Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-02-19
REsURRECTED RICHES
Ths Famozs Group of sa,erO Mines % be Again Worked Immense Ore Bodies Of Wonderful Value Awakening From a Sleep Of Three Euni-ed YearE.


 years of life and death the Salero mines,
 famous in chronicle and tale, are about to be reopened and the wealth that once frieghted the caracals of grasping Spain
 or flowed to the capacious coffers Of the church, whose fathers taught the benight- ed savage the mercies of crucifxion that
 he more contentedly might slave and
 toil and satisfy their greed for gold, will
 ere long be made to swell the rivulet
 to the brook and open its unnumbered
 millions long hidden in the secret crypts,
 to the mighty sesame of the miners
 searching pick. Its caves no longer
 guarded by the baleful fires of Arizona's
 retarding curse will gleam under the
 flash of the electric light and be worked m peace.
 A group of27 mines, among them some
 of the most famous, lying in parallel and
 intersecting lodges have passed to the
 hands of a company composed of some of the most wealthy, influential and en- terprising men of the city of New York, who will without delay begin work upon a scale beftting the envied reputation of the old Salero and Tumacacora treasure troves, spoken of in legend and chroni- cle as without a worlds parallel and for whose acquisition men died and their bones whitened in the sun. No where on the earth's surface can such a group ing of mineral wealth be found, close and compact as by special design the leads clear, defined and regular, gird the isolated hill which rising from the valley for thousand feet belted and scanned with ore, and near which stands the old Mission desolate, ruined and dead, land mark for the years agone and whose floor and walls wacked and dug in the vain hope of uneauhIng secret stores. or the 2 mines m question I3 of the number have had enough work done to meet the re- quirements of the law for the granting of patents, m addition 10 the work done at different intervals during the past 800 years. Many of their old names have been forgotten, so that by mere modern appellations they are now best known. First on the line of paral lels Is the old Tumacacora, now known as the Lost Mine and about whose identity speculation has long been rife. The legends of its marvellous wealth whetted the appetite of many a man to his death, but it certainly is soon to be, by a cleaning out of its old hooks revealed and the contents of the book for generations sealed, will be known to all.
 The Eureka on the same ledge, once worked under different name has on surface measurement. an ore body of thirty-five feet m thickness, and along which, with an intervening space of ten feet, two tunnels have been run for a distance of about BIO feet, and the five seperate shafts sunk at intervals along its course, vary from twenty to fifty feet in depth, and the whole body averages an assay between $40 and $500 per ton. On the same lead is another location known as the Last Resort. Its shaft of ten feet showing up the same quality of ore as the one last named. Beginning on the second parallel comes the Wide West with it's aggregating thirty-four feet of shafts with various tunnels and cuts in and across the five foot vein whose lowest average value is said to be not less than S200 per ton, particular portions of it being valued at four times that sum. Most of the work is new and there are about fifty tons of choice ore on the dumps. The Helen and the Ro- meo follow as named The latter at one time has been extensively worked, as its halffilled shafts, tunnels and cuts, abund- antly proves. The ledge is remarkable for its immense width of forty feet, and some of its ores, almost beyond belief are worth about s22OOO to the ton, but the general run IS from S60 to SlSO0O. And now the old Salero with its 300 foot shaft, it's cavernous mouth of nearly fifty feet in diameter and its immense ore dumps bespeaks the activity and the labor done some three hundred years agone. The old shaft now full to within about eighty feet of the surface has de- ned the best energies of mary a deter mned man for its reopening. Wright son and others, though failing, leh be- hInd them the work of their toll, and their graves mark the resting place of their ambition. The last ore taken from the mine is recorded to have yielded fully S7oO per ton, and the second class or refuse ores now stacked upon the the dumps are said to average S2oo as they lay. The Salero King, ledge of the same nature joins it on the right and formsthemterveningclaim betweentheold Salero and the Lucifer, the latter, mine from which, because ofits compact body of five feet of chlondes, much Is expected. lt was formerly worked by Wrishtson, who was apparently obliged to desist because of the flow of water which now fills the different shafts. On the fourth parallel ledge are located the ]. Sylvie, Happy Thought and the Hoo Doc claims. 4 five-foot vein of great merits as the ore on general average is es- timated io be worth about SI65 to the ton. ! On the nfth parallel are the Emma, Lucky and PInafore. The assessment ! work Is done on all. The ledge is about four feet, well defined and assays about l $40 10 the ton. The Red Cloud. Miners | Mine, Hardscrabble, Duck Return, l Mofat, Slip, Out Law, Sergeant and | Pearl, are all good claims that will well l pay for development The Red Cloud l and Miners Mine have been the mos, | worked. The former has a shaft of sixty | eight feet and the latter one of forty-hve | feet deep. The ledge shows the same | in both, being about five feet in width l carrying chloride, petanque and native l silver all through, worth about ST. | per ton. The actual width Of the vein is | not known as the hanging wall has not | been reached. The Pearl IS an m- l mense ledge of low grade quartz, pro- ably 100 feet in width, but is more than double valuable because of an unfallins spring of good water which breaks pure