Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-10-30
THE MACK MORRIS.
A Rich Mine Well Managed Gradual Growth from Nothing to Afauencs-A Prospective Dividend Producer An Examination by a Reliable Mining Man.

llt HUI luhtdhN anu ALdAlC
 spection of the Mack Morris mine,
 which IS located therein. He is thor
 oughly satisfied from what he saw and
 learned that the Mack Morris is a won-
 derful and valuable property, and he is
 further convinced that the Mack Morris
 Company has been fortunate in secur-
 ing the services of the right kind of men
 to manipulate and manage their affairs,
 around both the mine and mill. Indeed,
 a very slight glance at the improve
 ments made about both would be suffi-
 cient to satisfy the most casual observer
 that those ID charge have a thorough
 knowledge of what Is necessary in the
 line of mining to expedite work, with
 q strict view also to both convenience
 and economy, which fact he herenin
 proposes to prove to the entire sat
 isfaction of every intelligent reader of
 the CITIZEN and the public generally.
 That he is correct, brief history of
 the mine and the developments made
 thereon by the present efficient man.
 agers within the past two years will show.
 Richmond Basin is situated about 12
 miles due north from Globe, at the
 southern base of Apache Mountains: its
 altitude is about 40O0 feet above sea
 level; the geological formation sur
 rounding it is syenitic and porphyritic.
 The Basin derived its name from the
 Richmond mine, of which the Mack Morris Is the first extension, both of
 which were discovered and located in January. 1876, by John H. Alvany and
 Rupert Dickey. The former they To-
 cated for themselves, and the latter for
 Mack Morris and the late M. l.. Stiles,
 of Florence, who about two years ago
 succeeded in selling the Mack Morris
 to the present company, receiving there
 for Sl30,OOO. Since that time the con-
 pany has been working it continually,
 and until very recently under
 great disadvantages. There was
 but little development made on the claim before the purchase, and the com
 pany only put up the purchase
 money to begin with, and consequently they had to depend entirely on what could be got out of tue claim, which fact necessarily made development very slow and tedious But with energy, life and enterprise, backed by a thorough knowledge gained by actual experience in any hne of business, success is as- sured. The mine has so far yielded to the company upwards of S3O0.OOO in bullion, which has paid all the expenses of working, which were necessarily heavy, and besides has now a No. hoisting works at the mine, a frst-class 10-stamp quartz mill at the Wheatfields, nine miles from the mine, to which there Is q most excellent road, which we be- heve has not an equal for the same dis tance in the Territory of Arizona, and all the mine equipments, houses at the mine and mill, all paid for; and cOnse- quently the next thing now in order is dividends, which will be forth coming in very short time.
 Your correspondent arrived at the mine just as the Whistle blew at noon, and was kindly received by Major NJ. 4. Baldwin, tho able and excellent superin- tendent, and NIT. Thomas l.. West, the gentlemanly foreman, both of whom have had many years experience Tn the business of mining, and consequently are thoroughly practical miners, as the readers of this will readily observe by the following sketch of the workings and arrangements for handling ores:
 In the first place, as above stated, the company lad no working capital to be- gin with, and had to go slow. They se- cured, on credit, an old third or fourth rate hoisting apparatus, and placed 1t on the mine. They then packed the water to operate it, at first on burros, for some distance. Both of these difficulties have since been overcome, and the new ma chinery works like a clock. the buckets gliding back and forth without a jar. The engine is about a fOrty-horse power, and 1t is SO arranged by means of levers and two upright beams with a long screw upon which works an indicator, that the engineer can stop the bucket at any point in the mine desired without leaving his post, as accurately as weighing a sack of four. The burros have been displaced by the discovery Y of n sufficienCy of water Tn the lower levels for all purposes about the mine. The ore car from the main shaft IS run out on trestle over the ore chute, in which the quartz is dumped, and the teams hauling can be driven under the spout and one man can easily do the work of ten in loading, and the same Is also the case at the mill: the wagons are driven on floor and the quartz dumped on a trap door which, when removed, lets the ore into the battery chute. By this means the ores are handled with perfect ease, two men doing the work of twenty Tr.1rnarx- hanlu-rn GnaaH ftarra in fha successful working of a mine.
 The developments so far made con- sist of double compartment working shaft 465 feet deep, timbered through out, with good stations well secured by sxs inch timbers at the 300 and 4OO-foot levels, at each of which there is arranged water tanks, and by means of gutters the seepage water Is collected and sent to the surface from each level. The 300-foot level, We should judge, is about 160 or 170 feet long, with a cross cut at the end running north some 60 or 70 feet, at the end of which there is winze sunk 70 or 80 feet. At 400 feet there IS similar level and crosscut run, from which the ores now being worked are taken. The vein in the face of the crosscut here looks to be well defined, from one to three feet wide, with splen- did walls of porphyry, the course of which appears to be east and west, with a dip to the nOrthward. The ore in character is sulphurets in white DOT phyritic quartz. The bottom of the main shaft at present IS about 20 feet south Of the vein, which will be cut again at the 5O0-foot level by cross- cut, when a large body of ore will no doubt be struck. The main shaft is sunk perpendicularly for nearly 300 feet, and from there down 1t has gradual in- cline to the north. This was done in order to follow the vein as closely as possible. At the curve in the shaft there IS roller SO arranged as to work against the wire rope and steady the bucket, which it does without the slight est difficulty, and We believe that a shaft can be sunk to Q much greater depth by the same method with perfect ease and safety. Both the superintendent and foreman assured me that it could be done, and We do lot doubt it in the least
 From the mine to the mill is down grade the entire distance. The mill is about, approximately, two thousand feet lower than the mine. which fact makes the ore hauling easy. The amount shipped daily over the road is from twenty to twenty-five tons. The mill and assay office, dwellings for the Super and employees, including store room stables and out-hOuses, and last,-l but not least by any means, splendid bath house where hot or cold bath can be had at any time of day or night, which is of itself a genuine luxury,l and all the mill improvements are so arranged as to guard against fire. They are scat l tered so that in case of fire only one or two buildings would burn. The mill has sufficient room and motive power for ten additional stamps whenever needed. The ore IS wet crushed and passes from the 1