Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-02-11
TEE GuNSIGHT.
Progress of Developments in the Coming
 BulIiou Producar

] bclllon Producer.
 Possibly within the present month the
 great Gunsight mine iu the Myers dis
 trict will in part reimburse its fortunate
 owners for the S2OO,OOO expended in per.
 fecting arrangements for the putting Of
 the group on bullion producing. divi-
 dendpaying basis.
 The necessary buildings are Up. tae
 machinery Is on the groand, the engine
 boilers and the major portion o' the
 mill machinery Is in place, and more
 than 6,OO0 tons of ore are stacked and ia
 readiness for convention into coin wheu the cesseless grinding shall begin.
 The main working or Baker shaft, O.
 which 90 much has been heard. Is now
 down 340 feet. For the first 75 feet tt | was run down in three compartments.
 but at that depgh one was dropped and | the two others carried On. At a further depth Of 2jO feet water will bs sncoun- | tered, tO winch point the comuany pur- pose reaching without loss of time. if | possible. On striking water the neces-
 
 | pense of piping 1t two miles, as at pres- ent. will be avoided.
 The constantly diverging walls of the Gunslght vein, now twenty-eight feet apart, have body of unbroken high grade ore packed solIdly between them. The point of fracture, or what K known ss surface disturbances, terminate at depth Of 3l5 feet where the rock in place begins and which manifestly is of more superior grade than any previously en- cOuntered.
 A known fault of the Gunsight ores was their slightly rebelllous character. sn admit ed detriment, but one that was moro than counterbalanced by their massivensss. In the rock in place, the lead has entirely disappeared and free milling ores extend from wall Co wall When 6 depth of 350 feet has been at tained, station will be blasted out and drifts run either way, along the course ofithe vein, preparatory to stoping out and ascertainlDg at what poInt the con nection between the Silver Girt and the Gunsight lodges is made.
 The Silver Girt because of its bold ness and remarkable strength, had at Its supposed conjunction with the Gun sight, been credited with its absOrbtion to the utter extinction Of the latter Now. however, the case is believed to be otherwise and that the Gunsight with its twenty-eight feet, has either absorbed its lesser but more positive appearing neighbOr, or that the pitch Of the Silver GIrt has changed from a low angle to a perpendicular. The latter l IS believed, in all probabilities tO be the l case.
 On the 200 foot level Of the Silver 1 Girt, proper, the Burleigh with its thre- l sets or drlls, advances at the rate of l seven feet per day, in the direction ot | the Baker shaft, which without the | change In course spoken of, wIIl be tap | ped, at the present rate of working. on | or about the first of tho month comiar. ! Every pound Of ore taken ont of a four | and halffOOt breast Is mlilabls and wiil | average sll the way from thirty dollars | up. The figure here given beIny minimum seldom reached.
 The working force Of the company, at this time, Is slXty-three men, the greater portion of whOme are employed under ground. It IS hardly probable that there will be any necessity for increasing the force of men when the mill with its eighty to one hundred tons capacity per day, IS ID constant operation, inasmuch as the ore ID readiness for stoping IS, placing it at low es,i- mate. not less than 2O0O00 tons, every ton of which wIll yield handsome lv. The machinery was furnished by Morris. Trasker < Co. of Philadelphia. The process for reducing ore is m lieu of stamps, a Thompson pulyerizer' built by the firm named. who gave a written guarantee binding themselves to forfeit all claims for payment, iu case ef its failure tO do the work claimed.
 The company therefore practically as- sume all risks even to that of freighting, which on an aggregate amounted to $l5,- DO, two-thirds of which was paid to the different railroad companies over whose lines the machinery passed.
 It Is now less than three years since Col Bivins first obtained control of that group of mines. Recognizing their value le began their development, a cI- yantic task that lay beyond he average grasp Of men, put hIs rare judgment. executive and business qualifications not snly enabled lim to successfully carry out hls cher shed enterprise, but tO engage m others )f but little less magnitude. among hem may be mentioned the AJO Group , n the old Aio district. the Silver Bell yroup in the distrlct of that name, and he Bragg in the Santa Rita mountains, alther Of which Is enough to engage the attention of any one man. For the past hree and half months he has been lbly assisted by Prof. P. D. Barnhar5, he efficient superintendent of the Gun ! lght group, whose aut ority on mines s one ont Of ten tn remains undls- luted.