Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-10-16
MINERAL HILL DISTRICT.
A Glowing Picture of Its Prospects.
Description Of Some of Its R-cA maes

A Description Of Some of It's R-eh Mnes Mineral district, from all accounts We hear, is likely to play an important part | in the mining history of this Territory It is not new district, but one whose wealth was overlooked, and only recently determined. The editor of the Florence Enterprise, who is no tenderfoOt, but an experienced prospector as well as live ! newspaper man, has visited the district and spent week examining the various properties there, and from the account of his investigation appearing in the Enterprise We condense the following:
 MINERAL HILL DISTRICT
 Lies about fifteen miles east of Florence, and consists of a succession of high and low hills, trending north from the Giia river in irregular lines. At present their varying surf; zee is covered and beautitied by luxuriant vegetation, and on plateaus and shOlt stretches of lowland are found rare clusters of floral gems in bright set tings of green. In the picturesque can yons springs, fed by subterranean streams which seem to permeate the whole section, are abundant. Mesquite and iron wood are plenty, and in some places small clusters of cottonwood are found.
 THE MINERAL LEDGEs
 Are very prominent, and in places can be seen for miles. At some points they crop out above the surface rocks to a night of fifty feet, and vary iu width from ten to one hundred feet. They run north and south generally, but now and then cross ledge k found. Most oi them show low-gTade mineral on the sur face, consisting of galena and silver. and out of this fact, perhaps, had grown the idea that the mineral was all low grade But recent developments have corrected this erroneous notion. We established our first headquarters at
 THE SEVEN CoTToNwOODs,
 At which point are located the camps of Mir. C. D. Henry and Thomas E. Fish. on a small plateau nestling at the base of Mineral Hill. Under the guidance of Mir. John Sibbald We first visited
 THE ALICE MINE,
 in which a rich strike had been made the day previous. This n-iae lies about one-quarter of mile from and at least four hundred feet above the Cotton wood Camp. The ledge runs north and south, and Is cut in the center of the claim by deep ravine. On the south end a two hundred-fOot tunnel runs along the ledge and connects at the bot tom of a ltty-foOt vertical shaft sunk on the ledge. About midway OI the tunnel IS ten-foot winZe, showing pay ore all the way down. At the shaft cud oi Che tunnel another winze Is sinking and uu- covers pay-streak, an assay of which gave a return of of 4G3 yJ-lup ounces iu silver to the ton. 1he walls of the tun- mel from near the mouth back to tle south end are spnnk.ed with ghstening galena. From the workings We went c. the north crOpplnSs and GId htt e pros pecting on our own account On almost every piece of rock we broke from the ledge bright, pea-gTeen horn silver Was visible, but on being exposed tD the sun and air, would soon turn brown under the influence of the oxygen. At first iJ was thought that this horn silver Vas mostly confined to an eighteen inch strata in the ledge, but further pros
 
 was sprinkled all through the ledge. An assay made on the 26th of last month from rock taken at random fro m the eighteen-inch strata, gave return of lS46 S0-1OO ounces to the ton, the assay value of which IS S23S7.75. On Friday of last week an assay was made from specimens taken from eight of the dif- ferent stratas in these north crOppings 1f in silver to the ton. On the same day a stI eak of galena three inches wide was discovered in the south end of these north croppings, and an assay of the ore gave d return ot 72 per cent. lead and 2S62 5-10 ounces in silver The assay value of the latter of S31OO92
 These north croppings will average over twelve feet in height, twelve feet m width, and four hundred feet in length, above the surface rock. and 1t Is a req sonable estimate to say that they con- tain 4,S00 tons Of ore that viii average considerably over Sl0O to the ton. The situation of the mine to the mill-site (the latter being located at the Seven COttOnwOods camp) Is admirably adapt ed to the building of double tramway that would furnish its own motive power,  up. With such an arrangement every ton of the rich north croppIngs could be mined and delivered to the mill at an expense not greater than one dollar per ton. Considering all these facts there Is no room to doubt that the Alice Is a boz manga. We have been careful to avoid eIaggeration n. our statements, and to make assurance doubly sure have made our estimates lower than the facts would seem to warrant Messrs. Nm. r. Miller and John Sibbald have this mine bond ed for S7O,UOO and are apt to make their fortune out of 1t. The same parties, in company with c. D. Henry, have secured a bond on
 THE ELIZABETH,
 which is the first north extentiou of the Alice, and IS a very promising property. However, we did not visit 1t, and there fore cannot speak of its merits from per sonal knowledge. It eur purpose in this article to describe Onl! such mines as We visited in person. The first south extension of the Alice Is
 THE SPECIE PAYING MINE,
 owned by the Indiana Mining COmpay. On thls mine We found an inclined shalt forty-fve feet deep. It goes down Ol the ledge and shows mp a large DO:y of galena carrying an average of S5u n silver tO the ton anF running from fJrly to seventy-five per cent in lead. Inc ledge pitches to the east and a short dls- tance from the incline a vertical shalt Is sinking to cut the ledge at a depth If 40 feet. This shaft has reached depth of sixty feet. The second south cXten- tion of rhe Alice is
 THE RIALTO.
 The croppings of the ledge on this claim are almost, if not fully, as prDmi- nent as they are on the Ahce, but have not been prospected for horn silver vel. Their external appearance IS ldeutlcal with that Of the Alice north crOVPluGs, and 1t is probable that they are also rch in horn silver. At the south end of tae claim the ledge Is cut down abruptly by 2 deep raFine, at the bottom of which a tunnel starts ID and runs with the ledge to a depth of 6O feet. The north end of the tunnel shows eight feet of ore, with a five-fOOt pay streaA aver aging S25 in silver aId 6O per cent lead, without asserting. Some of the ore from this tunnel has assayed as high has S23O in silver to the ton. Above the tunnel an open cut has been made about half WAY across the ledge and uncOyers SIX feet of fine looking ore. The ledge at this point is thirteen feet wide. The owners are ThOs. E. Fish, Robert Bowen and J. r. WalstOu. The next extension on the Alice ledge proper Is the Ven turs an unurOspected claim. but if