Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1888-12-05
lRI7aul WEEKLY JOURNAL -nlnER.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1888
Mining Operations in Arizona

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 The mining camps of Ariz,na seem to be attracting great deal more atten- tion than almost any others nov, and many investments. A few years ago they were to be given up to the scum of tbe territories, outlaws and Indians, a scarcity of water and wood render these classes a little more secure m thelr possession by reducing the desirabllIty of the country. Now that the scum and Indians have been driven cut, how ever, a great many mining investors are going in and finding the lack of wood and water form less of drawback than was imagined. The older dis- trlcts are very we'll taken up, consldera- ble in copper mining, enc of the largest prospective properties of this character, the Yuma, being held in this city. In most of the properties of value, water has been found in very large quantities in the natural development of the mines, as in the case of the development of the Grand Central at Tombstone. Wood is very scarce Tn some sections, Senator Tabor has opened the Vulture, northeast of Phenix-paying $II to $I7 for wood as against g. to $5 elsewhere, and pumping water seventeen m'les-at a profit of SIP, 900 to SI5,ooo a month and has just sold it to an English syndi- cate for $75o, 900, with guarantee as to what it will do with the same man. apement he gave it. One of the latest districts for St Louis to go into IS the old Mineral Prak, off the town of Kingman, on the Atlantic & Pacific road. Since the road was built and the town laid out sampling works have been erected, which now purchase an average of $5o,ooo to $6o,ooo worth of ore per month. The Mineral Park district has been worked for number of years. but not as Il IS now. At the present time there are about thirty mines shipping more or less. dozen of which have been opened up within year. When it was first worked the ore was all taken from near the surface and only the very richest, running $35o 10 S7oo to the ton. It required this grade, as the ore had to be shipped down the Colorado river to the Gulf of California and around and up the coast to San Francisco, or as later, hauled by wagons across the desert to the South ern Pacific, and thence by rail to San Francisco, just about as expensive trip. Under these circumstances con- siderable ore was thrown on the dump. and there is said to be nearly 5000 tons of this, will ruin from $40 to $50. The St. Louis property there IS now the Rattan, in which the company has done 100 feet of work, I5o by shaft, when the company was compelled to delay work on account of wa'er. The upper work exposes large amount of $I7 gold ore and the lower enc gold and silver, run hing to $40 to $50. One Of the latest purchases in thls camp was made by Judge Terry and wife. who have been so prominent on the Pacific coast re- gently. They paid $so,ooo for claim and named it Sarah Althea. They in- tend putting up a ten stamp mill lmme- diately. Another purchase just com ple,ed was that of the Vanderbilt by Philadelphia syndicate. It had been worked on lease by two men, who had taken out $7.ooo in surface ores, mill ing SITS per ton. One of the big gest producers is the Cupel. worked on 8 lease by J. K. Mckenzie, posttrader at Fort Mohave, on the Colorado river. It belongs to a stock company
 which sunk 25o feet. and, run. ming out of money, leased 1t to him. They had passed the ore at rao feet to which point he came back and made
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