Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-12-10
TEMPORAL GULCH.
Opening Up of the Bragg and Mansfield
 Group of Mines.

) nucleus TOT great camp tuot hAAA SA'e } employment to thousands Of busy hands is that known as the Bragg and Mans
 field group, situated on Temporal Gulch, in the WrightsOn district, and on the western slope of the Santa hlta . mountains, of late owned by Bragg and Mansfield, but now owned by Phlla- delphIa company of which Col B. +.
 Bivins and Judge Baker are the &C., credited heads.
 The group consists of eIght separate . claims, viz: The Surprise, Mansfield, Bragg, Oriental, Pacific, Star and Lillian, of which the Bragg and Mans field are the most prominent because of
 their developments which, on the latter mine, has been carried to the depth of fifty feet. On the others little else than the assessment work for the present year has been done. But wherever an ex-
 cavatlon has been made either by cut
 shaft or drift the same fact has been demonstrated that underneath lies vast
 bodies of valuable ore.
 On the Mansfield mine which IS the most central of the group the greatest
 amount of work has been done, 1t being
 the belief of the owners that one good
 developed mine was of more practical
 value than a dozen whose wealth was
 indicated only by surface croppngs.
 Consequently when they had money to
 expend they used 1t in deepening the
 shaft on the mine named. On the sur
 face the vein measured but two and a
 half feet; at tine bottom of the fifty-fOot
 shaft 1t has widened between walls, to fifteen feet of solid mineral with the
 hanging wall still throwing away from
 the almost perpendicular foot. From
 top to bottom the assay value of the
 ores have yielded the same results, with
 wonderful regularity. When fifty feet down three average assays, each one
 catting across five feet gave a return of
 S23. .93. The greatest variation among the different assays male amounted to 1 but Sl.63. By some the ore Is called rebellous, inasmuch as 1t contains iron,
 while the percentage of gold Is but | light. Others again, among them
 Professor Barnhart, who as a competent
 mineralogist and judge of ores | acknowledges no superior, they are pronounced in the main to be free | milling. However that may be the ore | ID that one mine alone will justify the | erection of machinery suitable to the
 working of its character or class of ores. On the Surprise claim the assessment work only has been done, the depth of the deepest shaft being but nine feet
 with a cross cut to either wall which ex- ! posed eleven feet Of the same quality of ! ore as that encountered on the Bragg. adjoining, which opened out in its shaft of ten feet with equal strength. They together with the Mansfield and Orien-
 tai mines, are abutting claims on the
 same ledge.
 The Star mine IS an extension of the
 Rupert owned by Messrs. Lyon < | Hughes. The vein is smaller than the 1 ones mentioned, but equally as compact and of much higher grade. On the | Rupert there are several development 1 shafts, one of which Is eighty feet deep, anu from which ore has been taken that mIlled III the nelghDOrhO0d of three | hundred dollars to tine ton. On the RU- i pert, as on the Star and Pacific, the lat- ! ter IS an extension of the Star on the ] Rupert lead, the vein matter IS several 1 feet ID thickness, mlnerailZed through ont, but the rich or Day streak varies in l thickness from twelve to tveuty-eIght
 inches. The Pacific is simply opened by len foot cut showing the character Of the ore and tine width Of the vein. Another known as the B!llian lies on 8 ledge running para,ie! with the Mans field and Is now being worked. It has a
 large body uf fine looking quartz proba-
 ply five feet in width carrying silver and gold iH paying quantities. The mines spoken ot are situated on tine west side
 of Temporal Gulch, while the Charhe and Oriental le over and against the
 eastern bank. The Oriental is, IL fact,
 but an eastern extension oi inc Bragg
 and the Charlie an eastern extension
 of the Lillian. On the Oriental shaft
 ls now being sunk that promises fair to
 uncover body of ore equal to that in
 the Mansfield, Bragg, or Surprise
 mines on that famous lead, any
 ported to have said, would justify the
 putting up of capacious reduction
 works.
 For tLc past several years they have
 been owned and worked by Mcssrs.
 Mansfield and Bragg, who on those
 mines, 1t may be said, they pinned their
 eternal hope to the abandonment of all
 others. They were the owners of some
 sixty odd claims located in the different
 mountains of Tombstone, Catalinas. Huachucas and Patagonias, many of which possessed real merit and have since been relocated and successfully
 worked by others; but Bragg and
 Mansfield stood steadily by the Tem- rOral Gulch. The ore Was there, 1T not. as a rule, Of a high grade. 1t was more than cOunteTbalanced by it's massive meas that broadened out with every deepening foot.
 An offer Of g. 900 for the entire group !. was made and refused, as were over ! lures by others, whose figures did nos l core spond with the ideas of the owner | but finally the group has, as stated | through Judge Baker and Col. Bivins | passed to the control of the Gunsight' | company, who are at present doing this | years asses sment work on tho various l claims.
 In the spring, 1t is understood, large force of men wIil be put to work and | the mines developed on a scale worthy of their immense size, and reduction works suitable to the character of the l ore will be put up. No sectlon or part of the country Is better fitted for a great camp than Is that bordering on and lying adjacent to Temporal Gulch, where all the requisites for the success ful operations of strong and enter prlslng company are to be found. or wood there IS no end, and in the gulch water at all seasons Of the year can be hal. In a direct line from the Casa Blanca depot, on the Atchison and To- peka railroad, it Is but three miles and through country over which a road is made with great ease, the elevation for the entire distance not being more than B few hundred feet, SO that the matter . of transportation either way is of small [ import.
 Although the price paid for the mines | Is not at present known, It Is but far 10 I suppose that the consideration IS no { small sum. The country at large is to ( be congratulated that the group is so { son to be opened up, and the mines in [ that section made productive. A gen. | sral boom Of mines along the entire I .uich may soon be looked for. C
 NIT. F. A. Stevens, of Globe City, now I visiting in Tucson, reports business ' booming throughout the Globe district. The Old Dominion Copper Company has [ wo thirty-ton smelters in constant op- 'ratlOn, which combined yield from fif- q cen to sixteen tons of copper bullion [ per day. The Buffalo smelter and the ' Long Island smelter, each of thirty tons ' are also working steadily. as is V .lso the Pioneer quartz mill. winch f hipped its first five bars of silver bull [ ion yesterday. The South Pioneer a mill, now being built, will he put to f york as soon as finished Big copper c discoveries are being made almost daily. f The town Is full of strangers, and is i apidly building up. IL is estimated 5 hat more freight enters Globe than any n wo towns in the Territory A toll road < ? being opened between Globe City and i, 'loneer camp, and will be completed i, bout the middle of January coming. c The road from Globe to Wilcox is lined s Fith teams, those going to the district l.