Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-05-18
CENTRAL SILVER MINES.
Their COnditiOn.--Wha Has Been Done, What is Being Done, and What will
 he Done.

What is Being Done, and What will
 be Done.
 Tucson Citizen
 Leaving Casa Grande on last Mon day morning, the reporter of the Git izen started to visit some of the camps in the Casa Grande mining district time would not permit his visiting all of them. There are number of good mines in this district, and many are very rich; some of them have already yielded precious metals in large quan- titles, others have proved their worth by furnishing enough pay rock to keep their owners in comfortable living cir cumstances and pay all the expenses of development work and few have been demonstrated by shafts, tunnels, inclines, dips and spurs to be the larg est ore bodies in the Territory The first camp visited was that of the Cen tral Silver Mining Company, situated twelve miles south of Casa Grande. The work in this G mp is being direc- ted by MT. J. c. Loss, general man. ager and superintendent. Mir Loss, however, was not present at the mine, being now i'll St. Louis for the pur- pose of buying a 20-stamp mill for this property. The original discovery of this property was made by Qua jate Indian in 1869 and now consists of the Silver Reef, Horn Silver and Grey Eagle claims. Mr. c. Loss, su- perintendent of the Golden West min ing Company entertained the scribe hospitably, being ably assisted by MT. M c. King, the foreman of the. mine. The first mine visited was the Silver Reef. Here IS where the most work has been done and where it is still be- ing pushed A steam hoist is in oper- ation which serves the doublepurpose of drawing up the ore and also water which was encountered at the bottom of shaft No. l, which is 250 feet deep This shaft has followed the vein down, and Is in ore all the way. It has been opened at five levels At B feet cross | cuts have been run east, west and south in all 90 feet At 90 feet 140- foot cross-cut; at l10 feet is is cross cut east and west; at POO feet two main drifts have been made, one east 80 feet and one south 80 feet and the latter has been cross cut east 50 feet and west 40 feet. At the bottom of the shaft there is 142-foot south drift and west drift of 73 feet and one north running SS feet All the work done on the mine has been in ore, in some places in the tunnel the wall is encountered on one side only, and the width of the veins are not known, but the work clearly demonstrates that practically the amount ofsore in sight is sufficient to run niiIi and snlelter for years There has been taken. out of this main shaft over 500 tons of ore which is now on the dump that will averageS22 to S24 in silver and about 20 per cent lead.
 Z Shalt No. has been sunk -on-ths r Torn ssst.cT claim and is l50 feet deer $ and the ore is of a higher grade and carrying less lead: This ore is chlo rides and horn silver. About 100 tons of this ore is on the dump and it swil average $26 to $2S per ton.
 Shaft No. 3 is also on the Horn Sil yer and Is down 160 feet, and it i confidently expected that when thi
 shaft is sunk to the water level {; bonanza ore body will be encountered The bottom of this shaft is now in 45 ounces ore. From the surface to tn, 60-foot level $25,000 was taken out o this shaft From 50 feet to 100 fee
 the shaft is barren of ore, but the las 50 feet has yielded fine ore and the in dications are that large body Ina
 been encountered and it is growin
 steadily richer as greater depth i reached. This shaft enters the noun tain at an elevation of fifty feet highe
 than shaft No. l, where an unlimite,
 supply of water was encountered a
 247 feet, and it is estimated that wate : will be struck here at 300 feet. Be sides these shafts there are three o four others on the property rangin from B to 75 feet in depth and or , has been encountered in all of them The mill site is now being grade t on a beautiful location just belo, shaft No. l, from which the ore ca be emptied into the ore bins. The mil will be SS by 50 feet and will consis
 of 6O-ton capacity water-jacket ful e mace, Buffalo blower, 45-horse powe 8 engine, boiler, breaker, car truck. 9 chutes and every modern applianc for convenience; also sampling mi :, and 20-stamp concentrator and tn a capacity of mill and shelter will b
 12O tons of ore daily. A force of me
 went on Monday to Butte to talk
 down the shelter and machiner J. there which has been purchased an - will be removed to this camp as fast a men and teams can accomplish tn ' work. MT. c. Loss will buy the mi n in St. Louis and all the machinery wi
 arrive in the course of sixty days.
 The distance of only twelve mile r over which coke and supplies will hay t to be transported renders the opel
 ations on this property cheap and bt a sides they have water of the fines quality in abundance, which will hay r to be pumped from the mine before o greater depth can be obtained.
 This mine is in the foot hills an
 adjoining lies the fertile Quajate va 7. ley where any surplus water can | rt utilized for agricultural purpose
 This valley is now occupied by th is Quajate Indians who have for five ( d six years cultivated good portion d their crude way and the crops ( a a wheat now being harvested by then 1t grown without any irrigation eXceI as from water from the clouds, is almo 'u beyond conception. The wheat L many places as is high as ones hea
 and the ground is covered. The heaC
 are large and the grain fully maturet
 These Indians have ditches that carr " water from the arroyos leading frol q, the mountains into their fields whel ,u it is held by dams until it soaks u ut The success which attends the
 ancient modes of tilling the soil