The Phoenix herald., 1879-09-20
Saturday. September %, 1879,
 FACTS ABOUT THE TIGER From One Who Knows All About the Mine. Great Expectations as to the Future of the Mine. What a Herald Reporter
 Learned.

MT. A. P. Allen, the genial Tiger mine man, not having the fear of newspaper interviewer before his eyes, stopped, on his way to Mari copa, in Phoenix, Wednesday. For his temerity he was promptly beset by limb of the HERALD, and, in the interest of those concerned in the condition of the mines of our Territory, catechised with the fol lowing result
 Reporter: Mir. Allen, I have called to get whatever information you can give me regarding the mines in your vicinity, in general, and the Tiger, in particular?
 MT. Allen: Very well. I am always happy to give any informa- tion in my power which can be of any value to the public. Reporter: To lead off with, how are you progressing in developing the Tiger'
 Mir. Allen; Splendidly, we have just sunk shaft to depth of three hundred and fifty feet, and have nearly completed 8 station at that point; we are also progressing finely with the level, and have every req son to expect to be into the vein at a depth of forty feet, inside of sixty days at the furthest, provided no obstacle other than lack of water in tervenes to prevent operations.
 Reporter: This dearth of water will be something of a drawback in working the mine, will it not?
 Mir. Allen: No, I think the disad- vantages arising from a scarcity of water, under which we are now laboring, will totally disappear by the time we have struck the vein, as every day we are cutting small water seams in the strata through which we are working, and which combining will give us all the water we will require by the time we are in the vein.
 Reporter: What amount of ore are you taking out at present, and what is its quality?
 MT. Allen: We are now taking out about twelve tons daily, which will pay about one hundred and fifty dol lars to the ton.
 Reporter: Have you any ore on hand?
 MT. Allen: Considerable. We have about two thousand tons on the dump, which on account of the quantity of ore we have taken out of the new shaft we have been unable to crush.
 Reporter: That is pretty big pile 1 to have on hand, is it not?
 Mr. Allen: Yes, it alone would | keep the men employ ed for the next | four months.
 Reporter: How many men are there at present employed in the Tigers
 Mir. Allen; About forty. As gen. eral thing we work from ten to twelve days out of every fifteen, and | are forced to lay of the other days by reason of having no water.
 Reporter: Candidly, Mr. Allen, what is the general opinion existing in your section, as regards the rich ness of the Tiger as mine2
 MT. Allen: Well, every indication SO far leads all who have had any in mining, and who have examined the mine to but one con and that is that it will not only hold out but improve as we go lown, as it has done since VIC worked It. As for me I know that if the mine improves, and I have every reason to believe it will, in the next hundred feet as t has done in the ast, we have most emphatically 9 ,ery rich mine. Only Tuesday we 'truck 9 five foot deposit of very .ich orc. '
 Reporter: How are ths other mines T your neighborhood making outg
 Mir. Allen: ! believe the Gray I Eagle is doing little, aDd the Peck mill will, have heard, start up in a s bort while. F
 Millner & WatSon's mi turned !