Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1891-03-04
OUR MINES.
News From All Sections Concerning the Great Wealth of the
 Territory.


 :, ployed as foreman of 8 mine.
 Messrs. Pedley and Barlow-Massickl r. expect to have their dam on Lynx
 creek repaired by May lst.
 O John Prout has severed his connec. s ! ton with the Commercial Mining Com
 2any, and is awaiting the opening oi ,. | railroad communication. to go east n He was foreman at the Senator mines
 WA. Long, formerly foreman of the ? JoURNAL-MINER office, came in on Sun l. day from Eureka district with san mples l of ore taken from claim located re
 gently by him there. The ore shows 7 up very rich in silver, and he thinks Il l will go not less than $300 per ton. An assay of the croppings gave value of
 $90 per ton, while those brought in by , l him on Sunday were obtained at a depth of five feet. MT. Long thinks
 that he has & bonanza in his new claim, and at the present time is contempla-
 ting the felicity of never again being ] compelled to work at the printing busi-
 ness, unless as proprietor of some
 metropolitan journal.
 John Fisher, who has been engaged
 in mining in this section for the past
 sixteen years, returned few days
 since from a prospecting tour, after an
 absence of four or five months. He
 and one or two others left here last fall
 to prospect the country along the Colo
 rado river, and after being out for some
 time discovered very rich gold ledge
 about twenty-ive miles from Ehren-
 berg. They commenced to work it and
 it showed up so rich in gold that they
 constructed an arastra and. worked
 500 pounds of the ore, realizing $I, 600
 from it, or very nearly $l per pound.
 Mir. Fisher says the vein is rather small,
 but as can he seen from the above re-
 suit very rich.
 The Phenix Herald has the follow ing concerning correspondent of the
 JoURNAL-MINER: Frank Alley went to
 do the assessment work recently on his Fl Ferro Benito mining claim, located
 about eighteen months ago at Tip Top In this undertaking he uncovered ore that gave, by F. E. Wager's assay, S.5l | ounces in silver, and IA ounces in gold, or total value of some S300 per ton. This represents an ore body 90 feet deep and the same distance in length. NIT. Alley proposes to make regular shipmentsi to Fl Paso and figures the whole cost of freight l and smelling at $50 per ston. Wagon hauling from Tip Top to Phenix is about $20; railroad to Ell Paso ST l smelter SIT, with various fancy addi- tions there running mp to $50.
 A JoURsAL-MINER reporter, with F. F. ogston, visited MT. Pedley's by draulic camp on Lynx creek, & few days since, and found this great enter prise in full blast While the break 10 the dam has been serious loss, Mir. Pedley has hopes of obtaining suffi cient supply of water from the natural flow of the creek to operate for two or three weeks, and during the time that water lasts no time will be lost, as the hydraulic giant will be operated day and night. The rumor that the dam was further injured by the last flood is denied by Mir. Pedley, who states that what was left of the structure from the first flood, which was about fiye-sixths of it, remains intact. He also stated that if the work could be rushed repairs could be easily made Ill a month or so, but in order to give the cement and concrete time to set properly, they will be compelled to rebuild the breach slowly, and 1t will probably take until the latter part of June to complete the repairs to it. The Hume and ditch is about two and half miles in length, | and a pipe of about half a mile in length conveys the water from the end oi the ditch 10 the rich gravel beds owned by the company, the pipe used icing of steel, thirty inches in diame- ter. The water is taken from the creek on the south side and the ditch and Hume runs along the hill at a moderate grade to the "pen stock" at the head of the pipe line, which is on high hill, directly aeros the creek and overlook ing the gravel beds, and being 220 feet higher, gives an immense pressure to the water by the time it is reduced from the thirty-inch pipe to the iour-inch nozzle of the hy- draulic giant. Where it crosses the creek it rests on bridge fifty-three feet above the bed of the stream MT. Pedley and his assistants, Messrs. Bar low-Massicks and Swan have expended ( d large amount of money on this enter ( prise during the past year, but the f prospects are good, even with the loss I of the utility of the dam for water storage purposes, of receiving a large ! portion Of it back by the washing of q rich gravel. Tae arrangements for hy- i are in the main the same those of the extensive hydraulic works 4 'd California, although Mr. Pedley has f introduced some Improvements of his I own invention for the removal of the debris, with the lowest possible grade. To parties who have never seen large hydraulic plant in operation, it is we'll ], worth visit to Lynx creek to see this one, as the force of the water as it comes from the giant is simply indes. moving powders of immense weight as the water from the nozzle of . i, tiron,n.niS hnsa wonld lonaa shinrla l u