Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-07-29
THE JESSIE BENTON CONSOL-
 zDATED.
A Trip to She COmpany's Mines
 and Nsill.

Heads mining district last week and for three days enjoyed the splendid hospital i ty of Superintendent w. H. Merritt, of the Jessie Benton Consolidated As a matter of course our natural inquisitive ness, developed and enlarged by years of reportorial work, led us to an investiga 1 ton of the mines of the camp and other matters we fancied would be of interest to the fifty million readers of the ENTER PRISE. Geographically
 THE OWL HEADS DISTRICT
 is dissimilar to any we ever saw. It lies on slightly undulating mesa, trending north from the base of the Tortillta 1 Mountains and we experienced no diff culty in driving over any portion of the claims in two horse wagon. The general formation is granite and porphyry and the lodges, or at least a majority of them, run east and west parallel with the Tortil- lta range, and though cropping but slightly are clearly defined and easily traced. They pitch south toward the mountains at an angle of from thirty to fifty degrees and are broken somewhat by dikes that have been interjected at different periods, but straighten up ss they go down. The mountains lying to the south are slate lying on granite base and show no min eral except few traces of copper. The district takes its name from five small ! Il
 To the unpoetic observer they resemble only the innumerable and fantastically fashioned columns of stone with which nature has embellished the foot hills and and mountains of Arizona, but the fan
 ciful aborigines saw in them a resem
 blance to the head of the bird of wisdom, and hence gave them the name of Chew toot-a-maw (Owls Heads). The first mine We explored was
 THE JESSIE BENTON.
 We entered an enclined shaft, which had been driven down on the porphyry foot wall near the west end of the claim, we proceeded to depth of fifty feet, noting as we descended an eight-inch streak of free milling chloride ore lying on the foot wall. Fifty feet from the surface we entered level driven west on
 the foot wall to distance of forty feet showing all the way the pay streak we
 had observed in coming down the shaft.
 At some points in this drift the pay
 streak widens out to ten and twelve
 inches. Retracing our steps to the face
 of the level, we entered another one di-
 rectly opposite and extending east sixty
 feet Here we found the same pay streak
 showing the entire length of the drift,
 except at one point where the dike had forced it out. Returning to the face of
 the drift we descended the shaft to the
 bottom,-a distance of 75 feet from the
 surface, e,-and found continuation of the pay ore The hanging wall IS granite
 and the width of the vein matter IS
 several feet. Returning from this point to the surface We examined the
 dump and found about forty tons of ore, the min average of which is over three hundred dollars per ton. Just east of,this shaft is an open cut extending along the
 ledge. It is 20 feet long, six feet wide
 and 12 feet deep, and has yielded about , thirty tons of ore, as good in grade and the same in character as that on the dump
 at tho shaft Just west of the shaft Is an r opon cut on the ledge, 90 feet long, F f deep and about four feet wide. From + this large quantity of rich chloride orc = has been extracted. Near the center of @ the claim is an enclined shaft running r down on the foot wall to depth of about l. seventy feet and cross-cut at depth oi g about sixty feet. It shows greater n breadth of vein matter than the west n shaft and the ore occurs in punches scat Is tered through the vein. Some of the ort It from this shaft has been shipped but 't considerable amount of high grade rocl d remains on the dump. On the east enC n of the claim another enclined shaft zoe D. down on the foot wall to a depth of eight. S- | AOob1 DuO NC OiN NDO OA l'4clC IL O"Ali5 OO is lack of time It shows some fine ore ol Z. the dump, but most of the metal takel
 out at this point has been shipped an'
 sold for something over $500 per ton
 Besides the developments mentioned ther ;a are numerous open cuts along the surfac
 of the ledge and all show ore The mex
 best property belonding to the company =. so far as could be judged by the meagr
 developments is
 'o THE DESERT,
 lying about three miles west of the Ben JIG ton. Here we found an enclined shaft feet deep, passing down between the wall LII and showing a pay streak from two 'l- two and half feet wide. Like those { t- the Benton the walls are porphyry an UT granite. The dump shows about fort In tons of high grade ore. The ledge ha IL been cut into at several other points an S- shows good mineral in each opening to From this claim we drove to
 THE EAGLE ,s property lying about half way betwee :. the Benton and Desert and owned by tn d same company. It is gold lead, in gral ob ite, and has been prospected to dept To of p feet by an enclined shaft in whic ,w there is twelve inch pay streak assa, #. ing enc hundred dollars in gold to u to ton and carrying some silver. There al or 12 tons of ore on the dump. The con r pany own several other properties but W 4 did not have time to examine then