Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-09-15
WEEKLY MINING. REVIEW.
PIMA CoUNrY.

PIMA COUNTY. After the long and unusually war summer, there are positive indication of more general and extensive work
 the mines of this county than at an time during the past three years.
 The Orion Company.-J. NJ. Kirk patrick. superintendent of the mill an mines O, this company, was in tow during the past week, and from him V learn that the Orion mill will start II one week from this date He has quit large amount of ore on the dumps an at the mill, ready for reduction. w hope to be able to chronicle successful run of the Orion Company.
 The Esperanza.-The Esperanza mll is about completed, but owing to tn delay in getting the water tanks ready Tn time, their water supply is insufficient and the sinking of wells will have to b, reserted to which may dSlay the start ing up of the mill for some time yet.
 Omega Company.-Quite a force O miners have been set to work Tn tht Omega mIne, and as soon as arrange ments are made for a sGpply of coke and the delivery of ore .s1 she shelter it Nill -sta-t ar, aatf S1th promis | ing prospects of long and successful run.
 Other Works.-We are also informed that both the Total Wreck and the Her. mosa mills will start up soon, but We have no positive information to that effect.
 The httle gold mill at Canyon de Gro so We are informed, continues to yield bullion and pay fair profit on the iu- vestment.
 It now seems to be a settled fact that We are to have reduction works at Tue son. Aaron Mason submitted propOsi- tion to the Tucson stockholders of the smelling company, which they accepted, and it believed that NIT. Mason will be here in a day or two to close up the contract. The arrangement contem- plates the building of two thirty-tOn smelters. Sampling works will be erected at once, when the company will begin to buy ore, and will be in a condi- ton to receive and pay for all that may be offered, from 100-pound lots to loo tons. This will be good news to mine oners m southern Arizona, as the need of such works has long been felt.
 FINAL AND bil4A tONNAAE~s
 Howard Company.-This company, says the Enterprise, shipped three bars of bullion during the past wsek, valued at S3, ,236. The mines are looking well and yielding the usual amount Of ore.
 Pioneer.-From the same authority We are informed that the Pionee- Company shipped two bars of bullion Inst week, valued at S2,4S6. Owing to the scarcity of water, both the Howard and Pioneer mills are running on ha!t tme. The past has been the dryest season ever known in Pioneer. and nearly all the wells are dry.
 The Enterprise also understands that the Pinal Consolidated furnace, at Butte will be restarted about the first or tenth of next month. Work will probably be commenced on the Specie Paying mill, at Mineral Hill, about that time, and several other enterprises will be started up. We believe there will be a boom here this fall.
 Ray mine.-This mine continues to keep up its good name. There is large amount of high grade copper ore on the dump, considerable portion of which is native copper. Quite lively camp IS springing up here, and the indications are that it will continue to grow for some time to come.
 Frem the Drill.
 Congress and Gap mines.-These mines exhibit an ore body S20 feet Wlde and 1000 feet long, and IS prospected with 30 holes and cuts, each from to 9 feet deep, all in ore, carrying from , to 4O per cent copper and about S2O m silver. The formation Is slate and lime hme rock with syenite and quartz.
 Star.-This mine has a working shaft of 6 feet deep and 8 crosscut of 16 feet and tunnel of 120 feet, with crosscut of 50 feet There is about 1000 tons of ore on the dumps assaylng from Sl0 to S1O0 per ton, besides some 40 tons of black sulphurets and native silver assay Ing about S300 per ton. Some specimens on the dumps go from Sl5,000 to S20,0O0.
 Mineral Mine.-The discovery tunnel is 9 feet. The ore and formation IS the same as the Ray mine, VIZ: Native cop per, carbonates, glance, oxides and sul- phurests. Below this tunnel IS another of 60 feet, which will reach a depth of 250 feet when 120 feet in the ledge.
 Poor Mans Mine.-This mine has a cut of 80 feet in length and 20 feet in depth and shows a ledge of 10 feet in width and wonderfully rich copper ore, native copper and oxides.
 Keystone Mne.-This mine is develop ed distance of 900 feet and shows an ore body l50 feet in width of rich car bonste and glance. There is shaft of 30 feet in depth, one tunnel and several cross cuts. The ore dump has about 5000 tons.
 From all We can learn, the copper mines in the neighborhood of the Ray, promise to equal any Tn the Territory. Much Of the ore Is nearly pure copper, which may be reduced by concentration at nominal cost.
 MoHAvE COUNTY.
 McCracksn Mine.-W. E. Stronach, superintendent of the McCracken mine and mill, has gone to San Francisco for the purpose of purchasing and shipping out supplles for running the mine and mill belonging to the company. Freight for Signal can now be shipped to Yucca Station on the Atlantic 6 Pacific. Yucca is some forty miles from Signal over good road. Superintendent Stronach has let q contract to two men to sink a well fifty feet deep at a point half way between Signal and Yucca Station, with a view of being able to supply teamsters with an abundance of water.
 Birdie.-An the necessary machinery and outfit for a thirty-ton copper smell ter is now lying at Aubrey Landing on the Colorado. This has been shipped out by Sam Heintzelman < Co.,, and IS to be erected on this mine, though the owners may possibly conclude to put it up at Rawhide. They have a force of men at work on the mine which is look ing better than ever.-Mohave County Miner.
 Cupel-Work IS still progressing on the Cupel mine at Stockton. They are putting on more men every few days.
 Isaac Conkey has returned from Gold Basin and reports everything shut down there. Bad management again. Whole mountain of free milling gold quartz carrying S35 per ton won't payl
 Keystone.-Two Burley drills, air cOmpressors and new hosting works have been ordered from St. Louis, and as soon as they can be put in position the shaft will begin to go down at q lively rate.-Aita.
 Dean.-This mine Is being rspIdlp de- velOped, and as greater depth is attained is steadily improving, both in the quan- tity and quality of the ore.
 Autelope.-A tunnel is being driven in this mine and has shaft 96 feet deep showing, as reports say, one foot of solid l50 oz. ore, besides there are many other handsome prospects in the same county belonging to MT. Woods.
 Tertio.-At the depth of eighteen feet. fifty pound sample of an average of the ore was found to contain S4 ozs. in silver per ton, vein averaging about two feet in width with every indication of ofcontinuance.-Correspondent of the Alta.
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