Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-11-17
FINAL COUNTY.

The Enterprise says: There is more good smelling ore Iu d radius of p miles around asa Grande than could toe con-
 ,umed by forty-ton furnace during She next ten years. And outside of that | section. every district m that county would furnish ore to a shelter at Casa Grande. Such an enterprise would be l of inestimable benefit to our county and God send tO our poor niue own CTS, who have even a fair grade of smelt- ing ore. We thInk this enterprise
 might be secured by a little quiet work and Q small expenditure of moaey.
 On the ElkhOrn river-iu Neb-aska,- a stream neither as wide nor as swift as the GIla river, are water wheels driving machinery that could not be driven b. steam with less than a lOD horse power engine. The necessary fall K obtained by raising the water sIX or eight feet above its usual level by means of brush dams and carrying it to the turbine wheels through a board race not more than lO) yards long. The Glla rIvrr in thls county IS better stream for this purpose than the Elkh0rn, for the req son that # C ntaIus a larger volume of water and has firm banks and rock bottom. The bottom uf the Ei6noru river is quick saud and it's banks a soft, crumhllng sOIl 4 perm ineut dam cOuli be established here much cheaper han on the former stream and the total cost uf a water power here would be small m comparison with the cost of steam machinery having the same driv- ing capacity, to say nothing Oi the dIf- ference in the cost of running and main taining them. This item IS particularly important nere, owing to the great cost of fuel By putting up 4O-stHmp mill near MacAyOy's place, uu ;he Glia, and running it by water power, all the low grade free milling ores of Mineral Hill could be worked at a handsome profit, and it would pay some enterprising cap italist to investigate this ID ttter, with a view to erecting custom works. Such an enterprise, properly managed could not possibly fail There would be no question about securing all the milling ore needed. There are vast quantities o- 1t already in sight in the Mineral Hill district. 4 company could secure con- tracts in advance for all the ore 4O- stamp 10 II could cousume.-IbIt. YAvAPA COUNTY.
 The Kimball mine, on Lynx Creek, owned by G. ". Curtis and others, Is showing up beyond all expectations of it's owners. They have their shaft down now to a depth f 100 feet aud are drift ing on this level. Forty feet of drift has been run on one side of the shaft, and -hirty-five on the other. The ore k ] 70 d. f,,.-l. ,-r.1a Fraa r,eTlffrfr rrold ore. This IS about the second mine ln the Territory which has gone to this depth without having the ore turn tO sulphurets. The owners propose to continue drifting 100 feet each way on this level and then continue the shaft down to 8 depth of 200 feet, by which 1t is expected.the mine will show up sufficiently to justify putting in a mill | This will require until about the lst Of l February They have about S3jOOO of ore on the dump now.-Miner.
 A rumor Is current that the Trainor mill will be again put in operation shortly.
 M-. R. W. c. Warrington, identified | for the past four years with Groom creeS mines. has now on he road from San Francisco a Frue NanniDg, which ! will be operated in connection with the ] old Senator mill. recently purchased by Mr Warrington, and exclusively, as We ! understand, on cus'om ores. He Is an ! able and honest mill man, and We ad- | vise miners having concentrating ores ID bis vicinity tO give him trial. We 1 think that this, the only custom mill in ] this section ot the country, should be ] hberally supported.
 Iris sad that some eastern capitalist,
 contemplating the establishment of
 general reduction work, have been cor
 responding with Prescott metallurgists,
 making inquiry as Co the character and
 abundance of the ores hereRbouts.
 We hear good reports daily of the kimban mine owned by George W. Cur. fis and othe.s. There is saId to be a
 body of ore now in sight above the loo.
 foot level. now beng run, that would
 pay for the erection of a good smelteI
 and leave theowners with good fortune
 to continue the explorations so well be-
 gun.
 The Frue concentration, m operation
 at Towels, Is said to be almost perfect
 iu its workings, saving high Der cent
 age of mineral So satisfactory has 1t.
 workings been that the company art
 about 70 place a second machine n posi-
 tioD. The Frue seems Co be an excellent
 appliance for the concentration of tho
 sulphuret ores of this section, and ",
 believe that if erected in cOnnectioniwitl
 many of the idle batteries in the olC
 districts 1t would revolutionize mining hereabOuts.