Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-05-17
THE OTHER SIDE.
An Cid Miner Makes a Vigorous Defense Of the Miner and PrOspector. The Middleman Severely Over hauled. Good Mines at
 Gro Blanco.
Corr. Tucson Citizen.)

Show 1t up." Now 1 humbly ask space in your valuable paper to reply to some of the assertions contained in the above named article, and l shall do so as a miner and prospector of forty years experience, and therefore feel somewhat gratified to do so. You speak of some gentlemen now in Tue son, who came directly from the east for the purpose of investing in mines in Arizona, and that they had been deceived and brought here to see that had been misrepresent- ed by the miners. Now, if the min CTS did such thing as that. they cer- tainly did wrong, and ought to be severely reprimanded for it, but, it is my honest opinion that when you sift this matter to the bottom facts, you will find that the very miners in question have given some middleman bond on their propery and that he was the one who had misrepresented it, and induced those gentlemen to come to this country, not the miner and prospector. In your article there is nothing said against this class of jawsmiths who are now, and have been the curse of mining in all this country, but here is what they do ii a poor old miner has good prospect. These fellows will do their best to get a bond on his property for little or nothing, they will add at least 400 per cent to pay them for manipulating a sale, and if they fail to make the sale then the poor old miner has to bear the blame, and be cursed for hay ing asked too much for his property. Should the miner ask decent price for his property, and try to sell it himself, they will turn their gatling jaw (not gum loose on him and will do everything in their power to run his property down, and prevent him from realizing a sale, because he don't do it through them. These fellows are somewhat like Pistol, one of Shakespeare's characters, who said the world was his oyster and he would open it with his sword. Now these fellows look upon the miner and prospector as their oyster and they are going to open him, not with a sword, but with their jaw.
 If a man, like myself has good property, they will never condescend to ask him how much he will take for it. Oh no, that would look too much as if the miner knew what his proper ty was worth; but they will make him ridiculously low offer, and if he refuses, they go for him, and swear to everyone that he asked so much and that no one can buy it, when the truth is they have never asked him how much he would ask for his prop erty, nor has he told them.
 More, MT. Editor, 1 have been in mining camps all the way from Brit ish Columbia to the Mexican line, and I will say that I have seen no country anywhere on the continent of America, where the old miner and prospector has as few friends as right here in this land of silver, sunshine and inexhaustible cheek, called Ari- zona. AS to your assertion that no matter how rich a country may be, mines are never found on the surface : Now if you meant that for joke it Is good, but If you mean it as an as sertion of fact you are all wrong, for
 the history of all the great mines of
 the world show to the contrary, and allow me to say that I have seen near ly every one of the great mines of
 Peru, Chili and Bolivia in South
 America, also many of the great mines of Mexico, and in my own country, and 1 can't call to mind single one of all these great mines that did not
 show as good mines on the surface or in the grassroots as they ever showed afterwards. Look at the Silver King, Tombstone and Quijotoa, all showed as good ore in the grassroots as was found afterwards
 There are just two requirements necessary in a mining property to make it good business proposition.
 First, is there ore enough in sight to
 warrant the purchase of the property, and erecting thereon a plant; and
 secondly, will the ore pay a decent percentage over and above the cost of
 mining and milling, of say from 5000
 property fills the above two require
 ments then 1t is a good business
 proposition. Further, I will say to
 your wonderfully shrewd tender-foot
 capitalist that there are number of
 properties right here in Gro Blanco
 that will upon careful examination
 fill the bill. Don't take any mans
 word when he tells you there is
 nothing here in Gro Blanco, but come
 and see for yourselves, and I know
 you will not go back with the idea
 that there are no mines here.
 If these gentlemen are anxious to
 see good mining properties, they must
 go where the mines are; they can't
 see them in Tucson, as it is physical
 impossibility for us to haul the mines
 in there for them to look at between drinks. Gentlemen, shake off the
 jawsmiths that are herding you
 around, and come out and see us, and
 l pledge you my word we will show
 you what will astonish you. In proof
 of this, I give herewith a short des
 cription of one of the properties that l will take pleasure in showing to you. They are called the Ragnarok mines Nos. l and 2. These mines are located in birdseye porphyry, and in No. l have taken out and piled up in the last two years, without as sistance, over 800 tons of ore, and ] have thousands of tons more in sight of the same aort. This ore will pay $50 per ton in the mill. The ore ii free milling, and with mill erected , on the property, it can be mined ant
 miIled at an expense not to exceed
 six dollars per ton. There is ort
 enough in sight in this mine to run z
 ten stamp mill a year. A ten stamp :, mill, properly constructed with all improvements up to date, will average , say seventy tons per day of 24 hours 7 and there is no question with me al all, as I know what I am talking about. The ore of this mine, to pu : it at the lowest estimate, will pay ovel i, and above the expense of mining anC ! milling, $2O per ton in silver and gold The mill will crush 20 tons per day ,, and that means $400 per day profit . A good mill, properly run, ought tC I run three hundred days in year. anC . if it makes that, it means $120,00t 4