Weekly Arizona citizen., 1880-10-23
Visit of Party Of Tucsonian- to
 the Shelter and Mine.
\ Home Bullion Producer and
 it's Value to Our City.

hail with unmiXed qualification any
 new discovery, no matter where, so
 long as IL has place in thls great
 broad Arizona. So if the CITIZEN
 shall make little more ado than usual
 over the practical success of a Tue son mine, it surely will be pardoned.
 The San Xavier is the first bullion
 producer 10 whlcE Tucson can lay
 claim as belonging distinctively 70 her:
 but the importance of it's success lies
 more in the fact that it solves the
 problem of reducing the low-g grade
 and somewhat rebel.ious ores of which
 there arc such vast deposits in the re- zion south of this city, clear away to
 the Sonora line.
 The formation of the san Xavier Mining and Smclung Company, and ! the subsequent steps toward the de-
 velopment of the property, together with the difficulties met and oyer 1 come by the resolute managers. have ! been too often recorded in these col umnS to need further mention. To Col. C. r. Sykes perseverance and en- ergy Tucson owes the first bullion 1 producer added 10 her direct resources. ! Feeling a natural pride in his achieve { ment, Col. Sykes 8 few days since 1 issued invitations Co a large number ' of citizens and the press of this city tO | visit on Friday the San Xavier works. and q CITIZEN representative was ac- ! cordingly dispatched to the scene. ! The method of conveyance consisted 1 of wagon, necessarily the distance ! being too great for even his pedestrian | abilities. and that wagon skum ' oyer the ground behind the celebrated
 |" Longarina tin disguisc), with the noted local lightning streak, Pizen ! on the Stump, as a trouing mate. ! These noted flyers had as human
 freight Messrs. R. C. Hopkins. Dick ] Rule, of the Star, and the CITIZEN re- ! porter. The difficult and dangerous | task of guiding the PcgasI was en- trusted to Dick. and under his skiilfGl manipulation of the ribbons the noted
 runner aad his mate several times at ! tained the terrific and binding speed [ of four miles an hour.
 The first place visited was the new shelter, which was erected on the Santa Cruz River, several miles south | of the old Mission Church. Here as Longarina and Pizen broke ! madly over the bridge which spans
 the foaming, boiling torrent-were l found assembled and assembling 1 Colonel and Mrs. Sykes, Judge John ! Haynes and wife and Miss Belle Henev, NIr. and Mrs W. (. Davis, NIT. and Mrs. E. \. Fish, Nr. and | Mrs E. Phelps Mrs. Hugh Far ley and Miss BrOdegan. Mrs. W. x.
 Frltz, Col. A. S.. White and W. NJ. ! Tiffany. The inspection of the
 method of reducing the ore proved
 very interesting. The furnace IS built
 against the bank Of the river, and the ! level plateau at the rear is utilized as
 an ore yard. etc. The furnace IS Of ' the variety known as Cupela blast, Is ' enclosed with a water jacket, and has
 a capacity Of 20 tons in q hours, al- ! though at present 1S tons daily Is the ! highest run. The oIe is broken ID
 with sledges. and is fed into the top ! of the furnace in proportioHate Quan- ! tlty with charcoal, iron ore, lime and ! slag. Between 225 and 2J0 bushels oi charcoal are used daily, the cost or | the same being 13 cents per hushel. delivered on the ground. The iron ore is the caprOck found in large 1 quantities at the mine, and ion ana
 a half is used daily as lux, the ore | carving in the neighborhood ol 4O
 her cent. iron. The production ol ! iron is therefore considerable, and In ! Missouri or Pennsylvania would DC 1 considered something of @ bonanza m stseIf Lime is used in about the same quantity as iron ore, and the 1 eIar used is ot course the refuse or nrevious smelling. The production l of million from the ore used at pres cnt-and which is the lowest grade
 oreofthe mtne-is something over two ] tons daily. As the brilliantly rnduy metal runs from the bottom ol lhe furnace. it IS caught in slagpots, esch
 being freightcd with lj0 pounds. aud 1rbeeled t0 the bank of the river, and ! cooled m about an hour by means oI 1voter To the bottom of the slag- not settles all of the metal leaving ! ihe Olassev slar, or refuse, 3t the top 1 The u mat " or bullion is knocked OH
 when cool enough, and such ot the | slag thrown away as is not needed m tba f1rnace araIn. This mat has nroven the greatest obstacle hitherto encountered in reducing the oTe-oi ] did prove SO before the present super
 intendent of the smeltor, MT. Jesse Horburv. vas installed, It consists
 Inf mixture of copper, lead, silver
 and refuse matter in such proportions
 os in make q mostrebellious conglom- | oration MT. Horbury, on taking cboroe to demonstrate his ability Co saroTate the metals into merchantaole bnIIiop erected rude and simple
 roae,er in shape very much like me old- fosbioued New England oven, ana
 the simplicity of the process is almost
 stsr,linc tO the uninitlated' A neat ! is created sufficient Co melt me Ieau'
 b,t moi inc copper. and the former l tr;ctlos from the oven into large
 iron moi. to be ladled into the par
 ,,orI5s The honey -combed mat
 is then taken out and left for future
 rasmeItinr into copper-sllyer bullion: ion: 1 The Ieod bullion carries about F5uU 1 to inc ion in silver. while the copper TnIIior is worth with the silver lt con
 tains about 5000 per ton. The read.
 o- c+',,- r-ilI remember that this product IS from ore which came from the carry surface workings or the mlhe' anu
 which is very inferior to the ore now
 being extracted from greater depth, l CoI Sykes stated that the experiment 1 taI smelting having proven "a great sue | oo,s inc c0mpauv propose 10 erect a
 @ 50s ton furnace for the production of 9l,
 o ',mst, , and the present works will
 be used for refining purposes; II; lHg {
 motive power consists of Q splendid 90.borse- power engine lfrom the Pa ] cifc Iron Works, San Francisco the
 steam being generated m oolIe' l oI
 tTv;co ,be caDacity of the cngIne, and inc blower used being m imprcTed
 No. AZ Baker.
 l After thanking MT. Hobury, and NIT. John Ketchum, the engineer, TOT