The Arizona sentinel., 1879-03-15


outs, all carrying from SIS to $50 milling
ore. the Jupiter or Red Hill, as it is com.
monty known among miners, is reached
This hill, about 1,200 feet long by $50 feet
wide, and 35 feet high, when the prospec
tor who accompanied Henry Kearsing ap
preached it,looked like an immense noun
tain of salt, variegated with red, green
black, yellow and purple veins. Kearsing
told this prospector that if the surface
would assay s. per ton it was a valuable
claim. As there were 100000 tons of ore
above the ground. the prospector, with
dubious views about locating a portrait
gallery, reluctantly located and recorded
it. To-day, at four feet deep, and stripped
having been prospected on every side Of the
hill, it will mill S25 per ton. It's character
is the same as that Of the Picacho, in the
same mineral belt, and probably fortune
to its lucky owners, as it is well known
that the owners of the Picacho not long
since refused $15O,OOO
To THE NORTHwARD OF THIS HILL
The character Of the quartz and country
rock assume q change. For half a mile
the quartz coming out from the surface
looks as if it had been hung up to dry and
been scorched in the drying. Then it
changes so completely that novice would
notice the difference. Iron, spar, blue
stone, granite and iron rock boulders
weighing thousands of tons confront you.
An Old Mexico miner sitting on the Red
hill one day remarked that he could trace
well defined ledges running tor miles
through the mountains to the northward
and eastward. Then began hunt. Des-
cending half a mile to the big arroyo to
the westward, running northeast and south
west, search was begun. Iron pellets,
rich float, etc, were encountered, which
finally resulted in the discovery of the
Halle mine, some thirty feet wide where
it crops, and carrying gold and silver
principally the latter. Immediately after
were located the Edgar, Oscar, Tony, Leon
tine, North Star and another whose name
L have forgotten.
All these ledges concentrated in q big
chimney of ore carrying free silver, gold
and sulphurets, which latter mine must in
clude, for my crude knowledge, sui
pilates, sulphides, tellurides, and, Of
course, iron and copper pyrites. A few
days after the location Of these lodes sam
pies OF the ore were sent to San Francisco
experts and are now awaiting their wise
investigation. Another ledge, too, has
been discovered, believed by inexperienced
men to be the
MOTHER LODE OF THE RANGE
Standing square on its feet, it runs per-
fectly straight line for mile and half,
sinking out Of sight again in the big
plateaus, averaging four to thirty feet
wide.
Briefly, the ore in sight is, from the
Madre, 10000 tons, $35 per ton; Padre, 500
tons, $15; Cargo Muchacho, 1900 tons,
S35; Sunshine, 10 tons, $500 per ton; Red
bird, tons, $50; Zoe, tons, $500; Ari-
zona, in sight, 2Gor 80 tons, s1OO per ton;
Jupiter, in sight and above ground, 1O0,-
600, milling SIS to sis; Halle, so
tons in sight; Thunderer, 10000 tons
in sight, ranging from $40 to $50 per
ton, and, in fact, 100000 tons in the fiat,
which any expert, who is not too lazy to
walk, can see.
A mill is all that is needed to develop
this district. A word to wise men with
money is sufficient. They need not dig
three or four hundred feet under ground
to find sufficient amount Of milling ore
to pay for mill. It stands out under the
very nose of any one who chooses to look
at it