Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-11-22
QUIJOTOA.
Peerless 10 the Front-success al Last
 "AIrs We'll that Ends We'll"


 November 13, 1884 !
 EDITOR CITIZEN: Steadily onward, without cessation day or night since the 20th day of January last, the Peerless tunnel has been driven ahead. At the distance of 800 feet the vein was en- tered. The crosscutting has been car ried ahead. Also, drift has been start ed south on the vein, skirting along the fnot wall, to reach a point directly un- der and to connect as soon as possible with tbe winze coming down, which IS to te used for sending the ore through from the surface and intermediate points, as Peerless, or No. l, tunnel will be made a general delivery into the ore chu e, thence on to the mill. Your cor respondent has examined, no later than today, ous from the face of the Crocker north drift, ore that is literally sprinkled and permeated with horn silver, and saw with hls own eyes the result from an assay made from merely what could be termed a low average selection of the ore. It went i64 43. and one from the Peerless s2S 27. This of course did It ilciude any of the choice ore con- taIHing the hUrn silver, but came under the head just an experimental or daily assay. SVme two weeks ago very rich ore was encountered m the north drift of the Crocker tunnel, the assays running away up into the high figures This coming out of the face of the dIitt l (now in 50 feetl and at a depth of sev eral hundred feet from the surface of the mountain, was
 SUCH SURPRISE
 Ina. the most sanguine of those whose faith m the mines have never wavered were completely nonplussed. The ore Is very generously spotted with horn silver, and large portion of 1t IS being sacked and laid away in the tunnel for the mill to feast upon. The fact has been but little known, and no outside | remarks passed concerning the same. l The public will soon begin to under l stand that the company show up iheIr | works by actual results, and not, like as has been the case with numbers of other | companies, with mouth music" Talk | Is cheap commodity. The mouth of | the Crocker tunnel is 290 feet and that | of the Peerless 40 feet from the apex | of the mountain. Think of thIs rich | ore coming out ot the above depths, and 1 alsu consider the width of the vein, not | forgetting
 THE IMMENSE SURFACE
 Deposit, and then conjecture, if you please. the possibilities of what must in all probability exist upward aud down ward. The hanging wall in the Peer less has not been reached yet, therefore no accurate figures are aitainable at present regarding the actual or precise Siath of the veia as 1t exists until the wall Is reached. However, 1t will doubt less prove to be about the same width as the Crocker-G0 feet-possibly few I, ct more or lees. Be that as 1t may, the success Is grand. When the strike n the Crocker tunnel occurred some few months ago the problem as to whether the veIn went down was solved, and but little or DO doubt was entertained rela tive to the final result of the workings ID balance of tunnels. Ani now "Peer- i-s,' brsiOws another dIadem, still further crowning Old Mount Ben News wi-s a silvery wreath which will require many years of constant labor 10 attain. l
 WELCOME To THE WORLD
 With the firm assurance that her m uu.ain range is filled with precious t.eu-ure Ewai ing the pick and blast.
 hat d new interest and fresh impetus e. ID niug heacef rth wall manifest itself throughout ArIZona is quite certain to follow.
 A FEW SETTLED FACTS.
 Ii is 70 be hoped that in the operations Of the various new companies formed they wIil secure the services of old and veil tsiei miuIng men 10 superInteud the work Arizona has been favored long enough with g lot of so called mining superintendents," who were sent out here by eastern companies to turn our mountains into bulhon. But 2 here is scarcely an instance on record, but what by their uniituess and total inc mp p-ieucy these wonderfully learned and wise superintendent" failed to turn out any bullion, yet never failed to turn to and ".iust" out of the country, leaving their companies great sufferers. as we'll as adding to the damage already done by ot CTS who preceded them. pbis has been the sole cause of almost every one of Arizona's mining failures. Is 1t wonder that mining has of late been under cloud? It IS certainly not on account of the non-existence of mineral in our mountain ranges. We have too strong proof of its great abundance. We have mineral ID every direction. and when that good old man Van Humboldt loi z. long years ago on the top of 8 hIgn mountain range away down iD Sonora, stood looking up into (now) daring to come further on account of the murderUus Apaches)-l said: "The day will come when that country (meaniDg Arizona will be THE RICHEST MINERAL COUNTRY IN THE
 WORLD. Are we not in this generation seeing { the old mans words confirmed? The Silver King; the Tombstone mines; the Copper Qneen and other good mines are a confirmation of that fact. And now We have the Bonanza mines here ID the QuijDtoss. which to-day in their magni- tude stand pre-emiaent without a peer on this or any other continent The best experts III the country, and men ( who have followed mining life long, and 1 h We visited all the rich mines in the country are unanimous, that such an i'm 1 meuse surface mineral deposit or show [ ius was never known. or heard of either [ in or out of history. Now that the ( mountain has been pierced with various ' funuels, and winzes sunk and drifts l maze with mos; satisfactory results; and [ the question of the vein beng
 TRUE FIssURE Forever placed beyond doubt, surely common sense wIsdom must admit the -act that an event in mining has been brought to hght of vast importance.
 The company are proceeding along towards the erecti'D of their first large uIll. aud to pipe in the water from the ralley below. Soon the time will roll round when the welcome sound of cores of stamps will he heard. The q Peer miue adioin- the Peerless on the I perth. a8d the Crocker likewise to the T iuuth. The Weldon and Combination c o the vest. The Peer, Peerless. and 'racSrr are the ones now being worked. f The Weldon and Combination will come | no development later on-a mighty
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