Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-05-11
ORC BLiICO. The Famous Yellow Jacket
 Lead to Be Again
 Worked. FOLD KIRK'S MINE" The Raynarock a Mountain of Ore that Promises a Large Profit on a Small Outlay.
FOLD KIRK'S MINE" "

| The Fellow Jacket Is one Of the early properties of the district. Back ID the seventies it was worked with arrastras. For years burros wended round end round, and from the stickiest, nastiest mud imaginable brought out clean and gleamiug gold. The float was every where rich, and developments resulted in 10 dissppointments.
 Then followed mill, situated at Orc Blanco, worked by crude methods and high priced and possibly inexperienced employees. This, too, continued for years, paying variably. Then, the mine being developed and showing big body of paying ore, it was put on the market Ia the early nineties it was sold. The price sold for no man knows. The total expenditure, including 20 stamp mill was about s1OO,O0O.
 For two years the stamps dropped. The ore was of every kind, from very rich to low grade. The best leads were followed and these only were developed While nothing like all the ore was taken out, the mine came finally, after two years of varying success, to be regarded as worked out Thirteen thousand tons were mined and mllled in that time, in addition to considerable custom milling. The work had gone down 250 feet. Wa ter was in the mIRe and ppmps had to be put in. Two of the pumps were sub merged during period of idleness and are now being removed.
 THE NEW ERA.
 Philadelphians came into possession four months ago through Major Reed. a we'll known AriZOnan, acquainted with developments made and new ore bodies found within the last year or two. They have on hand a S90,O00 mill and a mine surely good for years to come. The stamps pound as merrily as ever. When the mine was left three years ago, 1t was generally regarded ss an abandoned property. The water rose up to depth of 1S0 feet.
 Today the new workings very closely connect with those of yore, prominent of them being one of to feet in width Bt the surface and fully l2 feet in the low ar levels. Here sssays run we'll. Taken across the ledge near the surface they were from 8 to as high as $50 in gold. Much of it it is declared, will go $50 a ton.
 Then there is new proposition-ae far as the Yellow Jacket is concerned ore carrying suIphurets. To the north ward of the main shaft tunnel was re- gently started, being now Tn over 100 feet. It is porphyry, not favorable ap- bearing, but assays "away up" Sul- phurets were found here. This mill will probably result in the adding of concen- trators to the plant. The sulphurets are rich, running from S14 into the hun dreds.
 The water for the mill com es from the mine. The flow in the mine IS estimat- ed at 10000 gallons day, with the mill consumption less than half that quanti- ty.
 HAPPY CONCLUSION.
 The ore now taken out runs about S3O ton. It is mixed with an old dump of large size of second grade ore, thrown aside by the earlier regimes, the dump being said to go from S4 up to S9. The ore now milled runs from Sl5 to S23 per ton. Of this 90 per cent IS saved. Fifty tons of ore can be worked day, at total expense of g ton. This, deduct ing 10 per cent for losses leaves a healthy margin for the owners. An expert is now at the Yellow Jacke: to report on the best plant for running the property. He calls the Yellow Jack at rot !. it's ore body should be worked to further depths.
 THE RAYNARoCK MINE. cold Kirk's mine," they call 1t iu Orc Blanco, rather than its more eDphoneOus name, the Rsyparock. It is the first mine to be met on leaving the villsRe for any of the big camps to the south ward. The owners name IS J. NJ. Kirk patrick, grown old in the mining busi- ness, and character 'Uncle Kirk" as they cail him, accompanied me over the Rsynsrock.
 The ore body is part of a hill over looking his house. Here again is big reef of ore on the ridge, but unlike some other Orc Blanco claims has three veins feeding it instead of one. Ut is just like a big onIon," said MT. Kirkpa- trick. "The veins overlie one another just the same." There Is no hanging wall to the outside vein. The lodges run longitudinalIy of the hill, but the ore crops out all over it. Far down on the easterly side of the hill workings were seen, where the ore had cropped out. The work at present is far below the rIoge on the opposite sIde. While on top t is simply worked all over. The ore body or quarry, has been uncovered largely, and worked into in many places In one place a shaft has been sunk De- ing in fifty feet below the surface. The vein in which the shaft lies is 8 feet across. The ore lies to splendid advant- age for being cheaply worked. About over the hill in several places are piles of ore. Assays have been talk en. MT. Kirkpatrick gives the assays of one pile of l. o tons as 21 15 ounces ir silver to the ton and S7.50 to S35 per ton gold. The ore carries sulphurets to the extent of about per cent of the whole. Another pile of 40 tons goes about SlO ir gold and 21 ounces in silver. Ia the bot tom of the shaft it assays g ounces ir silver and some gold.
 Mir. Klrkpatrick::says: "No man csr see farther into the ground than he has worked. A mine is just good for what he can see. I do not claim that this is a proposition worth hundred thousand dollars. But there is ore here to be seen that would yield profit oa a smaller outlay. The mine was once bonded fol what I consider a reasonable figure, tc a middleman. He raised the price tC his capitalists 800 per cent, and the sale fell through. But any man who comes along with business proposition for the mine need not go away without the pro perty."
 That the ore body Is larger than car