Mohave County miner., 1882-12-10
THE ALPHA MINE.

day of June last. The claim lies on the
 hill just above Layne's Spring and Is only a
 few hundred feet from the Cincinnati,
 Miners Hope and Silver Monster mines.
 Commencing on the top of the ground the
 pay streak being about F inches wide of
 free chloride and carbonate ore assaying
 over S1OO to the ton, shaft about four
 feet by six was sunk on the ledge, and for
 the first twenty feet the pay streak grad
 uallv widened out to IS inches, after which
 it suddenly widened out to three feet until
 a depth of 5S feet was obtained at which
 depth the pay streak had widened out to
 five feet and an average sample across the
 ledge was taken which assayed $194 in
 silver and about $2O in gold. But from that
 point down to the bottom the ore body has
 maintained steady width of from three
 and half to four feet.
 Having heard considerable about the richness of this claim we paid visit to 1t in company with friend last Wednesday.
 Descending into the shaft now down over 70 feet we found the width between the foot
 wall and the hanging wall to be nearly four feet and the intervening space to be entirely filled by the ore body. In fact there has been no waste or barren ledge matter taken from the shaft for the last twenty feet except an occasional small kid ney containing a few pounds. The ore body exhibits a wonderful variety of min eral and consists of heavy iron ore mixed in with punches of galena, copper, suIphurets and carbonates. Assays from samples of the black sulphuret ore have gone as high as $6100 to the ton and never under $500.
 Ascending to the surface we found on the dump pile of about thirty tons of chloride and carbonate ore, the product of he first 40 feet of the shaft, at which point the character of the ore changed entirely. This pile of ore has never been sorted but is just as it came from the mine and has just been carefully sampled by ". J, Chamberlain, of the sampling works at Kingman, who visited the claim for the purpose and took a very thorough and careful sample of it, the result of whigh showed it to contain an average of 109 ounces of silver to the ton and from $15 to $6O in gold. This pile of ore is already sold to Chamberlain & O., who have agreed to buy all the ore as fast as taken from the mine. In another place to the right of the shaft we found pile of sulphuret ore, 80 called, though it contains every thing brought to the surface since the ore gave out. This pile of ore has lIor yet been sampled but 8 great many assays have been made from it ranging from $142 to $2300 and is estimated by the owners to be worth two hundred and fifty or three hundred dollars to the' ton. Dur ing the past two days they have come across 6 streak of fine grained galena ore averaging from to6 inches, which has not yet been 6ssayed, but which must contain at least 40 per eeut. lead.
 The ledge runs northeast and southwest and for tho fret zn feet down dips at an angle of about 350. from thence to the bot tom at about 45". It is the intention of owners to sink the shaft 100 feet deep and then drift both ways and to put all the men they can work to advantage on the mine
 Miners who have seen this claim and are familiar with the Contention mine at Tombstone, claim that this ledge looks bet ter than the Contention did at the same 1epth. We have on exhibition at our office specimens of every kind of ore from ,his mine, some of them showing horn silver, bromide and blsck sulphurets. Also specimen of the copper ore, which we shall be pleased to show to anyone inter { 'sted. These are not picked specimens but imply brought ill to show the general aver lge of the ore. Most of them being taken | rom the mine ill our presence.
 If this prospect, for it is nothing but 1! prospect as yet, was in any other mining | district outside of Northern Arizona it ! would be worth fortune to it's owners, and ! the mine only holds ort as well as it looks | low ii is bound to attract the attention of | capitalists and eventually sell for large mount, if the present owners wish to sell, i which is a matter we did not inquire into. l
 We are informed by parties recently from | Utah and Southern Arizona, that ! be attention of the mining world is now | entered on Northern Arizona and Mohave l ounty ill particular and that mining men ! II over the country are only waiting for | he railroad to be finished to the Colorado ! o come here and invest their capital and ] levelop our mines. If any of these mining i nen or capitalists want to see a good pros ! 'ect and a fine body of ore, and rich ore at 1 hat, we shall be glad to show them the Alpha claim as Mohave county prospect | lole and hundred others as good or better one is not enough.