Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-09-08
CASA GEANpE DISTRICT.
Ihis Beautiful and Lively Town and It's Backing.
 Ipbenix Hpra11,l

Editor Herald: The little railroad | town where I date this letter, cannot | be said to be very lively just at pres ent, though its two well stocked stores, two saloons and two hotels, are doing | a good steady business. Casa Grande Is destined in the near future, to be a place of much importance, for there is every evidence that the many paying mines to the north and south will soon be in active operation, and 1t Is already the shipping point for all the trade of Final and Gila counties, with Globe, Pina', Silver King and Florence as valuable tributaries. Then too, the southern country, clear to the Sonora line, is filled with promising mining camps that find their nearest base of supplies at this point.
 Through the kindness of MT. John Reiss, your correspondent visited the Casa Grande district which is some twenty five miles south of this town, and found the trip extremely interest ing and instructive. The road lies through a country apparently level, though there is gradual slope upward toward the south, and nine miles from town, close under the rocky crags of Quiiote mountain, the most prominent feature on all the Casa Grande land
 scape, on the level plain to the south
 east, Is a small village of Pima In
 dians, and two others were passed at i intervals of five or six miles. These i Indians differ somewhat in their man
 ners and customs from the Sacaton
 Pimas, though what the exact points
 of difference are, your correspondent could not learn.
 Twenty five miles south of Casa
 Grande the road turns slightly toward
 the southeast and enters the broad
 level sweep of Santa Rosa valley, and
 right here, in group of mountains
 known as the Slate range, are the
 valuable groups of mines that com pose the Casa Grande mining district. Here, at the camp of the "Jack Rab-
 bit" owned by W. c. Smith, an enter
 prising merchant of Casa Grande and Florence, your correspondent spent
 several days, handsomely entertained
 by John Moran, who is in charge of
 the working of the mine.
 The "Jack Rabbit" Is a most valu-
 able piece of property, having furnish
 ed shipping ore for several years, and
 showing no signs of giving out. On
 the contrary as it the case with all the
 mineral deposits in this group, 1t it.
 creases in richness as a greater depth
 is obtained The developments on
 this property are an incline on tie
 ledge a second incline further north
 on the same ledge, 120 feet in Gepth
 and 200 foot tunnel from the foot oi
 the south incline. The formation is
 lime and porphyry, and the pay rock
 is heavy spar carrying an average ol
 $15 gold and $400 silver to the ton
 There is streak running through the ledge, on the foot wall, that Is almost
 pure chloride of silver, or, in miners
 parlance, thorn silver" and this runs way up in the thousands; and the foot wall itself which Is of prophyIy, ii hecl<ed to a depth of six inches, witt , large flakes of horn silver For ship ping purposes however, the ore is sort
 ed down to an average of $400 per ton and during the last eighteen months over $75 900 worth of ore has beer shipped and worked at Fl Paso. NIT John Moran, who has charge of tn,
 mine, is an accomplished miner and ;
 gentleman by instinct, and he is alsC an owner in gold mine of wonderfu richness, lying some four miles to tn south of the Jack Rabbi ;" and knowl as the Boomerang"
 The Boomerang" is ledge of gol bearing quartz, running through
 formation of porphyritic and talcos slate; there are four or five claims ol
 the ledge and among them the "Boon erang' Is at present, in the highes ' state of developments. The ledge : which at the surface was less thai ! one foot in diameter, IS now at e depth of 40 feet three feet in widt l. and pays by shipment $G0 per tor
 There is also Q shaft of 30 feet, an
 several other minor workings, all i 8 pay ore.
 n As is natural, none of these proper V ties have been offered for sale, as the have given their owners a satisfactor F income from the grassroots dow1 n Some of the mine owners in this dis n trict, only work their properties whe IT they need money For instance, the
 will go to work and "knock out" l. carload of ore and obtain return n ranging from $3C00 to 5000 and the Q quit work until the money is sper r- when they go to work again.
 2 Among the other paying mines ] d the district are the "Southern Pacific 3 and "Central Pacific" two claims O V the same ledge that have been shippin "a ore at large profit for years. The f are about one mile south of the "Jac !. Rabbit" and are owned by John Rei' r- and Tomlinson. The "Orizaba," or n mile west of the same property, n owned by John Kron and has bee Il worked at intervals since 1881 shil n ping in that time some $75 900 wort i of ore. The "Wall Street" parall . lead with the "Jack Rabbit" has bee ,t shipping rich pay ere to the VekC e. mill, fifteen miles across the Sant ar Rosa valley, with most satisfactory T V suits. A little to the southeast of tf i district, in another spur of the Slat Q range, is the "Lake Shore" copp' If mine, an immense deposit of hie s grade copper ore; and there are near $. forty other paying mines in the di l. trict that want of space will not allo .r me to mention.
 ;s It is evident that at no distant da n- a mill will be erected here, thus savir n- the chloriders the expense of shippil V their ores.
 "a In another letter I will describe f your readers the "Vekop the "Mol