine trees will melt away before tke power of a glistening 56 inch saw. Immediately upon the starting up of the saw-mill, battery blocks and other huge timbers will be manufactured. and the quartz mill, which is one of Frazer & Chalmers best Chicago gold mills, will be put up and the good work of producing bullion com mrzced. The quartz mIll is said to be complete in every particular, and will, with the final touch, under the direction of Mir Geo. Clark, of Chi cago, have no superior in the Terri tory. It is to be of ten stamps, 750 lbs each, two of Tullocks automatic feed CTS. two mortars. open backs, suitable for either wet or dry crushing, and is supplied with Blake crusher, all of which will be in operation in sixty days from date
 Aside from quartz and saw mills. buildings, etc, the company own very zaluable mining property in close proximity to their mill, which taking into consideration that the mill is surrounded bya dense forest of tim Der for fuel and other purposes, J makes it at once in our mind, the best mining camp in Arizona. In I company with Hessrs, Smith and . Gcsper we visited three ledges which | belong to the company, none of | which are more than mile and a half from the mill. Our first visit | was tt the Mammoth, which has three shafts sunk on it showing, a well de- fined lode, and by actual measure ment five feet wide. The ore is free gold milling ore, easy to be mined and can be carried to the mill at cost of from $iz to $1.50 per ion. The lead crops out boldly above gro1nd for 1 ,500 feet, and is all owned by the company with perfect title Jn former years we knew something of this bonanza, when it was worked by arastra process. including guard to watch off Indians. It then paid by the crude process and will certain 1y pay now by the modern applian- ccs of the nineteenth century. The lead is appropriately named, for we know of no other that would suit bet fer, inasmuch as the visitor upon tlie first inspection, generally decides that it is '.Mammoth.r The ore may, after going to water level, turn into suIphurets, and from baseness require q furnace to roast it before passing to the mill for treatment, but it strikes the casual observer that several hun dred thousand tons of ore can be ex- tracted before such a method will have to be rcsoTted to. The ore from this lode can and will, with the judi cious management of MT. Smith, be hauled and mIlled at an ex- pense not exceeding eight dollars per ton. Where is there another district in Arizona that can say as much?
 Another promising lead we visited and examined was the Isabella. AL though but little work has been done on this property, it shows well and yields high grade ore, averaging in the neighborhoodo of S1O0 to the ton { A small outlay on this lead will open it, and undoubtedly q large body Of orc will be found-in fact it may I
  prove superior to other mines of which gmore is known. On the Isa- belle, Messrs. Smith d Gosper own }, 900 feet with perfect titie. Tn the examination of the Mammoth and Isabella we have spent the forenoon, z and return to the mill in time to par akc of hearty dinner and rest ap t honr, when we again take up our line ,f march, and in twenty minutes i idle we find ourselves on top of hill or mountain cf quartz, bearing { he romantic name Of Hiawatha after I he mythical Indian maiden, for f whom the story of Hiawatha has been C made the subject of poem by Long { TI,o ova <.o IT, ] !