Arizona weekly enterprise., 1881-12-03

distance and opened up an ore body about eighty feet in width. Some of the ore in this level is very rich and runs up into the thousands At three hundred and fifty-six feet another level was opened in thc same direction and shows larger and richer orc body than that in the level above From this level we descended through the tnnbers in the stope to the four hundred foot level and all the way down, in every direction, the walls were lustrous and sparkling with native silver, polybasite, galena, etc. At the four hun dred foot level chamber has been opened over one hundred feet in width and still the end of the ore body has not beenreached at any point. This chamber is grand sight and must be seen to be appreciated. It beg gars description. The walls are porphyry and beautiful white quartz begemmed and bcjeweled with scintillant mineral. Everywhere the virgin silver protrudes from or lies imbedded in the surface of the walls in indescribable curls, twists sand flakes, while here and there large pockets of poly lybasite-which is 80 to S5 per cent silver-are uncovered. This stope which extends op to the three hun dred and fifty foot level is the only stope made in the new works. From the four hundred foot level down the ore body in- creases in extent and richness. The five and six hundred foot levels are repetitions of the level last named in the character of their mineral, but are richer. The bot tom of the vertical shaft is in wonderfully rich ore. The theory that the King mine is blowout is completely exploded by the developments ill the new works. It has we'll defined ledge with hanging and foot walls, and there can now be no doubt as to the permanency. The ledge has 8 remarkable width running from 80 to over 200 feet. There is now enough ore in sight and measurable to run the mill with its present facilities for twelve or fifteen years. We may say, withoat even a tinge of exageration that this is not only the most wonderful, but is the richest silver mine yet discovered. As the as- tonished queen remarked to the much married monarch, of biblical fame, "the half has not been told" To use com. mon vulgarsm, we have "drawn it mild, fearing that glowing picture would be discredited by the cynical reader.
 IMPROVEMENTS.
 The company has erected at the mine : substantial building large enough to ac commodate the boiler, engine and hoist ing machinery, large blacksmith shOI and splendid dump, just little higher than tho large ore wagons which convey the ore to the mill at Pinal. On tn, mountain northeast of the mill, at thu point where the Stoneman grade crosses the summit, a large reservoir has been constructed and in 6 small valley, abou two miles beyond, water works have beer erected. From these works water i driven through pipes by force pumps ul to the reservoir, and from the latter i carried through pipes to a tank at thu hoisting works. At Pinal, where the mil is located, and five miles distant from tn mine, large and convenient assay anC smelling office and store-house, and handsome building for the company's of | fee, also telephone line which connect ths mine with the supcrintendent's ofiic' at Pinal, have been built. The building used for office purposes is splendidl, | furnished, and the interior finish IS nea and tasty. The building is divided int ! three rooms. The front room which l the office proper, contains desks, bool and paper cases, and table of specimen 1 from the mine representing the wonderful variety of mineral found in the King Native silver in every conceivable shape and minerals showing every hue of tn { rainbow are found among these specimens { In the next room Is a mammoth fire all, burglar-proof safe, in which books an bullion are kept. Back of this is beau tifully furnished sleeping apartment.
 THE MILL
 Is located on Queen Creek, below the busi ness portion of the town. It has twent stamps, six Frue concentrators, thre roasters, two large engines and boilers,
 pulverizer, dryer, furnace, large numbe of tanks and other machinery necessary i the reduction of ore by the lixiviating prc cess. From the report of Ottokar Hof
 man, metallurgist and mining engineer
 we make the following interesting extrat
 concerning the li4jviation process used
 the King mill:
 THE ORE
 Which is subjected to the lixiviation pr
 cess is very base. and consists of the fo lowing silver bearing minerals:
 l. Natire Silger, in close contact vii
 Fahlore, zincblende, and in some i stances with galena. It is brittle enous , to be pulverized in the battery; is of { bright white color and 975-1000 fine, u
 impurity being copper; contains no gol Z. Sjlrer Copper Glance, with 70.3 ? T cent, or 204. 45T.3 ounces per ton, silve . 9.S per cent copper; 17.4 per cent sulphu 8. Altimonious Fohlore, containing ov ! 5000 ounces of silver per ton. This mi u eral is the most important constituent pa - of the ore.
 a 4. (D Zincbende, found in large al i perfect transparent crystals of lustro green color. This is the poorest of t ' ilver-bearine minerals of the Silver Kin e but is highly interesting from it's beau q as specimen. It contains only lt |. ounces of silver per ton.
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