Arizona weekly citizen., 1894-06-30
BIG MINING SALE.
Tho Pichacho Group Near Yuma
Changes Hands.

YUMA, Arizona, June l6, 1894.
EDITOR HERALD-Ihe old Picacho
gold quartz mines, comprising tie Mars,
Venus, St. George and Goshen mines,
including the ftteer-stamp quartz mill
built by the late David Neahr and which
cost $4,000 has been sold by j. Nj. Men
devil, agent for the owner, d. W. c..
Jones Of New York, to Col. S. X. Aller
and his a. associates, Chicago syndicate
of capitalists, for Sl25,000. The present
fifteen stamp mill Will be overhauled
and put 10 order at once. Col. Allen
has contracted for fifteen new stamps
for which there is room in the present
mill, and which will be put 10 place at
once. 1t is estimated tngt there are
5000 tons of ore at toe mill, in the YARD
and on the dump al the mines, ready
for the mill. The average of the ore
worked was ten dollars per ton in free
gold. The mill stands on the bank of
h. Colorado four and a half miles from
the mines, co III splndid road, graGe
100 feet to the mile. Ten good mules
with ore wagon aud trail will haul from
ten to twenty tons at load and make
two trips per day. The ore is free mil
ling carving no bases. The gold is fine.
very brght aud everiy distributed
through the ore. Two of tbs vsns are
from FIVE to ten feet WIDE, while the
other two ARE from twelve to one hun
dred feet wide. There is one shaft 2I6
feet deep with drifts north aud south
-
shaft 1S5 fest deep has drift 300 feet
long or the rim, the vein being 100 feet
wide at the bottom. Col. Allen Is ne
gotiatlng for ~ enty stamps more to be
placed In the north end Of the present t
mill, making fifty stamps. Old miners
v no worked in the mines say that they
take cuJ ore CROUCH, after the first
thirty days, to supply 100 stamps. Col.
Aliens associates say that they will
furnish the stamps and machinery if be
will bring on the ore. The amalgamat-
ing, the machinery and the mines will
be put in charge of the ablest men to be
found on the coast. For the past five
years the Colonel has been at work to
get hold of this property, considered by
| those who know it to be one of the
most promising in the west.
THE PICACHO PLACER MIEES
Just present are at standstlll,
but Allen j. Smi b the prest Mt able aDC
| conscientious manager, is negotiating
for machinery to be used ID the mines
| aud on tn dumps, which will enable
him to handle ;he great bodi. OF rich
granite with good re ults. He has been
hampered by rot of Eoglish dudes aud
''soap maker" who, though they have
some money. do not know how to run q
| gold mine. Now taat Mr.. Smith ha:
| absolute cOnt-Cl, entirely uDhsmperec
| by an English com pany, whose sole aim
has beer TO ev-ds the American laws
aud TO hold property to which they art
not anle 10 own as aliens. he can enc
will show what can b. done.
| Mr.. j. G. Wallace, one of California;
ablest hydraulic miners, who was hireC
by the English company and told to &C
ahead and open the mines, but who ha:
never been paiG cant, though wher
here the Eng lishmen promised him hi:
pay, has returned 10 his home in Trim
lty county, California, disguised witt
Johnny Bulls ''sOsp making" manage
ment. The ground is very rich in gold
the magnificent plant one of the fines
ever built on the coast but one tha
must have some one TO run it besids
soap makers" or English dudes. Don
yer know yer know."-PhOenlx Herald.