Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-04-01
Fine PrOnerties.

Mir. Royal A. Johnson, chief clerk in the office of the United States Sur veyOr-Gene-al i1 this city, has a fine collection of specimens from the South Pioneer and Howard mines in Gila county, in which his father, Mir. Hiram A. Johnson, of New York, IS largely in- terested. Mr. Johnson has also kindly furnished data for the following:
 The Howard shaft E down BIO feet with vein averaging four feet wide of good milling ore. This vein carries from a depth of 220 feet down rich pay streak from three to fifteen inches m width, carrying horn silver. black sul- phurets and maleable silver in great quantities, which average from ten as- says S9,713 per ton.
 The South Pioneer IS 6JO feet from the Howard. It has a shaft 900 feet deep, and shows largely in native silver. The ledge Is four feet and four inches wlde and carries an exceedingly rich pay streak from thirteen to twenty inch es wIde. The average assays across the ledge give S259 5l in silver.
 This mine and the Howard belong tO the same parties, Messrs. Dan F. Eells, President of the Commercial National Bank of Cleveland, Ohio, Hiram A. John- son, of New York, and George F. Hutch inson, of Cleveland.
 The company has a saw mill, hoisting works, quartz mill which cost S96,00O, built by Rankin, BraytOn & Co.,, San Francisco, of which there may be said parenthetically, that a Representative of PIttsburg firm competing with the San Francisco builders, after having exam ined this mlll, declared It to be the best he had ever seen. It has ten stamps, with capacity for twenty.
 Two hundred and forty-six men are employed on the Pioneer, and there are nov over twelve hundred tons Of ore on the dump, which must be increased to three thousand tons before the stamps will be permitted to drop, winch will be about a month hence. The mill is pro vided with all manner of appliances to reduce every quality of ore however re- belliOus.
 The gentlemen comprising these two companies held meeting in Cleveland about two weeks ago, and entered into an arrangement to consolidate the two companies and work the mines together, in winch event the two shafts will be connected with levels. The papers are now being prepared in New York and at a meeting on the 7th of April, proximo the consolidation will undoubtedly be- perfected, and the mill at once set in motion.
 Messrs. Johnson and Hutchinson are the organizers of the Mowry Mining Company, who own the Blk mine, an extension Of the Silver King on the west. The works on this claim have ab- sOrbed over S52,OOO in cash, and 1t has the deepest shaft Of any mine in Arizo- ua, 70 feet. The great ore chamber in the Silver King Is but one hundred and fifty feet from the east end of the Blk claim, with pitch that will necessItate sinking the shaft of the latter to nearly a thousand feet when a northerly drift Of less than one hundred feet will pene- trate the rich treasures that every cir cumstance indicates must exist at that point, and unlesS-a very improbable speculation 1t is-the Silver King ore body, already shown to be permanent and of great length, suddenly breaks near the line of the two mines. Work on this mine is being pushed as rapidly as 1t is possible to do in such character of rock, and fully two feet per day is the rate of progress now making: The cal culations comprehend fully five months more work, at this rate, but the owners feel stf3sfed that the developments will justify such an expenditure, and that they will by that time encounter an ore body that will be the wonder of the world.