Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-02-09
LOGAN LOCALS.
Work on the Crocker-Three New shsfts-
 New Wells

tunnel was commenced Tuesday | morning on the west side of the Crocker h mine, to be called tunnel No. i. Some b ore has been found in tunnels No. and - 7, which run into the Peer and Peerless. [ Although this ore Is hsLt it WAS unex- l. pee.ed. The vein is not expected to be 1 tap.e till about forty feet. Progress is T made at the rate of about two feet per ' day n each tunnel. The rock IS very hGri. Tunnel No. l, opens od the east - side of the hill toward Logan, and at . the ase of a cliff six hundred feet high. . It + the intention to run this tuI nel in till :le ore vein Is struck, and then run a sli It right up through it, and from thif Shaft run out cross-cuts. The ore can then be let down the shaft and car
 ried out in cars. The hardness of the
 rock will not require timbenng. Three
 new shafts will be immediately com
 menced on the top of the bill, working
 down on the vein. The company also
 propose to dig well in the Santa Rosa
 vaIl', about six miles east of Logan.
 The lace is the lowest spot Of the val
 ley, .ad water is expected to be found
 soor. There Is no rock to go through.
 A fU.icient supply wlll probably be
 fouLi here 10 warrant the erection of
 thei mills. The matter is to be tested
 inn .Iately, and well-borers have been
 sent iJr, and machinery ordered.
 Nu. was resumed Tuesday morning
 on ihs Logan townsite well, after a de-
 lay ,i several days. J. NJ. Quiggle bad
 to ne to Tucson to get new crank
 for he engine. the fir,t having been
 brok-n. Mr. Quiggle has telegraphed
 to hls h.osh .h Pennsylvania to come
 out anL assist, and on his arrival, in | | about ten days, d night and day shift |
 Elll oe run. The well IS cOwn 205 feet | The rock is very hard.
 SesCral new wells are being dug in | the valley. Joseph Phy is at work on | one TWO miles east of New Virginia.
 The Thompson boys, four miles and a
 half 'ast of New Virginia, are down l50 | feet. Messrs. Bass and Long are dig RAhE bAo eOAlE NuIGc IulltS west or Haynes well, and are down 100 feet.
 D. S. Payton is half owner with the Wool brothers in Haynes well. This place is IS miles from Logan (odometri- cal measurement( They set first class table for the hungry travellers.
 Tie storm on Saturday and Sunday was cry severe, especially upon these Twin m tents. The "Headquarters sa- loon, of New Virginia, was blown over. but ihe enterprising proprietor, 4. J. Frazyr, is not dismayed, aud will soon have IS tent up.
 l.. Fnricht intends painting in oil the Ben Nevis peak. As MT. Enricht Is a skilliul artist his picture will probably comn and u good price.
 R. Gibson on Monday sold his store and clrral to Messrs. George Tietsworth and ]. A. Ruffner. Mir. IietswoIth was one O. the original bonanza boys, and has invested his capital right where he made 1t.
 It is rumored in Logan that Dan Crocker bought q S45O watch in San Francesca. It is gold-cased, full jewelled. and strikes. Dan IS said to be very proud Of his treasure.
 Lots are selling on Logan avenue from $50 to SS0 per front foot. A frame house of one room on a back street rented for S'3O per month immediately on completion. All the lots on Logan avenue are sold. with the exception of two or three the company have re- served.
 There is healthy competition between Logan and New Virginia, and each seems to work in the interest of the other. Lots are selling fast in New Yir- ginia, but building IS not quite as rapid as in Logan. For awhile the supply of lumber was short, but now the lumber of J. N. Mason supplies the present demand. Prices are about S73 to 800 per thousand feet. About $50 is the usual price. some has been eventually will be the standard prics, tll the railrOg. comes in.
 Carpenters receive S6 per day, and are about the only class of la6orers em- plOyed. The force on the minesis being gradually increased.
 There are large number of idle men ID town who seem to be waiting for something to turn up. Some of l. them strike hardworking men for "grub-stske" to go prospecting, and when they get 1t lay around town and eat up the stake" and the supply man Is bilked.
 On the west side of Ben Nevis is the to wnsits of Quijotoa, in which General Allen is interested. The General sets a magnificent table. He says be offered the Star reporter town lot on the con- dition that the office should be moved out, with brick house, Venus picture and all. The offer was not accepted. Lots are selling in Quijotoa City for S2j0 apiece. At present there is the one frame house, the Allen hotel, and dozen or more tents.
 On Monday by permission of Hank Smith, the superintendent, a CITIZEN representative, in company with c. Fl. Horn and Dr. J. B. Grady, climbed the rocky sides of Ben Nevis, and stood upon its highest peak. Logan, with its white tents, fourteen hundred feet be- low looked like 8 checker board, and the men moving upon it's busy thorou9hfare ] resembled protoplssms. Eastward the 1 Santa Catalinas are visible, and west ward the Ajo mountains are in sight. To the north on the horizon are the Finals, and south are the distant pica- chos and sierras of Sonora. In the places most difficult of access on Ben Nevis are signs of mountain sheep, { showing there is hardly place where they cannot climb.
 The experts speak of the bonanza hill as q "porphyry dyke" which has been held together through the ages by seams of quartz running through It in every direction. The ore-vein enters the noun tain on the southeast corner, where IS located the QuijOtos mine. 1t emerges from the hill Ut the northwest corner, at which latter place IS the Locomotive mine. This latter mine is one thousand feet below the summit. On the south l! east corner the same vein IS visible down the rocky cliff for nine hundred feet. 1T then the vein Is the same depth through, or even half the depth, it will be the richest mine the world ever saw. This k the opinion of many experts, who have come from all parts of the coast to examine and see for themselves
 The summit of the mountain is over six thousand feet long, and is from two to four hundred feet wide.
 As to the permanency of the ore-vein ! there seems to be no doubt as 1t is visi- ble on both ends of the hill at depth of 900 feet, and 1t certainly stands to reason that 1t runs clear through. This ! IS stronger every day in the minds of those who examine the hill. Besides the vein is plain all along the summit.
 W. S. Lyle says that just before he left San Francisco. big, stout Irishman 1! walked into his office, and wanted "to git wurruk in yure new moines west of ! Toosawn." MT. Lyle, to bother the ap- l plicant little, asked in reply, What mines do you mean?"