Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-10-23
TOMBSTONE MINES.
Weekly Mining Report frs the Week Ending
 October IS. 1881
TTombstone EpitaDh.I TOMBSTONE E. AM. co.

|, On the 160-foot leEel of the TougI Nut has been developed q fine body oi ore. The combination ore body contiu, ues to surprise both superintendent and foreman in the way it opens up. They have now a solid bre..st of ore If fee; thick, with long re.icles four to six feet thick. Some two months ago one Of the foremen in Tomhst ne examined tbi. ore body with great re and pronounced it the finest he ever nv. Since then. instead of dimlnlshl 2, 1t has increased, notwithstanding 1t been drawn upon for over 40 tons per lay. Combination No. has been c,i 1ected with No. 6, and hereafter most of the ore will be raised by the steam loist through that shaft. All the woT gs of the mine are now connected or he 200-foot level. which materially f iitates the e1trac- tion of the ore. west side is show ing fine ore, literal He'd with horn sil- yer. One load sh5, cd on Friday as- sayea S2g2 per tCp -a5t.is came from the No. shaft. As soon as they can put up whin at this shaft they will com mence sinking again. The new machin- AAs Mills running at full capacity, with pros pect of big output for the month. On the l2th they shipped S32,012.5I in bull lion.
 GRAND CENTRAL.
 At the new shaft they are putting in station at depth of l57 feet, which cor responds with the l0O-foot level at the old works. Total depth of shaft, 365 feet. The old shaft is down 40 feet be- low the 500-toot level, where they are putting in a double station. As soon as this station is completed they will com mence to drift both east and west. They | will commence to crosscut on the first and third levels, new shaft in few days. | The stopes are looking exceptionally well, having developed unexpected | strength in the ore bodies. The mill is kept supplied by a daily output of go ! tons. Work on the new ore house IS progressing, but not with that rapidity that 1t would if lumber were more abun- dant.
 CONTENTION.
 Work goes on as heretofore. The mill | having been repaired. the usual output goes forth daily for reduction. On the ] 4OO-ioOt level the south drift is in ll5 feet On the J0O-root level the south drift Is ill 17J feet The cross-cuts on ! this level look well. The winze between the 400 and 300 level is rapidly nearing connection. On the G00-foot level the south drift is in IJ feet. The east drift on this level k in about 2S0 feet. The ore breasts and stopes are looking as well as usual. The series of three shafts being sunk on the west line, along the Head CenteTsground, to determine facts H. relation to the position Of the ledge, to be used in evidence in the pending suit between the Contention and Head Center, are progressing rapidly.
 HEAD CENTER.
 They are extracting ore on the third level, north of the disputed ground. Work Is being pushed on the first and second levels north. They have come to the surface in all upraise r feet west of the first shaft sunk by the Contention near the Head Center hOisting works The upraise followed the vein from which the ore has been stopped all the way to the surface, and shows dip, west, of about % degrees from vertical It is NIT. Boyle's intention to come to the l surface in two or more other places on the lode, north of the hOisting works, in order to demonstrate their side of the question when the pending suit comes to 1 trlai.
 GIRARD.
 The management of this mine has de- cided to put twenty stamps in their mill instead of ten as first contracted for. l Most of the machinery IS now on the ground and good deal of lumber. The grading Is being pushed rapidly ahead l and will, no doubt, be ready for the | framework when wanted. With the | change to twenty stamps, the output of | the camp, after the first of January, will | be increased by eighty to one hundred | thousand dollars per month.
 BUNKER HILL.
 Shaft No 3, sunk on the north and l south ledge, IS now down B feet, and | shows a fine body of high-grade ore, | varying from one to six feet in width, | and averaging S220 per ton, and as high | as SS00. The bottom of the shaft Is now 1 all in ore of high grade and looks well. | This mine Is owned by an Oil City com | pany and IS worked under the supervis- | ion of D. $. Criswell, and the company | are to be congratulated in their forum | ate selection of so good and promising a | prospect.
 SAN DIEGO. Started drift to the south on the | ledge at 266 feet; after running eight | feet began cross cutting to the east on | strong ledge of porphyry, the strike of which Is at right angles to that of the | ledge sunk on. The porphyry is becom- ing very heavily stained as they go in on | the ledge. An eight-foot ledge of quartz ite crosses the porphyry, and both are dipping to the north at an angle of | about forty degrees.
 LITTLE DEVIL.
 This claim adioins the Owls Nest on the west and Is north of the Silver Bell | east of the Hardscrabble. Two shafts are sunk to a depth respectively of 90 and 37 feet. In the 50-foOt shaft is a contin- uOus vein of high-grade ore, small but increasing. A mill test of 1890 pounds gave a return of S51342 They are now working two shifts in the 50-foot shaft.
 vIzINA CON.
 Shaft down 42S feet; formation still continuing favorable for ore. The other portions of the mine look as well as at last report. The ore sent to the mill is quite as good as that raised last month. The output will be somewhere between fifty and sixty thousand dollars.
 TRANQUILITY.
 This mine, after an enforced idleness of several months, was started up on Thursday last 4 shaft has been started near the Head Center line, with e view of sinking down into the workings of that mine, which is supposed Go be work ing on Tranquility ground.
 INGERsoLL.
 Still progressing favOrably. It was supposed that terms would have beer completed with the Boston mill ere this, and ore hauling commenced. It IS prob- able that within the week this will take place.
 FRONTIER.
 Steadily improving. Incline has reach