Arizona weekly citizen., 1890-02-22
A SPLENDID OUTLOOK
For Washington Camp.-Present
Work of the Duquesne mining
and Reduction Company.

Naming and deduction Compah! are Cal
,r;np ON their work, is impressed that
here has been a recent arrival OF ne"
ife in the place. New buildings meet
he eve ON every hand, and the hammer
and saw announces the onward march
Of enterprise.
The Bonanza mine, recently sold to
Mr.. Hensley, is located about one mile
from the old camp, and on this mine the
new company, with name as given, ID at
present doing extensive and systematic
development work.
The new company is under the vice
presidency and general management Oh
Lemnel tBannister, of Pittsburg' WIN
r. ID. Rhodes, superintendent; Mr.. w.
Cbeyney, mining engineer and chemist;
Frank Blakeslee, chief engineer MI.
James A. Lenny, mining foreman; Judge
o. S. Palmer, boss carpenter, while MI
DIG. Chalmers has charge OF the BOARD
ing house, in his own interest. Ihere
are now thirty-three men In the en-
ploy of the company, and more IN
dustrious and gentIemahly lot OF mining
men are not to be found in the west.
Mr. Rhodes has exercised care IN sur
BOUNDING himself with corps OF as
sistants who are we'll skilled in their
special lines of work, and this insures
good work, and satisfactory amount OF
I. Good wages are paid, shaft men get
ting So 30 per day, with eight hours
work; other miners at present work ten
hours and get 500 per day. Board is
had at Chalmers boarding house for 50
Der week. which is less than the prices
paid in some camps in the Territory.
Carpenters get 81 per day; Mexican
labor el.5O apd skilled labor s.. The
camp is surrounded with an inexhaust-
ible-- supply of timber1zcak and Juniper
suitable for wood, which can be had for
s. per cord.
The property that is intended to be
worked on large scale, if things con-
Iluuc do loNOAdOAC III oliOi y SiulC %
they have during the past three months,
consist of
TEN OR ELEVEN CLAIMS,
covering an immense ledge of copper ore
that crops out almost continuously for
a distance of one mile from the south
east to northwest. Bonanza is located
| on the west end of the ledge. Here has
been erected fine steam hosting works,
and other machinery, with capacity of
sinking 400 feet and pumping out all
the water that may be encountered.
Two 50-horse- power boilers sit side by
side, new ones just put in place and not
yet used: the engine is beauty, and
runs without jar or knock, A couple
of Knowles stationary aHd one sinking
pump are on the ground and in use
The water used for running the machin-
cry is pumped from the mine into a
large tank on the hillside near by.
SHAFT no. /.
| where the most of the work is now be-
| ing done, is down 126 feet, at present IN
lime rock formation, and the ledge Will
likely be again encountered when the
| lime has been cut through; anyhow the
shaft will be continued SO feet further.
| The ledge at other places where it has
| been cut shows the ore pitches to-
wards the shaft. At the 40-foot level a
drift has been run % feet, all III ore of
gcad grade, where winze has been
sunk -; feet in solid ore on all sides; at
the bottom Of the Wine the vein has
been cut u feet chewing solid body Of
the East ore ever encountered in the
mine. far superi6:s to anything that had
come out of it up to the time lt.ee
property was sold. The walls fairly
SPARKLE WITH Native COPPER
when clipped off. There are several
other shafts of various depths on the
property. The work now being done is
of developing character, but not in the
meaning of searching for rich ore, but
TO demonstrate the quality. 1t is the
highest grade copper property in the
Territory, as far as developed. Mr..
Rhodes the superintendent, expects
visit soon, probably by the end Of Feb
ruary, from Vice-President Bannister,
who will be accompanied by DR.. Peters,
a copper metalurgist of long experience
and well-known ability. The latter gen
tleman has already been consulted
about treating the Duquesne CCmpaDy's
ores, and upon his arrival will most like.
lv make thorough
EXAMINATION OF THE PROPERTY,
and on his report, the time Of erection
of reduction works, and the methods of
treating the ores, Is largely dependant.
The superintendent stated that the pre-
sent force at the mines would not be
materially increased until such exami-
nation was made.
Washington certainly at this time
gives promise OF soon growing into a
large and thorough camp. If the Du-
quesne Company find their property to
be what every indication and every lick
OF development work leads them to be-
lieve it is, their concentrators and smell
tiers will be erected during present year.
and when everything gets well under
way, as now conceived, two or three hun
dred men will be employed by them
alone.