Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-05-27

A gentleman by the name of Thomp-
 son has leased number of the Deer |
 Creek coal claims of this county and is
 laying the foundation for large business l i'll the manufacture of coke. He has sunk
 down one hundred feet on one of the claims exposing an eighteen foot vein of
 fine bituminous coal. containing scarcely
 any pyrites of iron Prof. Hoffmann,
 during his connection with the Silver
 King lixiviating works at Pinal, made d
 careful test of this coal and pronounced
 the coke made from 1t superior to Eng
 fish coke It is less compact than the
 English coke and therefore takes less time
 and less charcoal to fire 1t up. Mir.
 Thompson's scheme takes in Clifton.
 Butte, Silver Belle, Globe, Pinal, Santa
 Cataiinas, etc. He has already secured a
 contract to furnish Clifton with coke,
 and now has good force of white men
 and Indians at worR building good
 wagon-road from his coke ovens to San
 Carlos As soon as that route shall have
 been opened, he intends to build this
 way Twenty five miles will bring him
 down to the San Pedro and from that
 point he will have an outlet to almost any
 place he may desire to reach. Before
 leasing the coal claims and commencing
 work, Mir. Thompson made a private sur
 vey to determine whether the coal fields
 were within the boundaries of the reser-
 vation or not. The result of his survey
 has not been made public, but it is to be
 presumed that 1t was satisfactory, else he would not have undertaken the gigantic and expensive enterprise he Is now en- gagged in He seems to have an dbun- dance of money and pays of his men reg ularly every week. The road now build ing from his works to San Carlos will cost at least S15, GOO, and the road leading down to the San Pedro will cost nearly three times that amount We hope the undertaking may prove successful, as 1t would prove great benefit to the mining
 districts within reach of the coal fields
 Mir. Jacob Schneider came down from
 the Saddle Mountain district Saturday,
 and we button holed him on the subject of mining news with the following result: T He and Adolph Neimann who are partners :, of Mir. w. c. Smith of Florence, have l. been at work ever since last fail, on four s claims located in the above named district, n and have made good showing i'll deyel- e opment work The first of these claims Il is the Saddle Mountain King, upon which It a vertical shaft has been sunk to a depth IS of twenty-three feet, and tunnel has been 2 driven to depth of one hundred and thirty Y feet. The shaft goes down on the led 5t > and shows a pay streak thirty inches wide d of free milling black sulphuret ore. 4 e mill run of ton of this ore was made al h the Baldwin mill of Globe, last fall ant
 yielded S150 in silver. The ledge is wei
 defined showing foot-wall of granite ant r. hanging wall of synite with width O n about three feet. The tunnel, has no m tapped the led te yet but shows consider d able low grade mineral. The Bucking y ham which is the west extension of th' Us above named claim shows q much greater 'h width of ledge and carries two ore streaks ie one of which has been uncovered by q ? ?; foot shaft and shows three feet of ore O ld the same character as that of Sadd rd Mountain King, but not so rich. Tn Id Hayes lies just south of the Buck CV ,~,.l-oc E., l2 showing. An eighty-five foot vertica CT shaft has been sunk on the Hayes led re and shows an ore streak four feet wide at assaying from $50 to $50 and extendin ce all the way down. At a depth of eight ys feet, in this shaft, drift has been ru nd west twenty-eight feet, and opens up ns twenty inch pay streak that will go owe
 2200 to the ton. A streak of ledge n,.f ,o ter a foot wide and lying next to the pa ,;I streak in this drift, assays from $14 to $1% r A strong flow of waaer was struck in tn .or drift, which is about eight hundred fe, = above the bed of the creek. The lede ,o shows the same character of hanging all ,., foot walls and ore as are found in u ,a+ Buckingham and King. The Wheeler ,la the West extension Of the Hayes ar ou differs with the latter only in the charact. .n. of ore, the latter showing considerab H.. carbonate The developments on u ' Wheeler are not so extensive as those ( est the H,yes but the showing is equally iod promising. One twelve foot shaft h lld been sunk on this claim and shows tv ,n. feet of ore assaying from $50 to 5000 'P the ton. Beside this shaft there is oi lon cut seven feet deep and tell feet long a, lay one cut ten feet deep. The former sho' aw two feet of carbonate ore assaying S1t ,;u per ton and the latter, two foot stre;
 1 assaying $50 to $40 per ton. As we ha 'hu often said before the Saddle Mounta ut district is one Of the best watered al un- timbered districts in the Territory al ust must attract capital soon.
 No1acS oc Forfeiture.