Arizona weekly citizen., 1890-11-29
An Interview on One of Our
 Coming Towns.
IMMENSE RESOURCES
The Various Mines There Their Quality, and Probabilities
 Mountains of Ore in Sight.

It WAS d 1uChl llLAl lOl lllC ulcA OL IA ID
 when m bis rounds about town he
 struck J. T. Mcdonald, one of the relia-
 ble and most prominent of mining men in his profession in Pima county.
 MT. Mcdonald comes from Gro Blan-
 co, and speaks of that camp .n the highest terms, declaring it has resources which if properly moneyed and de veloped would put Gro Blanco among
 the foremost mining camps of old Pima.
 The ore of that district is lrIn".pally
 gold and silver, and of good grade.
 The vicinity has been well prospected,
 there being within the radius of four
 miles from 200 to 300 prospect shafts,
 more or less developed, and varying in
 depth from twenty to one hundred
 feet. "Mr. Mcdonald, you tell me there
 are only some twenty men employed
 in that vicinity, and how do you ac-
 count for more no! being done?"
 'Ihers are many things to contend
 with, and many things needed. What is
 needed most IS capital, and capital must
 be had. The ore is of good grade but
 canno; be proftably handled until a
 mill, say of 10 stamps, is erected. 1
 know of no better investment anywhere
 than a 10 stamp mill at Gro Blanco
 Do some figuring for me. Working day
 and night on six dollar ore, a mill of
 that capacity can dispose of twenty-five
 tons day, That, you say, will realize
 $50 day. Good. Now take out $40
 day for expenses, and you have net profit of sll0.a day. Not so bad for an in vestment of S1O,OOO in a 29 ton mill, eh?" But is there plenty of ore? Can it hold cut? Will it show enough to warrant such an investment?" Show enough My dear boy, this is straight goods, but you mustn't put it in the pa per for many people will declare 1t pre- posterous: \ short time ago all outside expert examined a certain property there-no 1 don care to give the name of it now, but can show you it, just the same-which he reported to have in sight ore of good grade to the value of S500,000. Sounds big, doesn't it? You can compute it out for yorself: Tun- nels each side of a body 200 by 300 feet, and of the depth of fifty feet. Mul- tiply your dimensions, get the cubic feet of the body and divide It by the cubic feet In a ton Of ore and you can get the amount of ore in sight 'Such be ing the case, larger mill would be a better investment?" "Hes; and with the sale of one property iu the vicinity the value or others would be en- hanced." There are saies pending?" ''rhere are, and it i0 not unlikely that one which 1 don't wish to name now, will, l expect. be cCnsumm4ted about the first of December. Should this saIo go. Orc Blanco will be tie foremost camp of the county"
 What mines arc now working!" "Sev erai; Leonard's mine, lately pTospecteG is doing well, and he is shipping cUD- siderable good ore to NogaIes The i-s 9"ranza has been re-scrleG by d r'7enchman named Pedro. who wi. nd It between now and December lsl
 10 ruttle & Co. for S5,0IJ. The Dr. Noer U Shillenbrand property IS returning well, the ore from it being worked at tho \ riv.ca mill. The Montana iniEe mas ] gooi body Of ore, mostly silver. After it's owners had taken out 300 tons of ere vou could hardly tell where 1t caTae rom. The mine, hOwevt r, situated a. [ wHs, eleven miles to the mill, anu nu sater near, was temporarily abandoned | \ party Eamad Kirkpatrick while doing ss=eeement work on the St. Patrick also | struck 1t rich, the ore being gold, anC | away up. There are also many good | mines in the vicinity. l regard | )ro Blanco as the coming mining camp of | Pima county, and when the first big sale | g made there, and the ice broken, il | will take its proper place and 'Ge to the | lead.'"
 Gro Blanco is situated seventy-fve niles south of Tucson, on a plateau, md the mountain scenery surrounding | [ makes the vicinity as pr-tty bit of | Q ldscape as any part of Arizona pos ;esses. 1t is only few miles from the Mexican line, and receives its mail from Jalabasas, the nearest point to the rail 'oad, and about twenty miles distant. from Tucson 1t Is eighty miles distant, ,r thereabouts, a heavy drive for one lay, being usually made in part of two, topping over night at Junction Station, ,n the Arivaca road. Its population, bout 40, is American excepting only 'ne Mexican family, and the congregat- ng place of the miners is the post office and store, run by Mir, Phillips. The town IS another of Arizona's unde- -eloped resources, and must be and will ,e brought out.