Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-12-27

necessary to descend the l60-foot incline shaft on the Silver Girt. The ladders are gone and the hole looks black to the re- porter, whose sea sick tendency always asserts itself on such occasions. But miue foreman Williams and miners Davis and Riley have a twenty-foot ladder and short rope. Climbing to its lower rung the reporter is showed off. to a scantlinG across the shaft, whilst the ladder Is lowered again, lashed to the upper scant- ling and another section of the downward journey accomplished.
 Thus the dizzied reporter finally reaches bottom and there ho finds level run ming south h-westerly GOO feet into the mountain, all in ore, with an undetermined thickness still on either side, and a. depth of $50 feet at the southwest end. The. vein here is known to be at least 15 feet wide, but its further width has not been examined. Argentiferol.s galena amidst chlorides sparkles everywhere ln the candlelight and concentration can select the lead for smelling while chlorides and sulphides are freed for the company mill
 About 230 feet south from the air in- cline we encounter the hoisting shaft, POO feet deep and continuing to a further depth of 260 feet below. It Is a fine piece ! lumber and Jagged with 2-inch plank. As the manway ladder does not reach bottom and the shaft is boarded up tightly, we do not descend, but Major Conlee, an expert who went down some time ago, asserts that he found stringers of ore there as rich as any in the mine.
 AN ENORMOUS LEDGE.
 Further south we ascend the discovery shaft. which has depth here of 300 feet. At a height of l60 feet, in order to de- termine the width of the vein 42 feet of cross-cut was driven to the west or hang ing wall. This is on the Gunsight lode, into which we have climbed from the Sl- yer Girt level below by the dipping of the lodes towards each other from opposite directions. Even here the width east wardly of the vein has not been actually disclosed. Above Us only 40 feet, it has a thickness of 103 feet without the hanging wall being found. This latter width Is on the 100-foot level of the Gunsight and has beon prospsctei for distance of 200 | feet. Upon the surface width of 100 feet can be measured.
 Roughly speaking two-thirds of the Gunsight vein is chloride and snlphide silver ore, easily treated in the pan mill now on the property. Possibly three per cent Of the rock may be called galena ore, carrying silver; to be utilized, like the Sil- yer Girt mineral. by concentration and shipment, or possibly treated hereafter by a reduction plant on the premises. The liberated chloride5 will, of course, go through the mill.
 What the management is after just now is the chloride ore. For crushing the same they have 10.stamp battery in course of erection. The rest of the min ing and milling outfit is already here.
 To supply these stamps, the miners have only to go 25 feet down the Gum sight discovery shaft, connect with an other shallow prospect hole, and from tho 75 feet of stoping ground thus opened ! shoot down all the rock that one battery will need for months. It can be trammed directly to the stamps and thus handled at minimum expense, from the time it is blasted loose in the mine till it is drawn off in amalgam from the settling plans for the retort and melting furnaces.
 MILLIONS OF ORE IN SIGHT.
 Tho Silver Ght Mining Company has here an undoubtedly -great property. Their two overlapping claims, the Gun