Arizona weekly citizen., 1890-12-13
MINING NOTES Of Several Prominent Pima
 Properties. THE OUTLOOK NEVER Better Than at the Present Time
 for the Miner. What the Various Mines are Doing lore Shipments--The Silver Bell. Olive, hfaInmoth
 and Central
 Silver.

Fifteen carload of ore have been shipped from the Silver Bell mine dur ing the past three weeks, and consider able ore is now on the dumps owing to the scarcity of teams to haul it to Red Rock for shipment. Twenty-Five miners are working in the mill.
 The Young America mine, in ths Sll- yer Bell district is now furnishing em- ployment for eight miners who are talk ing out ore and putting 1t on the dump, where there is over 1000 tons now piled up. The Young America Is a splendid property, with an immense body of cop per ore averaging l2 per cent copper, some reaching as high as 40 per cent copper. One mining man makes the statement that the Young America con- tains ore enough to keep fifty men working 20 years. Tie mine belongs to Chas Reits, who has done development work on 1t for the last en years. making the mine what it now Is, and paying his expenses during that time by occasional shipments of ore. The mine property is valued, so the CITIZEN is informed at S75,000, and will probably soon be sold to Liverpool, Eng, company.
 John c. Loss, superintendent of the Central Silver mine at Casa Grande, IS now in St. Louis, consulting with the president of the Central Silver Mining Company. MT. l.. NJ. Chip ley, who is expected to return with Mir. Loss. It is reported that much may be expected of the property in the near future.
 Two car loads of 9 tons of concen- trates from the Fl Plomo mine in Son. ora are now being loaded at the station by MT. Middlemss and partners. The con- centrates will be shipped to Pueblo. They consist of gold and silver, chiefly gold. and were freighted to Tucson by wagon.
 European moneyed men are keeping a close watch on Arizona mining invest ments, and have plenty for expenditure on the right kind of mines. They do not care for small and undelevoped proposi- tIons, but want something which will bring sure returns within reason able time, large investment somewhat developed being the preference.
 The Tucson Samping works yester- day sampled a 10000 pound lot of ore from the Speculation mine at Olive and are handling 100 tons of it every month. The ore Is of high grade silver and lead. The works are also handling Silver Bell ore, yesterday sampling two carloads of 5000 pounds. This ore is of fine lead carbonate of splendid smelling capacities. Employment is furnished at the sampling works for several men, eight being at work yester- day.
 A party named Bates owns seventy gold claims in the Gunsight district.
 Fifteen men are now at work in the Gunslght mine mill, working the ore on the dump. Additional machinery will be put in soon, so it IS reported.
 Mir. Inderstroth, foreman at the Nam moth mill reports work to be actively progressing at that mine. Eighty men at present being employed there, thirty of whom are in the mine. They are at present handling 100 tons of ore a day The ore is free gold containing a httla silver. Mir. Indsrstroth reports that 50 stamps and possibly more will probably soon be added, which will increase the working force to 40 men.