Mohave County miner., 1882-12-31
PAYMASTER MINE.

l A4elAAlS VI lAAO
 PAYMASTER MINE.
 This claim was relocated to obtain a better
 title to the property, co the 1st of January
 1881, by B. H. Spear and J. P. Layne, but
 the mine has been worked, of and on, for
 more than ten years. The ledge shows a
 true Assure vein fully four feet wide in
 granite, the hanging wall being all granite,
 and the foot wall granite and porphyry,
 the trend of the ledge being northwest and southeast. The pay streak averages all of | two feet and a half of solid ore worth from | S75 to S200 per ton. The main shaft on
 this mine IS over 40 feet deep, but work
 has had to be discontinued on 1t for a year
 past on account of water, it being impossi-
 bic to hoist the water out by means of the whip now in use fast enough to do any work
 in sinking At the 100 foot level drifts
 have been started both ways, and we des-
 cended into the mine for the purpose of ex. amining the ore body in the drifts and in the bottom of the shaft, but on going down the ladder till we reached the water, we found 1t to be within eighteen inches of the top of the drifts, and we came to the con- clusion that we had not lost any ore body in that mine and made the best of our way to the surface again. The ground on both sides of the shaft down to the 100 foot level has been pretty we'll stopped out, which may be taken as pretty good sign of the value of the ore; for heretofore i'll this district ore has had to be worth over $125 to the ton to be worth taking out. We were informed inches of solid ore in the bottom of the shaft, assaying about $125 in silver and SIS ill gold to the ton, but as 1t is now covered with forty-fve feet of water we had no de- sire to dive down and verify his statement. This mine has been worked since 1872 and probably the best way to get at the real value of the ore is from the pulp assays of
 ts that have been sold to the mill here Six years ago John Barry and J. P. Layne leaaed the mine and took out thirty-eight 1 tons Of ore which milled at the Mineral | Park Mill one hundred and forty-fve dol | lars to the ton. Two years ago four Cor nish miners leased the mine and took out | one hundred and twenty tons of ore, sixty | tons Of which milled one hundred and six ty-fve dollars in silver and fifty tons went one hundred and twenty-five dollars in sill CT besides carrying from twelve to eighteen dollars in gold. These figures are from the mill assays and are the same on which the orc was paid for by Breon 6 Spear, and of course are absolutely correct and show the true yalue of the ore. Various other lots have been milled from this mine, but the pulp assays varied but little from those gwen above. There is now on the dump about thirty tons of ore, which with a littl sorting will probably go one hundred dol lars to the ton and which Is for sale. There is no question but that the Paymaster is a valuable property, but owing to the manner in which 1t has been worked and the large amount of water to contend against, it will require a considerable expenditure of money and d large amount of dead work before it ,an be made to pay we'll. With double shaft and good steam hoist ing works, the water could be easily ron .rolled, and if properly and economically worked the mine could very soon be made one of the best paying properties in the Territory. The first extension of this mine on the northwest is owned by J. P. Layne md E. L. Burdick. and is called by them ,na