Arizona weekly citizen., 1894-09-29
BROWNSVILLE Still on the Boom as a Gold
 Camp. THE RIPSEY MINE Developing Into Quite a Big Bon
 anZa.
THE RIPSEY MINE
RIPsEY MINING CAMP, 10 miles from Riverside,
 PinaI County, Arizona,

RIPsEY MINING CAMP,
 10 miles from Riverside,
 Pinal County, Arizona,
 September 24. 1894.
 EDITOR CITIzEN:-The outlook for great mining camp here in the near future, is decidedly encouraging.
 The Ripsey mine, now known as the "Peoria," which on account of disagree ments among the original locators re- mained closed for many years, has been reopened by Tucson and San Francisco capitalists. It has grown richer as they went down. Assays were made almost daily and the result todsy is an agree able surprise to all who are interested.
 The pay streak is about i've feet and the average is away up above the hun dred dollar mark. The big vein cuts the mountain almost in twain and shows up as intervals for miles on both sides of 1t, while several lateral veins shoot out in every direction. The whole country, for miles around, abounds in lodges of gold, silver and copper. It is a perfect ideal mining region for those who wish to open up mining properties, as the lodges are easily defined and
 THE PRECIOUS METALS ARE IN THEM.
 They all require the outlay of some money, however, to make them rank as mining properties either to sell or to work. A comparatively small amount of labor and capital will open up the veins and place them in shape from which thelr value can easily be deter mined. For a legitimate mining camp devoid of all the excitement of wild fictitious boom, nature has never pre- pared better groundwork, or more favorable conditions. l would advise poor men, with little or no capital, to stay away, unless they are backed by capital, as developments are not yet far enough advanced to cause any great de- mand for labor. A few months hence, however, l am of opinion there will be quite a boom in this portion of Arizona's great wilderness.
 Included in this great gold belt, of which Ripsey IS the centre. is Riverside, ten miles north and Hunton ten miles to the south. Near Riverside, on Min eral creek, the new stamp mill, owned by Kansas City parties, IS about to start up. They have an immense twin blan- ket ledge or vein in juxtaposition that is inexhaustible and very rich in gold. The mill at Antelope mines IS about ready to start up and will be operated by the cyanide process. It IS about tif teen miles from the Ripsey.
 At Hunton big lodges of rich gold bearing quartz are being opened up. Your correspondent had the pleasure of meeting MT. Hun.on over there. He says there are bigger and richer lodges of gold at Hunton, Ripsey, Riverside and ID the surroundings than in any other portion of Arizona except Gold field, and that is on the same general chain of gold-bearing lodges encountered here. Mammoth too, with it's big stamp mill and rich producing mines is within | the chained circle. Hunton will soon come to the front and astonish even the | oldest inhabitant with it's
 BIG COLD HEDGES.
 Mccarthy, Houston, Johns and other | noted prospectOrs are over there now locating and sinking on the lodges, l while at the Dagger We'll, three miles from the Ripsey, there is quite a camp of prospectors locating and sinking for | themselves and outside capitalists. Sev- eral immense lodges of copper carrying silver that assays 90 ounces have recent ly been opened up.
 MT. Theodore Gansen, en old prospec- tor, arrived few days ago and is now at the Dagger we'll.
 A town is talked of at this point on account of the abundance of fine water and big mineral lodges near it. It is the best camping spot in the entire district and the water for the Ripsey mine is hauled from there. Prospectors with their picturesque burro outfits arrive daily until there is quite crowd now and many locations are being made. All this great mineral bearing region is Tucson's tributary commercial territory and is destined to be of incalculable benefit to one of Arizona's great cities. Every citizen of Tucson who has the welfare of his city at heart should take an interest therefore in bringing the dis trict to the front. The gold is here in great abundance beyond all question as