The Arizona sentinel., 1883-04-28


 inexperienced eye it would seem that these was enough ore in the Clip mine to run their mill night and day for the next ten years. From the mine to the mill is a distance of about seven miles. Here we found another scene of hustle and activity. The mill has ten stamps, crushing the ore wet. It is under the personal supervision of MT. Hubbard, to whom also we owe an apology for surprisingly ignorant lot of questions. The teams of the c. b. M. & s. Co. are hauling the ore from the mine to the mill, which latter is getting away with about fifteen tons daily. As the machinery is new. and most of the hands inexperienced the work is at present necessarily slow. When everything becomes settled, and the machinery gets in perfect running order, it is es- timated that the mill will work about tweDty-four tons of ore per day. ca Sunday morning the previous weeks work was melted into bars, and the result was over two hundren pounds of fine sil- yer bullion. This output will be increased with the better work ing of the mill, and we many look for a long and successful run from this property. The Clip Mining Company has used rare good sense in the develop ment of the mine and the cons tructiOn of the mill. Nothing of a superficial nature has been done. The work at the mine has been carried on economically and to good purpose. The mill has been constructed on the same principle. but while nothing un- necessary has been put mp, the apparatus needed was not furnl> shed stingily. Already the en- terprise is a success, and time alone will determine its perma- nenoy.
 At Norton's Landing, under the direction of MT. Livingstone, the smelter of the Black Rock and Pacific Company is fast ap- preaching completion. The build- ing inclosing these works is made of brick masonry. The bricks were burned at the Land ing, and are purely a home pro- duction. The machinery is all throughly first, class, and has that solid look, which gives one the idea that the institution is to be permanent one. The rock breakers were started on the fifteenth of this Inonnth, and have crushed a large lot of ore in readiness for the smelter. Ore is being hauled to the furnace at a rapid rate. Three large teams are now delivering iron ore at the Landing, and the Company offers extra inducements for ga- lena. Everything needed is being furnished with lavish hand, and from all indications the bullion output from the Black Rock mine will be only limited by the capacity of the furnace. The works will be com- pleted, and operations cOmmen- ced by the first of May. IL is es. timated that the furnace will get away with about forty tons of ore per day. In MT. Livingstone the company has evidently made an excellent choice. He is thor oughly familiar with his work. and, best of all, has heretofore been eminently successful.
 At the Black Rock mine, the work is steadily progressing. The already immense ore dump is receiving large additions daily, and is constantly increasing, not withstanding the quantity being Lauled to the smelter. Mir. A Lazwell is still in charge of the workings, and conducts his de- partmeut with pronounced abi- lity. MT. J. c. McDougal does | the assaying as usual; but the | cares of life, and close application to business, seem to be wearing | upon his unusually delica @ frame. His weight now is not ouo.O1n Dnor f,IoD, ho dooS