Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-05-03
THE GUNSIGHT MINES.
What the New Company Is DoinG-A Tail
 With the New Manager.

What inc New Company is DoinS-A Talk
 With the New Manager.
 While rambling through the cosy rooms of the Commercial Club Friday the CITIZEN reporter met Dr. R. Hilton Chase, the new manager of the Gun sight mines, and questioned him regard ing the new company and their inien- tions. The new company has been or ganized under the laws of Arizona, with a capital stock of S2,OO0,0OO, divided into 100000 shares of the value of S10 each. After organizing the company here, Dr. Chase went east aud had a conference with the old members of the Gunsight Company, and they took 100000 shares. They now have plenty of money to con- plete the works and put the property m good shape The doctor left for the mines thls morning and expects to have everything ID working order in four weeks
 The mill of the company has capacity for working IS tons of ore per day. It was erected some time ago. but was never completed and has never been run. They also have first class steam hoisting works and working shaft 3S0 feet deep, with three compartments from there down. They have about two thousand feet of underground work, all in vein matter. The crOsscut on the 200-foOt level in the Gunsight mine cuts forty feet wide and IS still in ore. The cropplngs running over the mountain are bold, and show from three to seventy feet Tn width. The average of the ore in the Gunsight mine, as far as deyel- oped, shows not less than $50 per ton. The mines owned by the company are the Gunsight, Silver Girt and Eastern, all of which are patented. The con- pany has assay, retOrt and laboratory buildings. large blacksmith shop, mag Rzine, tool house, office, store, boarding house and a number Of cottages for their miners. They have three wells, with well houses, and cottages at the wells. \ 3 inch pipe connects the wells with the mill. In the store rooms the company has a large stock Of supplies and SIX hundred cords of wood at the mill. In addition to the three mines mentioned the company has a mill prIv- ilege and 160 acres of land. There are at present 5000 tons of ore on the dumps and 1000 tons broken down iu the Gunsight and Silver Girt mines ready to lift. With the present plant Dr. Chase thinks they will be able tC treat from forty to fifty tons of ore per day. The company has John II. Collier to take charge of the mine, whom, Dr Chase says, has no superior in North America.
 Four-ffths of the ore in these mines Is milling ore and one-ffth smelling ore The ore body is an enormous one. and croppings have been picked up which assay more than S7,000 to the ton. Al the 200-foOt level ore was fOdnd which assayed SS,O00 to the ton.
 The sale of these famous mines to the present company was brought about by Dr. Chase, and the officers of the com pany are R. Hilton Chase, President William F. Chase, Secretary; Charles Hudson. Treasurer. The directors are J. II. Wilkins, A D. Otis, William F. Chase and R. Hilton Chase. Thomas Fitch, of this city, Is the attorney foI the company.
 The new company represents 8 capital of several million dollars, all the wealthy men who belonged to the old company having entered into the new organization.
 pr. Chase, who IS the president of the company. has been made general mana ger. and has taken hold with q full de- termination to develop the mines. He has great faith in their wealth, and says he will endeayor to prosecute work with all vigor and establish honest and judi cious management
 Dr. Chase has been engaged in mining for more than twenty years in this cOun- try and South AmerIca and ls thoroughly posted on all matters pertaining to mines. He made the sale of the Pea body mine in the Dragons, which was sold for S350,000.
 The doctor has Q large number of friends in this city, and the people have faith in him and believe that he will suc- ceed in developing and bringing to pros perity one of Pima county's best mining camps. He has already sent out about twenty-five miners and begun work in earnest.
 The beginning of work in these mines will prove very advantageous to Tucson, and will bring into prominence other good mines in that part of the county.