Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-05-19
GREAT MINES.
Immense Bodies Of Ore Undergoing De- Neopenents-The southern DIstsIrts Showing Wonderful Mine raI Wealth.
Florence k.n,erpri..

l Sh""ins wonderful Minersl Wealth. Florenes Enterprise
 The Bitterwell range of mountains | thirty tive miles southwest of Casa Grsnde. are rapidly becoming famous Tor the quantity and richness of theii | ores. Tue NekOi and its Contiguous | splendit proper e occupy the northern end ot this shor, IaEge, and continuing | through it's enure length mineral bodies are found Tn strong lodges m very many | places.
 In an almost isolated peak as the eI- treme southern end fl the range, about three and one half miles ID hn air line from the Nekol, a group of mines IS To- csted that show immense bodies of ore | Of very satisfactory grade and quality. The lodges run through the mountain and across the gulches upon either eide into the opposite hills, and the crOppIngs m places are very bold. In fact their immense slze has heretofore been the great obsticle to their developemsnt, for the slender means of the prospectors forbade such great undertaking. Sev- ersl shafts were sunk upon the Mssto- don and Monarch, enough to show the character of the ore and its continuation through the mountsiu.
 About one year ago, Col Elmer A. Howard obtained bond upon these mines and few months later be formed the Monarch Mining snd Milling Con- psny in Kansas city. the wealthy real es. tate firm of Charles Matt < Co. being the principal stockholders. A camp was established and the work of exploration commenced under the superintendepce l of Mir. J. A. CoDlee. At the present time fifteen men are employed, working day and night shi.ts.
 The developments which constitute the systematic workings of the mines be- gIn nt the west end Of the Monarch claim. on the side hill Of the guloh where a tunnel IS being driven on the Mon arch ledge with the intention Of cutt- ing the MRstcdon ledge, lyinR parallel with inst of the Monarch. This tun- nel IS now in distance of POO feet, all in ore, and 8 progress of from ten 10 fifteen feet are made ID the hard rock each week.
 Sixty feet from the mouth of the tun- nel is 8 south drift or 49 feet cutting through the ore body to the south wall, which IS limestone, and ten feet beyond 6 north drift of 3O feet reaches the north wall of granite, showing the ledge to be over fifty feet wide at this point. Two drifts have been started at a point 200 feet from the mouth of the tunnel, one north aud the other south. A wiDze for ventilation has been sunk to tap the tunnel 125 feet from the mouth; it is fifty feet deep sod passed through ore all the way, proving the existence of SD ore body st least J0 feet wide, % feet deep and POO feet long, the ore ID which will average over $40 per ton Tn gold snd silver, the former predOminsting. The Value of the ore msy be safely gagged by the fact that SD impartial sample of 100 pounds from the waste dump gave S43 60 ID gold and silver, and there are between 600 and 700 tons of this character Ot ore that has come from the tunnels and drifts. No dead work is necessary, as all the workings are ID ore of this character.
 East of the Monarch clam IS the Leons, upon which bu. little work has been done other than to show the con- ,inuanee Oi the ere body through it.
 Thess three claims are calculated to supply a mill to be erected at the pres ent camp, Q little over half h mile down the guich, to which a trsmwsy will like ly be built.
 A substantial boarding house, office and s-ssy office have been erected snd he foundation of & permanent camp has oeen laid
 Mr. J.. II. Hughes is the foreman. and ae is pot only thorough miner, but Q vary pleasant and agreeable gentleman, conservative in his statements regard ing the property and discreet in all it's business affairs.
 The mineral belt upon which the above properties are situated has been located tyr distance of two or three mlles, all the cropP:ngs showing unitorm qnslity If ore.
 The east extensions Of these properties are Chicago and Kansas Clty claims and south of east of the Mastodon is the Mineral World, owned by Messrs. E. A.. Howard, Frank Williams. Jere Fryer and Dr. Ssbin. It lies to the south Of and parallel with the Chicago, with the Howard as a north extension and By Chance the south extension. Upon the Mineral World there IS a cut of twenty feet and a shaft of fifteen feet, sll in 6 big body of rich ore ths. grows richer with depth. This property gives @ big | aud it gives promise of becoming one of the greatest mines in the territory. The group of mines on this side least ern) of the mountain will furnish ore Tor another mill which can be so located that the ore from the mines upon both sides of the gulch can be run from the tunnels direct 10 the mill without re-hsndling Water, of course, must be developed, and the success SO far attending every effort in this line ID that vicinity gives the most ample assurance that SD abundance will be found at R reasonable depth. The ore is all free milling. the quartz being ! iron-stsined, close grained and somewhat hsrd.
 IL it the intention Of the owners 10 put a force of men on the Mineral World to push the work of development. They realize that the property IS very vsiu- able one and they wish 10 thoroughly de velop it before making 6 sale. Southwest of the Msstodon NIT. Chrls Johnson hss a very promising claim call ed the Golden West, from which he IS taking and sscking ore that will mill several hundred ounces in silver per ton. He will have sample lot worked st the Vekol mill for a good test of its value,
 All the above vsluble claims gre clus- | tered ln two or three peaks at the soutp end of the BitterwelI mountains, and constitute a compact body of mineral snch as few mining regions can show. The ore is all of good average grade and none will run below a working vslue of siO Der ton. With the introductIop of ready capital for development and re- duction Of the ores there IS no reaeon
 vhv these mines should not speedily be- | come famous for their output of bullion and n camp O, considerable magnitude | spring up. The only requisite now re- msining to be determined is the depth of the ore bodies, which will demonstrate 1 their worth Es well as their permanency.
 Tue company operating these mines' as we'll as The individuals owning sdJs- cent claims, are to be congratulated Spop inc good fortune that is 10 store for them, for the counterpart of these mines are sesrcely 10 be found in any country.