Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-12-15
cocHIsR COUNTY.

Contenton.-The pumping machinery IS now completed and ready to start up the exact time of starting we are not at liberty to state, the managers fearing a large tbrong of visitors at the mine | during the day if it be known. We violate noconfdence, however, in stating that it will not be later than Wednes- day next.
 Grand Central.--The main shaft down 30 feet below the water level, will not start pumping until the Contention shaft has reached the same depth, which will be in about ten days. After this | both mines will work in sympathy with each other, 1t belng necessary that both ! keep the same level. In the stOpes every thing IS progressing as usual. No new | developments have been made lately. | The shipment of the usual quantity of ore to the mill IS kept up.
 Emersld.-A new whim k being put up on this mine, the depth being now too great to hoist with wIndlass. At present the deepest shaft Is down tO depth of 260 feet. Only fifteen men are now employed, but after the erection of the new hoist the owners, Nessrs. Leach X Gage. intend to work q much larger force.
 Grand Dipper-The present depth of this mine is 1GO feet, but sinking IS wig | orously prosecuted Work SO far done has been crowned with success, and many ton of good ore has been pro- .Iv FF property soon developing into yerIta- ble bonanza.
 State of Maine has a shaft down 800 feet. To depth of 2DO feet the shaft was accompanied by vein of ore a-- saying as high as 2JO ounces of silver to the ton. Since that depth was passed the ore body has decreased. The own CTS, being men of large experience ID mining, continued sinking, following a small, sometimes hardly visible, seam of ore, until after working nearly loo feet in this manner, their perseverance was crowned with success. To-day the mine bids fair to soon step into its former pO- sition as an ore producer.
 Silver Thread.-This Is fractional claim owned by John R Farrell and Oth-
 
 While doing this years assessment work a rich streak of ore was struck. The extent of the same can as yet not be as- certained, but taking the favorable lOca- ton ol the claim and the fact that all the ore extracted IS being sacked and shipped into consideration, no little i'm portance may be attached to this new find.
 Luck Sure.-The winding and twist ing of the ore body, and the consider able depth attained render the whim imperative, and in consequence super Intendent Earle has let a contract of sufficient work to Htraighten the shaft. In the bottom the ore IS as rich and plentiful as ever, aud when the shaft is in proper shape 1t IS intended to put mp a steam host and develop the mine. The property has paid it's own way and netted its owners the neat sum of S5.00O In the past six months.
 Three Brothers.-Mr Welsh i' still working this mine upderG lease. AL though the ore body IS a small one 1t IS of so high grade in silver that i: will remunerate him for all his work ex- pended.
 Randolph.-This mine has been a steady producer of ore during the whole of this year, and bids fair to cOntiI ue to do the same during the coming year Water having been encountered in the lower levels, work must limit itself to the upper levels, which are a long ways from being worked out Epitaph.