Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1888-03-28
YAVAPAI'S WEALTH.

rich piacers wcre discovered, on Ante lope creek, by Pauline Weaver, this forms d vary important feature yet m the output of gold in the vicinity. Thous- ands of dollars are washed out along the banks of Hassayampa, Lynx creek and ether stGeans and gulches during the wet seasons. The methods are even yet crude by which the shining metal IS separated from ,he gravel beds m which Il Is found
 In many placer ,he gravel IS suftl- cienty rich to pay good wages by dry washing process, winch Is followed ! mostly by Mexicaus, the result being aS- | tonisbing. Along he larger streams such as the Has.ayampa, Lynx creek ! and other streams ground siuiclng IS re- sorted l.. A5alu IT. many Uf the smaller guicheo wncIe tDc supply of water Is i very staLt Ine aust Is washed out Tn the old fashioned rocXer, of early Cailtor nia ! lame.
 l In number Oi dry gulches leading
 into Skull valley, gravel has been found 1 rCh enough to pay well haul Dy
 wagon iTom two tU three miles, and ! then wash D tnls process. And m one
 place parues ale hauling five miles
 making lwo ioaes prr cay ard averaging 1 pII rof load.
 | The OIy prominent eXepuons to the above mttnOGs, ale the hydraulic works
 ot the Gro Emo company, on the Has
 sayalnp4, and the Lynx creek hydraulics,
 on lower Lynx creek. The former has 1 been m op4ratiOn two seasons but has I maGc successful ruu ln that time, when
 aAieF was available, although the exact iiLu cS Of thC amount ot gold taken out h4s n0t LUen oyt4Ined. inc property Is ! sixteen Inlies south Oi Prescott There Is
 d tuurteou tOOl cam and resefvor l 4 | tnles below Inc dam, the water being conIcyed by ditch and Hume to It.
 1nere aTe two ppe ines. Inc com
 panv has about two hundred and sixty
 acres ot ground; the gravel deposit IS un-
 lmited. The property IS under the
 charge of Frank Doiph, wno made q
 run of only five days last season owing | 10 the iatentSs uf Ihe season before their I atraLge!ntnts were completed. This, hu~tElr, gave them d bUod protlt ano l deuonaJIatOu the value of the property.
 This season they have already had d
 run oi thirty days with good profit l ihe Lynx Gre hydraulic works have
 been worked successfully for years, anu
 careful estimates of the total amount
 taken out IS placed at not less than $500, l 900. \ more extended account ot them
 wlii be iOund eiSewhere.
 l Preparations for hydraulic works OF an extensive sCa'c have also been par l u4il} iuaGe by the Walnut Grove Watei
 Storage company, on the HaSSayampa, 1 thirty miles south of Prescott. An ini- menSc dam has been built, no feet nigh,
 fer storing the waters of that stream anC
 It's tributaries, which Is now almost full l It will form, when iuil, an immense lake, containing HOO acres, and It IS est
 mated Will furnish a supply the .entUe year of ?, 800 miners inches. The com pany O1HS about I2,coO acres of placer 1 ground below the dam, extending along the creek for distance of from one mile 1 below the dam to twenty-hve. The
 gravel IS sad, by experts who have ex-
 amined it, to be very rich in gold, esti-
 mates on a large portion of 1t being
 placed as high as SIPS to 9I.52 per l culic yard.
 1 United verGe Copper Company.
 The mines ot the above company are ! located in the Black HiliS mining dis
 tiici, twenty eight miles northeast of Pres colt, and contain, as far as opened, large
 bodies oi rich copper ore, portion ot
 1t also runii i7g very high Tn silver. A
 furnace uf thl'ty tons capacity was
 erected n tnc spring of 1883 and started 1 up curing the summer, and Tn run of ! S45 days | jurGld out product amount az, tJ PI,ooo, 900, or enough to pay for 1 ,A~ Ou, ,.ha cost of the mines, the cost
 of lhe plan, and all improvements, and
 inc bulidlng oi two veiy expensive roaGs besides paIlng SIoo,oOo Tn dividends to l stockho ders.
 l. was compelled to close down in the
 winter ot 1884 on account ot bad roads
 renCeIrg nlmposSi5!e to get supplies and C kc nto the mine and the copper l pfuduCt ou,, tbc nearest point 10 railroad ! g,. f,.aV n Arb Enyt
 tauCe ot about siNty miles. When the
 ToaCs locamc passabie again the follow
 Ing sWu- lhe PGcc Of copper had de 1 Cnusd 10 such figure that 1t was decided u,t 10 start the turnaCe-not that 1t l would not pay expenses even at the low
 est point touched for copper, but the snanaSement Was unwilling to sacrifice
 their product at prevailing prices. It
 remained lGle ever since, with the eX- 1 Ception Ct a couple of months nun
 las, summer, urti March Isl when 1t was
 leased fer d period ot three years to Mr. l W. \. CiaJk, a wealthy mining man
 and banker, of Butte, Montana, and l New York A small force of men was l put to work m the mines which has 1 been increased, as room could be made
 for them by the foreman, until at present there are about forty men employed in 1 the mines The future plans of Mir. Clark for working the properties, if form ! ula;ed. have not been made public. bu, 1t Is understood that extensive impr, ve meni Ins the manner ot treating the ores, ! and an enlargement of the capacity of the furnaces IS contemplated, and it Is given out that the camp will give employ ment during the seasonto at least three or four hundred men This property is owned mostly in New York, where the office of the company IS located, the resident agent in this territory beng Frei'k F. Murray, of Prescott
 The VuIture Mine.