Arizona weekly citizen. [volume] (Tucson, Ariz) 1880-1901, 1894-07-21
THE OLD GLORY.
Pen Pictures on the Spot
By Our Special Artist.
HISTORY OF THE CAMP.
The Mystery of It's Former Aban-
donment-Enormou Masses
of 0re-Eenergetic Man
agement.
HISTORY OF THE CAMP.

Away back in the early days of the
world when it was all in a horrid state
of explosion and combustion, in what is
now the Orc Blanco country they must
have had the very deuce of the time.
In fact as young writer L know OF is
fond of saying, it was "all town up"
Such an everlasting tearing up as must
have occurred in this part of the world
Not only the perpendicularly, but they
evidently turned any number OF somer-
seults, and landed at last heels upward.
In small area there may be seen a
great many formations. Rocks and
earth of every color are gotten together
a terrestrial Joseph's coat.
This tearing up process, If a popular
theory of metal formations holds, was
| a good one for one bringing forth the
golden and silvery treasures of the inter-
ior of the earth. What rich that place
must be anyway! If only one could get
back from those lower regions! So |
might say that in Oro Blanco the devil
has been to pay, and he was liberal
paymaster. He scattered gold enough
land silver too-only silver doesn't
signify now) to pay a very big debt in
deed, and this present enterprislng gea-
GRAFTON will to collect every cent avail
able.
The hills about Orc Branco are again
undergoing a tearing up" this time by
powder instead of sulphur, and to get
out small bulk of gold great deal of
earth and rock has to be blown apart,
pu lverized, treated, milled and coined
or used in the arts. OF paramount i'm
portance in the mines here is THE OLD
GLORY.
This mine has been in disfavor for
the past ten years in the region here
about not on account of the mine pro-
per, probably, but the ignorable ending
OF its career ten years ago, in'the turn
ing off the men, shutting down the mill,
tearing up the same aud hauling it else
where. That abandonment of the pro-
perty looked bad, and was very black
eye for the mining district it was in.
Nothing argue with -aprospectlve pur-
| chaser OF a property in the district like
that abandoned mill.
Withal the Old Glory has had roman
tic career. Ten or twelve years ago it
was purchaed first, bringing, it is under
stood, 100000. 1t was gold quarry
rather than a mine or ledge. The mine
was never worked deeper thau thirty
feet. But from the surface to that
thirty feet down, what marvel in vol
ume was removed! The work really
resembled quarrying, so wide was it. 1t
was simply the lifting off the top of a
hill by powder and shovels into cars,
the removal of that hill to q mill, and
the extracting therefrom Of shining yell
low gold. Why did they stop? that's
something like q mystery. One man
says they got off the ore body, and lost
the lead. linen be said years later an
old Frenchman prospected through the
property, and found the ledge again, big
and rich as ever. Another man is brief.
| He says it was mismanagement before,
and that he ought never to shut down.
To third man says that the mill belong
ed to q company who became interested
in something else marvelously rich else
where, and that they just pulled up
stakes and folded their tents, and went
no more to return. He further says
| thatso for from the Esperanza Tin those
days it was called the Esperanza) being
at fault, that one of the mill men and
and stockholders, Frenchman now in
San Francisco named Blanc, offered to
leave the mill, and further offered a of
share of the profits from running the ore
But according to my informant, it was
a house divided against itself, and GER
tain it is that it fell. There was some
bad feeling in the old management, and
| they refused the Frenchman's offer, his
stock fell fiat.
| So the Esperanza was an abandoned
| camp, and il became the black eye OF
| Orc Blanco district. There is no deny
ing that it has damaged the district
materially. Now that it has a change
| to redeem itself, it will do something fer
the district has become pretty well able
to care for itself. The years rolled on,
and the assessment work was not done
and the mine legally was no longer the
property of the company. AT that
iuncture in came another Frenchman,
an old man named Peron, who took il
unto himself and held it for years. To-
day he Is building himself handsome
residence as the result of his luck and
management. The old mill got its water
supply from a storage dam, the rainy
season furnishing water enough from
the hills for the months till more rains
come. The dam is deep but narrow
and holds the maximum of water with q
minimum of evaporation. The dam was
bought in by Cornishman named MAJ
Crocum, for few hundred dollars. Ii
is understood that he got S2600 for it
recently, from the management. The
wall has just been raised six feet.
Years rolled on, the assessment work
done on the mine, and a buyer was
found at last. Again the mine was sold
10000, and became the Old Glory.
The present management are nothing
if not energetic. They have had the
property but few weeks, but already
they have done 1856 feet of work. From
the road passing at the mouth OF the
tunnel the music of the hammer drill
will plays Its sweetest, day and night
Fifteen men are working the mine. The
ore is free milling, gold, rather hard
but not a difficult ore to mill. Its sole
metallic constituents are gold and iror
lpyrites. How rich it is the management
declined to tell me, but they did say ths
it was plenty rich enough to pay tC
work, which was rather obious.
Sinking has been done to q gooC
ways below the original thirty feet o.
depth, and satisfactory rock found. A
tunnel is now being driven to cresscu
the lead. This it will do at depth o.
sixty-two feet from from the surface
The enormous proportions OF tn,
property may be judged
from the fact that from wall to wall il
distance OF sixty-four feet, four inches
To mill the output Griffin mills will
be used of q capacity of about ninet.
1ou tho nj fort,