Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-11-15
BRADSHAW BOOMING.
An interesting Batch of Mining News from
 Cur Special Correspondent.
Corr. JournaI-Mlner.

IiedVIn0 Prescott lew days since on tour of observation through the Bradshaw mountain, i was very much surprised to note the great amount of work that Is be- ing done among the mines, and that a great part of it is being done by the i miners themselves.
 At "Murty" McDonald's store, on Turkey creek, was shown some silver glance ore that he told me came from a mine belonging to Joe Duff, and which he said assayed over 200 ounces. This claim is a new discovery, and bids fair to make the owner a Worlds fair stake.
 At the Tuscumbia mill, Steve Mott IS pounding away 24 hours per day on ore that is said to yield 40 ounces per ton. The ore is from the Prince mine, which, with the Warrior. which is on the same vein. and adioins the Prince, was worked quite extensively years ago when silver was worth over 100, and the Peck mine was in its glory. The Prince and War rior have not been worked for years until auite recently. when Mir. Mott secured a lease and bond on them and went to work, single handed, to find something. His energy and piuck were rewarded by the discovery of a very rich and eXten- aiye body of ore of the above grade, and he llas been able to start up the mlll, and keep 1t running, too. on this rich ore, and is making dollars from what was con sidered played-out mine. No one enyles him of his good fortune. He certainly deserves it, and the only expression among his neighbors Is the wish that 1t may continue.
 After an hours hard climbing up the mountain. reached the summit of the Del Pasco mountain, and was well re- warded for the trouble by the unobstructed view of the country from the San Fran cisco mountains on the north to the Gave creek mountains on the south, the four peaks of the Mazatzal range and Plcacho peak near Tucson. Passing on over the top of the Del PascO mountain, l arrlyed at the Old Reliable gold camp, where 1 found about twenty men at work III and around the camp. The fOur-stamp m1ll belonging to this company was pounding away on the rich ores from the various mines, and the two new Frue Nanner tables lately added to the mill were work ing nicely extracting the. concentrates from the ores after they had passed over the copper plates. and had their free values extracted. This is one of the most thoroughly equipped mining camps l have ever visited in the territory They have everything needed for the proper working of their ore upto the full capacity of the mill, which however is entirely too small for the mines. The owners are not stoping pound of ore, the work belng confined strictly to systematic develop ment of the various properties belonging to the group, of which there are ten. The owners have opened excellent wagon roads to all of the mines, erected ore chutes where necessary, built trestle trans across the gulch to the mill, and have one of the most complete mills of its capacity in the country, so far as 1 am in formed. The product of these mines has been returned directly to the mines In workmanlike development of the entire group, and the property certainly shows it. and is now sufficiently developed to warrant the erection of a large mill and concentrating plant on the ground
 My next stop was at the Crowned King group. Here I found the company were replacing their old mOrtars with new ones of an approved patterh and ln 1 the meantime they are concentrating theIr i tailings pit, in which there are many thousands of dollars. At present they are using one of the amalgamating pans ! as fl mixer from which the ore Is carried to the four Frue Vanners. where 1t IS con centrated to a product which nets the company over two hundred dollars per ton Of this product they are at present l turning out about one ton day. The 1 company is increasing their force Of miners, and so soon as the new mortars are set will greatly increase their output. ! They have lately completed wagon road 1 from the mill to Minnehaha Flat, which permits the marketing of the concentra- ! tes at much more advantageous rate
 than heretofore.
 ! Passing on south I found at the old 1 Tiger mine force of men at work over | hauling the hoisting works and the ma | chinery generally, carpenters rebuilding | the house over the hoisting works which
 was blown down. and generally overhaul
 ing things around the mine preparatory
 to starting the work of extraction of the
 water and the opening of this once
 famous mine has produced thousands of ounces of silver in the days when 1t took
 a very good mine to pay its way, and no
 doubt exists in the minds of any one who
 knew the mine in the old days, that 1t is
 still good and rich mine. The manage
 ment here have started the boarding
 house and assay office, and will shortly
 be ready to commence the extraction oi
 the water to expose the large bodies oi
 ore that are known to exist Tn the lower
 workings of the mine.
 My next stop was at the camp of the
 Gro Bella company, two miles south from
 the Tiger mine. At this camp also great
 activity Is visible The ten-stamp mil
 belonging to this company, and which t
 most advantageously situated upon theil
 Gro Bonito mine, and at the foot of the
 mountain, is all ready to start up on tht
 ores from the various mines belonging tC the company The new incline tramwaS
 from their Golden Eagle mine to the mil
 is in excellent working order, and will bt
 used in transporting the ores of the Gold
 en Eagle mine to the mill for reduction
 A fine stream of water is flowing dow
 the gulch below the mill, and everything
 around the camp denotes prosperity anC
 an unbounded faith ill the property an( the vicinity. This company has spen many thousands of dollars buildin! wagon roads into this section, withou
 one dollars assistance from the county and have made one of the best roads Il the county,at an expense of nearly twent
 thousand dollars Having completed tn : road, the company built one Of the bes ten stamp concentrating mills in the coun l try. very long and expensive tramwa and made numerous other improvements until now they have their property i shape for the expeditions extraction an
 treatment of their ores on the ground. Passing up tue gulch from the Or | Bella camp. next came to the Rapi Transit camp, about one half mile fro1 ;; the Gro Bella mill. Here Is one of tn U best mines in the section. which has bee e entirely developed by the energy an pluck of one man who has stuck to i through all sorts of weather, financial an u physical, until he has made mine ( 1T what was formerly but promising pro ,l pect, and has induced the development ' the adjoining property. by the good shoy 1 ing he has made on his own.
 .e The next camp on the return trail is tn ! of the Conger and Eclipse, which
 situated on the top of the hill north
 the Rapid Transit. There has been
 great deal of very rich ore taken fro
 these mines, and the ore bodies are vel n, large, but the water is so strong that it in impossible to work the mines and ket " the water out without machinery f,
 hoisting. A great deal of developme IT. work has been done on these mines, hoy os ever, and the showingmade Is remarkab " good From this point to Prescott y my return trip, the trail doubles ba, d. over that portion described in the fir or part of this article l have known tl a. country described in this letter for IS number of years, but have never knov n- the activity in the mines of the sectiC o+ ftl., a4