Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-08-20
The Gunsipht Groun of Mines.

Opinions and belief in the great worth
 of the famous Gunsight group have m
 the recent visit of Judge G. W. Baker and
 Professor P. D. Barnhart, received addi-
 tional and positive proof Both gentle
 men after most thorough and prach- cal examination pronounce the mines 10 | be even better than was at first sup
 posed. Before coming here they had | been given to understand that the mines
 were good. but they were m no wlse i prepared to find them as they did, much | better than represented. Professor
 Rarnhart is 8 scientific man, close cal
 culatiug. cool headed and logical, and | together with Judge Baker, would be tbe last man to Over-rate the produc-
 tiyeness of the mines in question. Their
 visit to the mines was made Tn the In- 1 terest of the stockholders who before | making further outlay, which for ma
 chinery, etc. must necessarily be large, l desired an impartial examination made and for that purpose chose the two gen. tlemen named. They, with Col. BIvlns,
 were at the mines for over a week and | took cognlzance of every visible part. | On their return here their report was | made and forwarded and had the effect | of placing unlimited means in the hands of the company for the putting of the mines on first class bullion producing basis They report the formation to be l of most superior character and con slider the future success of the mines | assured. The Baker shaft now down ! about two hundred and sixty feet, has exposed and opened up enough ore to
 run a 40-stamp mill for an indefinite number of years, and it IS but fair to | suppose that the mIne will hold good its | character for a much greater depth. ! Col. Bivins at a low estimate, placed an average value on the ore of about
 thirty-fiTe dollars per ton, but the result | of the investigation has; by numerous assays, raised 1t to double that amount. | The rock from which the assays were made was, by the Professor himself,
 taken from different portions of the
 mine, the two extremes in the quality of ] ore being avoided, and in case either | one was taken alike amount of the other
 was also pulped with it, thus at all times | givingit fair average in value. It was | demonstrated that the ore in the two | hundred fcot level (uorth drift of the | Baker shaft, would average sixty dollars | to the ton. On the one hundred foot | level of the old incline shaft the aver
 age value is in close figures, worth | S43.36 per ton, On the two hundred ! foot level of the same shaft, where the ore breast has face of at least forty | feet, the average assay value across was | found to be SSl.70 and a sample Of ore
 taken from the dump of the old works gave S7495 The ore was found to con- | tain little gold and but a small per l centage in lead. By the almost entire l absence of the latter metal its free mil | ling properties are known. They also
 visited the old Picacho mine and made an average assay of the dump which yielded Sl0056 to the ton. In the | opinion of Professor Barnhart there are not less than fifteen hundred tons of that class of ore on the old dump and probably as much more of less paying value. A mill is to be immediately put up on the Gunsight mines, aud 1t IS said that m less than two months over two
 hundred men will be employed OR that
 group alone. Nor is the Picacho to be
 neglected, as the work of cleaning out and
 retimbering the old shaft IS to be imme-
 diately recommended, and by the com ing fall it will have its reduction works. Under such incentives for going ahead
 there can be no doubt but that whole
 country will boom and properties ID that section more than treble in value. When such men as Prof Barnhart and Judge Baker pronounce the mines of
 Arizona good but few others have any room for doubt.