Arizona weekly citizen., 1889-06-29

A trip to Globe, under the present ' mode of transportation, is not the one | the most pleasure, but 1t cer- 1 tainly presents many interesting fea- lures. The road from Casa Grand to i Riverside is a good one. The Texas and i California stage line carries you to Flor 1 ence from the railroad and the Globe | stage company, under the management of Mir. Eugene Middleton, takes you from thence to Globe. stopping over night at Riverside.
 AT RIVERSIDE
 Messrs. Neiman & Reid have a store and keep the stage station and furnish good accommodations to travellers. There was good camp here at one time, but it was abandoned a few years ago, and two smelters and two mills now stand idle, as silent witnesses of former activity in the place. One or two claims are now being worked by chloriders. A watchman at the smelter belonging to the Ray copper mine and Mir. John Boucher is at the Ray mine, who with the stage drivers makes probably ten men now in the vicinity. The copper properties here are said to be very fine and the Ray mine is in better condition and prepared to make a better showing than ever before It is believed that had it not been for the recent smash in the copper market, this property would now be turning out bullion. Riverside has a daily stage from Casa Grande and a stage three times a week from Benson. The roads leading to the railroad are good
 AT PIONEER.
 Pioneer is half way between Riverside and Globe. and was, five or six years ago, large camp, furnishing employ ment for 400 men in the mill and mines. The Howard Mining company, of Cleve- iand, Ohio, had twenty stamp mill Tn operation, but they did not make a sue cess of the proposition from some cause and shut the mill down four years ago, and two years later it was destroyed by fire. MT. Jack Eaton, is agent of the company, and has charge of all that is left of their once extensive plant. MT. Eaton is also working mine near by, and taking out some good ore which Is ship ped to Fl Paso, via Tucson.
 Messrs. c. A. Miller and J. D. Myers are working the Pioneer mine. This mine now has 300 foot tunnel, 200 foot drift and three shafts from 90 to 100 feet deep. The ore is silver. They have been shipping for 6 months. The ore averaging 200 ounces, and some of the assays have gone as high as 5000 They have been asserting the ore ship ped and now have in the dump 1000 tons of ore that will average 60 ounces. MT. J. C. Evans is working with Mir. Eaton. The Sidow brothers are also To- cated at Pioneer and are engaged in mining and cattle. They have been shipping considerable ore and own some valuable properties in the vic inity. It is sixteen miles from Pioneer to Globe, the road crossing the summit of the Pinal mountain. At the top the atmosphere is cool and delightful and the higher ranges are covered with pine, oak, juniper and walnut trees and l heavy, almost impenetrable growth of underbrush. The top of the Pinal mountains would furnish the summer resort for all the sweltering people of Arizona, were they reached by com fortable means of transportation. AT GLOBE.
 The stage arrives at Globe at 6 o'clock the second day from Casa Grande- This place was at one time the most active md enterprising of all the inland cities Jf Arizona. No less than 15 mills and smelters have been operated in its vic nifty. They are nearly all idle now, some having been stopped on account )f the great distance to the railroad, put many were stopped for DO other 'eason than that of mismanagement by inexperienced men sent out to run them )y the eastern companies. The mines ire endless in number and sufficiently -ich enough to insure for Globe future greater than the past history of Ari- zona.
 THE OLD DOMINION.
 s running steadily with only Che stack put have enough ore in sight to justify
 he running of three or four, did the company desire to do so. It is an in lisputable fact that copper sbulliOn can )e produced in Globe cheaper than my other place in United States. This evidenced unmlstakeably by the cir cumstances under which the Old Domi- lion has been able to run so long. With )nly one furnace, and a haul for coke md bullion of 140 miles, team consum- ng thirty days in making round trip to the railroad, they have been able to complete successfully with any of the copper properties of the country.
 The Globe mine shows more rich cop per than ever before. It seems to be
 A MOUNTAIN OF COPPER.
 of the richest quality. There has been taken from this mine many specimns of pure native copper in sheets ten and twelve inches in diameter and quarter of an inch thick. Judge Hackney of the Silver Belt who made a trip into the Globe mine last week says: But what surprised us most was the vast amount where presented Itself. On the sixth level, far beyond the hum of the upper earth we were astonished upon being OoflcISo lIlO d CdlJdClOuS OJeulUB Ol sixty feet, presenting Ito view a breast of ore its entire width, and though thousands of tons have been ex- tracted and smelted, it may safely be said that the removal of that body of ore had scarcely begun" WI. Walker the superintendent has everything about the mine and smelter in excellent shape and the work is all carried on by a perfect system from the time the ore is taken from the mine until the bullion is delivered at Wilcox
 Chief among the adjacent properties is
 THE BUFFALO
 which has been opened up to a consid- erable extent and in which recent devel- opments have disclosed a large body of rich ore. Several competent mining