Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-12-23

qlcntly large per cent ef the ore out put is stored for future uss. Only the porphyry is reduced and that by coacen- trat;on. But before new reduction works ! with a capacity adequate to the capabili- |. ties of the mine, can be erected, new mill site must selected with view to 2 largely increased water supply. At the present site there is barely enough water to run the works now in operation. Be side this, the country around the mill, within a radius of twenty miles, has been denuded of wood, and fuel has become a large item of expense. However, it Is probable that new site will Do selected on the rive soon, and new works erected and connected with the mine by narrow gague railroad In the meantime the old mill can te kept in operation and the ex- pense of the new improvements be met by the net proceeds of the mine.
 The next most promising property in the camp is
 THE BLK MINE,
 owned by the Mowery Mining Company. It IS the first west extension of the Silver King and the marvellous ore body of the latter, undoubtedly extends through the Blk ground. No intelligent man can survey the workings of the former with out conceding the soundness of that con clusion, The pitch of the King ore body, from tho apex of the "blow-out," where it was first discovered, is strongly and regularly Ill the direction of the Blk, and the breast of the 700 level, which is all ill ore, IS not over 100 feet from the Blk ground. Unless the pitch of the lead should change below this point, and there is hardly possibility of its doing so,-the ore body will pass under the west end line of King snd east end line of the Blk at depth ranging somewhere Mowery Company are Sinkin2 8 two com partment verticle shaft on the Blk, about 30 feet from the east end line, to tap the King lead. This shaft has reached d depth of 800 feet and shows favorable in dication from top to bottom. The last two hundred feet is mostly in porphyry of the same character as the metaliferous porphyry of the King. At 560 feet a large strata of 6ne metalifsrous porphyry was cut in the northwest corner of the shaft. It carries iron, zinc and sulphur etes. This strata pitches in the same di- rection as does the King lead Below this several smaller strata of the same character and pitching in tho same direc- tion have been cut. The last few feet oi the shaft is ill a stratiied quartzite slaowl ing magnetic iron, and pyrites and very
 handsome crystals of quartz, both lear
 and pinkish. The latter is fine indica- tion This quartzite is very hard and progress through it, necessarily very slow. One or two ''horses" of the same charac
 ter came in just above this one but passed out inside of a few feet and were followed
 by porphyry. No water has been sn
 countered below the 400 le"ei Snd at thi f point large tank has been made anc a pump placed, from which the boiler q the hoisting works is supplied with water
 The shaft is well timbered and 4x4 rec
 in each compartment Three eight hou
 shifts of four men each are worked ill tn Il shaft. The external improvements g 5 the mine are good. They consist in = well appointed blacksmith shop, fine. en Il zine and boiler rooms, stable and carpen C ter shop. The hoisting engine and ma T chinery are of the best pattern and mak s and will hoist easily from the bottom c l. 1200-foot shaft. All the men and miner t at Silver King have great faith in tn O Blk.
 Preparations are making for resumI
 tion of work at
 THE SOUTH KING.
 A new horse whim has been put up an
 several other needed improvements hay , been made. It is the intention of tn
 company to commence work at the bo ; tom of the old shaft, widen it out an carry it down from that point as doub
 compartment shaft. There is conside ,I able water in the mine at present but
 will not take long to bail it out, after u whim is in working order. We could nt gain admittance to the workings, as tn
 superintendent was absent, but unde
 stand that some very fine strata of O. have been found in one of the drifts al
 the owners are confident that they w :. ''strike it rich" few hundred feet dow on From the South King we visited he THE PIKE MINE,
 to located about one mile northwest of tI it Silver King. Here We found a ve e promising property. The ledge has I n- lnarkable width, and crops above the su D. face in some places about 20 feet. ee- very deep ravine cuts across the west el - and from the bottom of this tunnel | by been run in on the ledge nearly 100 fe TO- and shows punches of ore all the wa K From the breast of the tunnel cross-cI els nave been run to the right and to the le me Both are still in ledge matter spotted wi