The Arizona sentinel., 1881-12-17
SILVER DISTRICT.
Weekly Resume Of Work Done
in this Promising
District.

in this Promising
District.
EDITOR SENTINEL We, who hav,
been so kindly favored by climatic infu
ences, that without cessation work may
continue the year round, cannot but
Commiserate our brother miners Of tue
colder regions; when, coxtless and com
Portable, we read Of snowed-in, partially
or wholly idle camps, and the intense
suffering in their frigid country. Tho
the thermometer should reach LOO in
summer, the dry heat peculiar to our des.
ert region is not SO exhaustive as 800 OF
heat would be in q moister at mos phere
and surface workers acclimated to the
country experience no evil effects. Mas
ma and sunstroke are unknown quanti-
| ties.
THE BLACK ROCK.
Superintendent Franklin J. Clark, with
that courtesy peculiar to the gentleman,
invited the SENTINEL representative to
accompany him in his tour of inspectio n
through the Black Rock workings The
result of that inspection will be briefly
stated, and needs no comment-it speaks
for itself.
Length of tunnel, 100 feet: from ~ to
6 feet Of metal, pay ore, in sight, and suf-
ficient amount extracted to much more
than pay expense OF lworking-by mill
assay. Head OF tunnel showing pay ore
from floor to roof, and 14o feet, vertical,
below ledge outcrop. Two "up raises"
have been cut to surface, about % and so
feet respectively from face of tunnel, from
which large quantities. of ore were taken,
and which show on the walls to have
been of high grade, and about 4 feet in
thickness.
THE OLD HUGHES SHAFT
L. now down about 100 feet from car lev
ell, and cross cuts being run on 81 feet of
black, close-grained, high grade galena
ore. On this shaft metal is in sight from
top to bottom, increasing in strength by
descent, with the best and largest body
of ore in bottom of shaft yet uncovered.
A permanent incline working shaft
will soon be- started from car level, 40
ieet from breast of tunnel, steam hosting
works and 3 shifts put on, and the fact
that this mine and the district possess
ore d. posts, at length determined. Mr..
Clark has been fortunate in securing, to
report on the B. 4. Il P. NJ. Co. proper
ty, the services of a Thoroughly practical
aud scientific gentleman, who is highly
erteemed and appreciated, and who, hav-
ing become perfectly familiar with the |
true inwardness of the Black Rock, as re-
vealed, is now working on the topogra-
ply. refer 20
GEN. RUSSELL F. LORD,
Who Was interviewed by your correspon-
dent, and the following colloquy ensued /:
Reporter. Gen. Lord, the SENTINEL |
would like your opinion, as a practical
mining man, first, as to what you think |
r,f the Rluck Rnok ornLr.ot
Gen. Lord. The Black Rock is decid. |
eddy one of the best prospects 1 have
seen, and for the money invested, the ore
output is remarkable.
R. Second: Gin your estimation, is the |
result OF development satisfactory, and is |
there any improvement of note?
Gen. L. Yes, to both questions. De-
10 to show continued i'm
prov2ment. The qualification becom es |
more regular with the strike and dip of |
the ledge in descent, and the same i'm
provement is discernable as the tunnel
penetrates the mountain.
R. As far as you have had an opportu-
nifty Of judging, how do you like the dis
trict, asa whole!
Gen. L. NY time has been almost en-.
tirely confined to the Black Rock, but
what I have seen of your district has
very fayorably impressed me, and it real
" is pleasure to see something tangi. |
BILE.
This verbatim conversation with a nat
urally reticent gentleman. and one of the |
standing of Gen. Lord in the mining |
world. needs no further comment
1 am pleased to report that that honabre
with
THE ELONGATED HEAD,
Tom. Gilchrist, has struck it the richest |
kind on the Remnant, and DO doubt this
accounts for "the milk in the cocoa nut"
the why" that Tom bought his partners
interest in that property. Forty feet
north from the old shaft Tom did assess
ment work last year, and soon after took