Arizona weekly citizen., 1886-07-31
OLIVE.
The NcU Town With Brilliant Tlf,,r.- Mines that are Masking thcir O,e,,c-.
 Wealthy

ted. about twenty miles little west of south from Tucson, has been set aps-t
 as sn election precinct, and postoGice
 Is to be established there, the place w,Il
 hereafter be known as Olive, uar,ei
 after the famous mine which has alresdv
 yielded G snug fortune to its owners an i
 IS daily becoming a bonarza of greater
 magnitude and richness.
 The location Of the camp is pleasant
 aud picturesque, being among the ele-
 vated rolling hills lying about midway
 between the Santa Cruz river and tLe
 lofty Sierrita range of mountains. From
 Tucson the grade gradually rises until
 the camp Is reached, ntfording one of
 the best roads imaginable over which to
 haul heavy loads ot ore 10 this ely. The
 high altitude gives comfortable tenn
 perGture. even during the varmest sum-
 mer days, and the bracing gir irnrgrt-
 vIgor and energy to those who reside
 there The topography os the country
 renders every mine accessible easily bv
 team, over hard, graveily roads. and
 tue ore can be loaded into the wagons
 at the mouth Of any shaft CT tunnel m
 the camp.
 The old San Xavier mine. one of .h.
 bgst properties ID the county, but nm
 fortunately proitless venture for ifs original owners through some kind Oi mlsnanasement.L has been develouei
 Co a greater extent than any other clam n that camp. The group @. mines belonging to tine Santa Rita Land and Mining Company consists Of five patented and five unpatented claims. and they constitute a property that will yet bring into activity large re duction works and be made to yield immense profits to its owners. The average ore IS of low grade and gener
 ally easy Of smelling, and there Is an abundance Of 1t. Occasional bodies or high grade ore are found and some as- says are tiatterIngly hICh. The mLin shaft Is three hundred feet deep, with
 big body otOre of g.ienB. zine and some mundIc n the bottom. There are fully three thousand feet of -orzings In the mIDe, with good ore visible eyeryU here, ald on the dumps are som -wlere be tween two thousand and three thousand tons O. ore that will work to prof, at works ID thIs city. Three o' tine claims are on a carbonate dIke, showing abund- 1 ance of good ore.
 NIT. ;. E. Conley Is the present lessee | ot the mIne and he makes many shIp- ments of selected ore, with satisfactory results. He has complete assayluS outfit and conducts hIs own RssByIuE, | aad thereby he IS able t0 reject all | classes of ore not rich enough for ship l meat.
 SnndIny on tLe dump ot tha San Xavier .llue, one can discern fl- % the | w-s.warj. and sweeping around Go tLe ! south, tLe cabins IF tents 1l lEa miners | who are now SD bG-ily at wgrz taking l out ore. Their little camps dot | the country around for a space several ! square miles, with many intervening i claims that are mCluuruted but Dot 1 opened. ihe first impression the stranger derives from a glance over t.e | amp. Is that a colony uf farmers had ! located and erected temporary quarters | while preparing theIr land for cul:iva- tCa, but Jhl5 impression is Culy mumeu- t-ry, for the gray c-e-dUmps here and { there gt tLe mouths Uf the hundreds of prospecting shafts soon CIspell the fila sion.
 There are two good wells. sunk .r the granite rock Co a depth Of forty feet. iu "a wash short distance tO the north Cf tLe camp. The water IS of an excel. ut quality but Is not very abundant. The water is hauled from them in barrels to the cabins of tine miners here and there. Tor domestic Uscs.
 Gener.liy speaking, the ore boa,zs ! are but mese threads of indifferent look .Es rock, sometimes widening ont into punches from eight inches 10 Two or three feet tLick, the quality Ui tEe metal being generally uuIforu. The patient niagrs work hard md carefully sav. -v-ry particle Ct ore, GSs0riInE it down .lo-tly sO as tD reject everything which imposes tLa unnecessary expense O! IeicGt C- treatment i ion Der week you.l be a handsome return for tLe aoor of two men, and yet the average output Is far EveBtey i ygT' few miners ake out less and they are either follow ug a very small seam o- arc jpiHz dead work to iscL.tatc future operations. A- he fame ot the camp is based almost ID ,ir, .y upon the developments of the ,as' few months, 1t might be supposed Lat all work so far done Is not yet be- ow the grass ro1ts.
 The Olive mIne Is the only claim oE.- ] iie of the San Xavier upon winch tlc developments are Of character Fui:i- Iently advanced to demonstrate a per aauent value. Like almost every other la.m being worked, the ore once pinch q out 50 nearly that its lessees were l . somewhat dissapPoInted and .consiiera- ly discouraged But the new firm [ .geTating 1t bTavely determined that { nothing ventured nothing calnei,' and , 0lowei down tine small seam Ot OTe to
 depth Ot little more than a hundred ! est. Ini II improved so much in value ud widsnad out to such respectable ' .oiy that they started a drift to The east ( nd are working eight men. Their orc rings net smelteT returns of more than wo hundred ounces of silver 10 tine ion, ! nth H large percentage Cf lead. tt Is T 0rted down very closely and the second rgle ore. of which there k 8 great e n4atIty and 1t is clear profit, Is shipped d n great quantities at one time, clylng e mellJr value of over SiJ per ton.
 The ore Is hoisted m a ear by mems [ f horse whim, and blower has been 9 constructed to operate with :he power q bus created, giving new cG-r, ut oi d Ir % the miners every fifteen minutes. 2
 One Of the excellent features of tais g liue Is :h- little expense 0t mining The { re. The rock Is soft and brittle and ,s ? .sily taken down. l. comes Cu- ot 3 be m;ae b.!,l; and V'fs;e-irg, wita tLe , l.ly face of the lr.' cubes snafE.ug l D the light of the day. 2
 UD tp this time the Olive mine has ielIei return of S25.uH0 and only To poet work has been done. It B as ( lUg little bonanza as a man cOUii L ..-h Co possess Hnt Us now in a candi- q on to net it's owners or !Cssces from q 5.teJ to Sj,u3J per month, with many g. at undiscovered possibilities that may f .asongIiy be counted or. q
 4 somewhat detailed description Of tl he various prospects Of this camp was I iven the readers of the CITIZEN last
 riiay, and t WIS in tLc main @ very 'rrect report. The camp IS iiourishing 4 ld every miner is mgkIug expenses ith prospective punches oi orc for N ropfits. Fully eighty-five men are at ork ln the camp and there IS no. an Ile man in the district. Their greatest VI rawback Is water. and those who have .s,.T z, v-uv.- .r,,,4la N, ,.-..-. ]